Today’s episode with campaign-related news items from across the country.
* While the Democratic nominee in the North Carolina Supreme Court race appears to have narrowly won her race, the court’s current Republican justices have issued an order banning government officials from announcing the election results. The Democrat’s Republican rival is still trying to throw out the 60,000 votes cast in November, which would likely tip the balance in his favor.
* As President Joe Biden prepares to leave the White House, the outgoing Democrat told USA Today he still believes he would have won reelection had he stayed in the 2024 race.
* In California, former Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, whose bid for the U.S. Senate failed last year, did officially started her bid to become the next mayor of Oakland.
* At his latest press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump claimed that “no one even knows” the margin of his popular vote victory. It turns out everyone knows: The Republican won by about 1.3 million votes, which amounts to about 1.5% of the overall total.
* Former Ohio health director Amy Acton, who gained public attention in 2020 by educating the public about the Covid pandemic, launched a gubernatorial campaign this week. The doctor and public health expert is running as a Democrat in the increasingly red state.
* Despite the House Ethics Committee’s recent findings, former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz told The Tampa Bay Times he is “starting to think about” running for Florida governor in 2026.
* In Georgia, Geoff Duncan was the state’s Republican lieutenant governor just two years ago. Now the Georgia Republican Party Executive Committee has approved a resolution expelling Duncan from the Republican Party of Georgia. The move follows the former lieutenant governor’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Democratic presidential campaign.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
