Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) called a controversial political ad run by Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) “shameful,” saying she thinks it will hurt Republicans up and down the ballot in Ohio. “This ad is going to go down as the most shameful, disgusting, offensive ad this election season,” Mace told CNN’s Jake Tapper on…
Steve Kornacki, NBC News’s chief data analyst, on Wednesday morning said there is growing indication that Minnesota’s tight Senate race could swing in the GOP’s favor in the November election. “There does seem to be a tide within the state that’s working against Democrats,” Kornacki said on the “Today” show. The Democratic nominee, Minnesota Lt.…
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and his Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton are set to square off in their second and final debate Wednesday night. The debate is hosted by Nexstar Media Group affiliate WDAF. Nexstar also owns The Hill. Marshall is fighting for his political life in a race that wasn’t expected to be close just months ago.…
Fewer Americans than last year think the federal government is effective at making a positive impact on people’s lives, according to a new poll released Wednesday. In the Bentley University-Gallup Business in Society survey, about 43 percent of respondents said the federal government has been effective in making a positive impact on people’s lives. This is…
Democrat Alani Bankhead said in a recent interview she was offered a Democratic National Committee (DNC) job to drop out of the Montana Senate race — an allegation the DNC denies. Bankhead is running against Independent Seth Bodnar and Republican Kurt Alme for the open Senate seat. She’s faced calls to exit the race to…
The State Department ordered the departure of nonemergency U.S. government employees and their family members from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as the Iranian-backed Houthis have continued to attack the country. “As the Department has repeatedly emphasized, the hostilities have the potential to escalate rapidly, including beyond that immediate area,” a State Department spokesperson told The…
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed (D) is standing by Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) after the lawmaker sparked the GOP’s ire with a recent comment that she wants young professionals to rethink accepting a job with the Trump administration. In a Wednesday radio interview with “The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent,” El-Sayed accused Republicans of…
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to clear the way for border wall construction to resume around Texas’s Big Bend region. Solicitor General D. John Sauer called a lower judge’s block on the construction “baseless” and said it disrupts the government’s ability to secure a quarter of the southern border. “Such judicial…
President Trump will rally with Sen. Darline Graham (R) in South Carolina on Wednesday night, seeking to boost a political newcomer he personally backed to replace her brother. Graham is favored to win the race but faces a surprisingly strong challenge from Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician. Cook Political Report shifted the race from “likely…
Lawyers who represented Olympic canoeist David Hearn in a now-defunct criminal case alleging he vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are urging the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) internal watchdog to reconsider a probe into how the indictment and prosecution were handled. A letter sent Wednesday from Hearn’s legal team to Inspector General Don Berthiaume said…
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s (D) campaign is walking back its account of her college academic honors, confirming she was in fact a member of Phi Beta Kappa after initially stating she had never joined the prestigious honor society due to membership costs. “I can verify that Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan is a member of…
Russia is going to send its first tanker with diesel to the U.S. on Thursday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said. According to a Reuters report citing the RIA news agency and other media, Novak said Wednesday the vessel will carry 40,000 metric tons of fuel. “Additional shipments will follow, of course. There were…
Ohio Sen. Jon Husted (R) pushed back on a controversial campaign ad run by Ohio gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy (R) featuring his opponent’s mother. In a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Husted said he “would not have run” the ad. The video, which initially debuted online, features the mother of Ramaswamy’s opponent, Amy…
President Trump said Wednesday his success in freeing an American wrongly imprisoned in Russia was related to his much-criticized decision to hold back on imposing sanctions on Russia aimed at strangling its ability to wage war in Ukraine. While acknowledging the trade-off, Trump insisted the U.S. “was not required to give anything in return” for…
Polling numbers from nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report released Wednesday found Democrats leading in three seats critical to retaking the Senate majority in November. The survey, conducted in concert with Democratic firm New River Strategies and Republican firm GS Strategy Group, placed Democrats ahead in the Texas, Iowa and Ohio Senate races. The party’s…
September’s uptick in inflation dealt Americans with higher prices just before the midterm elections, as Democrats seek to wrestle back control of Congress from the GOP by highlighting affordability concerns. Annual inflation was 3.7 percent last month, according to the consumer price index (CPI). On a monthly basis, the cost of energy, gas and electricity…
Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) went after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) over targeting Sen. Susan Collins (R) in the Maine Senate election this year. “I told him he was crazy in 2020 from working against her so hard, and he’s crazy now to work against her,” Manchin said on Wednesday in a clip…
A bipartisan group of nearly two dozen House members is urging President Trump to ask tech mogul Elon Musk to give Ukraine access to Starlink satellite systems to hunt for missile launchers inside Russia, according to a letter sent Wednesday and obtained exclusively by The Hill. The signatories included seven House Republicans alongside 16 Democrats,…
President Trump will campaign in Ohio next week in a last-minute bid to shore up support for GOP candidates in the state, the Republican National Committee announced Wednesday. Trump will visit Chillicothe, which is roughly 45 miles south of the state’s capital Columbus, on Oct. 28. The midterm rally will mark Trump’s third visit to…
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