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NRCC: Sophie Cunningham Has More Backbone Than Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee posted the following news:
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Sophie Cunningham Has More Backbone Than Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Two teenage girls were cursed at, mocked, and left in tears at Tuesday night's Seattle Storm game by the team's co-owner simply for holding signs thanking Sophie Cunningham for defending women's sports.
Don't expect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez to defend them. She thinks the question of biological men competing against women is "nuanced."
Her record? Even worse:
* Perez voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports
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WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee posted the following news:
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Sophie Cunningham Has More Backbone Than Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Two teenage girls were cursed at, mocked, and left in tears at Tuesday night's Seattle Storm game by the team's co-owner simply for holding signs thanking Sophie Cunningham for defending women's sports.
Don't expect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez to defend them. She thinks the question of biological men competing against women is "nuanced."
Her record? Even worse:
* Perez voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in SportsAct, twice.
* Perez voted against studying the impact of biological males competing in women's sports.
* Perez defended Biden's radical Title IX rewrite that gutted commonsense protections for women.
"Out of touch Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is a gutless fraud who folds every time women and girls need her most. Sophie Cunningham showed more backbone by stating one obvious truth that biological men do not belong in women's sports than Perez has shown during her entire career in Congress. Perez is no champion for women, she's a doormat for the radical left." - NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez
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Original text here: https://www.nrcc.org/2026/07/30/sophie-cunningham-has-more-backbone-than-marie-gluesenkamp-perez/
NRCC: Corrupt Cognetti EXPOSED as Shameless Liar
WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee posted the following news:
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Corrupt Cognetti EXPOSED as Shameless Liar
Political opportunist Paige Cognetti has just been exposed as a shameless liar by a new bombshell report. Cognetti has been lying to Pennsylvanians for months by claiming she doesn't take corporate PAC money.
The truth? Cognetti's lying through her teeth to Pennsylvania voters.
"Political opportunist Paige Cognetti is a carpetbagging, poll-constructed fraud who's lied to Pennsylvanians for months. This November, voters will hold Cognetti responsible
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WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee posted the following news:
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Corrupt Cognetti EXPOSED as Shameless Liar
Political opportunist Paige Cognetti has just been exposed as a shameless liar by a new bombshell report. Cognetti has been lying to Pennsylvanians for months by claiming she doesn't take corporate PAC money.
The truth? Cognetti's lying through her teeth to Pennsylvania voters.
"Political opportunist Paige Cognetti is a carpetbagging, poll-constructed fraud who's lied to Pennsylvanians for months. This November, voters will hold Cognetti responsiblefor her lies and deception." - NRCC Spokesman Reilly Richardson
Read more from NOTUS here or see excerpts below:
Paige Cognetti Refuses Corporate PAC Money. But Some Is Arriving Indirectly.
Avani Kalra
NOTUS
July 30, 2026
Paige Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, who Democrats hope will unseat Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan this November, has repeatedly pledged not to take money from corporate political action committees as a candidate or lawmaker.
"No Corporate PAC Money. As a candidate and member of Congress I will reject the influence of special interests," Cognetti wrote on her campaign website.
But federal campaign finance filings show Cognetti has accepted donations from numerous political committees that themselves are awash in cash from corporate PACs, including money from defense contractor Boeing, banking giant JPMorgan Chase and insurance company UnitedHealthcare.
Many of the non-corporate political committees supporting Cognetti are leadership PACs operated by Democratic federal lawmakers to boost their party's congressional candidates.
During her 2026 campaign to represent Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, Cognetti has, for example, taken $5,000 from Blue Hen Federal PAC, a committee sponsored by Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware).
Coons' committee has received hundreds of thousands of dollars this election cycle from a who's who of corporate and trade association PACs tied to companies such as Visa, FedEx, Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, Eli Lilly,Google, McKinsey and Fox News parent Fox Corp., among several dozen others.
Cognetti's campaign has also received $4,000 from the campaign committee of House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, which itself is partly bankrolled by numerous corporate PACs, including those sponsored by Delta Air Lines, Verizon, Allstate Insurance and law and lobbying firm Alston & Bird.
Cognetti took money from dozens of these leadership PACs that report significant corporate contributions -- including the PACs of Rep. Ted Lieu, the House Democratic Caucus vice chair, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker.
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"Only a slick politician like Paige Cognetti would make a promise to reject corporate PAC money a centerpiece of her campaign only to find a loophole to accept it," Samantha Bullock, a spokesperson for Bresnahan's campaign, said in a statement to NOTUS.
