Thread: 2022 US Mid-term elections

Fox News and Republicans weaponizing gas prices. In the upper righthand corner of the Fox News website you’ll see this........

As of September 11, 2022 (Source: gasprices.aaa.com)

However, if you go to AAA Gas Prices you’ll see nothing of the kind. I highlighted California

National Average: 3.718

• Falling gas prices give Democrats a sense of optimism for November

Weeks of falling gas prices are dulling what had previously been a sharp Republican weapon, giving Democrats another glimmer of hope ahead of the midterm elections.

Months ago, sky-high gas prices were a major reason why Democrats’ prospects looked bleak.

But as candidates hit the homestretch ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms, the lower gas prices are giving reasons for Democrats to think they can be more competitive.

“It takes a lot of the effectiveness out of a cudgel when people aren’t seeing and feeling it as much,” Democratic strategist Eddie Vale said of gas prices.

Since hitting a June peak of $5.02 on average across the country, U.S. gasoline prices have fallen by $1.28 and are averaging about $3.74 per gallon as of Friday.

That’s still relatively high and up about 56 cents from a year ago. It’s about $1.18 higher compared to the same day in 2019, prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

Still, the prices are going in a better direction for consumers and the party in power.

Republicans have sought to make the election about inflation — with gas prices being a heavy target. But some polls suggest voters are now looking at other issues.

In a recent poll from Marist, fewer Americans cited inflation as their top voting issue than in a previous poll, indicating that at least some focus is shifting onto other topics.

While Marist found that 30 percent of Americans still consider inflation to be their top voting issue, that number is down from 37 percent of respondents who said the same in July.

The Marist poll also found the number of those surveyed who said abortion was their top issue was growing, from 18 percent in July to 22 percent in September.

Democrats have zeroed in on abortion rights as a key midterm issue ever since the Supreme Court struck down the Roe v. Wade decision in June. The party has won two special House elections since the court’s decision amid some evidence that more women are registering to vote.

The Cook Political Report also cited lower gas prices as the second-biggest reason why Democrats appear in a better political position than they were a few months ago, writing that the fall is “taking some bite out of Republicans’ ‘Biden-flation’ message.”

To be sure, Democrats still face some serious hurdles.

Historically, the party that holds the presidency has lost congressional seats during midterm elections. And while President Biden’s approval ratings have started to rise in some polls, more than 50 percent in several recent polls say they disapprove of his policies.

Low approval ratings for a president are generally a serious drag on lawmakers in that president’s party.

Still, while Democrats remain the underdog to hold on to the House majority, they are starting to feel better about cutting into their potential losses in the lower chamber.

And the party is feeling much better about retaining its Senate majority as candidates in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin show signs of strength.

The Supreme Court’s abortion decision is seen as the biggest reason why the future looks brighter for Democrats, and why the party pulled off key wins in those special House elections in New York and Alaska last month.

But Vale said the gasoline price drop is also having significant political impacts.

“It’s something that people feel every two days, five days, seven days depending on how long your commute is,” he said. “Even if you’re not filling up your tank, you’re driving by like 10 gas stations with the signs every day, so it’s very front-of-mind.”

Republicans argue that they still have the upper hand on the issue given where prices stand.

“Voters still care that gas prices are through the roof,” said Michael McAdams, communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the party’s campaign arm for House races.

“It’s undeniable that the most important issue for every voter – doesn’t matter where you live whether it’s in Oregon or Florida — [is] the rising cost of everything,” McAdams said.

GOP strategist Doug Heye similarly said in a statement that Republican candidates should continue to hammer their Democratic opponents on gasoline prices and inflation more broadly.

“Even as [prices] have fallen and Democrats try to take credit, that money — or the money families spend on eggs, ground beef and vegetables, or housing — is not going back in their pockets,” Heye said in an email.

“This is still the #1 issue for Republicans and Independents. GOP candidates should spend all day every day reminding voters of those things,” he added.

In their own messaging on the issue, Vale said that Democrats need to strike a balance between acknowledging that the country is still grappling with inflation and trying to take credit for downward price trends.

