Year: 2018

Bannon Held Campaign Rally and Nobody Showed

Buck Banks

0

Number of New York Republican candidates who showed up at a rally held by Stephen Bannon in a Buffalo fire station, the Guardian reports. “Bannon appeared in front of 200 people at a firehouse outside Buffalo, New York, ostensibly to campaign for Republicans based in the area. But in a visceral demonstration of just how far Bannon’s stock has fallen since leaving the White House 14 months ago, none of those Republicans running for office turned up.”

SnapChat Was Responsible for Registering 400,000 Voters

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400,000

New York Times: “Much of the activity, the company said, was in key battleground states like Texas, Florida and Georgia. Snapchat, which is popular among teenagers and young adults, pushed people 18 and over to register by adding a button about doing so on each user’s profile page. The company also sent video messages to all of those users urging them to register. The users were directed to a nonpartisan voter registration website, TurboVote.org.”