NYT: People are going to march on the capitols,” said Mr. Halbrook, who works at a call center. “They’re going to do whatever needs to be done to get her out of office, because she does not belong there.” “If … Continue reading
Category Archives: campaigns
NYT: In the years before Hillary Clinton announced she would run again for president, her top aides expressed profound concerns in internal emails about how foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s own moneymaking ventures would affect Mrs. … Continue reading
Paul Kane for WaPo. … Continue reading
WSJ: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been raising hackles for weeks about a “stolen” election, and on Wednesday morning, in a suburban public library in northern Virginia, more than two dozen Republicans heeded his call. The group had signed … Continue reading
Steven Mazie for The Economist. … Continue reading
Must-read Vogel. Earlier in the month, the network held a document clean-up and retention week during which shredding bins were brought to the offices of various network groups, and employees were encouraged to identify sensitive files for destruction. Since there … Continue reading
This must-read Bloomberg Business piece explains that with Trump behind, the campaign’s strategy depends upon lowering Democratic turnout: To compensate for this, Trump’s campaign has devised another strategy, which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and … Continue reading
In the fight over the constitutionality of bans on ballot selfies, I’m having a definite sense of deja vu. Back in 2008, I noted that Ben and Jerry’s, in an act of civic virtue, promised free Ice Cream on election … Continue reading
Alison Frankel blogs. … Continue reading
CBS News reports. I talked to CBS’s Ben Tracy. … Continue reading
USA Today reports. … Continue reading
Michael Isikoff for Yahoo. Despite the headline, there does not appear to be anything close to the legal line here. In other words, the Clinton campaign was exploiting all the permissible avenues for raising money in a horrible legal system … Continue reading
Open Secrets: Is 2016 the Year of the Billionaire when it comes to financing the election?… Candidates and news outlets have decried the outsized influence of a small number of donors throughout the election season. Here’s a startling statistic: The … Continue reading
The bizarre Roger Stone “exit poll” story gets weirder, via HuffPo. … Continue reading
NYT: A video posted on Monday by a British newspaper appeared to show a Republican consultant with ties to Donald J. Trump offering to disguise the source of contributions to a “super PAC” intended to aid Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. … Continue reading
Politico: A conservative-leaning watchdog group is accusing the DCCC and a dozen of its candidates of using illegal advertising practices this fall, arguing in new complaints that the committee has used its ad strategy to direct extra money to a … Continue reading
Business Insider: Conservative activist James O’Keefe released another undercover sting video on Monday that he claimed proved Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton illegally coordinated with an outside organization. But what O’Keefe considered illegal activity is most likely not, election law experts … Continue reading
WSJ reports. … Continue reading
Common Dreams: Neera Tanden, the president of the think tank, Center for American Progress, produced a memo on government reform and public corruption that was sent to John Podesta, campaign chairman, and Jake Sullivan, a senior policy adviser to the … Continue reading
Brennan Center: This report reviews the current state of campaign finance law, explains how the Supreme Court has considered evidence in campaign finance cases, and identifies the key empirical questions in campaign finance law that have been or need to … Continue reading
See the order granting a preliminary injunction. … Continue reading
Politico has the audio of Trump talking about his comment on keeping us in suspense if he loses: “Yes, I think too much is being made,” Trump told Bo Thompson on WBT-AM’s “Charlotte’s Morning News.” “But, you know, everybody had … Continue reading
Release. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: The effort paid off. Together with the party and pro-Clinton super PACs, the Democratic nominee had amassed $1.14 billion to support her campaign by the end of September — on par with what Obama and his allies brought in … Continue reading
Max Fisher for the NYT. … Continue reading
NYT: Six years after a Supreme Court decision opened vast new channels for money to flow into national elections, Democrats have built the largest and best-coordinated apparatus of outside groups operating in the 2016 presidential campaign, defying expectations that conservative … Continue reading
AP 50-state survey. … Continue reading
Self-defeating prophecy? Gabriel Debenedetti: The @AZDemParty now raising $ for Latino GOTV off Jan Brewer’s claim to @mviser that Hispanics “don’t get out & vote” (“challenge accepted”) … Continue reading
Maddow blog. … Continue reading
Matea Gold for WaPo on an unusual plutocrat: The Florida-based investor said he has contributed $40 million to Democratic super PACs and allied groups in 2016, double what he had planned to spend at the beginning of the election. He said … Continue reading
Abby Wood and Michael Gilbert in the Hill: Disclosure can encourage speech. It provides information on candidates’ positions—are they supported by environmentalists or coal? The answer can energize voters who previously lumped the candidates together, causing them to speak in … Continue reading
My colleague Henry Weinstein has written this LA Times oped. … Continue reading
Zoe Tillman for Law.com. … Continue reading
Press release. … Continue reading
I was a guest on this show with the great Warren Olney: GOP candidates point with alarm at Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees, free college tuition and “Big Government” that’s bigger than ever. Advocates for Republicans are almost saying it … Continue reading
Sam Stein reports for HuffPo. … Continue reading
NYT: Mr. Creamer is not seen on the Project Veritas videos approving or endorsing plans to instigate fights at Trump rallies, but his underling, Mr. Foval, is shown boasting about using unseemly methods, like planting people at the gatherings to … Continue reading
NYT. … Continue reading
Alex Burns for the NYT. … Continue reading
San Diego Reader: San Diego Republicans are facing off against liberal billionaire George Soros in an improbable big-money brawl about whether the city should change its election laws. The way it is now, candidates for city office who get more … Continue reading
Weigel at WaPo: Scott Foval and Robert Creamer, two little-known but influential Democratic political operatives, have left their jobs after video investigations by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action found them entertaining dark notions about how to win elections. Foval was … Continue reading
Interesting case out of Salinas. (Trial court has rejected his bid to run for office.) … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Undercover videos released this week feature a Democratic activist bragging about disrupting a rally for Gov. Scott Walker last year, talking about bringing people into Wisconsin from out of state and decrying Midwesterners as racist. The videos, released … Continue reading
Lynn Vavreck for NYT’s The Upshot. … Continue reading
Trip Gabriel for the NYT: is language has stirred increasing fears of intimidation of minorities inside polling places, where their qualifications to vote could be challenged, or outside, where they would face illegal electioneering. But as Mr. Trump casts doubt … Continue reading
Ned Foley: Now for the relevance of Citizens United: insofar as the attack on that decision rests on the premise that corporate-funded speech will distort the electoral process by persuading voters of its message, it seems the same sort of … Continue reading
AP: A Lincoln County official says she has a constitutional right to call herself a Republican while campaigning in the county’s nonpartisan elections, and she is seeking to strike down a Montana law that bars her from doing so, according … Continue reading
BuzzFeed reports. I expect the Russians will simply shift to DC Leaks, Guccifer II or some other means of getting out what they want to get out. … Continue reading
Hard to know if this is a real dirty trick, or just a dirty trick to make it look like there are dirty tricks going on. Snopes: The provenance of the meme was unclear. It was most likely intended merely … Continue reading