“His personal office is hardly better: Scott has had five communications directors in five years, and three chiefs of staff in less than three.”

Meanwhile, Haley Stevens (D) barely edges out Rogers in a head-to-head, 46% to 45%.

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Why a new map? “Even though every member of Congress gets just one vote, traditional maps of congressional districts over-emphasize sprawling rural districts while rendering small urban districts almost invisible.”

“It would provide insight on his crypto and stock profit, as well as business transactions from hundreds of companies tied to his personal assets managed by family.”

“The cash bonanza is bound to fuel mounting tensions between the industry and its White House ally as the conflict in the Middle East expands and gasoline prices have risen past $4 a gallon.”

Said DeWine: “What good does it do to ship them out of the United States? And I think the answer is, ‘No, it does not do our country any good at all.'”

“Instead, Iranian officials insist that they are in a position of strength, military leaders boast of battlefield successes, and diplomats dismiss U.S. claims that they are eager to return to negotiations.”

Said Trump: “He was a much bigger player in the Biden administration. I grew tired of him… He wanted to close everything down. I allowed it to be up to the governors.”

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Said Trump: “It’s a shame that I have to go a harder way for the tariffs because the Supreme Court, in a very close decision, you know, ruled against me.”

He added: “Now, I have other ways of doing the same thing, but it’s a more cumbersome, you know, way of doing it.”

Said Beshear: “Important events are happening in our country right now during your absence.”

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“The first-person essay by the aide, Ruby Rippey, who was working as Mr. Newsom’s appointments secretary at the time, was published just as he finishes his final year as California governor and lays the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2028.”

From the piece in Vanity Fair: “Nobody had been surprised when rumors about my affair surfaced long before treatment. Nearly everyone seemed to know except the one person who most needed to know: my husband. I had been sleeping with his boss, who was also mine, and the mayor of San Francisco. I had believed that getting sober would put my life back together. Instead, it left me alone with the truth.”

“Why it matters: The apathy points to minimal momentum in the party for Martin’s ouster despite bombshell stories revealing severe problems at the DNC ranging from its ongoing financial woes to an HR investigation.”

Said Gorsuch: “We were founded, a lot of our colonies, for our religious pluralism, right? And the opportunity to practice your own faith in your own way.”

He added: “And we were never supposed to be a nation that was about one race or one religion, it was about those ideas. And those things are perfect ideas that speak to every human heart and that unite us all.”

Said Trump: “Well, I don’t need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved.”

He added: “We know exactly what’s going on. But no, I heard Bibi announce that. I said, ‘Why don’t you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?'”

“But the loss to Iran is different: it is the closest we have come to outright military defeat. U.S. forces pulled out of Saigon and Kabul, not because they had been beaten in battle, but because the domestic political cost of propping up client regimes became too great.”