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#midterms

In the past week, Trump's attacks on Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) have thrown the retired Navy Captain and former astronaut into the political discourse in a whole new way. While Kelly has long been a rising star on the Democrats' bench, this is his first sustained tussle with Trump. With Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth now trying to court-martial Kelly, the fight appears far from over, and given the actual contents of the clip, Kelly looks likely to prevail.

Joe Gruters, a Florida state senator and current treasurer of the Republican National Committee, has been elected to serve as the RNC's new chairman. At Friday's RNC summer meeting in downtown Atlanta, Gruters was unanimously elected by members to replace Michael Whatley, who is running with President Trump's endorsement for the open U.S. Senate race in North Carolina.

"Call your representative. Demand they release the Epstein files," says the ad, while hitting House Republicans for going on August recess without having cast a floor vote to release more Epstein details.

With term limits preventing Youngkin from succeeding himself, his lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, expected to get her turn at the top of the ticket.