“Since you’re seeing a lot of the inflation soften or even decrease in some areas, you can take credit broadly speaking,” he said.

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Quinnipiac Georgia poll finds Warnock ahead, Abrams-Kemp too close to call

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) has opened up a 6-point lead over his Republican challenger Herschel Walker in the state’s Senate race while Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and his Democratic rival Stacey Abrams are deadlocked in the race for Georgia governor, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

Kemp, who beat Abrams narrowly in the state’s 2018 gubernatorial election, has the support of 50 percent of likely voters. But Abrams isn’t far behind, with 48 percent saying they back her in the race — still within the poll’s 2.7 percentage point margin of error.

Warnock, meanwhile, appears to be on solid ground in his match-up against Walker, the ex-NFL player endorsed by former President Trump.

Fifty-two percent of likely Georgia voters say they plan to support Warnock’s reelection compared to 46 percent who say they’re ready to boot him out of the Senate in favor of Walker.

Driving Warnock’s support are his strong favorability numbers. Fifty percent of likely voters say they have a favorable opinion of the incumbent Democrat, while 40 percent say the same about Walker, the Quinnipiac poll found.

In both Georgia races, voters overwhelmingly said their minds are already made up. Ninety-four percent of respondents who are supporting a candidate in the race for governor say they have already decided whom they will vote for in November. When it comes to the Senate contest, 96 percent of voters said the same.

• Democratic meddling pays off

The final tally is in: Democrats succeeded in boosting right-wing candidates in six of the 13 Republican primaries they meddled in.

Why it matters: The six races in which Democrats spent money now look close to unwinnable for Republicans, after the GOP nominated fringe or flawed candidates expected to turn off general-election voters. That includes three governor's races, two House seats and one critical Senate battleground.

Details: All told, Democrats spent about $53 million boosting MAGA-aligned candidates in these races, according to the Washington Post.

• The highlights include a clean sweep of MAGA-aligned candidates in New Hampshire, where Democrats meddled in two of the state's congressional primaries.

But, but, but: Republicans still believe Trump-endorsed John Gibbs, who defeated Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) in an August GOP primary, has a chance to defeat Democrat Hillary Scholten. The Grand Rapids-based district backed President Biden by nine points.

• And Republicans are hoping a favorable national environment still gives them a chance to win the New Hampshire races. The McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund has already spent $2.3 million of its $23 million scheduled ad buy against Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), even though the preferred moderate candidate lost in the primary.

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• Trump’s favorability rating drops to new low: poll

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Herschel Walker Says 'He's Not That Smart' When Questioned About Debating Sen. Warnock

“Talking to the voters, talking to you.” Walker said. “You told me I gotta prepare, so I’m preparing. I’m this country boy, you know, I’m not that smart. And [Warnock’s] that preacher. He’s a smart man, wears these nice suits. So he’s going to show up there, embarrass me at the debate, October the 14th. And I’m just waiting, you know, I’ll show up, and I’m [going to] do my best.”

Walker, who has issued several perplexing remarks, probably should not have announced out loud that he isn’t smart.

In August, Walker spoke against a climate law by saying, “[A] lot of money it’s going to trees,” Walker said. “Don’t we have enough trees around here?”

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Herschel Walker's ties to veterans program face scrutiny

“About 15 years ago, I started a program called Patriot Support,” Walker said in an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt last October. “People need to know I started a military program, a military program that treats (thousands) of soldiers a year,” he told Savannah TV station WTGS in February.

But corporate documents, court records and Senate disclosures reviewed by The Associated Press tell a more complicated story. Together they present a portrait of a celebrity spokesman who overstated his role in a for-profit program that is alleged to have preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government.

The revelation marks the latest example of a far more complex reality that lies beneath the carefully curated autobiography Walker has pitched to voters.

Universal Health Services reached a $122 million settlement in 2020 with the Department of Justice and the coalition of states. The company denies government’s allegations and said it agreed to the settlement to “avoid the continuing costs and uncertainty of continued litigation.”

