Comment on Senate votes to block Saudi arms sales despite Trump veto threat

Charlie Cook: “We have a group of voters who are not enthusiastic about either candidate, and many may well end up deciding not to decide. In some minds, not casting a ballot is becoming a very real and deliberate option, a way to show their displeasure with their choices and the nominees that the two parties have offered up.

Simon Rosenberg talks to the New Yorker: “Much weaker… First of all, his performance on the stump is far more degraded. He’s clearly diminished. He’s far more erratic. He’s making a lot of mistakes that are hurting the campaign when he speaks.” “Second, his agenda is far more extreme, more dangerous, and will be far easier to exploit by the Democrats.” More: “There are six things now that are true about him that were not true in 2020, that all voters are going to come to know in the following months—they are that he raped E.

CNN’s prime time programming just had its worst week of ratings since the 1990s, the New York Post reports.

Just for members: The latest edition of Inside Elections. This issue is includes a deep dive into North Carolina’s 1st District, where Rep. Don Davis (D-NC) is a GOP target at the center of the battle for the House majority. The edition includes key primary results from around the country and the continuation of the presidential battleground series with Pennsylvania.

The Senate once again Thursday rejected the bipartisan border security deal that was clinched earlier this year, as Democrats seek to use the issue against Republicans in the upcoming election, The Hill reports. The vote was 43 to 50. It was doomed to fail after Republicans slammed the effort as a political stunt intended to boost vulnerable Democratic incumbents.

A lawsuit claims Montana U. S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (R) and his brother defrauded two former employees out of a share of their company that is worth millions, the Montana Independent reports. The former employees’ complaint sharply contradicts the story that Sheehy has told about himself and his business career on the campaign trail.