AUSTIN, Texas — A group of top aides for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking federal law enforcement to investigate their boss, the state’s top lawyer, for possible crimes that include bribery and abuse of office, ABC affiliate KVUE and the Austin American-Statesman newspaper reported Saturday. A letter sent to the agency’s human resources director said the
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EL PASO, Texas — Borderland supporters of President Trump decked out their cars in flags and banners Saturday and hit the highway as part of a nationwide caravan. What was billed as “MAGA Drag the Interstate” began around 12:30 p.m. in El Paso, with similar events said to be happening across the country. The so-called
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Republican candidate in a closely watched U.S. House race in southern New Mexico has amended a campaign finance report after receiving a donation credited to a woman who had died. Yvette Herrell’s campaign said this week the $2,800 donation from Joanne Harvard in June was due to a software
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WASHINGTON, DC — As the nation struggles to understand the events surrounding President Trump being hospitalized for Covid-19 treatment, a former White House insider told ABC-7 that warning signs about the coronavirus were given to the Trump Administration months ago. Olivia Troye, an El Paso native and former advisor for Vice President Mike Pence and
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott says the number of locations where Texas voters can drop off their mail-in ballots has been reduced to ensure poll security. There will be no more than one drop-off location per county under Abbott’s proclamation issued on Thursday. Poll watchers may observe in-person ballot deliveries at each location. Harris
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico’s commercial racetrack and casino venues have crafted a proposal for an expansion that would including internet gaming, 24-hour casino operations and unlimited video slot machines and table games. Officials with Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino in southern New Mexico were scheduled Thursday to testify before the Legislative Finance Committee about
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Opinion written by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)… When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on September 18th, she left a vacancy on the Supreme Court just 46 days before one of the most consequential presidential elections in our nation’s history. This past weekend, President Donald Trump nominated an eminently qualified judge — Amy Coney
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The voter information below was compiled by ABC-7 using information from the Dona Ana County website, and the New Mexico Secretary of State’s website. Important Dates: October 6- Absentee voting begins, and voter registration closes online or by mail. However, a qualified elector may register to vote or update an
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso voters will soon head to the polls — from Oct. 13 to Oct. 30 for early voting and on Election Day, Nov. 3 — for the 2020 general election. Here’s an overview of everything El Pasoans need to know about casting a ballot in the election. The information below was
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Marked by angry interruptions and bitter accusations, the first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden erupted in contentious exchanges Tuesday night over the coronavirus pandemic, city violence, job losses and how the Supreme Court will shape the future of the nation’s health care. In what was the most
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Six in 10 debate watchers said former Vice President Joe Biden did the best job in Tuesday’s debate, and just 28% say President Donald Trump did, according a CNN Poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS. View 2020 presidential election polling In interviews with the same voters conducted before the debate, 56% said they expected
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small and Republican challenger Yvette Herrell finally have gone head-to-head in a debate in southern New Mexico’s closely watched U.S. House race. Torres Small stressed “bipartisanship” during the KOAT-TV/Albuquerque Journal-sponsored debate Sunday while Herrell tried to link the Democrat to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Herrell said she would
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NEW YORK, NY — President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times. Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times
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WASHIGNTON, DC — In a race defined by economic views and pandemic fears, and riven by wide gender and education gaps, Joe Biden retains a 10-point lead nationally against Donald Trump in a new ABC News-Washington Post poll released Sunday, contracting to six points with third-party candidates included. Biden’s 54%-44% advantage over Trump in a two-way contest precisely matches the
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is sending campaign emails that accuse President Donald Trump of “single-handedly botching” the nation’s coronavirus response. Governors including Lujan Grisham have been noticeably reluctant to criticize Trump publicly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as their state’s rely heavily on aid from the
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WASHINGTON, DC — A majority of Americans oppose efforts by President Trump and the GOP-led Senate to fill a Supreme Court vacancy before the election, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Friday. The Post-ABC poll, conducted from Monday through Thursday, finds just 38 percent of Americans say the replacement for Justice
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DALLAS, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday called for new crimes and mandatory jail time for certain offenses related to protests as he announced legislative proposals about public safety in Texas. He made his remarks during a press conference at the Dallas Police Association’s headquarters. Abbott laid out these proposals that would turn the
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power following November’s election during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. Asked if he will leave the White House peacefully, if he loses the election, Trump responded, “Well, we’re going to have to see what happens. You know that.” The president then
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WASHINGTON, DC — Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, has crossed party lines to offer her endorsement of Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president. “I, like everyone else, want to have a president that will have my back, that shows empathy and compassion, who has courage and dignity in how they lead
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — An El Paso native and former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence assailed President Donald Trump’s response to the pandemic in a new video Thursday, adding to the growing list of former Trump administration officials who have criticized the President and, in several cases, endorsed his Democratic opponent Joe Biden. Olivia Troye, who
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UPDATE: Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that retail stores, restaurants, gyms, manufacturing facilities and office buildings, museums and libraries in much of Texas will be able to reopen to 75% capacity, up from 50%. This increase will take effect this coming Monday, Sept. 21. Abbott said many nursing homes will also be able to allow
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — Joe Biden says that while he trusts what scientists say about a potential coronavirus vaccine, he doesn’t trust President Donald Trump. Biden spoke to reporters at an event Wednesday in Wilmington, after being briefed by public health experts about a potential vaccine. He mentioned what he called Trump’s “incompetence and dishonesty” surrounding
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Exactly seven weeks before Election Day and two weeks before the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump was facing uncommitted voters in a 90-minute town hall special hosted by ABC News from the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Asked Tuesday night by an uncommitted voter at “The President and the People,” why he would “downplay a pandemic that is
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SACRAMENTO, California — With the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Monday ignored the scientific consensus that climate change is playing a central role in historic West Coast infernos and renewed his unfounded claim that poor forest management is mostly to blame. The fires are threatening to become another front
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — President Donald Trump held a “Latinos for Trump” roundtable Sunday, a push that comes as the president hopes to win a bigger share of the Latino vote than he did four years ago. Trump is walking a tightrope in his attempt to court Latino voters ahead of the November election while
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WASHINGTON, DC — Netflix’s highly-debated new film “Cuties” is now at the center of a possible criminal investigation after a letter penned to the Department of Justice by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, according to ABC affiliate KTRK. The film has recently drawn lots of attention after the promotional video was released. Social media
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WASHINGTON, DC — Most Americans are skeptical of President Donald Trump’s performance on the coronavirus pandemic — disapproving of his response, disbelieving of his rhetoric on the virus and critical of what they view as his lagging approach to containing it, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday finds. Trump’s approval for his handling of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind Republican challenger Yvette Herrell in a crucial Congressional race in southern New Mexico. The president tweeted that Herrell had his “complete and total endorsement” and pointed to her support over border security, “brave law enforcement,” and the Second Amendment. The endorsement comes as Herrell
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Republicans this week released another attack ad on Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small in New Mexico’s southern district even as she earns support from a traditionally conservative-leaning group. The Republican-leaning U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Torres Small over Republican challenger Yvette Herrell in the closely watched race. The chamber
Continue Reading MADISON, Wisconsin — A judge has ruled that rapper Kanye West was correctly left off the presidential ballot in the key swing state of Wisconsin. The ruling Friday upholds a decision by the state elections commission. It is likely to be rapidly appealed to the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court, which put the mailing of absentee
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