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RNC outraises DNC for seventh consecutive month; fundraising gap between major party House and Senate committees narrows
The Republican National Committee (RNC) outraised its Democratic counterpart by more than two-to-one for a seventh consecutive month, while the Democratic House committee outraised its Republican counterpart, according to December 2019 campaign finance reports filed with the FEC. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) raised $6.2 million and spent $3.2 million last month, while the…
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2,164 major party candidates filed for 2020 races, no congressional retirements in last week
As of December 30, 2019, 2,164 major party candidates have filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to run for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in 2020. So far, 319 candidates are filed to run for Senate. Of those, 272—143 Democrats and 129 Republicans—are from one of the two major political parties. In…
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Andrew Yang leads in pageviews for a second consecutive week
Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers show which candidates are getting our readers’ attention. Andrew Yang’s campaign page on Ballotpedia received 1,605 views for the week of December 22-28. Yang’s pageview figure represents 14.5% of the presidential campaign pageviews for the week. Bernie Sanders…
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Kentucky, New Hampshire House of Representatives special elections
Two new state legislative special elections have been added to our list. The special elections are for the District 67 and 99 seats in the Kentucky House of Representatives on February 25, 2020. There are no primaries, and the deadline for parties to nominate candidates is January 7. A new state legislative special election has…
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DNC raises polling and fundraising thresholds for January debate
The Democratic National Committee released the criteria to qualify for the January 14, 2020, presidential primary debate, raising both the polling and fundraising thresholds. Each candidate has to receive 5% support or more in at least four national or early state polls or 7% support or more in at least two single state polls to…
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D.C. Circuit rejects APA challenge to e-cigarette regulation
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on December 10 unanimously rejected an Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) process for approving new e-cigarette products. An e-cigarette manufacturer joined with an e-cigarette advocacy group to sue the FDA, arguing that the agency violated…
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Andrew Yang leads in pageviews for the first time since October; Amy Klobuchar has highest week-over-week pageview jump
Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers show which candidates are getting our readers’ attention. Andrew Yang’s campaign page on Balloptedia received 2,421 views for the week of December 15-21. Yang’s pageview figure represents 11.7% of the pageviews for the week. Amy Klobuchar had 10.1%…
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U.S. Supreme Court accepts two new cases about release of Trump financial documents
On December 13, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases: Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars USA, the latter of which was consolidated with Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG. Both cases concern the release of personal financial records of President Donald Trump (R). As of December 18, the court had agreed to…
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Rhode Island House of Representatives District 56 special election
A new state legislative special election has been added to our list. The special election is for the District 56 seat in the Rhode Island House of Representatives on March 3, 2020. The primary is on February 4, and the filing deadline is on January 7.
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Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 190 Special Election
A new state legislative special election has been added to our list. The special election is for the District 190 seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on February 25, 2020. There is no primary, and candidates are selected by their respective political parties.