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While Republicans sought to seize on that economic anxiety during the campaign, most candidates provided few specifics. “The GOP still doesn’t know what its economic policy is in a post-Trump world,” said Brian Riedl, who worked for six years as chief economist for Republican Sen. Biden said he has no plans to change his approach to the economy, despite voters’ sentiments, making a shift toward a compromise with Republicans on economic policy seemingly unlikely. “That means there will be a lot less economic policy. “Republicans are going to need to deliver on the economy, especially if the economy is worsening and inflation is worsening,” said Riedl.
WASHINGTON — Republicans have won control of the House, NBC News projected Wednesday, handing President Joe Biden a divided Congress after Democrats kept control of the Senate in last week's midterm elections. Republicans finally cemented their takeover a week after polls closed on Election Day, fueled by Democrats' surprising strength around the country. The prospect of a slim majority has triggered more challenges to the House Republicans’ existing leadership team. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the current Republican leader, has faced an uprising of opposition from within his ranks over his ascent to speaker. Like Biden, Obama entered the presidency with Democrats in full control of Congress, until Republicans won the House in his first midterms as Democrats held the Senate.
As the political world settled in for a long wait to know who will control Congress, Republicans began finger-pointing Wednesday about whether former President Donald Trump was to blame for their lackluster election night. The Georgia Senate race is headed to a December runoff, NBC News projects, making it increasingly likely control of the upper chamber won't be decided until then. "Now that it’s obvious the @gop should expel the Trump family from its future lexicon," Trump critic and Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois tweeted Wednesday morning. Vance at an Ohio Republican Party election night watch party in Columbus on Tuesday. Will Hurd, a former Republican congressman from Texas, tweeted of the election results, "It’s the candidates, stupid."
The Nevada Senate race remains within the margin of error, but McDaniel called Scott’s aggressive early spending critical to having blunt attacks from Democrats, when the national conversation centered on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. [Then] once our candidates had the money to get on TV, they closed the gap," McDaniel said. Vance in Ohio, McDaniel and Scott both quickly called it a “team sport,” without specifically naming McConnell, despite his group’s sizable investments. Some Republicans have expressed frustration over Scott, saying he spent too much too soon while his group’s fundraising this year fell behind the pace it held in previous campaign years. Cortez Masto, the first-ever Latina elected to the Senate, scoffed when asked about Laxalt's contention that he's eating into her Latino support.
Republicans claimed Biden's student-debt relief should be blocked because it was a political move. In a legal filing, Biden said that argument is "unsurprising and legally insignificant." "That the policy is consistent with one of 'the President's policy goals,' is both unsurprising and legally insignificant," the defense stated. But some Democratic lawmakers have acknowledged the political benefits to the relief — and they said it's a good thing. "Canceling student-loan debt for more than 40 million Americans would persuade a lot of young people that this president is in the fight for them," she said.
The consensus, according to two people familiar with the responses given to Democratic operatives, was that persuadable voters believe Fetterman is fit to serve and getting sharper. Four months after the stroke, Fetterman has not released his medical records. But Oz has made sure that Fetterman’s health problems remain a top topic of political conversation. Michelle Gustafson / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEarlier this summer, Pennsylvania Democrats privately expressed concerns about Fetterman’s health and lack of transparency, but Fetterman seems to have eased their fears. That helps explain why Republicans have been split on how much to focus on Fetterman’s health.
Elizabeth Warren slammed Rick Scott for trying to pass a bill blocking student-loan forgiveness. Senate Democrats blocked that bill from passing, and on Wednesday, Warren blasted Scott for trying to push the legislation through. "This is a shameful attempt by Republicans to keep working Americans buried under mountains of student debt," Warren said on the Senate floor. Still, during his floor speech after his bill was blocked, Scott reiterated conservative criticisms of student-loan forgiveness. Other GOP lawmakers have introduced bills to block student-loan forgiveness, saying the scale of this relief was illegal.
Trump's campaign and an affiliated committee regularly spent millions of dollars through American Made Media Consultants, according to FEC records. Insider was able to independently verify those details with other sources close to the Trump campaign. A request for comment from the Trump campaign was not immediately returned Friday evening. But in a previous statement to Insider, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said Lara Trump and John Pence did nothing wrong. Among those cases is one filed in July by the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, which accused the Trump campaign of using American Made Media Consultants to illegally disguise campaign spending.
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center accused s uper PAC Our American Century spent illegally large sums of money to redistribute Trump campaign political advertisements. uper PAC Our American Century spent illegally large sums of money to redistribute Trump campaign political advertisements. The Campaign Legal Center accused Our American Century of spending up to $251,000 to redistribute an existing Trump campaign video while failing to reveal the super PAC — not the Trump campaign — bankrolled the ad blitz. A representative for the Trump campaign, which is not accused in the complaint of wrongdoing, also could not be reached. Scenes from the Federal Election Commission headquarters located at 1050 First St. NE Friday Sept. 21, 2018.
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