#Rep. Dan Newhouse

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H.R. 1526, the "No Rogue Rulings Act," passed the U.S. House on April 9, 2025, with a vote of 218-214, aiming to curb district court judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions against presidential policies, a practice often criticized as judicial overreach.

The bill's passage saw near-unanimous Republican support (212-2) but total Democratic opposition (0-214), highlighting a stark partisan divide, with two Republicans, Rep. Mike Turner (Ohio) and Rep. Dan Newhouse (Washington), voting against it, drawing significant backlash from constituents.

Despite House approval, the bill has stalled in the Senate for over three weeks as of June 2, 2025, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune facing pressure to bring it to a vote, reflecting broader tensions over judicial power and executive authority in the U.S. government.

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House lawmakers have voted to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, after he was thrown out of President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

Ten Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the measure. Green himself voted "present," along with first-term Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala.

"Al Green's childish outburst exposed the chaos and dysfunction within the Democrat party since President Trump's overwhelming win in November and his success in office thus far. It is not surprising 198 Democrats refused to support Green's censure given their history of radical, inflammatory rhetoric fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital.

Before the formal censure could be read out to Green, however, Democrats upended House floor proceedings by gathering with the Texas Democrat and singing "We shall overcome." Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to call the House into a recess after failing multiple times to quell the protest.

Decorum eroded further afterwards, with several Democrats including "Squad" member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., engaging in a heated exchange with Republicans, including first-term Rep. Ryan MacKenzie, R-Pa.

The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green are Reps. Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.

Republicans raced to introduce competing resolutions to censure Green on Wednesday, with three separate texts being drafted within hours of each other.

Fox News Digital was told that Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., whose resolution got a vote on the House floor Thursday morning, had reached out to Johnson about a censure resolution immediately after Trump's speech ended on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the House Freedom Caucus had aimed to make good on a threat to censure any Democrats who protested Trump's speech, and Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, crafted his own censure resolution against Green that got more than 30 House GOP co-sponsors.

But Newhouse took to the House floor on Wednesday afternoon to deem his resolution "privileged," a maneuver forcing House leaders to take up a bill within two legislative days.

Newhouse told Fox News Digital after the vote, "President Trump’s address to Congress was not a debate or a forum; he was invited by the speaker to outline his agenda for the American people. The actions by my colleague from Texas broke the rules of decorum in the House, and he must be held accountable."

A bid by House Democrats to block the resolution from getting a vote failed on Wednesday. Green himself voted "present."

The 77-year-old Democrat was removed from Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday night after repeatedly disrupting the beginning of the president's speech.

He shouted, "You have no mandate!" at Trump as he touted Republican victories in the House, Senate and White House.

Johnson had Green removed by the U.S. Sergeant-at-Arms.

It was part of a larger issue with Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday night, with many engaging in both silent and vocal acts of protest against Trump. Democrats were also chided for not standing up to clap when Trump designated a 13-year-old boy an honorary Secret Service agent.

The House speaker publicly challenged Democrats to vote with Republicans in favor of the censure on Thursday.

"Despite my repeated warnings, he refused to cease his antics, and I was forced to remove him from the chamber," Johnson posted on X. "He deliberately violated House rules, and an expeditious vote of censure is an appropriate remedy. Any Democrat who is concerned about regaining the trust and respect of the American people should join House Republicans in this effort."

Green, who shook Newhouse's hand before speaking out during debate on his own censure, stood by his actions on Wednesday.

"I heard the speaker when he said that I should cease. I did not, and I did not with intentionality. It was not done out of a burst of emotion," Green said.

"I think that on some questions, questions of conscience, you have to be willing to suffer the consequences. And I have said I will. I will suffer whatever the consequences are, because I don't believe that in the richest country in the world, people should be without good healthcare."

Other recent lawmakers censured on the House floor have been Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and now-Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

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Spineless ass fucking weak willed pitiful "reach across the aisle to fucking FASCISTS for the sake of politeness" they go low we go high useless milquetoast democrats

The man tried to stage a coup 4 years ago but God forbid someone yells at him as long as democrats are around!

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I would vote for the democrat before I vote for Dan Newhouse. At least the democrat wants to defund the police (the gun confiscators).

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emafor has the report of a second gay sex episode filmed on Capitol Hill:

The high-profile Senate sex scandal that rocked Washington, D.C. this month, was, in fact, the second time in less than two years that sexually explicit videos filmed in the U.S. Capitol prompted an investigation.

A spokesperson for Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash. confirmed that reports of “purported, unbecoming behavior” by a senior staffer in their office triggered an investigation last year. They added that “no conclusive evidence” was found.

One of the videos, watched by Semafor, featured a man masturbating inside a House office building, which was identifiable by standard Capitol House furniture and carpeting. The desk at which the videographer performed also held a branded congressional mouse pad. A screenshot of a second video obtained by Semafor shows two men engaged in a sex act in an office setting. The participants’ faces are not visible in any of the material viewed by Semafor.

File This Under: What democrats when they are not actively destroying America.

Vote for wankers and you will get public wanking

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Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania noted to benefit with defense stocks from a war with Iran.

counterpunch June 20, 2025 Roaming Charges: Neo-Conned Again! Jeffrey St. Clair + Here are some the current US politicians who are benefiting with aerospace and defense stocks if the US goes to war with Iran: John Boozman Rob Bresnahan Gil Cisneros James Comer John Curtis Patrick Fallon Lois Frankel Scott Franklin Josh Gottheimer Marjorie Taylor Greene Bill Hagerty Diana Harshbarger Kevin Hern Julie Johnson William Keating Greg Landsman Michael McCaul Kathy Manning Jared Moskowitz Markwayne Mullin Carol Devine Miller Carol Miller Blake Moore Dan Newhouse Jefferson Shreve Mike Simpson Thomas Suozzi Bruce Westerman + There used to be a name for this. Now it’s just business as usual. +++

It's ironic because he campaigned on stopping Congress from trading stocks, and introduced legislation to that effect in May 2025, but he's continually in a position to be criticized for doing it himself.

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Trump Impeachment 2020

Here they are in order of the most pro-Trump districts:

1. Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyoming's at-large district: Trump won Wyoming 70% to 27%, and she's the third-ranking leader in the House. So for her not just to vote in favor of impeachment but also issue a stinging rebuke is quite the step. Cheney was unequivocal in her statement, saying Trump "summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack." She called what Trump did the "greatest betrayal" of a U.S. president ever.

2. Rep. Tom Rice, South Carolina's 7th Congressional District: This is one no one saw coming. The congressman, who has served since 2013, comes from a pretty pro-Trump district (Trump won it 59% to 40%), and there was no indication he would do so beforehand. Even during his vote, Twitter was alight with speculation that Rice had cast the wrong vote. Turns out, he cast it exactly as he wanted to. Later Wednesday, Rice explained: "I have backed this President through thick and thin for four years. I campaigned for him and voted for him twice. But, this utter failure is inexcusable."

3. Rep. Dan Newhouse, Washington's 4th: Trump won this central Washington state district by a handy margin, 58% to 40%. But for Newhouse, who has served since 2015 and has not been a prominent member, it was clear: "The mob was inflamed by the language and misinformation of the President of the United States. ... A vote against impeachment is a vote to validate unacceptable violence" and "to condone President Trump's inaction."

4. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois' 16th: Kinzinger's decision was probably the least surprising on this list. Despite coming from a district Trump won 57% to 41%, the Air Force veteran has been outspoken recently against Trump's behavior. He said Trump "incited this insurrection" and "if these actions — the Article II branch inciting a deadly insurrection against the Article I branch — are not worthy of impeachment, then what is an impeachable offense?"

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— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) January 14, 2021

5. Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, Ohio's 16th: Gonzalez, a former NFL wide receiver, is in his second term in Congress. Trump won his district by 15 points, but Gonzalez was unequivocal: Trump, he said, "helped organize and incite a mob that attacked the United States Congress in an attempt to prevent us from completing our solemn duties as prescribed by the Constitution." He added that during the attack, Trump "abandoned his post ... thus further endangering all present."

6. Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan's 6th: Upton has been in office since 1987. He comes from a district that is more moderate. Trump won it just 51% to 47%. Upton has good relationships with Democrats, including President-elect Joe Biden, and even has #WearYourMask in his Twitter bio. Upton said he would have preferred a bipartisan censure that would not interfere with the business of the next administration, "but," he said, "it is time to say enough is enough." He also cited Trump's efforts "to impede the peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next."



