Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* Amid reports that Donald Trump’s campaign is planning an eleventh-hour joint campaign event with Nikki Haley, the former president boasted on Fox News about how badly he beat her in the GOP primaries. “Let me just tell you,” the Republican nominee said. “Nikki Haley and I fought, and I beat her by 50, 60, 90 points. I beat her in her own state by numbers that nobody’s ever been beaten by. I beat Nikki badly.”
Wanna watch Donald Trump get asked if Nikki Haley is going to campaign for him and respond by dumping on her for a minute and a half? pic.twitter.com/XbB8A9eYWY
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 18, 2024
* The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll found a surprisingly competitive presidential race in the Lone Star State, with Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris by 5 points, 51% to 46%, among likely voters. (Click the link for additional information on the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
* The same poll also showed incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz hanging onto his advantage over Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, 51% to 44%. (Click the link for additional information on the survey’s methodology and margin of error.)
* In Arizona’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, Republican Kari Lake said there might be “really, really bad” information in Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego’s divorce records. An Arizona court has now unsealed most of the case file, and the results were quite boring.
* In a related note, the Gallego campaign unveiled a new ad this week featuring support from Barack Obama.
* People involved with the cryptocurrency industry are investing tens of millions of dollars into campaign ads in key states, but the commercials don’t make any references to crypto.
* And in Montana’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, new reporting shows Republican Tim Sheehy endorsed abolishing the U.S. Department of Education because it’s meant to “enslave” students. He added, “We formed that department so little Black girls could go to school down South and we could have integrated schooling.” (That’s not even close to being true. The Department of Education became a Cabinet agency in 1979.)
