This week, incumbent Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) debated his Democratic challenger, Congressman Beto O’Rourke. O’Rourke’s campaign has garnered a lot of attention…and it’s not just because he was in a punk band. You might think that a Democrat can’t win in Texas. But recent polls put O’Rourke within four points of Cruz.
In Georgia, Secretary of State Brian Kemp — who is also running for governor — has come under fire for keeping more than 53,000 Georgia residents off voter registration rolls. Most of them are black.
How is access to the ballot box affecting midterm elections?
And one-time retail giant Sears filed for bankruptcy this week. On Twitter, historian Louis Hyman weighed in on what you may not know about the store’s legacy.
What caused the decline of Sears?
The death toll for Hurricane Michael rose to at least 29 people. And a new article in The Washington Post suggests that the storm did “what scientists could not,” and helped convince some Republican residents that climate change is real. But not everyone was convinced.
The budget deficit is on track to reach a trillion dollars by 2020, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke to Bloomberg News about it.
Interview:
https://the1a.org/shows/2018-10-19/friday-news-roundup-domestic
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