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The MAGA Brand is So Politically Toxic, Republicans are Attempting to Hide It for the Midterms
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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The MAGA Brand is So Politically Toxic, Republicans are Attempting to Hide It for the Midterms
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New pop-up PACs to launder MAGA Inc. money in House battleground districts reveals how scared Republicans are of the MAGA brand
Donald Trump's personal political slush fund - MAGA Inc. - has a branding problem: everyone hates it. To get around this political inconvenience, MAGA Inc. created a new shadowy pop-up Super PAC under the name "No Going Back PAC" placing ads in House battleground
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release:
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The MAGA Brand is So Politically Toxic, Republicans are Attempting to Hide It for the Midterms
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New pop-up PACs to launder MAGA Inc. money in House battleground districts reveals how scared Republicans are of the MAGA brand
Donald Trump's personal political slush fund - MAGA Inc. - has a branding problem: everyone hates it. To get around this political inconvenience, MAGA Inc. created a new shadowy pop-up Super PAC under the name "No Going Back PAC" placing ads in House battlegroundraces (AL-02, CO-05, CO-08, FL-14, FL-25, IA-01, IA-02, IA-03, KY-06, MI-04, MT-01, NC-11, NM-02, NY-03, NY-17, PA-10, TX-15, TX-34, TX-35, VA-02, WA-03).
Deciding one pop-up isn't enough to distance themselves from the tarnished MAGA brand, Republicans actually created two. A second one, named "Safety and Affordability PAC" was also recently created to launder MAGA Inc. dollars into a number of House districts (AZ-01, AZ-06, CA-22, CO-03, IA-01, ME-02, MI-04, MI-07, MI-10, NV-03, NY-17, OH-10, OH-15, PA-08, WI-03).
Vulnerable House Republicans, challenger candidates, and now even Trump's own political operation are all twisting themselves into knots on how to campaign on an unpopular GOP agenda of rising costs, lost health care, a forever war in the Middle East, and a level of corruption Americans are tired of.
Republican candidates are even getting caught scrubbing their websites of Trump and running away from their unpopular agenda, yet still are tarred with the NRCCC label as "MAGA Majority" candidates.
DCCC Spokesperson Viet Shelton:
"Self awareness is key. D.C. Republicans realize that the MAGA brand is toxic and the American people are souring on Republicans, Trump, and their broken promises over their failure to lower costs. Too bad for them, no rebrand is going to change the fact that voters are motivated to reject them in November."
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Original text here: https://dccc.org/the-maga-brand-is-so-politically-toxic-republicans-are-attempting-to-hide-it-for-the-midterms/
NEW: DNC Sheds Light on Trump Admin. Documents As DHS Sec. Refuses to Rule Out Sending ICE Agents to the Polls
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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September 18, 2026
NEW: DNC Sheds Light on Trump Admin. Documents As DHS Sec. Refuses to Rule Out Sending ICE Agents to the Polls
As Secretary Mullin refuses to rule out sending ICE agents to the polls, the DNC is taking on the Trump administration in court and demanding accountability and transparency. Through our FOIA lawsuit, the DNC uncovered correspondence that suggests the Trump administration may target jurisdictions where voting materials are provided in multiple languages. New reporting
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release:
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September 18, 2026
NEW: DNC Sheds Light on Trump Admin. Documents As DHS Sec. Refuses to Rule Out Sending ICE Agents to the Polls
As Secretary Mullin refuses to rule out sending ICE agents to the polls, the DNC is taking on the Trump administration in court and demanding accountability and transparency. Through our FOIA lawsuit, the DNC uncovered correspondence that suggests the Trump administration may target jurisdictions where voting materials are provided in multiple languages. New reportingdetails how we are shedding light on what the Trump administration may be planning ahead of these critical midterm elections -- especially as Republicans prepare for defeat.
After the disclosure of the FOIA documents, DNC Litigation Director Dan Freeman released the following statement:
"It is extremely concerning that the Trump administration may be targeting jurisdictions where voting materials are available in multiple languages. American citizens exercising their right to vote, regardless of the language they speak, have the right to do so without fear or intimidation. The DNC will continue to fight against every attempt by the Trump administration to suppress or intimidate voters and to ensure our elections remain free and fair."
The DNC has continued to file FOIA requests and litigation to inform the public and prepare for any legal actions needed to defend and protect Americans' access to the ballot box in addition to the security, transparency, and integrity of elections across the country. The DNC will continue holding the administration accountable and demanding they not subvert or undermine the will of the voters.
Just today, Secretary Mullin again refused to rule out sending federal agents to the polls -- threatening the integrity of our elections and attacking voters' rights to cast their ballot without fear or intimidation.
