Tag: Operative

09 DEC

North Carolina Republican Mark Harris revealed his campaign owes $34,000 to a political operative accused of illegally collecting — and not submitting — absentee ballots

Sean Rayford/Getty Images Mark Harris, the Republican candidate for the House seat in North Carolina’s 9th congressional district, revealed on Thursday night that his campaign owed over $ 34,000 to a political operative who’s been accused of election fraud.  The operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless, was contracted by a consulting group that Harris’ campaign paid for […]

11 AUG

The feds are looking into bank transactions a GOP operative conducted during an independent search for Hillary Clinton’s emails

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Federal investigators are looking into bank transactions conducted by a GOP operative who launched an independent effort to find Hillary Clinton’s emails during the 2016 election. At the time, Peter W. Smith made clear that he wanted to uncover messages sent through Clinton’s private email server and expose them during what was […]

03 APR

How Nicolle Wallace went from a top GOP operative to a stranger in her own party

Screenshot/MSNBC Nicolle Wallace, formerly President George W. Bush’s communications director and now the host of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” is one of the GOP’s most outspoken critics of the president. Wallace says the party’s “volume business of misogyny,” and the “cowardice” of leaders who don’t stand up to it, is pushing women voters away, perhaps […]

18 FEB

Ex-CIA operative says US has long meddled in elections, but it’s OK since they are ‘god cops’

As Democrats indict Russians over “election meddling,” former CIA officers say the US has been interfering in foreign elections for decades and “hopefully” will keep doing so because it has the moral high ground. In an article published in the New York Times on Saturday, former CIA officers and several researchers, who have been studying […]

22 SEP

‘Of course we discussed Trump’: Russian-Ukrainian operative explains his emails with Manafort

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Paul Manafort’s longtime employee, Russian-Ukrainian political operative Konstantin Kilimnik, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that he and Manafort emailed each other “about Trump and everything” during the campaign. Kilimnik’s comments came a day after The Washington Post reported that Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, sent Kilimnik an email in July 2016 asking him to offer Russian […]