Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford (f11photo/Getty Images) The legislature’s leftists ache to gut the state constitution’s limits on absentee voting. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he decks can never be stacked enough against political foes. Hence, the ever-leftward Democrats who run Connecticut’s legislature are plotting to bring ballot harvesting to the blue Constitution State. Those who
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Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie in Trenton, N.J., January 9, 2018 (Dominick Reuter/Reuters) The fact that our last three presidents are named Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Barack Obama should be a vivid reminder that unlikely figures can end up in the Oval Office. With that said… is there anybody out there not named
Former Georgia House of Representatives Minority Leader Stacey Abrams speaks in Atlanta, Ga., November 2, 2020. (Brandon Bell/Reuters) Democrat Stacey Abrams, who ran an unsuccessful bid for Georgia governor in 2018, refused to say whether she still believes that election was stolen during a pointed exchange with Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) on Tuesday. During
Voters line up to cast their election ballot at a Cobb County polling station in Marietta, Ga., October 13, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) A group of black faith leaders representing more than 1,000 churches in Georgia will call for a boycott of Home Depot over the hardware store’s silence on the state’s new voting law. “We
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp speaks at runoff election-night event in Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2021. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Typically when large businesses oppose a Republican initiative, especially one that has also been the subject of a lot of negative press, Republican politicians fold. Mike Pence had to amend a religious-liberty law soon after signing it as
Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger at the capitol in Atlanta, November 6, 2020 (Dustin Chambers / Reuters) Corporations that oppose Georgia’s new voting law are being duped by a “false narrative,” according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. On Wednesday, hundreds of major American firms — including Google and Amazon — signed an open
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) is flanked by Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) as she addresses a news conference in Washington, D.C., February 25, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) David wrote a couple of days ago about the endless assumption that the Republican Party is
Voters cast their ballots at a Fulton County polling station in Atlanta, Ga., October 13, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Critics of the Georgia elections law have gotten far out over their skis. The Washington Post fact-checker awarded Joe Biden “Four Pinocchios” for lying about the bill, then labeled him a “recidivist” when he kept repeating the lie.
President Joe Biden takes questions as he holds his first formal news conference in the East Room of the White House, March 25, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) As 100-plus corporate leaders gather for political activism on voting laws, the top Democratic lawyer is trying to pull the strings. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here are fair and
Former American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth Chenault gestures during a White House summit in Palo Alto, Calif., February 13, 2015. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters) Hundreds of corporations including Google and Amazon signed on to a statement, released Wednesday, expressing opposition to “any discriminatory legislation” that would make it harder to vote. The statement was organized by
The latest episode of the We The People series, produced fortnightly by our friends at The Bradley Foundation, is out, and is worth your while. Bradley president Rick Graber has an important discussion with J. Christian Adams from the Public Interest Legal Foundation and Rick Esenberg from Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (who has
Lara Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Houston, Texas, October 22, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, has a double-digit lead among potential GOP candidates to replace retiring Senator Richard Burr (R., N.C.) in the Senate next year, though she has not yet indicated whether she plans to run.
Then-president Donald Trump and then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speak during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) How two presidents in a row have helped to inflame Georgia’s state politics. Now that the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game is officially in the rear-view mirror for Georgia,
Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.,) during Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., February 22, 2021 (Demetrius Freeman/Reuters) Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) raised over $3 million during the first quarter of 2021, Politico reported on Monday. The total is unusual for a senator not in the middle of an
Voters at a polling place at John Jay College in New York, November 6, 2012. (Chip East/Reuters) Democrats have internalized the results of years of push-polling that shows an overwhelming majority of Americans sharing their vision for the future. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L iberal writers spend an inordinate amount of time convincing themselves that the
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attends Trump campaign rally in Opa-Locka, Fla., November 2, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) At the moment, DeSantis looks like our best bet in 2024. On the other hand, the media have plenty of time to shred him. The combination of hysteria and hostility with which the media are treating Ron DeSantis ought
From left to right: Reed Galen, John Weaver, Rick Wilson, and Steve Schmidt. (National Review Illustration/Cristi Name) There have been plenty of grifters in the political world. But what made the Lincoln Project grift unique was that much of it played out on television. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here was nothing special about the Lincoln
Kevin Faulconer after being inaugurated as mayor of San Diego, March 3, 2014 (Mike Blake / Reuters) Kevin Faulconer, an ex-mayor of San Diego, runs for governor Editor’s Note: Below is a version of a piece published in the current issue of National Review. Any political pro, R or D, would have to admit this
A moment of silence prior to the 2019 MLB All Star Game at Progressive Field, Cleveland, Ohio, Jul 9, 2019. (David Richard/USA TODAY Sports) The last time Major League Baseball held its All-Star Game, it was played in a state accused by Democrats and activists of disenfranchising voters and intentionally making voting difficult. It was
I’ve been reading some of the research on the effect on turnout of various changes in the voting rules. It seems that a move to universal mail-in balloting does increase turnout at the margin, while other changes — like the kind of reforms we’ve been debating in Georgia — don’t make much difference one way
Voters wait in a 90-minute line to cast their ballots on the first day of the state’s in-person early voting for the national elections in Durham, N.C., October 15, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) La Russell, Mo., has reached a sort of nirvana in terms of low-turnout elections: The town held an election and literally nobody voted:
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 29, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Representative Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) announced that he would run for governor of New York in comments on Fox and Friends on Thursday. “I’m running for governor of New York in 2022,” Zeldin said. “I’m all in,
Protesters against HB 531 gather outside of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Ga., March 4, 2021. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters) Even media liberals have taken notice of the ‘voter-suppression’ lie. So of course, the playbook is changing. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A good sign that someone is losing an argument is when they have to continually change
Caitlyn Jenner at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Beverly Hills, California, April 3, 2018. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters) Former Trump-campaign manager Brad Parscale is advising Caitlyn Jenner on her potential run for California governor, multiple outlets reported on Wednesday. Parscale is advising Jenner as a “friend” and is not receiving payment for the guidance, a source
(Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Responses to my piece on voter qualifications have come in a number of predictable varieties. Kevin Kruse-ism, as practiced in this case by Professor Kruse himself. That goes roughly: “Here is an article that you didn’t write and don’t agree with, that was written the better part of a century ago and published
Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, in 2010. The U.S.-China competition has shined a spotlight on some oft-overlooked places, and in the most recent such example, Greenland’s snap elections this week garnered an unusual level of attention. A controversial rare-earths project backed by an
Georgia Govenor Brian Kemp reacts after appearing at his election night party in Athens, Ga., November 7, 2018. (Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters) Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Tuesday blasted Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the 2021 All-Star game from Atlanta over a new voting law and relocate the game to Colorado, which has some similar
Caitlyn Jenner poses at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., November 14, 2016. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) Caitlyn Jenner, the reality TV personality, is considering a run for California governor, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Axios on Tuesday. Jenner, a Republican, would run against incumbent governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat
Voters at a polling place in San Diego, Calif., in 2016. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The fact is that voters got us into this mess. Maybe the answer isn’t more voters. Much of the discussion about proposed changes to voting laws backed by many Republicans and generally opposed by Democrats begs the question and simply asserts that
People cast their ballots during early voting for the presidential elections at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga., October 12, 2020. (Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters) Ignore the partisan disinformation. Georgia remains a national leader in voting access and election security. What is most incredible about what has happened over the past week in Georgia is the
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