NEW in #NY17: Mike Lawler’s campaign says DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has conceded to him in a call.
Maloney is scheduled to hold a presser at the DCCC office in less than half an hour.
Maloney concedes, then, as DCCC Chair, talks about House Dem successes last night and says “I can’t with 100% certainty tell you who holds the House majority.”
“If we fall a little short… we’re going to know that we gave it all and we beat the spread.”
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Over 50 House Republicans attended a fundraiser tonight in downtown DC for Harriet Hageman, Rep. Liz Cheney’s challenger in Wyoming.
Leader McCarthy was billed as the special guest of the event, though members said he only spoke to introduce Hageman and did not bring up Cheney.
Attendees echoed that Cheney’s name was not brought up much during the event.
“Look, there’s a lot of candidates that spend a lot of time badmouthing the other candidate. There was none of that, she was selling herself,” said Rep. Mike Bost of Illinois outside the event.
The event brought in about $250,000, per a person familiar with the event.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the lone Senator on the initial guest list who had campaigned for Hageman earlier this month, said Hageman’s popularity is probably “ten to one” over Cheney with Republicans.
In JD Vance's opening statement at #OHSen GOP event, asks other candidates "to not comment on my wife this evening, I don’t want a Will Smith incident."
1st Q is what proof candidates have had for claiming 2020 election was stolen
Mike Gibbons says 5M more ballots were cast than registered voters, is fact-checked by moderator, who is then booed by some in the crowd.
Dolan, Gibbons, Timken & Patel are asked about the CBS/WaPo reporting of txts btw Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows, and if Justice Thomas should recuse himself from 2020-related cases.
Dolan said he hasn't seen the texts themselves. Gibbons & Timken said they don't think he should.
Our preview of the #VAGov & #NJGov races this year, how the current and former occupants of the White House are impacting the race, and how they could serve as barometers heading into the 2022.
"If a Biden-like message offered by McAuliffe doesn't succeed in purple VA... [Dems] around the country will wonder if it makes more sense to chart a more independent course," said Stephen Farnsworth, a polisci professor at Univ. of Mary Washington.
On what GOP can take away:
"If Youngkin manages to pull this off-- it's because he basically walked a spider web across two really tall buildings. One of those buildings is the base of the [GOP] that loves everything about Donald Trump, and the other one- is suburban moderates."