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When These Battleground States Are Mailing Out Ballots and How That Could Affect Election Results
Just one battleground state was set to mail out absentee ballots before the presidential debate on Tuesday—but that timeline has been pushed back because of litigation surrounding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ballot status. In North Carolina, ballots can be mailed up to 60 days before the election. It was the lone state where voting was…Fred Lucas -
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The Easy, Cheap, Quick Solution to the RFK Jr. Ballot Issue
Early voting is starting in many states, both in-person and through the absentee balloting process, which makes resolving the issue of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remaining on state ballots an immediate problem. Wherever practical, election officials have a solemn obligation to their voters to remove a candidate from the ballot when that candidate has dropped…Hans von Spakovsky -
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How Swing State Supreme Courts Could Swing the Presidential Election
Several battleground states passed election reforms after the 2020 election, but those laws might be only as good as state supreme courts allow them to be. The states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina all enacted election reforms that include enhanced voter ID laws and bans on private money funding administration of elections. …Fred Lucas -
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Voters Unconvinced by Kamala Harris’ Flip-Flops, New Poll Reveals
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Voters aren’t buying Vice President Kamala Harris’ flip-flops on several key policy issues, according to a new Scott Rasmussen national survey. The RMG Research poll, released Friday by the Napolitan News Service, asked 1,000 registered voters this week about the policy views of Harris on illegal immigration, fracking, government-run health care,…Rob Bluey -
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Scott Rasmussen’s 2024 Election Breakdown: Polling Surprises and Swing State Showdowns
Pollster Scott Rasmussen shares his insights on the latest polling data and discusses the political landscape as the presidential race reaches the critical month of September. Watch or listen to our full interview on the latest episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast.” With only small margins separating Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump in…Rob Bluey -
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RNC Scores Election Law Victories in These Swing States. Here’s What That Could Mean in November.
The Republican National Committee this week filed election-related lawsuits in Michigan and North Carolina, coming off a Supreme Court victory last week over election procedures in Arizona. An RNC initiative called Protect the Vote has filed more than 100 lawsuits across 25 states and recruited more than 150,000 lawyers and volunteer poll watchers across the…Fred Lucas -
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A Harris Campaign Stop That Shrugs Off Voters
PITTSBURGH—Billed as a kickoff bus tour on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, instead spent Aug. 18 in Beaver County in tightly controlled stops before heading to Chicago. Harris held a short rally at a private airport hangar surrounded by supporters—mostly members…Salena Zito -
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‘Large Number’ of Illegal Aliens Will Vote in 2024 Elections, Most Americans Say
Many on the Left suggest that concerns about illegal aliens casting votes in a presidential election are unfounded. After all, illegal aliens can’t legally vote. Yet a new poll suggests that most Americans expect that illegal aliens will be allowed to vote in the Nov. 5 election. When asked, “How likely is it that a…Tyler O’Neil -
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What Harris’ Voters Don’t Know About Her Could Hurt America
Ignorance is bliss. It’s also Vice President Kamala Harris’ secret weapon. The American people can make wise voting decisions, but only when they have quite enough information to do so. Alas, an Aug. 14 Media Research Center survey confirms that most 2020 Biden-Harris voters know shockingly little about her far-left record. Staggering majorities of the…Deroy Murdock -
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How American Voters Got Dumb
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. How did American voters get so dumb? Thank a public school. It’s a modern fetish that we’re brilliant but our ancestors were idiots. After all, they didn’t have iPhones, internets, or Kim Kardashian. This is also academic consensus,…Peter St. Onge -
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How Republicans Can Win the Election
One of my favorite bits of ancient wisdom, which I have quoted many times over the years, is the Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu’s adage that a battle is won before it is fought because it is won by choosing the terrain on which it is fought. Accordingly, as I noted in a column a…Josh Hammer -
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Think You’ve Been Defrauded by ActBlue? Election Watchdog Wants to Hear From You.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An election watchdog group is looking for Americans who think they’ve been defrauded by the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue. The recently founded Fair Election Fund announced on Friday a $50,000 digital ad buy publicizing its investigation into ActBlue and the Kamala Harris presidential campaign for potential donor fraud. The ad will…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmakers’ ‘Make Voting Great Again’ Report Highlights Fights Against Election Interference
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Election Intergrity Caucus advanced the fight against foreign nationals voting in U.S. elections, outside money (“Zuckerbucks”) to run elections, and the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to take over elections, a new report says. The new House report, titled “Make Voting Great Again” and first provided Monday to The Daily Signal,…Fred Lucas -
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Major Swing County Slapped With Lawsuit, Accused of Not Removing Noncitizens From Voter Rolls
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—America First Legal is suing Maricopa County, Arizona, for allegedly disregarding state law requiring officials to purge voter rolls of any noncitizens. The Washington, D.C.-based organization, led by former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller, filed the lawsuit against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Tuesday, according to court documents obtained by the Daily…Jason Hopkins -
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Ballots in These 8 States Include Citizen-Only Voting Amendments
A measure requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections remains stuck in the Senate, but similar efforts will be on the ballot this November in eight states. States set to vote on whether to amend their constitutions to prevent noncitizens from voting are Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,…Fred Lucas -
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EXCLUSIVE: Do Voters Know Kamala Harris’ Stance on Men in Women’s Sports?
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Most voters oppose allowing transgender-identifying males to compete in women’s sports, but only 36% are aware that Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, supports that policy. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of registered voters think biological males should not be allowed to participate in women’s and girls’ sports, according to…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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These 10 State Officials Could Play Outsize Role in Presidential Election
The map of battleground states in the November presidential election is expanding, and Democrats are in charge of elections in the bulk of these competitive states. Secretaries of state once held an office that got little attention. However, after the disputed results of the 2020 election, the statewide office gained significantly more attention and both…Fred Lucas -
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Why Doesn’t the Left Want Voters to Decide Election?
When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the “right thing” of electing the Democratic candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton. What followed were eight long years of extralegal efforts to neuter candidate, then president, then ex-president,…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Left’s Campaign to Highjack Supreme Court Takes Bizarre Turn
One reason the colonies declared independence from Great Britain was the political manipulation of the courts, but the Left today seems to think that judicial manipulation is a good idea after all. Leftists’ campaign to control the Supreme Court includes institutional and personal threats, smears of individual justices, and now articles of impeachment from the…Thomas Jipping -
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‘Alternative Political Structures’ Called More Important Than Elections for Conservative Victory
Conservatives should focus more on building “alternative political structures” than the next election cycle, speakers said Wednesday at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington. Celebrated author, educator, and former slave Booker T. Washington offers three key lessons for building these alternative institutions, noted Delano Squires, a research fellow in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center…Fred Lucas