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At the Races: Feeling the pinch
He has made it his goal never to spend $1 on positive advertising in campaigns. And I convinced him in one of our cycles to run a positive piece.”
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He has made it his goal never to spend $1 on positive advertising in campaigns. And I convinced him in one of our cycles to run a positive piece.”
Ted Cruz pumped $137,000 out of his own reelection fund to support former aide Cassy Garcia’s campaign in the March 1 GOP primary in the competitive 28th District, which The Dallas Morning News points
Taylor led the field of five candidates with 48.7 percent, followed by retired Army Officer Keith Self with 26.5 percent, when The Associated Press called there would be a runoff at 1:16 a.m.
14th District (Lauren Underwood, D) Underwood won reelection by just more than 1 point in 2020 in a closer-than-expected race against Republican Jim Oberweis.
The AJC, a global Jewish advocacy group, said in a statement he would take over on Oct. 1.
The pair will again go head-to-head on March 1 in a race that will test how progressive ideas fare in Texas’ Democratic-leaning 28th District, where about 70 percent of the eligible voting population
Ad roundup: The House GOP super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund forked over $600,000 for broadcast and cable spots to boost Morgan Luttrell in Texas’ 8th District primary set for March 1.
Loyalty test: The leading candidates in the March 1 primary to replace retiring GOP Rep.
Some of the AFT PAC’s biggest expenditures included $1 million each to two major Democratic super PACs, House Majority PAC and Senate Majority PAC.
Wesley Hunt, who is running for the GOP nomination in Texas’ 38th District, hauled in more than $1 million in the most recent fundraising quarter and holds $1.5 million in the bank.
representation: Even as Democrats attack Republicans with “Jim Crow 2.0” rhetoric for opposition to voting rights legislation, some of the GOP’s rising-star fundraisers, such as Texan Wesley Hunt, who hauled in $1
Cuellar, a Democrat who is facing a rematch from progressive Jessica Cisneros in the March 1 primary and a raft of potential Republican opponents, said he would “fully cooperate in any investigation.”
new package comes mainly from two bills, including the Freedom to Vote Act, which was itself a compromise offered by Manchin in response to a broader House bill known as the For the People Act, or HR 1.
That doesn’t bode well for the party this year when Biden’s victory in five of the battleground states was by less than 2.5 points, including three by less than 1 point.
Biden won the Badger State by less than 1 point in 2020. In 2016, Trump also won the state by less than a point.
Big money: The GOP outside group One Nation, an affiliate of the Senate Leadership Fund super PAC, launched a $1 million TV, radio and digital ad campaign in West Virginia this week targeting, you
The new 7th District would have voted for Biden by 1 point in 2020.
Jim Ryun, who held the world record for several distances (his 800-meter record, 1:44.3, was an estimated time based on the 1:44.9 he logged in an 880-meter race in 1966 — according to Wikipedia).