A more Republican sample is going to find more Republican generic voters.
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Currently, the *average* Senate seat is about 53 points more Republican than the country overall (because smaller-population states happen to be more Republican right now).
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The Lone Star State, in other words, went from being 20 points more Republican-leaning than the nation as a whole to 11 points more Republican-leaning.
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When it comes to the principles, I'm definitely more Republican.
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Still, midterm electorates typically lean more Republican than all Americans.
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"There will be more Republican allies come January," Heck predicted.
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Look for more Republican mayors courtesy of this tax reform.
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If one more Republican backs out, she won't be confirmed.
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The Senate might be getting even more Republican without McCain.
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There are more Republican women now than there were then.
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It'd only take one more Republican to make it work.
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There are simply more Republican than Democratic voters in Georgia.
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The plan to elect more Republican women is hitting roadblocks.
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Voters who cast ballots on Election Day in Arizona tend to be more Republican, but Sinema's lead means they would have to be substantially more Republican than average to give McSally a decisive edge.
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"It was very much more Republican than just Trump," Siegel said.
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More Republican politicians were under scrutiny over their attitudes toward gays.
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Business owners also tend to be more Republican-leaning, he added.
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Historically, it doesn't get much more Republican than the Magnolia state.
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Some of it could be that Iowa is becoming more Republican.
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Now add three more Republican senators who are about to retire.
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The more Republican votes he loses, the more leverage Pelosi has.
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Gerrymandering is not the reason state legislatures are becoming more Republican.
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The state leans slightly more Republican than the rest of the country.
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More Republican primary votes were cast here in May than Democratic votes.
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The Sixth contains all of Volusia and some surrounding, more Republican areas.
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There is a vacancy for one more Republican and one more Democrat.
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More Republican voters are saying that they are skeptical about Mueller's inquiry.
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It's actually fairly simple: the white population become much more Republican leaning.
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Missouri has trended progressively more Republican since her last race in 2012.
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So a defection by even one more Republican elector would make history.
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They'll get a few additional top opportunities if more Republican incumbents retire.
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Obviously, there was more Republican support, as if he needed it, picked up.
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The stagnating rural areas, by contrast, tend to be much more Republican-leaning.
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But during her 12 years in the Senate, Missouri grew steadily more Republican.
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There are approximately 78,000 more Republican registered voters than Democrats in the district.
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Five more Republican-held House seats are moving closer to the Democrats' reach.
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He predicted that Trump will suffer more Republican defections before the November election.
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The data also doesn't appear to show that Jews are voting more Republican.
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Virginia loss could fuel more Republican primariesThe finger-pointing among Republicans started immediately.
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Politics More Republican than Democratic seats are at risk in this year's midterms.
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The surrounding region skews older, whiter, and more Republican than the nation at large.
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They think that maybe impeachment and all that rhetoric is driving more Republican enthusiasm.
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"[Pennsylvania has] gotten about 0.4 percentage points more Republican every four years," Wasserman wrote.
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In Florida and Georgia, however, more Republican-affiliated voters have cast ballots so far.
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It's more Republican, whiter, wealthier, and more educated than the nation as a whole.
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More Republican lawmakers have been caught doing immoral things in the bathroom than transgenders.
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Pelosi ought to appear in more Republican ads than any other human this fall.
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Obama won it in 2008, but the district became more Republican leaning after redistricting.
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Traditionally, Texas has been a lot more Republican than the nation as a whole.
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The middle of the country is much more Republican -- and much more sparsely populated.
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Most swing seats are a bit more Republican-leaning than the country at large.
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Forty percent responded that they want more Republican lawmakers to back the president's priorities.
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They would need to pick up two more Republican-held states to reclaim control.
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That's just a few percentage points ahead of the 40% who said they were or leaned Democratic And while that 4 point Republican edge still makes West Virginia more Republican than the average state, it's only 5 points more Republican than average.
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However, after the last few decades, his ideals shifted to be more Republican, he said.
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We ... either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%.
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We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 85033%.
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There are no more Republican contests until June 7, when the last five states vote.
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If memory serves, that is a district that is getting more and more Republican, no?
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We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%.
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He ended up winning 36 contests and more Republican primary votes than anyone in history.
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Finally, she hopes that more Republican leaders would act without fear of an impending election.
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The snowfall focused on the eastern area of the district, which is considered more Republican.
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"He said, 'Look, I understand there's more Republican districts would be impacted than Democratic,' " Rep.
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If one more Republican votes with the Democrats, it would force Trump's first-ever veto.
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If one more Republican votes against him, he likely wouldn't be confirmed to the post.
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The liberal resistance to Mr. Trump has been appearing in more and more Republican ads.
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We.... either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%.
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Texas, in other words, was about 20 points more Republican than the country as a whole.
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They'll need just eight more Republican signatures to get to 218 if every Democrat supports it.
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"A lot of people here probably lean more Republican," said Holland, who supported Obama that year.
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President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, met with two more Republican senators on Capitol Hill.
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Hagan argued that Trump's time in office would bring more Republican voters over to his corner.
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It's not Democrats' only shot at adding one more Republican-held seat to the 2018 battlefield.
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It would also help recruit more Republican co-sponsors to the legislation, which we badly need.
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The Supreme Court has had more Republican-appointed justices than Democratic-appointed justices since the 1960s.
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The more Republican a county is, the more its residents report charitable contributions, the study found.
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That, though, could take years for Democrats and could be counteracted by whites becoming more Republican.
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Hollings consistently won elections as a moderate Democrat even as his state became ever more Republican.
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Kaine has been making changes to his resolution as he's tried to gather more Republican support.
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Senators are negotiating sections of the upper chamber's sentencing reform bill to win more Republican support.
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But since that missed deadline, more Republican senators have publicly stated their opposition to the bill.
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But as the primary season continued, more and more Republican voters were won over by Trumpism.
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"What it means is the Supreme Court will have an even bigger thumb on the scale for the rules of politics, and it becomes a perpetual motion machine ... changing the rules of politics to help elect more Republican officials, who appoint more Republican judges," Waldman says.
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Margaret and Virginia Drye are running for office in the hope of inspiring more Republican women candidates.
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The effort hit yet another snag Monday, when more Republican senators came out against the latest bill.
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He must also show an apologetic side to stop more Republican supporters from giving up on him.
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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for more Republican support in a Wired editorial today.
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Sanders has thrown things for a loop by offering what's really a more Republican-style gestural campaign.
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"We either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%," he added.
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One more Republican no could kill the measure, given that Democrats all plan to vote against it.
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It would be more difficult to wreck Medicaid if more Republican voters had benefitted from the expansion.
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That made white voters in the Deep South 61 points more Republican the country as a whole.
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Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he's still working to secure more Republican support.
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On Wednesday, two more Republican House incumbents announced they won't run for another term in office, Reps.
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"Either elect more Republican senators in 2018 or change the rule now to 51 percent," he recommended.
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If he remains opposed and is joined by just two more Republican senators, the legislation would fail.
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"We … either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%," Trump added.
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When Trump took office, only four of the 248 had more Republican-appointed judges than Democratic selections.
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But he could only be found guilty if 21998 or more Republican senators voted to uphold them.
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We.... [0901 EDT] - Either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%.
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Only four of the 22009 federal appeals courts currently have more Republican-appointed judges than Democratic selections.
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All it would take is for three or more Republican senators to unite and demand such a bill.
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At least one more Republican senator — Collins or Flake being the likeliest candidates — would need to join her.
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In the Senate, however, more Republican than Democratic women ran as non-incumbents: four Democrats and six Republicans.
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Two more Republican women, facing male Democratic challengers, are running for seats left open by congressmen who retired.
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In the Senate, however, more Republican than Democratic women are running as nonincumbents: four Democrats and six Republicans.
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Because you can imagine something even worse than what we've seen, something that would force more Republican defections.
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But by this point, the Clinton campaign had hoped to be expanding into sort of more Republican areas.
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But there still are a whole lot of white voters out there, and they could trend more Republican.
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But that clearly doesn't mean that the more evangelical you are, the more Republican voters will like you.
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In Indiana, he's trying to pull in more Republican women and excite evangelicals to show up for him.
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If one more Republican opposes repeal-only legislation, there won't be enough GOP support to pass the Senate.
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The strategy of not making a deal with Democrats could help garner more Republican votes in the House.
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In 22019, whites with a college degree were even more Republican than whites without a degree were Democratic.
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The higher her profile, the more Republican leaders can use her as a rallying point for their voters.
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Shift in margin from 103 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 10 10 30 50 pct.
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Texas was 83 points more Republican than the nation as a whole in the 28 House mid-terms.
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Looking to gain more Republican support, the lawmakers unveiled a revamped version of the bill earlier this month.
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They hope Moore's vote will help achieve more Republican legislative victories that candidates can point to in 2018.
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More Republican incumbents are seeing a tough challenge ahead, and many are announcing that they'll retire to avoid it.
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Does he become the favorite for the new 14th District, which is even more Republican than the current 643th?
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While Florida and Ohio are becoming more Republican, the more northerly states appear to be reverting to the Democrats.
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On one level, it helps his party to turn out more Republican votes, because Trump's supporters are so energized.
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In short, places with higher social mobility have tended to vote more Republican than places with lower social mobility.
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Murphy: They have a lot more Republican primary voters to worry about than I do, I'm not the ballot!
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Metros that vote more Republican despite having higher education and a blue-metro job mix tend to be whiter.
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They just need five more Republican signatures to force the immigration votes if all 193 Democrats join the effort.
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It will be "probably hours" before more Republican lawmakers sign on to the petition, the North Carolina Republican said.
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"It's hard to think of a more Republican-media complex than Breitbart and the Trump team," Mr. Shapiro said.
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Weeks earlier, Trump had tweeted: either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%.
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Following the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, more Republican voters now believe Trump will be the eventual nominee.
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Trump, for one, is frustrated: either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%.
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Florida's electorate tends to be just a percentage point or two more Republican than the country as a whole.
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"It is still the case that more Republican party primary voters want someone other than Donald Trump," Beckwith noted.
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A quick look back to 2016 shows Trump won 11 of those 12 states with more Republican registered voters.
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Morrisey — or whoever wins the GOP primary — could be buoyed by an electorate that is rapidly turning more Republican.
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Here's what to watch for as more Republican senators prepare to announce how they will vote on the resolution.
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The electorate was older, whiter and more Republican than the state as a whole — or than the 2016 electorate.
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Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 503 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 153 30 10 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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Shift in margin from 250 to 20 More Democratic More Republican 250 215 22 262 383 238 pct. pts.
