Just a few months ago, Republicans thought they might have a chance - but now the coronavirus and a reckoning over race and policing have changed everything.
Republicans are banking on candidates like @RichforGA, an ER doctor splitting his time between intubating patients as his hospital risks COVID-19 exposure and making his pitch to voters in #GA07, in the suburbs of Atlanta.
And Democrats are bullish about candidates like @SriPKulkarni, who's running in #TX22, a rapidly-changing district in the south-central suburbs of Houston. The district was once held by TomDeLay, and Trump won it by 8 pts, but Dems see it as a key pickup opportunity.
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NEWS - As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday
“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed"
It's a move the former speaker is blasting in statement as a “a sharp departure from tradition"
She's still in SF for Feinstein memorial services and added that while she was there to mourn and pay tribute: "I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time”
Jeffries: “As House Democratic Leader, I vigorously endorse her re-election and stand with her as we battle Extreme MAGA Republicans for the future of our nation.”
Omar: "I am proud to have earned the respect and support of every single member of the Democratic House leadership for my re-election campaign."
And here's her discussion with Scavino about the "grifter fringe of the right. The crazies"
Another text chain
Max Miller: "this is loony tunes"
KP: "Good news is that I was able to keep the crazies off the stage. I stripped all branding of those nuts and removed videos of all of Caroline's psychos so nothing could touch POTUS directly"
Miller: "thank god"
The staffer, Sasha Georgiades, was a Wounded Warrior Fellow who waorked as a veteran and service member liaison in Porter's office. She also told me she was not fired but was effectively banned from Porter's office.
Georgiades, who works as a consultant now, told me this happened after she held a FB Live event with Porter and then tested positive. Porter started texting her when she informed the office she tested positive and then "from that point out, she never said another word to me"