weeks. and i hope there will be ten republicans to support it. so this senate push comes after the house passed legislation back in july to protect same-sex marriage with support from 47 republicans. some senate democrats have suggested attaching the bill to a short term government funding bill. but schumer says he would prefer to bring it to the floor as a separate piece of legislation. boost for democrats two months out from the crucial midterm elections. a source tells cnn former president barack obama plans to campaign for a variety ofs including those down the ballot running for secretary of state in key battlegrounds. it indicates the level of concern for election integrity and the thoimportance of those positions for 2024. and meantime the former first couple finally unveiling their white house portraits. barack and michelle, welcome
as part of the investigation confidential forensic images of voting machine drives appeared on a qanon channel. she is barred from overseeing the county s elections this year. instead i m run to be your secretary of state to make that happen. reporter: she is on tuesday s ballot running to oversee elections in the whole state. i m not an election conspiracy theorist. when people came to me and i listened. i listened to the people. that s how i got involved. reporter: what do you say to critics like your opponents who say you are simply raising lies? oh, i like that one. well, i want to run on being accurate, transparent and a voice for the people. reporter: also on the far right republican ticket state representative ron hanks running for the u.s. senate, a 2020 election denier, proudly shares this image of himself in washington on january 6th. in his campaign video he wheels
mypillow ceo featuring 2021 election denier and republican colorado secretary of state candidate tina peters. if they don t cheat, i m in. reporter: not just a headliner here. she has made headlines across colorado for the last year. let go of me! reporter: this is peters in february, one part of a long saga of investigations. a grand jury indicted her on multiple felony counts stemming from an election security breach. she has pleaded not guilty. as part of the investigation confidential forensic images of voting machine drives appeared on a qanon channel. she is barred from overseeing the county s elections this year. instead i m run to be your secretary of state to make that happen. reporter: she is on tuesday s ballot running to oversee elections in the whole state. i m not an election conspiracy theorist. when people came to me and i listened. i listened to the people.
any accounts stemming from an election security breach, she s pleaded not guilty. as part of the investigation, hard drives and log-ins and now barred from overseeing the elections. i m running to be your secretary of state to make that happen. reporter: and instead she is on tuesday s ballot running to oversee elections in the whole state. i m not an election conspiracy theorist. when people came to me and i listened, i listened to the people. that is how i got involved. what do you say to critics who say that you are just simply raising lies? oh, i like that one. well, i want to run on being accurate, transparent and a voice for the people. reporter: also on the far right republican ticket, state representative ron hanks who on
it s still i asked him whether or not there s any evidence at this point that doj has launched a criminal investigation into either the president or the people closest to him that had to do with this. they still don t know the answer to that. they ve done a lot of work on the committee. they ve done so much work, so much work. yes, it certainly is independent of the justice department. there are strong arguments for that, but they are not just intending to produce a report. they are intending to produce a result. you ask anybody on that committee and they will tell you that, because what they argue is this just isn t about the past. this is about the president. this is about a former president who is making every indication that he wants to run again and could announce even in and around or before the midterm. this is about the future. and never mind the candidates on the ballot running for the house and even the senate on the