Dana Bash, CNN: "Can you promise federal agents you oversee at DHS will not be summoned to polling places when there's no legitimate, active emergency?"
Secretary Mullin: "This is so ridiculous. I've been asked this question so many times. I['m] actually disappointed that you even brought this up because I think you and I have even talked about this already. We're only going to be there if we were required because there's some type of threat."
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Original text here: https://democrats.org/new-dnc-sheds-light-on-trump-admin-documents-as-dhs-sec-refuses-to-rule-out-sending-ice-agents-to-the-polls/
Mich. Democratic Party: John James Dismisses High Gas Prices After He Voted for Iran War This Week
LANSING, Michigan, Sept. 19 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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September 18, 2026
John James Dismisses High Gas Prices After He Voted for Iran War This Week
As gas and diesel prices in Michigan reach record levels this week because of Donald Trump's disastrous Iran War, two-time statewide loser John James dismissed the high gas prices in an interview with WWJ Radio this morning.
When asked his thoughts on gas prices jumping 60 cents this week alone and whether he supports suspending the federal gas tax, James dismissed the high prices and said, "My thoughts
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LANSING, Michigan, Sept. 19 -- The Michigan Democratic Party issued the following news release:
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September 18, 2026
John James Dismisses High Gas Prices After He Voted for Iran War This Week
As gas and diesel prices in Michigan reach record levels this week because of Donald Trump's disastrous Iran War, two-time statewide loser John James dismissed the high gas prices in an interview with WWJ Radio this morning.
When asked his thoughts on gas prices jumping 60 cents this week alone and whether he supports suspending the federal gas tax, James dismissed the high prices and said, "My thoughtson this is the fact that Democrats want to blame President Trump for everything, well, that's not going to fix all your problems." James then launched into a tirade against Democrats and did not address the high gas prices caused by the Iran War.
On Tuesday night, James once again voted in support of the Iran War, which has sent prices skyrocketing. In a previous interview with Fox News, when pressed on rising gas prices, James said that "President Trump's on the right track, and we need to make sure we can support him." James also said that the "Republican majority in the House and the Senate and with the White House, we are keeping prices low."
Meanwhile, Jocelyn Benson has urged for an end to the Iran War, and this morning, she called on James and Trump to suspend the federal gas tax until the war ends.
"Michigan families are paying more at the pump because of John James, and rather than work to lower prices, James dismisses them and instead defends Donald Trump" said Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson Derrick Honeyman. "James voted for this war, he voted to fund it, and he's stood by Donald Trump every step of the way. Michiganders are paying more because of John James and he owns these high gas prices."
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Original text here: https://michigandems.com/john-james-dismisses-high-gas-prices-after-he-voted-for-iran-war-this-week/
Democratic Governors Association: Retail Association of Nevada Dumps Lombardo, Endorses Aaron Ford For Governor
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Retail Association of Nevada Dumps Lombardo, Endorses Aaron Ford For Governor
Sep 17, 2026
RAN President: "We Want a Governor Who's Willing to Fight...Help us Lower Costs"
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This week, the Retail Association of Nevada changed course after endorsing Joe Lombardo in 2022 and backed Attorney General Aaron Ford for governor. This is the first time the association has backed a Democrat in recent history, after the Lombardo-Trump agenda has driven up costs, closed businesses, and caused real pain for
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Retail Association of Nevada Dumps Lombardo, Endorses Aaron Ford For Governor
Sep 17, 2026
RAN President: "We Want a Governor Who's Willing to Fight...Help us Lower Costs"
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This week, the Retail Association of Nevada changed course after endorsing Joe Lombardo in 2022 and backed Attorney General Aaron Ford for governor. This is the first time the association has backed a Democrat in recent history, after the Lombardo-Trump agenda has driven up costs, closed businesses, and caused real pain forNevadans.
The association's president, Bryan Wachter, said, "We want a governor who's willing to fight with us and to help us lower costs and to make it cheaper to actually operate a business in Nevada... We have been disappointed with Lombardo on all those fronts over the last four years."
Read more below about how Nevada business leaders are backing Ford as he takes on Lombardo and Trump's cost-raising agenda to lower prices:
Reno Gazette Journal: Retail Association of Nevada switches to endorse Ford in governor race
* Lombardo's support for President Donald Trump and his tariffs partly influenced the retail association's decision.
* "We understand the governor doesn't have a role in tariffs, but when he comes out and supports a policy that is hurting our small businesses, that is leading to restaurants closing, that is leading to retailers closing and not understanding that there are consequences to those types of policies, that gives us pause," Wachter said.