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Other candidates have been criticized in the past for accepting similar contributions. Democrat Abigail Spanberger, now the governor of Virginia, campaigned on rejecting corporate PAC money while running for Congress in 2022 -- and was slammed at the time for taking money from leadership PACs.
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Original text here: https://www.nrcc.org/2026/07/30/corrupt-cognetti-exposed-as-shameless-liar/
AP: Mike Rogers "Promotes Trump's Agenda," Even As The President's Biggest Supporters Say His Policies Are Hurting Michigan
LANSING, Michigan, July 31 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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AP: Mike Rogers "Promotes Trump's Agenda," Even As The President's Biggest Supporters Say His Policies Are Hurting Michigan
LANSING -- On Monday, GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump at his rally in Milford, arguing that "Michigan needs a senator who promotes Trump's agenda, not someone who works to stymie it."
Michigan voters clearly disagree. According to new reporting from the Associated Press, even Trump's most ardent supporters in the state are rejecting
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LANSING, Michigan, July 31 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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AP: Mike Rogers "Promotes Trump's Agenda," Even As The President's Biggest Supporters Say His Policies Are Hurting Michigan
LANSING -- On Monday, GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump at his rally in Milford, arguing that "Michigan needs a senator who promotes Trump's agenda, not someone who works to stymie it."
Michigan voters clearly disagree. According to new reporting from the Associated Press, even Trump's most ardent supporters in the state are rejectingRogers' pitch, saying that "prices are too high" and that Trump's chaotic tariffs have inflicted unnecessary "economic pain" with little to show for it: The U.S. has lost about 75,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office, and about 8,300 have been lost in Michigan since Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs.
That's a problem for Rogers, who has pledged to be a loyal vote for Trump's toxic economic agenda and "said he backs Trump's broad range of tariffs," even though the data shows "Trump's strategy hasn't worked" and his rosy words "can't hide how his tariffs are helping intensify voters' concerns about inflation and affordability."
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Associated Press: Trump touted his tariffs in Michigan despite rising costs. Even some of his supporters are worried
* There are few places where contradictions between the president's boasts and the economic reality of his tariffs are more likely to collide ahead of November's midterm elections than in battleground Michigan, which holds its primary on Tuesday.
* During Trump's rally in Milford, northwest of Detroit, the crowd was adoring. But even some of his ardent supporters said prices are too high and tariffs had caused short-term economic pain -- even as they still support him overall.
* Veteran Michigan pollster Bernie Porn said Trump's rosy words can't hide how his tariffs are helping intensify voters' concerns about inflation and affordability.
* "When I was listening to him, I said, 'What planet are you on?'" Porn said.
* Porn noted that some Republicans nationally are worried their voters won't be motivated to turn out in November and "I doubt if Michigan is going to be very different."
* "He is like an anchor around Republicans," Porn said.
* Also speaking was former Rep. Mike Rogers, who's again running for Senate after narrowly losing to Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin two years ago [...] But Rogers said Michigan needs a senator who promotes Trump's agenda, not someone who works to stymie it.
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Original text here: https://michigandems.com/ap-mike-rogers-promotes-trumps-agenda-even-as-the-presidents-biggest-supporters-say-his-policies-are-hurting-michigan/
On the 61st Anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare - House Republicans' Vote to Cut These Critical Programs Will Cost Them the Majority
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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On the 61st Anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare - House Republicans' Vote to Cut These Critical Programs Will Cost Them the Majority
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On this day in 1965, Medicaid and Medicare were signed into law, two programs that have helped tens of millions of Americans live longer, healthier lives by delivering quality, affordable health care to generations over the decades.
Despite this record of American success, the anniversary highlights how both programs are under assault by Republicans
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WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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On the 61st Anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare - House Republicans' Vote to Cut These Critical Programs Will Cost Them the Majority
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On this day in 1965, Medicaid and Medicare were signed into law, two programs that have helped tens of millions of Americans live longer, healthier lives by delivering quality, affordable health care to generations over the decades.
Despite this record of American success, the anniversary highlights how both programs are under assault by Republicansand how GOP attacks have made health care the top domestic issue for Americans this year, according to Gallup.
Driving this anxiety among the public is the incredible damage caused by House Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill. The Republican law is ripping away health care from millions of Americans and raising medical costs on everyone else - all to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
The impacts are real and Americans are hurting. House Republicans' cruel and decisive vote to gut Medicaid will wreak havoc on American lives:
* Millions of people will lose health care coverage
* Hospitals are at risk of closing
* Nursing homes could face staffing shortages
* Ripping health care away from cancer patients
* Health care costs will rise for millions of people
* Millions more are at risk of facing medical debt
ADDITIONALLY: The Big, Ugly Bill triggered nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, resulting in likely cuts to funding for hospitals and doctors and higher premiums for seniors. To "celebrate" the anniversary of Medicare, the Trump administration also ended a prescription drug plan that will spike the cost of medicine for Medicare recipients.
DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton:
"Republicans are obsessed with dismantling Americans' health care access - we now have less hospitals, less coverage, and it all costs more for the few who can afford it. Today's Medicaid and Medicare anniversaries are reminding voters of how vulnerable House Republicans have made people's lives worse. Republicans' attack on Medicaid and Medicare is a defining issue for the midterms and it's going to cost Republicans the majority."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/on-the-61st-anniversary-of-medicaid-and-medicare-house-republicans-vote-to-cut-these-critical-programs-will-cost-them-the-majority/
Fact Check: Mike Rogers Consistently Voted for Higher Prescription Drug Costs, Benefiting His Big Pharma Donors
LANSING, Michigan, July 30 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release on July 29, 2026:
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FACT CHECK: Mike Rogers Consistently Voted for Higher Prescription Drug Costs, Benefiting His Big Pharma Donors
Today, corrupt multi-millionaire Mike Rogers posted a video asking Michiganders "why prescription drugs cost so much more in Michigan than they do in Canada." The answer lies within: Mike Rogers helped create this problem by voting to block lower prescription drug costs while Big Pharma bankrolled his campaigns:
* In Congress, Rogers voted against a bill that would
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LANSING, Michigan, July 30 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release on July 29, 2026:
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FACT CHECK: Mike Rogers Consistently Voted for Higher Prescription Drug Costs, Benefiting His Big Pharma Donors
Today, corrupt multi-millionaire Mike Rogers posted a video asking Michiganders "why prescription drugs cost so much more in Michigan than they do in Canada." The answer lies within: Mike Rogers helped create this problem by voting to block lower prescription drug costs while Big Pharma bankrolled his campaigns:
* In Congress, Rogers voted against a bill that wouldhave allowed reimportation of prescription drugs from foreign countries like Canada--effectively blocking lower costs for Americans--and "repeated industry talking points" to oppose such efforts, warning "unmonitored, reimported prescription drugs can and have killed American citizens."
* Rogers has voted repeatedly against allowing Medicare to negotiate lower costs for prescription drugs, something he has said he is "passionately against" and has derided as "sugar high politics."
* While Rogers voted to oppose efforts to lower prescription drug costs, he was being "bankrolled" by Big Pharma, receiving more than $1 million in contributions to his campaigns and his political action committee from the pharmaceutical and health products industry since 1999.
* Rogers has pledged to be a rubber stamp for Trump, whose administration announced yesterday its plans to "end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans," which would leave "many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year."
"Mike Rogers is literally the problem: He was Big Pharma's 'champion' in Congress and consistently voted to deliver higher prescription drug costs for Michiganders--a fact that Rogers is now trying to hide because he knows his record is toxic," said Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson Joey Hannum. "Rogers is a corrupt politician who has shamelessly served Big Pharma and corporate special interests his entire career, and he would continue to sell out Michiganders for whoever writes him the biggest check if he was in the U.S. Senate."
Read more: Michigan Independent: Bankrolled by pharmaceuticals, Mike Rogers helped block Medicare price negotiation; Michigan Advance: Rogers says Medicare negotiating drug price reductions is 'sugar high politics'; Bridge Michigan: Mike Rogers vows to fight drug war, but urged opioid access in Congress; MDP: James Carville Calls Out Mike Rogers' Big Pharma Ties, Predicts They Will Create "A Lot Of Issues" for His Campaign
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Original text here: https://michigandems.com/fact-check-mike-rogers-consistently-voted-for-higher-prescription-drug-costs-benefiting-his-big-pharma-donors/
DSCC Vice Chair Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester Lays Out Democrats' Clear Path to the Senate Majority With Less Than 100 Days Until the Midterms
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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DSCC Vice Chair Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester Lays Out Democrats' Clear Path to the Senate Majority With Less Than 100 Days Until the Midterms
DSCC Vice-Chair Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester: "One of the reasons why we see wins across the country throughout this past year is because we're focused on the issues that affect the local"
As Senate Democrats' path back to the majority becomes "clearer and clearer every single month," DSCC Vice Chair Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester joined MS NOW's The Weeknight
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WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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DSCC Vice Chair Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester Lays Out Democrats' Clear Path to the Senate Majority With Less Than 100 Days Until the Midterms
DSCC Vice-Chair Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester: "One of the reasons why we see wins across the country throughout this past year is because we're focused on the issues that affect the local"
As Senate Democrats' path back to the majority becomes "clearer and clearer every single month," DSCC Vice Chair Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester joined MS NOW's The Weeknightto highlight how "great recruitment" and "trusted" candidates who are "beating in the polls and in the fundraising" have put Democrats in the best position yet to win the Senate majority.
