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NEW: Adam Hamilton, the incoming Senate Dem who beat Roger Marshall in Kansas, won’t be voting to end the filibuster
I looked into where next year’s Dem freshmen stand on the issue, and not surprisingly, most are OK weakening/abolishing it
The other possible outlier is Roy Cooper, who recently called the filibuster a firewall against “bad legislation.” Chris Pappas sang a similar tune last year, but told @burgessev in June that he supports reforms
Among current senators, Fetterman has developed a Manchin-like fervor for the filibuster. Angus King is also one to watch — he told @theodoricmeyer earlier this year that he regrets his 2022 vote to weaken it washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) letter he's gathering signatures for and plans to send to Conference Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR) Monday to delay Tuesday's leadership elections. Says it'd be "political malpractice" to move forward so soon after "stunning defeat."
New: Larry Hogan wants to grow his influence in the GOP after the party's midterm blowout and lying relatively low since his 2024 Senate loss.
"We have to find, I think, a different kind of a leader. And I don’t know who that is,” the centrist former Republican governor told me. “But I want to be part of the discussion to try to help find that person that I think is going to take us in a different direction from the failed group that’s now in charge. There’s no way you could say, ‘Hey, we’ve been doing great.’”
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Fwiw, @AbdulElSayed wore a limited edition @grandseikousa Spring Drive GMT Chronograph last night, reference SBGC249.
Only 700 made, retailed for $12k when released in 2022.
Absolutely an "if you know, you know" choice.
cc: @watchesofespion
Paxton’s voters agreed the GOP needs new leadership and that it’s not JD Vance, but the consensus ended there.
-"In 2028, I want to say this to the Republican Party: Move on from Trump and Vance"
-DeSantis "is the answer. He can lead the Republican Party and save us"
-Rubio is “the only candidate that we have that has a shot — small shot.”
DALLAS — Barely two hours after the last polls closed, the giant screen broadcasting the nation’s election results went black at Ken Paxton’s watch party.
It was a fitting metaphor to describe Republicans’ night in Texas and beyond.
‘I blame the president’: Stunned Paxton voters fume at historic fumble
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New: Grassley, 93, won't be stepping down early after Democrat Rob Sand won the governorship in Iowa.
Spox dismissing speculation that he might resign to allow Kim Reynolds, the outgoing Republican, to appoint his successor before leaving office:
"Senator Grassley is not resigning. He remains committed to delivering for the people of Iowa, who overwhelmingly elected him to a six-year term in 2022." washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
DALLAS — Barely two hours after the last polls closed, the giant screen broadcasting the nation’s election results went black at Ken Paxton’s watch party.
It was a fitting metaphor to describe Republicans’ night in Texas and beyond.
‘I blame the president’: Stunned Paxton voters fume at historic fumble
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"Let me start off by congratulating James Talarico," Ken Paxton says in a short #TXSen concession speech. "I will commit that I will be praying for him that he will do good for Texas and the nation."
"We've had a difficult night tonight across the country, but it's not over."
Paxton attendees continue to retreat from tonight's blue wave. One of them goes scorched Earth against more than a dozen GOP leaders from Trump to Congress to state party.
"What have you done? Oh, you've gone to parties. You've gone to fundraisers. You've gone and drank the Kool-Aid, but you haven't really done what we wanted you to," he tells me. "In 2028, I want to say this to the Republican Party: Move on from Trump and Vance... They got whip kicked in the butt."
Vibes at the Paxton #TXSen election watch party: there are nearly as many members of the media as there are attendees
Vibes at the Paxton #TXSen election watch party: there are nearly as many members of the media as there are attendees
Ramsey Touchberry retweeted
New - Cooper and Ossoff's huge wins allowed Democrats to pull millions from NC and GA and plow them into the rest of the map. Senate Majority PAC pulled down $22 million from NC and $11 million from GA over last few weeks and shipped that money to other battlegrounds
DSCC also cut ads and put in money elsewhere. DSCC also put $500k in South Carolina (previously unreported) in addition to the $500k in Mississippi last week
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NEW: Paxton makes closing #TXSen pitch to anxious Republicans — and even some opponents
While rallygoers were cautiously optimistic about defeating Talarico, not everyone in attendance was on the same team. Among them was a 45-yr-old Houston accountant standing quietly near the back. He'd already voted for Talarico but was equally worried.
"I’ve had my hopes before, and they get dashed,” he told me. “It feels the same as like when Beto ran for Democrats.”
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CONROE, Texas — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned of his own past reelection struggles in a bid Monday to fire up supporters of #TXSen GOP nominee Ken Paxton on the eve of one of the country’s tightest Senate elections.
"When the polls closed, I was down 5 [points],” he recalled. “We’re at our victory party. A bunch of y’all were there. I tell you, I was back in the war room looking at the screens. And I looked: there were some sphincters that could have turned a lump of coal into a diamond.”
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The Dem rebuttal to #AKSen Decoy Dan saga is all over the map, ranging in responses from it's fake news to "goofing around" to a fair game that Republicans also play.
Fmr AK Dem Lt Gov Fran Ulmer, who told me she stands by her support for Peltola, criticized media for having “failed to cover similar tactics" by GOP such as Eric Hafner, the Dem in a NY prison running for AK House seat to chip away at the Dem-backed indy. “Why the difference?”
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New: How House Dems are looking to an inaugural program to supercharge college voters in key races and flip the script against Republicans this cycle after the youth vote helped send Trump back to the White House.
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New: The Senate and House races seeing cash surges in the final days of the midterms
(data as of Wednesday)
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Ramsey Touchberry retweeted
Just in: Fed holds interest rates steady at meeting just before midterms -- Fed Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack both dissented, preferring a rate hike
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SCOOP: Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot.
But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run -- as well as other candidates.
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New: Democrat Annie Andrews has scored some notable GOP endorsements in her #SCSen race against Darline Graham, but many other supposed Republican backers who she's touted have a history of donating to Democrats and pulling Dem primary ballots.
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