House Republicans’ narrow majority could get even smaller if Democrats flip Santos’ old seat on Tuesday

The special election to replace ousted Congressman George Santos has become an expensive slugfest for both parties. Polling shows former Congressman Tom Suozzi, who left Congress for a failed gubernatorial…

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Sen. Chris Murphy, who helped broker the failed border security package, says it’s ‘worrying’ that Mitch McConnell couldn’t deliver more votes: ‘No one is in charge over there’

Murphy, who spent months working with GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to design immigration legislation that could pass in the narrowly-divided Senate,…

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Ohio GOP Senate candidate endorsed by Trump deleted tweets critical of the former president

Bernie Moreno, a Republican businessman running for the US Senate in Ohio, once said there was “no scenario” in which he would support Donald Trump. He’s called Trump a “fake…

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Crenshaw hits GOP colleagues opposed to border deal: ‘The height of stupidity’

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) swiped at his Republican colleagues for opposing a deal being crafted in the Senate that pairs border and migration policy changes with Ukraine aid before the…

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