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Ken Paxton Admits Team Trump Controls His Campaign in Leaked Audio

In a leaked audio recording, Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton lamented that he isn’t in control of his own campaign. At a fundraiser in September, Paxton spoke candidly about his flailing campaign, according to the recording shared with Politico and published Monday. “I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over…

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Midterm Elections: Who Is Winning the Race for Congress? Latest DataIt’s Oct. 5 — 29 days away from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.

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The Voters Who Won Trump the Presidency Are Abandoning HimTwo recent polls show that the majority of Latino voters have all but abandoned President Trump—reaffirming a development that’s been brewing since he returned to office and began his draconian immigration crackdown. The new NBC News/Telemundo poll has Latinos going for Democrats by a margin of 59 percent in the upcoming midterm elections, almost…

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Top crypto group to pour millions into bipartisan slate of House races after key legislation stallsA major cryptocurrency spending group is backing 32 House candidates from both parties ahead of the November midterms. Fairshake will spend $1 million each to support six candidates, including several in competitive races. All 32 backed a major crypto bill that stalled in the Senate this year. Fairshake is emphasizing its bipartisan approach, but its…

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GOP Senator Flags A Major Concern About Trump If Midterms Go Badly“It would be another political unforced error if we do that,” said Thom Tillis.

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Vulnerable lawmakers juggle governing with midterm messaging

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Scalise: El-Sayed 'Not the Anomaly'During an appearance on Thursday's broadcast of FBN's "Mornings," House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) insisted Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a self-proclaimed Democrat Socialist, was not an anomaly. | Clips

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Democrats are betting on pastors and ministers in the midtermsFusing faith and politics is almost a no-brainer for many Republicans hoping to hold public office. But this election cycle, 12 pastors, seminarians and former clergy ran as Democrats, with about half securing nominations. Lisa Desjardins discussed more with NPR religion correspondent Jason Derose, who recently spent time on the campaign trail with…

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Murphy: Republicans in Deeply Red States Losing Because Iran War VotesOn Thursday's broadcast of MS NOW's "Deadline," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Republican lawmakers will likely lose in the midterm elections because they | Clips

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Can $1 billion power the GOP to victory in the midterms? Some campaigns fear it's too lateRepublicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump's unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran.

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Trump: U.S. won't attack Iran before midtermsPresident Trump said Thursday the U.S. will not attack Iran ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Why it matters: Trump had been considering for several days resuming major combat operations before the midterms. However, his past statements about his intentions in Iran haven't always matched what he ultimately did. If major combat operations resume,…

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Ken Paxton rages against his own campaign in leaked audio: ‘It’s all coming from DC’“I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign and, like, what issues are going to matter because it’s all coming — you know — from DC.''

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Ken Paxton Names The 2 Things ‘Dragging’ His Campaign In Leaked AudioThe Republican Senate candidate flagged exactly how “people are feeling the pinch” in an audio clip shared by Axios.

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Busted: Paxton Calls for “Reasonable” Spending Cuts and Tax Cuts in Newly Leaked AudioIn another nothingburger leaked audio from a September 24 event with donors and lobbyists, Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton called for...

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Can Trump help Paxton win Texas? Poll and leaked audio raise doubtsA Fox News poll found Democrat James Talarico leading Paxton by 7 points, while President Donald Trump’s approval rating in Texas was underwater.

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Ken Paxton rips into Iran war in another shocking audio leak: ‘People are feeling the pinch’Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was caught calling the war in Iran the No. 1 drag on his Senate bid in the third major audio leak of his campaign in recent weeks.

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'He Thinks Working People Are a Joke': Ken Paxton Floats Social Security Cuts in Leaked AudioKen Paxton, the Republican Party’s nominee for the US Senate in Texas , expressed a willingness to cut programs such as Social Security in a leaked recording published by The Texas Tribune on Thursday. In the recording, which was made during a private meeting with donors and lobbyists last month, Paxton said he'd target "mandatory spending"…

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Ken Paxton Texas Senate campaign sees fundraising surgeTexas Senate candidate Ken Paxton said his campaign raised $18 million in the third quarter.

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Ken Paxton Trashes Trump Ahead of His Texas VisitYet another leaked recording of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton has landed. “It’s the war, it’s gas prices.... It’s over $6 a gallon for diesel,” Paxton said at a donor meeting when asked what issues were “dragging” on him and his campaign, according to audio obtained by Axios. “People are feeling that pinch. So I’d say that’s probably the biggest…

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