Obama to jump into midterm campaign with events in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin

Days before the midterm elections, Americans concerned about alleged voter suppression efforts in Georgia and other states will get the chance to see a documentary that puts the issue into sharp relief.

Oprah Winfrey is the latest big name to join Stacey Abrams on the campaign trail. Winfrey will host a virtual event with the Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee titled "A Thriving Life!" on Thursday night.  "I’m excited to join an extraordinary storyteller and my friend,@Oprah, for a conversation about this historic election, the #UnfinishedBusiness we have here in Georgia, and how we can write the next greatest chapter in our state's history," Abrams, 48, wrote on Twitter.

EXCLUSIVE: Campside Media, the company behind the popular Chameleon podcast series, which documented the story of the Hollywood Con Queen, has lined up its next project – the story of the wild kidnapping attempt of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned for Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this weekend in what’s being considered a potential preview for a 2024 or 2028 presidential run.   Harris attended several events in Detroit to campaign on behalf of Whitmer and Lt.

A judge dismissed a female juror accused of flirting with one of the defendants charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over COVID-19-era lockdown measures.  Jackson County Judge Thomas Wilson announced Friday that the woman has been removed from the jury, two days after attorneys raised concerns the juror was having too much non-verbal communication with defendant Paul Bellar, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported.

ATLANTA – Some voters in Atlanta told Fox News they were less than enthusiastic about either of their senate candidates, while others stood firmly in support of Sen. Raphael Warnock ahead of his debate with Herschel Walker.  "I think they’re both horrible candidates, obviously," one man, Simon, told Fox News.  But another voter, Al, said the decision between the two men was "pretty easy." "Herschel Walker was a football player. He's not a politician.

LANSING, Mich. – Less than a month until November’s gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Tudor Dixon is urging voters to hold the state’s Democratic governor accountable for rising crime rates. "It's a problem.

Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers and Republican challenger Tim Michels, locked in a tight race with implications on the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state, were scheduled to meet Friday for their one and only debate. Evers has cast himself as the only block against a Republican-controlled Legislature. Michels, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, calls himself a political outsider as he largely self-finances his run.

As Americans are crippled by fear and violent crimes creep out of the major urban communities to pollute the suburbs, Fox Nation host Nancy Grace is digging deep into the crisis that has changed the lives of so many and the trajectory of a nation with "America's Crime Crisis," a summit hosted live in Atlanta and streaming on Fox Nation Thursday. "Soft-on-crime activists have led to the most powerful country in the world now living in fear," Grace began. "Most Americans [are] living in fear – fear not only for themselves but for their children and their families," she added.

Past and present support for certain policies related to crime from left-wing Senate candidates could be a hindrance for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections as they seek to maintain control in Congress. At least four Democrats running for Senate positions around the country — John Fetterman, Rep.Tim Ryan, Mandela Barnes, Cheri Beasley, and Sen.

EXCLUSIVE: The timely documentary The Sentence of Michael Thompson will be reaching a big audience soon, courtesy of MSNBC and XTR’s streaming service Documentary+.

Democratic Senate Candidate Mandela Barnes called on President Barack Obama for help after he began slipping in the polls for his Wisconsin Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, Politico reported Thursday. Members of Barnes' political campaign reached out to Obama's team in recent days in hopes of getting the popular former president to make an appearance in the final days before election day, the outlet reported.

Michelle Obama has often been candid about how different American milestones have affected her, and back in 2021, she opened up about her thoughts on a particularly poignant one.MORE: How Michelle and Barack Obama dealt with daughter's very difficult health diagnosisShe shared photographs of the support work she and her husband Barack had done with those affected by the tragedy of September 11, 2001 on the 20th anniversary of the attacks.VIDEO: Michelle Obama opens up on life without Malia and SashaAlongside the pictures, she attached an emotional message, detailing her feelings on the day of the attacks and how they also impacted her daughters, Malia and Sasha."I spent the morning of September 11, 2001, with my girls in Chicago," she penned. "It was Malia's first day of nursery school—I remember taking her photo, dropping her off for the very first time, and feeling those pangs of separation from my baby. MORE: Are Malia and Sasha Obama on social media? All we know"I'd just buckled newborn Sasha into her car seat and was driving back home when I heard the news on the radio—and the uncertainty and anxiety set in almost immediately.

Over 150,000 Michigan voters have cast absentee ballots a month before the Nov. 8 election that will decide the state's governor, secretary of state, attorney general and whether access to abortion will be a constitutional right.

The closely watched midterm races in Georgia are tightening just four weeks before the November 8 election, according to a new poll that shows abortion is the leading issue over inflation among Democratic voters. A new Quinnipiac University survey found that inflation is the top most important issue to 43% of likely voters in Georgia, while abortion was of top concern to only 14% and election laws to 11% of respondents.  Among likely Democratic voters in Georgia, however, abortion was the most important to 27%, election laws were most crucial for 17%, and gun violence to 13%. With prices remaining high across the country, inflation was only of top concern to 12% of Democratic respondents in the Peach State.

this year. The right to an , for one, may come down to just a few close races.

After an Obama-appointed federal judge upheld a new Georgia election law against a challenge from Stacey Abrams, a top civil rights attorney told Fox News the Peach State's Democratic gubernatorial nominee continues to use an outdated political "playbook" to claim injustice. In an interview with Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday," Abrams said voter suppression purportedly still exists in municipalities where it people may have "difficulty registering" or where voter rolls may be subject to dormancy purges. "In the state of Georgia, we adequately proved and more and more voters have experienced difficulties with doing so," Abrams said.

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams has spent over $1.2 million on private security since announcing her candidacy in December 2021 despite her ties to multiple abolitionist groups and opposition to the "privatization of justice." A Fox News Digital review found that the Abrams campaign doled out over $400,000 between July and August of this year alone for private security.  These payments follow an exclusive report from July that found the Abrams campaign paid out over $800,000 to Executive Protection Agencies, LLC, an Atlanta-based private security firm, between December 2021 and June of this year. The company’s website says the group provides executive protection that comes with a "keen eye with a thorough knowledge of the venue through threat assessment" for its clients.The website also says the company provides armed and unarmed security guards.  Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters and members of the Rabun County Democrats July 28, 2022, in Clayton, Ga.  (Megan Varner/Getty Images) The campaign and the private security firm didn't immediately return requests for comment Sunday about which guards the Abrams campaign uses.

Georgia Libertarian Shane Hazel, running to be the state's next governor, said he wants to be an alternative to the Republican and Democratic options on the ballot in November's election. Hazel, a podcast host and frequent guest on FOX Business, is challenging incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams in Georgia's gubernatorial election, which is only a month away.

destruction of the bridge linking mainland Russia with Crimea that happened earlier today. Then he noted that Joe Biden recently described our current situation as closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis.That didn’t work, so next Yang mentioned several facts showing how old Biden is, culminating in his recent 60 minutes interview in which he stuttered trying to answer a question about his mental cognizance — which broke Gardner’s character.Next, Chloe Fineman played a “pickleball curious” mom who was given a flight attendant to attack if she snaps.