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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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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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'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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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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Ted Cruz snaps as Dem invokes famous 2013 clash: 'You're not Dianne Feinstein'

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) interrupted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday to tell the Texas Republican she felt "personally aggrieved" by his lecturing — only to have Cruz fire back by invoking the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, snapping, "You're not Dianne Feinstein."

The blowup came after Cruz delivered a lengthy monologue at a hearing on the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais ruling — a 6-3 decision gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — accusing Democrats of believing Black candidates can only win in gerrymandered districts.

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Trump insider undercuts president's war on Fed chair: 'There was no wrongdoing'

Donald Trump's obsessive push to criminally prosecute Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is collapsing from within his own party — and now even from inside his own administration.

According to Politico's Victoria Guida, while U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro continues her zealous pursuit of Powell at Trump's insistence, a person close to the White House has privately acknowledged the uncomfortable truth: "My suspicion is, there was no wrongdoing. But there's a principle here that's bigger than Jay Powell. If you let them get away" with refusing to turn over information.

Senate Republicans are openly rejecting the prosecution. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SC) called out the DOJ's fishing expedition directly: "It's in everybody's best interest to wrap up the investigation."

Multiple Senate Republicans, including Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-SC), have stated Powell did not appear to commit a crime based on his congressional testimony — which is supposedly the central point of the DOJ's inquiry.

The courts have already rejected the prosecution's legal foundation. A federal judge ruled that the DOJ's subpoenas to the Fed were a "mere pretext" to pressure the institution on interest rates and quashed them entirely.

According to Politico's assessment, "Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss."

Senate Republican breaks own retirement pledge as GOP majority at risk

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he will break a pledge to retire from the Senate in 2028 by running for office again.

Scott made the announcement in a Wednesday interview with The Post and Courier.

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GOP senator praises party diversity by touting 4 Black House members — who are all leaving

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) thought he had a slam dunk. He posted a photo collage of the only four Black Republicans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and declared, "This is NOT the party of Jim Crow."

There's just one problem: every single one of them is leaving.

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