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Interviewed in Newsweek on Donald Trump's polling numbers. newsweek.com/donald-trump-ap…
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Collins and Jackson are tied in a new Maine Senate poll as Trump unveils seafood strategy promoting state’s lobster industry. newsweek.com/susan-collins-d…
📊Donald Trump remains deeply unpopular among urban voters, but his net approval rating in Echelon Insights polling improved by 20 points between July and October – a shift that could influence the midterms, experts and strategists told @Newsweek.
Trump remains unpopular in cities, but one expert tells Newsweek “an erosion of Democratic dominance” could affect close races. newsweek.com/donald-trump-ap…
“One of the things that we can look to in cities has been improvements in crime,” Costas Panagopoulos, a distinguished political science professor at Northeastern University, said.
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📺And @TheThomasGuide said MAGA Inc. ads may be playing a role, telling @Newsweek: “That messaging is showing early traction with some Hispanic voters and younger urban independents who are more open to crime and immigration arguments.”
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🐶Video from a robot dog helped detectives identify and arrest two murder suspects in a Georgia drive-by shooting which killed a 13-year-old boy and a 45-year-old man, police told @Newsweek, in what it is believed is the first time this has happened in the U.S.
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Many say the Republican Party of old died in 2024. Texas may be proving otherwise. As Ken Paxton trails James Talarico in the polls, George Bush Republicans hold the keys to victory or defeat.
"They don’t feel like they have a party or a home anymore,” @DadePhelan told me.newsweek.com/maga-has-a-bush…
📈President Donald Trump’s approval rating among rural voters has flipped, @Newsweek analysis of national polling data finds, putting him one point above water after a steep September decline.
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It comes as Trump rallied Republican voters in Sioux City, Iowa, on Thursday, urging them to back GOP candidates in the November 3 midterms as part of his campaign tour around the country to try to give a boost to Republicans in tight races.
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The conventional wisdom among many DC insiders is that Marco Rubio, @SecRubio, is the Republican who Democratic strategists fear the most for 2028. But Newsweek, @bySamStevenson, reports that along with JD Vance, @JDVance "Rubio is also losing ground."
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Both favorites slide in the GOP race, with one expert telling Newsweek the party may continue to "crash and burn" post-midterms. newsweek.com/jd-vance-marco-…
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“She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true,” a woman who says she is Amy Acton's mother says in a viral video. newsweek.com/amy-acton-mothe…
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Kansas Republicans could be on the verge of losing their ruby red slippers, and that's not just because of Adam Hamilton's strength as a Senate candidate.
Governor Laura Kelly has slowly been building @KansasDems into a formidable organizing force.
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📊NEW: James Talarico leads Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate polls.
🔵But his biggest test is not winning support.
🗳️It is turning a younger, more diverse coalition into an electorate that actually votes.
📰Read more in @Newsweek's latest data-led deep dive on the race.
So is Talarico the next Beto?
The comparison is useful, but incomplete. Talarico starts ahead, faces a more unpopular opponent and has extraordinary resources.
But victory still depends on the hardest thing in election polling: predicting who actually votes.
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A GOP strategist familiar with Texas politics predicted that Cornyn voters would ultimately return to the GOP nominee.
"They might have supported Cornyn, but at the end of the day, they’re still Republicans," the insider told @Newsweek.
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