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Fox News Poll: GOP divisions shape Texas Senate race

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Ken Paxton trails James Talarico by three points in the Texas Senate race as character concerns and a GOP unity gap reshape the 2026 midterm battle.

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Dem Senate Nominee Troy Jackson Has 2 Kids With His Cousin: REPORT

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Dem Senate Nominee Troy Jackson Has 2 Kids With His Cousin: REPORT

Maine Democrat’s Senate Bid Draws Scrutiny Over Family Ties

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'Guaranteed death': Another GOP senator comes out swinging against Trump's demands

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'Guaranteed death': Another GOP senator comes out swinging against Trump's demands

Another GOP senator has said he won't give in to a looming demand by President Donald Trump in a defiant op-ed.In a Thursday piece for The Wall Street Journal, Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) made it clear, "I won't change the filibuster," a position that he made the headline of his op-ed."Under no circumstance will I support any effort to end or alter the filibuster, as any party that does so wouldn't be guaranteed survival," Curtis wrote. "Their agenda would be guaranteed death come the next majority." The op-ed lands Curtis in a growing camp of Republicans publicly resisting Trump's push to terminate the filibuster if that's what it takes to force through his stalled SAVE America Act, a controversial voting bill.Curtis defended the filibuster, writing that it "protects independence" and "gives individual senators the ability to stop or slow a bill—a significant amount of influence for one person."He added that the filibuster protects the minority, which "isn't just a party. It can be any senator, on any issue, at any time, whose view doesn't align with the majority." He noted this kind of resistance "happens more often than people might think" and that the filibuster makes it so a senator who disagrees with party leadership "can't easily be overruled and pushed aside."Trump never comes up by name, but plenty of Republicans have gone after his demand. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) went after the same demand in a Wall Street Journal op-ed of her own. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has also said he won't gut the filibuster to secure 60 votes for Trump's SAVE America Act.

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This Is What It Looks Like When Senate Republicans Have Nothing Left to Lose

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This Is What It Looks Like When Senate Republicans Have Nothing Left to Lose

Trump did the worst thing he could to these lawmakers, but he also kind of set them free.

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Trump suggests he may pause Blanche's confirmation amid GOP pushback

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Trump suggests he may pause Blanche's confirmation amid GOP pushback

Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche's confirmation is on hold after some Republican senators refused to vote for him. President Trump suggested that he may press pause on the nomination. Nikole Killion has more details.

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$Senator triggers online backlash after 'ludicrous' fracas with reporter: 'What is this?'$

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Senator triggers online backlash after 'ludicrous' fracas with reporter: 'What is this?'

A Republican senator apologized for siccing security on a reporter, but it came too late to avoid being skewered online.On Thursday, Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) called for security and ran away after TMZ DC co-managing editor Charlie Cotton pressed him with questions about the absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)."Do you think Mitch McConnell needs to do more to prove his health?" Cotton asked. Ricketts answered, saying McConnell, who's been out of the public eye since mid-June, deserves "the time he needs." Cotton pressed him with a follow-up question, but Ricketts called out for the Capitol Police to "Stop him!""I reacted poorly," Ricketts later wrote in a post on X. "I appreciate @hicharliecotton taking my phone call so I could apologize."Cotton responded on X, writing, "I accept your apology Pete. I respect anyone who can take accountability when they make a mistake. Thank u for the call - I look fwd to our next conversation."However, online critics were shocked to see Cotton's video of the incident and vented their outrage before Ricketts could get off scot-free."What is this?" Drop Site News reporter Julian Andreone reacted on X. "They were coming from the basement, which is inside the building, meaning Charlie, a credentialed reporter, had already been through security and is free to navigate the Russell office building and film anywhere within it he'd like.""This is ludicrous!" Eric Michael Garcia, the DC bureau chief for The Independent, posted. "Charlie is doing his job and posed no security threat to Ricketts.""A senator can say no comment or say nothing," NOTUS reporter Igor Bobic wrote. "But reporters have every right to ask him questions in a public hallway.""Why did Capitol Police stop a reporter from asking questions?" MS NOW congressional reporter Matt Fuller asked. "The answer is because Sen. Pete Ricketts asked them to, but this is a wholly inappropriate use of the Capitol Police."

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Kaitlan Collins astounded as GOP squeezes Trump into 'unusual position': 'Nothing to lose'

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Kaitlan Collins astounded as GOP squeezes Trump into 'unusual position': 'Nothing to lose'

President Donald Trump is finding himself in a position he's never been in before with Senate Republicans, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins said on Thursday evening.Specifically, she noted, he is now facing negotiations and demands from an intransigent bloc of Republican senators, as his nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general spirals into chaos."They're using Blanche as a vessel to get their demands, which is a pretty unusual position for the president to be in, being squeezed by his own party, by a couple of senators who have nothing to lose," said Collins. However, she noted, the two main objectors, Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), are now joined by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), another senator forced out of re-nomination by Trump. She played a clip of him speaking to reporters."Todd Blanche cannot give commitments that Cornyn and Tillis want," said Cassidy in the clip. "And by the way, I'm very concerned about the weaponization of the Justice Department." When asked by a reporter if he'd vote yes, he said, "I'm not going to answer that because I'm still in the information-gathering stage.""You can tell in these senators' answers that they ... have nothing to lose. Truly," said Collins, turning to Bloomberg White House correspondent Jeff Mason."They have nothing to lose," Mason agreed. - YouTube youtu.be

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Mandela Barnes drops out of high-stakes Wisconsin governor’s race

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Mandela Barnes drops out of high-stakes Wisconsin governor’s race

Former lieutenant governor says path to Democratic nomination no longer viable as democratic socialist rival surges aheadMandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, dropped out of the Democratic primary for governor on Thursday, upending the high-stakes contest less than two weeks before the 11 August election.Barnes announced the decision in a video posted on social media, saying he no longer saw a viable path to the nomination, as democratic socialist Francesca Hong surged ahead with a commanding lead. Continue reading...

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Trump adviser confronted with brutal poll after touting 'amazing' economy

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Trump adviser confronted with brutal poll after touting 'amazing' economy

A top economic adviser to President Donald Trump argued Thursday that the economy was "amazing" despite a recent poll showing that most Americans don't agree.Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Council director, told CNN anchor Pamela Brown that Trump's economy was benefiting Americans. But Brown pushed back on that, citing recent polls that showed the opposite."You said just a moment ago, Kevin, that consumers are optimistic," Brown said. "But we have this poll where 77% of Americans say economic conditions are overall poor. That is the lowest of Trump's second term so far. Is this the 'amazing' economy the administration thought you'd all be boasting about when the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' was passed more than a year ago?"Hassett argued the numbers back him up."Right now the economy does look amazing to me," Hassett said. "The inflation is going down. The unemployment rate is low. Initial claims are like almost no one's getting fired, and final demand was up about 4%, which is about what my friend Howard Lutnick was predicting back then. It was the sort of surge in imports of capital goods that I think caught people a little bit by surprise."He claimed that there was "strong growth." "One of the things that I can say as an economist is that there's a big economic literature that says that in the end, people vote based on what's in their pockets," he added. Hassett tried to argue that the economy was worse off under former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden."And so I think that the real incomes growing right now are really a positive sign politically and much more positive than something I would see at a poll," he said.

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