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Georgia attorney general sues GOP opponent in governor’s race over campaign financing

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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, one of the leading Republican contenders for governor, has filed a lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, challenging the legality of his GOP rival’s campaign funding.
Carr asked a federal judge to permanently block Jones’ ability to spend money from his leadership committee, a fundraising tool that allows the state’s governor, lieutenant governor and legislative leaders to raise unlimited funds.
Both men are leading Republican candidates to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Brian Kemp after next year’s election.
Carr argues that Jones’ leadership committee violates the attorney general’s First Amendment right to free speech and his 14th Amendment right to equal protection by setting up a campaign finance structure that boosts Jones and limits how much Carr can spend on his campaign. A 2021 state law that created leadership committees does not allow Carr or other declared candidates to have access to the fundraising vehicle.
Carr’s regular campaign committee is limited to raising $8,400 from each donor for his primary campaign and $4,200 for a potential primary runoff.
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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, pictured here, sued Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over the legality of the lieutenant governor’s campaign funding. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
Carr campaign spokeswoman Julia Mazzone said in a statement that Jones «is using his position to sidestep contribution limits, raise six-figure checks during legislative sessions and funnel unlimited money into a competitive primary through a structure only he can access.»
«Republicans cannot ignore the cloud of unethical, illegal and corrupt behavior that surrounds Burt Jones,» Mazzone said.
«Leadership committees were never intended to be unregulated campaign machines,» the statement added. «The court has ruled on this before, and the Constitution prohibits exactly what’s happening here. We’re taking action to uphold transparency and accountability standards.»
A Jones campaign spokesperson, meanwhile, has accused Carr of being hypocritical since his office previously defended the same law that he is now challenging in court. Carr has argued that the attorney general must defend challenged laws even if he personally disagrees with them.
«Georgia’s lackluster Attorney General defended this law two years ago,» Kendyl Parker, Jones’ spokeswoman said. «Now, he’s running for governor and wants to challenge the same law he once defended. If hypocrisy were an Olympic sport, he’d take gold.»
Carr launched his gubernatorial bid last year, saying he needed more time to raise money because he is not personally wealthy. His campaign has expressed concerns for months that Jones will use his leadership committee and family wealth to support his primary campaign.
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Georgia AG Chris Carr asked a federal judge to permanently block Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’ ability to spend money from the lieutenant governor’s leadership committee. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The Carr campaign has sought to have the state Ethics Commission probe the source of a $10 million loan Jones made to his leadership committee, although the commission declined to launch an investigation, noting that Carr failed to allege a legal violation.
The attorney general’s campaign pointed to U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen’s 2022 ruling that a leadership committee for Kemp could not use money for Kemp’s re-election campaign during that year’s Republican primary. Cohen found that the «unequal campaign finance scheme» violated GOP primary challenger and former U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s First Amendment right to free speech.
Cohen ruled that Kemp could continue raising money for the leadership committee but said the governor could not spend it against Perdue in the primary.
«Despite full knowledge of this history, Mr. Jones and his leadership committee, WBJ Leadership Committee, Inc., are ignoring this Court’s prior rulings and using a leadership committee—that has no contribution or coordinated spending limits—in a primary election against a candidate without one,» Carr’s lawsuit reads.
Carr is seeking additional restrictions on Jones’ leadership committee than in Cohen’s ruling. The attorney general is asking a judge to cut off both fundraising and spending from the lieutenant governor’s leadership committee until the primary race is over.
He is also requesting that a federal magistrate judge be appointed to oversee all spending by the leadership committee and that Jones’ regular campaign committee repay any money already spent by the leadership committee to support Jones’ gubernatorial run.
«The loan and its amount are significant because Mr. Jones is also able to raise unlimited funds into the leadership committee, then repay the loan from funds raised that then can be applied directly to his campaign account, effectively removing the contribution limits from those dollars,» the lawsuit says.

Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’ campaign criticized Georgia AG Chris Carr as a hypocrite since his office defended the same law in 2022 that he is now challenging in court. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
Carr asks that the court block Jones from giving any cash to dark money groups or making any loans to his regular campaign committee during the primary. He also wants the magistrate judge to probe where Jones’ $10 million loan came from, citing a 2022 financial disclosure showing that Jones did not have enough liquid assets for a loan of that quantity.
