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Nevada Senate GOP field swells amid

push to oust Jacky Rosen

The Hill | Caroline Vakil & Al Weaver

August 10, 2023

Republicans are bracing for a crowded field in the Nevada Senate race to
take on Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) as the party looks to win back the
majority in the upper chamber next fall.

While Senate Republicans landed their top recruit to take on Rosen -
retired Army Capt. Sam Brown - that has not dissuaded several other GOP
candidates from throwing their hat in the ring, with two doing so this
week" Jeff Gunter, the former U.S. ambassador to Iceland, and retired Air
Force Lt. Col. Tony Grady, who lost a primary bid for lieutenant governor
in 2022. Former Nevada Secretary of State candidate Jim Marchant launched
his campaign in May.

The growing number of candidates is complicating Senate Republicans'
efforts to avoid a messy GOP primary that would risk leaving the eventual
nominee bruised going into next fall. [1]Read more

WG Economy: Why Is President Biden's

Economic Job Approval Stuck?

WG Economy | David Winston

August 9, 2023

For today's WG Economy, we are releasing our latest video Why Is President
Biden's Economic Job Approval Stuck? This 4-minute video looks at trends in
President Biden's economic job approval and the reasons why the White House
is having difficulty improving his numbers.

[2]video

Fox Business scores second Republican primary debate

Axios | Erin Doherty

August 9, 2023

The Republican National Committee announced Wednesday that Fox Business
will host the second Republican primary debate.

Why it matters: Fox networks will now televise the first two debates of the
Republican primary. The first debate is scheduled for Aug. 23 and will be
aired by Fox News, a sister station to Fox Business.

Driving the news: The RNC said that the Ronald Reagan Presidential
Foundation and Institute, Univision, and Rumble will also be partners for
the debate, which will be held on Sept. 27 at the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library. Univision will also televise the debate, per the RNC.
[3]Read more

Trading places: More lawmakers are

swapping political parties

Five state lawmakers traded in their Democratic credentials

for the GOP this session

Politico | Liz Crampton

August 9, 2023

For Elliott Pritt, defecting to the GOP was an obvious choice.

The West Virginia lawmaker comes from an area of the state that used to be
solidly blue - voters sent a Democrat to his seat in the state House for 24
straight years. But attitudes in his district have recently swung towards
Republicans, credited largely to the decline of coal and anger over
environmental restrictions.

So Pritt abandoned the Democratic Party and registered as a Republican in
April. He was motivated by a desire to more effectively represent his
constituents and take advantage of the opportunities enjoyed by Republicans
who wield supermajority control in the state Legislature.

"Even if I were to run again and win, I would look at another term of never
getting another bill passed, never getting anything else done," said Pritt,
a social studies teacher. "For the time I'm going to be there I'm not going
to sit there and be a lame duck and not get anything."

So Pritt abandoned the Democratic Party and registered as a Republican in
April. He was motivated by a desire to more effectively represent his
constituents and take advantage of the opportunities enjoyed by Republicans
who wield supermajority control in the state Legislature. [4]Read more

Georgia kids would need parental permission to join social media if Senate
Republicans get their way

AP News | Jeff Amy

August 8, 2023

Georgia could join other states requiring children to have their parent's
explicit permission to create social media accounts.

Two top Republicans in the Georgia state Senate - Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and
Sen. Jason Anavitarte of Dallas said in a Monday news conference they will
seek to pass such a law in 2024. The proposal could also restrict accounts
on other online services.

"It's important that we empower parents," Anavitarte said. "A lot of
parents don't know how to restrict content." [5]Read more

America's deepest partisan divides are getting deeper

Axios | Caitlin Owens

August 7, 2023

Brewing battles over redistricting from New York to Utah may result in new
congressional maps for at least half a dozen states before the 2024
election, with control of the closely divided U.S. House of Representatives
in the balance.

The 2022 election - in which Republicans captured a slim 222-213 majority
in the House - took place under maps based on the 2020 U.S. Census and
intended to last a decade. But a series of legal challenges including a
major U.S. Supreme Court ruling, have cast many of those district lines
into doubt. [6]Read more

Pence qualifies for first Republican

presidential primary debate

Axios | Rebecca Falconer

August 7, 2023

Mike Pence will be on stage at the first Republican presidential debate
after meeting polling and donor requirements, the former vice president's
2024 campaign announced Monday night.

The big picture: This sets him up for a potential showdown with Donald
Trump ahead of the former president's Jan. 6 criminal trial on alleged
efforts to overturn the 2020 election at which the ex-vice president could
be called as a witness. [7]Read more

WG Discussion Points: Voters Just Aren't

Buying Bidenomics

Campaign rhetoric will pit Biden's claims against actual prices

WG Discussion Points | David Winston

August 4, 2023

It's not unusual to see a president inherit a difficult economic challenge
not of his own making. Ronald Reagan was handed an economy in free fall.
Barack Obama came into office in the middle of a financial crisis.

But to hear President Joe Biden and his team tell it, he was dealt an
unusually bad hand back in January 2021 when he took the oath of office -
one far worse than his predecessors. Although the COVID-19 economy had
already begun to turn around in the last months of the Trump
administration, to listen to Biden, the challenges he faced dwarfed those
of other administrations.

He couldn't be more wrong. [8]Read more

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