Me, every time I take my 6-year-old outside to play these days.

Sen. JD Vance, an Ohio Republican who is among the contenders to be former President Trump’s vice presidential running mate, will help Trump raise money next month in Cincinnati, according to an invitation obtained by NBC News. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

Former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel threatened with jail in divorce case

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Romney says his dog Seamus story is different from Kristi Noem:

“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog and my dog loved me.”

Fudge was a congresswoman in 2015 when she wrote a letter to the court seeking leniency for Mason while he was awaiting sentencing on a felonious assault conviction from a previous beating of Fraser.

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Former HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge withdraws as Shaker Heights graduation speaker amid controversy over slain teacher cleveland.com/community/2024…

End of an era in Ohio politics as Timken — the former state party chair — succeeds JoAnn Davidson, a fixture of the old-guard GOP who was the first woman to serve as speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.

Peter Meijer is OUT in the Michigan GOP Senate primary.

'The hard reality is the fundamentals of the race have changed significantly since we launched this campaign,' he says.

Mike Rogers, with Trump + NRSC backing, has consolidated much GOP support. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

Old enough to remember when Ellen Connally was the Ohio GOP’s favorite Democrat because she occasionally sad bad things about Ed FitzGerald, Kasich’s re-election challenger in 2014.

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What a decade it’s been.

MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has raised $2.5 million for her Michigan Legacy PAC since July 2023.

$1.5 million, exactly 60%, has come from Kenneth and Jennifer Duda, Bay Area entrepreneurs. 90% is from donors giving $50,000 or more.

New w/Sahil Kapur and Scott Wong on the campaign implications for the TikTok legislation that now sits on the president's desk

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🚨🚨 Senate votes 79-18 to pass a $95 billion package of Ukraine aid, Israel assistance, Gaza relief and a TikTok divest-or-ban provision.

Now this goes to President Biden to sign.

It caps months of GOP infighting; in the end the pro-Ukraine side won.

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NEW: The Jewish vote could play a big role in 2024. That’s doubly true in Pennsylvania, the frontline battleground with the largest Jewish population

A primary taking place Tuesday in the Pittsburgh-area might offer some clues

w/Emma Barnett

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Conor Lamb, who lost to Fetterman in their Senate primary, says he campaigned as a different person than he is today.

“There is a head-spinning quality to it. He seems to be finding common cause with Joe Manchin, or at least acting like it,” Lamb said

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SCOOP: President Joe Biden will on Tuesday deliver a speech in Florida denouncing that state’s new six-week abortion ban and other efforts to restrict abortion access across the country, according to Biden campaign aides who shared details of the trip first with NBC News.

Rogers has deleted the tweet touting his endorsement by Kash Patel after backlash from some in the national security space #MISen

Erstwhile presidential candidate and Michigander Perry Johnson has endorsed Mike Rogers in the #MISen GOP primary: 'There is only one man who I believe has the ability to take on this task and enact Trump’s America First policies in the Senate, and that man is ... Mike Rogers.'

One of the weirder fundraising emails you’ll see: the Democrat running in OH-7, repped by Republican Max Miller, sent this out as a parody in the name of Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent. He brands Kucinich, a former Dem congressman, as “far right.”