Republicans

CNN reports: Sen. Bob Casey is bracing for a GOP onslaught. After a summer where he and his GOP opponent, David McCormick, have engaged in a brutal exchange of attacks in the marquee US Senate race in Pennsylvania, leaving the race in a dead heat, Republicans are preparing to drop more than $100 million across the airwaves in the final …

NBC News reports: After a six-week summer recess, lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday facing a changed political landscape but a vexing, very familiar problem: figuring out how to avert a shutdown. They have just three weeks to do so. Funding for the government runs out at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, and former President …

“I have a very simple message for my Democrat friends, my independent friends, and those who may not be sure about who they’re voting for in this election. Dick Cheney has just made the choice very clear. A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney, the architect of everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East …

“I assume she’ll come in very, very aggressive, and she will try to bait him, getting very angry, and she’ll be personal and try to demean him. I think, I hope, what he’ll do is be a guy who’s been a real president — while she has been kind of a semi-vice president — and a guy who knows all …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Travis County to block an effort to register more voters before the November election. Paxton’s lawsuit follows a decision by the Travis County commissioners to hire Civic Government Solutions to contact non-registered county residents and encourage them to register. Travis County includes Austin. “We just thought it was nice …

The Daily Beast reports: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) doesn’t seem to care that the Department of Justice revealed a Russian plot to once again influence a presidential election. To him, they’re just “a few memes or videos.” His comments came days after the DOJ announced Russia Today employees paid $10 million to a U.S.-based media company that hosts various right-wing …

“I think it’s [the debate] actually more important for Vice President Harris, somebody who doesn’t speak to the media, doesn’t take questions. “It is absurd that she does not take questions from the press, from the American people, and so I think this is actually a much more important night for her because it’s so rare that we hear from …

“It’s not helpful. It’s not helpful. Look, you can either look at style or you can look at substance. I choose as a voter to look at substance. The substance is cutting taxes, making housing more affordable, immigration, national security, that’s the substance. “No, it is not helpful to talk about whether women have children or whether they don’t. It’s …

NOTUS reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz may soon face a document dump in federal court that could expose — for the first time — details about the alleged sex parties tied to the accusations that Gaetz had sex with an underage teen. The trove of information — which is expected to include sworn testimony from a number of people involved in …

The Hill reports: Former President George W. Bush does not plan to formally endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, his office told multiple outlets on Saturday. Neither Bush nor his wife Laura Bush plans to publicly share who they will vote for with his office adding that “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.” Bush’s decision not …

NBC News reports: A Democratic group has released new audio of North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is running for governor, saying that he wants to get abortion restrictions down to “zero” weeks. In the audio, which the group said was recorded on Sept. 3 at a Robinson campaign event in Troy, N.C., a woman asked Robinson about …

Politico reports: State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil’s former chief of staff has sued her for alleged sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment, claiming in a lengthy complaint that the Central Valley Republican pressured him into performing sex acts and then fired him when he resisted. The suit comes a month after Alvarado-Gil switched parties. She declared on Fox News …

The Christian Post reports: Nebraska voters will vote this November on a ballot initiative to overturn a legislative measure allowing students to attend private schools using vouchers as questions remain over whether voters have the authority to repeal the law. In a statement Thursday, the Office of Nebraska Secretary of State Robert Enven announced that the “Private Education Scholarship partial …

CBS News reports: Nikki Haley said she doesn’t always agree with Trump’s communications, style or approach, but she backs his policies. She was discussing Trump’s extended remarks Friday criticizing writer E. Jean Carroll and other women who have accused him of sexual misconduct or sexual assault. “I’ve always said, ‘look, if I thought Biden or Trump were great candidates, I …

The New York Times reports: A Missouri court late Friday moved toward striking a ballot measure in November that would ask voters whether to establish a right to abortion in the state Constitution. Judge Christopher Limbaugh of Cole County Circuit Court sided with anti-abortion lawmakers and activists who said that the abortion rights groups that gathered signatures to sponsor the …

The New Republic reports: Florida is reportedly sending police officers to the homes of people who signed a petition supporting an abortion rights ballot initiative. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration has begun investigating thousands of verified signatures that helped to put a state constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion on the ballot in November. The amendment would overturn Florida’s …

Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson is rolling out the House GOP’s strategy for a high-stakes government funding fight, teeing up a showdown with Senate Democrats ahead of the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline. House Republicans on Friday unveiled a stopgap funding bill, also known as a continuing resolution, that will fund the government at largely current levels through March 28. The …

The Daily Beast reports: This week’s Department of Justice indictments of the employees of RT, Russia’s premiere state-controlled propaganda outlet, have been met with mockery and jeering in Moscow. Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief, posted a bevy of messages on her Telegram channel—and none of them sounded like denials. In one of her first reactions on Telegram, Simonyan mocked the authorities …

NBC News reports: Former Vice President Dick Cheney will cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney. Both Cheneys are Republicans, and the elder served alongside President George W. Bush. The younger Cheney has become one of former President Donald Trump’s most prominent conservative critics. The younger Cheney’s announcement about her father …

Salon reports: Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said that school shootings were simply a “fact of life” after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four dead — the 45th school shooting in the United States so far this year. “If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance …