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House GOP leaders will hold their leadership elections on Nov. 10-12 at the Capitol, according to a schedule shared first with @Reporter_Mia The first leadership candidate forum will be at 9 a.m. on Nov. 10.
NEW: VA State Sen. Louise Lucas, asked by @CBS6 @scrippsnews' Kelsey Jones for her message is to Virginians who have lost trust in her, says: "I don't know if that's a fact."
Asked if she will resign, LUCAS says "Absolutely not... I am not guilty"
WATCH:
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Kevin McCarthy: "You have to give a reason why to win. What are the three things Republicans will do if they win the majority? I can’t tell you what that is."
OVERNIGHT: @SpeakerMcCarthy on Bloomberg TV in Singapore predicted GOP will lose the House. Blames new GOP leaders for keeping House out of session and working too little. Says a 2006 situation is underway in part due to high gas prices
New York City Passes Horse Carriage Ban, Ending a Central Park Tradition nytimes.com/2026/10/22/nyreg…
In Maine, Canadians used to travel to the U.S. “and buy stuff because it was cheaper," a retiree told @scrippsnews in a shouted cross-border interview. “People aren't doing that now.”
“Until your management changes, I think it's going to stay that way.”
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John Foster is a Republican, and told me he's voted for Sen. Susan Collins “every time.” This year, Foster says he won’t.
What changed? “Trump.”
I traveled to the U.S.-Canada border, where the trade fight is shaping how some Mainers view the midterms.
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NEWS: SCOTUS declines to block lower court ruling barring enforcement of Federal Bureau of Prisons policy that would ends gender-affirming care (hormone therapy, transition surgeries, social accommodations) for transgender inmates. Apparent 7-2 vote as Alito and Thomas back stay
NEW THIS AM: Sens. Collins and King announce the Trump Admin will release “up to 315,000 barrels, a third of the home heating oil from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve…” to lower costs.
Via release: “The reserve has never before been used to lower home heating oil prices”
“I’m trying to avoid using my fuel oil, and so I’m using a lot of blankets, [and] my winter coat when I sit down,” an 88-year-old voter told @scrippsnews, as Mainers grapple with the high cost of heating oil, now ~$6/gal.
My latest from Caribou, Maine:
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“I’m trying to avoid using my fuel oil, and so I’m using a lot of blankets, [and] my winter coat when I sit down,” an 88-year-old voter told @scrippsnews, as Mainers grapple with the high cost of heating oil, now ~$6/gal.
My latest from Caribou, Maine:
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CARIBOU, ME— 14 days out, @scrippsnews is on the ground in Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-ME) birthplace, where her last name still looms large, and voters we’ve spoken to know the Collins family well.
First question from an attendee is where Dunlap stands on impeaching Trump… which he hedges:
“We should have the hearings, do the investigations, and take it where it leads us, … we have to be careful, we have to be methodical, we can’t ignore it.”
PRESQUE ISLE, ME— Matt Dunlap, the Dem nominee for Congress in Maine’s 2nd CD (running against Fmr. Gov. Paul LePage to succeed retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) is leading a town hall tonight in the largest City in northern Maine.
