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Some endangered Democratic senators are highlighting their connections to former President Trump in campaign ads as they seek reelection in battleground states. Sens. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania recently released ads featuring Trump, according to an Axios analysis. Casey’s ad touts that he “sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put [...]The post Democrats Embrace Trump in Desperate Bid to Save Senate Seats appeared first on GV Wire.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Republican challenger Eric Hovde squared off on a debate stage Friday evening in Madison in a fiery exchange of attacks that showed how intense this race has become after largely flying under the radar for months. Hovde wasn’t as highly touted a Senate Republican candidate as some others trying to [...]

Some of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in this election are using the closing stretch to boast about their ties to former President Trump.Why it matters: Even candidates in presidential battlegrounds are now featuring Trump cameos in campaign ads — as Democrats up and down the ballot run to the middle.The trend comes as split-ticket voting declines, making it more likely that a Senate candidate's fate will be tied to their state's presidential results.It's a sign of just how close Rust Belt races could be this year.Driving the news: Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Bob Casey (D-Penn.) both released ads on Friday that include images of Trump — and not to bash him, according to an Axios analysis of ads in AdImpact."Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating," the Casey campaign ad states."Tammy Baldwin got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill," says the narrator in Baldwin's ad.Rep. Elissa Slotkin's (D-Mich.) campaign for Senate also spent more than a $1 million starting mid-August on an ad saying she "wrote a law signed by President Trump forcing drug companies to show their actual prices," according to AdImpact.Zoom out: They aren't the first Democrats to draw connections with Trump. Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are viewed as the most vulnerable senators this year, running in states that will almost certainly vote for Trump.Both have made concerted efforts to distance themselves from the Biden administration on key issues and present themselves as moderate voices in their party.Tester ads have featured Montanans who say they are "lifelong Republicans" or plan to vote for Trump, but back Tester for Senate.An ad from earlier this year boasts that Brown "wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to crack down on drugs at the border."What they're saying: "These Senate Democrats all voted to impeach President Trump twice, so it is surprising that they are now running ads praising his work as President," NRSC communications director Mike Berg told Axios in a statement.The Democratic Senate campaign arm did not return a request for comment.

Columnist David Marcus says Kamala Harris' long-held position backing boys who claim they are girls competing in female sports is a loser with the American people. But she's locked in, and can't change her stance.

'Wisconsin is one of the most evenly divided states in the country,' said the Cook Political Report, which changed the race from 'Lean Democrat' to 'Toss-Up.'

In the battle for the Senate majority, the top super PAC supporting Republican incumbents and candidates says it hauled in $114.5 million during the July-September third quarter of 2024 fundraising.

Fox News Digital spoke to Ohio GOP Sen. candidate Bernie Moreno about why polls are trending in his direction in his highly watched race that could determine Senate control.

Politico got its hands on a memo from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC allied with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Somehow the memo contains some of the best polling for Democrats we’ve seen in ages.

The battle for the Senate majority has hit its final month as Republicans race to end their four-year stint in the minority. The GOP needs to win only one of two competitive races in red states — Montana and Ohio — to do just that. According to Decision Desk HQ and The Hill, Republicans have [...]

Every vote matters—more than ever. The latest poll from Siena College for The New York Times suggests Republicans are on track to retake the Senate, with their candidates leading in Montana—which is held by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester—as well as in Florida and Texas, Democrats’ two best pickup opportunities. With the retirement of Sen. Joe Manchin, Republicans are all but sure to nab his seat in dark-red West Virginia. If this poll’s results bear out, Democrats’ 51-49 Senate majority would slip to a 49-51 minority, assuming they win in every other contested Senate seat they currently hold.This should energize every Democrat to get out to vote and drive turnout to record levels. And there’s some evidence that may already be happening.

Senate candidates this cycle are largely steering clear of the debate stage, in some cases avoiding it altogether, marking a major change from past years as campaigns question the debates' importance. For years, it was common for top Senate races to feature multiple debates. That is far from the case this year, with Ohio serving [...]

Democrats like Sen. Tammy Baldwin could triumph even if the Democratic presidential candidate loses — an increasingly rare feat.

One analysis shows Trump and Republican PACs have spent more than $65 million on ads targeting trans people's access to sports and health care.

Down in Alabama, in the nation’s newest congressional district, an interesting battle is brewing—one that pits the daughter of the family that birthed the KKK against the son of the man who bankrupted it.

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski With Southern states like Florida, Georgia and North Carolina still reeling, it’s not clear how [...]The post At the Races: Weary of the storm appeared first on Roll Call.