The attorney general’s campaign continues to express concern that Jones could raise unlimited money to repay his loan and then give the repaid money to his candidate committee for the primary, arguing that this would wreck campaign contribution restrictions.
«Mr. Jones is raising and spending unlimited amounts of money in the primary—and Mr. Carr is limited in what he can raise by Georgia’s existing campaign contribution limits,» the lawsuit reads. «This Court should level this uneven playing field by preventing Mr. Jones from using his leadership committee during the primary election.»
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Carr’s campaign has also called on the Ethics Commission for an advisory legal opinion on whether Jones’ fundraising activity is legal.
The Republican primary will be held in May, and the general election next year in the purple state is expected to be one of the most expensive governor’s races in the country.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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En un histórico balotaje y sin el MAS por primera vez en 20 años, Bolivia da un brusco giro a la derecha

Los bolivianos elegirán este domingo a su nuevo presidente entre el derechista Jorge Tuto Quiroga y el centrista Rodrigo Paz.
No se trata de una elección más. Es un histórico balotaje que pondrá fin a 20 años de dominio absoluto del izquierdista Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) de Evo Morales, hoy reducido a una mínima expresión y con su líder recluido en su bastión de Chapare para evitar una orden de arresto en una causa por trata de personas.
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Bolivia eligió ya un cambio al dejar fuera de esta segunda vuelta al MAS, dividido y con escasísimo poder en el futuro Congreso. En medio de una crisis económica caracterizada por una inflación del 23% anual, una incipiente recesión, falta de divisas y escasez de combustible, los bolivianos deberán decidir si este giro ideológico se detendrá en el centro o avanzará hacia una derecha más dura.
“Es una votación histórica porque es la primera vez que llegamos a una segunda vuelta y porque es el final de 20 años del ciclo izquierdista en el país”, dijo a TN el analista y periodista boliviano Robert Brockmann.
El balotaje es un mecanismo electoral contemplado en la Constitución de 2009, aprobada durante el gobierno de Morales y a quien sucedió el presidente saliente, Luis Arce, enemistado con su mentor y con una impopularidad récord.
Quien gane estas elecciones asumirá el 8 de noviembre próximo por un período de cinco años.
Bolivia elige entre el centro y la derecha
Un total de 7,9 millones de bolivianos están habilitados para votar este domingo. Otros 369.000 lo harán en el exterior. Las urnas se abrirán a las 08:00 locales y el cierre está previsto para las 16:00 (una hora menos que en la Argentina).
El candidato presidencial Jorge «Tuto» Quiroga se dirige a sus simpatizantes durante un mitin de cierre de campaña antes de la segunda vuelta electoral, el miércoles 15 de octubre de 2025, en La Paz, Bolivia. (AP Foto/Natacha Pisarenko)
En la primera vuelta, celebradas el 17 de agosto, Paz obtuvo un sorpresivo primer lugar con un 32,06% de los votos, seguido de Quiroga con el 26,70%.
Quiroga, de la derechista Alianza Libre y que ya fue presidente en el período 2001/2002, es el favorito según algunas encuestas, sobre el senador centrista y candidato del Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC), Rodrigo Paz.
Pero las encuestas han fracasado en sus pronósticos en la primera vuelta. Entonces Paz, hijo del expresidente Jaime Paz Zamora (1989-/93), figuraba entre un lejano tercer y quinto lugar en los sondeos. En silencio, terminó por dar la gran sorpresa de los comicios, algo que analistas estiman que podría volver a repetir en este balotaje.
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“La situación es diferente. La elección se decidirá entre dos candidatos que no polarizan a la sociedad. Son más o menos lo mismo. Los dos son liberales. Quiroga es claramente de derecha o centroderecha y Paz es de una izquierda demoliberal, una especie de socialdemocracia”, dijo Brockmann
Los programas económicos de ambos candidatos no difieren mucho entre sí. Los dos buscan terminar con 20 años de hegemonía socialista bajo una grave crisis, pero evitan hablar de un “shock económico”. Las propuestas se basan en planes neoliberales y un acercamiento a Estados Unidos.
