Tue Mar 5, 2024 AT 10:04 AM EST
Sen. Rick Scott met with former President Donald Trump on Monday, amid rumors the Florida Republican might launch a bid to succeed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently announced he would step down from the post in November.
“Great to see President Trump tonight! We’re going to continue working together to win big in 2024 and fix Washington,” Scott wrote on X.
On Friday, Scott said in an interview he was “seriously considering a run” for the Senate GOP leader. Read Full Story
Thu Feb 29, 2024 AT 10:47 AM EST
A slew of congressional and state legislation aimed at preventing noncitizen voting at all levels is being pushed across the country due to the surging migrant crisis.
Grassroots groups, including the Americans for Citizens Voting (ACV), have supported successful legislation in six states that specify voting should be done by citizens only, with bills possible this year in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Georgia.
“In the last few cycles, these amendments have passed in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, North Dakota, Louisiana, Ohio by an average margin of victory of 76%,” said ACV’s Paul Jacob.
And on Capitol Hill, GOP congressional lawmakers have introduced seven pieces of legislation, recently passed out of the House Administration Committee, intended to prevent non-citizen voting or foreign interference in state and municipal elections.
Americans For Citizens Voting, a group launched in 2021 that advocates for states to pass “only citizen” state constitutional amendments, says the violence from criminal migrants has sped up the process of passing “Citizens Only Voting” (COV) amendments.
The U.S. Constitution requires Americans to be citizens to vote in a federal election, but if a state’s constitution does not specifically declare that only citizens can vote, the potential of noncitizens legally voting in state and municipal elections exists. Read Full Story
Tue Feb 27, 2024 AT 10:08 AM EST
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling visits to the Texas border on Thursday, jockeying for political advantage and blame on an issue increasingly crucial to voters.
Biden, who has largely ignored the border and has only briefly visited it once, will look at a relatively calm area in Brownsville. Trump, who frequently visited the border while in office, will be about 300 miles away in Eagle Pass, where the border is far more chaotic and where the federal government and Texas are enmeshed in a brewing constitutional crisis over the state’s efforts to combat illegal immigration on its own.
“Biden’s handlers are sending him there on the same day as President Trump’s publicly reported trip, not because they actually want to solve the problem, but because they know Biden is losing terribly,” said Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Read Full Story