The midterm elections are looming, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to be feeling the pressure — his last-minute donations will exceed $100 million, Axios reported. Bloomberg, who is hoping to ensure Democrats get control of the House, is focusing on additional GOP-held seats, a Democratic source told Axios. “We see more opportunity…
Michael Cohen is urging people to vote in the midterm elections — against his former boss. Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney, told CNN on Friday that it was crucial to vote against the Republicans. “Grab your family, grab your friends, grab your neighbors, get to the polls,” said Cohen. “If not, you’re gonna have another…
Jewish Democrats are on the cusp of making major gains in the upcoming midterm elections with a Forward analysis now predicting at least 4 Jews will flip seats in the House of Representatives. With an anti-Trump #BlueWave building in suburbs from coast to coast, Jews are likely to win at least 27 seats when America…
Republicans have taken more money from neo-Nazis while President Trump’s reelection campaign has kept multiple donations from white supremacists, records show. Trump’s campaign has still not returned gifts from at least three white nationalists after the Forward exclusively reported their donations on July 30. The president’s 2020 election operation still has hundreds of dollars from…
A super PAC Jewish conservative megadonor Sheldon Adelson helped found released an ad weeks ahead of the midterm vote linking Democratic candidates with radical leftist protesters bent on impeaching President Trump. Future45 will reportedly spend $10 million on the ad, “A Democrat,” which will air on ABC, NBC and CBS broadcast affiliates as well as…
Former Jewish Federation leader Kathy Manning was trailing in her North Carolina congressional race, but within striking distance of one-term incumbent Republican Rep. Ted Budd, a New York Times live poll showed. Manning, who is a part of crop of Jews that have excelled at fundraising in their efforts to flip key swing districts, was…
A Republican Jewish congressional candidate in New Jersey who once said “diversity is a bunch of crap” again sparked outrage when he compared the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the lynching of “innocent Jewish and black men.” Seth Grossman, who according to a recent poll is trailing Democrat Jeff Van…
The race is on between the billionaires funding the 2018 midterm elections. Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, were named last month by the New York Times as the “biggest spenders on federal elections in all of American politics,” citing publicly available campaign finance data. But this year specifically, the Jewish megadonors may…