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So that leaves them searching for one more Republican to join their effort to get the necessary 51 votes.
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Two years ago, in a far more Republican-friendly environment over all, Mr. Newhouse won by just 16 points.
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Those two factors make Texas far more Republican leaning than you'd expect looking a poll of all adults. 5.
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Democrats occupy 18 of the 85033 seats, meaning they needed just one more Republican in attendance for a vote.
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Typically, likely voters in midterm elections are a bit more Republican-leaning than the broader pool of registered voters.
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Attacks from Sanders and his supports are an unnecessary Kamikaze mission that will undoubtedly lead to more Republican victories.
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But in the end, it drew only one more Republican than a vote last week to reopen the government.
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And then as more and more Republican candidates either dropped out or he won more primaries, it became untenable.
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And many more Republican senators than that have spoken out with concerns about coverage losses: Perhaps most interesting is Sen.
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In this case, the pool of speech-watchers was about eight points more Republican than the population as a whole.
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With the decline of ticket-splitting, a big loss by Trump will result in more Republican losses down the ballot.
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Now, just five more Republican signatures are needed to force the immigration votes if all 193 Democrats join the effort.
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"Despite Democratic enthusiasm, we're dealing with an electorate in a midterm that tends to be more Republican demographically," he said.
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In contrast, we counted just six people who have spoken at four or more Republican conventions from 1992 to 2012.
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As part of that, she wants to help more Republican women get elected to Congress in the years to come.
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Now, just five more Republican signatures are needed to force the immigration votes if all 21625 Democrats join the effort.
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If Rubio had voted against the bill, as well, only one more Republican vote of opposition would have killed it.
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And two more Republican senators, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rick Scott of Florida, chose to go into quarantine.
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If Trump follows suit, he will appoint one more Republican commissioner and one more Democratic commissioner to serve the agency.
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She's leading by three points halfway through, but we're expecting more Republican respondents in the second half of our poll.
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A 2016 analysis by National Public Radio found that as counties become more rural, they tend to become more Republican.
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This is yet one more Republican whom the president and his friends easily can redefine as a disgruntled former employee.
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The question is whether those three, should they vote for witnesses, could bring on board at least one more Republican.
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Democrats urged GOP senators to support the resolution but were realistic about the chances of picking up more Republican votes.
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Collins, Murkowski and Romney need at least one more Republican to join them if they want access to new information.
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Should one more Republican senator come out against DeVos, she would officially be struck down from serving as Education secretary.
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If the Senate's Democrats and independents vote together, just one more Republican defection would be fatal to Ms. DeVos's prospects.
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Similarly, there are more Republican women running in House districts rated Solid Democratic by CNN than in Solid Republican districts.
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By 2000, however, the high-tech cities had turned decidedly Democratic, while the low-tech areas had grown more Republican.
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Those measures are intended to add more Republican votes in the House without upsetting the tenuous balance in the Senate.
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Compounding the problem, when Latino turnout sags, what's left in the voter pool tends to be older and more Republican.
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It is now an open question whether Trump will inject himself into more Republican primaries, given his setback in Alabama.
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But SBA List, whose mission is to elect pro-life women candidates, endorsed more Republican men than women candidates in 2018.
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Puzder withdrew his name from consideration as Labor secretary on Wednesday, after more Republican Senate members pulled their support from him.
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Amazing stat: 78% of Democratic-leaning seats got even more Democratic, and 65% of GOP-leaning seats got even more Republican.
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" Grassley spokesman Michael Zona said Friday that support is growing and more Republican supporters will be announced "in the coming days.
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Two more Republican senators on Thursday questioned President Trump's leadership after his controversial handling of the deadly violence in Charlottesville. Sen.
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South Carolina is home to many more Republican voters than Iowa and New Hampshire and they're spread out over larger areas.
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The more Republican leaders kept disappointing their media allies, the angrier the media became, making some kind of backlash increasingly likely.
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"It's more Republican than it was during the special election," University of Pittsburgh Political Science Professor Kristin Kanthak told Fox News.
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Even more Republican votes elsewhere in the state are so far not enough to counterbalance that Democratic lead in Clark County.
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Of course, even these efforts to bring more Republican women into office it's unclear how their views would shape the party.
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After McConnell announced the vote was delayed, more Republican senators publicly came out against the current version of the bill. Sen.
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First, GOP aides have made clear there were several more Republican senators who were opposed to Graham-Cassidy than publicly known.
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Supporters are expected to introduce the final version of the bill imminently, with changes aimed at winning over more Republican supporters.
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Grassley is reportedly working on a new version of the bill aimed at gathering more Republican support, according to Bloomberg Law.
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If Collins and Murkowski opposed a Trump appointee, then it would only take one more Republican senator to kill the nomination.
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"It's noticeable that the people who left are more liberal-minded and the people who stayed are more Republican," she said.
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Two more Republican senators insisted on changes to tax cut legislation, denting confidence that it will pass in its current form.
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What's more, Republican leaders in Washington are discussing whether Mr. Sessions should launch a write-in campaign to reclaim his seat.
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"His positions were more Republican than Democrat," said Deb Vosel, 62, a retired nurse sitting with her husband at Bob's Diner.
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But with the Republican brand already receding in popularity, more Republican members will find themselves skittish in voting for unpopular policies.
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Given Flake's current stance, if they can convince just one more Republican to switch over, they could successfully take it down.
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Democrats need to overperform to compete when a district's voters are 8 points more Republican than the country as a whole.
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More Republican voters want to see some form of witness testimony during than who don&apost want to hear from witnesses.
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Fact: more Republican members of Congress have been arrested because of their conduct in restrooms in this country than trans women.
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Farmers are the bulk of Peterson's base in the mostly rural, 35,388-square mile district that's become more and more Republican.
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The committee has just one more Republican than Democrat, meaning a "no" vote from Rubio could have denied Tillerson committee approval.
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Senate Democrats are hunting for one more Republican vote to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from repealing net neutrality rules.
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The more Democratic and more Republican each district leans, the more — or fewer, respectively — DACA recipients these districts tend to have.
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Rasmussen Reports, a more Republican-friendly pollster which conducts a daily presidential approval tracking, showed Trump at 252% approval through Sunday.
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Priebus's comments come after an amendment was added to the House GOP's healthcare legislation to get more Republican lawmakers on board.
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Grassley told reporters weeks ago that he would introduce a "revamped" version of his bill aimed at gaining more Republican support.
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If he were to bypass the Judicial Committee, Flake would need the help of just one more Republican senator to kill nominations.
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If one more Republican senator joins them, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be short of the votes necessary to pass a bill.
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"We reject out of hand the notion that pushing Democrats to be better candidates will lead to more Republican victories," she said.
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But ultimately I agree with the more republican belief that the shooter is more to blame than the gun they are wielding.
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Cook rates it R+9, meaning all else being equal, it's about 9 points more Republican than the country as a whole.
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We get one more Republican to support what's called CRA, Congressional Resolution Act, to overturn Pai's regulation on net neutrality, it passes.
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And a Democratic proposal to reopen the government for two weeks got more Republican votes in the Senate than Trump's own proposal.
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Susan Collins of Maine, supporting the resolution, only one more Republican is needed to pass a resolution of disapproval in the Senate.
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Democrats were deeply skeptical that Trump's word signaled any sort of shift toward more Republican support for Democratic-backed gun control proposals.
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If by some miracle one more Republican decides to get on board, the House would also define its position on the issue.
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But in 2002, after the California Legislature created a new, more Republican-friendly Central Valley congressional district, Nunes ran again and won.
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People in places with greater social mobility vote more Republican, but are not more likely to say that they want less redistribution.
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"The year after Sarah Palin was chosen as John McCain's Vice President running mate, more Republican woman ran for Congress," says Clayton.
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Mormons, who are more conservative than the general American population, tend to lean much more Republican — but not as much this year.
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Just one more Republican defector on top of that (Rand Paul is a likely choice) could make the whole thing a nonstarter.
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Four more Republican-held House seats are joining The Cook Political Report's list of "toss-up" races, the election handicapper announced Wednesday.
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But that plan, engineered by Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, can go nowhere until she rounds up significantly more Republican support.
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Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland will sit down with three more Republican senators this week, as Democrats continue to press his nomination.
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Keith Rothfus in the new, more-Democratic friendly 17th district, while Saccone is running in the new, more Republican-friendly 14th district.
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It also includes parts of Fulton and Cobb counties, which are more Republican, but appears to affect the Democratic areas most heavily.
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When it comes to U.S. politics, two more Republican senators announced Monday that they would oppose the current Republican health care bill.
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Cuban-Americans tend to be far-more Republican than other Hispanics and have some of the best turnout rates in the state.
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Heye said the results might push more Republican members of Congress to decide against what increasingly looks like a difficult reelection fight.
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The district is more Republican than Democrat and a standard-issue, right-versus-left message has typically worked there in the past.
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Now, it should be noted that these districts have historically been at least more Republican than the 2016 presidential election would indicate.
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If one more Republican votes against Michael Dourson, he likely wouldn't be confirmed to the post, the Hill reported on Wednesday. bit.
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Two more Republican senators said Monday they will oppose the current Republican health-care bill — enough to doom its passage, for now.
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Republican strategists in Ohio give Mandel the upper hand in the primary even as more Republican candidates are expected to launch bids.
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Overall, the white vote is increasingly becoming more Republican, although not to the same degree that non-white voters break for Democrats.
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Even the more Republican North sent a warning shot in 2018 when it narrowly elected a Democrat, Jared Golden, to the House.
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Even the more Republican North sent a warning shot in 2018 when it narrowly elected a Democrat, Jared Golden, to the House.
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Bannon had been planning to use Moore's victory as a lunching pad for primary challenges against several more Republican senators in 2018.
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If progressivism were such an albatross, Brown would have lost in a state that looks more and more Republican by the year.
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He's gone from a 6-point deficit among that group to a 16-point advantage, with more Republican-leaning voters in their ranks.
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I think Ohio now is more Republican than it's been in a very long time, and that, of course, accrues to any Republican.
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If Cain loses one more Republican and all Democrats oppose him as expected, his path to the Fed board would be blocked. Sen.
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Mulvaney insisted Monday the current negotiations had been "bipartisan from the get-go" and promised a "more Republican-driven process" in the future.
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Farenthold won his election in 2016 by 23 points, and the district itself is roughly 13 percent more Republican than the national average.
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These fundamentals models will generally be more favorable to Mr. Trump; history suggests that this should be a more Republican-favoring election cycle.
