Last week, during a series of votes on amendments to the Senate’s budget resolution, eight Democrats signed onto an amendment aimed at prohibiting undocumented immigrants from receiving Covid-19 stimulus checks—a redundant measure that might have threatened payments to their spouses and children, according to Democrats like Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin. Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly were among the Democrats who backed the amendment. Latino advocates aren’t happy about it. “We are...
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www.nytimes.comFormer Sen. David Perdue has filed to challenge Sen. Raphael Warnock for U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2022, according to the Federal Election Commission.
BreitbartMr. Perdue, who lost a runoff election last month against Senator Jon Ossoff, is taking the first step in the Republican Party’s effort to try to win back a Senate seat in 2022.
www.nytimes.comThe organization that newly-elected Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock led for 3 years finds itself facing prosecution for voter registration irregularities.
pjmedia.comALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state elections officials certified Republican Claudia Tenney’s razor-thin victory over U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi on Monday, more than three months after Election Day.
WTOPRoughly 225,000 people who voted in January runoff elections didn't vote in November. A disproportionate number of them were people of color, a sign where the Democrats' political future lies.
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