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At the Races: Time for Texas
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↵↵A Jan. 23-26 Economist/YouGov survey put disapproval of Trump's job performance among Americans at 57 percent, while 39 percent approved.
And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States."
↵↵Republicans say Rogers has learned from his losing 2024 bid and is better prepared to win in 2026.
Mike Lawler — are no stranger to readers of this newsletter, as they all face competitive races next year.
For years, funding has been consistent at around $550 million per year, though both chambers in their fiscal 2026 bills have proposed cuts.
President Donald Trump soon will cap an all-gas-no-brakes 2025, with assessments mixed about a first year back in the White House that has overhauled the presidency.
↵↵"For Trump and the Republicans, the big question for '26 is: How do you get out those low-propensity Trump voters who went and voted in big numbers in those purple districts and states last time?
There’s no national security justification for this," Erickson told his large audience.
The House and Senate are back from the August recess Tuesday with no shortage of work to do this week, let alone the month of September.
Jon Ossoff, while fellow Republican John King, the state insurance commissioner, dropped his bid after concluding he had no path to victory. #SCGOV: South Carolina Rep.
House Republican appropriators are running into headwinds in their attempt to move fiscal 2026 spending bills before the August break, struggling both with a tight schedule and intraparty differences on
Senate appropriators approved their fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch bill Thursday, which would boost spending for Congress by roughly 5 percent and avoid cuts to the Government Accountability Office.
Virginia special election: Early voting for the June 28 Democratic “firehouse primary” in the special election for Virginia’s 11th District will take place on Thursday, June 26.
"Their failing party has no leader, no message, and no solutions. Republicans look forward to flipping these open seats red."
“With this week’s executive order from the Trump administration, I firmly believe the president is laying the groundwork to cancel elections in 2026,” the Democrat said in a statement.
It wasn’t a surprise Unlike 2016, no one was making firm declarations about who was going to get elected president in 2024.
“My core decision to run was the belief that the state must continue to be a place that anyone from anywhere can get into the middle class, no matter your background, no matter your ZIP code.
Tim Scott, R-S.C., appears to be gearing up for a run to lead the NRSC into the 2026 midterms.
Like Trump’s contention that there would be no war in the Middle East or Ukraine if he had been reelected in 2020, there is no way to prove that the outcome in Afghanistan would have turned out better