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Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign spent thousands of dollars after the election on childcare expenses for the California Democrat, raising potential ethics concerns for a lawmaker who has been accused in the past of using his campaign war chest as a "personal piggybank." According to campaign finance records, the Swalwell campaign spent at least $20,000 on "childcare" from Nov. 8, three days after the election, to March 31. The payments went to two of the Swalwell family’s longtime babysitters as well as a Washington, D.C.-area Spanish language immersion preschool where tuition is around $3,000 per month. The payments raise potential ethics...

We get that Democrats want to show they’re mad at President Trump, but it’s pretty telling that they chose to hurt Israel — and Americans — to do it. That is, by blocking the bill to slap sanctions on officials at the rabidly anti-American, anti-Israel International Criminal Court. Mind you, many Dems backed the bill: 45 voted for it in the House, and some in the Senate were set to support it, too. But they’re clearly peeved about Trump’s executive orders, particularly one freezing federal aid, and some openly declared their “nay” was their way of showing it. “Donald Trump...

Arizona’s newest Sen. Ruben Gallego has a history as a progressive firebrand. But, his first moves as a sitting senator have the progressive left up in arms. He voted for and cosponsored the Laken Riley Act, which requires undocumented immigrants who are arrested for a theft or a violent crime to be held in jail until they go to trial. Immigrant activists have said it allows for the detention of people who haven’t been convicted of any crime. But Gallego says it’s about giving law enforcement the tools they need when undocumented immigrants break the law. It’s what Elvia Diaz,...

President-elect Donald Trump has officially won Arizona, securing 312 electoral votes and sweeping all seven swing states. On Saturday evening, the race in Arizona was called, which gives Trump 11 more electoral votes and brings his total to 312 electoral votes. Vice President Kamala Harris is currently at only 227 electoral votes. Trump’s Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states in the 2024 presidential election. The president-elect also picked up electoral votes in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania. In 2020, President Joe Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1%. Before that,...

Conservatives heaved a sigh of relief when Donald Trump was announced the winner of the presidential election, since most believed the left was going to cheat and steal the election again from him. While there was almost certainly cheating in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona between Kari Lake and no-name, open borders Ruben Gallego, as well as with Arizona’s abortion-till-birth Prop. 139, Trump was allowed to win the state and the six other battleground states. The common wisdom developing is the massive increase in observers watching this election compared to the 2020 and 2022 elections made the difference. Combined...

Four days after Election Day 2024, a winner has finally been projected in the Arizona senate race. Democrat Ruben Gallego narrowly defeated Republican Kari Lake, according to Decision Desk HQ, and will fill the seat currently held by Independent Kyrsten Sinema. The race was tight. As of 10:35 p.m. on Saturday night, with 88% of precincts reporting, Gallego had 49.7% of the vote, compared to Lake's 48.2%. Independent Eduardo Quintana, who is a member of the Green Party, earned 2.1%. https://x.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1855430284428161399? Gallego is currently the representative for Arizona's 3rd District, a seat he's held since 2015. Before that, he was...

Square profile picture Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ Decision Desk HQ projects Ruben Gallego (D) wins the US Senate election in Arizona. #DecisionMade: 8:57 PM EDT

Ruben Gallego 1,381,684 Kari Lake 1,348,362

From memory, she has caught up by about 10,000 with this update from last night. 79% reporting now. She very well may pull this out!

The long-awaited arrival of ballots from Arizona’s Maricopa County has brought good news to Kari Lake, the firebrand U.S. Senate candidate still in the running against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). The Lake campaign on Thursday night revealed that the Republican picked up 57.39% of the nearly 70,000-ballot drop from Maricopa County. The result puts her a hair’s width of overtaking Gallego’s 0.7% lead; he holds a 43,846-vote lead with over 75% of the vote counted, according to NBC News. A third-party candidate, Eduardo Quintana, managed to siphon away more than that, or 53,596 votes.

Kari Lake has taken the lead in the Arizona Senate race with days to go before the election, new polling suggests. The polling, published by Data Orbital, shows the controversial Republican candidate on 45.2 per cent of the vote, narrowly ahead of her opponent on 44.5 per cent.

