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GOP has outside spending advantage in Georgia runoffs
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Should former congressional staffer and documentary filmmaker Jon Ossoff unseat GOP Sen. David Perdue and pastor Raphael Warnock defeat appointed GOP Sen.
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is moving forward, and the event provides new opportunities for individual and corporate donors to donate big sums of cash.
Fudge to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development, several news reports said Tuesday.
The challengers are also hammering the incumbents, both wealthy business people, for pandemic-related stock trades in a bet that voters will hold them accountable for months of congressional inaction
Donnelly reports. Some runoffs happen fast: Guam Del. Michael F.Q.
“If we are classifying Tuesday as a success from a congressional standpoint, we will get [expletive] torn apart in 2022,” Spanberger reportedly said.
Karen Bass, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, is also reportedly a top contender for the appointment.
More than 35 congressional races have yet to be called.
Tom Emmer will have a tough time making a case to lead the committee again if the GOP suffers losses tonight.
“There are other Donald Trump-like Republicans, and they’re plentiful,” said Democrat Cheri Bustos, who represents a western Illinois district and chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Congressional candidates, just like their counterparts at the top of the ticket, have come in with their closing arguments, releasing their final television ads this week.
That’s not making anyone happy either, CQ Roll Call’s Niels Lesniewski reports.
Reports for the period that started July 1 show GOP candidates benefited from a surge of cash during a crucial stretch for campaigns seeking to make closing arguments to voters.
Critics said the decision could lead to an inaccurate population count, which also affects how congressional districts are reapportioned.
Democrat MJ Hegar so far hasn’t raised the same eye-popping numbers as other Senate challengers as she takes on GOP incumbent and Judiciary Committee member John Cornyn.
Those revelations are already starting to trickle into some congressional races.
Neither of the congressional campaign committee chairs was scheduled to speak, and just one vulnerable senator and a handful of candidates in competitive House races landed prime-time speaking slots.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee put out an email blast Wednesday afternoon drawing attention to Owens’ May appearance on an internet show run by followers of the fringe, right-wing
But multiple independent reports — most recently a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report — found that there were grounds to investigate whether individuals associated with the Trump campaign
Trump did not endorse either candidate, and both were listed by the National Republican Congressional Committee as “contenders,” its second-highest level for strong recruits.