* "Some of us smaller businesses are not really feeling heard," [John Simmons, owner and chef of Firefly restaurant] said. "The tariffs are hurting us. Our costs of goods are up. Tourism is down."
* Last summer [he] saw his business decrease 15% from the previous year, causing him to cut staff.
* When the retail group went to the governor's office over issues involving retail crime, Wachter said, it didn't get any help but that when it turned to Ford's office, "the attorney general showed up."
Nevada Current: Business group abandons Lombardo in favor of Ford
* "RAN represents more than 8,000 businesses. Wachter said he's aware individual businesses may back Lombardo but said endorsing Ford was the best move for the association. The association cites Ford's participation in legal action that has overturned some of President Donald Trump's tariffs."
* "Governor Lombardo has told us that Nevadans need to feel pain from tariffs," Wachter noted. Nevadans, he said, "can't afford more pain," given the cost of food, prescription drugs and energy.
* RAN made the announcement at Firefly, a Las Vegas restaurant near the Strip. Owner John Simmons said business has plummeted by 15% year-over-year since Trump took office and imposed hefty tariffs.
* "He said that he can't do anything about affordability, and he said that we need to take care of billionaires first because they provide all of the jobs. We don't recognize that kind of leadership."
* Most jobs, Wachter added, are created by small businesses, not billionaires.
Las Vegas Sun: Nevada retailers group, citing high costs and tariffs, abandons Lombardo and backs Ford
* "Gov. Lombardo has told us that Nevadans need to feel pain from tariffs," RAN President Bryan Wachter said. "He said there's nothing the governor can do about affordability."
* Wachter said RAN reached out to both campaigns this election cycle and felt Ford's plans for the economy offered more promise. He pointed to Ford's support for lowering prescription drug costs, reforming credit card swipe fees and regulating data centers as ways to lower costs for retailers.
* Stores could have seen slight relief from rising prescription drug costs with Assembly Bill 259, passed by the 2025 Legislature. The bill would have capped drug prices at federal Medicare rates, but Lombardo vetoed it.
* "Tariffs, trade wars and tourism ... those are the three things that are really affecting me," Simmons said.
* Lombardo's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
KTNV: Retail Association of Nevada backs Ford for governor
* The Retail Association of Nevada on Monday endorsed Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford for governor, saying he'll be better for retail businesses.
* "And so we want to make sure that the person who is setting those policies is doing so with small businesses in mind, with retailers in mind and making sure that we're making the best possible choices that we're making going forward. And when we looked hard at the policies of the last four years and the policies that we're looking forward to in the next four years, we believe that the attorney general is the best one for that."
* Owner John Simmons told Channel 13 that tariffs have raised his costs and slowed his business to the point that he's had to let employees go, including managers.
* Ford criticized Lombardo for vetoing bills that would have lowered drug costs, provided free school meals to all students and prohibited corporations from buying homes and driving up the costs. He said Lombardo should stand up to Trump and tell him the tariffs are hurting businesses in the state.
* "It certainly played a role," Wachter said of the regulation. "When you have the governor who is running on the idea that he has canceled or rescinded so many of these anti-business regulations that are increasing the cost of doing business and making things more difficult for Nevadans, and then to find out that he's pushing something that is not only going to affect health care but start affecting where we buy our groceries and whether people, they can access their medication, that's a huge red flag."
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/retail-association-of-nevada-dumps-lombardo-endorses-aaron-ford-for-governor/
Democratic Governors Association: Ohioans for Lower Costs Ad Calls Out Ramaswamy for Taking Advantage of Sick Patients
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Ohioans for Lower Costs Ad Calls Out Ramaswamy for Taking Advantage of Sick Patients
Sep 18, 2026
Today, Ohioans for Lower Costs, a group backed by the Democratic Governors Association, released an ad in Ohio's governor race, "Every Shift," featuring an ICU nurse talking about how Vivek Ramaswamy took advantage of sick people desperate for a cure.
In the ad, nurse Helen talks about how Ramaswamy preyed on patients like hers and made billions pushing a "garbage" Alzheimer's drug that didn't work.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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Ohioans for Lower Costs Ad Calls Out Ramaswamy for Taking Advantage of Sick Patients
Sep 18, 2026
Today, Ohioans for Lower Costs, a group backed by the Democratic Governors Association, released an ad in Ohio's governor race, "Every Shift," featuring an ICU nurse talking about how Vivek Ramaswamy took advantage of sick people desperate for a cure.
In the ad, nurse Helen talks about how Ramaswamy preyed on patients like hers and made billions pushing a "garbage" Alzheimer's drug that didn't work.
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Transcript:
Nearly every shift, I see a patient who's desperate for a medical miracle or a clinical trial.
Anything that will buy them a little more time.
