CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday called out a Donald Trump surrogate’s defense of the former president’s increasingly authoritarian rhetoric. Former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado (R) tried to ...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper heard enough from a Republican guest trying to defend former President Donald Trump on Wednesday’s AC360. Former California Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado (R) baselessly ...

CNN anchor Abby Phillip checked former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado (R) on Friday for dismissing Donald Trump’s false claims about the response to Hurricane Helene by President Joe Biden’s ...

Anderson Cooper had heard enough. The CNN anchor used some off-color language to dismiss ever-more-strained defenses Donald Trump's fascist campaign rhetoric. Republican former Lt. Gov. of California ...

Abby Phillip clashed with a Republican guest, who refused to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump is lying about the government’s response to Hurricane Helene. Having moved on from lying ...

With Beaver Stadium behind them, a group campaigning on behalf of Donald Trump and JD Vance spoke to more than 70 supporters during the “Team Trump Bus Tour” stop at Penn State Tuesday afternoon. Abel ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa (center) fires up a crowd of supporters at a rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on Thursday in Duncansville. Mirror photo ...

Mayor Gavin Newsom knows how to play the campaign game. After his opponent in the race for lieutenant governor — Abel Maldonado — issued a statement attacking Newsom for his financial ties to the ...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate on Thursday confirmed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pick for California lieutenant governor, as lawmakers cast the vote as a test of whether a Legislature that has fallen ...

I have been accepted as an expert on election law in federal courts in nine states, including California. I am on the editorial board of the Election Law Journal. I am editor of Ballot Access News, a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Abel Maldonado was a Lieutenant Governor with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Convention as a State Representative for California. The ...