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7. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington's 3rd: Herrera Beutler was swept in with the Tea Party wave in 2010, but her district is a moderate one. Trump won it 51% to 47%. Herrera Beutler gained prominence several years ago for giving birth to a child three months early, born without kidneys and a rare syndrome. Her daughter, Abigail, became the first to survive the often-fatal condition. The now-mother of three and congresswoman from southwest Washington state declared on the House floor her vote in favor of impeachment: "I'm not choosing sides, I'm choosing truth."

8. Rep. Peter Meijer, Michigan's 3rd: Meijer is a freshman, who won his seat with 53% of the vote. He represents a district that was previously held by Justin Amash, the former Republican-turned-independent who voted in favor of Trump's impeachment in 2019. Meijer, a Columbia University grad who served in Afghanistan, is a social conservative in favor of restrictions on abortion rights and against restrictions on gun rights and religious freedoms. But he said Trump showed no "courage" and "betrayed millions with claims of a 'stolen election.' " He added, "The one man who could have restored order, prevented the deaths of five Americans including a Capitol police officer, and avoided the desecration of our Capitol, shrank from leadership when our country needed it most."



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9. Rep. John Katko, New York's 24th: Katko is a moderate from an evenly divided moderate district. A former federal prosecutor, he said of Trump: "It cannot be ignored that President Trump encouraged this insurrection." He also noted that as the riot was happening, Trump "refused to call it off, putting countless lives in danger."

10. Rep. David Valadao, California's 21st: The Southern California congressman represents a majority-Latino district Biden won 54% to 44%. Valadao won election to this seat in 2012 before losing it in 2018 and winning it back in the fall. He's the rare case of a member of Congress who touts his willingness to work with the other party. Of his vote for impeachment, he said: "President Trump was, without question, a driving force in the catastrophic events that took place on January 6." He added, "His inciting rhetoric was un-American, abhorrent, and absolutely an impeachable offense."

Opening the door in the Senate

The 10 who voted with Democrats to impeach Trump could give a degree of cover and open the door a little wider for Republicans in the Senate to vote to convict Trump. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah was the sole Republican senator to vote to convict Trump in 2020.



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This time, there will be more. Some Republican senators have called on Trump to resign, and even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he is undecided at this point.

Trump's impeachment won't lead to his removal — even if he is convicted — because of the timeline. The Senate is adjourned until Tuesday. The next day, Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president. But there's another penalty the Constitution allows for as a result of a Senate conviction that could be appealing to some Republican senators — banning Trump from holding "office" again.

While there is some debate as to the definition of "office" in the Constitution and whether that would apply to running for president or even Congress, that kind of public rebuke would send a strong message — that Republicans are ready to move on from Trumpism.



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Some ambitious Republican senators have never been as on board the Trump train as the more feverish GOP members in the House, and the former might be open to convicting Trump. But their ambition cuts two ways — on the one hand, voting to ban Trump opens a lane to carry the Republican mantle in 2024 and be the party's new standard-bearer, but, on the other, it has the potential to alienate many of the 74 million who voted for Trump, and whose votes they need.

It's a long shot that Trump would ultimately be convicted, because 17 Republicans would need to join Democrats to get the two-thirds majority needed for a conviction. But it's growing clearer that a majority of the Senate will vote to convict him, reflecting the number of Americans who are in favor of impeachment, disapproved of the job Trump has done and voted for his opponent in the 2020 presidential election.

CorrectionJan. 14, 2021

A previous version of this story incorrectly said Rep. Peter Meijer is a West Point graduate. Meijer attended West Point, but he is a graduate of Columbia University.

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7 GOP Senators Voted To Convict Trump. Only 1 Faces Voters Next Year

February 15, 20215:00 AM ET

By 

Barbara Sprunt



The Senate voted 57-43 Saturday to acquit former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial.

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Updated at 11:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday

A majority of senators voted Saturday to convict former President Donald Trump on an impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

But the Democrats' side needed 17 Republicans to join them in order to reach the two-thirds threshold needed to convict.

Seven GOP senators voted with Democrats — the most bipartisan impeachment vote in U.S. history — but well short of the 17 needed to convict the former president.

Of those seven Republicans, two are retiring and only one — Alaska's Lisa Murkowski — faces her state's voters in the next election cycle, 2022.

Here's a closer look at the seven GOP senators who broke ranks with their party and some of the political calculations they face back home.



Sen. Richard Burr, seen here during a nomination hearing on Feb. 3, was rebuked by the North Carolina GOP for his vote to convict Trump.

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Senator: Richard Burr, North Carolina

Vote explanation: Burr's vote to convict was largely unexpected. According to Capitol Hill reporters in the chamber during the vote, there were audible "wows" and rumblings from senators when he cast his vote. He had previously voted to dismiss the trial on the basis of constitutionality.

In a statement, Burr said he did "not make this decision lightly, but I believe it is necessary."

"When this process started, I believed that it was unconstitutional to impeach a president who was no longer in office," he said. "I still believe that to be the case. However, the Senate is an institution based on precedent, and given that the majority in the Senate voted to proceed with this trial, the question of constitutionality is now established precedent."

He said he listened to the arguments from both sides and the "facts are clear."

"The evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against a coequal branch of government and that the charge rises to the level of high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Political situation: Burr, who's served in the Senate since 2005, announced years ago that this term would be his last.

Two days after his vote to convict Trump, the North Carolina Republican Party unanimously voted to censure Burr.

"The NCGOP agrees with the strong majority of Republicans in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that the Democrat-led attempt to impeach a former President lies outside the United States Constitution," their statement read.

This followed another statement on Saturday from the NCGOP's chairman, Michael Whatley, in which he called Burr's vote "shocking and disappointing."

Meanwhile, former Congressman Mark Walker, who is running for the retiring Burr's seat in the 2022 election, immediately tweeted "wrong vote."

"I am running to replace Richard Burr because North Carolina needs a true conservative champion as their next senator," he wrote.



Sen. Bill Cassidy, seen talking to reporters on his way to the fourth day of the Senate impeachment trial, has been censured by the Louisiana GOP for his vote to convict Trump.

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Senator: Bill Cassidy, Louisiana

Vote explanation: Cassidy posted a video to Twitter after the trial, saying: "Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty."

On ABC on Sunday Cassidy added that "it was clear that [Trump] wished that lawmakers be intimidated" while they counted electoral votes, and that Trump didn't act quickly to dissuade the violent mob.

Political situation: The backlash to Cassidy's vote to convict was swift. The state GOP voted unanimously to censure him, releasing a statement saying it condemns Cassidy's action.

"Fortunately, clearer heads prevailed and President Trump has been acquitted of the impeachment charge filed against him," the Republican Party of Louisiana statement read.

Cassidy just won reelection a few months ago, by 40 percentage points, and won't face voters again until 2026. Additionally, Louisiana has an open primary system, which could insulate him some from a Republican challenge.



Sen. Susan Collins, seen here during a confirmation hearing on Feb. 4, had previously voted to acquit Trump during his first impeachment trial.

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Senator: Susan Collins, Maine

Vote explanation: After Trump was acquitted, Collins delivered a 16-minute address from the Senate floor about her decision to vote to convict.

"This impeachment trial is not about any single word uttered by President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021," she said. "It is instead about President Trump's failure to obey the oath he swore on January 20, 2017. His actions to interfere with the peaceful transition of power — the hallmark of our Constitution and our American democracy — were an abuse of power and constitute grounds for conviction."

She added: "My vote in this trial stems from my own oath and duty to defend the Constitution of the United States. The abuse of power and betrayal of his oath by President Trump meet the constitutional standard of 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' and for those reasons I voted to convict Donald J. Trump."

Political situation: Collins' next election is in 2026. Like Cassidy, Collins just won reelection in 2020, though her race was much closer in a state Trump lost (he won one electoral vote in the state for winning its 2nd Congressional District).

She won her fifth term after a contest in which much of her opposition cited her support of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court and her vote to acquit Trump during his first impeachment trial.

Maine has ranked-choice voting, and many thought it could play a deciding role in her race last year, but Collins won an outright majority of Senate votes.



Sen. Lisa Murkowski talks to a reporter in the Senate subway at the conclusion of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.

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Senator: Lisa Murkowski, Alaska

Vote explanation: In a statement after the vote, Murkowski said she had upheld her oath as a senator to listen to both Trump's defense team and impeachment managers impartially, but that the facts were clear to her that Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol.

"The evidence presented at the trial was clear: President Trump was watching events unfold live, just as the entire country was," her statement reads. "Even after the violence had started, as protestors chanted 'Hang Mike Pence' inside the Capitol, President Trump, aware of what was happening, tweeted that the Vice President had failed the country."

She said Trump "set the stage for months" that the presidential election was rigged and that after he lost, he "did everything in his power to stay in power."

