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.
In December she said the Venezuelan regime is kept alive by drugs and oil money and that America had to choke both. In August, when Trump handed that regime an oil deal, she objected for about an hour.
The ordinance would have added veterans as a protected class and extended existing LGBTQ protections from housing to public accommodations. Three Tulsa city councilors say Kevin Hern phoned them to raise concerns about federal funding. The sponsors pulled it, and Tulsa's law reads the same today.