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But even if Democrats win these two seats, a loss in North Dakota means that they have to win one more Republican seat.
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With more Republican lawmakers coming around to endorse Mr. Trump, Mr. Ryan had stayed silent on when, or if, he would join them.
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In the last round of redistricting, the seat was made more Republican to accommodate Tiberi, a close ally of then-Speaker John Boehner.
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It has a PVI of R+7, meaning that, on average, it votes 7 points more Republican than a dead-even House district.
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The state has become somewhat more Republican over the last decade, and it has an above-average number of white-working class Democrats.
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She can still be confirmed with 50 votes (Mike Pence will cast the tiebreaker), but if one more Republican defects, it's game over.
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Carbon County Northampton County Bethlehem Lehigh County Allentown PENNSYLVANIA 5 miles Shift in margin 2012-2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 pct. pts.
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Trump specifically has indicated he's eyeing Minnesota, which voted more Republican than the national vote in 2693 for the first time since 1952.
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Supporters are looking for ways to win over more Republican support amid concerns from skeptics that the reforms could lead to higher crime.
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The trend could be a result of the social media giant hiring more Republican-leaning lobbyists and doubling down on free speech messaging.
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Two more Republican senators said on Monday they will oppose the current Republican health-care bill, bringing the total to at least four.
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Earlier Monday, two more Republican senators said they would oppose the current Republican health-care bill — enough to doom its passage barring changes.
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It's a nationalized contest, often, and the Senate seat has become more Republican over time, so it's definitely an uphill battle for him.
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About 45 or more Republican senators would vote for just about anything that President Donald Trump and Senate GOP leaders asked them to.
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For it to pass the Senate, at least one more Republican vote would be needed, assuming all Democrats and two independents back it.
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Cook rates it R+8 (which means, all else being equal, it's about 8 points more Republican than the nation as a whole).
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More Republican state AGs could help further that effort, though the current composition of the U.S. Supreme Court would make any sweeping rollback unlikely.
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At the same time, bills such as border wall funding would be easier to pass if both houses of congress had more republican seats.
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The typical Republican member of Congress today faces a district that is considerably more Republican than would have been the case 40 years ago.
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"This neighborhood tends to be a little bit more Republican, so I wouldn't have brought up politics too much at social settings," Pyser said.
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Assuming all Democrats are on board with the legislation, they will still need one more Republican in order for it to pass the Senate.
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If one more Republican sides with Democrats against her nomination, DeVos will become only the 10th cabinet nominee in U.S. history rejected by Congress.
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"I hope more Republican leaders condemn those who would deny free speech to Donald Trump and defend those interested in hearing him," he concluded.
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But that success will also likely draw more Republican support to help Norman if there are any signs that Parnell could flip the seat.
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The Democratic-held House passed it on Tuesday by a 231-192 margin, seeing considerably more Republican opposition than the GOP-controlled Senate did.
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More and more Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress are criticizing the American role, accusing the Pentagon of being complicit in the bombing campaign.
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Bucks County Montgomery County Chester County Philadelphia Delaware County 10 miles PENNSYLVANIA Shift in margin 2012-2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 pct. pts.
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She is working to turn out new Democratic voters but also making a pitch to constituents in more Republican-leaning parts of the district.
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John McCain of Arizona absent from the chamber battling aggressive cancer, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can't afford to lose any more Republican support.
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If four or more Republican senators call for witnesses, it&aposs likely McConnell would be forced to cave and give in to the demands.
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That means winning most of the 40 Republican seats at high risk, even though many of those districts contain more Republican than Democratic voters.
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If Democrats can get the support of one more Republican, the resolution could be sent to the House, where it is unlikely to advance.
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If Democrats can get the support of one more Republican, the resolution could be sent to the House, where it is unlikely to advance.
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By packing together highly reliable blocks of Democratic voters, the reasoning goes, the new districts "bleached" surrounding districts —made them whiter and more Republican.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited the U.S. Capitol as the White House sought to discourage more Republican defections on the measure rebuking the president.
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It would have fallen further had more Republican state governors chosen to take federal funds to expand Medicaid, which finances some care for poor Americans.
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But Democrats still need one more Republican to get past Vice President Mike Pence's tie-breaking vote, and it's not clear who that would be.
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Monday night, two more Republican senators came out against the current version of the BCRA, bringing the total to four, enough to block the bill.
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Other farm counties are even more Republican than that, returning more than 220 percent of ballots for Romney and George W. Bush in recent elections.
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Low public opinion of colleges and universities will only embolden more Republican governors to do the same—and to provide them cover when they do.
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Read more: Republican silence on Trump's racist tweets shows how fearful they've become of defying him and losing votersTrump has said the four lawmakers — Reps.
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The Republican strategist said Republicans have an early-vote advantage in Arizona, where more Republican voters have turned in ballots in the race between Reps.
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The last time there were more Republican than Democratic women running for Senate was in 1994, when five Republican women ran, compared with four Democrats.
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"More Republican leaders are endorsing [Trump] every day, including important donors and elected officials like Stanley Hubbard and Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts," the memo reads.
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That said, there are more Republican US House incumbents in Texas than incumbent Democrats, so the House baseline may be artificially pro-Republican as well.
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With just one more Republican senator needed to nix the tax reform bill, the chances of passing it are less than 50/50 right now.
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The state recently went through an education funding debacle created by Republicans, so Democrats have been winning special elections in far more Republican seats downballot.
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His fight against George W. Bush for the presidency went all the way to the Supreme Court, which then had more Republican than Democratic appointees.
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She has begun touting a new crusade to get more Republican women elected to Congress by having her leadership PAC "play big" in primary races.
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Whatever the outcome, Mr. Barr is still expected to appear a day earlier, on Wednesday, to testify before the more Republican-friendly Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Either way, their net-favorability advantage will probably decline over time, simply because a more Republican-leaning group of voters has yet to tune in.
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He lost his race in the 2018 midterms but is mounting a comeback bid this year, running in a more Republican-friendly district in Texas.
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Democrats are growing more bullish on their midterm prospects and plan to target even more Republican-held House districts in November, NBC News reported Thursday.
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Wall Street also turned its eyes towards Washington, after two more Republican senators announced Monday that they would oppose the current Republican health care bill.
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What I feel like maybe the past couple of weeks we've seen more Republican senators talking about this and I think it kind of varies.
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Turnout among Democratic voters was up substantially over the past few midterm election cycles, according to several early reports, and more Republican voters stayed home.
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Cook rates it R+28, meaning all else being equal it's about 24 points more Republican than the rest of the nation as a whole.
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For that to happen, 20 or more Republican senators will need to vote in favor of Trump's removal from office to hit the two-thirds threshold.
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Trump has pushed this week for more Republican support to protect him from the impeachment inquiry, asking GOP lawmakers to "get tougher and fight" for him.
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There's only one more Republican-held district that Trump won by single digits, and that's the 10th, which is close to the middle of the state.
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This distribution of Republicans voters means that the pivotal seats that determine control of Congress are significantly more Republican-leaning than the country as a whole.
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Half of those senators are considered especially vulnerable because they represent states viewed as reliably red or states that have grown more Republican in recent years.
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In 1997, there were 164 congressional districts that performed somewhere between five points more Democratic and five points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
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President Trump needed the vote of just one more Republican senator to keep the repeal-and-replace process alive — and he could easily have had it.
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Only 13% of the votes in New York's Republican primary came from New York city; the vast majority were from the traditionally more Republican upstate area.
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One simple explanation for more Republican engagement is that Donald Trump is driving people to the polls, even if two-thirds have not voted for him.
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There are only 48 House districts that are more Republican-leaning than Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, and that means that Republicans should be very, very scared.
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In 28503, an even more Republican dominated House and Senate reauthorized CHIP by huge margins: 22019-37 and 92-8 in the House and Senate, respectively.
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Democrats, meanwhile, are terrified that they will be shut out next week in one or more Republican-held US House districts, particularly in suburban Orange County.
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What might be unique this year is if women vote Democratic by such large margins that Democrats could be successful even if men vote more Republican.
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Democrats also lead in the generic congressional ballot among all Americans by nine percentage points, 24% to 21%, though the midterm electorate traditionally leans more Republican.
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White voters tend to tilt more Republican than racial minorities, even among younger voters, and the effect of that difference is evident in 2012 exit polls.
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Maybe the NeverTrumpers and reformicons will become better persuaders, at least when it comes to finding more Republican politicians and candidates to pick up their banner.
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"As states become relatively more Republican, swine flu-related deaths rise," Baum wrote in a 2011 article in The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
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The calls come as Northam pulls in large numbers in Democratic areas of the state while keeping his margins tight with Gillespie in more Republican ones.
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Indeed, in signing the 85033 federal spending bill, a frustrated Trump suggested he'd support "a good 'shutdown' in September" in order to secure more Republican priorities.
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Meanwhile, Ohio's 12th District, which has an open primary system and classifies voters differently, has more Republican-affiliated voters than voters affiliated with the Democratic Party.
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Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the bill's coauthor and the Finance Committee's ranking member, are trying to make changes to the bill to garner more Republican backing.
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It is easy to imagine a half-dozen or more Republican senators joining Democrats out of concern for the precedent that Mr. Trump's declaration will set.
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And there's a feedback effect to strong recruitment — the promise of a strong challenge could spur more Republican incumbents wary of a tough race to retire instead.
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In October 2010, just before Republicans recaptured the House, and 2014, the electorate became more Republican as the universe of those registered was winnowed to likely voters.
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But Priebus told Reuters that his staunch support for Trump was based on the fact that Trump won more Republican votes than any previous nominee, 14.5 million.
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While he sat out three presidential cycles (after considering runs in 2004 and 2012), both constituencies became more Republican and the power of white grievance politics grew.
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They "are whiter, more affluent and more Republican than the country as a whole, but they supported Hillary Clinton by a narrow margin in 2016," per NYT.
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Just 14 Republicans joined 5.73 Democrats in voting to override, one more Republican than had bucked Trump in a previous House vote on the border wall emergency.
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In other words, the potentially pivotal state in the electoral college may be 4 to 5 points more Republican than the nation as a whole in 2020.
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But he said, with Congress strongly weighted in favor of Republicans, the caucus will need at least a dozen more Republican members to become a significant force.
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McConnell can't afford to lose one more Republican senator or the GOP's seven-year campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare is over -- for now, at least.
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The hope is that a combination of Cruz's toxicity, public pressure, and Democratic outreach will draw at least one more Republican into league with Collins and Murkowski.
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Senators are searching for ways to win more Republican votes for a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill that has stalled amid growing conservative opposition, including from Sen.