Meanwhile, floundering GOP Senate candidates have nothing to run on but a failed, toxic agenda that has gutted health care, spiked prices, and made life harder for families across the country.
See for yourself:
MS NOW: Democrats go on offense in bid to win control of Senate
* DSCC Vice-Chair Sen. LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER: When I first came to the table, if you'll recall, I had just been named [DSCC] Vice Chair, and 'clear map' is a perfect description because I said you had to squint to see how fuzzy this map was last year at this time. But it has become clearer and clearer and clearer every single month.
* And I'll tell you, it's because we've got some seats that we have to hold - because this is the strategy - we've got to hold seats like Jon Ossoff. We tell people, he's running an incredible campaign, but it's still a purple state. And so, Georgia, we need people to show up and show out.
* Then we've got places that we need to expand. As you said, we need four seats. Throughout the course of this year, because of great recruitment, because of people stepping up that did it for purely patriotic reasons - like Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina... Because of that, we are poised to expand it to eight seats.
* North Carolina looking good with Roy Cooper. He's not even doing affordability. He has a Make Stuff Cost Less tour. Like he's spelling it out the way people understand it.
* You go to Ohio - Sherrod Brown is known and trusted in Ohio. You go to Alaska - Mary Peltola, who I got a chance to serve with in the House - she's already won and run statewide before. And she's beating in the polls and in the fundraising, but taking nothing for granted. And then you can go to Iowa - with Josh Turek, which you also didn't mention. So I'm already up to, I think, four.
* You've got Maine and Texas. Mississippi is one that I personally am really focused on as well... And I think it's also important that we hold seats like New Hampshire. You mentioned New Hampshire, but a lot of people think of it as just a blue state or a win. Maggie Hassan, who's our current junior Senator from New Hampshire, only won by 1017 votes when she won. And so, we want people to not take that for granted, either.
* The map is clearer. We're excited.... It's still going to be an uphill battle, [but] we've got four that we need; I say we've got eight that we could win.
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Original text here: https://www.dscc.org/article/watch-dscc-vice-chair-sen-lisa-blunt-rochester-lays-out-democrats-clear-path-to-the-senate-majority-with-less-than-100-days-until-the-midterms/
RATINGS CHANGE: Sabato's Crystal Ball Shifts THIRTEEN Districts in Democrats' Direction
WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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RATINGS CHANGE: Sabato's Crystal Ball Shifts THIRTEEN Districts in Democrats' Direction
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Democrats take "edge" in race for control of the House
With less than 100 days to go until the midterms, the House battlefield continues to move in Democrats' direction.
New ratings changes from Sabato's Crystal Ball moves THIRTEEN races in Democrats' direction, including vulnerable Republicans:
* Chuck Edwards (NC-11) - Lean Republican to Toss-up
* Mike Lawler (NY-17) - Lean Republican
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WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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RATINGS CHANGE: Sabato's Crystal Ball Shifts THIRTEEN Districts in Democrats' Direction
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Democrats take "edge" in race for control of the House
With less than 100 days to go until the midterms, the House battlefield continues to move in Democrats' direction.
New ratings changes from Sabato's Crystal Ball moves THIRTEEN races in Democrats' direction, including vulnerable Republicans:
* Chuck Edwards (NC-11) - Lean Republican to Toss-up
* Mike Lawler (NY-17) - Lean Republicanto Toss-up
* Max Miller (OH-07) - Likely Republican to Lean Republican
* Rob Bresnahan (PA-08) - Lean Republican to Toss-up
* OPEN (SC-01) - Safe Republican to Likely Republican
* Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) - Likely Republican to Lean Republican
The latest shift comes as Democrats took an eight-point lead on the generic congressional ballot in the latest CNN poll.
DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton:
"All of the momentum is behind Democrats in the fight for the House because the American people are with us. Our candidates and Frontline incumbents have a disciplined message of making life more affordable, and we will continue to deliver this winning message to every voter across the battlefield every day."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/%f0%9f%9a%a8-ratings-change-sabatos-crystal-ball-shifts-thirteen-districts-in-democrats-direction%f0%9f%9a%a8/
