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A TON of ground covered on today's Fly Out Day! More from @RepDonBeyer on how many seats Dems could pick up (he's a DCCC finance chair), where he falls on the Trump impeachment debate and Congress' AI problem
✈️ NEW FLY OUT DAY STREAMING NOW 🚨
Democrat on the House Ways and Means committee, @RepDonBeyer, joined @apalmerdc at the Punchbowl News townhouse to discuss the upcoming midterms, Democrats' legislative priorities, tech regulation and MUCH more.
PLUS: @CNN's @sarahnferris and our own @allymutnick stop by for That's Not Gonna Fly!
Heather Caygle retweeted
NEW: buys are starting to trickle in from No Going Back PAC
>> $6.3M in #FL25 to target Jared Moskowitz (D)
>> $1M in #WA03 to target MGP (D)
>> $85K so far in open #FL22 for Casey Askar (R)
>> $1M in #FL14 to target Kathy Castor (D)
>>$1.2M in open #MT01 for Aaron Flint (R)
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S political organization is dumping more than $25M into the battle for the House, a late-stage infusion they hope will help rescue the majority for the GOP.
They are going back into FL-25 to try to beat @JaredEMoskowitz. CLF pulled out this week.
They are not going back into NC-11.
Buys will begin dropping today and tomorrow.
(who got it first? @PunchbowlNews text subscribers)
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I know: @allymutnick
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👀 There’s a real possibility that Republicans end up winning just one of Florida’s four newly redrawn districts next month. President Trump won all these new districts by nine points or more in 2024.
But only Democratic Rep. Darren Soto’s central Florida district appears locked up for the GOP right now.
Senior Congressional Reporter @allymutnick has the latest reporting from the Sunshine State.
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In Punchbowl News 🌙 PM:
- Hill websites get extra security
- The Virginia seats to watch
- Defense: Intel Dems aghast at Trump’s Russia moves
- Oz on Medicaid cuts, wearable health technology
- Dems prep for Trump election chaos campaign
Read it here: punchbowl.news/archive/10212…
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ICYMI: CMS administrator Mehmet Oz joined us at a Punchbowl News event to talk about Medicaid cuts, wearable health technology and more.
@shaniajshelton has the details:
punchbowl.news/article/event…
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Noteworthy: @JohnCornyn says he believes Elon Musk would not slow down Starlink without "at least the acquiescence of the White House.
"I think it's frankly shameful," he adds.
Texas Senator @JohnCornyn was asked on @CNBC about the throttling of @Starlink in the war between Russian and Ukraine, and he did not hold back!
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.@PunchbowlNews AM today
- 13 days to Election Day
- Will Republican whiff in Florida? GOP wanted 4 new House seats. They may end up with 1
- Arizona Dems lean into anti-Trump line
- Vault: Brown talks cmte roles
- Kiley open to Jeffries speakership
punchbowl.news/archive/10212…
Heather Caygle retweeted
TOP in @PunchbowlNews AM: Florida Republicans brazenly carved up their congressional map to add four new red seats at the behest of President Donald Trump and GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis... and it's not quite going as planned. punchbowl.news/article/campa…
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My first dispatch from my Arizona reporting trip, featuring this anecdote from Amish Shah on how healthcare is a central part of his message>>>
The signature Republican reconciliation bill is playing a starring role in Arizona Democratic messaging two weeks out from the midterms.
@maxpcohen has the story:
punchbowl.news/article/healt…
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👀👀
SCOOP: Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan billionaire, really wanted a pardon. He got it not long after his daughter hired Alina Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, in a deal worth more than $50 million. Habba was also working at DOJ at the time.
nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
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News in @PunchbowlNews PM: Dem @RepAdamGrayCA is joining an event in his battleground district w/@ShopFloorNAM today to tout the Senate’s bipartisan permitting reform bill. The event is happening at West-Mark, a manufacturer of tank trailers & specialty transport equipment
Heather Caygle retweeted
Wow CLF made a $650K buy in #MO02 for GOP Rep Ann Wagner
This is a Trump +8 seat but has gotten little attention before now. Dem nominee Fred Wellman outraised Wagner last quarter
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House Rules Chair Virginia Foxx is now up on the air.
This is a Trump +18 district.
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TRIAGE NEWS: @CLFSuperPAC is axing its reservation to oust Dem Rep Jared MOSKOWITZ
CLF will save $6M in #FL25 (Trump+9). GOP nominee is Scott Singer
ALSO No Going Back PAC is triaging in #NC11 (Trump+10), suggesting they think Jamie Ager (D) will win
More in @PunchbowlNews PM
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Two weeks out from the midterms, Arizona Democrats’ message is healthcare, with Democrats up and down the ballot slamming the One Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid cuts as harmful to their communities.
Congressional Reporter @maxpcohen brings the latest on-the-ground reporting from the Copper State. More in PM!
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TOP in @PunchbowlNews AM: Most Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have endorsed @RepMaxineWaters to continue serving as the committee’s top Democrat.
PLUS: There may be nothing Pete Hegseth can do to save himself from being impeached. punchbowl.news/article/washi…
Don’t miss this great @allymutnick dispatch from Wimauma
When @USRepKCastor was redistricted into a deep red seat earlier this year, even some members of her own party wrote off her chances of prevailing this November. Now it looks like she might beat the odds. punchbowl.news/article/campa…
Heather Caygle retweeted
New Talarico ad running statewide:
"Ken Paxton says, I don't have his experience, and he's right.
"I've never been indicted for fraud. I've never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I've never been impeached by my own party, and I've never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.
"I have a different kind of experience. I've worked with both parties to cap the cost of insulin and pass the largest property tax cut in Texas history. I'm James Tallarico and I approve this message because we need a different kind of experience in Washington."
Big news here on the HFSC gavel race
BREAKING NEWS:
The vast majority of HOUSE DEMS on the Financial Services Committee have sent a letter endorsing MAXINE WATERS to return as the party's top Democrat.
Non-signers: Casten and Foster (running against Waters) and Sam Liccardo.
(@PunchbowlNews text subscribers had the scoop first)