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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is in Dothan campaigning for State Rep. Rhett Marques in Alabama's 2nd District race. Marques is set to face incumbent Rep. Shomari Figures next month.
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Recent campaign filings submitted Thursday show Figures brought in more than $1 million from the last week of July through September. Marques raised about $317,000 during that same period.
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New - Rep. Shomari Figures raised $1M in the third quarter. He ends Sept. with nearly $1.4M on hand.
He's fighting to win the newly redrawn 2nd District, a district Trump would have won by 14 points in 2024. #ALPolitics
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NEWS
The Republican panic is on clearest display at the various political organizations in Washington charged with spending hundreds of millions of dollars on House races. GOP lawmakers from around the country, many in deep red seats, are approaching super PACs with polls showing them losing or on the brink of being down.
Meanwhile, Democratic PACs are swimming in data showing opportunities in seats that were never on their radar. The map keeps expanding into deeper red territory.
Democrats have seen evidence of margin-of-error races in Indiana’s 5th District, GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz’s district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points; New York’s open 21st District, which Trump won by 21 points; Nevada’s open 2nd District, which Trump won by 14; and Kentucky’s open 6th District, which Trump won by 15.
Democrats have also seen evidence of tighter-than-usual races in North Carolina’s 3rd District, GOP Rep. Greg Murphy’s seat that Trump won by 14; North Carolina’s 9th District, NRCC Chair Richard Hudson’s seat, which Trump won by 16; and Nebraska’s 1st District, Rep. Mike Flood’s seat, which Trump won by 13 points.
Both parties have polls with Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) in a tight race against Republican State Rep. Rhett Marques in an Alabama district Republicans redrew themselves. Sydney Gruters, the wife of RNC chair Joe Gruters, is also in a tight contest with former Sarasota, Fla., Mayor Kelly Kirschner, in Florida’s 16th District. Kirschner vastly outspent Gruters on TV this week.
Republicans have started spending in South Carolina’s 1st District, where GOP candidate Jenny Costa Honeycutt is trying to hold outgoing Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) seat. Also in play is GOP Rep. Brad Finstad’s southern Minnesota district that Trump won by 12 points. Democrat Jake Johnson is giving Finstad a tough challenge.
☀️ AM: THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN PANIC HAS SET IN
Inside the House Republican Conference, there’s panic, anger and resignation.
The political environment is “certainly toxic for Republicans,” said Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), a 13-year veteran of Congress.
Voters “were promised things in ‘24, and none of those things are really coming to fruition,” Joyce added. “My thing has always been, just be truthful with folks. Don’t go out there and tell them that it’s rosier than what it is.”
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), locked in one of the toughest races in the country, is puzzled by one dynamic: why did his leadership pretend this election would be good for Republicans when history says otherwise?
“It’s an historical precedent that is rarely defied,” Fitzpatrick said of losing the majority in the midterms. “Moreover, a second midterm is historically more challenging than the first … Look at when history has been defied. After 9/11 — a major, major event that completely changed our country. In order to buck history, there has to be a reason history is bucked. Those factors are not present.”
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NO GOING BACK PAC, a MAGA-affiliated entity, has just dropped $686K on TV in Alabama's second district.
This is a seat the GOP drew for themselves. Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures is running against state Rep. Rhett Marques in the Trump +14 district.
New - Sen. Katie Britt affirmed her belief that the US should apply “maximum pressure” on Russia through sanctions and did not defend Trump’s recent diesel deal with Russia. #ALPolitics
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BREAKING: Tuscaloosa Police just confirmed to me that President Donald Trump will not be in attendance Saturday for Alabama-Georgia due to Hurricane Isaias.
New - Democratic ad spending in Alabama’s new 2nd District race is about double Republican spending over the past two months.
Rep. Shomari Figures is fighting to keep his seat against State Rep. Rhett Marques in a GOP-friendly district. #ALPolitics
Read the breakdown here:
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President Trump says his attendance at the Alabama-Georgia game will depend on the weather.
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The PAC, called Fairshake, will support 32 bipartisan House candidates, including the Birmingham Democrat, ahead of the midterms.
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The construction, including the new bridge and bayway, is the largest transportation infrastructure project in Alabama history and will take about five years to complete.
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I’m in Mobile for President Trump’s rally. Follow along for snippets and stay tuned for a longer story later on.
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As President Donald Trump descends on Mobile, the choice might look odd on the outside, with Alabama still being deep-red territory. But, as with many things involving Trump, the decision might be more about optics than anything else.
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A group of about 40 Republican lawmakers from the Alabama Legislature and representatives from Gov. Kay Ivey’s office participated in the White House State Leadership Conference on Tuesday.
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Gov. Ivey submits official bid to have Huntsville host the new Space Academy. Alabama’s delegation is also behind it. #ALPolitics
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I have submitted our response to @NASAAdmin, officially putting Alabama in the running to be home to the U.S. Space Academy.
We sent America to the moon, and Alabama can take our great nation further than anyone.
The Rocket City is ready. #alpolitics
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The moment Sen. Katie Britt realized Schmitt’s mistake.
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The Protect College Sports Act passed 77-22, with U.S. Sens. Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., supporting the bill in the final vote.
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