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Overseas voting has become the latest battlefront in Republicans’ legal challenges leading up to the election. Judges in two crucial battleground states, Michigan and Pennsylvania, this week heard Republicans’ claims that officials are improperly accepting thousands of overseas ballots and could be opening the door to fraud. And in North Carolina, a judge is scheduled [...]

Democrats hope Janelle Stelson can beat Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry, a Donald Trump ally and Freedom Caucus leader, in the 2024 election.

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Democrats are pouring money into taking down former House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.) — and this time, they just might succeed.Why it matters: Perry has been a major thorn in the side of GOP leadership, leading the Freedom Caucus as it staged revolts against former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and current Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).State of play: Republican strategists told Axios they have not been viewing Perry as vulnerable, noting that the district went for former President Trump by 4 points in 2020.But polling suggests the race is highly competitive, with one recent survey even showing Perry's Democratic opponent, former local news anchor Janelle Stelson, up by 9 percentage points.Stelson has hammered Perry's co-sponsorship of the anti-abortion Life at Conception Act, and in a new ad first shared with Axios she frames herself as an outsider and voices support for term limits.Zoom out: Perry was first elected to a safely Republican seat in 2012, but court-ordered redistricting in 2018 placed him in a more divided territory.He has consistently won single-digit victories since 2018, though Democrats are quick to note they have never made this serious an investment in taking him down.Despite the shift in his district, Perry has remained a staunch conservative, positioning himself as a visible right-wing antagonist to GOP leadership for the last two years.In addition to his abortion record, Perry has been dogged by the FBI's seizure of his phone as part of a probe into his role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack.Between the lines: Perry would be the second Freedom Caucus leader to be ousted from Congress this year after Rep. Bob Good's (R-Va.) chairmanship was cut short in July when he lost his Republican primary.The right-wing group has been losing members and struggling to maintain the leverage it wielded at the start of the 117th Congress.By the numbers: Perry has gotten little financial help from GOP leadership so far, with the National Republican Congressional Committee and Congressional Leadership Fund spending effectively nothing on ads in his district as of Saturday, according to ad tracking firm AdImpact.Democrats, meanwhile, have funneled millions into the seat, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Majority PAC collectively spending or reserving nearly $3.8 million in ads for Stelson.Stelson's campaign has spent another $3.6 million on ads, compared to just $860,000 spent by Perry, per AdImpact.GOP leadership is not shunning Perry completely, however – Johnson, who appointed Perry to the prestigious House Intelligence Committee, campaigned for him in the district Friday.Zoom in: A handful of outside Republican groups have backed up Perry, including House Freedom Action, the political arm of the Freedom Caucus, which has put $630,000 into ads.Democratic strategists told Axios they think the strident tone of House Freedom Action ads, which label Stelson a "single issue pro-abortion Democrat" who supports "DEI and the trans agenda," renders them ineffective, though Republicans believe they are working.Another Republican group, the Eighteen Fifty-Four Fund — founded last cycle to fight against right-wing candidates in GOP primaries — has reserved a behemoth $2.3 million in ads, but a spokesperson for the group declined to comment on the specifics of their investment.What they're saying: To Democrats, this all spells opportunity. "Central Pennsylvanians know Scott Perry is a career politician who embodies chaos, dysfunction, and everything that's wrong with Washington," said DCCC spokesperson Aidan Johnson."The only thing Perry cares about is advancing his extreme agenda and his constituents no longer want anything to do with him." The other side: "The Democrat Party left behind voters in PA-10 by embracing radical left-wing policies that drove up crime, the cost of living and unleashed chaos at the border," NRCC spokesperson Will Reinert told Axios."As they have in previous cycles, Pennsylvania voters will reject an out of touch Democrat who doesn't even live in the district."

The race for Iowa's 1st Congressional District heats up Saturday as incumbent Miller-Meeks campaigns in Walcott while her challenger Christine Bohannon attends forum in Davenport.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In some of the closest House races in the country, Democratic candidates are leaning into an issue that Republicans have made a centerpiece of their efforts to expand their majority — immigration.