I see he's trying to paint himself as being a bit thick twat so that when he's getting ripped a new one in the debates he can try and claim his opponent is being mean to him.

I think sabang is trying the same thing.

• Women Have Swung Toward Democrats Since The Dobbs Decision

With about a month before the midterm election, some Republican candidates across the country are scrambling to moderate their position on abortion. Supporting the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion — might be a winner in a Republican primary, but early signs are that it makes it harder to win a general election.

The conventional wisdom is that that’s in part because women are more motivated to vote this election season thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling. Conventional wisdom isn’t necessarily based on evidence, though. And while abortion is an increasingly important issue for women, there are signs it is galvanizing some men too.

If the Dobbs decision were motivating more women than men, then there’s a metric where that change would probably show up: the gender gap. The gender gap is calculated by looking at the difference between the share of men and women who voted for a particular candidate or party. A higher share of women than men have voted for Democrats in every midterm election since 1980, and in the past two midterm cycles the gap has been even bigger.

The 2018 midterm elections are a good example. That year, according to the exit polls, 59 percent of women — and only 47 percent of men — voted Democratic, which means the gender gap was historically wide, at nearly 12 percentage points.

The generic ballot’s gender gap was wider at this point in 2018

Average share of female and male voters who said they would support the Democratic or Republican candidate in an election, in polls from June through September of their respective years

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• Cook Report shifts three governors races in Democrats’ favor

Cook shifted the races in Pennsylvania and Michigan from “lean Democratic” to “likely Democratic” and the race in Oklahoma from “solid Republican” to “likely Republican.”: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...mocrats-favor/

• Democrats lead generic congressional ballot by 4 points

Democrats lead Republicans in the generic congressional ballot by 4 points with Election Day less than six weeks away, according to a new poll.

A Yahoo News-YouGov poll released Friday found 45 percent of respondents plan to vote for a Democrat in their congressional district, while 41 percent plan to support a Republican. Democrats’ lead is 1 point narrower from three weeks ago, when the party led in the poll by 5 points.

The party holds a tighter lead of 3 points among those who said they will definitely vote in September, 47 percent to 44 percent, and a 1-point lead among those who said they are paying a lot of attention to the campaign, 48 percent to 47 percent.

The poll also found respondents reporting increasing concerns over inflation, with 60 percent saying it is getting worse. Just more than 50 percent said so in a poll in late August.

Election watcher FiveThirtyEight’s analysis shows Republicans are poised to regain control of the House, but Democrats are likely to maintain the majority in the Senate.

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• Cook Report shifts Ohio House race toward Democrats amid scrutiny over GOP candidate

The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report announced on Friday that it is shifting its rating of a competitive Ohio House district in Democrats’ favor following reporting on the Republican candidate’s military credentials.

Cook Political Report House editor Dave Wasserman wrote that the election watcher is changing its rating of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, which features a match-up between Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) and Republican candidate J.R. Majewski, from “toss up” to “lean Democrat.”

Wasserman noted that the ratings change came in light of recent reporting from The Associated Press, which found that while Majewski touted on the campaign trail that he had served in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, records obtained from the wire service found he had actually been deployed for six months in Qatar at an air base where he loaded planes.

So it looks good that the Dems will pick up seats in the senate. So a likely scenario is that they lose the house, pick up seats in the senate. Fast-forward to 2024. Biden runs for reelection against drumpf trounces him and the Dems sweep both the house and the senate with enough seats to clear no votes from Sinema and Manchin. Some shit just might get done.

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• Warnock collects more than $26M in latest fundraising period

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) pulled in more than $26 million over the last three months, extending his run of record-shattering fundraising hauls as he enters the final stretch before Election Day.

Warnock’s campaign said that he raised $26.3 million in the third quarter of the year, ending September with $13.7 million in the bank. The fundraising total is roughly $9 million more than he reported raising between April 1 and June 30.