Crossing the Grand Canyon (Lake V Gallego) I really haven’t spoken about Kari Lake and her bid to become the Senator for AZ this cycle, largely because the polling has consistently shown her opponent holding a fairly sizable lead. Polling has fairly consistently shown Gallego ahead by 4-5 points on average. I have always fount this to be a bit curious, given how close she came in 2022 to winning the AZ governorship, but I am not intimately familiar with AZ politics and have no contacts on the ground there to provide first hand accounts about the situation. Lake ran...

Barack Obama on Thursday was campaigning for Democrats at an event in Tucson, Arizona, where his event organizers misspelled the city’s name on official rally materials and captioned the event as a rally in Pennsylvania. As Kamala tails President Trump in the polls in Arizona, the Democrats called in the big guns, sending Barack Hussein back to the desert. On stage, Obama was introduced by Arizona Democratic Senate Nominee Ruben Gallego. Gallego is allegedly winning in the polls, according to the far-left fake news media. However, as The Gateway Pundit exclusively reported, a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll did not even mention...

Newly unsealed court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that Ruben Gallego left his pregnant wife, who was expected to give birth “any day.” The records, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, reveal that Gallego filed for divorce from Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, serving then as a City Councilwoman, and a Motion to seal the records on December 15, 2016. The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday that Gallego failed in an Arizona Supreme Court appeal to keep his divorce records sealed by the courts after a ten-month-long legal battle with the newspaper, costing his campaign over one million...

Gallego presses for stay of lower court ruling that would unseal his divorce records... Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego on Tuesday sought the intervention of the state’s Supreme Court to prevent the unsealing of his divorce records. Lawyers for Gallego filed a motion to stay an appellate court decision that ordered the unsealing of the documents, arguing that "sensitive details about the Gallegos’ and their minor child’s life stand to be published if Free Beacon succeeds" and that the press and the public lose "nothing" by further delay, including a delay beyond the "upcoming general election." Tuesday’s filing marks a...

It is a reflection of the great fear by the Arizona Republic that Kari Lake could be elected U.S. Senator from Arizona that their azcentral.com website published an astonishing 15 hit pieces on her in the two day period of October 9-10.Such desperation on the part of the Arizona Republic could have been inspired by Lake's debate performance against her opponent, Congressman Ruben Gallego, on Wednesday. He had already dodged one debate against Lake which was barely mentioned at azcentral and after the favorable reviews of Lake during their one and only debate, it is easy to understand his reluctance...

Arizona Democrat Representative and Senate candidate Ruben Gallego, whose father is a convicted Mexican drug trafficker, continues to come under fire over his ties to the cartels as newly discovered arrest records and details about his father come to surface. The Gateway Pundit reported that the Democrat Senate hopeful’s scandalous family ties were rehashed by a reporter during a press conference last week. While admitting that his father is a convicted drug trafficker, Gallego did not deny his “connection to drug cartels” when asked by a reporter. ... In 2008, Gallego changed his name from MarineLarena to Gallego to hide...

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) failed to show up for a debate with his Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate, Kari Lake. It was hardly a hostile venue for a Democrat -- Arizona PBS. This would seem like a big deal...unless you are writing cover for him at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, the state's largest newspaper (owned by Gannett). The headline about the scheduled debate published on their azcentral.com website does not even mention the no-show by Gallego: "Kari Lake assails economic data, Ruben Gallego and media host in new interview."

VIDEODemocrat senatorial candidate in Arizona Ruben Gallego struggled mightily with the fake crying as you can see but he couldn't manage to produce actual tears. The man who dumped his nine month pregnant wife for a DC lobbyist couldn't quite work up the crocodile tears over a pre-planned for campaign purposes state supreme court ban on abortion based on territorial law dating back to the 1800s. Perhaps Amber Heard can give poor Ruben some emergency lessons on fake crying before his next public appearance.

Blake Masters could be very close to announcing a new Senate candidacy. According to three people familiar with his intentions, the Republican businessman plans to announce another bid for the Senate. This comes after his failed attempt in 2022 when he lost to Mark Kelly by a difference of 5 percentage points. Masters debuted at the polls during the 2022 midterm elections, when he defeated Jim Lamon and Mark Brnovich in the primaries to try to unseat Kelly in the general election. Despite being the frontrunner in the polls, particularly in the final weeks of the campaign, Masters fell short...