Political situation: Murkowski, a senator since 2002, is up for reelection next year, but as Alaska Public Media recently reported, her state's new election rules likely mean she'll be in less danger of losing her primary.

Alaska has an open primary and ranked-choice voting, which means all contenders for the seat will be on the same ballot for all primary voters. The top four will advance to the general election and then voters will rank them in order of preference.

Murkowski herself told Alaska Public Media that she thinks the new system puts her in a better position.



Sen. Mitt Romney, seen on the second day of Trump's impeachment trial, also voted to convict Trump in his first impeachment trial.

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Senator: Mitt Romney, Utah

Vote explanation: In a statement after the vote, Romney said Trump's actions leading up to and on Jan. 6 were a violation of his oath of office.

"President Trump attempted to corrupt the election by pressuring the Secretary of State of Georgia to falsify the election results in his state," the statement reads. "President Trump incited the insurrection against Congress by using the power of his office to summon his supporters to Washington on January 6th and urging them to march on the Capitol during the counting of electoral votes. He did this despite the obvious and well known threats of violence that day. President Trump also violated his oath of office by failing to protect the Capitol, the Vice President, and others in the Capitol. Each and every one of these conclusions compels me to support conviction."

Political situation: This wasn't Romney's first time harshly criticizing Trump or breaking ranks with his party. He was the only Republican to vote to convict Trump on one article during the former president's first impeachment trial in early 2020, and in recent weeks was called "a joke" and a "traitor" by Trump supporters while traveling from Utah to Washington, D.C.

The former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 GOP presidential nominee was elected to the U.S. Senate from Utah in 2018. He won with nearly 63% of the vote.

The state went for Trump with 58% of the vote in 2020.

The 73-year-old Romney is up for reelection in 2024.



Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, seen here during a nomination hearing in January, said after voting to convict Trump that the former president violated "a president's oath of office."

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Senator: Ben Sasse, Nebraska

Vote explanation: Sasse labeled his vote to convict a vote of "conscience" in a statement Saturday.

"In my first speech here in the Senate in November 2015, I promised to speak out when a president — even of my own party — exceeds his or her powers," he said. "I cannot go back on my word, and Congress cannot lower our standards on such a grave matter, simply because it is politically convenient. I must vote to convict."

He cited Trump's repeated baseless claims that the election had been rigged against him.

"Those lies had consequences, endangering the life of the vice president and bringing us dangerously close to a bloody constitutional crisis. Each of these actions are violations of a president's oath of office," Sasse said.

Political situation: Sasse has spoken out against Trump in strong ways in recent months. In a call with constituents in October, Sasse worried out loud that Trump would bring down the Republican-controlled Senate in November.

And after blasting Trump's election fraud claims, Sasse preempted a potential censure vote by the Nebraska GOP State Central Committee by releasing a video in which he maintained that "politics isn't about the weird worship of one dude."

Sasse handily won reelection in 2020 — getting almost 27,000 more votes than Trump in the Republican state — and won't have to campaign again until 2026.



Sen. Pat Toomey is seen leaving the Senate chamber.

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Senator: Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania

Vote explanation: In a statement, Toomey said he voted for Trump but the former president's behavior after the election "betrayed the confidence millions of us placed in him."

"As a result of President Trump's actions, for the first time in American history, the transfer of presidential power was not peaceful," he said. "A lawless attempt to retain power by a president was one of the founders' greatest fears motivating the inclusion of the impeachment authorities in the U.S. Constitution."

Political situation: Toomey — who like Maine's Collins represents a state Trump lost in the presidential election — announced in October that he would not seek reelection in 2022.

Pennsylvania GOP Chair Lawrence Tabas told the Philadelphia Inquirer he shared the "disappointment of many of our grassroots leaders and volunteers" over Toomey's vote.

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Al Green, Democratic rep. from Texas.

Texas Democrat ejected from House for disrupting speech

Houston’s Green shouted ‘You don’t have a mandate to cut Medicaid!’

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump began his Tuesday night address to Congress by speaking about the size of his Nov. 5 electoral victory, U.S. Rep. Al Green stood and jabbed the air with his cane.

“You don’t have a mandate to cut Medicaid!” the Houston Democrat yelled at one point.

Republicans booed and tried to drown Green out by chanting “U-S-A.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called for decorum and warned Green to sit down and desist.

Green continued interrupting and Johnson directed the sergeant-at-arms to remove him.

Republicans cheered. Some sang, “Nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, goodbye” as he was led away.

After his departure from the chamber, Green spoke to reporters in the president’s press pool waiting nearby.

“It’s worth it to let people know that there are some people who are going to stand up” to Trump, Green told the reporters.

Green, who announced a push to impeach Trump last month, said he didn’t know whether he faced formal punishment for his protest in the chamber.

In a message to fellow Democrats ahead of the speech, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the decision whether to attend was a personal one.

“However, it is important to have a strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber,” Jeffries said in the letter.

“The House as an institution belongs to the American people, and as their representatives we will not be run off the block or bullied.”

The event was raucous from the start.

As Trump entered the House chamber, U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., stood in the aisle and held up a sign that read “This is not normal.”

U.S. Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell, ripped the paper from her hands and tossed it aside.

Many other Democrats held up signs with messages such as “Save Medicaid” as Trump talked up his first six weeks in office, pointing to reductions in illegal immigration and the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

U.S. Reps. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, and Greg Casar, D-Austin, held signs that said “Musk Steals.”

Texas lawmaker may face censure

WASHINGTON – House Republicans moved quickly Wednesday to formally rebuke U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Houston, over his protest at President Donald Trump’s address to Congress the night before.

Green spoke during floor debate on a censure resolution introduced by U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and made no apologies for his actions.

“I would do it again,” Green said.

“I have to be candid with you. I’m not trying to in some way insult you. This is a matter of principle. This is a matter of conscience. There are people suffering in this country because they don’t have health care.”

Trump had just started his speech Tuesday night and was saying his Nov. 5 election victory represented a mandate, with voters endorsing his aggressive second-term agenda.

Green stood up and objected, calling out repeatedly that Trump did not have a mandate to cut Medicaid.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called for decorum and directed Green to sit down.

When Green continued to protest, Johnson had the sergeant-at-arms remove him from the House floor.

As he spoke Wednesday on the House floor, Green said he bore no ill will toward Johnson or the officers who escorted him from the floor.

He acknowledged that he intentionally pressed forward despite hearing Johnson’s warnings to stop speaking.

“I have constituents who need Medicaid,” Green said.

“They will suffer and some will die if they don’t get Medicaid. … I will suffer whatever the consequences are, because I don’t believe that in the richest country in the world, people should be without good health care.”

Republicans pressing for Green’s censure denounced his behavior and said formal action was required to maintain decorum in the House.

Democrats responded by highlighting instances of GOP members heckling former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama during their speeches before Congress.

They accused Republicans of trying to distract from their policy agenda.

Democrats moved to table the censure but lost on a party-line vote. A final vote on the censure could come up Thursday.

U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Richmond, had introduced his own resolution censuring Green, telling reporters it made sense for Texans to police the behavior of a fellow Texan.

“His actions brought shame on the great state of Texas,” Nehls said in a news release.

“His behavior is inexcusable. As a member of Congress and a fierce advocate and defender of President Trump, I will do everything I can to ensure that order, decorum, and rules of this sacred chamber are upheld.”

A censure is intended to show sharp disapproval of conduct that falls short of the threshold for expulsion from office.

If a censure resolution is approved by majority vote, the recipient is required to stand in the well of the House while the censure resolution is read aloud.

WASHINGTON

House censures Texas Democrat

Representative says he stood up for those who rely on Medicaid

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted largely along party lines Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Houston, over his disruption of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress.

Green presented himself in the middle of the chamber as required to hear the resolution read aloud as an official rebuke.

Other Democrats gathered around him and began singing “We Shall Overcome.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., banged the gavel to call for order before declaring a recess.

By the time the House reconvened, Green addressed a near-empty House chamber to say he would accept the consequences of his actions but was unapologetic.

“I would do it again,” Green said.

“I would do it because I care about these people on Medicaid.”

Voting 224-198, the House approved a censure resolution saying Green committed a “breach of proper conduct” when he interrupted Trump’s Tuesday night speech before being removed from the floor.

While many House Democrats rallied around Green, saying Republicans had ignored bad behavior by GOP lawmakers who heckled former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, 10 Democrats voted for the resolution, none of them from Texas.

No Republicans opposed the resolution. Green and one other Democrat voted “present.”

Trump had started his speech by talking about the mandate voters handed him on Nov. 5. Green stood and waved his cane in the air, telling Trump he had no mandate to cut Medicaid, the government health insurance program that covers millions of low-income Americans.