Quiroga apuesta por una agenda de libre mercado, relanzamiento productivo e independencia del poder judicial, con atención a la educación y las instituciones democráticas. Paz propone la descentralización administrativa, un modelo de “capitalismo para todos” y una reforma judicial con tolerancia cero a la corrupción. Rodrigo Paz, candidato del Partido Demócrata Cristiano. (Foto: REUTERS/Claudia Morales)
Pero ambos coinciden en mantener los subsidios a los combustibles (uno de los grandes temas de debate) sólo para el transporte público y sectores vulnerables, así como continuar con los programas sociales en un contexto de fuerte precariedad social y con un movimiento indígena que abandonó al MAS y deberá optar por un nuevo modelo de gobierno.
Cualquiera que gane, el cambio será rotundo tras dos décadas de socialismo del siglo XXI.
La derecha tendrá mayoría en el nuevo Congreso
De cara al futuro gobierno, el nuevo presidente deberá tratar de garantizar gobernabilidad. El Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Paz tendrá el número más alto de escaños con 16 senadores y 49 diputados, aunque sin asegurar una mayoría. La Alianza Libre de Quiroga será la segunda fuerza con 12 senadores y 39 diputados.
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La Alianza Popular, del disidente del MAS Andrónico Rodríguez, obtuvo ocho diputados, mientras que el hasta ahora oficialista MAS apenas dos. Morales quedó inhabilitado para participar en las elecciones y llamó a anular el voto. Los votos nulos rozaron el 20% en la primera vuelta.
En resumen cuatro partidos de derecha (los de Paz, Quiroga y otros dos minoritarios) tendrán 119 diputados sobre 130 y la totalidad de los 36 senadores, lo que vaticina una mayor gobernabilidad para el presidente que resulte electo si logra concertar alianzas.
“El problema va a ser si el próximo presidente desmantela el sistema de subsidios a los combustibles. Eso provocaría el encarecimiento de las cosas en un contexto social difícil. La economía es muy precaria. Si empeora aún más, puede no durar mucho el nuevo gobierno. Si fracasa, podríamos estar pensando en el regreso de Evo en poco tiempo”, concluyó Breckmann.
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Ciattarelli gains momentum in New Jersey governor’s race as polls narrow sharply

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SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – With Election Day fast approaching, the Republican nominee in one of only two races for governor in the nation this year is fired up.
«Championship teams finish strong,» Jack Ciattarelli told a crowd of supporters jam-packed into a diner in this northern New Jersey town earlier this week. «Let’s win this race.»
Ciattarelli, who’s making his third straight run for Garden State governor and who nearly upset Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy four years ago, has good reason to be confident.
In a state where registered Democrats still outnumber Republicans despite a GOP surge in registration this decade, two new public opinion polls released this week indicated Ciattarelli narrowing the gap with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill in the race to succeed the term-limited Murphy.
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Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for governor in New Jersey, speaks to supporters at a diner in Saddle Brook, N.J. on Oct. 15, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The slightly fresher of the two surveys, a Fox News poll conducted Oct. 10–14, put Sherrill at 50% support among likely voters, with Ciattarelli at 45%. Sherrill’s 5-point advantage was down from an 8-point lead in Fox News’ September survey in New Jersey.
New Jersey and Virginia are the only two states to hold gubernatorial showdowns in the year after a presidential election, and the contests traditionally grab outsized attention and are viewed as political barometers ahead of the following year’s midterm elections.
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And this year, they’re being viewed to a large degree as ballot-box referendums on President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and combustible second-term agenda.
While Democrats have long dominated federal and state legislative elections in blue-leaning New Jersey, Republicans are very competitive in gubernatorial contests, winning five out of the past 10 elections.

President Donald Trump, seen speaking during a campaign event at Wildwood Beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, May 11, 2024, will headline a tele-rally for Jack Ciattarelli, the 2025 Republican gubernatorial nominee in the Garden State. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And Trump made major gains in New Jersey in last year’s presidential election, losing the state by only six percentage points, a major improvement over his 16-point deficit four years earlier.
Ciattarelli, interviewed by Fox News Digital Wednesday in Bayonne, New Jersey, noted that he «made big gains» in his 2021 showing «in Hudson County and Passaic County,» two long-time Democratic Party strongholds.
«And the President did very, very well in ’24 in those very same counties. And if you take a look at who’s been endorsing me, including some very prominent Democrats here in Hudson County, people want change,» Ciattarelli emphasized.
