Democrats Hit With Devastating Blow As Senate Hopes Dwindle

Published 23 hours ago

on July 8, 2025

By Mark Steffen

Republicans in Washington, D.C., are keeping a close eye on next year’s U.S. Senate map, which is favorable but also boasts several vulnerable incumbents who must be protected if they are to keep a majority after 2026.

Their hopes were buoyed on Tuesday as the main fundraising arm for Senate Republicans reported a record-smashing haul for the first half of 2025, surpassing already lofty expectations and putting its incumbents and challengers in a formidable position 16 months before Election Day.

The Senate GOP’s top super PAC and its affiliated entities raised a combined $85 million in the first half of the year, more than doubling their previous record.

The largesse underscores how potent Republicans’ fundraising prowess has become under Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), who assumed his position after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), another fundraising powerhouse, announced his decision to step down from leadership and not seek reelection.

Alex Latcham, executive director of the Senate Leadership Fund, credited President Donald Trump with being more involved than he had been when McConnell was in charge of the effort.

Latcham co-runs the PAC alongside former Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) after the duo took over from Steven Law, a close McConnell ally.

“We’re working with [the White House] to identify and vet Senate candidates,” Latcham told Axios, describing Trump’s involvement as an asset “as we navigate some of these primaries.”

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 Trump trolls ‘Palestinian senator’ Chuck Schumer, claims his career has ‘limited’ time left: ‘I hear AOC is gonna beat him’
By Ryan King   
Published July 8, 2025, 3:57 p.m. ET

President Trump on Tuesday gleefully needled his longtime foe, New York Dem Sen. Chuck Schumer, by predicting that “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would beat him if she takes him on in 2028.

Trump, going off on a tangent during a discussion on the deadly floods that unleashed hell on Texas Hill Country last week, said the Senate minority leader has a penchant for blaming him for crises.

“I saw a Palestinian senator, his name is Schumer. He’s a great Palestinian,” Trump said of the pol, who is the highest elected Jewish official in the country.

“He’s become a Palestinian, he has abandoned the Jews,” Trump claimed in a jab at the top Senate Democrat’s criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demands for better conditions for the Palestinians.

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Wrong.  Trump is deporting the invaders.

Maybe if Dems fought as hard for deplorables as they do for illegal aliens, they might be able to get more votes from white guys.

They'll be safe if they return to their country of origin before ICE rounds them up and deports them to Antarctica, where some pengiuns have agreed to run an ice prison.

New book exposes Jill Biden's power grab amid husband's political demise
'He’s the only person for the job,' first lady Jill Biden told donors after President Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance
By Deirdre Heavey Fox News
Published July 8, 2025 10:15am EDT

First lady Jill Biden's political rise coincided with the end of her husband's political career, according to a new book about how President Joe Biden lost the White House.

One year after Biden's consequential debate performance, the first octogenarian president's age has inspired congressional investigations and books detailing his alleged cognitive decline.

"2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," is the latest to tackle the inner workings of the Biden administration.

The book, released Tuesday by journalists Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal, Tyler Pager of The New York Times and Isaac Arnsdor of The Washington Post, details the influential role Jill Biden played in her husband's administration.

As Jill Biden gained political influence, so did Anthony Bernal, the first lady's chief of staff and senior advisor and an assistant to the president.

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