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Roll Call reports: Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, may not be fond of “childless cat ladies,” but he’s almost certain to skip a vote this week on legislation to expand the child tax credit. The Senate is scheduled to take a procedural vote Thursday on a House-passed bill that would expand the credit for low-income …

Mediaite reports: Trump VP pick Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) made a rather unfortunate offhand reference at a rally amid baseless accusations he confessed to sexually violating a couch. “I have been the beneficiary, I have to say, of a number of strong women in my life, especially my beautiful wife who you guys saw earlier. Now, I would call her …

Via press release from Missouri AG Andrew Bailey: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for failing in its legal obligation to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request asking for documents and communications regarding the transportation of illegal immigrants into Missouri. “Once again, the Biden Administration is trying …

Courthouse News reports: Republican U.S. representatives asked New York’s high court Tuesday to overturn a law that allows any voter to request and submit a mail-in ballot, arguing the rule violates election provisions of the state constitution. U.S. Representatives Elise Stefanik, Nicole Malliotakis, Nicholas Langworthy and Claudia Tenney, alongside other Republican elected officials, voters and the party’s state and national …

The Associated Press reports: Kari Lake won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona on Tuesday, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial to deciding Senate control. Accepting victory Tuesday night, Lake called Trump a “hero” and urged his supporters to back her as well. “He can’t do …

“To be a little stark about this, I think we have to go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country. Not enough people have accepted that if they put their entire life’s meaning into their credential, into where they went to school, into what kind of job they have ― if you put all of your …

The Hill reports: Republican lawmakers are divided over whether former President Trump should ditch his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who has become a magnet for controversy and negative press coverage since Trump tapped him for the role earlier this month. “I would assume he’s not real happy,” one Republican senator said of how Trump is handling the barrage …

“I’ve seen people who become more attached to their communities, to their families, to their country, because they have children. “So I would say that we should care about declining fertility, not just because it’s bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good– and we think babies are good because we’re not sociopaths. “There is just these …

Bloomberg News reports: Billionaire financier Ken Griffin is spending tens of millions of dollars to back Republican primary candidates across the US, but records show he has so far resisted contributing to Donald Trump — the former president leading an ideological overhaul of the GOP. Griffin’s position as an established force in Republican fundraising has sometimes put him at odds …

The Missouri Independent reports: A Clay County judge on Friday refused to reverse her order from earlier this month that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey answer questions under oath about conversations with a local official that may have violated legal ethics rules. Judge Karen Krauser ordered Bailey to sit for a deposition after it was discovered he and a deputy …

The Washington Post reports: The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence. “All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance said …

“She’s a member of the loon wing of the Democratic Party. The polls that I have seen, the most recent polls, you can’t just look at the top lines, Neil. “You’ve got to look at the crosstabs. And if you look at the crosstabs and really drill down and see what people think, let me say that again. “The polling …

Mesa Mayor John Giles writes for the Arizona Republic: Since 2014, I have had the honor of being mayor of Mesa, the nation’s 36th-largest city and one of the most conservative. Under Trump, American cities didn’t get the support they deserved. Infrastructure week was made into a joke. But under the Biden-Harris administration, Mesa has seen historic federal funding for …

“This proposal is the logical conclusion to the Biden-Harris Administration and Congressional Democrats’ ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court. Their calls to expand and pack the Court will soon resume. It is telling that Democrats want to change the system that has guided our nation since its founding simply because they disagree with some of the Court’s recent decisions. …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: The U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Bernie Moreno took to X last week to claim that because of the current administration’s policies, migrants have “destroyed” Ohio communities. However, the campaign didn’t answer when asked to identify a single Ohio city that had been harmed by migration, where the migrants doing the destruction came from, and …

Law & Crime reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis often says the Sunshine State is the place where “woke goes to die.” But a federal judge on Friday killed part of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act championed as standing up against “indoctrination.” Judge Mark Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida issued a permanent injunction, saying the …

“I do think that being a parent actually has a profound effect on somebody’s perspective and we should honor and respect that. “But a whole host of people who don’t have children for a whole host of reasons and they certainly are great people who can participate fully in the life of this country and that’s not what I said, …

“We have a very important Republican Primary Election on Tuesday for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, with two spectacular America First Candidates. “Blake Masters is a very successful businessman, and an incredibly strong supporter of our Movement to Make America Great Again – He is smart and tough! “Likewise, Abe Hamadeh, a Veteran, former prosecutor, and fearless fighter for Election Integrity, …

The Hill reports: Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the Georgia election racketeering case and move it to federal court, pointing to the high court’s recent ruling granting former President Trump some immunity in his federal election subversion case. In a petition to the Supreme Court, Meadows’s lawyers said …

The Hill reports: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Sunday that President Trump was “obviously making a joke” when he urged Christian voters to vote for him in November and that, if they do, they “won’t have to vote anymore” because “everything” will be “fixed.” “I think he’s obviously making a joke about how bad things had been under Joe Biden, …