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Here’s the latest news out of Texas today courtesy of Univision News-University of Houston poll:
In the Texas U.S. Senate race, Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, held an advantage of one percentage point among Texas voters over any Democratic candidate. Forty-one percent of Texas voters said they planned to vote for Cornyn and 40 percent said they...

Moscow MItch is certainly covered in something dirty, but it ain’t coal dust from helping coal miners.  From Erin Banco of The Daily Beast:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last month blocked a measure that would have used Treasury Department funds marked for Appalachian development to help pay for coal miners’ health care and pensions in his home state of Kentucky....

You know, that’s a good point. Still, the Trump regime is kind of like the mafia … if everyone in the mafia were Fredo.
But, you know, the mafia has lasted as long as it has because it tries to cover its tracks. The Trump Family? Not so much.
Speaking about the Trump scandal du jour — i.e., DJT’s crass and clumsy attempt to prop up his Scottish resort with U.S. military expenditures — NBC and MSNBC political analyst Karine Jean-Pierre recently told Deadline White House host Nicolle Wallace...

Elizabeth Warren is surging, and Wall Street is noticing.
During a recent discussion about Wall Street’s take on Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy, Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, said executives are absolutely terrified at the prospect of a Warren presidency:...