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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. Read more
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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.
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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." Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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