Johnson warned Green to sit down.

When the protest continued, Johnson had the sergeant-at-arms remove him from the House floor.

An attorney by trade, Green won his seat in 2004 after serving as a justice of the peace and local NAACP leader.

Green, 77, recalled the civil rights marches and protests of the 1960s and said it’s time to deploy those tactics of civil disobedience.

“If you treat me like you treated me in the ‘60s, I’m going to respond the way I responded in the ‘60s,” Green said.

“It is time for us to use the same level of incivility that was used in the ‘60s for a noble cause — to save Medicaid, to protect Medicare, to prevent the demise of Social Security.”

The House Freedom Caucus, a group of ultraconservative Republicans, said after Thursday’s vote they would introduce a resolution to strip the “disruptive and disrespectful” Green of his committee assignments.

“Green was censured in a bipartisan vote but he needs real consequences to demonstrate that no one gets to disrupt the People’s business in lame attempts to derail President Trump’s agenda,” caucus chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., said on X.

Asked in an interview about the proposal to remove him from committees, Green said he respects his colleagues’ opinions but that he remains unashamed of his actions.

Democrats calling for ‘a new message’

After the Republican-led House voted to censure him for disrupting President Donald Trump’s congressional address, U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Houston, gathered with other Democrats in the well of the House and belted out the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.”

The moment captured the predicament Democrats face in crafting strategies to counter Trump and improve their standing with American voters.

Singing a civil rights standard ubiquitous 60 years ago showcases the Democrats’ view that Trump’s policies — including dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — are threatening advancements made by minorities, women and the working class.

The Green episode also suggests the need for an updated approach to Democratic Party messaging and voter outreach.

House Democrats last week grappled with tactics to counter Trump’s speech.

What they settled on ranged from boycotting, walking out, wearing coordinated colors or raising paddles with refrains like “Musk Steals,” “Save Medicaid,” and “False.”

None of that gets to the party’s core problems.

To win elections, Democrats have to appeal to average American voters and develop fresh leaders to become the faces, voices and messengers for the party.

“We have allowed a group of very rich donors, mostly white, to dictate what our priorities and what our messaging is going to be, and how we approach certain topics and certain subjects,” said U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth.

“It’s going to be really important for Democrats, when it comes to issues that affect workers, to be seen as on the side of the working class, and that’s going to take a lot of introspection.”

Veasey said supporters still want Democrats to hold Trump accountable.

“People absolutely want any waste or fraud cut from government, but they don’t want the sort of recklessness that they’ve seen with Elon Trump over the last two months,” Veasey said, merging the names of Musk and Trump.

State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, agreed better voter outreach was needed.

“We need to sit down and visit with Joe Six Pack and find out what he wants, and then figure out how to align with him to make sure he understands that the Democratic Party has his best interest at heart,” West said.

Since Trump’s decisive win over former Vice President Kamala Harris, national and Texas Democrats have pondered the path forward.

In Texas, Democrats lost ground in legislative races. Republicans maintain total control of the state’s executive offices.

Much of the national dialogue has been about resisting Trump, but some Texas Democrats say the best defense is a good offense when it comes to winning elections.

Democrats have not controlled a branch of Texas government since losing the House in 2002.

“Oftentimes, when I knocked on doors, folks told me that they really never heard from their elected officials until it was time to vote,” said state Rep. Venton Jones, D-Dallas, the newly elected chairman of the Dallas County Democratic Delegation to the Legislature.

“We have to figure out why we’re missing them and how we can get better.”

Jones said Democrats needed to stop allowing Republicans to control the political narrative.

“We can’t continue to be in a posture of responding to what Republicans are doing or not doing,” Jones said.

“We have to be bold and jump ahead of that and speak directly to our people. When we do that, they’ll respond.”

U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Farmers Branch, agreed.

“Democrats have to stay focused on economic issues,” Johnson said.

“Can you make enough money to afford the groceries? Can you buy a home? Are your kids living in your basement because they can’t afford their own place to live? We’ve got to have laser focus on improving the quality of life for Texans and for Americans.”

‘Losing the crowd’

Republicans are confident Democrats won’t figure out an effective plan, especially one that involves standing up to progressives who push left-of-center policies.

“Democrats do understand they’re losing the crowd, losing voters,” said Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George.

“I don’t think they will be able to change. Democrats can’t do it. They don’t have the guts to say all this crazy ideology is not helping our party.”

Some Democrats concede they have to change things up, avoid getting bogged down on culture war issues and refuse to let Republicans own important issues related to energy, the economy and immigration.

Veasey said his party should accept that in some states, including Texas and Pennsylvania, a candidate cannot win by opposing hydraulic fracking.

There should be room for Democrats to support the practice without being ostracized by the hard left, he said.

“If we’re really going to be competitive in states like Texas and in the Midwest, doing things the same way is not beneficial,” Veasey said.

“Things are not going to miraculously change. There has to be a new message.”

One Democrat says an older message could suffice.

“Common sense issues and policy solutions are the path to victory for either party, but specifically for Democrats,” said former Dallas school board trustee Miguel Solis, who in 2008 worked on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Solis said on economic issues, Democrats should push for lowering tax burdens and creating jobs, instead of pushing progressive ideas like universal basic income, which could be a nonstarter for many voters.

He said former President Bill Clinton, who won the White House in 1992 after 12 years of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, had pragmatic politics that appealed to vast swaths of voters, particularly those close to the middle of the political spectrum.

“The last time we saw a scenario where Democrats needed to lean into common sense solutions for average Americans was right before Bill Clinton was elected,” Solis said.

“What I feel has taken us off course is focusing on stuff that is ancillary instead of policy that would improve outcomes. Average voters don’t care about fringe issues or the radical extreme.”

Although mired in the political wilderness, some Democrats are bullish about the 2026 midterm elections.

Historically, the party in power loses ground in midterms.

Republicans currently control the White House and have slim majorities in both houses of Congress.

Banking on a trend

Democrats hope history will be on their side in 2026, and that Trump and his policies will falter with voters.

“The president is doing a good job of reminding people of the chaos of the first Trump presidency,” said state Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, and a former Democratic National Committee member.

“Americans are watching in disbelief and horror at what’s happening with a corrupt and dysfunctional administration, and thinking to themselves, ‘We didn’t sign up for this.’”

Democrats also need to address a decline in enthusiasm. Voter turnout in November was flat in Dallas County even though U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, was running for the U.S. Senate.

“It’s not just the message, but the messenger,” Anchia said.

“We need to be recruiting top notch candidates who will be compelling messengers, not only to the Democratic base, but also to swing voters.

Those messengers have to be young, smart and have compelling backgrounds in business, the military, faith leaders and average Americans who are experiencing the crushing blow of Trumpflation.”

Jones said new leaders are emerging and that he hoped they would work with established politicians.

“There’s certainly a changing of the guard in places like Dallas County,” Jones said.

“It’s important that we work together, because that older generation brings a wealth of knowledge when it comes to navigating the really harsh political environments.”

Finding quality candidates might be a more elusive goal across the state, especially since Texas offers Democrats so much despair.

“Ultimately, that starts with candidates who will help us motivate our hard base and move past the apathy and feeling hopeless in this time,” Jones said.

“We’re going to have to win elections, so that we can truly have the power to make change and to get the laws that we need.”

At a January meeting of the Dallas County Democrats, Johnson said Democrats needed to lean on progressive outlets, podcasts and social media to get their message to voters.

She also suggested the party get involved in nonpartisan municipal elections to carry the party’s message and elect candidates who will one day run as Democrats for higher office.

“Republicans are taught to run campaigns in every single race, every city council seat, every school board seat,” she said. “This is what gives people an opportunity to run for that next level.”

Johnson, who replaced Allred in Congress, urged Democrats to keep pushing.

“We’ve had time to mourn,” she said. “It’s time to get going and move forward and we’re going to win in ‘26.”

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Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

The House on Thursday censured Rep. Al Green, passing a resolution that said the Texas Democrat's protest at President Donald Trump's lie-filled congressional address this week "was a breach of proper conduct." Worse, 10 House Democrats joined 214 Republicans to vote to censure Green. Green and another Democrat, Rep. Shomari Figures of Alabama, voted present. (Four other Democrats did not vote.) Johnson ejected Green from Trump's Tuesday speech after he stood in the chamber and said Trump had "no mandate" to cut Medicaid—which Trump and Republicans are trying to do in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. The vote came amid chaos on the House floor, with Green and other Democrats singing “We Shall Overcome” as House Speaker Mike Johnson read the resolution. After that, Democrats shouted about the double standard given to Green, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a MAGA hat during Tuesday’s speech, which is not allowed on the House floor.

