A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday could erase a new midterm advantage for Republicans. Why it matters: The 2-1 ruling would block Republicans from using cash-rich party committees to buy more political TV ads at discounted rates. - Republicans plan to appeal the decision, setting up another high-stakes campaign finance fight as the fall ad wars heat up ahead of November. Driving the news: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled the FCC was wrong to extend discounted candidate broadcast rates to political parties and joint fundraising committees that include non-candidate groups for ads they coordinate with candidates. - The rates paid by super PACs and other outside groups are often several times higher than…
Host Blake Burman discusses a new warning from the National Republican Senatorial Committee that says data centers have become a ballot box liability in Ohio's Senate race, as President Trump calls the centers and AI good for jobs, innovation, and the economy. Meanwhile, in Tuesday's primary races in Florida, several far-left candidates delivered surprise results. 00:00 -- Introduction 01:28 -- NRCS warns data centers could sink race 12:30 -- mRNA vaccine shows promise against cancer 19:57 -- Trump pauses 50% tariffs on Canada 29:05 -- NASA reveals SpaceX rocket crash crater 36:08 -- Bear encounters rise from East to West
A new populist fever is coursing through the midterms, forcing campaigns to retreat and recalibrate as they confront a groundswell of hostility toward AI data centers. Why it matters: Grassroots pressure is breaking the bipartisan consensus that enabled America's AI buildout. Candidates in both parties are now racing to distance themselves from projects their own leaders spent years courting. The big picture: What started as scattered, localized NIMBYism is scaling into a national cross-partisan movement that could slow America's race for AI supremacy. - In Ohio, former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown has spent millions on a summer ad campaign branding Republican Sen. Jon Husted as "the face of data centers," weaponizing Husted's years of…
The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched a digital ad branding Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed "the most radical Senate candidate in America", and the former health official's own associations may prove them right. NRSC Chair Tim Scott released the ad Wednesday, hours after Decision Desk HQ projected El-Sayed as the winner of Michigan's Democrat […] The post Republicans target El-Sayed's far-left record after Michigan Senate primary upset appeared first on American Almanac .
The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched a digital ad branding Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed "the most radical Senate candidate in America", and the former health official's own associations may prove them right. NRSC Chair Tim Scott released the ad Wednesday, hours after Decision Desk HQ projected El-Sayed as the winner of Michigan's Democrat Senate primary over Rep. Haley Stevens. The ad features a clip of El-Sayed declaring, "I'm pretty d*** dangerous," and accuses him of supporting the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, backing tax increases that would hit service workers and seniors, joining activists in calling for the release of prisoners, and refusing to disavow controversial commentator Hasan Piker…Open
The Senate GOP campaign arm won a major Supreme Court boost in the party's bid to hold congressional majorities on Tuesday. Why it matters: Republicans ' reliance on mega-donors and their cash-flush committees positions them to benefit more than Democrats from the ruling, which allows committees to spend unlimited sums in coordination with candidates as they push against headwinds in November. - GOP officials reacted with glee to the Tuesday ruling, deriding Democrats who have criticized the decision for giving more power to the wealthiest donors. - "The tool is available to both sides. It should be a bipartisan issue," the NRSC's political director, Brendan Jaspers, told stakeholders on a Tuesday call, adding that Democrats are just…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that federal limits on political party-candidate spending coordination are unconstitutional. The ruling was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the dissent. The case, known as NRSC v. FEC, stems from a 2022 challenge to a provision of the Federal Election Campaign Act […]