In some of the closest House races in the country, Democratic candidates are leaning into an issue that Republicans have made a centerpiece of their pitch to voters — immigration

“I don’t even know how many pages it is,” the Pennsylvania Republican told a constituent, a month after praising the far-right policy roadmap for its “accountability.”

Mail ballots are available in some of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. The state's 19 Electoral College votes are considered critical for candidates running for president in 2024.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is not ruling out kicking certain House Republicans off of committees if Democrats retake the House majority.Why it matters: It's something the Democratic leader hinted at after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appointed Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to the House Intelligence Committee."To be continued," Jeffries replied cryptically when asked during a press conference Thursday whether he would kick Perry and Jackson off the Intelligence panel and whether Democrats may exclude other Republicans from committees. Johnson's appointment of Perry and Jackson to Intel prompted bipartisan backlash due to the FBI's seizure of Perry's phone and allegations of workplace misconduct against Jackson from his time as White House physician.The intrigue: One senior House Democrat told Axios they expect Jeffries to — at a minimum — boot Jackson and Perry from the Intelligence panel.In June, Jeffries called the picks "frightening" and said, "If the American people give us the opportunity to govern with the gavels in November, we can assure you that a different decision would be made."As speaker, Jeffries would have the ability to unilaterally reject any Republican picks for the Intelligence Committee.Zoom out: Any move to kick Republicans off committees would be a continuation of a tit for tat that has roiled the last two congressional terms.The Democratic-led House voted in 2021 to strip all committee assignments from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).When Republicans took control in 2023, then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) booted Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from Intel, with the House also voting to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) off the Foreign Affairs Committee.Yes, but: Some Democrats, while infuriated at the bomb throwers on their committees, would prefer to pump the breaks on the back-and-forth dynamic.House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) lamented Greene's chaotic influence on his panel in an interview with Axios, but said he is "not interested in" kicking her off."Republicans kind of set a lower precedent, lower bar this Congress," Raskin argued. "I'm hoping we can elevate the quality of our political discourse a little bit."

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The traditional roll call at the Democratic National Convention became a boisterous dance party, with each state’s delegation announcing their votes for Kamala Harris to a song befitting their state.

CNN's Scott Jennings was impressed by Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's acceptance speech, but the conservative commentator felt like the party's convention has been lacking overall.The Kentucky Republican agreed that Walz's neurodivergent son standing up to tearfully shout out his dad was a "cool moment," but he said Vice President Kamala Harris had some work to do to define herself Thursday night in her own acceptance speech."I think Harris is going to have to articulate what kind of president she would be, what would she do as president," Jennings said. "I think this whole convention has really been built on trying to get people to get comfortable with the presidency without really knowing how it would operate. I mean, a lot of what we know about Harris comes from her own record, her voting record in the Senate, liberal, her statements when she ran for president, very liberal, and her actions working for Joe Biden, which resulted in a mid-30s approval rating for the Biden-Harris administration. Now, through anonymous spokespeople, a lot of that's been attempted to be walked back. Nothing we've heard this week and nothing we heard last night would tell you what would they do if they got elected president."ALSO READ: ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer hired by Trump campaign for Election 2024 endgameJennings commended the vice president for turning around the Democratic Party's momentum since taking over the campaign from Biden, but he encountered pushback when he claimed her campaign was based on nothing but vibes."I disagree that you're not hearing saying about what she would do and what her administration would do, and I disagree with Scott," said Democratic strategist Maria Cardona, "I don't think she needs to present her 20-point plan tonight. I think that she has to talk about what she has been talking about and what she will do because she has talked about that. She's going to lower costs for middle-class and working-class families. She's going to make sure that we have continued and expanded access to health care, especially reproductive freedom. She's going to protect those rights and freedoms, and she's going to make sure that we are all able to grow up, that our families are able to grow up in an environment, in an economy, in a social structure where we can meet what we all came here to do."Cardona argued that Harris did have a proposal to improve border security while also welcoming immigrants, and she said Republicans have attacked her for lacking substantive policies because they lacked their own."I don't think we talk about that enough because that is an attack that Republicans are going to continue to use against her, and she has great solutions, which is what Republicans lack," Cardona said.Watch below or click here.- YouTubeyoutu.be

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Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., left, is seen with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the House floor before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday.

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