Republican insiders are sounding the alarm after Ken Paxton, who’s running for the U.S. Senate from Texas, faced yet another brutal month of sagging poll numbers and weaker-than-expected fundraising. The latest quarterly filings show Democrat James Talarico swamping Paxton in donors and dollars. Talarico brought in more than $31 million compared to Paxton’s meager $9.3 million. Meanwhile, a Texas Public Opinion Research poll published August 27 gave Talarico a 6-point lead.
Veteran political strategist Karl Rove told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday that “time is running out” for Paxton’s campaign without a serious injection of cash from national Republicans. Paxton’s campaign should be able to count on a flood of cash from President Donald Trump, who endorsed him over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. But despite sitting on a game-changing $400 million war chest, Trump’s super PACs haven’t distributed a dime to Paxton — or any other Republican, for that matter.
Trump has guarded his gold like Smaug, and congressional Republican leaders are panicking.
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Marc Racicot’s endorsement of Sam Forstag gives Democrats a crossover asset in a red district the party is hoping to flip. Read more from Hunter Woodall.
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Only a small handful of Republicans in Congress have shown any interest in constraining the president’s war authority in Iran. Read more from Mychael Schnell.
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The list of states undermining Trump’s claims of widespread noncitizen voter fraud grew Tuesday, when a Georgia audit found the state’s voter rolls were 99.9% accurate and had no evidence of malicious manipulation, writes Ja’han Jones.
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To encounter the 92-year-old writer, lecturer and feminist trailblazer was to love her. But she also had an incredible way of making people, even strangers, feel intimately connected to her, writes Emma Gray.
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Thursday, as the RNC midterm convention takes place in Dallas, Michael Steele, Symone Sanders Townsend, and Luke Russert will be live from Texas to discuss the races to watch – and how the Lone Star State could shape what comes next. Watch a special edition of The Weeknight Thursday at 7pm Eastern on MS NOW.
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On Saturday, September 12th, watch the premiere of “The Assignment with Antonia Hylton.” Antonia will tackle major breaking news, original reporting, and critical political and cultural debates, all to head into the next week informed and empowered.
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