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Republican Rep. Scott Perry defeated Democrat challenger Janette Stelson in the race for Pennsylvania’s Tenth Congressional District, ensuring one of Donald Trump’s top allies will remain seated. The Associated Press called the race Thursday afternoon. With over 95% of votes tallied, Perry had captured 50.8% of the vote to Stelson’s 49.2%. The conservative Perry, a former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, was one of Democrats’ top targets this cycle.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) says President Trump is likely to win reelection in 2020 because Democrats will be hamstrung by the deep fissures between the liberal and moderate wings of the party. Speaking Tuesday night before Republican Karen Handel claimed victory over Democrat John Ossoff in a special House election in Georgia, Bloomberg stood by his previous statement that Trump has a “55 percent” chance of winning reelection. “The incumbent always has an advantage,” Bloomberg told CNN. “And the Democratic Party is going to be torn apart by the left and the centralists,” he continued. “Now,...

President Obama’s re-election campaign is straining to raise the huge sums it is counting on to run against Mitt Romney, with sharp dropoffs in donations from nearly every major industry forcing it to rely more than ever on small contributions and a relative handful of major donors. From Wall Street to Hollywood, from doctors and lawyers, the traditional big sources of campaign cash are not delivering for the Obama campaign as they did four years ago. The falloff has left his fund-raising totals running behind where they were at the same point in 2008 — though well ahead of Mr....

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (JTA) — U.S. Jews remain solidly Democratic, although support for President Bush has increased. Those results come from a new survey, which also shows sharp drops in Jewish support for issues dear to the Republican president — including the war on terrorism and the Iraq conflict. The findings are part of the American Jewish Committee’s annual survey of American Jewry. The survey shows a sharp rise in concern about anti-Semitism in Europe; an increase in concern about anti-Semitism in America; strong support for keeping the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance; strong support for a...

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