GRAND RAPIDS — Abdul El-Sayed bringing out the big guns, Big Gretch Whitmer & Lisa Blunt Rochester at a campaign stop here ahead of tonight’s debate with Mike Rogers
We also asked @MikeRogersForMI to join us and told he was unavailable.
AdImpact tracking shows the Senate GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund is shifting $2M from Republican Mike Collins campaign against Sen. Jon Ossoff ahead of tonight’s debate. #gapol#
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NYT reports: David Milstein a top aide to U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee suppressed and altered reports by U.S. diplomats critical of Israel and skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light
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The WH is upset at Fox News and Jesse Watters over El-Sayed, but a Fox News spokesperson said Mike Rogers also was invited to be interviewed on Watters' show but didn't respond.
Via @axiosalex
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#SCSEN#: Annie Andrews goes direct-to-camera on trans issues
For 43 consecutive days, James Talarico has been the top fund-raiser on ActBlue over the preceding week.
In other words, the Teaxs Democrat's third quarter fund-raising figure is going to be very, very large.
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2028 Dem proxy war between JB and Beshear moves to the … Rio Grande
Top Democrats are rushing cash to Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas, as some in the party begin to believe she could pull off an improbable upset.
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and the Democratic Governors Association are each sending $1 million to support her bid, Mr. Pritzker and a top D.G.A. official said on Tuesday. The money could be significant for her: She had just $4 million or so on hand at the end of last month, according to Texas campaign finance
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My column for AMERICANA this week is "Tomorrow's Takes -- Today!"
The jockeying for credit about what happens in the midterms is well underway. Here's the races to watch for spin, and how to cut through it.
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Trump at the Economic Club of New York in September 2024 ahead of the presidential election said, “Reducing mortgage rates is a big factor. We're going to get them back down to, we think, 3%, maybe even lower than that.”
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SCOOP: Ken Paxton, asked about the biggest drag on his campaign, said, "It's the war, it's gas prices," per audio obtained by @axios
He agreed he can't stop the Iran War and said: "I don't ... know what's behind some of the decisions."
w/ @StefWKight
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Pretty unsubtle here from David Jolly on Beshear >
When I brought up DGA Chair and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, whose presidential ambitions are no secret, Jolly said his victory would mean “not only does the road to the White House go through Florida, but the road to the Democratic nomination goes through Florida.”
And if his point wasn’t clear enough, he pointed out that Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Gavin Newsom of California and Wes Moore of Maryland had all contributed or were planning to come to Florida.
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Trump weighs in on the midterms four weeks out
.@GregAbbott_TX says he will not be at Trump event in San Antonio this week because he has other campaign events already planned. On Trump in TX: "Whenever he does show up, it leads to excitement with the base. He does a good job with getting the base organized and turning out."
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“Gov. Wes Moore would not commit to serving the entirety of a second term if reelected in November when asked during Maryland’s lone gubernatorial debate Tuesday.”
Top Democratic Super PAC Raised Record Amount in Third Quarter via @NYTimes
Scoop: Senate GOP to send $5m as an “insurance policy” to shore up Darline Graham in South Carolina
Meantime, the president called her Democratic opponent “Trannie Annie”
w/@axiosalex
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👀AOC and Hochul events tomorrow
New w/ @hollyotterbein
Dem in some of this year's most critical seats have sent a message to AOC: We don't want you to campaign for us.
Could undermine her electability argument in a 2028 campaign.
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AOC on 2028 decision to @ShaneGoldmacher: “life doesn’t wait for you to be ready for things. Sometimes life just makes things ready for you.”
