Caleb Newton

Oct 13, 2024 | bipartisanreport.com | Caleb Newton

Former President Barack Obama recently hit the campaign trail in Pennsylvania — a closely watched battleground state in this year’s race for the White House — to stump for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. “Real strength is about helping people who need it and standing up for those who can’t always stand up for themselves,” Obama told the enthusiastic swing state crowd. “That is what we should want for our daughters and for our sons.

Oct 13, 2024 | bipartisanreport.com | Caleb Newton

At a recent campaign rally in southern California — which recent electoral precedent suggests will go strongly for Democratic pick Kamala Harris in this year’s election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatened the withholding of aid for the state to deal with wildfires. He threatened that refusal in the event (assuming Trump is president) that California state authorities don’t go along with what Trump apparently wants for the state’s water distribution.

Oct 13, 2024 | bipartisanreport.com | Caleb Newton

At the White House late last week as the response to the recent storms Helene and Milton continued, President Joe Biden addressed — again — the spread of conspiracy theories surrounding the government’s reaction to the hurricanes. Republican presidential nominee — and former President — Donald Trump himself quickly became a key propagator of such theories, claiming, for instance, that authorities “stole” disaster relief money to use on migrants, which officials have consistently rebutted.

Oct 13, 2024 | bipartisanreport.com | Caleb Newton

Former President Donald Trump — also this year’s nominee for the nation’s highest office from the Republican Party — is continuing to propagate conspiracy theories about ongoing hurricane response efforts following the recent storms Helene and Milton, which left trails of destruction across the southeast. His claims have included the falsehood that government authorities “stole” disaster relief money to use on undocumented immigrants.

Oct 13, 2024 | bipartisanreport.com | Caleb Newton

New polling circulated by The Wall Street Journal finds a lead for Democratic presidential nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia, though it’s a narrow one. Georgia is a closely watched electoral battleground state this year after that year’s Democratic contender Joe Biden flipped it in the 2020 general election. Afterwards, Democrats saw more success in statewide elections there, with Georgia’s two U.S. Senators now both Democrats.