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Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy of Montana lamented that “young women between the ages of 19 and 30” are being “indoctrinated” on the issue of abortion during a campaign stop last year, according to The Daily Montanan.
“They’ve been indoctrinated for too long,” Sheehy said in recordings made public on Monday. “Abortion is their No. 1 concern. It’s all they want to talk about. They are single-issue voters. It’s all about pro-choice, pro-choice, ‘Republicans are pro-life, they want to take my rights away and lock me up and throw me away in prison.’”
He added: “And I said, well, are you familiar with what Democrats’ position is on abortion? It’s called murder. That is the position of the American Democrat Party.”
As the outlet noted, the claim that abortion makes it legal to kill newborns has been repeatedly debunked.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-sheehy-montana-women-abortion_n_670414a6e4b0f65b8775e46a
Group slams Los Angeles district attorney for rising crime in county
A group supporting the opponent of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is making a six-figure ad buy blaming him for rising crime in the county.
The organization, which bills itself as a coalition of labor unions, first responders and small businesses, is supporting Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor and former assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administration. The ad was released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.
The group behind the ad is sponsored by the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, a union for deputy sheriffs and district attorney investigators in the county. Its supporters include numerous police groups and Gascón’s predecessor. The group made the ad independent of Hochman’s campaign.
The narrator in the ad says the county has seen an increase in violent crime under Gascón, including homicides and armed robberies, smash-and-grabs, property crime and retail theft.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4919384-los-angeles-district-attorney-crime/
Abandon Harris campaign endorses Jill Stein
The “Abandon Harris” group pushing for voters to protest Vice President Harris over the conflict in Gaza is endorsing the Green Party’s Jill Stein in the presidential race.
The group, formerly known as “Abandon Biden,” is calling on Muslim Americans and others frustrated with the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war to cast their ballots for the long-shot third-party bid.
“Our movement remains dedicated to ensuring that the American people, especially the Muslim-American community, recognize the responsibility we share in standing up against oppression and using all our power to stop genocide — wherever it may arise. On the precipice of the election, we endorse Jill Stein,” the group said in a release.
Stein, who also ran for the White House in 2012 and 2016, has little chance of being truly competitive this fall. She’s not on the ballot or lodging a write-in campaign in a dozen states, according to a tracker from her campaign, and a recent New York Times/Siena College survey of a handful of key battlegrounds had her polling at just 1 percent.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4919569-abandon-harris-campaign-endorses-jill-stein/
TX-SEN: Cruz posts $21 million fundraising haul in battle with Allred
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) raked in $21 million in the third fundraising quarter of 2024, he announced Monday.
Cruz’s team said in a statement that the total includes money raised by his reelection campaign, political action committee and joint fundraising committee. The second-term senator has roughly $16.2 million in cash on hand.
He is facing off with Rep. Colin Allred (Texas), who has emerged as one of the best funded Democratic candidates this cycle, in a battle with increasingly narrow margins.
According to Cruz’s campaign, he received 212,000 unique contributions with an average contribution of $38, including from 101,000 first-time donors.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4919924-cruz-posts-21-million-fundraising-haul-in-battle-with-allred/
NY-17, NY-18: House incumbents locked in tight races in two New York swing districts: Poll
Two New York House incumbents are locked in tight races in their swing districts that could help decide which party controls the lower chamber next year, according to a new poll.
The survey from Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill shows GOP Rep. Mike Lawler leading his Democratic opponent, former Rep. Mondaire Jones, 45 percent to 44 percent for the seat representing New York’s 17th Congressional District.
Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan leads Republican Alison Esposito 48 percent to 43 percent for the seat representing the state’s 18th Congressional District.
In the 17th District, Lawler has a slight advantage over Jones in favorability rating, with 47 percent viewing him positively and 40 percent viewing him negatively. Jones is even at 40 percent favorable and 40 percent unfavorable.
Jones leads among younger voters, up 11 points among those younger than 40 and 4 points among those in their 40s, but he’s behind with voters older than 50 by 9 points. And candidate Anthony Frascone of the Working Families Party, a progressive third party, takes 6 percent of voters younger than 40 and 3 percent overall, according to the poll, potentially hurting Jones.
Seven percent of respondents in that race say they are undecided.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4919905-new-york-house-incumbents-tight-races-poll/
Porn Industry Jumps Into the Presidential Campaign, Targeting Project 2025
Just when you thought everyone had already jumped into the 2024 campaign, here come the porn stars.
