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Kevin McCarthy warns no 'blank check' to Ukraine if GOP wins majority

US Republicans said Tuesday they will not write "a blank check" to war-torn Ukraine if they make the widely expected gains needed to take control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.

The warning from House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is the first official signal that Kyiv could be facing a tougher fight for funding as it fends off Russia's invasion, with bipartisan support beginning to wane in the United States.

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Nancy Pelosi says Trump ‘wouldn’t have the courage’ to come to the Capitol on Jan. 6

Never before seen footage from the Jan. 6 insurrection was aired on CNN last week showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that if then President Donald Trump showed up to the building she would punch him and would go to jail for it.

Speaking to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday, Pelosi was asked about the comment, but dismissed whether Trump would have made good on his pledge to march the mob to the building.

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How desperate women are being forced to get abortion drugs from Mexico

Drugs being smuggled into the United States from Mexico aren't always the illegal ones. After states around the US banned abortion, underground movements have propped up to help get abortion pills to those who need it.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday about a woman who found out she was pregnant at 10 weeks, putting her outside the cutoff date of her state.

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Maggie Haberman reveals the moment she first realized Trump might win the 2016 election

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed the first time she realized that Donald Trump might win his first political campaign.

Haberman, whose new book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” came out Oct. 4, told WGHB-FM that she realized the former reality TV star had a serious shot at winning when she covered one of his campaign rallies in Dubuque, Iowa in 2016.

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Lauren Boebert's legislation got blocked thanks to House panel's rule targeting 'lunatics': new book

House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA) has a new rule on his committee for people like Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, Insider reports.

According to journalist Robert Draper's new book, "Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind," McGovern explained to Republicans that his new rule for his committee says if you're "batsh** crazy, you're not getting an amendment" after he blocked one of Boebert's amendments from going to the House floor.

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Conservative blasts the 'freak show' Republicans who have turned the party into an 'intellectual wasteland'

Using the U.S. Senate run of Georgia's Herschel Walker as a jumping-off point, conservative columnist and former GOP White House adviser Peter Wehner bemoaned the state of the GOP for giving up any pretense of principles since Donald Trump infected the party with his brand of win-at-all-costs politics.

After noting that Walker, with his massive resume of scandals, has "no business running for political office at any level, let alone the United States Senate," the columinst added that, in many ways, he is representative of the wave of Republican candidates who are destroying the party that Wehner writes used to stand for something.

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Lauren Boebert's GOP primary opponent pens blistering op-ed endorsing her Democratic rival

A former Republican rival to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has penned a new op-ed while endorsing the lawmaker's current Democratic rival.

In an op-ed published by the Montrose Daily Press, state Sen. Don Coram (R-Colo.) —who challenged Boebert in the state's primary election— offered a blistering assessment of the far-right lawmaker.

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This might be the dark origin of the claim that schools are letting kids use litter boxes

An urban legend is spreading across right-wing social media like wildfire, and even being picked up by some Republican lawmakers: the idea that schools around the country are providing boxes of cat litter for children who are "furries," which, according to the claim, means they identify as cats.

Among the Republican politicians who have spread the claim are Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO); Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen; Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock; and Nebraska state Sen. Bruce Bostelman. Former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and podcaster Joe Rogan have also promoted the claim.

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Republican state Sen. Coram backs Democratic candidate over Lauren Boebert

The Republican state lawmaker who mounted a primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has now endorsed her Democratic opponent in the general election for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

State Sen. Don Coram of Montrose announced his support of Democrat Adam Frisch on Wednesday, saying that the Aspen businessman and former city council member has shown more interest in representing the constituency than becoming a celebrity.

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‘Bombastic pot stirrers and insurrectionist enablers’ will run Congress if GOP wins midterms: analysis

Both election forecasters and history suggest it is likely that Republicans will win control of the House of Representatives -- but this scenario which could have devastating implications, according to a new analysis by a top congressional expert.

Political scientist Norman Ornstein, co-author of the 2016 It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, had his analysis published by The Atlantic under the headline, "How Far Would a Republican Majority Go?"

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Dem lawmaker points out the 'worrisome' sign for Lauren Boebert that her re-election is in trouble

Reacting to a report from Axios that the re-election of controversial Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is far from a foregone conclusion, one of her Democratic colleagues in the House noted a data point in recent polling that would worry any incumbent just a month away from the November midterm election.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) smirked at the mere mention of Boebert's late campaign difficulties when asked by the host what is going on.

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GOP leader Kevin McCarthy will have his hands full with 'oddballs and extremists': columnist

According to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, should the Republican party reclaim control of the House after the November midterm election House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy -- expected to be the next Speaker -- is going to have his hands full with additional far-right pro-Trump extremists and conspiracy theorists joining his caucus.

After two years of dealing with controversial Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and outgoing lawmaker Madison Cawthorn who lost his North Carolina primary, Millbank said there are plenty more like them headed his way if they survive the November general election.

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GOPers who rant about socialism while privately begging for infrastructure cash name-checked

In a segment on CNN's New Day" on Friday morning, host Brianna Keilar and correspondent Isaac Dovere name-checked Republican members of Congress who have been privately begging for funding from President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure bill while at the same time complaining in public about the evils of socialism.

With a graphic scrolling behind them that included the names of Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rand Paul (R-KY), John Thune (R-SD), as well as Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ), among others, the two noted the hypocrisy of railing against Biden's plan while trying to reap the political benefits back home with voters.

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