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I’m starting on Capitol Hill today for @ALDailyNews and @APTV. Reach out with any Alabama stories in DC!
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Rhett Marques, a Republican who is running against Rep. Shomari Figures in a deep red Alabama district, adds to TV for the last few days of the campaign.
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The Cook Political Report shifted Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District race rating toward Democrats Friday, from likely Republican to lean Republican.
#Alabama #ALPolitics
AL-02 has shifted to Lean Republican from Likely Republican #ALPolitics
New @CookPolitical: 19 more House ratings move in Dems' direction, including six seats from Toss Up to Lean D. Full analysis by @ercovey: cookpolitical.com/analysis/h…
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All of our polling stories are out from behind the paywall now, including this recent one on issues important to voters.
ADN Insiders will get to see the crosstabs tomorrow. Pays to subcribe!
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Rep. Shomari Figures’ rally kicks off in Dothan with Doug Jones, Sen. Cory Booker and former Sen. Jon Tester. The room is standing room only. #ALPolitics
Trump has a 3.4 net favorability rating in Alabama, according to our new poll. #ALPolitics
President Donald Trump has a slight net positive favorability rating in Alabama, despite low support nationwide, according to a new Alabama Daily News and Gray Television poll.
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Alabama’s gubernatorial race moves from Safe Republican to Likely Republican #ALPolitics
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Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures is out with a "six seven"-themed ad in #AL02 blasting his GOP opponent Rhett Marques on taxes:
"How high did Rhett Marques raise the gas tax? Six seven ... Rhett Marques voted to raise the gas tax by 67%."
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Republicans really don’t like the Russia sanction waivers
Sen. Britt told me after this Hinson event that
“It is my belief that we need to use economic firepower to help drive [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to the table … I believe that Russia is at the darkest point that they’ve been at in this entire war, and now is the time for us to turn up the pressure.”
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DES MOINES — Senate candidate and Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson breaks with Trump’s waiver of sanctions on Russia. She said she’ll be with Trump at his Iowa rally on Thursday and may talk to him abbot it
“I don't think we need to be making any more deals with Russia. I'm banned from going to Russia because of the strict stance that I've taken. We need to make sure that dictators aren’t allowed to win wars”
“I think the president and I share the goal of lowering costs for working families and for people who are using diesel. I think we share that goal. I again just don't think we need to be making any deals with Russia”
During a stop in Dothan, Steve Scalise called the new 2nd Congressional District a “swing district” that Republicans need to flip red this year to maintain control of the House. #ALPolitics
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is in Dothan campaigning for State Rep. Rhett Marques in Alabama's 2nd District race. Marques is set to face incumbent Rep. Shomari Figures next month.
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Recent campaign filings submitted Thursday show Figures brought in more than $1 million from the last week of July through September. Marques raised about $317,000 during that same period.
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New - Rep. Shomari Figures raised $1M in the third quarter. He ends Sept. with nearly $1.4M on hand.
He's fighting to win the newly redrawn 2nd District, a district Trump would have won by 14 points in 2024. #ALPolitics
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NEWS
The Republican panic is on clearest display at the various political organizations in Washington charged with spending hundreds of millions of dollars on House races. GOP lawmakers from around the country, many in deep red seats, are approaching super PACs with polls showing them losing or on the brink of being down.
Meanwhile, Democratic PACs are swimming in data showing opportunities in seats that were never on their radar. The map keeps expanding into deeper red territory.
Democrats have seen evidence of margin-of-error races in Indiana’s 5th District, GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz’s district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points; New York’s open 21st District, which Trump won by 21 points; Nevada’s open 2nd District, which Trump won by 14; and Kentucky’s open 6th District, which Trump won by 15.
Democrats have also seen evidence of tighter-than-usual races in North Carolina’s 3rd District, GOP Rep. Greg Murphy’s seat that Trump won by 14; North Carolina’s 9th District, NRCC Chair Richard Hudson’s seat, which Trump won by 16; and Nebraska’s 1st District, Rep. Mike Flood’s seat, which Trump won by 13 points.
Both parties have polls with Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) in a tight race against Republican State Rep. Rhett Marques in an Alabama district Republicans redrew themselves. Sydney Gruters, the wife of RNC chair Joe Gruters, is also in a tight contest with former Sarasota, Fla., Mayor Kelly Kirschner, in Florida’s 16th District. Kirschner vastly outspent Gruters on TV this week.
Republicans have started spending in South Carolina’s 1st District, where GOP candidate Jenny Costa Honeycutt is trying to hold outgoing Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) seat. Also in play is GOP Rep. Brad Finstad’s southern Minnesota district that Trump won by 12 points. Democrat Jake Johnson is giving Finstad a tough challenge.
☀️ AM: THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN PANIC HAS SET IN
Inside the House Republican Conference, there’s panic, anger and resignation.
The political environment is “certainly toxic for Republicans,” said Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), a 13-year veteran of Congress.
Voters “were promised things in ‘24, and none of those things are really coming to fruition,” Joyce added. “My thing has always been, just be truthful with folks. Don’t go out there and tell them that it’s rosier than what it is.”
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), locked in one of the toughest races in the country, is puzzled by one dynamic: why did his leadership pretend this election would be good for Republicans when history says otherwise?
“It’s an historical precedent that is rarely defied,” Fitzpatrick said of losing the majority in the midterms. “Moreover, a second midterm is historically more challenging than the first … Look at when history has been defied. After 9/11 — a major, major event that completely changed our country. In order to buck history, there has to be a reason history is bucked. Those factors are not present.”
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NO GOING BACK PAC, a MAGA-affiliated entity, has just dropped $686K on TV in Alabama's second district.
This is a seat the GOP drew for themselves. Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures is running against state Rep. Rhett Marques in the Trump +14 district.
New - Sen. Katie Britt affirmed her belief that the US should apply “maximum pressure” on Russia through sanctions and did not defend Trump’s recent diesel deal with Russia. #ALPolitics
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BREAKING: Tuscaloosa Police just confirmed to me that President Donald Trump will not be in attendance Saturday for Alabama-Georgia due to Hurricane Isaias.
New - Democratic ad spending in Alabama’s new 2nd District race is about double Republican spending over the past two months.
Rep. Shomari Figures is fighting to keep his seat against State Rep. Rhett Marques in a GOP-friendly district. #ALPolitics
Read the breakdown here:
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