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What happened
Skip to main contentSkip to navigationSkip to key eventsUS politics live with Shrai PopatTrump administrationSix green card holders in Texas charged in federal crackdown on illegal voting – as it happenedThis live blog is now closed. 02 EDTShareKey events1h agoClosing summary2h agoAbdul El-Sayed dominates one-sided Michigan Senate debate in Mike Rogers' absence2h agoSenator Chris Van Hollen calls for 'mandatory safeguards' on AI development3h agoTrump plans to send Israel a type of one-ton bombs withheld by Biden over killing of civilians in Gaza5h agoSix green card holders in Texas swept up in federal crackdown on illegal voting6h agoTrump says Kennedy Center will not be renovated at all unless his name is added to memorial for assassinated predecessor7h agoHere's a recap of the day so far7h agoSenate blocks consideration of major cryptocurrency regulation bill8h agoAttorney general dismisses possible investigation into Russian oligarch who helped pay for Donald Trump Jr's wedding9h agoBlanche defends Trump's criticism of supreme court justices after ruling to block mail-in voting executive order9h agoCongressional Budget Office says Iran war has cost US $38bn in latest estimate9h agoSanders decries rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, says Congress has been 'asleep at the wheel'10h agoBessent defends Trump's $5k midterm incentive in House hearing10h agoJudge blocks Kennedy Center board from putting Trump's name on the building or grounds in any way11h agoCongressman Casar calls for US to lead AI diplomacy and end AI arms race11h agoPatel spars with Democratic senator over Atlantic article that alleges FBI director's excessive drinking12h agoPatel does not commit to keep FBI agents away from polls during midterm elections13h ago'This court has really let our country down': Trump blasts decision that blocks mail-in voting executive orders15h agoBernie Sanders and podcaster Steve Bannon to call for AI restrictions16h agoKash Patel to testify before Senate committee on FBI agenda17h agoTrump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies17h agoSupreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot restrictions will ensure 'safe, secure and accurate elections' Todd Blanche, US attorney general, told reporters at the White House to stand by for a ‘big development’ in the crackdown on non-citizen voting.
Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenTodd Blanche, US attorney general, told reporters at the White House to stand by for a ‘big development’ in the crackdown on non-citizen voting. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesFrom 5h agoEarlier on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, alerted reporters at the White House to stand by for what he called “a big development” in the federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens to be announced by Ryan Raybould, the US attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
When it came, however, Raybould’s announcement, that his office had charged six lawful permanent residents and one undocumented immigrant for voting in federal elections over the past eight years, hardly lived up to the billing. While six of those charged cast ballots in the 2024 general election, the impact of their votes was almost immeasurably small, given that two of them cast provisional ballots that were not counted, and 11,388,670 other Texans voted in that election.
Donald Trump, whose false claim that voting by non-citizens is rampant inspired the investigation, won the state by a margin of 1,558,347 votes over his nearest rival, Kamala Harris.
The wider picture
Of the four illegal votes that were apparently counted in error, three were cast by green card holders from Nigeria, India and Mexico, who might have wrongly thought they were eligible to vote, and just one by an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. Lawful permanent residents are not allowed to vote in federal elections, but they are permitted to vote in local elections in the District of Columbia and in some jurisdictions of three US states: California, Maryland and Vermont.
Still, the administration framed the criminal charges against the handful of ineligible voters in Texas as significant and even invited a Fox News crew to film the arrest of one of the green-card holders: a 27-year-old from Nigeria who allegedly voted in 2018, two years after becoming a lawful permanent resident. The video was broadcast multiple times on the president’s favorite network on Tuesday. A screenshot from a Fox News report on Tuesday, showing the arrest of green-card holder in Texas accused of illegally voting in 2018.
Photograph: Fox News“I was reliably told this never happens,” the Fox host Will Cain said with sarcasm after a report on the arrest. Here are the latest developments: As part of a $2. 8bn package of military aid, the Trump administration plans to send Israel a type of one-ton bombs that were withheld by the Biden administration over concerns that they were being used to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
What has been reported
Donald Trump “threw a tantrum” when he heard that Democratic congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a trustee of the Kennedy Center whose lawsuit forced Trump’s name to be removed from the facade of the memorial, had again prevailed in court. A televised Michigan Senate debate in Detroit on Tuesday was distinctly one-sided, because the Democratic nominee, Dr Abdul El-Sayed turned up, while his Republican rival, Mike Rogers, chose not to attend. “It was the most unprofessional thing that I’ve ever witnessed or been a part of it,” Beatty said.
“He went into name calling,” she added, saying that Trump had called her dumb. “He said, ‘I think you’re incompetent,’ and I said, ‘I know you’re incompetent,’” the congresswoman recalled. “He said he was going to hold me responsible if something fell out of the ceiling and killed someone,” she added. “And I told him, I said, ‘You’re already killing people, we’re at war. ”“Then he wanted to talk about how great he was with developing and he didn’t know anything about me, but I had never done anything.
So I reminded him that he had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room,” Beatty said.
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View image in fullscreenA screenshot from a televised Michigan Senate debate that only one of the two candidates, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, attended on Tuesday. An empty podium was left for Republican Mike Rogers, who chose not to attend. Photograph: Fox 2 DetroitIn his opening statement, standing across from an empty podium reserved for Rogers, which El-Sayed’s campaign clipped and posted on YouTube, the Democrat argued that the absent Republican “took the time to go to Dallas… to give a speech at a convention held in the interest of Donald Trump, but he didn’t have the time to spend an hour with us in Detroit. ”After the debate, when a reporter began a question for El-Sayed by saying, “Obviously the elephant in the room tonight or lack thereof,” the candidate cut in to say: “No the elephant was not in the room.
The elephant elephant decided that they did not want to be in the room. ”“Although the elephants were all in the room in Dallas,” he said, referring to the Republican midterm convention staged by Trump last week that Rogers attended. “It’s wild to me that this guy is more interested in going to speak for what, six minutes and 48 seconds in Dallas than he is to have 60 minutes with Michiganders here in Detroit. He’s a coward. ”“If I were him, I wouldn’t debate me either,” El-Sayed added, continuing to hammer his opponent for refusing to debate.
“But here he is because Daddy Trump has him stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Canadian tariff wars or actual wars that we’re all having to pay for.