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Democrats pounce in reliably red Iowa, fueled by special election hopium  Politico Could Iowa Be The Democrats’ Next Pickup? (w. Josh Turek)  The Bulwark Soul-searching Iowa Democrats want revenge: ‘We create great programs, but it takes us 15 years to implement them’  Le Monde.fr Scholten suspends US Senate campaign, endorses Turek  Iowa Starting Line On Iowa Politics Podcast: August 22, 2025 Edition  thegazette.com Source link

Aug. 29, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT By Erum Salam An election official in North Carolina arrested and accused of placing narcotics in his grandchildren’s ice cream resigned Thursday. Surry County Board of Elections Chair James Edwin Yokeley Jr., a Republican, informed Wilmington police on Aug. 8 that his granddaughters had found suspicious blue pills in their Dairy Queen Blizzards, but …

A North Carolina election official has resigned after being arrested for allegedly putting illicit drugs into ice cream that his granddaughters were consuming, police said.  James Yokeley Jr. flagged down an officer at a Sheetz gas station in Surry County, North Carolina, on Aug. 8, the Wilmington Police Department said. Yokeley told the officer that his two granddaughters, who were …

An election to determine whether workers unionize an electric vehicle battery manufacturing complex in Kentucky is in limbo Thursday due to a few dozen disputed ballots that could swing the outcome. The United Auto Workers claimed it secured a narrow victory at the BlueOval SK battery park after the two-day vote that ended Wednesday. Yet the outcome ultimately could depend …

Iowa Democrats haven’t had much to cheer in recent years. But a string of strong performances in special legislative elections this year — vastly outdoing 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ results in all of them — are fueling hope that the party could flip some major Republican-held offices in next year’s midterm elections. Democrats had already expressed excitement about …

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Democrat has won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat in a district that had been held by Republicans and had voted heavily for President Donald Trump in 2024, adding to the Democratic Party’s hope that it can flip more seats during the 2026 midterm elections. Democrat Catelin Drey handily defeated Republican …

A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Pennsylvania activist Heather Honey is now serving as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the department’s Office of …

A prominent Pennsylvania election denier who led an unsuccessful effort to cancel the votes of hundreds of Pennsylvanians last year and who spread inaccurate data in an effort to prove false claims of voter fraud is now a top staffer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Heather Honey, who cofounded PA Fair Elections, is now the deputy assistant secretary …

Iowa Democrats scored a significant victory Tuesday by flipping a Republican seat in a special election and breaking the GOP supermajority in the state Senate. Catelin Drey won the Sioux City-area district with 55% of the vote to Republican opponent Christopher Prosch’s 44%, according to unofficial results with all precincts reporting. Democrats will now hold 17 seats in the Senate, …

North Alabama Municipal Election Results – Aug. 26, 2025  WHNT.com Decision 2025: Alabama to hold 140+ municipal elections Tuesday  WSFA Full election results: 2025 municipal races across Central Alabama  WVTM Polls closed across the Tennessee Valley following 2025 municipal elections  WHNT.com Voter turnout concerns loom ahead of Alabama municipal elections  WBMA Source link