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Wagner, who has played a central role in recruiting more Republican women to run for Congress, cited Trump's derogatory comments about women, immigrants and the Bush family.
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Democrats and independents who caucus with them are defending 22015 Senate seats in November, most of those in states with a more Republican tilt than New Jersey.
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If Fox News remains an entrenched part of the conservative extreme, the result will be more Republican candidates like Mr. Trump and more defeats at the polls.
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The legislation got slightly more Republican support than a separate spending bill Wednesday to reopen the Treasury Department and the IRS, which had eight Republicans support it.
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Johnson has said he could get to "yes," but without Johnson's vote, McConnell can only lose one more Republican member and still pass his tax bill. Sen.
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Two sources close to Bloomberg said internal polling found that he would theoretically take away more Republican votes from Trump or Cruz than Democratic votes from Sanders.
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If all 193 Democrats sign the petition, as they are expected to, the centrists would need only five more Republican signatures for the petition to succeed. Rep.
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Right now the median state is 6 points more Republican-leaning than the nation as a whole, meaning Democrats are facing an endless series of bad maps.
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Attention turned to Washington as two more Republican senators said Monday they will oppose the current Republican health-care bill — enough to doom its passage, for now.
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So some — perhaps many — of the workers who contributed to the economies of large Clinton counties commuted into the city from nearby counties that lean more Republican.
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Deborah Rothbart is a 64-year-old who says she's a registered Democrat but understands the saying that you get more Republican the older that you get.
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Erie Scranton State College Allentown Pittsburgh Harrisburg Philadelphia Shift in margin from 212016 to 212020 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 10 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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One factor that Scott does have working in his favor is that Florida tends to be a little more Republican leaning than the rest of the country.
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Tim Kaine, the Virginia Democrat pushing the war powers resolution to limit Trump's military actions in Iran, tweaked it this week to gain some more Republican support.
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Tonight's highlights include a new union rule from the Department of Labor, more Republican questions for the IRS and a vision for a new Fannie and Freddie.
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Starting in the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, non-college whites became substantially more Republican in their presidential voting than whites with degrees.
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In the 22019th District, Nolan, a Democrat, has seen his district grow increasingly competitive thanks to population growth in the more Republican-leaning parts of the district.
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This district is rated Likely Republican and R+20163, meaning all else being equal, it's about 5 points more Republican than the country, by Cook Political Report.
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The measure still needs to clear several more hurdles, and proponents need to attract at least two more Republican votes to win final passage in the Senate.
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This district is rated Likely Republican and R+5, meaning all else being equal, it's about 20083 points more Republican than the country, by Cook Political Report.
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This district is rated Likely Republican and R+22016, meaning all else being equal, it's about 24 points more Republican than the country, by Cook Political Report.
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Texas went from being about 20 points more Republican than the country as a whole in the Obama era to 10 to 11 points in the Trump era.
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Republicans control the Senate with 51 votes out of the 100-member body, so Democrats would need at least one more Republican to back overturning the FCC action.
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Democrats have already begun citing Tuesday's results to prospective 2018 candidates, while more Republican incumbents may be looking to join their colleagues who have already exited stage right.
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A seat with a PVI of R+8, for example, means that the district performed eight points more Republican than the national average in the 2016 presidential election.
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Sensing opportunity, national Republicans, who had largely kept their distance, announced last week a six-figure digital spend to encourage more Republican turnout in the Orange County races.
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Cook also found that 28503 percent of Democratic-leaning seats became more Democratic during the 22019 election, while 65 percent of Republican-leaning seats grew even more Republican.
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This was true even among whites: In every presidential election since at least 1948, wealthy whites have been notably more Republican than the rest of the white electorate.
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To pass the Senate, a united Democratic caucus only needs to pick off one more Republican, and plenty of GOP senators have said they're considering supporting the resolution.
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Mr. Trump's performance was sure-footed enough that no more Republican officials disavowed him in the immediate aftermath of the debate, and it prompted his running mate, Gov.
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Portland and other metropolitan areas have expanded and their residents have become increasingly Democratic, while Oregon's rural areas have struggled to retain residents and have become more Republican.
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In 2016, Trump benefited from an evolution in the rural vote from more Democratic to more Republican, which exit polls show has been happening gradually over recent decades.
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Or both things could happen, within different parts of the Asian-American community — with Chinese-Americans tilting more Republican and Indian-Americans staying firmly on the center-left.
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But in the last week, they have grown more alarmed by early voting trends in the seat held by Mr. Royce that show a more Republican-leaning electorate.
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The reason being that Texas was one of the few states where Democrats did better in 2016 than in 2012, even as the nation became more Republican leaning.
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Collin Peterson, reelection could become tough for two first-term Democrats, Dean Phillips and Angie Craig, as the seats outside the Twin Cities pick up more Republican voters.
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Yet what's remarkable is that more Republican senators who are not facing reëlection, or are secure in their seats, have not spoken out as a matter of principle.
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According to records from the Federal Judicial Center, there are slightly more Republican-appointed federal judges sitting on the bench right now than those appointed by Democratic presidents.
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He will face even more Republican opposition to the plan in the Senate where many colleagues are not happy about the cuts to health care coverage for the poor.
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Graham, meanwhile, announced in his statement that his bipartisan deal, though already rejected by Trump, had picked up support from four more Republican senators, bringing the total to seven.
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But the audience was more Republican than the American populace, per CBS: In the latest CBS national poll released last month, 25 percent of Americans identified themselves as Republicans.
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More Republican politicians, along with some conservative commentators and strategists, now say Mr. Trump's hard line is good politics because it taps into deep cultural, economic and security fears.
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The episode will provide grist for more Republican attacks on the deal, political analysts said, though the images of the sailors are unlikely to turn up in attack ads.
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No Democrat has won a statewide race in Tennessee since his successful re-election bid in the 2006 gubernatorial race, and the state has turned more Republican since then.
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Ultimately, any big policy change in the US has to have bipartisan support, so yes, we have to continue working for more Republican support for the action that's needed.
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But far more Republican senators face re-election in solidly Republican states next year, and they fear a primary challenge from the right more than losing to a Democrat.
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"The scandal is that there are American companies, there are international companies — Boeing, Airbus — that are now making their own names inextricably linked with terror forever more," Republican Rep.
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Donald Trump is more like Democratic Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, while Hillary Clinton is more Republican Richard Nixon, fast-food chain CEO Andy Puzder said Monday.
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"We like his youth, his bilingual fluency and the fact that he isn't one more Republican who's been standing in line, awaiting his turn to run," the board added.
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Policy experts said that after Obama leaves office, more Republican-led states that objected to a plan so closely identified with Obama might be willing to expand Medicaid too.
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As the campaign progressed, more and more Republican down-ballot candidates distanced themselves from the Ryan budget or rejected it entirely for fear that it would doom them electorally.
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"Democrats will hold the floor for the next 24 hours, until the final vote, to do everything we can to persuade just one more Republican to join us," Sen.
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The next Congress may then pass bills regarding assault weapons and background checks in the new Democratic House only to see them stall in the even more Republican Senate.
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Ms. Brooks acknowledged being "disappointed" about losing her position on the coveted steering committee, but said her larger frustration was that more Republican women did not win this year.
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Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump there in 2016 by just 1.5 points, and it marked the first time the state voted more Republican than the national vote since 1952.
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The New York 0003th District, lodged between Buffalo and Rochester in the western part of the state, has grown more Republican since Collins first won it narrowly in 2012.
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Trump has taken aim at high drug prices, but Hargan outlined a more Republican-friendly approach to the issue, pointing to increased competition as the way to solve it.
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Kavanaugh had a net negative rating nationally, though the exit polls found those motivated by Kavanaugh were more Republican friendly even in Nevada (where Hillary Clinton won in 2016).
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It is possible that postelection survey respondents were more Republican because of the tendency for voters to report voting for the winner by a greater margin than the actual results.
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This cements the perception that he's very likely to lose, and as a result, more and more Republican elected officials, staffers, and donors become emboldened to come out against him.
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Read more: Republican Steve King Wins Iowa House Race Despite Racist Statements —Amber Jamieson Democrat Beto O'Rourke expressed gratitude to his supporters in El Paso after conceding to incumbent Sen.
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His success in Ohio, which has become more Republican, could appeal to Democrats as they try to win back Pennsylvania and the industrial Midwest states that Trump won in 2016.
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The bill was introduced with eight Republican co-sponsors — meaning that it would need only three more Republican votes to hit the 60-vote threshold if all Democrats supported it.
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Six Democrats also are competing Tuesday to win in Dent's Allentown-area district, redrawn to exclude some of the more Republican-leaning areas in the central part of the state.
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As of November 7, more Republican-affiliated Pennsylvania voters had cast early ballots than Democratic voters, according to TargetSmart voter file data obtained by the NBC News Data Analytics Lab.
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When George W. Bush's tax cuts were introduced—despite opposition from more Republican congressmen than have dared speak against Mr Trump's more spendthrift proposals—it was half its current level.
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Democrats need one more Republican to cross the aisle for 51-vote majority, but the math might already be on their side...To read more of our coverage, cclick here.
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In a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, RSC Chair Mark Walker outlines 19 ideas for spending cuts that would help secure more Republican votes on a debt limit hike.
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And that's why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose long-term plan is to put a lot more Republican-appointed judges on the bench, gets along so well with Trump.
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The vote on Thursday — which almost had more Republican votes of support than Democratic — underscored how powerful the moderate members of the Democratic caucus can be when united with Republicans.
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In 2019 and beyond, I'll be rooting for more Republican leaders to decide they can win elections the old-fashioned way: By persuading more voters that they deserve to win.
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A spokesperson for Cruz told me this issue remained a priority for the senator and that he had been working behind the scenes to get more Republican senators on board.
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Carbon County Northampton County Bethlehem Lehigh County Allentown PENNSYLVANIA 5 miles Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 23 10 10 30 50 pct. pts.
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But I don't think that women are inherently less likely to make selfish choices, so I don't know that more Republican female senators would have made any difference at all.
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Those early returns will be more Republican this time, because nearly 50,000 Republican-leaning voters who cast ballots on Election Day in April decided to vote early in the runoff.
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They have it halfway right: Democrats do need to be a bit more Republican in their outlook, but not in terms of finding points in common on the ideological spectrum.
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Combining those outcomes and controlling for how well Democrats did nationally in each of those contests, we can say that Arizona 8 is 20143 points more Republican than the nation.
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Is it their new enthusiasm for the old liberal policy of picking winners and losers in the industrial, private-sector marketplace that justifies their right to declare themselves "more Republican"?
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But we know that the platform is extremely popular with baby boomers and that its user base more and more resembles a Trump coalition — older, less educated, and more Republican.
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Publicly, Democrats held out hope that they could woo one more Republican dissenter to join Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in voting against Ms. DeVos.
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Then there will be one more Republican debate before the March 1 "SEC primary," in which many Southern states and a few non-Southern ones will go to the polls.
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But Royce did tweet on Tuesday: About eight more Republican members of Congress have made similar comments critical of the president, but did not respond to our request today. Sen.
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House Democrats hoping for big Trump-powered gains know that means trying to run and win in districts that are three or four percentage points more Republican than the national average.
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But despite the opposition to a filibuster, her nomination could still be spiked if Democrats succeed in winning one more Republican to their side, something Schumer alluded to in his comments.
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If Democrats are able to swing one more Republican to their side, it's probable that the resolution will actually clear both chambers of Congress, only to be vetoed by the president.
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What comes next: More Republican members are likely to sign a discharge petition intended to force votes on a series of immigration measures, including some likely to be backed by Democrats.
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If the Trump Train continues to go off the rails, it would be surprising if more Republican electors didn't share Vu's sentiments and we witness more unease among Electoral College members.
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"Carol Miller knows firsthand the challenges that come with running for Congress as a woman, and she will be instrumental in my efforts to elect more Republican women," Stefanik told CNN.
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Hanging over this is the fact that winning the 20 or more Republican Senate votes that will be needed to actually remove Trump from office will be a very tall order.
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Bucks County Montgomery County Chester County Philadelphia Delaware County PENNSYLVANIA 5 miles Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 10 03 30 50 pct. pts.
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Mr. Scaturro, 45, is of counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network, a Washington group pushing for more conservatives on federal and state courts, as well as more Republican state attorneys general.
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Unless Chief Justice John Roberts shocked Washington by wading in with a tie-break, Democrats need one more Republican to break ranks and upend GOP plans for a swift Trump acquittal.
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But if four or more Republican lawmakers defected on procedural questions, Democrats could effectively gain control of the impeachment trial, an outcome that Mr. McConnell wants to avoid at all costs.
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Only two more Republican "no" votes can keep it from passing — and the plan violates the stated principles of at least three Republican senators (Susan Collins, Jeff Flake and John McCain).
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There are more Republican seats at risk than Democratic ones, and some analysts believe that down-ballot races could be negatively affected by a Trump nomination (though that may be wishful thinking).
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In short, the respondents most likely to endorse deference to the military shared traits in common with the most likely Trump voter: male, more conservative, more Republican, older, not poor, military veteran.
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At this point, 49 Democrats and Republican Senator Susan Collins have jumped on board—meaning that if all senators are present for the vote, just one more Republican will need to flip.
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"We should be focused on ways to reduce costs—not advance costly controversial proposals that will cost the taxpayers even more," Republican state senator Dan McConchie said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Jenner called it a "non-issue" and noted that more Republican legislators have been arrested for lewd acts in public bathrooms in recent years than there have been arrests of transgender people.
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Alabama is as red as they come — the state's partisan lean, a metric of how much more Republican (or Democratic) a state is than the country as a whole, is R+22020.
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So I think the philosophy of trying to stimulate the economy with a more Republican, conservative kind of point of view, cyclically it's time to maybe go back to some of that.
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The Republican leadership proposed a series of amendments that marked major legislative changes, but it was not immediately clear whether they would help win more Republican support amid solid opposition from Democrats.
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Ohio went for Obama in both 2628 and again in 28500 but has been slowly trending more Republican in recent years with Trump besting Clinton by more than eight points in 6900.
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Duncan Hunter): This is a much more Republican-leaning district than those above (Trump won this suburban San Diego district by 15 points), so it's not as high a priority for Democrats.
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I was leaning more Republican at the time as I was getting my citizenship, because I found some of the moral aspects of the Republican Party were more consistent with my viewpoints.
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Malik thinks Clinton "should have known better" than to use her personal email for classified material -- and says he feels like he's more Republican now because he doesn't support same sex marriage.
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Because of the way gerrymandered districts are stacked, a state like North Carolina has far more Republican representatives than Democratic ones, even if half of its voters actually vote Democratic, Prokop notes.
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" According to Andrea Bozek, the spokeswoman for Winning For Women, a super PAC aimed at getting more Republican women elected, "Someone has to be pushing the panic button — we're at code red.
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Mr. Kushner plans to ask Mr. Trump to lobby Mr. McConnell directly by phone, but is waiting to line up more Republican support first, according to two people familiar with his thinking.
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Erie Scranton State College Allentown Altoona Pittsburgh Reading Harrisburg Lancaster Philadelphia York 303 miles Shift in margin from 2012 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 201693 201683 201673 201663 201653 pct.
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Butler County Armstrong County Beaver County Allegheny County Pittsburgh Washington County Westmoreland County 10 miles Fayette County PENNSYLVANIA Shift in margin 2012-2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 0 50 pct. pts.
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This summer, Representative Mark Sanford, a South Carolina Republican, lost in his state's primary, to a more Republican opponent, after his criticism of the president earned him a bad-tempered presidential tweet.
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But so far, there have been more Republican retirements than there were at this point in 2008 or any other cycle since 2004, according to an analysis from Daniel Donner of DailyKos.
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The exact number is higher in more Republican and lower in more Democratic states, but majorities tend to flip from blue to red roughly where commuter suburbs give way to "exurban" sprawl.
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In 4903, Defiance became much more Republican than it had been: while voters there had supported Romney over Obama 55.5 to 42.2 percent, they supported Trump over Clinton 63.7 to 29.3 percent.
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NASA and SpaceX choose both From Apollo 85033 to Artemis: This time when we go back to the moon, we are going to stay MORE, Republican from Oklahoma, to be NASA administrator.
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In all of them, the weighted average partisanship (which takes into account past state and local elections in addition to the presidential election results) is more Republican than the 2016 presidential vote.
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Stefanik relaunched her leadership PAC earlier this year so she can get involved in primary races and help more Republican women get elected, which has been a sensitive subject for the GOP.
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The irony there is that the more Republican leadership realizes it will lose conservative votes in its own party, the more it will have to rely on Democrats to avoid a shutdown.
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Democrats' hope was that a bill blessed with the imprimatur of those three Republicans would also secure backing from Susan Collins and several more Republican senators representing states Obama had carried in November.
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Cook, which rates districts based on how much more Republican or Democratic they are than the country as a whole, classifies most of the districts as somewhere between R+22018 and R+22020.
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Markey and his co-sponsors have more than enough supporters to force a vote this way, but to pass the resolution, they need to win over one more Republican in addition to Sen.
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It has a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean of R +22, meaning that it's 113 points more Republican than the country as a whole based on its voting in recent presidential and state legislative elections.
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Republicans continued the trend of saying they felt betrayed by their party, but only about a third or more Republican voters in the five states said they were angry with the federal government.
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Indeed, while the vast majority of congressional Republicans still deny the science of human-caused warming, there are more Republican members of the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus this year than ever before.
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A revolt from two Republican senators concerned about the child tax credit and the absence of two more Republican senators because of illness has injected fresh uncertainty into the GOP's tax bill push.
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"Our country needs more Republican elected officials to stand with the vocal majority of Americans who support steps that help keep guns out of the wrong hands and prevent gun tragedies," he said.
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Even in close elections, there are simply more Republican voters in Texas than Democrats -- and voters loyal to both parties work in the oil and gas industry, particularly in Houston and South Texas.
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The state just has more Republican voters than Democratic ones, and Musa al-Gharbi argues in an op-ed that those Republicans seem more enthusiastic about voting this year than many people realize.
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Erie Scranton State College Allentown Altoona Pittsburgh Reading Harrisburg Philadelphia Lancaster York 201623 miles Shift in margin from 201613 to 201603 More Democratic More Republican 2150 210 2150 2115 212 2162 pct. pts.
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What's more, Republican legislators would have gone on record as voting to ignore Mr. Trump's lawlessness, which will no doubt continue to be displayed in new and appalling ways up until Election Day.
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Additionally, while this trio is seen as the lawmakers most likely to flip, Democrats need at least one more Republican to swing their way if they want to guarantee a successful rules vote.
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New York is among several solidly Democratic states, like California and Illinois, that have limited the use of bail, though legislatures in more Republican states like Texas and Alaska have also embraced reforms.
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Trump has frequently complained that he needs more Republican senators to enact his agenda, after the GOP's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed by one vote in the chamber last year.
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People who choose to watch a political speech tend to be more supportive of the speaker than the general population; this sample was about 22009 points more Republican than the entire American population.
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On Election Day, voters will cast ballots for two races: one to fill Dent's old, more Republican 15th District seat through January, and another to elect the new district's representative starting next year.
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Weighting the past two presidential results in a way that best explains the special election results so far this year, Mississippi is about 16 points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
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Remember, Republican Roy Moore was barely ahead of Democrat Doug Jones for a US Senate seat right next door in far more Republican-leaning Alabama even before he was accused of sexual abuse.
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John McCain's (R-AZ) current absence, Democrats would need only one more Republican vote to block the Supreme Court nomination if their entire caucus voted together — something that is by no means guaranteed.
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And the more Republican leaders delude themselves into thinking that the solution to their woes is to centralize more power into fewer hands, the more they court an even angrier backlash in the future.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Jeff Flake said on Wednesday he expects more Republican colleagues to speak out against Donald Trump's behavior and policies, one day after denouncing the Republican president in a fiery speech.
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No one really knows what that means, but it struck a surprisingly optimistic tone, given that since GOP leaders delayed a Senate vote on the bill, it has lost even more Republican support. Rep.
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Two more Republican lawmakers signed their names to a discharge petition on Thursday, leaving renegade lawmakers only five signatures short of being able to go around Ryan and bring immigration legislation to the floor.
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"What's really going on is there's a geographic division where you're seeing rural areas become more and more Republican and more conservative, more Trump," Lee Mirengoff, the director of the Marist Poll, said Friday.
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The fundamentalist pastor actually lost the seat in the 2145 Democratic wave only to regain it in the 50 GOP wave, after which it was made more Republican in the next round of redistricting.
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Or take Texas's 22016nd Congressional District, a suburban district outside of Dallas that FiveThirtyEight ranks as 22016 percent more Republican than the country as a whole, a district in which the Republican incumbent, Rep.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Jeff Flake said on Wednesday he expects more Republican colleagues to speak out against Donald Trump's behavior and policies, one day after denouncing the Republican president in a fiery speech.
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There is, no doubt, a bit of a cycle here: The more Republican candidates talk about America's military weakness, the more Americans (especially Republican partisans) come to believe that US military strength has declined.
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I tend to side with more Republican or conservative views, but if there was someone that I thought was a better candidate than Trump or Hillary, I would have voted for them hands down.
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That's because a win for Trump in Wisconsin would likely mean victories for him in swing states that he carried that are more Republican than Wisconsin — such as Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Iowa.
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Bringing more Republican women into the fold could play an enormous role in repairing some of the irreparable damage done by Donald Trump's candidacy when it comes to how the party talks about women.
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"There aren't many comprehensive bills with this magnitude that have earned this type of support," Grassley said at a press conference after he made changes to the bill to bring on more Republican support.
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Despite the conventional wisdom that Hispanic voters tend to vote Democratic, Miami's heavily Cuban-American community tends to lean more Republican, and a number of the state's key House seats are represented by moderate Republicans.
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She won 4,217,386 votes in California, nearly 90,000 more Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman(533,127,391), who was defeated in a embarrassing blowout that year by Jerry Brown after spending $177 million to Brown's $36 million.
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Rick Saccone, who lost to Conor Lamb in a special congressional election in March, was back again in hopes of pulling out a win in a more Republican-friendly district after the map was redrawn.
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The aide floated the possibility of shifting money away from New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, where more moderate voters are likely to be turned off by Trump's lewd comments, to races in more Republican-leaning states.
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Redrawn boundaries since then have made the northern Florida district even more Republican, leading Graham to see the writing on the wall this cycle and announce her retirement after only one term in the House.
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The amendment is the second the pair introduced on the transgender ban, and the new version is more narrow than the first, in what is likely an effort to try to attract more Republican support.
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The lawsuit comes on the same day that Senate Democrats announced that they need just one more Republican to back a bill that would block the net neutrality repeal and send it to the House.
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But Democrats still see Trump as having an influence on vulnerable down-ballot Republicans like Guinta, even in his swing district that tilts slightly more Republican, as they try to appeal to more centrist voters.
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There are two more Republican presidential debates left on the schedule — and that is more than enough for party insiders, who fear that the insult-rich clashes are becoming deeply damaging to the GOP's image.
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Many rural areas are now 80 percent or more Republican, which means that agricultural states, even those with major metropolitan areas within their boundaries, have become virtual locks for Republican candidates for the foreseeable future.
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She might even lead by the same margin in Florida that she does nationally — about five percentage points — even though the state has been more Republican than the country in every presidential election since 1976.
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Pushing her Midwestern Methodist roots, taking advantage of primogeniture, Hillary often seems more Republican than the Gotham bling king, who used to be a Democrat and donor to Democratic candidates before he jumped the turnstile.
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The House passed two bills to fund the departments of transportation, housing and agriculture - each drawing a few more Republican votes than a similar effort on Wednesday to reopen the Treasury Department and other agencies.
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But the decline usually has been disproportionately greater among the core Democratic groups of young people and minorities, producing an electorate in both states that is whiter and more Republican than in the presidential year.
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Elise Stefanik of New York launched a super PAC on Thursday dedicated to electing more Republican women in 2020 after the failure to increase the number of women in the House of Representatives in 2018.
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If Mr. Giuliani's cynical pitch for more Republican leaders and more intense policing was carried out, it would actually lead to the same thing he's accusing opponents of: not mitigating the violence, just managing it.
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This poll comes on top of the 2018 exit poll giving Trump a +1 net approval rating, and the midterm electorate in Texas is likely more Republican leaning than a 2020 presidential electorate will be.
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For more … Republican leaders — including frequent defenders of the president like senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, as well as Nikki Haley, Trump's former ambassador to the United Nations — harshly criticized Trump's decision.
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Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have already said they might be open to witnesses in the trial, meaning Democrats need to find just one more Republican senator.
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So, in the case of PA-18, it has a PVI of R+11, meaning that in the last two presidential elections it has performed 11 points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
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On Tuesday, supporters are holding a net neutrality day of action to push for one more Republican senator to support the bill and become the tie-breaking vote needed to send it to the House.
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That tendency is reflected in the fact that many more Republican-nominated judges than those put forward by Democrats have taken senior status or left the bench entirely since Mr. Trump was elected in 2016.
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Two more Republican senators in the last 24 hours are sounding the alarm that repealing Obamacare without a replacement plan in place may not be good for the health of the GOP ... much less the country.
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After joining Trump for the Obamacare speech in King of Prussia, Pence set off for another rally in Youngwood, a borough in the more Republican-heavy western part of the state about an hour outside Pittsburgh.
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That said, this rightward trend among Asian-American voters could very well be on its way out: Asian-American voters may have historically leaned more Republican two decades ago, but they are increasingly identifying as Democrats.
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The Senate's bias toward states rather than populations gives Republicans a persistent advantage in the chamber; FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver calculates that the average state is 6 percentage points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
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Immigration: The Hill – Hours after House GOP leaders privately warned rank-and-file lawmakers not to attempt to force immigration votes on the House floor, two more Republican lawmakers signed up to do just that Wednesday.
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"If one more Republican tells me they have gay friends, I'm gonna scream," said Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, Democrat of New York and one of just a few openly gay, lesbian or bisexual members of Congress.
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One more Republican "no" vote and the legislation's future is all but over in the Senate, where Republicans only have until September 30 to overhaul the law with 51 votes, according to the Senate's parliamentarian. Sen.
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Stefanik reportedly pressed the two male lawmakers running for GOP minority leader during a candidate forum last month about their plans to help more Republican women win their races, but she was disappointed by their responses.
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The Senate's vehicle to pass a health care bill with just 51 votes expires at the end of this month, and it only takes one more Republican "no" vote to stop the legislation from passing altogether.
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Under the circumstances, the knowledge that geography has created safe redoubts that are significantly more Republican than the nation as a whole is what gives the GOP confidence that it can forge ahead with this path.
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But, she noted, the effort to elect more Republican women faces major obstacles, particularly the party's strong anti-abortion stance when polls show that most Americans believe access to abortion should remain legal in most cases.
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Over all, the districts are whiter, more affluent and more Republican than the country as a whole, but they supported Hillary Clinton by a narrow margin in 2016, as the country did in the popular vote.
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Given that Republicans currently hold 53 of the 100 Senate seats, the question will be whether that Republican majority holds, or whether four (or more) Republican Senators join with Democrats on this and other key votes.
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But here in Waukesha County, a patchwork of suburbs, small cities and rural areas west of Milwaukee that holds more Republican votes than any other county in this crucial swing state, there was a nervous excitement.
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Eight days later, the legislature voted to change lower-court elections from nonpartisan to partisan affairs, requiring nearly 400 judges to run under party labels in a bid to put more Republican loyalists on the bench.
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Context: Upton's defection brings to 22 the number of GOP no votes on the revised health bill; one more Republican "no" could kill the measure, given that Democrats all plan to vote against it. http://bit.
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John McCain (R-AZ) is recovering from a health scare in Arizona for at least one week, meaning McConnell can only lose one more Republican senator if he wants to hold the vote before McCain returns.
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Axios has since learned that Curbelo is likely to have at least one, maybe a few more, Republican co-sponsors, but it wasn't immediately clear which members it would be, according to multiple people following the developments.
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But it's not populous enough to support a congressional district on its own so it needs to be paired with the more Republican northern reaches of the Lower Peninsula in the state's largest (by area) congressional district.
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Butler County Armstrong County Beaver County Allegheny County Pittsburgh Washington County Westmoreland County 22016 miles Fayette County PENNSYLVANIA Shift in margin from 22020 to 2016 More Democratic More Republican 50 30 10 10 30 20163 pct. pts.
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Trump now has at least two avenues to appoint a permanent successor to Jeff Sessions: Send a new nominee before a more favorable Senate with even more Republican votes, or make a recess appointment over the holidays.
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On Capitol Hill, conservatives vented on Friday morning at a closed-door meeting in which the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and the president's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, sought to drum up more Republican support for the legislation.
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The district, moderate enough to give hope to good candidates of either party, even though it was gerrymandered to be more Republican, is one of two in the state that Democrats hope to flip in November's midterms.
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There is, for example, an effort to at least get a few more Republican women to run for office, to counter the narrative (and the unfortunate reality) that the party is one by and for white men.
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This district is rated Likely Republican and R+20163 by Cook Political Report, meaning all else being equal it's about 5 points more Republican than the rest of the country; this means it's on the edge of competitiveness.
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But to make major gains in the House, given the state of district boundaries, Democrats realistically need to win some solidly red districts that are 4 or 5 percentage points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
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The other four have leaned 5 to 10 points more Republican than the nation in a weighted average of the last two presidential elections: Arizona (Martha McSally), Georgia (David Perdue), Iowa (Joni Ernst) and North Carolina (Thom Tillis).
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Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE, Republican nominee John McCainJohn Sidney McCainFighter pilot vs.
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Democrats are still confident that President Trump's low approval ratings and voter discontent with a Republican Congress will lead to more Republican retirements and help them expand the map, with four moderates already planning to retire next year.
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While the new map won't go into effect until after the closely watched March 13 special election in the 18th District, both nominees have been drawn out of the new district, which has now become even more Republican.
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How do you think this district has demonstrated a shifting axis in American politics — where before it was more Republican-heavy, and now not just with Hillary Clinton coming close but with Democrats looking very possible to win?
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The central Oklahoma district is a Republican stronghold, and the widely respected Cook Political Report rates it R +10, which means that in recent elections, elections in the 5th district were 10 points more Republican than the national average.
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In one of the most stunning failures of an American governing party to get its signature legislation passed in Congress, the Republican health-care bill in the Senate stalled, after more Republican senators said they would not support it.
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Of the other 260 Republican-held seats up for election, 16 of them are in states that were 10 points or more Republican than the nation as a whole in a weighted average of the last two presidential elections.
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But it's the necessary first step if Republicans are to do that this year, and unless three or more Republican senators defect (or 24 House members do), it'll be smooth sailing for the repeal effort from there on out.
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Muth said that Hof, who owned seven legal brothels in Nevada and had celebrity status due to being a star on the HBO reality series "Cathouse," is likely to win over even more Republican voters due to his death.
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McConnell and fellow Senate leaders clambered for the support of more Republican senators to avoid the embarrassment of a weak showing after Trump went out on a limb to cut the deal with congressional leaders, Senate Republican aides said.
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Asher said the state has undergone a mini-realignment in which the rural areas (both western Ohio and Appalachia) have become even more Republican, and the Democrats gains in some of the urban counties do not compensate for this.
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Losing one more Republican senator would effectively sink the legislation, and a handful of Republican senators from states that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act have signaled they will closely follow the lead of their state's governor.
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WASHINGTON — Two more Republican senators declared on Monday night that they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, killing, for now, a seven-year-old promise to overturn President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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In a season rife with demonstrations over immigration, pipelines, abortion, women's rights and more, Republican legislators in at least 16 states have filed bills intended to make protests more orderly or to toughen penalties against ones that go awry.
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Republican representatives Ed Royce and Darrell Issa have both announced they were retiring from districts that voted for Hillary Clinton after narrowly supporting Mitt Romney (though Issa may instead be cravenly eyeing a nearby, more Republican-friendly district to run in).
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Read more: Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter Has Won Reelection Despite Being Indicted —Talal Ansari Democrat Jon Tester narrowly defeated Republican newcomer Matthew Rosendale after a tight race defined, in part, by President Trump's active interest in the sitting senator's defeat.
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President Donald Trump's administration has yet to decide who it will ultimately pick to help steer the U.S. economy through a potential growth burst, and an unprecedented leadership transition toward a more Republican-leaning Fed under new Chairman Jerome Powell.
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We just have to work a little harder to share with voters why it's so important to engage with and elect more Republican women…Democrats have been working to recruit female candidates for longer than we have on the Republican side.
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Frostman will be the first Democrat to represent the northeast Wisconsin district since the 1970s — a win Democrats are hailing as more evidence of a so-called blue wave ready to flip more Republican-held seats in elections later this year.
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Commercial U.S. flights started landing on the island this summer, pro-tourism bills were gaining more Republican co-sponsors and an amendment to lift the ban on Cuba tourism was easily added to a Senate spending bill earlier this year.
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A Democrat in a place that seems to become more Republican with each election cycle, she has had to hone her instinct for locating the ever-smaller zone where there is some remaining overlap between her party and her state.
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In the 2012 election, only one state fell more than 10 points from its expectation, after controlling for home state effects: West Virginia, which voted 20 points more Republican than the nation in 2008, and then 30 points more in 2012.
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The tie-breaking vote, which Senate officials said was unprecedented to confirm a Cabinet nominee, followed an all-night debate on DeVos as Senate Democrats tried to pressure at least one more Republican to oppose her and defeat the nomination.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's drive to win passage of a sweeping Republican tax bill in the U.S. Congress hit potential obstacles on Thursday as two more Republican senators insisted on changes, joining a list of lawmakers whose support is uncertain.
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But Ms. Andress and her friends were less certain that some of their more Republican-leaning contemporaries could bring themselves to back a Democrat, although they were heartened to have seen red "No Moore" signs on lawns of some Republican neighbors.
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It is interesting to talk about with him because he is an extremely educated person; he reads the news from all sources and forms opinions of his own, regardless of party, but these opinions are often more republican than anything.
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By all the fundamentals, Bishop should be the favorite in a district that is significantly more Republican than the United States as a whole, thanks in part to North Carolina's aggressive partisan gerrymandering (recently overturned by a state court panel).
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The more Trump speaks out and explains to Republican voters how to interpret the events in Charlottesville (and whatever conflicts come next, as there will almost certainly be more), the more Republican voters will adapt to the new meaning of Republicanism.
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In fact, the case for keeping the Electoral College often comes from those in small states and in rural, typically more Republican, regions who don't want small towns and rural voices to get drowned out by people who live in cities.
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There is special counsel Mueller, Republican; Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, Republican; Deputy AG Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE, Republican; interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, Republican; and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Republican.
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Walz's exit is one of the few good opportunities for Republicans anywere in the country — Cooks rates the district R+5 (which means, all else being equal, it leans five points more Republican than the rest of the nation) and a toss-up.
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Analysis done a few years ago by Mike Shannon and Will Feltus of Scarborough Research shows that the WNBA has the most Democratic-voting fans of any sport, followed by the NBA, while NFL football is more Republican-leaning than the overall population.
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Capital Alpha Partners analyst Kim Monk, in a research note on Wednesday, said she expects advisors and Congress to steer Trump toward "more Republican-oriented ideas," including pricing drugs based on their relative health benefit and requiring more disclosure of pricing details.
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Some analysts said the high-profile sparring between Republican Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan was fueling concerns that more Republican seats could be lost in the House of Representatives and that there could even be a Democratic sweep in Congress.
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It's time for more Republican and Democratic senators and representatives to say so, and they can start by passing resolutions in both the Senate and House condemning efforts to vilify and delegitimize the press and expressing support for reporters' First Amendment rights.
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More and more Republican lawmakers are retiring after this legislative session — some to seek higher office at the federal and state level, some to private-sector ventures, and some simply out of a desire to be at home and with their families.
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Establishment Republicans are skeptical that former judge Roy Moore's victory in last week's Alabama GOP primary runoff means that an alliance of insurgent conservative groups, led by former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, is about to knock off more Republican incumbents.
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Advocacy groups and female lawmakers desperate to elect more Republican women to the House are rallying behind Joan Perry, a pediatrician and political novice who in late April finished second among 22020 candidates to advance to a July runoff with Greg Murphy.
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Still, as I watched my former colleagues defend the president during his impeachment trial, I was struck by the same question that baffles many: Why didn't more Republican senators convict President Trump, or at least allow additional witnesses in his impeachment trial?
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Joe Manchin, whom the White House is reportedly targeting as a potential acquittal vote, said over the weekend that he would "love to hear" from Mick Mulvaney and Bolton—it would take just two more Republican votes to make the subpoena a reality.
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He added that he doesn't "think that's going to happen," but that if Democrats keep winning districts that election analysts have determined vote much more Republican than the nation as a whole, they could very well take back control of the House.
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"The differences we see across age groups have more to do with the unique historical circumstances in which they come of age," she said, noting that demographers have not seen a generational pattern of growing more conservative or more Republican over time.
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"There's a number of hypotheses why we're looking toward a future that is more Republican," Young declared of the Senate's composition, arguing that Democrats have had to write off much of the territory they used to contest in the middle of the country.
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"Our fundraising success is further evidence that the American people like the pro-growth agenda and economic record that the Trump Administration and Republicans continue to deliver, and this puts us in a strong position to secure more Republican victories in 2020," she added.
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And, the poll also reveals that more GOP voters approve than disapprove of the way Republicans in Congress are governing 47% to 43%, the first time since this summer that more Republican voters have approved than disapproved of the job Republican lawmakers are doing.
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As the district has grown more Republican, he's been able to stave off GOP opponents and win reelection, touting the Agriculture Committee gavel he held from 2007 to 2011 and currently holds, as well as his record of breaking with his party on key issues.
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"There are some real parallels particularly with the excitement on the ground and crowds that are showing up even in smaller, rural, more Republican areas," Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama communications staffer for the Obama campaign who would eventually become White House communications director, said.
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One political figure who was supposed to personify that moniker was the present Speaker of the House, Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE, Republican from Wisconsin.
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Mehanna claims that people are responsible for their feeds, and that Facebook's interference ("veering conservatives to be more liberal, or liberals to be more republican, or people who like soccer to like more volleyball") in a person's own crafted experience would not be right.
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VOTERS' VIEWS ON IMMIGRATION PRO ANTI 100% (SUPPORT THE REPUBLICAN) 88 75% Voters in 2018 71 Voters in 20173 MORE REPUBLICAN SUPPORT 50% 39 25% MORE DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT 22016 22012 (SUPPORT THE DEMOCRAT) 22016% VOTERS' VIEWS PRO-IMMIGRATION ANTI-IMMIGRATION (SUPPORTING THE REPUBLICAN) 262 MORE REPUBLICAN SUPPORT Voters in 22015 284% 1003 2100% Voters in 22018 22016 25% 23 INCREASED LIKELIHOOD OF DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT 0 (SUPPORTING THE DEMOCRAT) By The New York Times | Source: analysis of the Views of the Electorate Research Survey by John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck The growing importance of immigration to voting for Congress isn't because of congressional candidates themselves.
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RELATED: Ted Cruz sweeps Wyoming Republican Convention The delegate fight in Georgia is not yet over, with 31 more Republican delegates -- the majority of whom will be bound to vote for Trump on the convention's first ballot -- to be selected at a state convention in early June.
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But Missy Shorey, national executive director of Maggie's List, says the eight-year-old organization has increasingly seen more Republican women interested in running for office and that fewer of them need encouragement to do so — which has long been the biggest barrier to recruitment efforts.
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Read more: Republican support for impeaching Trump doubled in the past few days amid escalating Ukraine scandalPolling from Morning Consult released Thursday showed a nine-point spike in support for impeachment proceedings against Trump after only a few days, bringing it to 44% among all voters.
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" He instead favored a more republican system, where power would be wielded by a representative class "whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.
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While more Republican senators, including Bob Corker of Tennessee, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, have criticized the White House's tariff policy, the only major legislative effort to check Trump's tariff powers has not really gotten off the ground.
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Although the midterms are more than six months away, the die appears to have been cast, with the remaining questions being whether Ryan's departure is a harbinger of more Republican retirements to come, and whether or not the GOP will fall victim to a Democratic wave.
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The caustic exchange with Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee on Sunday came at a time when Mr. Trump could ill afford to lose the support of even one more Republican, given his repeated failures to hold together his party on high-drama votes on health care.
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Nate Silver [of FiveThirtyEight] has actually found this cycle that our polls are leaning one to two points more Republican than the polls as a whole, so even though Trump supporters on the internet hate us, we've actually been giving Trump better polls than most companies have.
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And I'd speculate that the rest of the party can be sorted into one or more of these four groups: Regardless of whether more Republican politicians are indifferent, fearful, resigned, or secret Trump fans, their overall unwillingness to act has implications for the race going forward.
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The majority of independents still lean either more Republican or Democrat when pressed, but in recent years there has been a swell in those who don't affiliate outright with either major party, and this has corresponded with other surveys showing high levels of frustration with Congress and partisan politics.
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On Thursday, however, there was no denying it anymore: The Senate has a bill, it will pass unless three or more Republican senators vote against it, and though a few conservatives have made noise about how they don't like it, that doesn't mean it won't ultimately become law.
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But overall, Clinton built a framework that made more Republican legislators from big metropolitan areas (and even some Democrats with big rural constituencies) comfortable with including restrictions on gun access in an overall plan to confront crime and violence -- issues with renewed relevance in some swing suburban communities today.
