Tag Archives: US Senate

The Green Valley News reports: Peter Jackson expected to ruffle some feathers when he showed up at a GOP candidate mixer Saturday night wearing a “Jail Trump” hat and a “Black Lives Matter” t-shirt. What he didn’t expect was to be on the receiving end of a right hook by an upset woman, knocked to the ground by a U.S. …

CNN reports: Blake Masters, the Republican Senate candidate from Arizona, met with conservative activists at a Phoenix IHOP this spring and was asked whether he would support investigating US intelligence operations to uncover the federal government’s “nefarious activities.” Masters replied, “Absolutely,” and then floated the conspiracy theory that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol actually may have …

The Argus Leader reports: South Dakota Sen. John Thune dispatched his two primary contenders Tuesday with relative ease. Facing his first primary challenge since winning office in 1996, Thune was winning with 73% of the vote as of 10:50 p.m.. Bruce Whalen, had 20% while Mark Mowry had 7%. Both Whalen, 60, and Mowry, 65, contended that former President Donald …

The Hill reports: Disgraced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens leads the field of Republicans vying for the party’s nomination to succeed retiring Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), according to a new poll from The Hill and Emerson College. The poll of 1,000 likely GOP primary voters in Missouri found Greitens notching 26 percent support ahead of the Aug. 2 nominating contest. …

Florida Politics reports: Sen. Rick Scott is doubling down on his “11-point plan to rescue America,” paying homage to a UFC fighter along the way. In a video accompanying “new additions and updates” as part of a “Rescue America 2.0,” Scott quotes Conor McGregor in signaling defiance to the critics of the proposal. “President (Joe) Biden, Chuck Schumer, and even …

Politico reports: Some Democrats think the party should boycott Fox News. Not John Fetterman, though. The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic nominee is airing one of his first two general election TV ads on the conservative network in an appeal to blue-collar voters. The commercial, which was shared exclusively with POLITICO, portrays Fetterman as a political outsider who has pushed for policies …

Roll Call reports: ​Democrats face big obstacles and a deadline measured in weeks as they attempt to salvage a scaled-down tax, climate and health care package that could give them a boost ahead of the November elections. Conversations have been underway between Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer to negotiate a budget reconciliation bill — …

In the middle of their deep dive into Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s decades in office and her legacy, New York Magazine drops this observation: Feinstein, who turns 89 in June, is older than any other sitting member of Congress. Her declining cognitive health has been the subject of recent reporting in both her hometown San Francisco Chronicle and the New York …

The Washington Post reports: Key senators said Sunday there is growing momentum to forge a bipartisan congressional response to recent mass shootings that could toughen federal gun laws for the first time in a generation. But a deal is not yet in hand, they warned, and the delicate talks are expected to continue for several more days as negotiators seek …

From Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks: I had President Trump’s in the beginning, but then Mitch McConnell spent millions in TV ads attacking me. At that time it looked like our campaign was going nowhere, and sadly, President Trump pulled his endorsement. But then a funny thing happened: Mitch McConnell quit attacking us, our campaign SURGED and we made it into …

NBC News reports: Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is out with a new TV ad aimed at Republican Herschel Walker as the pair face off in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country. The 30-second spot appears to be Warnock’s first attack ad tracked by the firm AdImpact, and it features footage of Walker, a former college football …

The Associated Press reports: Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick conceded the Republican primary in Pennsylvania for U.S. Senate to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, ending his campaign Friday night as he acknowledged an ongoing statewide recount wouldn’t give him enough votes to make up the deficit. McCormick said he had called Oz to concede. “It’s now clear to …

ABC News reports: Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor and Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman released a statement from himself and his doctor three weeks after he suffered a stroke acknowledging he has cardiomyopathy. Fetterman, who spent several days in the hospital, has not been seen in public since being discharged and has only appeared in social media videos. In the letter …

Politico reports: Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is launching its first televised attack ad Friday against John Fetterman, labeling him a far-left ally of Bernie Sanders. The spot, which was shared exclusively with POLITICO, said the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee “sided with socialists, backed a government takeover of health care” and “embraced parts of the Green New Deal that’d cost you …

The Associated Press reports: A state court agreed Thursday night in a ballot-counting lawsuit with the campaign of David McCormick, who is in a neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. In the decision, Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer ordered counties to count the ballots in question, although her decision could …

The Hill reports:  The Ohio Senate race between Republican J.D. Vance and Rep. Tim Ryan (D) is in a virtual deadlock, according to a new poll. The USA Today Network Ohio/Suffolk University survey released Wednesday found that Vance leads Ryan by just more than 2 percentage points among likely Ohio voters, well within the margin of error. Vance received the …

NBC News reports: Dave McCormick’s Senate campaign — citing what it called several “abnormalities” — will seek a hand recount of select precincts in 12 Pennsylvania counties as a broader, state-mandated recount gets under way in his too-close-to-call Republican primary with celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz. A senior campaign official who briefed reporters on the plans Tuesday afternoon offered several complaints, …

Politico reports: It’s a standard political ploy, straight out of a challenger’s playbook: demand a series of debates the moment the primaries are over. Only in Georgia, it was incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock who issued the call for three televised debates, as soon as his fall Senate election match-up with Herschel Walker was set. Warnock’s move made sense in light …

CBS News reports: Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut sees the opportunity for Congress to pass “something significant” on gun safety for the first time in decades, he said on “Face the Nation” Sunday. Murphy, who is leading bipartisan talks on a gun safety measure now, told moderator Margaret Brennan that he’s seen more Republicans “coming to the table and talking …

The Huffington Post reports: Going beyond even the GOP’s own platform, Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance told a Catholic magazine last year that pornography should be banned because it’s stopping Americans from getting married and starting families. “I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and …