Vivek Ramaswamy knows how desperate sick people are. And he tried to take advantage of that.
He backed one drug called "garbage" by a medical expert and peddled another drug to Alzheimer's patients that didn't work.
Walking away from it all a billionaire.
Vivek Ramaswamy didn't care about patients like mine, and he doesn't care about Ohio.
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/new-ohioans-for-lower-costs-ad-calls-out-ramaswamy-for-taking-advantage-of-sick-patients/
DGA Statement on JD Vance's Visit to Iowa as One-Party Rule Has Failed Iowans
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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DGA Statement on JD Vance's Visit to Iowa as One-Party Rule Has Failed Iowans
Sep 18, 2026
As JD Vance campaigns in Iowa alongside Zach Lahn, DGA Communications Director Sam Newton released the following statement:
"As JD Vance begs voters for 'another chance' alongside Zach Lahn, Iowans are hurting from health care cuts, the high cost of gas and diesel, and unaffordable groceries. In addition, a decade of one-party rule in Iowa has made cancer rates devastatingly high and turned the state's economy
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news:
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DGA Statement on JD Vance's Visit to Iowa as One-Party Rule Has Failed Iowans
Sep 18, 2026
As JD Vance campaigns in Iowa alongside Zach Lahn, DGA Communications Director Sam Newton released the following statement:
"As JD Vance begs voters for 'another chance' alongside Zach Lahn, Iowans are hurting from health care cuts, the high cost of gas and diesel, and unaffordable groceries. In addition, a decade of one-party rule in Iowa has made cancer rates devastatingly high and turned the state's economyinto one of the worst in the country. Iowans are tired of Vance and Lahn's status quo failures and ready for change."
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Original text here: https://democraticgovernors.org/updates/dga-statement-on-jd-vances-visit-to-iowa-as-one-party-rule-has-failed-iowans/
Aaron Ford, Dina Titus, Sandra Jauregui, Moms Demand Action Mark 45 Days out from Election Day
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Sept. 19 -- The Nevada Democratic Party posted the following news release:
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Aaron Ford, Dina Titus, Sandra Jauregui, Moms Demand Action Mark 45 Days out from Election Day
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Today, Attorney General Aaron Ford, Congresswoman Dina Titus, Assembly Majority Leader Sandra Jauregui, and Moms Demand Action Executive Director Angela Ferrell-Zabala kicked off the general election with a canvass launch in Nevada's 1st Congressional District. The kickoff marked 45 days until Election Day as Democrats continue to reach voters facing an affordability crisis as housing and health care
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Sept. 19 -- The Nevada Democratic Party posted the following news release:
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Aaron Ford, Dina Titus, Sandra Jauregui, Moms Demand Action Mark 45 Days out from Election Day
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Today, Attorney General Aaron Ford, Congresswoman Dina Titus, Assembly Majority Leader Sandra Jauregui, and Moms Demand Action Executive Director Angela Ferrell-Zabala kicked off the general election with a canvass launch in Nevada's 1st Congressional District. The kickoff marked 45 days until Election Day as Democrats continue to reach voters facing an affordability crisis as housing and health carecosts soar, and grocery and gas prices are sky-high under the Lombardo-Trump economy.
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"Working Nevadans across Vegas, Reno, Minden, Elko, Pahrump, Mesquite, and everywhere else in our state are telling me the same thing: all they want is to be able to pay their bills and have enough cash left over to enjoy their lives instead of just surviving" said Attorney General Aaron Ford. "But right now, Nevada families are paying some of the highest prices in the nation for groceries, gas, housing, and health care, while Joe Lombardo sells them out to Trump's 'billionaire friends' who are making everything more expensive. I'm running for Governor to fight for working Nevadans by lowering their costs and protecting their rights."
"The state of our nation can be characterized by three words beginning with C. Chaos from a war in Iran with no point or end, and from tariffs that drive up costs. Cruelty of budget cuts that make children go to school hungry and force seniors out of nursing homes. And corruption, with members of the Trump family profiting from projects made possible by executive policies" said Congresswoman Dina Titus. "The solution to all of these is another word that begins with C. Change."
"For the last four years, I've worked to make the lives of Nevada families easier, simpler and more affordable -and for the last four years, Stavros Anthony has stood in the way," said Assembly Majority Leader Sandra Jauregui. "That ends now. I'm running for Lieutenant Governor to fight like hell for every Nevadan's shot at the American Dream: an honest wage for an honest day's work, the ability to provide for your family and build a future, and the dignity of a secure retirement."
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Original text here: https://nvdems.com/aaron-ford-dina-titus-sandra-jauregui-moms-demand-action-mark-45-days-out-from-election-day/
