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Proxy voting rises when Congress smells jet fumes

On days when Congress is scheduled to arrive or leave Washington, the number of members voting by proxy increases by double digits.

Roll Call

What is MAGA in 2022? Toxic nostalgia

Trump's core loyalists are older, less educated, more Southern, more Christian — and driven by resentment

Salon

Mark Z. Barabak: Here's why the House is likely to flip while the Senate remains up in the air

With Election Day now less than five weeks away, we peer into our crystal ball — which is foggier than a summer morning in San Francisco — and answer questions.

Los Angeles Times

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Robert A. George: Republicans can't commit. Just look at their agenda

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's new “Commitment to America,” intends to reassure voters of the GOP's intentions if they win the majority in Congress in the midterm election. Instead, it reveals a party of commitment-phobes.

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Congress taking big step toward fixing elections

The House committee hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, invasion of the Capitol performed a useful educational service by detailing how former President Donald Trump incited the insurrection and rejected pleas to stop it.

Tribune News Service

GOP optimistic about Senate chances despite Walker turmoil

A dramatic family fight has clouded the GOP’s hopes in Georgia’s high-stakes Senate contest

The Independent UK

NC court hears new arguments on maps, paralleling nationally watched elections case

Legislative leaders sought to cement their ability to gerrymander their own districts without courts being able to strike them down, in arguments they made Tuesday to the N.C. Supreme Court.

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Gun-safety group launches $2.1 million ad campaign criticizing Oz, Mastriano over gun laws

PHILADELPHIA — Gun-safety advocates are launching a $2.1 million ad campaign in Pennsylvania, hammering Republicans Mehmet Oz and Doug Mastriano for their opposition to tougher gun laws, including universal background checks.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Republicans fear losing US Senate seat as Herschel Walker’s woes mount

ATLANTA — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker has so far weathered allegations he abused his ex-wife and exaggerated claims about his businesses.

Tribune News Service

Minus the politics, migrants often use buses, planes to reach shelter

Despite some Republican governors using migrant buses to try to embarrass Democrats, transportation for migrants from border areas to places where they can find shelter may be an important part of handling an unprecedented crush of asylum-seekers.

Tribune News Service

Liz Cheney is sole Republican voice calling Trump out for ‘racist’ attack on Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao

“Nobody in my party will say that’s unacceptable,” says the January 6 committee vice chair

The Independent UK

Walker report puts abortion back at center of Georgia race

In Georgia’s pivotal U.S. Senate race, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, have sought to cast the other as an abortion extremist

The Independent UK

Controversial GOP House Caucus Agenda Links Cannabis Legalization With Suicide And Violence

The 156-member Republican Study Committee (RSC) unveiled a “Family Policy Agenda" that slams federal cannabis legalization with a dangerous and erroneous attempt to link marijuana to

Benzinga

Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen repeats false rumor that schools have litter boxes for 'furry' students

MINNEAPOLIS — At a campaign stop in Hutchinson last week distributed in a video on social media, GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen claimed that schools allow children to use litter boxes to urinate.

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Supreme Court’s newest justice pushes back as it considers curbing Black voting districts

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative wing considered limiting the creation of majority-Black voting districts, even amid forceful pushback from new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Independent UK

Another shift for NH GOP Senate candidate on 2020 election

Don Bolduc isn’t making a full about-face, but the Republican nominee for Senate in New Hampshire can’t seem to stop shifting his position about whether the 2020 presidential election was legitimate

Axios

Trump, GOP leaders back Herschel Walker after abortion report

Former President Trump indicated he still supports Walker in the upcoming midterms.

Tribune News Service

Prosecutors investigating 2020 election in Georgia push to remove lawyers, OK search warrants

ATLANTA — A pair of legal filings from Fulton County prosecutors this week suggests their criminal investigation into attempts to influence Georgia’s 2020 elections is reaching a new, more sensitive stage.

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Georgia Republicans distance themselves from Herschel Walker after abortion report

ATLANTA — Top Georgia Republicans are distancing themselves from Herschel Walker in the aftermath of a report that the U.S. Senate nominee paid his girlfriend to have an abortion in 2009 and explosive accusations from his adult son calling his father a liar and charlatan.

Salon

"Pro-life" won't turn on Herschel Walker

Trump showed Republican voters are fine with sexual freedom — for straight conservative men

The Guardian - US

Stephen Colbert: ‘There’s a reason the Russian army is getting its ass kicked – it sucks’

Late-night hosts discuss Russia’s failures in Ukraine, the GOP’s ‘commitment to America’ and a new dating app for conservatives

Tribune News Service

Stunning developments dog Herschel Walker’s campaign at pivotal time

ATLANTA — Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker has weathered crises that have leveled other campaigns and still remained within striking distance of Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock thanks to relatively unshakable support from many in the GOP base.

Roll Call

GOP midterm victory would add pressure on fintech regulators - Roll Call

Regulators may feel congressional pressure to finish some fintech rules after the midterms, but a GOP majority would want a light touch.

The Guardian - US

Democracy, poisoned: America’s elections are being attacked at every level

In the first of a new series, we look at how November’s midterm elections could be an inflection point as election deniers seek to take control of the vote counting process

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: Racist 'Willie Horton'-style fearmongering on crime may win midterms for GOP

When the midterm election winds shifted direction this summer toward Democrats, powered by a gust of anger among women voters over the Supreme Court and abortion rights, no incumbent GOP U.S. senator looked in worse shape than Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.

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