Tabatha Abu el-Haj is Primary ELB Blogger This Week
Thanks for giving me a breather! It’s been quite a midterm election season.
“There’s a Lot Congress Can Do Now, and It Starts With Changing a Law That Trump Exploited”
NYT Editorial:
Voters in multiple states acted to protect the integrity of American democracy in Tuesday’s elections by rejecting some of the most prominent candidates who embraced lies about the 2020 election and threatened to ignore the will of the… Continue reading
“Voters of color did move to the right — just not at the rates predicted”
With the caveat that this analysis is based on exit polls–which are not terribly reliable—Politico has an analysis of how the Democratic Party did among different racial and ethnic groups. Key themes:
“[N]ew voters from 2018 and 2020,… Continue reading
Update: House Races as of Monday, Nov. 14
Politico has a nice summary of the state of the House.
“There are still 20 seats left uncalled, and Democrats have a legitimate — if narrow — chance of holding the lower chamber as well. In those uncalled races, Democrats… Continue reading
Eyes Turn to Georgia–and Impact of Democratic Control on Turnout in the Run Off
Atlanta Journal Constitution reports on the how the Walker and Warnock campaigns are reacting to the news that Democrats have maintained their 50 seats in the Senate. The Warnock campaign is urging early voting and its allies are reframing the… Continue reading
“Arizona precincts with voting problems were not overwhelmingly Republican; Data analysis by The Washington Post undercuts claims pushed by gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and former president Donald Trump, among others”
WaPo:
The voting locations that experienced problems on Election Day in Maricopa County, home to more than half of Arizona’s voters, do not skew overwhelmingly Republican, according to ananalysis by The Washington Post.The finding undercuts claims by someRepublicans —… Continue reading
“Election deniers lose races for key state offices in every 2020 battleground”
WaPo:
Voters in the six major battlegrounds where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020 rejected election-denying candidates seeking to control their states’ election systems this year, a resounding signal that Americans have grown weary of the former… Continue reading
“Saturday voting barred in US Senate runoff after Ga. holidays”
AJC:
Early voting won’t be allowed on a Saturday before the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia because it’s the day after the state holiday formerly known as Robert E. Lee’s Birthday and two days after Thanksgiving.Georgia election officials said this… Continue reading
“Voters Reject Election Deniers Running to Take Over Elections”
NYT:
Every election denier who sought to become the top election official in a critical battleground state lost at the polls this year, as voters roundly rejected extreme partisans who promised to restrict voting and overhaul the electoral process.The national… Continue reading
“Demonstrators protest voting tabulation process at Maricopa County Election Center in Phoenix”
Arizona Republic:
About 200 people gathered near the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix on Saturday to protest the voting tabulation process while holding signs that decried voter fraud.Other signs called Katie Hobbs, the Democratic candidate for Arizona… Continue reading
“Trump’s election conspiracy boosters largely accept their own defeats”
Politico:
Many of the nation’s most outspoken 2020 election deniers are staying quiet or conceding defeat after their own election losses this cycle.Prior to the election, experts had warned that democracy itself was at risk of being overrun by… Continue reading
“Arizona’s ‘Tricky Voting Machines’ Sound Suspiciously Familiar; In political conspiracy theories, as in television shows, the plot elements are always the same.”
Renee DiResta for The Atlantic:
After watching such rumors spread this week—and hundreds of other viral rumors spread during the 2020 election—I’m struck by how familiar, how predictable, the rumor story lines have become. Before the 2020 election, a rash… Continue reading
Nevada: “Election denier Jim Marchant loses Nevada secretary of state’s race to Democrat Cisco Aguilar”
KLAS:
Democrat Cisco Aguilar has won the race to become Nevada’s next secretary of state, defeating Republican and election denier Jim Marchant.ionDeskHQ called the race for Aguilar around 4:45 p.m. Aguilar was leading by more than 2 percentage points.Aguilar, a… Continue reading
Election Denier Mark Finchem Projected to Lose AZ Secretary of State Race to Adrian Fontes
AZ Republic:
Adrian Fontes wasn’t popping the champagne corks just yet.Minutes after being projected as the winner of Arizona’s secretary of state race on Friday night, he said he accepted the conclusion as ‘the media’s best estimation.”But he was quick… Continue reading