The campaign touted the massive haul as a sign of momentum for the Georgia Democrat as he seeks his first full term in the Senate after winning a special election early last year.

Despite the staggering fundraising total, Warnock is still fighting one of the most competitive reelection bids in the country. Recent polling shows his Republican opponent, former football star Herschel Walker, narrowing the gap with Warnock.

While polling averages suggest that Warnock still has a narrow lead in the race, a survey from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the University of Georgia released last month showed Walker with a 2-point edge. Another candidate, Libertarian Chase Oliver, notched 3 percent support in that poll.

Walker hasn’t yet disclosed his third-quarter fundraising haul, but his latest federal report showed his campaign with just $6.8 million on hand – a mere fraction of the $22 million Warnock had at the end of June.

The race is one of several that could determine which party controls the Senate next year. Republicans need to net just one seat in November to recapture their majority, and Georgia has emerged as a premier battleground.

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• Herschel Walker Supports Total Abortion Ban: "There's No Exception in My Mind'

Herschel Walker denies report he reimbursed girlfriend's abortion

Walker has carved out a staunch anti-abortion position as a candidate for U.S. Senate, aligning himself with a bill proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that would institute a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks.

Herschel Walker, a Georgia football icon and U.S. Senate hopeful, has denied a report in the Daily Beast that an ex-girlfriend claimed he paid the cost of her abortion more than 10 years ago, a claim that would seem to contradict his anti-abortion posture on the campaign trail.

Walker, a Republican, immediately denied the claim and promised to file a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, which published the story, on Tuesday morning. Walker later appeared on Fox News Channel's "Hannity," where he issued additional denials.

"I can tell you right now, I never asked anyone to get an abortion," Walker told Sean Hannity. "I never paid for an abortion -- it's a lie."

The Daily Beast reported Monday that an unidentified woman who claimed to be Walker's ex-girlfriend said she sought a medical abortion after the couple conceived in 2009. The woman shared documentation with the news outlet: a receipt from an abortion clinic, a bank deposit receipt with an image of a $700 check that appeared to be signed by Walker sent within a week of the abortion and a "get well" card that appeared to be signed by Walker.

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Christian Walker (son of Herschel Walker) - Every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office, because we all knew (some of) his past. Every single one. He decided to give us the middle finger and air out all of his dirty laundry in public, while simultaneously lying about it.

I’m done. https://twitter.com/ChristianWalk1r/...01530586484736

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Every democrat should run something similar

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Nevada has tightened up: 2022 Senate Election Forecast | FiveThirtyEight

So true...

Another one you will like, Landreth...

^I do enjoy Carville. Thanks

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Fuck yes! Great news!

Opinion polls mean squit, and in fact may be dangerous.

They need to get voters off their arses and past all these Republican attempts to rig the votes.

Georgia will be 50. Walker doesn’t have a chance. So a new 51

• Cortez Masto trails in poll of key Nevada Senate race

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is trailing her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, by 2 points in her bid for reelection, according to a new CNN poll released on Thursday.

With just over four weeks left until Election Day, 48 percent of likely voters said they support Laxalt, compared to the 46 percent that said they back Cortez Masto, according to the poll.

They’ve been wasting money for 3 months in NH

• GOP Senate campaign arm pulls money out of New Hampshire as Bolduc falters

The GOP’s Senate campaign arm is reportedly pulling millions of dollars out of the New Hampshire Senate race and redirecting it to other states.

Politico’s Natalie Allison reported Friday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said the move was a result of other ad money being spent in the state to support Don Bolduc, the Republican nominee for Senate who is attempting to defeat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D). The committee is diverting the funding to races in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Nevada.

The announcement comes as Bolduc has faced controversy in his candidacy and his poll numbers consistently trail Hassan’s.

Bolduc, a retired Army general, won the Republican nomination last month over the more moderate establishment favorite, state Senate President Chuck Morse. Bolduc falsely claimed that former President Trump won the 2020 presidential election and once called New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) a “Chinese communist sympathizer.”

He reversed his position on the 2020 election results after winning the nomination, saying that the election was not stolen and Trump lost to President Biden.

