Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed blew off the news that his former Democratic primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, endorsed Republican nominee Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed said, “None of this matters,” as reporters crammed around the entrance to the Northend Church of God, where he was holding an event that Stevens was initially supposed to attend.
Hours earlier, Stevens shocked her party by endorsing Rogers, who is running neck-and-neck in the polls with El-Sayed. In a social media post declaring her support for the GOP nominee, she cited “hate” coming from El-Sayed’s campaign.
Stevens appeared with Rogers at Detroit’s Perfecting Church on Sunday.
In Texas, whether Democrat James Talarico can pull off a historic win over Republican Ken Paxton in their Senate race depends on suburbs where voters have been shifting leftward.
Kaufman County, southeast of Dallas, hasn’t voted for a Democrat for statewide office in almost three decades. This year, however, Democrats say it’s among several metropolitan suburbs on the brink of flipping for Talarico.
Republicans over the past several decades have swamped Democrats when it comes to turning out the vote in statewide elections, creating a red wall that Democrats have yet to crack. It might barely hold up on Tuesday.
President Trump’s attempts to block noncitizens from casting ballots has been unsuccessful in the courts, but there’s a good chance he has scared many of them into staying home rather than risking prosecution or deportation.
The Justice Department has conducted a record number of prosecutions for noncitizen voting in recent weeks, and the Homeland Security Department has filled in the gaps by bringing deportation cases against those whose votes took place beyond the five-year federal criminal statute of limitations.
The result is unprecedented attention on the issue and an implicit warning to anyone who might be tempted to vote despite lacking citizenship. But the actual prevalence of noncitizen voting remains contested.
Israel has certified its election results, confirming the minority Arab population will control a record 19 seats in the Knesset.
That’s enough, at least on paper, to break the stalemate between incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and challenger Gadi Eisenkot. In reality, though, adding the Arabs to a ruling coalition in Israel would likely mean subtracting support elsewhere. Both Jewish blocs say they will not deal with them.
Arab-Israelis constitute about 21% of Israel’s 9.8 million citizens, or about 2.1 million people.
And finally … A new book from a former CIA analyst says the U.S. is under attack from Chinese and Russian information warfare aimed at destabilizing and ultimately destroying the American system.
Former analyst John Gentry says sophisticated disinformation and propaganda programs designed to divide Americans began under the Soviet Union but are now being carried out by China and Russia.
Gentry says that the book is not a happy read, as it highlights a national security ideological crisis that is largely misunderstood and has unfolded under the radar.
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