Nye is currently only at 8% turnout — Brown will take a lead once these ballots post, and it then becomes about how much Clark mail is out thereClark is currently at 62.6% turnout in the Senate raceCould come down… Continue reading
Not surprisingly, many people overseas are as anxious about the election as Americans. In the last week, I’ve done media in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and others. You can’t escape it by running to New Zealand, either.… Continue reading
The RNC must have known the Genser case was a long shot as a means to get the Supreme Court to address this issue. The case did not directly involve the 2024 election. It involved a primary election that had… Continue reading
In case you want to think about something other than the presidential election, there are some of the most important political reform items in many years on the agenda this Tuesday in at least 8 states. I published this essay … Continue reading
In its emergency stay application in this case, the RNC argues that the PA supreme court decision should be stayed, in part due to Purcell considerations. Purcell thus far applies only to federal courts, as the RNC acknowledges, but it… Continue reading
The Republican National Committee filed yesterday an emergency stay application in the PA Genser litigation. The theory underlying the RNC brief significantly expands the scope of absentee ballots potentially affected. In light of that, I have to update my initial… Continue reading
From the Wash. Post:
Political campaigns and their surrogates are pouring millions of dollars into social media influencers with scant regulatory oversight or public transparency, as they embrace a marketing tactic that has revolutionized the U.S. economy.
Online influencers who… Continue reading
The Fifth Circuit decision holding that federal law invalidates (preempts) state laws that permit absentee ballots received some number of days after Election Day to count if they are postmarked on or before Election Day is not likely to be… Continue reading
As Rick Hasen blogged yesterday, the RNC is going to seek Supreme Court action, based on the independent state legislature doctrine, of the PA Supreme Court decision in the Genser case. As his post explains, the PA court held that… Continue reading
This is from the WSJ, which is paywalled. Here’s an excerpt:
The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, which amended the Electoral Count Act of 1887 … greatly reduces the risk of uncertainty and chaos after Americans vote…
The Electoral… Continue reading
One of the major (but less -well appreciated) accomplishments of the new, bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act is that it repealed the provision in federal law that permitted state legislatures to appoint electors if the presidential election had “failed” in… Continue reading
Published in the Deseret News:
I was deeply disturbed by former President Donald Trump’s claim, first made within days of the 2020 presidential election, that he had actually won because the results were tainted by massive fraud in the battleground… Continue reading
From Jennifer Rubin at the Wash Post:
No one should underestimate the willingness of felon and former president Donald Trumpto try to overturn the election if he does not prevail. He did it last time. He has already planted… Continue reading
Just finished doing this terrific event earlier today with Dana Remus, Chief Outside Counsel to the Harris-Walz campaign, as well as Ben Ginsberg and Bob Bauer. No recording as of yet of the event.