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The spectacle in North Carolina's 9th District makes 2018 feel like the election that will never end. And, the looming presidential primaries are rapidly overshadowing congressional politics. But the 2020 fight for the House is already underway, with both the DCCC and NRCC working behind the scenes to identify the most ideal recruits and releasing ambitious lists of targeted districts to declare they are "on offense." Republicans will need to gain 18 seats to win back the majority (or 19 depending on the outcome of a new election in NC-09), and have no shortage of good-looking targets, at least on...

A Republican super PAC is hitting Democratic congressional candidate Paul Davis with a new attack ad in Kansas’ 2nd congressional district that details his apparent “strong history” with strip clubs. The ad from the Congressional Leadership Fund (CFL), provided first to Fox News, highlights Davis’ “history with strip clubs” – pointing to his involvement with a club that was raided in the late 1990s as well as legislation he voted on as a state lawmaker. Davis is a former state representative who also ran unsuccessfully for governor as a Democrat in 2014. But nearly two decades earlier, in the late...

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The race to fill a Capital Region congressional seat has turned into a multimillion-dollar affair. And the local news media is loving it. Republican Jim Tedisco, of Glenville, and Democrat Scott Murphy, of Glens Falls, are the two major-party candidates competing to fill the vacant seat in the state’s sprawling 20th congressional district, which covers part or all of six area counties. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) had held the seat before she was appointed to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. Through campaign donations and personal loans, Tedisco and Murphy each raised more than $1 million from Jan. 1 through...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A Republican state lawmaker won a special congressional election Tuesday, hanging onto to a conservative district despite a strong push by Democrats. Union-backed groups and Democrats were hoping to steal the seat from the GOP and make a big statement going into the 2008 election in Ohio, which is expected to again have a significant role in determining the next president. Republican Bob Latta defeated Robin Weirauch to complete the term of U.S. Rep. Paul Gillmor who died in September from a fall at his Washington apartment. Latta, the son of a former Ohio congressman, had 55...

Jacob hiring: Was it legal? Republican candidate for Congress John Jacob on Thursday defended his hiring of a couple from Chile several years ago, insisting that he acted in good faith and within the law. Jacob, of Eagle Mountain, is running against five-term incumbent Chris Cannon for Utah's 3rd District seat in Washington, a race dominated by the issue of illegal immigration. The outcome is widely viewed as a bellwether of national sentiment. Jacob has embraced a tough enforcement position on illegal immigrants and those who employ them. In a debate at Utah Valley State College on Saturday, Cannon and...

Posted on Thu, Oct. 31, 2002 Hayes objects; TV station pulls ad Attribution of job-loss statement in dispute; Democrats stand fast DAVID PERLMUTT AND MARK WASHBURN Staff Writers At least one Charlotte television station has rejected an ad from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee accusing U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes of breaking a promise when he voted for fast-track legislation in December.Hayes' quibble with the ad is a sentence that says he "cast the deciding vote for a trade bill that will cost North Carolina jobs." The ad attributes that contention to the American Textile Manufacturers Institute.An ATMI spokesman said...