Quick Glance: GOP Lawmaker Drops Senate Bid
- Montana Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale quickly withdraws from U.S. Senate race after Trump's endorsement of opponent.
- Rosendale ends Senate campaign just days after launching, due to Trump's support for rival Tim Sheehy.
- Rosendale's decision, revealed by Politico, cites Trump's endorsement of Tim Sheehy as reason for swift exit.
- Sheehy, backed by U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, gains momentum in Montana Senate race with Rosendale stepping back.
"They ain't coming into the office. Period."
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Quick Glance: Sen. Jon Tester will run for reelection, giving Democrats a major boost.
- Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) announced his intention to run for reelection to a fourth term on Wednesday, bolstering Democratic hopes as the party faces a difficult Senate map in 2024.
- Daines said in a statement Wednesday that Tester was making the same mistake as former Montana governor Steve Bullock (D), who ran for Senate and lost in 2020.
- Given the difficult political environment in 2024, many Democrats were relieved when Tester announced his intention to run for reelection.
- Montana Democratic Party Chair Robyn Driscoll praised Tester in a statement as the Senate's only working farmer who would "take on anyone in order to defend our great Montana values."
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Quick Glance: Blinken hopes to smooth over a rocky relationship with a rare trip to China.
- Reuters, February 2 – There will be plenty to disagree about when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets his Chinese counterpart in Beijing next week, from Taiwan to chips and trade.
- Blinken's visit to China will be the first by a secretary of state since Mike Pompeo met then-foreign minister Wang Yi in Beijing in October 2018, when the two dignitaries exchanged pointed remarks amid a worsening trade war.
- Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State, will accompany him.
- "Much like it has on other issues, [Beijing] is attempting to link cooperation with other completely unrelated issues."
Quick Glance: Frost is sworn in after 15 ballots and a near-brawl with GOP Gaetz.
- Maxwell Frost has arrived in Congress, but it took until the wee hours of Saturday morning and a near GOP brawl involving Rep.
- Frost, D-Orlando, was chosen to replace retired U.S. Rep.
- Frost, a gun control activist and Black Lives Matter demonstrator, outraised the rest of the Democratic field by more than $1.5 million.
- "This is the reality of our system right now, unfortunately," Frost explained.
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Quick Glance: McCarthy collapse has both amused and horrified the Biden world.
- While many House Democrats spent the day laughing at the chaos on the other side of the aisle, the White House kept a more serious face, at least publicly.
- The president and his aides will continue to brand the GOP in public and private by highlighting the behavior of its more extreme voices — the "MAGA Republicans," as Biden has dubbed them — while also reaching out to Republicans who might work more constructively with Democrats, according to White House staffers.
Quick Glance: McCarthy Makes New Compromises in Attempt to Win Over GOP Holdouts in Speaker Race
- Kevin McCarthy has made new concessions in an attempt to win over detractors in the hotly contested election for House Speaker.
- According to two people familiar with the situation, Mr. McCarthy's new offer included modifying the rules to allow for one member to convene a vote to expel the speaker, rather than the five that Mr. McCarthy had previously agreed to.
- According to the two persons, there was also an agreement to put more members of the House Freedom Caucus, which includes many McCarthy opponents, on powerful committees.
Quick Glance: McCarthy, of the Republican Party, voted repeatedly against becoming House Speaker.
- Subscribers: One Democrat in the House wants to work out an agreement to make McCarthy speaker.
- "I still have the most votes," McCarthy declared at the beginning of the session.
- It was the first time in 100 years that a House speaker nominee did not accept the gavel on the first vote, but McCarthy seemed unfazed.
- Trump had done the opposite earlier in the day, urging Republicans to vote for McCarthy.
Quick Glance: Kevin McCarthy's difficulties in becoming House Speaker could spell disaster for California
- Pelosi has been the House Democratic leader for the past 20 years.
- There were 42 California Democrats in the previous Congress, accounting for roughly 10% of the 435 members.
- "I don't think the number of Republicans is what gives California its clout," Rep.
- McCarthy and other Republicans in California have advocated for legislation to solve water and health-care shortages.
Quick Glance: The House adjourns for the second day without a speaker.
- McCarthy scrounges for votes as the battle for the speaker begins its second day.
- WASHINGTON (AP) – On Wednesday, a right-wing Republican mutiny immobilized the House for a second grueling day, leaving California Representative Kevin McCarthy fighting for political survival after losing a half-dozen consecutive votes for speaker and with no apparent road ahead to allow Congress to function.
- California Representative Kevin McCarthy recently told reporters that he does not want another vote tonight.
- So far, they can't even agree on a speaker, with extreme-right Republicans repeatedly opposing California Rep. Kevin McCarthy in several public votes over two days.
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Quick Glance: John Bolton Announces the Most Absurd Presidential Bid in 2024
- With an announcement to the British media earlier today, John Bolton officially entered the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
- That seems a little on the nose, given that Bolton is primarily known for being a warmonger: he has admitted to planning foreign coups on public television, and he was sacked as national security adviser because he kept trying to start wars after assuring Trump he wouldn't.
- Beating Trump sounds nice; the problem is getting them to vote for Bolton.
- Bolton seemed intent on alienate British citizens as well.
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