Ohio Special Election Results: 12th Congressional District
Republican Troy Balderson leads by 0.9 percentage points, or 1,754 votes, over Democrat Danny O’Connor with 100 percent of precincts fully reporting. The race remains too close to call.
O'Connor has not conceded and said in a statement released shortly before midnight that "we don't know the results quite yet."
Voters in Ohio’s 12th District are choosing a replacement for Representative Pat Tiberi, a Republican who resigned to work for a business group.
Speaking to cheering supporters Tuesday night, Troy Balderson said O'Connor ran a "hard race" and claimed victory. Balderson, the Republican was endorsed last week by President Trump.
Candidate Party Votes Percentage
Troy Balderson Republican 101,574 50.2%
Danny O’Connor Democrat 99,820 49.3%
Joe Manchik Green 1,127 0.6%
What’s next? Democrat Danny O'Connor won't say whether he'll consider asking for a recount in Tuesday night's special election in Ohio. If the margin drops below half a percentage point after the final votes are tallied, it would trigger an automatic recount.
O’Connor said he was focused on the fact that he will go head-to-head against Balderson again during the November midterm election.
"The only thing I know for sure is that I'm gonna be campaigning every single day until November," O'Connor said.
While Balderson maintains a slim lead with all precincts reporting, there are at least 3,435 provisional ballots left to be reviewed and 5,048 outstanding absentee ballots. That's enough for O'Connor to potentially pick up enough votes to force a mandatory recount.
State law dictates election officials cannot begin counting these ballots until the 11th day after the election, which would be Aug. 18.
In a tweet Tuesday night, Trump wrote that Balderson had won a "great victory during a very tough time of the year for voting."
“When I decided to go to Ohio for Troy Balderson, he was down in early voting 64 to 36. That was not good. After my speech on Saturday night, there was a big turn for the better. Now Troy wins a great victory during a very tough time of the year for voting. He will win BIG in Nov.”
DHS: More than 700K foreign travelers overstayed visas in 2017
The Department of Homeland Security said in a report released Tuesday that more than 700,000 foreign nationals who were supposed to leave the U.S. in recent months overstayed their visas. The federal department determined that 701,900 people who entered the country through an air or sea Port of Entry overstayed their visas between October 2016 and September 2017.
The department's report said more than 52 million foreign travelers entered the country and were set to leave last year. Of all those travelers, more than 92,000 Canadians overstayed their visas, and more than 47,000 Mexicans. However, those figures do not include land crossings, meaning the numbers could be higher.
When you overstay your visa, you become what's called "out of status,” and your visa is automatically cancelled. However, it is not currently a federal crime to overstay a visa.
If you stay in the country over 180 days, you accrue what is known in legal terms as "unlawful presence" in the United States. A period of 180 days or more of unlawful presence makes you "inadmissible" to the United States. That means that you will not be granted a visa, green card (lawful permanent residence), or other immigration benefit for a period of either three or ten years, depending on how long you overstayed. An overstay of over 365 days results in a ten-year bar on reentry.
If you overstay your visa for 180 days or more (but less than one year), then when you depart the U.S. you will be barred from reentering the U.S. for three years.
If you overstayed your visa for less than 180 days, leaving the U.S. will not trigger any bars to your reentry. However, the next time you try to enter the U.S., the border officer will be able to see that you overstayed your visa on your previous stay. Border officers always have the discretion to not allow you U.S. entry.
Poll: Most say race relations worse under Trump
In a Politico/ Morning Consult poll, a majority say race relations have gotten worse under Trump. Overall, 55% of voters say race relations have worsened under President Trump, 16% of voters say race relations have gotten better under President Trump, 18% of voters say race relations have stayed the same under President Trump.
The results by race are the following: 51% of white voters say race relations have worsened, 79% of black voters say race relations have worsened and 60% of Hispanic voters say race relations have worsened.
Iran crowds reportedly chant 'death to the dictator!' as U.S. sanctions increase economic unrest
Videos circulating on social media taken from inside Iran show thousands of protesters marching through the streets. In one video, crowds leaving a soccer match are heard yelling "death to the dictator! Death to Khamenei! Death to Rouhani!"
Another video said to be taken in Tehran shows idle buses lined up, reported to be 6,000 buses in total, that Iran’s government has refused to pay back its debts to a contractor that gives the drivers fuel, leaving them and the thousands of Iranians they would have been transporting stranded.
The protests have also turned deadly, as one demonstrator was reported to have been killed in Karaj on Friday. Activists there told Al Arabiya that a young man was gunned down by security forces, while Iran’s Fars news agency claimed he was killed by unknown attackers.
In Mashad, the country’s second-largest city, demonstrations were captured on video Monday after a cleric told the public to take to the streets because the government isn't fulfilling its promises. Another video reportedly showed crowds chanting insults about security forces in the city of Kazerun.
A senior Trump administration official told Fox News the restored sanctions against Iran that went into effect at midnight are designed to constrict the revenue Iran uses to fund “terrorists, dictators, proxy militias, and the regime’s own cronies.”
Trump signed the executive order Monday to restore some of the sanctions that were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal during the Obama administration. The executive order targeted transactions involving U.S. dollars, as well as the country’s automotive sector, the purchase of commercial planes and metals, including gold.
Mail Time!
Bill, we hear a lot about how the judges were lied to or mislead. Is it possible that the FISA judges are just like all the other judges, with a political bent? Couldn't they be just as culpable in wanting to get Trump as the rest of the cast of characters?
Bill, if you want to stop the shootings in Chicago my former home town for 30 plus years, implement "Stop and Frisk". Even if you announced that procedure and did not implement it, you would see shootings stop for a time. No gang member wants to be stopped with an illegal gun and sent to prison by just driving around.
The National Guard is State Militia and can be activated by the President, they activated us in the early 70s for the Post Office Strike and also the Sanitation Strike.
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