The Ohio Senate unanimously passed a one-year window for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to sue over assaults as old as 35 years. After Catholic Church lobbying, a House committee stripped it out. On March 29, 2006, state Rep. Bob Latta was one of 57 House members who voted against putting it back.
On a 2022 podcast, hosts read Brandon Herrera a news report about a disabled 2-year-old from Greenville, Texas, with his name who was whipped and beaten to death. Herrera, now the Republican nominee in Texas's 23rd District, joked he could have been killed and 'brought back on the third day to be the AK Jesus.'
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Byron Donalds told a campaign event for Donald Trump that Black families were somehow better off during legal racial segregation.
A video recorded when Iowa Republican Joe Mitchell was a 19-year-old Drake University student shows him shouting 'I don't like Black women,' cursing white people and making crude racial remarks about his Black friends. Mitchell, Trump's pick in Iowa's 2nd District, didn't dispute the footage — he said he's 'grown up' and blamed cameras.
A CNN KFile review found Georgia's Republican Senate nominee joked about pushing Pelosi from a plane, suggested U.S. leaders deserved to hang from a helicopter, kept thanking a state senator censured for calling for 'more gallows,' and called January 6 a tour by 'peaceful grandmothers.'
On a podcast, the Republican nominee in Texas's 23rd District joked that unwanted kittens should be handed to a Chinese restaurant so they don't 'go to waste' — the same racist pets-as-food smear Trump used against Haitian immigrants.
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Joe Lombardo, Nevada's governor, was caught on bodycam running a red light in his pickup truck.
Tom Tiffany, the Republican running for Wisconsin governor, amplified a Libs of TikTok post targeting an Eau Claire school board member over a Black parents' group. She says what followed were accusations, misogynistic messages, and police keeping watch on her house.
Two weeks before Election Day, ColomForSenate.com — the Hyde-Smith campaign site built to look like Scott Colom's — pops up an uncaptioned mugshot from a 2001 misdemeanor arrest when he was a high school senior. Asked about it, her campaign manager repeated a 'sex change surgeries' claim the site's own source doesn't support.