Blackburn's campaign built a site calling independent candidate Dave Hatley 'Deadbeat Dave,' photoshopping him into a prison jumpsuit over a 1990s bad-check case he served a month for and wrote a memoir about. In 2018 she voted for the First Step Act, and the felon she wants running the country is the man who signed it.
Susie Buffett asked the Omaha Republican on September 2 to pull an ad using her father's image, saying it implies an endorsement he never gave. The ad stayed on the air until the following week. Harding's public statement never mentioned her request.
A CNN review of Brandon Herrera's videos, podcasts and social media found years of comments mocking women's weight, looks and intelligence. He called them jokes. He is the Republican nominee in a district whose last congressman resigned during a House Ethics investigation into sexual misconduct allegations, and his opponent is a woman.
Lisa McClain went on Face the Nation and backed Max Miller's reelection. His ex-wife says he threw boiling water at her and pointed a gun at her. Six Republican senators named on air have told him to quit.
In June, Collins announced Piscataquis County commissioner Wayne Erkkinen as her town chair in Greenville, running grassroots outreach. The Anti-Defamation League named him in 2022 as one of 215 Mainers on the leaked Oath Keepers membership rolls.
Days before the 25th anniversary, the Republican nominee for Florida governor told a town hall in The Villages that stopping Sharia law is the top way to prevent another September 11. The 9/11 Commission blamed al Qaeda and four categories of government failure. None of them was a religious legal code, and Sharia law has never been law in an American state.
Asked on Aug. 31 whether he backs Miller's reelection, the Speaker said yes and called the abuse allegations 'some issues in his personal life.' Sen. Bernie Moreno, whose daughter is the accuser, says she 'lives in constant fear of this man.'
In audio obtained by The Bulwark, Oklahoma's Stephanie Bice told Republican students at Oklahoma State that renaming Lake Ontario 'Lake America' isn't helping, that a longtime Republican executive told her they have 'Trump fatigue,' and that her bigger fear is Republicans not voting at all.
At a Republican donor summit in Las Vegas, Randy Fine called the 'rise of Islam in America' the elephant in the room and Brandon Gill called Islam 'fundamentally incompatible with our way of life.' They had already put it in a bill.