Elections
The latest Elections coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Politics section.
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Biden targets a new economic villain: Shrinkflation
On Super Bowl Sunday, the White House released a short video in which a smiling President Joe Biden, sitting next to a table stocked with chips, cookies and sports drinks, slammed companies for reducing the package size and portions of popular foods without an accompanying reduction in price.
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Manhattan DA wants gag order for Trump, seeks to play ‘Access Hollywood’ tape at hush-money trial
Prosecutors in Donald Trump's New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to impose a gag order on the former president ahead of next month's trial, citing what they called his "long history of making public and inflammatory remarks" about people involved in his legal cases.
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Ahead of South Carolina primary, Trump says he strongly supports IVF after Alabama court ruling
Former President Donald Trump said Friday that he would "strongly support the availability of IVF" and called on lawmakers in Alabama to preserve access to the treatment that has become a new flashpoint in the 2024 presidential election.
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Biden tells governors he’s eyeing executive action on immigration, seems ‘frustrated’ with lawyers
President Joe Biden told the nation's governors on Friday that he's exploring what executive actions he can take to curb migration across the southern border after a bipartisan deal collapsed in Congress this month. He seemed to express frustration at the legal limits of his authority to act unilaterally.
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Election officials in the US face daunting challenges in 2024. And Congress isn’t coming to help
With election season already underway, some state election officials are expressing frustration that Congress has yet to allocate federal money they have come to rely on to help cover the costs of securing their systems from attacks, updating equipment and training staff.
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Catoosa County voters are deciding whether to extend 1% sales tax for capital projects
Catoosa County residents are voting on whether to continue a 1% sales tax for county infrastructure and equipment.
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Hamilton County Republicans pivot support of presidential candidates
Hamilton County Republicans donated most to the presidential campaign funds of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy in 2023, according to Federal Elections Commission data.
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Trump’s New York hush-money case will start March 25. It’s the first of his criminal trials
Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting March 25, a New York judge ruled Thursday, turning aside demands for delay from the former president’s defense lawyers, who argued it would interfere with his campaign to retake the White House.
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Democrats embrace tougher border enforcement, seeing Trump’s demolition of deal as a ‘gift’
The Senate's border proposal was one of the toughest bipartisan bills to emerge on the issue in decades. Yet it quickly collapsed when Republicans — galvanized by Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee — rejected the compromise as insufficient.
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Donald Trump stands by remarks about not defending NATO members after backlash
Former President Donald Trump again said Wednesday that if he returns to the White House, he would not defend NATO members that don't meet defense spending targets, days after he set off alarms in Europe by suggesting he would tell Russia to attack NATO allies he considered delinquent.
