Former U.S. Ambassador to Iceland Jeffrey Gunter announced Monday that he’s running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada. “I’m Jeff Gunter, and I’m running for U.S. Senate. I was honored and humbled to serve as President Trump’s ambassador to Iceland, where I fought the deep state, I fought China and I fought Russia’s influence in the Arctic in the great high north,” Gunter said in a campaign ad. Gunter also used his campaign to endorse Trump for president, making him the latest Republican in a competitive Senate race to back the former president’s latest campaign “Now I’m running to bring…
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Nancy Jackson
Nancy grew up in the South where her passion for politics first began. After getting her BA in journalism from Ole Miss she became an arts and culture writer for Athens Magazine where she enjoyed reporting on the eclectic music and art scene in Athens, GA. However, her desire to report on issues and policies impacting everyday Americans won out and she packed her bags for Washington, DC. Now, she splits her time between the Nation’s Capital and Philadelphia where she covers the fast-paced environment of politics, business, and news. In her off time, you can find Nancy exploring museums or enjoying brunch with friends.
On Monday, former President Donald Trump rejected special counsel Jack Smith proposed protective order. Trump proposed in a statement on his social media platform Truth Social that Smith should follow a protective order himself because prosecutors were “illegally ‘leaking’ all over the place,” he said. “No, I shouldn’t have a protective order placed on me because it would infringe upon my right to FREE SPEECH,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. On Friday, Prosecutors in the case asked a judge to impose a protective order, citing a post Trump had written on Truth Social that evening. “IF YOU GO AFTER ME,…
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas (R) was sent to the hospital after suffering an injury on his ranch. Reports said that Lucas was injured while working at his ranch in Roger Mills County on Friday morning and admitted to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City with non-life-threatening injuries. “Frank and his family are in good spirits and are sincerely grateful to the tremendous team of doctors, nurses, and others taking care of him,” the post wrote. “Congressman Lucas will be back on the ranch and in the district soon and expects to make a speedy recovery.” https://twitter.com/RepFrankLucas/status/1687855771349135360 Additional…
Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to intercede in his growing legal matters. Trump’s request comes after being indicted a third time this year. Earlier this week, special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump, in a post on Truth Social early Friday, called on the Supreme Court to intervene. Trump also said the multiple cases against him will require “massive amounts” of time and money and force him to use resources on court battles that could have been used for advertisements…
Florida Republican governor and current presidential candidate Ron DeSantis accepted California Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) debate challenge on Wednesday. The showdown is months in the making after Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Newsom in June if he would willing to debate the Sunshine State governor in a live broadcast. (RELATED: DeSantis Responds To Newsom Debate Challenge) According to Hannity, the event would be a “policy-based debate” between the governor of a blue state and the governor of a red state. Newsom replied, “I’m all in. Count on it.” Hannity then asked, “You would do a two-hour debate with Ron…
House Freedom Caucus member Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) announced Thursday he is running for attorney general instead of pursuing another term in Congress. “For several many other reasons, it just seemed after careful deliberation by Jo, my wife, and me over the course of many months, we decided this is the right thing for me to do to come back to North Carolina,” Bishop said on WBT Radio’s podcast, “Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman.” “I practiced law for almost 30 years and I was a serious lawyer — still am,” he continued. “I missed that as part of…
A coalition of law firms and voting rights advocacy groups filed a lawsuit seeking the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturn the state’s Republican-drawn legislative maps. The lawsuit was conveniently filed Wednesday, coming one day after the high court officially flipped to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years. The lawsuit alleges the state’s current legislative maps are unconstitutional and demands all 132 state lawmakers, including those not slated to be on the ballot in 2024, face new elections in redrawn districts. The state Supreme Court upheld the Republican-drawn maps in 2022 after Governor Tony Evers (D) rejected them. According to The…
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has released its criteria for candidates to qualify to participate in the second presidential debate. RNC President Ronna McDaniel told Fox News on Tuesday that candidates need to register at 3 percent in two national polls and need to make a donor threshold of 50,000 unique donors by the second debate. The second debate is set to be held on Sept. 27 in Simi Valley, Calif. at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. “We should be stepping up the criteria. Once you get on the debate stage and you get in front of the American people,…
A Pennsylvania judge handed former President Donald Trump a significant legal win on Monday. According to The Hill, Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Erdos ruled that statements made by then-President Trump casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election are protected by presidential immunity. “Other legal proceedings may examine the propriety of his statements and actions while he was the President and whether, as the plaintiffs in this and other cases contend, it was this conduct which served as the actual threat to our democracy,” Erdos ruled. “But this case is not the proper place to…
Alabama Senator Katie Britt (R) is receiving outpatient care after experiencing a “sudden onset of numbness” in her face and is expected to need “several weeks” of recovery. Doctors believe that the numbness was likely the result of swelling of a facial nerve that was caused by a post-viral infection, Britt said in a statement. According to The Hill, the first-term Senator was admitted to Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Ala., and was released, saying that her condition is not considered life-threatening. “A specialist from [the University of Alabama at Birmingham] has subsequently evaluated me on an outpatient basis and…