“The problem with Trump and McConnell attacking each other is that they’re both kinda right about each other,” noted one observer Progressive observers passed the proverbial popcorn Tuesday as Donald Trump issued a retaliatory attack on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell following withering criticism from the Kentucky Republican—who still voted to acquit the former president at the close […]
May 15, 2020 (Anchorage, AK) – Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer, along with the Alaska Division of Elections, today announced the State of Alaska will conduct the August primary election in the traditional manner, utilizing all existing options for Alaskans to vote including absentee voting, early voting up to two weeks prior to Election Day, […]
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden swept to a convincing win in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primaries in Florida, Illinois and Arizona over Senator Bernie Sanders. With nearly all of the vote counted in Florida, the southeastern state that is the adopted home of Republican President Donald Trump, Biden was beating Sanders of Vermont 62% […]
Former U.S. vice president Joe Biden announced Thursday he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, instantly catapulting him to the top of an increasingly crowded Democratic field vying to challenge Republican President Donald Trump. The veteran Delaware senator and two-term vice president in the Obama administration has rivaled Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters are claiming victory in a special congressional election in Ohio, even though officially the race remains too close to call. The race was seen by many as a possible bellwether for the midterm congressional elections in November. Republican Troy Balderson leads Democrat Danny O’Connor by about 1,700 […]
JUNEAU – The State of Alaska Division of Elections (DOE) reminds eligible Alaska voters to make sure they are registered to vote and their information is up to date in time for the upcoming August 21 Primary Election. The deadline to register to vote or update registration is 11:59 p.m. Sunday, July 22. DOE regional […]
JUNE 2, 2018, JUNEAU – The filing deadline for the 2018 elections has passed as of June 1 at 5 p.m. The August 21, 2018 primary ballot will include candidates for U.S. Representative, Governor, Lt. Governor, all 40 House Districts and 10 Senate Districts. “As we experienced in 2016, the division has received steady candidacy […]
As all votes are accounted for in the Alaska 2016 Primary, top spots in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House remain unchanged, but some changes have been made in the State Senate and House. Senator Lisa Murkowski took the Republican ticket in a landslide bringing in 35,092 votes on Tuesday, almost 30,000 votes over her […]
The head of the U.S. Democratic Party resigned Sunday on the eve of the party’s national convention set to affirm former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as its 2016 presidential nominee. Debbie Wasserman Schultz quit the post amid a furor over leaked emails that show party leaders mocked and criticized the upstart campaign of […]