Trump campaign manager defends hotel ‘pit stop’

“The Senate Democrat candidates have records of being investigated for corruption, hypocrisy and lying to the public, and of imposing massive tax hikes on hardworking New Yorkers”, Flanagan said.

The existing consent decree prohibits the RNC from “undertaking any ballot security activities” where “a goal or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting”, the suit says. Then, it would basically be the Tea Party running the state Senate.

One Senate race that was expected to be the recipient of a funding windfall but that now won’t see any of the super-PAC’s largess is OH, where Republican incumbent Rob Portman has already managed to pull confidently ahead of the Democratic ex-governor Ted Strickland. Democrats need to pick up four seats to take control of the upper chamber of Congress.

But the campaign must proceed cautiously over the final weeks of the presidential race or risk lulling Democrats into a false sense of security, specialists say.

More Republicans than Democrats have cast absentee ballots, as has been the case in past elections.

Hunt County hairdresser Marcia Mainord acknowledges that the Texas GOP is entrenched, but she said the presidential polls numbers should give Republicans something to think about. The UPI/CVoter tracking poll’s 50-plus-one state analysis shows her leading Florida by 2.4 percentage points. In Missouri, he said, Democrat Jason Kander, who is trying to unseat Senator Roy Blunt, is “a great candidate”.

Mr Trump will leave the campaign trail on Wednesday to attend the opening of his new Trump-branded hotel in Washington. Democrats have effectively been able to paint him as a Washington insider – this year’s scarlet letter. It’s unusual for a party to adopt even that tactic, and far more so for it to highlight one of its own candidates lambasting its presidential contender.

There are also several close Congressional races in NY where presidential candidate preference and turn out could affect the race. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is running for re-election against Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy.

“We shouldn’t be holding things as a blackmail”, King told CNN, saying the vote for speaker should take place at the same time it always happens and even those who vote against Ryan in the secret ballot contest should be bound by the will of the broader conference which he confidently predicted would re-elect Ryan. “Given the enrollment disadvantage our state faces, I don’t see ultimately the electoral votes being a possibility for Donald Trump”.

Talk of Texas being in play comes just two years after Abbott and a ticket of brash tea party candidates in statewide races humiliated Democrats. GOP Rep. Joe Heck drew the ire of some Republicans at a rally when he denounced Trump for his 2005 hot-mike comments, and he does not need a divided base. Her vice president, Tim Kaine, would cast the tie-breaking vote for Democrats when necessary.

According to NPR.com, the Democrat opportunities are reduced by the unfavorable map that was handed to them in a redistribution after 2010.

The United States district map would look radically different if computers, rather than partisan humans, drew the maps based on U.S. census data. To understand the broader political implications, consider that the GOP gained somewhere between 25 and 30 seats because of the redistricting that followed the 1990 census.