But Ciattarelli is also aiming to energize Republican base voters in what’s likely to be a low-turnout election.
Multiple sources confirmed to Fox News that Trump will hold tele-rallies with Ciattarelli ahead of Election Day. Trump’s teaming up with Ciattarelli may help energize MAGA supporters, many of whom are low propensity voters who often skip casting ballots in non-presidential election years.

Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio Vivek Ramaswamy headlines a campaign event for New Jersey GOP nominee for governor Jack Ciattarelli, on Oct. 15, 2025, in Saddle Brook, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
And on Wednesday, Ciattarelli was joined at his diner stop, where there was an overflow crowd of a couple of hundred people outside, by Vivek Ramaswamy, the MAGA rockstar who is running for governor next year in his home state of Ohio.
Ramaswamy, the multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur and conservative commentator who pushed an «America First 2.0» platform as he ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination before ending his bid and becoming one of Trump’s top supporters and surrogates, told Ciattarelli, «We’re going in Ohio next year, but you’ve got to pave the path this year. We’re counting on you.»
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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin, commenting on why Republicans feel bullish about the New Jersey showdown, raised concerns.
«New Jersey is the best place, probably, for Donald Trump to actually stop the Democratic momentum — or at least minimize the Democratic momentum that we’ve seen throughout this year,» Martin said in a Politico interview.
But the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is confident of a Sherrill victory next month.
«As numerous polls show her holding a strong lead and earning more than 50% of the vote, Mikie Sherrill is rising to meet the moment in this incredibly competitive race,» DGA Spokesperson Izzi Levy told Fox News. «It’s clear that Mikie has the momentum, and that New Jersey voters are all-in to reject Ciattarelli for a third time this November.»

New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill, right, and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, on the stage moments at the start of their second and final debate, on Oct. 8, 2025, in New Brunswick, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News Digital)
While Trump isn’t on the ballot, he’s loomed large over the New Jersey gubernatorial election.
At last week’s second and final debate, Sherrill charged that her GOP rival had «shown zero signs of standing up to this president. In fact, the president himself called Jack 100% MAGA, and he’s shown every sign of being that.»
Asked whether he considered himself part of the MAGA movement, Ciattarelli said he was «part of a New Jersey movement.»
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When asked to grade the president’s performance so far during his second term, Ciattarelli said, «I’d certainly give the president an A. I think he’s right about everything that he’s doing.»
«I think that tells us all we need to know about who Jack Ciattarelli’s supporting. I give him an F right now,» Sherrill responded, as she pointed to New Jersey’s high cost of living.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in New Jersey, takes questions from reporters following a debate on Oct. 8, 2025, in New Brunswick, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The race in New Jersey was rocked a couple of weeks ago by a report that the National Personnel Records Center, which is a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, mistakenly released Sherrill’s improperly redacted military personnel files, which included private information like her Social Security number, to a Ciattarelli ally.
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But Sherrill’s military records indicated that the United States Naval Academy blocked her from taking part in her 1994 graduation amid a cheating scandal.
The showdown was jolted again last week after Sherrill’s allegations that Ciattarelli was «complicit» with pharmaceutical companies in the opioid deaths of tens of thousands of New Jerseyans, as she pointed to the medical publishing company he owned that pushed content promoting the use of opioids as a low-risk treatment for chronic pain.
This week, Trump set off a political hand grenade in the race, as he «terminated» billions of federal dollars for the Gateway Project, which is funding a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York.
Sherrill, holding a news conference Thursday at a major commuter rail station just a few miles from the site of the tunnels in one of the busiest train corridors in the nation, called the project «critical» as she took aim at Trump and Ciattarelli.
«I’m fighting for the people of New Jersey. He’s fighting to excuse Trump. It’s unacceptable,» Sherrill charged.
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New Jersey traditionally elects a governor from the party out of power in the White House, which this year favors the Democrats.
But Garden State voters haven’t elected a governor from the same party in three straight elections in over a half century, which would favor the Republicans.
One of those political trends will be busted in next month’s election.