[...] Just three of the 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green come from districts Trump carried in 2024—Reps. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, and Tom Suozzi of New York. Suozzi said he thought Green’s protest was “inappropriate.” “I’m an old-school traditional type guy, I think we should be treating the president with deference,” Suozzi said. The rest come from districts Harris won in 2024, including Ami Bera of California, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California, Laura Gillen of New York, Jim Himes of Connecticut, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, and Jared Moskowitz of Florida. The censure resolution was spearheaded by Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, who had been in Trump’s crosshairs after he voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 

The censure resolution could be Newhouse’s way of getting back in Trump’s good graces, as Trump was enraged by Green’s protest.

The House voted 224-194 to successfully censure Rep. Al Green (D-TX) over his justified “you have no mandate to cut Medicaid” shout at Donald Trump at the joint address Tuesday. Even worse, 10 Democrats sold out to MAGA’s weaponization of freedom of speech by disgracefully voting to censure Green. These 10 should be primaried and censured by their local parties for this.

The disgraceful 10 “Democrats” voting to censure Green:

Ami Bera

Ed Case

Jim Costa

Laura Gillen

Jim Himes

Chrissy Houlahan

Marcy Kaptur

Jared Moskowitz

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Tom Suozzi

See Also:

HuffPost: House Censures Al Green For Disrupting Trump Speech

The Guardian: Ten Democrats join Republicans to vote to censure Al Green over Trump speech

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For anyone seeing this who is unaware, Rep. Al Green is this man:

After the vote, as the resolution required of him, Green stood in the well of the House chamber while Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., read the censure resolution to him. Dozens of Democrats, including many fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus, surrounded Green in the well and sang "We Shall Overcome" in a show of solidarity as the speaker repeatedly told them to stop and clear the well. Republicans in the chamber yelled, "Order! Order!" And two CBC members, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, shot back: “Shame on you!" Democrats ignored the speaker's request, and Johnson then recessed the House. The 10 Democrats who voted to censure Green are all moderates: Reps. Ami Bera and Jim Costa, both of California; Ed Case of Hawaii; Laura Gillen and Tom Suozzi, both of New York; Jim Himes of Connecticut; Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania; Marcy Kaptur of Ohio; Jared Moskowitz of Florida; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state. [...] The censure against Green was introduced by Rep. Dan Newhouse R-Wash. A Democratic effort to table the censure resolution was rejected Wednesday in a 209-211 vote. A censure is a formal way for the House to express disapproval of a member’s conduct. A censured member does not lose any rights or privileges as a House member. The matter, however, might not be closed. The far-right House Freedom Caucus, who had been racing to introduce their own resolution to censure Green, said after the vote its members plan to roll out another resolution seeking to remove Green from the House Financial Services Committee. The group said on X it expects Johnson to bring the resolution to the floor next week. While Democrats engaged in both silent and sometimes vocal protests of Trump during his long address to a joint session of Congress this week, Green took things a step further. He rose from his seat toward the front of the chamber Tuesday night, shook his cane toward Trump and repeated shouted that the president had "no mandate to cut Medicaid ... no mandate" — after Trump had said in his speech that voters in the 2024 election had handed him a mandate to slash the federal government. [...] Green said Wednesday that he had the "privilege of going to jail" with the late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the civil rights icon who Green said taught him the importance of peaceful protest. "So I’m not angry with the speaker. I’m not angry with the officers. I’m not upset with the members who are going to bring the motions or resolution to sanction. I will suffer the consequences," Green said. "But I must add this, what I did was from my heart. People are suffering and I was talking about Medicaid. I didn’t just say you don’t have a mandate. I said you don’t have a mandate to cut Medicaid." "I did it from my heart and I will suffer whatever the consequences are," he added. "But truthfully, I would do it again."

“Rep. Al Green is back in the news as a 2021 clip of him passionately calling out GOP members for using God to oppose LGBTQIA+ rights goes viral again, reminding them how religion was historically misused to justify slavery and segregation”

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At the Races: Don’t forget the Motor City (counts votes slowly) - Notice Today Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/?feed_id=159918&_unique_id=66b5f3376ae74 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER 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.Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — but not to the campaign committees and their outside supporters.The NRSC’s independent expenditure arm launched its first ad of the cycle targeting Rep. Elissa Slotkin just hours after she won the nomination to succeed Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and as our friend Bridget Bowman reports for NBC News, it’s part of a $10 million campaign. On top of that, OneNation, which is the policy affiliate of the Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, launched the first salvo in a $9.4 million campaign also targeting Slotkin.The Democrats, likewise, were quick to unveil ads in Michigan and other states this week. The DSCC’s independent expenditure arm has a new ad as part of a previously announced buy going after the GOP nominee, former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, for his post-congressional career.Slotkin and Rogers were declared winners of their primaries early on Tuesday night, but don’t expect that to happen when they face each other in a November race rated Tilt Democratic, or when Harris and Walz go up against the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance in a state rated Toss-up.The heavily Democratic 13th District based around Detroit provides a reminder of why. At midnight, The Associated Press estimated that only about 2 percent of ballots had been counted, and the call that incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar won renomination didn’t come until 2:12 a.m. on Wednesday. He ultimately prevailed in the primary by about 20 points.Google News Starting gateBad news for Good: A recount of the June 18 Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th District confirmed Rep. Bob Good, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, lost to state Sen. John McGuire.And for Bush: Missouri Rep. Cori Bush became the fourth House incumbent, and second progressive Democrat, to lose a primary this year after pro-Israel groups and others supporting Tuesday’s winner, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, spent more than $12 million. Groups backing Bush or opposing Bell spent $3.3 million. Other Missouri primaries picked nominees for the deep-red 3rd District and a Democratic challenger for Sen. Josh Hawley.Is Newhouse next? Washington state’s all-party primaries send the top two vote-getters to the November ballot, so the 25 percent that GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse got Tuesday means he’s not toast yet. But another Republican finished with 31 percent and a third got 19 percent. If that sentiment holds in November, Newhouse starts out with 50 percent of Republicans against him. Washington’s primaries also set a rematch for Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez against Republican Joe Kent and picked nominees for open seats in the 5th and 6th districts, where the races are rated Solid Republican and Solid Democratic, respectively.But wait, there’s more: Nominees were picked Tuesday for huge battles ahead for Senate and the open 7th District, among other seats, in Michigan. Voters in Kansas picked a challenger for Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and tapped a former House member to run for an open seat.And we’re still not done: Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, and Rep. Andy Ogles held off a challenge from Courtney Johnston, a member of the Nashville Metro Council, winning with 57 percent of the vote. But his troubles didn’t end with the victory. Ogles this week confirmed that the FBI seized his cellphone and said it was

his understanding that the probe was “investigating the same well-known facts” surrounding mistakes his campaign made on financial reports. RIP: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was eulogized by Harris in Houston last week. The vice president remembered the Texas Democrat as “unrelenting,” Justin Papp reports.Google News ICYMITim who?: He’s not Republican Rep. Michael Waltz or singer Tom Waits, but most people had little idea who Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz actually is despite his career in Congress and election to two terms as Minnesota governor. So like a lot of people in the profession, our newsroom has been trying to fill the gaps since he was chosen on Tuesday, starting with how people and groups reacting to the choice described him, how the Harris campaign introduced him and how the Trump campaign responded, and what members of the House elected in the same year as he was said. We also had detailed looks at his role on agriculture and health care, and how the pick affects potential contributors on Wall Street.Gambling on elections: A group of House and Senate Democrats wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to move forward with a ban on political betting markets backed by Wall Street. “Election gambling fundamentally cheapens the sanctity of our democratic process. Political bets change the motivations behind each vote, replacing political convictions with financial calculations,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter to CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, the lead Senate signatory, previously expressed his concerns in an MSNBC opinion piece.Shah faces Schweikert: Amish Shah, a medical doctor and former state legislator, won the July 30 Democratic primary to face incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., in the 1st District. The race is rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections, and there was a crowded primary to get the chance to challenge the incumbent on November’s ballot. Another Arizona Democratic primary, for the open 3rd District seat, is heading for a recount with 42 votes separating Yassamin Ansari and Raquel Terán.Ad watch: House Majority Forward released ads in several House races this week, including a television ad supporting Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a radio ad supporting North Carolina Rep. Don Davis and a digital ad targeting California Rep. Mike Garcia. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a statewide ad buy focusing on Harris. And the DSCC released its first ad against Tim Sheehy in Montana, accusing the Republican of advocating to privatize public lands.Security funding: The top senators on the panel that provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security questioned whether the Secret Service needs more money after the attempted assassination of Trump, CQ Roll Call’s Chris Johnson reports. That appears to have led to a delay of the department’s fiscal 2025 funding bill. Picking a successor: Jackson Lee’s children endorsed Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor, to succeed her in the House. Turner is among several Democrats who have been in touch with the county party officials who will pick a new candidate to be on the November ballot on the same day that there’s a special election to serve the rest of Jackson Lee’s current term. Another candidate vying for the seat is Amanda Edwards, a former intern for Jackson Lee who lost the Democratic primary to her in March.From Congress to the forest? Former House member Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading the field of contenders in the primary for Washington state lands commissioner. Herrera Beutler, a Republican who lost her bid for a seventh term in Congress two years ago, got about 23 percent of the vote on Tuesday in a seven-candidate field, according to the Washington State Standard.Google News What we’re reading Lame duck alert: Not to look past Election Day, but the folks at the Congressional Research Service are already getting ready for the lame-duck

