Retired Navy commander Elaine Luria squeaked ahead to victory in her key congressional race in Virginia’s 2nd congressional district, centered around Virginia Beach. With 97% of voting precincts accounted for, CBS called Luria the victor after defeating one-term incumbent Rep. Scott Taylor 51%-49% in a race that Taylor won 61%-39% two years ago. Like Taylor,…
Lena Epstein, the strongly pro-Trump Republican candidate who was harshly criticized by her fellow Jews for inviting a Messianic Jewish “rabbi” to pray at a political rally, has lost her bid to be elected to the House of Representatives in her suburban Detroit district. CNN called the race a little before 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday…
Searching “oven” on forum-site Reddit will mostly call up threads on pizza. But doing the same on Gab, the site the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter used to express anti-Semitic views, brings up “Jews,” “Holocaust” and “Hitler.” Twitter user Jason Baumgartner, who owns a site dedicated to detecting hate speech on social media, analyzed “oven” as…
Democratic Rep. Jared Polis will be the first Jewish and gay governor of Colorado. Polis, a former tech mogul, will succeed John Hickenlooper. With 60% of the vote counted, Polis was leading 51.2%-45.4%. The five-term congressman was the first openly gay person elected to Congress, according to the Forward. His campaign focused on renewable energy,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An amendment to Florida’s constitution that would restore voting rights for felons passed Tuesday with the help of Jewish groups that campaigned for the measure. Amendment 4 won 64 percent of the vote, passing the needed 60 percent threshold for passage. A number of Florida branches of Jewish groups, including the Reform…
Democratic candidate and former journalist Leslie Cockburn, who was dogged during her race for her critical writings about the U.S.-Israel relationship, lost her effort to capture a Republican-held congressional district in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Associated Press called the race for Cockburn’s opponent Denver Riggleman at around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday night. With around 75% of…
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, known for peddling a conspiracy theory about billionaire liberal George Soros, held his House seat in Florida’s 1st Congressional District. The Republican incumbent held a steady lead over Jennifer Zimmerman, with nearly 67% of the vote. Gaetz said last month on Fox News that he has “reason to believe” Soros, who…
Former Jewish Federations of North America chair Kathy Manning is projected to lose her North Carolina congressional race by a margin of 52%-45%. Manning, one of many Democratic Jewish women to run as first-time candidates this cycle, long trailed in the polls against one-term Republican Rep. Ted Budd but had managed to narrow the gap…
Democrat David Shapiro lost to a Republican incumbent on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Shapiro was trailing by 53-to-46% margin to Vern Buchanan, a six-term incumbent who had rarely faced serious challenges in the past. Both Shapiro and Lauren Baer north of Palm Beach were given only an outside chance at winning and both races were rated…
Democrat Liz Watson trailed early in a tight race against a heavily favored Republican in a southern Indiana bellwether district. As first results trickled in from Indiana’s Ninth District, Watson, a liberal Jewish labor lawyer from Bloomington, trailed first-term Republican Trey Hollingsworth by about a 2-1 margin. But the first results were from Hollingsworth’s rural…
Newly minted Democrat Michael Cohen voted in New York on Tuesday, tweeting that he was “happy” to see a packed polling station. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer who pleaded guilty to eight charges, including campaign finance violations, shared a photo of his “I Voted” sticker in the palm of his hand. It’s unclear where in…
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