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CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A group of Republicans on Wednesday defended 16 GOP electors for signing a false certificate claiming former President Donald Trump won Michigan in 2020, a day after Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel filed criminal charges accusing them of engaging in election fraud.

LANSING, Mich. — Attorney General Dana Nessel is leveling felony charges against 16 Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Donald Trump won Michigan's 2020 presidential election, launching criminal cases against top political figures inside the state GOP.

Percentage of US House elections with only one major party candidate drops below average of past century

Percentage of US House general elections with only one major party candidate has decreased over the past decade

The number of senators not running for re-election in 2024 is tied with the number who had announced they would not run at this point in the 2022 cycle, and higher than the numbers for 2020 and 2018. On the House side, the number of members not running is lower…

The number of special elections to each meeting of Congress has steadily increased over the past twenty years, from an average of 7.6 special elections in the five meetings beginning in 1993, to 11.6 in the five meetings starting in 2003, and to 13.4 in the five meetings that began…

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11 Democrats and 4 Republicans, including 5 Senators and 10 House members, will not seek re-election

Over the past decade, the percentage of U.S. House of Representatives elections with only a Democrat or a Republican on the ballot has dropped in a majority of the election cycles and below the past century’s average. Here is the recent breakdown: