Talk Of Clinton Winning Texas Has GOP Craving Reality Check

They are unable to do so any longer, they say, and they see hypocrisy in Republican men rallying behind Trump after the same leaders for years accused Bill Clinton of predatory behavior. He found that there has been a sea change in expectations on both sides since October 7 when The Washington Post reported on the existence of the “Access Hollywood” recording in which Trump crudely described making unwanted advances on women.

While Trump’s inflammatory remarks about Hispanics are handcuffing Republicans looking for votes, he said, it will take a couple of election cycles for Hispanic voters in Texas to change the state’s shape. Other spending priorities include the Bizon and Iden races ($300,000 each), the Barrett and Hughes races (around $200,000 each), Rep. Jason Sheppard in Monroe County and the matchup between Republican Beth Griffin and Democrat Annie Brown in Van Buren County and a portion of Kalamazoo County.

What are the Senate races to watch?

Alixandria Lapp, executive director of the House Majority PAC, told CBS News that this year, “the ads tying candidates to Trump are more prevalent than ads tying candidates to Mitt Romney in 2012”, adding that anti-Trump ad levels are about on par with the proportion of negative ads leveled at President Obama in 2010, the year Democrats lost control of the House.

If history is a guide, Democratic legislative candidates stand to gain from a Clinton victory.

The most likely outcome, according to most forecasters, is a closely divided Senate and shrunken Republican edge in the House. Alaska’s governor is an independent. Without those seats, Republicans would not have won the House in 1994.

Is control of Congress at stake? The Cook Political Report, an independent newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns in American politics, has listed 30 seats in the House now held by Republicans that are either a tossup or only leaning toward Republicans (there are five Democratic seats that are leaning Democrat or a tossup at this point).

The plane was coming to NY from Fort Dodge, Iowa. Democrats hold a 32-31 majority but the chamber is run by a coalition of maverick Democrats aligned with the Republicans.

That could be influencing poll numbers for Senate candidates. Rep. John Katko is defending his seat in a district that includes Syracuse, a city that is pretty Democratic for upstate NY. Rather, he gave the Republicans until Monday to file a response, then allowed another day for Democrats to respond to that filing, and said a hearing or conference call would be held on Wednesday.

Republicans have been fretting about the possibility that the toss-up races will break against them on November 8.

The three other districts where both parties have spent heavily so far are open – Speaker Kevin Cotter’s seat in the Mount Pleasant area, Rep. Aric Nesbitt’s in southwestern MI and Rep. Lt. Gov. Phil Scott (R) and former state transportation chief Sue Minter are statistically tied in the latest poll.

Politico notes that while the GOP has its own fundraising, the joint committees typically are the biggest source of funds for races down the ballot. That buys a lot of television in The Treasure State.

He “certainly has an uphill battle right now”, said one GOP operative familiar with the race. And one of the tougher things to do, particularly in this election, is to get voters to focus on the choice between the two candidates and their individual records, especially with Democrats trying to wrap Republicans in the garb of Donald Trump and other issues. But what happens in the states matters. But whether they can pick up nine seats to seize the majority – and end six years of GOP control of the Legislature – is in doubt.

Voters in 35 American states will be weighing in on various policy proposals by casting a yes or no vote. If it is left up to them there will never be a Capitol Hill slug fest with the Democrats.

Some are more unusual, like in California, where there is a proposal to require actors in adult films to use condoms.

However, Trump lags behind in fund-raising by his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. That’s how you could get a Clinton landslide like the one the ABC News poll describes, along with a Democratic Senate and possibly even – although it’s a reach – a Democratic House.