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UPDATE, 7:26 PM PT: Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation stalled again in the Senate, as they fell short in securing a filibuster rules change that would have allowed them to clear the bills with a simple majority. The failure of the legislation was expected, after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen. Jo…

“He told me he's going to, and I think he will,” Donald Trump said today of Herschel Walker’s long-rumored bid for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia in 2022. “I had dinner with him a week ago,” the former Celebrity Apprentice host pontificated Tuesday on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the recently minted radio…

Congress will count the 2020 Electoral College votes on Wednesday to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential victory in a joint session beginning at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT in the House of Representatives. The final (and usually pro-forma) step in the POTUS certification process, today’s count is expected to…

Cast members from the Star Trek series will hold a fundraiser for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, the two Georgia U.S. Senate candidates seeking to unseat the incumbents and flip the chamber to the Democrats. Stacey Abrams, a professed fan of the series, will also participate in the virtual event, to be held on…

Pearl Jam, Lin-Manuel Miranda and other members of the cast of Hamilton are headlining online fundraisers to help Democrats win U.S. Senate seats in the coming Jan. 5 runoff elections. If Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff win their races, the Senate will be at a 50-50 breakdown between the parties, but soon-to-be Vice…

Oscar-nominated screenwriter and The Comey Rule writer-director Billy Ray is urging WGA West members to mobilize through the guild's political action committee to "rid the Senate" of GOP incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in next month's dual runoff races in Georgia. Loeffler and Perdue "are fairly loathsome,"…