session, updating their handy chart and report on what actually gets done during the post-election sessions with plenty of references to our CQ Vote Studies. Minnesota markets: While he’s not from a true swing state himself, Walz may be more familiar to voters in parts of Wisconsin that share media markets with Minnesota, Torey Van Oot writes for Axios in the Twin Cities.Wellstone’s imprint: After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in 2002, the family of the liberal Democratic senator from Minnesota established a training program for up-and-coming progressives. One of the first attendees, according to The Nation? A high school teacher named Tim Walz. Meddling: A group tied to House Democratic leaders is spending nearly $1 million on ads that boost an underfunded perennial candidate for the state’s at-large congressional district in an effort to help Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. “The group appears to be attempting to game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November,” Politico reports.Otherwise occupied: Punchbowl News reached out to vulnerable Democrats in Congress and found that many of them are skipping the convention in Chicago later this month. That’s not unlike some swing-district Republicans, who were similarly busy the week their party gathered in Milwaukee.Google News The count: 193That’s the number of times, out of 1,327 chances, that the embattled Newhouse, whom Trump branded a “weak and pathetic RINO” on Saturday, voted against a majority of House Republicans since January 2021, according to a CQ Vote Studies analysis by our colleague Ryan Kelly. The analysis includes votes for which majorities of the two parties were on opposite sides, and it assigns a “party unity” score based on how often a lawmaker votes with or without his side. The data shows 13 House Republicans who were in Congress at the same time had lower party unity scores than Newhouse’s, but he is the only one who committed the mortal sin of voting in 2021 to impeach Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol. The 13 include many members whom the GOP will be spending millions of dollars this fall to keep from losing their seats, including Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick (552 votes against his majority), Nebraska’s Don Bacon (268 votes), California’s Young Kim (257 votes), New York’s Andrew Garbarino (251 votes) and California’s Ken Calvert (195 votes). Garbarino, for example, has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement.”Google News Nathan’s notesAs a high school teacher taking on a Republican in a rural Minnesota district nearly 19 years ago, Democrat Tim Walz didn’t exactly strike political handicappers as a guy who was going places, but Nathan writes that he had good timing.Google News Key race: #IA01Candidates: Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist, a former state senator and a veteran who is seeking her third term in the House. She faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who teaches constitutional law at the University of Iowa. It’s a rematch of their 2022 contest, which Miller-Meeks won by almost 7 percentage points.Why it matters: The 1st District is one of two competitive seats in Iowa that could determine which party controls the House, and it’s on the DCCC’s list of districts that Democrats are seeking to flip this year. The race is rated Lean Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Cash dash: Miller-Meeks raised $3.5 million since the 2022 election, while Bohannan, who entered the race in August 2023, has raised $3.4 million. Bohannan had $2.4 million on hand as of June 30 to Miller-Meeks’ $2.3 million.Backers: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird are supporting Miller-Meeks, as are House GOP leaders. Bohannan was endorsed by EMILY’s List and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC. She is also part of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program, which provides Democratic challengers in competitive, Republican-held districts with organizational and fundraising support.

What they’re saying: Democrats have centered the campaign on abortion access. A new state law that took effect in July bans abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Bohannan’s first ad, released this week, accuses Miller-Meeks of helping to pass that measure, even though she was not in the state legislature at the time. Miller-Meeks received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a co-sponsor of the bill during the last Congress that would have prohibited all abortions nationwide without exception; however, she didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor of the measure during the current Congress. Miller-Meeks accused Democrats of embracing an “extreme” position on abortion and focusing on it as a way to avoid discussing economic issues and border security.Terrain: The district is in the southeastern portion of the state, reaching from the Illinois border to the Missouri border and to the fringes of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Davenport and Burlington as well as Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Along with the 3rd District, it is the least Republican of the state’s congressional districts: Biden lost the 1st by less than 2.4 percentage points, according to Inside Elections.Wild card: In 2020, Miller-Meeks won the seat by a scant six-vote margin. In June, she beat an underfunded and largely unknown right-wing GOP primary foe by 12 percentage points, a race that some observers deemed surprisingly close.Google News Coming upThe primaries just keep coming. Up next week are Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin.Google News Photo finishAfter being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fires up a crowd at his debut rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday as presidential nominee Harris applauds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Subscribe now using this link so you don’t miss out on the best news and analysis from our team.“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…”Source Link: https://rollcall.com/2024/08/08/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gae2f533467bbea064cd597666c3ea8cb1d0a4324b5809bc426da36e4854a613d7041fae51c5478de86fb95801add1a9e_64.png 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. Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic … Read More

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At the Races: Don’t forget the Motor City (counts votes slowly) - Notice Today Internet - #GLOBAL https://www.merchant-business.com/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/?feed_id=159917&_unique_id=66b5f3367b4ee 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.Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — but not to the campaign committees and their outside supporters.The NRSC’s independent expenditure arm launched its first ad of the cycle targeting Rep. Elissa Slotkin just hours after she won the nomination to succeed Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and as our friend Bridget Bowman reports for NBC News, it’s part of a $10 million campaign. On top of that, OneNation, which is the policy affiliate of the Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, launched the first salvo in a $9.4 million campaign also targeting Slotkin.The Democrats, likewise, were quick to unveil ads in Michigan and other states this week. The DSCC’s independent expenditure arm has a new ad as part of a previously announced buy going after the GOP nominee, former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, for his post-congressional career.Slotkin and Rogers were declared winners of their primaries early on Tuesday night, but don’t expect that to happen when they face each other in a November race rated Tilt Democratic, or when Harris and Walz go up against the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance in a state rated Toss-up.The heavily Democratic 13th District based around Detroit provides a reminder of why. At midnight, The Associated Press estimated that only about 2 percent of ballots had been counted, and the call that incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar won renomination didn’t come until 2:12 a.m. on Wednesday. He ultimately prevailed in the primary by about 20 points.Google News Starting gateBad news for Good: A recount of the June 18 Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th District confirmed Rep. Bob Good, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, lost to state Sen. John McGuire.And for Bush: Missouri Rep. Cori Bush became the fourth House incumbent, and second progressive Democrat, to lose a primary this year after pro-Israel groups and others supporting Tuesday’s winner, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, spent more than $12 million. Groups backing Bush or opposing Bell spent $3.3 million. Other Missouri primaries picked nominees for the deep-red 3rd District and a Democratic challenger for Sen. Josh Hawley.Is Newhouse next? Washington state’s all-party primaries send the top two vote-getters to the November ballot, so the 25 percent that GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse got Tuesday means he’s not toast yet. But another Republican finished with 31 percent and a third got 19 percent. If that sentiment holds in November, Newhouse starts out with 50 percent of Republicans against him. Washington’s primaries also set a rematch for Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez against Republican Joe Kent and picked nominees for open seats in the 5th and 6th districts, where the races are rated Solid Republican and Solid Democratic, respectively.But wait, there’s more: Nominees were picked Tuesday for huge battles ahead for Senate and the open 7th District, among other seats, in Michigan. Voters in Kansas picked a challenger for Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and tapped a former House member to run for an open seat.And we’re still not done: Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, and Rep. Andy Ogles held off a challenge from Courtney Johnston, a member of the Nashville Metro Council, winning with 57 percent of the vote. But his troubles didn’t end with the victory. Ogles this week confirmed that the FBI seized his cellphone and said it was his understanding

