The result risks endangering Republicans’ narrow Senate majority.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was unconcerned about the political fallout of an extended conflict with Iran, and that Iranian leaders had miscalculated if they thought the November midterm elections would force him into a deal.
Trump has rehashed his claims during at least six meetings with world leaders.
Even the elections are bigger in Texas. Voters will choose their nominee for the U.S. Senate in a race that could help decide control of the chamber and may become one of the most expensive in history.
Jerome Powell served as a handy punching bag for the president. Kevin Warsh is Trump’s pick for Fed chair, and that means the president owns his results.
Alabama Republicans push redistricting plans that target a Black first-term congressman’s seat.
Anxious Republican lawmakers and White House aides worry that the billionaire president’s focus on a vanity project does not play well with voters struggling to afford gasoline months before elections that will determine which party controls Congress.
With Republicans holding only slim majorities in the House and Senate, it would only take a handful of defiant lawmakers to defeat Trump’s proposals.
A “largely negotiated” memorandum of understanding on an Iran peace deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday, although the Iranian Fars news agency disputed that claim.
The shooting suspect was identified as an emotionally disturbed person, a law enforcement official told Reuters.