Anthony Watts (2024-11-05). Flooding Facts Drowned by Climate Hysteria: The BBC Ignores Spain's Weather History. wattsupwiththat.com By Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) article, titled "Scientists sure warming world made Spain's storm more intense," ties recent flash flooding in Spain to…
Luis Andres Henao, Adriana Gomez Licon (2024-11-05). Harris campaign spends final hours reminding Pa. of a Trump ally's joke about Puerto Rico. whyy.org The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump's rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic. | "What you call trash is our treasure," the sign read. | While Trump's campaign had quickly distanced itself from a comic's slam on Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage," Kamala Harris' campaign and other Democrats spent the last hours of the 2024 campaign in the nation's largest battleground state linking him to the joke. | Harris devoted much of her final full day on the campaign trail to reaching Latino voter…
Guest Blogger (2024-11-05). A Kamala Victory Means Green New Deal Lawfare. wattsupwiththat.com With preelection forecasts favoring a Republican takeover of the Senate, it's quite likely a president Kamala Harris would not move landmark climate laws through Congress. That means she would have to think creatively about birddogging energy companies, and siccing the Justice Department on them is a likely step.
Associated Press (2024-11-05). Andy Kim and Curtis Bashaw face off in a New Jersey Senate race opened up by a bribery scandal. whyy.org New Jersey voters are deciding between Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim and hotel developer Curtis Bashaw, a Republican, in The Senate race has attra…
Marc Levy (2024-11-05). Pennsylvania is home to 5 heavily contested races for the U.S. House. whyy.org Pennsylvania is home to five heavily contested races for the U.S. House, contests that will be critical to determining control of a narrowly divided chamber where Democrats need a net pickup of four seats to take control. | Three of those five races are in eastern Pennsylvania, where Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and Democratic Reps. Susan Wild and Matt Cartwright are defending their seats in districts that are A fourth district is in southern Pennsylvan…
Marc Levy (2024-11-05). Casey and McCormick square off in Pa. race that could determine Senate control. whyy.org Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race between three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will help determine control of the chamber Tuesday in a battleground state contest that is one of the nation's most expensive this year. | Casey, perhaps Pennsylvania's best-known politician and the son of a former two-term governor, is seeking a fourth term after facing what he has called his toughest reelection challenge yet. Casey, 64, is a stalwart of the state's Democratic Party, having won six statewide elections going back to 1996, including serving as the state's auditor general and treas…
Randall Chase (2024-11-05). Lisa Blunt Rochester could make history with a victory in Delaware's U.S. Senate race. whyy.org The U.S. Senate race in Delaware carries the potential of a historic first for residents and their congressional delegation in Washington. | U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Democrat, faces Republican Eric Hansen and independent Michael Katz in Tuesday's Senate contest. | Should Blunt Rochester win, she would become the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate. Only three other
Randall Chase (2024-11-05). Democrat Matt Meyer and Republican Michael Ramone square off in Delaware's gubernatorial contest. whyy.org Democrats are hoping to extend their decades-long hold on the Delaware governor's office in Tuesday's election, while the Republican candidate is hoping for an upset that would offset Democratic control of the state Legislature by putting a member of the opposite party in the state's top executive office. | The contest pits Democrat Matt Meyer against the GOP's Michael Ramone. | Meyer currently serves as chief executive of New Castle County, Delaware's most populous county. Ramone is a businessman and entrepreneur who currently serves as House minority leader in the General Assembly. | Democrats control both cham…
When Donald Trump reenters the White House, he will be met with a newly Republican-controlled Senate, consolidating power in the hands of a party now dominated by supporters of Trump. We take a look at the results of down-ballot races for the Senate and House, and the possibilities for congressional opposition to Trump's agenda with John Nichols, The Nation's national affairs correspondent. Nichols notes that losing Democratic Senate candidates missed opportunities to highlight working-class voters and economic issues, likely to their detriment.