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• Georgia GOP lieutenant governor blasts Trump over Walker Senate campaign

Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) blamed former President Trump for embattled GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign on Thursday as Walker’s Senate bid remains engulfed in scandal.

“[Georgia] let down the entire country,” Duncan told CNN. “Donald Trump led us down a rabbit trail post-election because he was too consumed with trying to save face from losing his election. And he ran us down a trail, and we screwed up.”

Walker’s campaign has been on defense since Monday, when The Daily Beast reported that the anti-abortion candidate had encouraged and paid for a then-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. Walker strongly denied the allegations, which The Hill has not independently verified.

However, The Daily Beast followed up with a second story revealing that the women making the allegations was the mother of one of Walker’s children. The former NFL star’s campaign continued to struggle when his son Christian Walker, a conservative influencer, publicly criticized his father and accused him of lying about the incident.

Trump, who endorsed Walker, defended the candidate, claiming that he was “being slandered and maligned by the Fake News Media and obviously, the Democrats.”

• Five Oklahoma tribes endorse Democrat for governor

Leaders of Oklahoma’s five largest Native American tribes are endorsing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joy Hofmeister in her bid to oust sitting Gov. Kevin Stitt (R).

Representatives from the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Choctaw and Seminole Nations have cited Hofmeister’s respect for tribal sovereignty — a matter of contention between the tribes and the incumbent.

Hofmeister, who serves as Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, is a former Republican who swapped party affiliations to campaign as a Democratic challenger for Stitt’s gubernatorial seat.

The Five Tribes said in a release circulated in local media that November’s gubernatorial election in the state is “the most important in generations for all Oklahomans,” and said the stakes spurred the rare collective move to endorse Hofmeister’s campaign.

“When it comes to working with the tribal nations in Oklahoma, she understands our sovereignty is not a partisan issue or a threat, but instead is a chance to forge new partnerships while strengthening those that already exist because Oklahomans thrive together when we all work together,” the Five Tribes said.

The Five Tribes are set to announce their backing at a press conference Tuesday, according to the release. The Monday announcement comes on Indigenous Peoples Day in the U.S.

Cook Political Report rates the Oklahoma governor race as “likely Republican.”

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• On Pennsylvania’s campaign trail, the doctor will see you now

Physicians across Pennsylvania are politicking in unprecedented ways with less than a month to go before the midterm election, making the case that the abortion restrictions proposed by Republicans would threaten one of the state’s most important economic sectors.

They’re flanking Democrats at campaign rallies and knocking on doors in flippable state legislative districts. They are registering patients and colleagues to vote. At town halls and in ads, they warn that doctors, residents and medical students will avoid a state where they could be prosecuted for helping a patient terminate a pregnancy — damaging one of the largest and most recession-proof pieces of the economy.

Typically cautious establishment groups, such as the Pennsylvania Medical Society, are also sounding the alarm about “the potential criminalization of physicians” and urging lawmakers considering new abortion restrictions to “stay out of the exam room,” while doctors and doctors-in-training are forming newer advocacy groups like Medical Students for Choice, Physicians for Democratic Principles, Physicians for Shapiro and Fetterman, the Committee to Protect Health Care and Vot-ER.

“This is the first time I’ve really seen the doctor community really activate like this,” said Lisa Goldstein, a pediatric psychiatrist who has run a shoestring get-out-the-vote operation out of her garage in the Philadelphia suburbs for the past few years. “Doctors are usually very careful in their public life, but there’s none of that feeling right now. We’re out there saying what we believe.”

It’s a major shift for Pennsylvania’s medical community — the fourth-largest job sector in the state, employing more than 400,000 people — as doctors and medical organizations are usually hesitant to wade into politics, careful to maintain good relations with both the Democratic governor and Republican legislature.

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• Ohio senate debate this past evening.

Acyn - Ryan: I’m for Ohio. I don’t kiss anyone’s ass like him. Ohio needs an ass kicker not an ass kisser https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1579622218388344832

History.