that the probe was “investigating the same well-known facts” surrounding mistakes his campaign made on financial reports. RIP: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was eulogized by Harris in Houston last week. The vice president remembered the Texas Democrat as “unrelenting,” Justin Papp reports.Google News ICYMITim who?: He’s not Republican Rep. Michael Waltz or singer Tom Waits, but most people had little idea who Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz actually is despite his career in Congress and election to two terms as Minnesota governor. So like a lot of people in the profession, our newsroom has been trying to fill the gaps since he was chosen on Tuesday, starting with how people and groups reacting to the choice described him, how the Harris campaign introduced him and how the Trump campaign responded, and what members of the House elected in the same year as he was said. We also had detailed looks at his role on agriculture and health care, and how the pick affects potential contributors on Wall Street.Gambling on elections: A group of House and Senate Democrats wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to move forward with a ban on political betting markets backed by Wall Street. “Election gambling fundamentally cheapens the sanctity of our democratic process. Political bets change the motivations behind each vote, replacing political convictions with financial calculations,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter to CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, the lead Senate signatory, previously expressed his concerns in an MSNBC opinion piece.Shah faces Schweikert: Amish Shah, a medical doctor and former state legislator, won the July 30 Democratic primary to face incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., in the 1st District. The race is rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections, and there was a crowded primary to get the chance to challenge the incumbent on November’s ballot. Another Arizona Democratic primary, for the open 3rd District seat, is heading for a recount with 42 votes separating Yassamin Ansari and Raquel Terán.Ad watch: House Majority Forward released ads in several House races this week, including a television ad supporting Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a radio ad supporting North Carolina Rep. Don Davis and a digital ad targeting California Rep. Mike Garcia. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a statewide ad buy focusing on Harris. And the DSCC released its first ad against Tim Sheehy in Montana, accusing the Republican of advocating to privatize public lands.Security funding: The top senators on the panel that provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security questioned whether the Secret Service needs more money after the attempted assassination of Trump, CQ Roll Call’s Chris Johnson reports. That appears to have led to a delay of the department’s fiscal 2025 funding bill. Picking a successor: Jackson Lee’s children endorsed Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor, to succeed her in the House. Turner is among several Democrats who have been in touch with the county party officials who will pick a new candidate to be on the November ballot on the same day that there’s a special election to serve the rest of Jackson Lee’s current term. Another candidate vying for the seat is Amanda Edwards, a former intern for Jackson Lee who lost the Democratic primary to her in March.From Congress to the forest? Former House member Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading the field of contenders in the primary for Washington state lands commissioner. Herrera Beutler, a Republican who lost her bid for a seventh term in Congress two years ago, got about 23 percent of the vote on Tuesday in a seven-candidate field, according to the Washington State Standard.Google News What we’re reading Lame duck alert: Not to look past Election Day, but the folks at the Congressional Research Service are already getting ready for the lame-duck session, updating

their handy chart and report on what actually gets done during the post-election sessions with plenty of references to our CQ Vote Studies. Minnesota markets: While he’s not from a true swing state himself, Walz may be more familiar to voters in parts of Wisconsin that share media markets with Minnesota, Torey Van Oot writes for Axios in the Twin Cities.Wellstone’s imprint: After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in 2002, the family of the liberal Democratic senator from Minnesota established a training program for up-and-coming progressives. One of the first attendees, according to The Nation? A high school teacher named Tim Walz. Meddling: A group tied to House Democratic leaders is spending nearly $1 million on ads that boost an underfunded perennial candidate for the state’s at-large congressional district in an effort to help Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. “The group appears to be attempting to game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November,” Politico reports.Otherwise occupied: Punchbowl News reached out to vulnerable Democrats in Congress and found that many of them are skipping the convention in Chicago later this month. That’s not unlike some swing-district Republicans, who were similarly busy the week their party gathered in Milwaukee.Google News The count: 193That’s the number of times, out of 1,327 chances, that the embattled Newhouse, whom Trump branded a “weak and pathetic RINO” on Saturday, voted against a majority of House Republicans since January 2021, according to a CQ Vote Studies analysis by our colleague Ryan Kelly. The analysis includes votes for which majorities of the two parties were on opposite sides, and it assigns a “party unity” score based on how often a lawmaker votes with or without his side. The data shows 13 House Republicans who were in Congress at the same time had lower party unity scores than Newhouse’s, but he is the only one who committed the mortal sin of voting in 2021 to impeach Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol. The 13 include many members whom the GOP will be spending millions of dollars this fall to keep from losing their seats, including Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick (552 votes against his majority), Nebraska’s Don Bacon (268 votes), California’s Young Kim (257 votes), New York’s Andrew Garbarino (251 votes) and California’s Ken Calvert (195 votes). Garbarino, for example, has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement.”Google News Nathan’s notesAs a high school teacher taking on a Republican in a rural Minnesota district nearly 19 years ago, Democrat Tim Walz didn’t exactly strike political handicappers as a guy who was going places, but Nathan writes that he had good timing.Google News Key race: #IA01Candidates: Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist, a former state senator and a veteran who is seeking her third term in the House. She faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who teaches constitutional law at the University of Iowa. It’s a rematch of their 2022 contest, which Miller-Meeks won by almost 7 percentage points.Why it matters: The 1st District is one of two competitive seats in Iowa that could determine which party controls the House, and it’s on the DCCC’s list of districts that Democrats are seeking to flip this year. The race is rated Lean Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Cash dash: Miller-Meeks raised $3.5 million since the 2022 election, while Bohannan, who entered the race in August 2023, has raised $3.4 million. Bohannan had $2.4 million on hand as of June 30 to Miller-Meeks’ $2.3 million.Backers: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird are supporting Miller-Meeks, as are House GOP leaders. Bohannan was endorsed by EMILY’s List and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC. She is also part of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program, which provides Democratic challengers in competitive, Republican-held districts with organizational and fundraising support.

What they’re saying: Democrats have centered the campaign on abortion access. A new state law that took effect in July bans abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Bohannan’s first ad, released this week, accuses Miller-Meeks of helping to pass that measure, even though she was not in the state legislature at the time. Miller-Meeks received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a co-sponsor of the bill during the last Congress that would have prohibited all abortions nationwide without exception; however, she didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor of the measure during the current Congress. Miller-Meeks accused Democrats of embracing an “extreme” position on abortion and focusing on it as a way to avoid discussing economic issues and border security.Terrain: The district is in the southeastern portion of the state, reaching from the Illinois border to the Missouri border and to the fringes of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Davenport and Burlington as well as Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Along with the 3rd District, it is the least Republican of the state’s congressional districts: Biden lost the 1st by less than 2.4 percentage points, according to Inside Elections.Wild card: In 2020, Miller-Meeks won the seat by a scant six-vote margin. In June, she beat an underfunded and largely unknown right-wing GOP primary foe by 12 percentage points, a race that some observers deemed surprisingly close.Google News Coming upThe primaries just keep coming. Up next week are Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin.Google News Photo finishAfter being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fires up a crowd at his debut rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday as presidential nominee Harris applauds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Subscribe now using this link so you don’t miss out on the best news and analysis from our team.“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…”Source Link: https://rollcall.com/2024/08/08/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gae2f533467bbea064cd597666c3ea8cb1d0a4324b5809bc426da36e4854a613d7041fae51c5478de86fb95801add1a9e_64.png BLOGGER - #GLOBAL

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At the Races: Don’t forget the Motor City (counts votes slowly) - Notice Today Internet - BLOGGER https://www.merchant-business.com/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/?feed_id=159916&_unique_id=66b5f33531d7f 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.Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — but not to the campaign committees and their outside supporters.The NRSC’s independent expenditure arm launched its first ad of the cycle targeting Rep. Elissa Slotkin just hours after she won the nomination to succeed Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and as our friend Bridget Bowman reports for NBC News, it’s part of a $10 million campaign. On top of that, OneNation, which is the policy affiliate of the Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, launched the first salvo in a $9.4 million campaign also targeting Slotkin.The Democrats, likewise, were quick to unveil ads in Michigan and other states this week. The DSCC’s independent expenditure arm has a new ad as part of a previously announced buy going after the GOP nominee, former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, for his post-congressional career.Slotkin and Rogers were declared winners of their primaries early on Tuesday night, but don’t expect that to happen when they face each other in a November race rated Tilt Democratic, or when Harris and Walz go up against the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance in a state rated Toss-up.The heavily Democratic 13th District based around Detroit provides a reminder of why. At midnight, The Associated Press estimated that only about 2 percent of ballots had been counted, and the call that incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar won renomination didn’t come until 2:12 a.m. on Wednesday. He ultimately prevailed in the primary by about 20 points.Google News Starting gateBad news for Good: A recount of the June 18 Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th District confirmed Rep. Bob Good, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, lost to state Sen. John McGuire.And for Bush: Missouri Rep. Cori Bush became the fourth House incumbent, and second progressive Democrat, to lose a primary this year after pro-Israel groups and others supporting Tuesday’s winner, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, spent more than $12 million. Groups backing Bush or opposing Bell spent $3.3 million. Other Missouri primaries picked nominees for the deep-red 3rd District and a Democratic challenger for Sen. Josh Hawley.Is Newhouse next? Washington state’s all-party primaries send the top two vote-getters to the November ballot, so the 25 percent that GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse got Tuesday means he’s not toast yet. But another Republican finished with 31 percent and a third got 19 percent. If that sentiment holds in November, Newhouse starts out with 50 percent of Republicans against him. Washington’s primaries also set a rematch for Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez against Republican Joe Kent and picked nominees for open seats in the 5th and 6th districts, where the races are rated Solid Republican and Solid Democratic, respectively.But wait, there’s more: Nominees were picked Tuesday for huge battles ahead for Senate and the open 7th District, among other seats, in Michigan. Voters in Kansas picked a challenger for Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and tapped a former House member to run for an open seat.And we’re still not done: Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, and Rep. Andy Ogles held off a challenge from Courtney Johnston, a member of the Nashville Metro Council, winning with 57 percent of the vote. But his troubles didn’t end with the victory. Ogles this week confirmed that the FBI seized his cellphone and said it was his understanding

