Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday accused CBS News’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan of giving a “misleading” description of the Alaska Senate race, where two candidates with similar names will appear on the ballot.
Brennan said the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Alaska preemptively to block the certification of the results if Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) loses and that President Trump said he directed the lawsuit.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ripped state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee in the Texas gubernatorial race, for an endorsement she received from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group designated in Texas as a foreign terrorist organization.
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, the Republican — who is running for his fourth term as governor — accused Hinojosa of backing Islamic extremism and Sharia law.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said President Trump doesn’t consider Alaska’s Senate race to be a fair contest because of the controversial appearance on the ballot of a candidate with the same name as incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R), which he argued could confuse voters and potentially cost Republicans the seat.
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Blanche defended a Justice Department lawsuit aiming to block the certification of the Senate election in Alaska if the incumbent loses his reelection bid.
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Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council (NEC), on Sunday said the economy is the “best we’ve ever seen” as the Trump administration and Republicans make their final pitches heading into the midterm elections.
“So the great big picture about the economy is that it’s about the best economy we’ve ever seen,” Hassett said in an interview on “The Sunday Briefing” on Fox News.
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Ted Brown, the libertarian candidate in the Texas Senate race, shut down claims that votes for him could end up splitting votes in the highly contested race, leading to a potential outcome that could cost Ken Paxton (R) the race.
“Both sides are saying the same thing. Democrats are saying, hey, that I’m taking votes away from Talarico, and Republicans say I’m taking votes away from Paxton,” Brown said in an interview with NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) pushed back on former first lady Michelle Obama’s remarks that the U.S. was not ready to elect a woman president.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” about Obama’s past comments, Whitmer responded, saying, “Listen, I have got a lot of colleagues who I think are probably interested in running for president, and I’ve heard everyone say ‘you can’t have this person’ or ‘that person.’”
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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to testify before the Senate over Starlink’s slowdown to its satellite service in Ukraine, which disrupted the country’s military capabilities.
On NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Schiff told host Kristen Welker that if Democrats were to regain control of the Senate, Hegseth “should be brought in,” along with “anyone who has knowledge of what happened.”
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Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) dodged questions on whether he identifies as a MAGA-Republican and avoided clarifying his position on President Trump’s controversial tariffs against Canada ahead of his competitive race against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race.
During a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rogers was asked if he considered himself a MAGA Republican.
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