Furious campaign launched to sink swing state Republican over broken promise

Furious campaign launched to sink swing state Republican over broken promise

A new ad campaign is targeting a vulnerable first-term Republican congressman in a Northeastern Pennsylvania swing district after he broke his promise not to vote for Medicaid cuts.Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. (R-Pa.) joined the rest of his party last week to vote for the Republican budget megabill, which cut over $1 trillion from the safety net program over the next decade.As editorial board of The Times-Tribune in Scranton wrote, Bresnahan's vote we…

Online disinformation in the 2020 U.S. election: swing vs. safe states - EPJ Data Science

For U.S. presidential elections, most states use the so-called winner-take-all system, in which the state’s presidential electors are awarded to the winning political party in the state after a popular vote phase, regardless of the actual margin of victory. Therefore, election campaigns are especially intense in states where there is no clear direction on which party will be the winning party. These states are often referred to as swing states. …