Among the 50 GOP lawmakers surveyed by POLITICO, only six said they planned to stay in Washington this weekend for Trump’s big parade. GOP leaders in both chambers said they’re not attending.
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covering congress @POLITICO | previously @NOTUSreports | and yes, that’s my real last name | send me tips: [email protected]
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- Your hot morning tea: I just completed the Allbritton Journalism Institute fellowship with @NOTUSreports AND am very excited to announce my new role as a co-author on @politico’s Inside Congress! Please put me on your press lists and also say hi! [email protected]
- Ken Martin was elected to chair the DNC today, becoming one of the party’s most forefront leaders in a moment of existential crisis.
- NEW: Veterans of Obama’s presidential campaigns have been texting lately. Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is giving them a dose of something they haven’t felt in a long time. w/ @EvanMcS @JasJWright
- Sen. Tillis told me the administration’s firing of FEMA chief Cameron Hamilton was “unfortunate.” “I can’t find anything in the record that he could’ve done besides disagreeing with Secretary Noem on FEMA’s existence. I give him a lot of credit for being honest,” Tillis said.
- Exclusive: Democrats’ Big North Carolina Push Will Soon Include the Secretary of State Scared of a repeat of 2020 fake electors, the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State plans on spending seven figures to keep incumbent Elaine Marshall’s seat.
- NEW: Democratic Party delegates in North Carolina voted last night to endorse a Kamala Harris-Roy Cooper ticket. “It wasn’t a hard decision at all, it’s Roy Cooper,” one NC delegate told me.
- “He gets encouragement every single day” from Democratic leaders, a longtime aide to Roy Cooper said. Pressure is mounting on politicians like Cooper, who has repeatedly done well in Trump country, to run for the senate as Dems’ 2026 map is complicated.
- The CBC, a crucial line of defense for Biden, isn’t the united front in support of Biden that it may appear from the outside. Privately, sources say, some members want the president to leave the race. w/ @TChingarande
- NEW: Trump doubled down tonight on a baseless story about Haitian migrants eating pets. House Republicans are defending the debunked claims.
- In the final stretch of the campaign season, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s campaigns say they’re taking advantage of one final shot to reach young Black voters in person: HBCU homecoming season.
- Lee has now deleted his posts on the deadly shootings. It comes amid criticism from GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer, who told reporters Lee’s posts “seem insensitive, to say the least, inappropriate, for sure” and “not even true.”Republicans mostly declined to criticize Sen. Mike Lee directly for his posts on the MN shooting, but several said lawmakers need to turn the temperature down generally. "Anything short of condemning it would be unacceptable to me," Sen. Tillis told me. politico.com/live-updates/2…politico.com'Insensitive, to say the least': Mike Lee deletes Minnesota posts amid GOP criticismThe Utah Republican retreated as Sen. Kevin Cramer denounced his X posts on the deadly shootings.
- my first POLITICO byline is here! Two House Republicans have issued megabill threats as the Senate ponders changes
- Hey, y’all. I'll be on the ground in Chicago next week to cover the DNC with the @NOTUSreports team! Looking to meet pretty much everyone. Let's connect-- and of course, feel free to share news tips: [email protected]
