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Commentary: We’re old, we’re progressive and we vote

The GOP has been flailing a little in recent weeks, as an election once expected to be a typical midterm blowout has tightened considerably. If the GOP expects that older voters will bail them out as in elections past, our advice is, think again.

Los Angeles Times

Gavin Newsom for president? He’s impressing Democratic insiders with blasts at Republicans

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s public slugfests with the governors of Texas and Florida over immigration and abortion is generating important national attention. But perhaps even more importantly — assuming he has further political aspirations — his more aggressive demeanor is endearing him to influential Democratic insiders.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Will history repeat for House GOP?

House Republicans are hoping history will repeat itself. That may well happen — but not necessarily to their long-term benefit.

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Stuart Rothenberg: The fight for the Senate: Fundamentals, polling and opposition research

When I was handicapping races day in and day out, I always started with race fundamentals (e.g., demographics, past political performance in the district or state) and, later in a cycle, switched to watching polls to see where races stood and were headed. But on rare occasions, it was so…

Tribune News Service

Kansas race tests which matters more: Economy or abortion?

Kansas' only Democrat in Congress is hoping abortion-rights voters remain fired up enough to save her swing-district seat even if some of them blame her party for housing and grocery prices

The Independent UK

Can Donald Trump keep his QAnon supporters under control before the midterms?

Trump has promoted increasingly overt QAnon conspiracy theories in recent weeks, Eric Garcia and Alex Woodward report

The Independent UK

McConnell backs post-Jan. 6 revisions to elections law

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he will “proudly support” legislation to overhaul rules for certifying presidential elections, bolstering a bipartisan effort to revise a 19th century law and avoid another Jan. 6 insurrection

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Dr Oz’s insult for John Fetterman’s clothing backfires spectacularly

Republicans have floundered attacking Fetterman, who leads race for GOP-held Senate seat

The Independent UK

Herschel Walker names Capitol rioter as campaign ‘captain’

The grassroots campaign activist faces four misdemenours after entering the Capitol on January 6

The Independent UK

Desantis Calls Trump 'A Moron Who Has No Business Running For President,' Former Staffers Say: Report

The off-camera insult-flinging between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump is intensifying as the two prepare to potentially square off against each other to secure the Republican presidential nomination.

Benzinga

Texas AG Paxton: A GOP coward bully

Tying with Josh Hawley for the "running Republicans" trophy, the anti-choice lawyer cites fear of a process server

Salon

‘They aren’t watching’: January 6 panel fails to sway GOP voters

As Capitol riot hearings set to resume, experts say committee has not loosened Donald Trump’s grip on Republican Party.

Al Jazeera

Pennsylvania Republican Doug Mastriano’s campaign ‘sputtering’ with tiny rallies and no ads

Mr Mastriano’s event was in the same location where he drew a crowd of thousands at an April 2020 rally against Covid-19 mitigation measures

The Independent UK

A government funding bill is introduced as Congress races to avoid an Oct. 1 shutdown

The stopgap bill keeps federal agencies funded at current levels through mid-December. But a fight over reforming the permitting process for energy projects is bumping against a Friday deadline.

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The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis privately calls Trump a ‘moron’ and vents about him running for president

The Florida governor also reportedly plans to go on a ‘full frontal attack’ should the two MAGA Republicans faceoff against one another in the presidential election

Salon

Sinema: Give GOP more filibuster power

Fellow Democrats lashed out at Sinema over the speech: "Bad history, bad policy, and bad politics"

The Independent UK

‘Hypocrisy thy name is Maga’: Abortion opponent Blackburn ridiculed for tweet on women’s freedom in Iran

Tennessee Sen Marsha Blackburn tweeted out that ‘Women in Iran should be able to wear what they want without the fear of being killed for it’

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Gavin Newsom for president? He’s impressing Democratic insiders with blasts at Republicans

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The Guardian - US

January 6 changed America. Here are two directions the country could go now

Whether or not the assault on the Capitol actually failed is yet to be determined

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: The GOP's 'Commitment to America' is a list of platitudes, not plans

Despite its stated purpose, the vague and cynical “Commitment to America” that top House Republicans unveiled with fanfare last week wasn’t actually intended to tell the country what the GOP would do if it regains power. The party’s list of platitudes revealed more about its intentions than it intended to.…

Salon

Donald Trump and the rise of "QMaga"

GOP is "now willing to follow Trump further into the depths of fearmongering and madness," columnist writes

Tribune News Service

North Carolina case at Supreme Court ‘should keep every American up at night,’ former AG Eric Holder says

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina lawsuit at the U.S. Supreme Court could undermine democracy as we know it, by allowing state legislators to override popular opinion in elections for Congress and possibly even the presidency, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters.

The Independent UK

GOP attacks Minnesota governor in $250M food fraud case

Republicans have attacked Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, after a judge took the rare public step of disputing the administration’s claim that the judge prevented it from cutting off payments to Feeding Our Future

Texas Observer

Abbott’s Attack Dog

The New Hampshire political consultant has been shellacking hapless Democrats for two decades on behalf of the GOP.

The Conversation

Religion is shaping Brazil's presidential election – but its evangelicals aren't the same as America's

With one week to go before Brazil’s presidential election, the two front-runners are battling for the religious vote.

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