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More Republican candidates actually mention Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE than Schumer, who remains unknown in much of the country.
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Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape Dayton Democrat launches challenge to longtime GOP rep Dayton mayor: Trump visit after shooting was 'difficult on the community' MORE (D-Ohio) in 2628, taking advantage of a midterm electorate that leans more Republican.
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Gingrich then gives the dagger another twist: To get a sense of the depth of the Democratic Party's decay at the state legislative level in the Obama era, consider that since President Obama took office, 85 of 98 legislative bodies have become more Republican than they were when he was inaugurated.
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While large parts of the American electoral map, particularly in the industrial Rust Belt, turned more Republican in Tuesday's election, California went more Democratic, with 61.5 percent of voters choosing Hillary Clinton, the highest percentage for a Democratic presidential nominee since the re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.
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Read more: Republican primary voters are annoyed that their party is canceling primaries to benefit TrumpEven though Trump and Walsh are more ideologically similar than Trump and Weld, Walsh's hard-hitting, in-your-face style and near-constant onslaught of criticisms against Trump could damage the president in the general election.
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"This election may literally come down to what happens in Bucks County," Biden told the crowd in Bristol, Pa. CNN recently deemed Bucks County a critical county to watch on election night, citing its combination of working-class voters closer to Philadelphia and more Republican suburbs farther out from the city.
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Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (Maine), meaning it needs just one more Republican supporter for it to pass the chamber.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's travel ban on citizens of six Muslim-majority nations faces its second challenge at a U.S. appeals court next month, and this time more Republican states are backing the measure, while one Democratic state attorney general dropped out of the legal fight this week.
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Three more Republican senators -- Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio and Mike Rounds of South Dakota -- have expressed concerns about the bill; and four others -- Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia -- have made specific demands for changes.
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"There is this regionalization that is sort of new out there, where you've got states like [Pennsylvania] and Ohio and Michigan and Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, that whole belt performed more Republican than it has in a presidential [election] in a long, long time," said John Rogers, who heads the NRCC.
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The House may also consider narrower, bipartisan bills Democrats hope could attract more Republican support, like the Honest Ads Act, which would force Facebook, Google and other internet companies to disclose who is purchasing political advertising, and a bill focused solely on getting states to adopt the use of backup paper ballots.
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Trump's presidency is itself evidence of this dynamic — he won by persuading working-class white voters to vote like an embattled minority — but his strategy has been tested before: There are reams of research showing white Americans turn more Republican in their political allegiances when reminded of the growing power of nonwhite voters.
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Because no Democrats have yet indicated that they will vote for DeVos, this means that Vice President Mike Pence would have to break a 50-50 tie in order to get DeVos through the Senate; the Democrats need only one more Republican to jump ship in order to kill DeVos's nomination entirely.
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As always, we'll contextualize these primaries by using FiveThirtyEight partisan lean — how much more Republican or Democratic a jurisdiction is than the country overall — to give you an idea of how competitive each general election will be, as well as whether the parties are choosing the candidates with the best chance to win in November.
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"The current playing field -- this handful of special elections -- is on a tiny, unrepresentative patch of the country that is far more Republican than the nation as a whole," said David Nir, the political director for Daily Kos, the liberal blog that helped Ossoff raise an eye-popping $8.3 million in 2017's first quarter.
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Schumer urged Trump to help round up more Republican co-sponsors for the bill and pressure McConnell and Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) to bring the Dream Act up for a vote.
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Team Rising argue why a Joe BidenJoe BidenPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 10 points 2020 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump 85033 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters MORE-Republican VP ticket is a terrible idea.
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The big picture: Big Tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, are all seen as leaning more Democratic, along with sports-linked brands like Nike, the NBA, and the NFL — while banks like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citi, are all seen as more Republican, along with some of the biggest corporate names like Walmart, GM, and Delta.
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During the Q&A, Jenner also took specific aim at the anti-LGBT legislative efforts many states have made to restrict bathroom usage by gender, calling it a "non-issue" and noting that more Republican legislators have been arrested for lewd acts in public bathrooms in recent years than there have been arrests of transgender people.
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Read more: Republican support for impeaching Trump doubled in the past few days amid escalating Ukraine scandal"There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great," Trump said, according to the memo.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: On iPhone or iPad | On Android via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher On Monday night, two more Republican senators declared that they would oppose their party's plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaving the bill at least two votes short of the 50 needed to move forward.
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Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (Maine) already on board, Democrats need the support of just one more Republican to ensure the legislation is sent to the House.
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To reach the kind of electoral targets Clinton is currently aiming for in places like Arizona and Georgia — or to help her party's House members who need to win in districts that are 4 or 5 points more Republican than the nation as a whole — Clinton needs to win in places that are full of lifelong Republicans.
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While Eggleston expressed optimism that more Republican meetings are on the horizon, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement Friday saying that despite a "massive campaign" by the White House, unions and other liberal special interest groups, there are so far only two GOP senators — Susan Collins and Mark S. Kirk of Illinois — calling for hearings.
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While Democratic voters appear to be highly energized by President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, Republican politicians have made an effort to get their own voters enthused about the upcoming mid-terms.
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"If they adopted a 'Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE Republican' position, it would sink the Republican Party, because you would not see the kind of swing we showed in this poll," he asserted, referring to the outgoing Speaker of the House.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneySenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Overnight Defense: Bolton, GOP senators see close ties challenged | Republicans fume over Dem maneuver on Iran bills |Trump criticizes Democrats over war powers vote GOP predicts Roberts won't cast tie-breaking vote on witnesses MORE (R-Utah) said it was "increasingly likely" more Republican senators would support calling Bolton.
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I think Trump will actually bring more Republican voters to the polls in those states than somebody like Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-85033 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE, who will be a disaster.
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The best evidence we have from the 2018 midterms, as compiled by Emory political scientist Alan Abramowitz, suggests that supporting Medicare-for-all cost Democrats about 4.6 percentage points in swing districts; the average Democratic margin was higher in districts where the Democratic candidate didn't back Medicare-for-all, despite those districts being more Republican-leaning overall than districts where pro-Medicare-for-all candidates ran.
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" Scott, who has served as Florida's governor since 2011, told Politico he sees himself as "Rick Scott" when asked whether or not he is a "Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE Republican.
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Some TPP supporters argue that if Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is defeated handily on Election Day, his anti-trade message will lose its potency and there will be more Republican votes on Capitol Hill for the pact.
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In response to a National Review op-ed floating him as a potential running mate to Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, Republican primary candidate John Kasich said Sunday that he's not interested in a spot on a potential Trump ticket.
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Long ago, I wrote about how the Russia investigation was spurring a new type of "red scare" as critics denounced Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE, Republican members of Congress, and commentators as Russian apologists or Kremlin assets.
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Files on hard drives discovered by his daughter after his death showed that he wrote a 2015 study that found that adding a citizenship question to the census would lead to more Republican-friendly congressional maps.. Files on the drives also showed that he wrote the key portion of a draft letter that the Department of Justice used to maintain, dubiously, that the citizenship question was needed to help enforce the Voting Rights Act.
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Deep dissatisfaction with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and an apparent realignment, both political and geographic, among suburban voters helped Democrats reclaim control of the House of Representatives, where the party won more Republican-held seats than in any midterm election since Watergate.
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White working class voters are more Republican than Democratic, 56% in the CNN/KFF poll are Republicans or independents who lean that way, compared with 33% who consider themselves Democrats or are independents who lean that way, but the poll reveals that their views on what the government does to help people like them and the changing demographics of the country -- two issues that have been a central focus of Trump's campaign -- are driven by both education and partisanship.
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First, because while Clinton had astutely mocked Obama's theory of post-partisanship in 2008, the Clintonian approach of simply being 25 percent more Republican-like—voting for the Iraq War and supporting anti–flag-burning amendments out of some bizarre idea that doing so would cancel out the salience of those issues for the movement identified with nationalism and jingoism—had already definitively failed at either establishing long-lasting Democratic majorities or cooling the hysterical opposition of the right.
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House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE faced tough questions from the crowd at an annual conservative summit hosted by anti-Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE Republican Mitt Romney.
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Rob PortmanRobert (Rob) Jones PortmanSchumer blasts 'red flag' gun legislation as 'ineffective cop out' McConnell faces pressure to bring Senate back for gun legislation Shaken Portman urges support for 'red flag' laws after Ohio shooting MORE (R-Ohio) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the original sponsors of the bill, announced on Wednesday that the legislation had won over three more Republican senators: Mike RoundsMarion (Mike) Michael RoundsThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Overnight Defense: Esper sworn in as Pentagon chief | Confirmed in 90-8 vote | Takes helm as Trump juggles foreign policy challenges | Senators meet with woman accusing defense nominee of sexual assault MORE (S.
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Twenty-two members of the Texas delegation were among those missing in action, including several Republicans who face primary challenges, like House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin BradyKevin Patrick BradyRepublicans' rendezvous with reality — their plan is to cut Social Security The Social Security 2100 Act is critical for millennials and small business owners House panel releases documents of presidential tax return request before Trump MORE, Republican Study Committee Chairman Bill FloresWilliam (Bill) Hose FloresConservatives call on Pelosi to cancel August recess Overnight Energy: GOP lawmaker parodies Green New Deal in new bill | House Republicans accuse Dems of ramming through climate bill | Park Service chief grilled over shutdown House Republicans accuse Dems of ramming through climate bill MORE and House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions.
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Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (Alaska), Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyA US-UK free trade agreement can hold the Kremlin to account Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Overnight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces MORE (Utah) and Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerPoll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE (Colo.) said Wednesday that they would oppose Cain, whose nomination would be defeated if one more Republican voted against him, assuming all Democrats oppose him.
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But there is no obvious enforcement mechanism if Senator Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellHillicon Valley: Senate passes bill to boost cyber help for agencies, businesses | Watchdog warns Energy Department failing to protect grid | FTC sues Match for allegedly conning users Impeachment push threatens to derail bipartisan efforts on health care costs Overnight Defense — Presented by Huntington Ingalls Industries — Furor over White House readout of Ukraine call | Dems seize on memo in impeachment push | Senate votes to end Trump emergency | Congress gets briefing on Iran MORE, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, were to simply refuse to convene one -- just as he refused to permit a confirmation hearing and vote on Mr. Obama's nominee, Judge Merrick GarlandMerrick Brian GarlandThe Hill's 12:30 Report: Dems seize on Ukraine transcript in impeachment fight Brett Kavanaugh debate exemplifies culture war between left and right Supreme Court comes to Trump's aid on immigration MORE, to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2016.
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