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Israel realizó nuevos ataques en Gaza tras acusar a los terroristas de Hamas de haber violado el alto el fuego

Israel reanudó los ataques aéreos en la Franja de Gaza el domingo, después de acusar al grupo terrorista palestino Hamas de violar el alto el fuego y el acuerdo de liberación de rehenes negociado la semana pasada.
“En respuesta a la flagrante violación del acuerdo de alto el fuego más temprano hoy (domingo), las FDI (Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel) han comenzado una serie de ataques contra objetivos terroristas de Hamas en el sur de la Franja de Gaza”, indicó el Ejército en un comunicado.
Funcionarios de salud señalaron que al menos nueve palestinos murieron en los ataques del domingo.
Un ataque aéreo israelí mató al menos a seis palestinos en el centro de Gaza, sostuvieron funcionarios de salud. Ocurrió en una cafetería improvisada en el lado costero de la ciudad de Zawaida, según el Ministerio de Salud de Gaza, que forma parte del gobierno dirigido por los terroristas de Hamas.
Otro ataque israelí mató al menos a dos personas cerca del club de fútbol Al-Ahly en el campo de refugiados de Nuseirat, aseguró el ministerio. El ataque golpeó una tienda y dejó ocho heridos, según el hospital Awda, que recibió a los heridos. Un tercer ataque golpeó una tienda en el área de Muwasi en Khan Younis en el sur, matando al menos a una persona, según el Hospital Nasser.
Un funcionario militar israelí dijo a la agencia AP que una primera ola de ataques el domingo por la mañana fue en represalia por al menos tres ataques contra sus fuerzas. Según el funcionario, el Ejército respondió a “al menos tres incidentes en los que Hamas disparó hacia nuestras tropas apostadas detrás de la línea amarilla en las posiciones acordadas”, refiriéndose a la línea de retirada del Ejército israelí bajo los términos del alto el fuego.
En dos incidentes en Rafah, en el sur de la Franja de Gaza, Hamas supuestamente abrió fuego y lanzó una granada propulsada por cohete contra tropas israelíes, algunas de las cuales eran fuerzas de ingeniería “operando para desmantelar infraestructura terrorista en el sur de Gaza”. El funcionario dijo que las tropas estaban apostadas en áreas detrás de la línea amarilla donde el Ejército israelí puede maniobrar bajo los términos de la tregua.
En un incidente separado en Beit Lahia, en el norte de la Franja de Gaza, terroristas palestinos cruzaron la línea amarilla hacia áreas controladas por Israel y fueron “eliminados en un ataque preciso”, dijo el funcionario militar.
Hamas negó las acusaciones de que había atacado a las fuerzas israelíes, diciendo que estaba cumpliendo con la tregua y que Israel estaba ideando “pretextos endebles” para reanudar la guerra. El grupo señaló que la comunicación con sus unidades restantes en Rafah fue cortada desde hace meses y “no somos responsables de ningún incidente que ocurra en esas áreas”. Añadió que las conversaciones para iniciar la segunda fase de las negociaciones de alto el fuego han comenzado.
Testigos palestinos dijeron a AFP que estallaron enfrentamientos en Rafah, en un área aún controlada por Israel, entre Hamas y la milicia rival conocida como las “Fuerzas Populares”. Hamas buscaba supuestamente eliminar al líder de la pandilla Yasser Abu Shabab.
Tras los ataques, el primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu se reunió con el ministro de Defensa Israel Katz y los jefes de las agencias de seguridad Shin Bet y Mossad, y “ordenó que se tomaran medidas contundentes contra objetivos terroristas en la Franja de Gaza”, según un comunicado de su oficina. Sin embargo, Netanyahu no amenazó con volver a la guerra.
Un alto funcionario egipcio involucrado en las negociaciones del alto el fuego declaró a la agencia AP que se estaban llevando a cabo contactos “las 24 horas” para desescalar la situación. El funcionario habló bajo condición de anonimato porque no estaba autorizado a hablar con los periodistas.
Bajo los términos del acuerdo, Hamas y sus aliados se comprometieron a liberar a todos los rehenes restantes que capturaron el 7 de octubre de 2023. Hasta ahora han liberado a los 20 rehenes supervivientes, pero han devuelto solo 12 cuerpos de los 28 rehenes fallecidos que aún retienen, culpando a las dificultades para localizarlos bajo los escombros.
(Con información de AP, AFP y EFE)
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