A Rockford man convicted of sexually abusing a student at the high school where he taught has given Darren Bailey's campaigns money three times since 2022. Bailey visited his church in June. His campaign says it didn't know — after a reporter called.
The Speaker campaigned for Herrera at a San Antonio barbecue joint days after another video surfaced. Johnson backed his opponent in 2024 and again this year, Trump's lawyer sent him a cease-and-desist letter in January, and a Republican group ran ads saying he 'does not belong in Congress.' Nothing about the record changed. A seat came open.
Arkansas Republicans voted down Gov. Sarah Sanders' $750 million mega-prison five times. She recruited primary challengers against the ones who stopped her, and lost every Senate primary she got into. Now the oil-and-gas worker who helped lead the opposition is on her November ballot.
In 2013, a bill to strip police powers from a marshal's office accused of serving a polygamist sect passed Arizona's House and died in Biggs's Senate. A federal court later found that same police force had spent decades protecting the sect.
Abbott is reviewing all state and federal grant money to DFW and Houston airports over foot-washing stations Muslims use before prayer. DFW's has sat inside the airport's interfaith chapel since 2019; Houston's, described as for people of all faiths, since 2024.
Asked for his read on Peggy Flanagan, Tom Emmer led with how she looks. In the same breath he stated a $9 billion fraud figure as settled fact. It's a federal prosecutor's projection across 14 programs — one Gov. Walz has called sensationalized.
Six days before the primary, Trump posted fresh endorsements for nearly every Florida Republican on the ballot — and left Mills out. Two of Mills's own GOP colleagues are backing his challenger. He has under $70,000 in the bank and no ads booked.
Under pressure to quit the race, Miller posted a Dropbox folder of his divorce records on X. His ex-wife's suit says it contained a nude image of their daughter, downloadable for 23 hours. His own lawyer says he built the folder and it was a mistake.
POLITICO asked all 16 whether they'd return money from a congressman accused of assaulting his ex-wife and their young child. Brad Finstad returned $5,000. Mike Lawler said no. The other 14 wouldn't say.