that the probe was “investigating the same well-known facts” surrounding mistakes his campaign made on financial reports. RIP: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was eulogized by Harris in Houston last week. The vice president remembered the Texas Democrat as “unrelenting,” Justin Papp reports.Google News ICYMITim who?: He’s not Republican Rep. Michael Waltz or singer Tom Waits, but most people had little idea who Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz actually is despite his career in Congress and election to two terms as Minnesota governor. So like a lot of people in the profession, our newsroom has been trying to fill the gaps since he was chosen on Tuesday, starting with how people and groups reacting to the choice described him, how the Harris campaign introduced him and how the Trump campaign responded, and what members of the House elected in the same year as he was said. We also had detailed looks at his role on agriculture and health care, and how the pick affects potential contributors on Wall Street.Gambling on elections: A group of House and Senate Democrats wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to move forward with a ban on political betting markets backed by Wall Street. “Election gambling fundamentally cheapens the sanctity of our democratic process. Political bets change the motivations behind each vote, replacing political convictions with financial calculations,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter to CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, the lead Senate signatory, previously expressed his concerns in an MSNBC opinion piece.Shah faces Schweikert: Amish Shah, a medical doctor and former state legislator, won the July 30 Democratic primary to face incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., in the 1st District. The race is rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections, and there was a crowded primary to get the chance to challenge the incumbent on November’s ballot. Another Arizona Democratic primary, for the open 3rd District seat, is heading for a recount with 42 votes separating Yassamin Ansari and Raquel Terán.Ad watch: House Majority Forward released ads in several House races this week, including a television ad supporting Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a radio ad supporting North Carolina Rep. Don Davis and a digital ad targeting California Rep. Mike Garcia. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a statewide ad buy focusing on Harris. And the DSCC released its first ad against Tim Sheehy in Montana, accusing the Republican of advocating to privatize public lands.Security funding: The top senators on the panel that provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security questioned whether the Secret Service needs more money after the attempted assassination of Trump, CQ Roll Call’s Chris Johnson reports. That appears to have led to a delay of the department’s fiscal 2025 funding bill. Picking a successor: Jackson Lee’s children endorsed Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor, to succeed her in the House. Turner is among several Democrats who have been in touch with the county party officials who will pick a new candidate to be on the November ballot on the same day that there’s a special election to serve the rest of Jackson Lee’s current term. Another candidate vying for the seat is Amanda Edwards, a former intern for Jackson Lee who lost the Democratic primary to her in March.From Congress to the forest? Former House member Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading the field of contenders in the primary for Washington state lands commissioner. Herrera Beutler, a Republican who lost her bid for a seventh term in Congress two years ago, got about 23 percent of the vote on Tuesday in a seven-candidate field, according to the Washington State Standard.Google News What we’re reading Lame duck alert: Not to look past Election Day, but the folks at the Congressional Research Service are already getting ready for the lame-duck session, updating

their handy chart and report on what actually gets done during the post-election sessions with plenty of references to our CQ Vote Studies. Minnesota markets: While he’s not from a true swing state himself, Walz may be more familiar to voters in parts of Wisconsin that share media markets with Minnesota, Torey Van Oot writes for Axios in the Twin Cities.Wellstone’s imprint: After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in 2002, the family of the liberal Democratic senator from Minnesota established a training program for up-and-coming progressives. One of the first attendees, according to The Nation? A high school teacher named Tim Walz. Meddling: A group tied to House Democratic leaders is spending nearly $1 million on ads that boost an underfunded perennial candidate for the state’s at-large congressional district in an effort to help Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. “The group appears to be attempting to game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November,” Politico reports.Otherwise occupied: Punchbowl News reached out to vulnerable Democrats in Congress and found that many of them are skipping the convention in Chicago later this month. That’s not unlike some swing-district Republicans, who were similarly busy the week their party gathered in Milwaukee.Google News The count: 193That’s the number of times, out of 1,327 chances, that the embattled Newhouse, whom Trump branded a “weak and pathetic RINO” on Saturday, voted against a majority of House Republicans since January 2021, according to a CQ Vote Studies analysis by our colleague Ryan Kelly. The analysis includes votes for which majorities of the two parties were on opposite sides, and it assigns a “party unity” score based on how often a lawmaker votes with or without his side. The data shows 13 House Republicans who were in Congress at the same time had lower party unity scores than Newhouse’s, but he is the only one who committed the mortal sin of voting in 2021 to impeach Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol. The 13 include many members whom the GOP will be spending millions of dollars this fall to keep from losing their seats, including Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick (552 votes against his majority), Nebraska’s Don Bacon (268 votes), California’s Young Kim (257 votes), New York’s Andrew Garbarino (251 votes) and California’s Ken Calvert (195 votes). Garbarino, for example, has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement.”Google News Nathan’s notesAs a high school teacher taking on a Republican in a rural Minnesota district nearly 19 years ago, Democrat Tim Walz didn’t exactly strike political handicappers as a guy who was going places, but Nathan writes that he had good timing.Google News Key race: #IA01Candidates: Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist, a former state senator and a veteran who is seeking her third term in the House. She faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who teaches constitutional law at the University of Iowa. It’s a rematch of their 2022 contest, which Miller-Meeks won by almost 7 percentage points.Why it matters: The 1st District is one of two competitive seats in Iowa that could determine which party controls the House, and it’s on the DCCC’s list of districts that Democrats are seeking to flip this year. The race is rated Lean Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Cash dash: Miller-Meeks raised $3.5 million since the 2022 election, while Bohannan, who entered the race in August 2023, has raised $3.4 million. Bohannan had $2.4 million on hand as of June 30 to Miller-Meeks’ $2.3 million.Backers: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird are supporting Miller-Meeks, as are House GOP leaders. Bohannan was endorsed by EMILY’s List and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC. She is also part of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program, which provides Democratic challengers in competitive, Republican-held districts with organizational and fundraising support.

What they’re saying: Democrats have centered the campaign on abortion access. A new state law that took effect in July bans abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Bohannan’s first ad, released this week, accuses Miller-Meeks of helping to pass that measure, even though she was not in the state legislature at the time. Miller-Meeks received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a co-sponsor of the bill during the last Congress that would have prohibited all abortions nationwide without exception; however, she didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor of the measure during the current Congress. Miller-Meeks accused Democrats of embracing an “extreme” position on abortion and focusing on it as a way to avoid discussing economic issues and border security.Terrain: The district is in the southeastern portion of the state, reaching from the Illinois border to the Missouri border and to the fringes of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Davenport and Burlington as well as Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Along with the 3rd District, it is the least Republican of the state’s congressional districts: Biden lost the 1st by less than 2.4 percentage points, according to Inside Elections.Wild card: In 2020, Miller-Meeks won the seat by a scant six-vote margin. In June, she beat an underfunded and largely unknown right-wing GOP primary foe by 12 percentage points, a race that some observers deemed surprisingly close.Google News Coming upThe primaries just keep coming. Up next week are Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin.Google News Photo finishAfter being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fires up a crowd at his debut rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday as presidential nominee Harris applauds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Subscribe now using this link so you don’t miss out on the best news and analysis from our team.“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…”Source Link: https://rollcall.com/2024/08/08/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gae2f533467bbea064cd597666c3ea8cb1d0a4324b5809bc426da36e4854a613d7041fae51c5478de86fb95801add1a9e_64.png #GLOBAL - BLOGGER Welcome to At the R... BLOGGER - #GLOBAL