Early voting in Georgia's runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and GOP hopeful Herschel Walker kicked off over the weekend, marking the final stretch in a race that will determine whether Democrats expand their majority in the upper chamber or Republicans maintain a 50-50 split. The runoff, which followed a bitter general election and has grown only more contentious, has the two candidates within a close margin. Warnock led Walker by less than 37,000 votes on election night. As of Monday afternoon, more than 230,000 Georgians had already cast their ballots, according to the Georgia secretary of State's office. From turnout to the role former President Trump is playing in the race, The Hill has five things to watch in the Peach State here. |
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Welcome to The Hill's Evening Report, catching you up on news from the afternoon and looking at the big stories likely to impact tomorrow. |
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🗣️ Kellyanne Conway meets with Jan. 6 panel: reports
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Former Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has met with investigators from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to multiple reports. |
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🌈 Religious groups call on Senate to pass Respect for Marriage Act
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Major faith organizations including the Anti-Defamation League and Interfaith Alliance are calling on senators to pass the Respect for Marriage Act to enshrine same-sex and interracial marriage protections into federal law. |
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🍽️ Susan Collins: Trump should have never met with Fuentes
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Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), a prominent centrist Republican, says former President Trump should not have had a meal or a meeting with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist organizer and podcaster. |
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📺 CNN to Elon Musk after sharing fake headline: 'Be Better'
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CNN has chided billionaire tech mogul and Twitter owner Elon Musk for a tweet that contained a months-old image of a fabricated headline on the network. |
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💻 Most Americans report seeing online threats of violence
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More than half of Americans say they've seen social media posts calling for violence against someone based on their race, gender or sexuality, according to results of a new poll, and women and LGBTQ+ people report higher rates of online harassment compared with other groups. |
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📱 Musk asks if Apple hates 'free speech' after Twitter ad drop-off
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Twitter owner Elon Musk publicly slammed Apple for suspending some of its advertising on the social media platform, asking if leaders of the tech company "hate free speech." |
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🔥 Interior Department proposes new rule on methane flaring waste
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The Interior Department has issued new proposed waste-prevention rules for methane flaring, the first update in four decades. |
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🚰 2.3M people in Houston ordered to boil water
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The city of Houston has ordered more than 2 million residents to boil water after a power outage affecting a purification plant. |
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Speaker's committee removal powers are limited
| "(GOP Leader) Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) urge to purge was prompted in 2021 by the Democrats' barring two Republicans – Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Jim Banks (Ind.) — from serving on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol; and by the House removal of GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) from their committees," writes Don Wolfensberger a Congress Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former staff director of the House Rules Committee. |
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