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Fellow Republicans blast Tim Scott's 'woefully unprepared' campaign team

Senate Republicans and the White House are growing increasingly exasperated with the National Republican Senatorial Committee — the party's nationwide campaign arm for the GOP in the Senate — as its chair, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and his top strategist appear to be running operations into the ground.

According to NOTUS, over a dozen GOP staffers and aides "described an organization that has devolved into dysfunction," and "both senators and the White House are growing more incensed with the campaign arm by the day, the sources say."

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'Visibly shaken' Senate Republicans walloped with bad news in closed-door meeting: report

Senate Republican leaders have delivered grim new warnings to their colleagues: the midterms are shaping up to be a bloodbath beyond what had previously been predicted.

An anti-incumbent wave is sweeping the nation on its 250th anniversary, catching Republicans at their most vulnerable moment. Trump's approval ratings have cratered, and GOP leadership is now privately acknowledging just how dire the situation has become, The Hill is reporting.

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Elizabeth Warren insults GOP senator by clucking like chicken at tense hearing

A Senate hearing devolved into chaos when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) clucked like a chicken at Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) for refusing to let her answer his own question.

The confrontation erupted Tuesday during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on housing and consumer affordability. Tillis had been pressing a witness on whether credit card rate caps had ever succeeded anywhere in the world.

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Senate Republicans shaken after getting bad news behind closed doors: report

Senate Republican leaders are delivering dire warnings about upcoming midterms, as President Donald Trump's approval ratings plummet amid an anti-incumbent wave.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-SC) warned colleagues privately that Republicans are underperforming in the polls, and the president is losing support from all groups, reports Alexander Bolton for The Hill.

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Todd Blanche grilled as key aide's 'racist' and sexist past unearthed

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to condemn a string of racist and sexist remarks made by the man he brought in to help prepare him for his confirmation hearing.

CNN political reporter Aaron Blake surfaced Blanche's written responses Tuesday, drawing attention to how Blanche handled questions about his confirmation prep aide's record, CNN reported.

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'She just goes a little haywire': Nancy Mace's past catches up with her primary bid

Rep. Nancy Mace’s attempt to leap from the House of Representatives to the governor’s mansion in South Carolina has more difficulties than Donald Trump ignoring her and endorsing opponent Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.

As part of a Politico interview with the controversial lawmaker, who still considers herself “MAGA” despite the president turning his back on her, one South Carolina GOP insider claimed she has enough personal baggage to give conservative voters pause.

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Trump official's hearing tactics swiftly blow up in his face: 'Mind trick does not work'

White House official Russell Vought's attempts to outmaneuver Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) over "evil" cuts to the federal workforce backfired on Thursday when she called his tactics out on the spot.

Vought appeared before the Senate Banking Committee as its sole witness for an oversight hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the federal agency he has spent months trying to gut as its director.

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Sen Mike Lee's praises of diversity within the GOP fall brutally short

Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) attempt to showcase Republican diversity by posting photos of the only four Black House Republicans was undermined by their collective departure from Congress.

Reps. Wesley Hunt of Texas, John James of Michigan, Byron Donalds of Florida, and Burgess Owens of Utah are all leaving Capitol Hill, with no Black Republican candidates likely to replace them. By January 2027 Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina will remain the sole Black Republican on Capitol Hill.

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