Tim Ryan - Remember this? https://twitter.com/TimRyan/status/1579620172289265664

It's all going to go tits up because of all these voter suppression laws.

Just a portion of Oklahoma’s debate last night. Go to 1:10 into the video

• Is the violent crime rate higher in Oklahoma or New York? A governor’s debate raises the question

An exchange during Wednesday night’s Oklahoma gubernatorial debate underscored some common misperceptions about crime in the United States.

In the race, which polling shows to be surprisingly competitive for the conservative state, Democrat Joy Hofmeister addressed incumbent Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt during the pair’s lone scheduled debate.

“The fact is the rates of violent crime in Oklahoma are higher under your watch than New York and California,” said Hofmeister, the Oklahoma superintendent of public instruction, who switched parties last year. “That’s a fact.”

Stitt interjected “That’s not true” and laughed. When Hofmeister tried to continue, Stitt, still laughing, addressed the audience, saying, “Oklahomans, do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California? That’s what she just said.” The back-and-forth came after a lengthy and contentious discussion of the death penalty and sentence commutations.

John Roman, a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, told Yahoo News that Hofmeister’s numbers were accurate. Citing FBI data, Roman said that “Oklahoma is 12th in violence per 100,000 residents and 7th in property crime per 100,000 residents. California is similar but lower for each, and New York is much safer and below the national averages in both property and violence. Overall, putting violent crime rates and property crime rates together, Oklahoma is on the list of the top 10 highest crime rate states.”

Frankly she might have done better if she'd actually quoted some numbers and a source and said that, like all Republicans, he's just a liar. Not punchy enough.

• Fetterman, Oz spar in Pennsylvania Senate debate

Oz, Fetterman in dead heat ahead of first debate

Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz are squaring off in their first and only debate Tuesday as the Pennsylvania Senate race is beginning to tighten.

A new CBS News/YouGov poll, released Tuesday, shows Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, with a 2-point lead over Oz, a celebrity doctor, among likely voters.

The survey shows Fetterman carrying 51% versus Oz holding 49% with a 4.4% margin of error.

Fetterman had been up by as much as 11% in a previous survey.

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51 doesn’t look as good any longer. Might be just 50.

• Laxalt appeals for Latino support in new Spanish-language Nevada Senate ad

“Rising crime. Rising prices for groceries and gas. The progressive agenda of Joe Biden and Catherine Masto are bankrupting businesses, making it harder for families to make ends meet,” the narrator says to open the ad, titled “Fight For You.”

“I will fight their progressive agenda. I fought for you as attorney general. I’ll fight for you in Washington,” Laxalt says in Spanish, who is not fluent, adding that he approves the ad “because you deserve a safer, affordable Nevada with better schools.”

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• Democrats deploy Biden and Obama to lock down Pennsylvania

President Biden and former President Obama will barnstorm the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas on Nov. 5 with the party's nominees for Pennsylvania governor and Senate, according to a Democrat with direct knowledge of the plans.

Why it matters: In the final days before the midterms, Democrats are deploying their party's biggest assets in Pennsylvania. The state, which was critical to Biden's 2020 election victory, could determine control of the Senate next year.

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is locked in a close Senate race with Republican Mehmet Oz, while the current attorney general, Josh Shapiro, has maintained a lead over state Sen. Doug Mastriano in the governor's race.

The big picture: While Biden has been forgoing large political rallies that became the signature midterm political move for his predecessors, he has made several trips this year to Pennsylvania, where Fetterman hasn’t shied away from appearing with him.

On Oct. 28, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will fundraise with Fetterman at a Pennsylvania Democratic Party dinner. Biden visited the state last week as well.

Biden flipped Pennsylvania from red to blue in 2020 and feels like he has a fingertip feel for the state, where he based his campaign.

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• Amy Siskind - New Yorkers: need that final push to vote? If Zeldin wins, he can pardon Trump from all New York charges - and we can expect that for a man loyal enough to vote against certifying the 2020 election, that is his intent. https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/stat...04224425525248