A federal antitrust watchdog is conducting an investigation into, and has filed suit against, huge pharmacy middlemen. Two U.S. senators want the Federal Trade Commission to open a separate investigation.

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) raised close to $22 million in the third quarter of fundraising for this year in the Arizona Senate race, his campaign announced Thursday. Gallego’s campaign announced the Arizona Democrat had raised more than $21.7 million between July and September of this year, with donations of $100 or less making up 95 [...]

Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno slammed Sen. Sherrod Brown for supporting the Inflation Reduction Act in a new ad shown to Fox News Digital in advance.

America’s two vice presidential candidates agreed Tuesday night that America is in the midst of a housing crisis in which too few homes and steady demand have led to soaring costs.

Democrats are fighting to hold on to their 51-49 majority in the Senate—and the latest polling shows they’re the underdogs in this election. But there is hope.Republicans lead Democrats in enough Senate races to flip the chamber, according to 538’s polling averages as of Sept. 27 at 12 PM ET. Democrats’ slim majority is under threat for two main reasons.First, Democrat-turned-independent Joe Manchin is retiring, and his West Virginia seat will undoubtedly flip. And second, Democratic incumbent Jon Tester of Montana trails his Republican opponent.But these are polls, not election results, and because of that, they can be changed by donating, mobilizing, and voting for Democratic candidates.There is just over a month until Nov. 5. Here are the races that need your help.

Republican candidates in key races like Ohio's Bernie Moreno have not been able to find their message on the abortion issue.

Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, questioned why women "past 50" are concerned about reproductive rights.

NBC affiliate WCMH of Columbus obtained a video of Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno saying that many "suburban women" are "single-issue voters" when it comes to abortion. A spokesperson for Moreno downplayed his remarks as a “tongue-in-cheek joke” about his Democratic opponent, Sen. Sherrod Brown, and the media.

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is facing a wave of criticism over his remarks about suburban women and abortion heading into the homestretch of the competitive race.

Here's the backstory on why Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was just able to announce a fast-track vote Wednesday on the government funding bill: Republican senators emerged from their weekly lunch Tuesday ready to move it along.Why it matters: Lawmakers were eager to get home — especially those facing tough re-election races or whose states may be hit by an approaching hurricane.Zoom in: National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) led the charge against pushing for politically hot amendments that would delay the process, multiple sources familiar with what happened at lunch tell Axios.Even some of the usuals who tend to embrace stalling tactics — such as Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) — did not object.Republicans were concerned about giving vulnerable Democrats like Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Bob Casey (Pa.) free votes that could win them political points on amendments that won't pass anyway.The bottom line: Even if Republicans had managed to reach an agreement to vote on an amendment with a 50-vote threshold, they were looking at an attendance problem. Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott needed to get back to their state ahead of an expected hurricane and Sen. JD Vance was still out on the campaign trail with former President Trump.

The latest offender is Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenger to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown.

If you live in the United States and you’ve been feeling an extra pinch at the grocery store, you are not alone and it's not your imagination.During the 2020 presidential election cycle, food inflation in the U.S. was 3.9%. With less than 50 days left before the 2024 presidential election, food inflation has reached 25.8%, more than six times the inflation in 2020.Former President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has responded to negative polling showing a small lead for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, by attacking her and Democrats as the party responsible for the country’s food inflation.The Trump campaign’s new political ads attack Harris for having been the deciding vote that passed the 2021 American Rescue Plan, President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief measure that disbursed funds to businesses and local governments.Inflation reached a 40-year high in 2022, rising 9.1% compared to 2021. While economists have pointed to the American Rescue Plan as a potential factor, the main drivers of this sustained inflation are considered to be supply chain issues during the pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine, which spiked oil prices, and corporate price gouging.Also Read: Data Scientist Who Called 2020 Election Correctly Says Its Gone From ‘Drastic Landslide In Trump’s Direction To A drastic landslide For Harris’The Fed Finally Lowers Interest Rates.To fight inflation, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates eleven times between March 2022 and July 2023, from near 0% to between 5.25% and 5.5%. Raising the Federal interest rate is a key ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

Sen. Tim Scott downplayed any interest in joining a potential second Trump administration, stating he'd rather helm the Senate Banking Committee.

