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Republican Party efforts to disrupt the 2024 United States presidential election
Coordinated Republican National Committee, Trump campaign, and allied litigation, poll watching, voter roll challenge, and certification pressure campaigns around the 2024 U.S. presidential election, rooted in 2020 election denialism, largely rejected by courts.
Republican Party efforts to disrupt voting after the 2024 United States presidential election
Republican Party efforts to disrupt voting after the 2024 US election took four forms: executive orders asserting control over election rules, proof-of-citizenship legislation, restrictive state voting laws, and litigation.
Richard Nixon 1972 presidential campaign
Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign was his successful Republican re-election bid, defeating Senator George McGovern with 60.7 percent of the vote and every state but Massachusetts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 2024 presidential campaign was an independent US presidential bid launched in April 2023, suspended in August 2024 with an endorsement of Donald Trump.
Rocky De La Fuente
Rocky De La Fuente (Roque De La Fuente Guerra), San Diego real estate entrepreneur and perennial candidate; 2016 Democratic primary contender, Reform Party and American Delta Party nominee, 2018 nine-state Senate primary loser, 2020 Alliance and Reform Party nominee, and ballot-access litigant.
Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign
Ross Perot's 1992 independent presidential campaign: billionaire Texan who announced on Larry King Live, spent $65 million, dropped out in July, re-entered October 1, ran infomercials with James Stockdale, and won 18.9 percent of the popular vote with zero electoral votes, the best third-party result since 1912.
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Russian interference in the 2016 US elections: Putin-ordered campaign combining IRA social media disinformation, GRU hack-and-release of Democratic emails, and election infrastructure scanning; confirmed by the 2017 ICA, Mueller report, and Senate Intelligence Committee.
Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
Russian interference in the 2024 U.S. elections: covert Kremlin-backed influence operations, including Doppelgänger fake news sites, Storm-1516 staged videos, AI-generated disinformation, and $10 million paid to U.S. influencers, aimed at denigrating Harris; no acts of interference found.
Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy
"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" is Lloyd Bentsen's 1988 vice presidential debate rebuke of Dan Quayle in Omaha, delivered after Quayle compared his experience to John F. Kennedy's; it dominated coverage and became a defining debate moment.
Shadow congressperson
Shadow congressperson: unofficial elected member of Congress for a non-state jurisdiction, chiefly DC's two shadow senators and one shadow representative (since 1990) and Puerto Rico's delegation, unpaid, nonvoting advocates lobbying for statehood.
Special elections to the United States House of Representatives, 1789–1860
Special elections to the United States House of Representatives, 1789–1860, filled vacancies from death, resignation, or withdrawal by writ of election under Article I, with no temporary appointments allowed.
Special elections to the United States House of Representatives, 1861–1959
Special elections to the United States House of Representatives, 1861–1959, filled House seats vacated by death, resignation, or other causes, with states setting the timing.
Statewide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election
Statewide opinion polling for the 2024 US presidential election tracked Trump versus Harris state by state after Biden's July 21 withdrawal; AAPOR judged the polls largely accurate though Republican support was again underestimated, with a 16-point Iowa miss.
Steele dossier
Steele dossier: 17 memos by ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, funded via Fusion GPS for Clinton-linked law firm, alleging Trump-Russia coordination; published by BuzzFeed January 10, 2017; central to Carter Page FISA controversy.
Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
The Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal covers the $130,000 2016 hush payment by Michael Cohen, FEC campaign finance findings, Cohen's 2018 guilty plea, and Trump's 2024 New York conviction on 34 falsified business records counts.
Swing state
Swing state (battleground or purple state): a U.S. state where either major party can win the presidential vote. Defined by small margins, party flipping, and outsized campaign spending under the winner-take-all Electoral College; the 2024 core seven were Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina.
Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme
The Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme is a satirical internet meme that jokingly claims Senator Ted Cruz was the Zodiac Killer, the unidentified serial killer active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Texas's 2nd congressional district
Texas's 2nd congressional district, a Republican-leaning U.S. House seat in the Houston area (Harris, Montgomery, Liberty counties), represented by Dan Crenshaw since 2019; redrawn by 2025's Plan C2333, its 2026 GOP primary was won by Steve Toth.
The Keys to the White House
The Keys to the White House, also known as the 13 keys, is a forecasting system for US presidential elections, created by Allan Lichtman and Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981.
Timeline of the 2024 United States presidential election
Timeline of the 2024 U.S. presidential election: primaries from February, the July 13 assassination attempt, Biden's July 21 withdrawal, the September 10 debate, Trump's November 5 win, January 6, 2025 certification, and inauguration.
Timeline of the 2028 United States presidential election
Timeline of the 2028 US presidential election: Election Day November 7, 2028; Democratic early states South Carolina (Jan 22) through Virginia (Feb 29); RNC order Iowa first; inauguration January 20, 2029.
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: 1840 Whig campaign song and slogan for William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, written by Zanesville jeweler Alexander Coffman Ross to the tune "Little Pigs"; it defined the first modern singing campaign.
Trump derangement syndrome
Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative label, descended from Krauthammer's 2003 Bush derangement syndrome, used by Trump and allies to frame criticism of him as irrational pathology; not a recognized medical condition.
Trump fake electors plot
The Trump fake electors plot: Republican activists posing as presidential electors met in seven battleground states on December 14, 2020, submitting false electoral certificates for Trump as part of the effort to overturn Biden's 2020 victory.
United States House of Representatives election results, 1789–present
The United States House of Representatives election results, 1789–present, record party seat counts per cycle, from 65 seats in 1789 to 435 today, with 19 majority changes since the 1850s.
United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1789
New York's first United States House of Representatives elections were held March 3–4, 1789, choosing six representatives to the 1st Congress, split between Pro-Administration and Anti-Administration candidates.
United States House of Representatives elections in odd years
United States House of Representatives elections in odd years were regular full-term House elections held in odd-numbered years, a practice ended by California's last such election in 1879.
United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1790
The United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1790, elected eight representatives to the Second United States Congress under the initial apportionment rather than the census reapportionment.
United States House of Representatives special elections, 1960–1999
Special elections held from 1960 to 1999 under governors' writs to fill vacant US House seats after deaths, resignations, or withdrawals, since the Constitution permits no temporary appointments.
United States presidential debates
Televised general-election debates between US presidential candidates, begun with Kennedy–Nixon in 1960, run by the League of Women Voters then the CPD from 1988, bypassed by Biden and Trump in 2024.