Today’s episode with campaign-related news items from across the country.
* Amid reports that Donald Trump’s campaign is planning an eleventh-hour joint campaign event with Nikki Haley, the former president boasted on Fox News about how badly he defeated her in the Republican Party primaries. “Let me just tell you,” the Republican candidate said. “Nikki Haley and I fought, and I beat her by 50, 60, 90 points. I beat her in her own state by numbers that no one has ever beaten before. I beat Nikki badly.”
* The latest poll from the University of Texas/Texas Politics Project showed a surprisingly competitive presidential race in the Lone Star State, with Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris by five points among likely voters ( 51% to 46%). (Click the link for additional information about the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
*The same poll also showed that incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz widened his lead over Democratic Rep. Colin Allred held, 51% to 44%. (Click the link for additional information about the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
* During the closely watched battle for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, Republican Kari Lake said there could be “very, very bad” information in Democratic Rep.’s divorce records. Ruben Gallego. An Arizona court has now made most of the case public, and the results were pretty boring.
* On a related note, the Gallego campaign this week unveiled a new ad with support from Barack Obama.
* People involved in the cryptocurrency industry are investing tens of millions of dollars in campaign ads in key states, but the commercials make no reference to crypto.
* And in Montana’s closely watched battle for the U.S. Senate, new reporting shows that Republican Tim Sheehy endorsed abolishing the U.S. Department of Education because it is designed to enslave students. He added: “We created that department so that little black girls could go to school in the South and we could integrate education.” (That’s not even true. The Ministry of Education became a Cabinet agency in 1979.)
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