"Are you trying to lose the election?" former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley reacted.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is in a fight for his political life against Trump-backed businessman Bernie Moreno

With two weeks until a potential government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is losing patience with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), signaling the Senate is prepared to move first.Why it matters: Schumer knows Johnson is cornered by his own party. But Schumer has members — especially Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — who can't afford to waste valuable time in D.C.Schumer would need the better chunk of a week to get a funding bill through the Senate. Getting buy-in from 10 Senate Republicans would speed it up, but only by so much.Zoom in: If Johnson manages to get a partisan bill through the House — the current bill is a six-month funding extension with a bill attached that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote — the Senate will strip it down to a three-month funding extension with no policy riders and send it straight back.That bill could theoretically hit the House just before the funding deadline, exerting maximum pressure on Johnson to put the bill on the floor and pass it with Democratic support.Or Schumer could start the process on his own government funding bill next week with buy-in from Senate Republicans. That would place the bill at Johnson's feet, again, just before a looming government shutdown.

Senate Republicans have quietly reversed course on trying to rebuke or embarrass the Biden White House, concerned it could help Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stay in power.Why it matters: House and Senate GOP leaders had been pitting Democrats against Biden with Congressional Review Act votes, which allows Congress to overturn federal government rules and regulations.Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told Axios they were "not actually getting anything done" with the votes, but it created a situation in which Democrats "can send a message that they're pretending to back home.""These are awfully hard votes to explain" to voters, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) told Axios last year after votes on ESG investing, crime, COVID-19 and clean-water regulations.But more recently that approach has backfired, giving endangered Senate Democrats an opportunity to vote against Biden.CRA votes can give the White House a black eye. But they also gave vulnerable Democrats a chance to signal to voters they aren't just a rubber stamp for Biden.Driving the news: Lankford told Axios that one of his CRA resolutions — on White House policy on nursing homes — hasn't gotten a vote because, in part, it is an easy way for vulnerable Democrats to distance themselves from Biden.A senior Senate GOP aide acknowledged that a part of the shift was to stop giving vulnerable Democrats free votes to signal more moderate or right-leaning stances.Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), two of Schumer's most vulnerable members, have used such votes to keep Biden at arms' length on energy and the environment.What we're hearing: After a busy CRA schedule in 2023, a CRA vote hasn't been held in the Senate since May.As a substantive matter, the votes allow Congress to overturn federal rules promulgated by departments and agencies.As a political exercise, Republicans have used them as a way to rebuke the Biden administration from what they call "woke" policies.It takes 30 senators to sign on to a petition to force a floor vote on a CRA.The big picture: Fending off certain Biden administration policies has been a core feature of Tester's and Brown's high-stakes campaigns.Tester got a major victory in March when the Senate voted to overturn a rule from the Department of Agriculture that would end a ban on beef imports from Paraguay. Tester and Brown both voted for a CRA that would overturn a Biden administration rule on measuring and setting greenhouse gas emission standards. Schumer needs Tester and Brown to win in red states in November if he wants to be Senate majority leader in 2025.

The states include: Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

Trump’s “they’re eating the pets” remarks at the presidential debate unleashed a torrent of right-wing smears on a community struggling to adjust to an influx of immigrants.

Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., walks down the House steps after the final vote of the week on Thursday.

House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., left, said the White House action mirrors committee legislation. Ranking member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., said Congress still has to act on comprehensive legislation.

While our list looks only at vulnerable incumbents, there are several high-profile open seats whose outcomes will also shape the balance of power in the chamber.

The father of an Ohio boy killed last year when a Haitian immigrant driver hit a school bus is imploring Donald Trump and other politicians to stop invoking his son's name in the debate about immigration.

(CNN) — Rose Goute Creole restaurant does a bustling business in Springfield, Ohio, with clientele drawn from across the city to its heaping displays of patties and donuts, and pots of perfumed rice, fried pork and fish, and golden plantains.

An Ohio state representative representing Springfield believes most of the issues the town has had with Haitian refugees comes down to a disconnect between cultures.

WASHINGTON — The race for control of Congress is as close as ever, with barely two dozen House seats and a handful in the Senate likely to determine the majority this November and whether a single party sweeps to power with the White House.

Democratic Sens. Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown, the most vulnerable 2024 incumbents in the Senate, are among the senators targeted by the $10 million AFP Action ad blitz.

A new poll in a key Senate battle in Montana that may decide if the GOP wins back the chamber's majority indicates Republican challenger Tim Sheehy with the edge over the Democratic Sen. Jon Tester

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Democrats have a narrow edge nationwide—but a bigger advantage in closely watched Senate races.

In a 2020 interview with CNN, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said former President Donald Trump's supporters were "supporting a racist for president" and that 35% of Americans love him for playing to "anger."

'We will defend the right to mine Bitcoin'

Even Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s top allies in the Senate, is urging the former president to tone down his “showman” streak at rallies.