Seventeen pornographic film actors on Monday announced that they had launched a $100,000 ad campaign on porn sites warning that Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation blueprint for a Republican administration that has been a centerpiece of some Democratic campaigns — wants to ban pornography and imprison people who produce it. The online ads will run in the states that will decide the presidency: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
The architects of the “hands off my porn” campaign are nothing if not aware of the polling. Vice President Kamala Harris is losing to former President Donald J. Trump among men, but younger men might be winnable — and pornographic websites are among the most heavily trafficked on the internet.
Quoting the Survey Center on American Life, the group said younger men are the biggest consumers of the industry’s products: Among men aged 18-29, 44 percent had watched porn within the past month. Among men aged 30-49, it was 57 percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/us/politics/porn-actors-project-2025-ad.html
Luzerne County manager agrees to put out ballot drop boxes, but lawsuit may continue
Luzerne County voters will have access to mail-in ballot drop boxes before the upcoming election after all. The reversal of a previous decision not to deploy them came after the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the Luzerne County Board of Elections and Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo.
The lawsuit, however, may still continue.
A complaint was filed in Luzerne County last week after Crocamo announced that she would not deploy the county’s four drop boxes before the upcoming election, citing security concerns. The ACLU alleged in its complaint that the county had used drop boxes in every election since 2022, and that Crocamo did not have the authority to “unilaterally decide” against their use.
A Monday morning hearing on the ACLU’s request for an injunction — effectively asking the court to require the County to put out drop boxes — was canceled.
But according to a spokesperson for the ACLU, the case may continue regardless. The ACLU says the court still needs to answer the question of whether Crocamo had the authority to pull the drop boxes in the first place, which they allege was done without action by the county board of elections.
https://penncapital-star.com/briefs/luzerne-county-manager-agrees-to-put-out-ballot-drop-boxes-but-lawsuit-may-continue/
Monday is the last day to register to vote in the November election
Today is the last day for Arizona voters to register to vote to be able to cast a ballot in the upcoming November election.
Eligible voters in the state can check their voter registration status with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office and can register to vote online through the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division. Voters can also register in-person or via mail if the letter is postmarked to Oct. 7.
Early ballots will begin to be sent to voters on Oct. 9 and voters will have until Oct. 25 to request a mail-in ballot and will have until Oct. 29 to mail their ballot.
For voters in Maricopa County, information on where to vote in person on Nov. 5 can be found at Locations.Maricopa.Vote, which shows all polling locations and drop boxes for early ballots.
https://azmirror.com/briefs/monday-is-the-last-day-to-register-to-vote-in-the-november-election/
MD-06: On the morning after their fiery forum, Dist. 6 candidates exchange more vitriol
A day after the Fracas in Frederick — or the Commotion on the Campus, or the Hostility at Hood — the candidates in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District exchanged more vitriol Monday, with each accusing the other of perpetrating the nastiness.
On Sunday, a candidate forum at Hood College in Frederick with former state Del. Neil C. Parrott (R) and former U.S. Commerce Department official April McClain Delaney (D) devolved into an angry shouting match in the final minutes, as Parrott accused her of lying about his record in her campaign ads and literature and she tried to fight back.
On Monday, both campaigns issued statements with choice words for their opposition. Both news releases were accompanied by grainy photographs of the candidates pointing fingers at one another, and Delaney’s included a picture of Parrott storming off the stage.
Parrott’s post-forum statement, which was delivered early Monday morning, was headlined “Parrott Wins Forum with Pragmatic Solutions as an Unhinged Delaney Explodes Physically Losing Composure.”
https://marylandmatters.org/briefs/on-the-morning-after-their-fiery-forum-dist-6-candidates-exchange-more-vitriol/
VA-SEN: Harris, Kaine ahead in Virginia by comfortable margins, new poll says
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, leads Republican Donald Trump by 11 points (52-41%) among Virginia likely voters, according to a new poll released Monday by the Wason Center for Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport University.
The survey found that 4% of voters remain undecided four weeks before the Nov. 5 election, while 3% say they will vote for someone else.
In the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Tim Kaine leads Republican Hung Cao by 20 points, or 55% to 35%, with 8% saying they are undecided and 2% saying they will vote for someone else.
Top-of-mind issues for Virginia likely voters include inflation and the economy (29%), threats to democracy (18%), immigration (11%), followed by abortion (10%).
https://virginiamercury.com/briefs/harris-kaine-ahead-in-virginia-by-comfortable-margins-new-poll-says/
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