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The Story: The majority (D) leadership in the U.S. Senate made a valiant effort this week to enact voting rights reform, packaging together two bills...

The Story: In a U.S. Senate split 50-50 on partisan grounds, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of the two Democrats who seem most...

Later Friday, Manchin said he had not read the column and did not directly answer a question of whether he’s going to run for governor. Sitting GOP Gov. Jim Justice is currently facing legal action in Kanawha County Circuit Court filed by a Democratic member of the House of Delegates alleging he is violating the state constitution by living at his Lewisburg home. Bray Cary, senior adviser to the governor and a board member of natural gas driller EQT, is known to have increasing influence in the office. In jest, Justice referred to Cary as “my oldest son” at his State of the State address Wednesday. “I think people are smart enough in West Virginia to put two and two together,” he said. The relationship eventually soured. Justice switched to the Republican Party in 2017; he fired Gayle Manchin, the senator’s wife, from her post as the secretary of the Department of Education and the Arts; and he endorsed Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in his failed Senate bid against Manchin. In a September 2018 interview, Manchin said supporting Justice’s campaign was the biggest “mistake” of his political career. However, after the interview, he clarified to say it was the greatest “disappointment” of his career.

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Midterm elections 2018: Trump braces for possible Democratic reckoning as results roll in – live Read more More than half of the polls have closed in the US, and preliminary results are beginning to roll in. In one of the most eye-catching developments of the night Democrat Beto O’Rourke took an early lead over Senator Ted Cruz. At one point, just a few hundred votes separated them. Also in Florida, more than 1.5 million felons will have their voting rights restored, after voters there backed a ballot initiative called Amendment 4. Felons are disproportionately likely to be black and lean Democratic, according to an analysis by the Tampa Bay Times. In key US Senate races: the vulnerable West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin will keep his seat. We are still waiting on results from another historic race in Georgia, where Stacey Abrams is fighting to become the first female black governor of any state. In one example, voter turnout in a critical swing district in Florida was 87% of what it was in 2016, when Trump won the presidency. Voter turnout in midterms is typically about two-thirds the level in presidential election years. Democrats will need to flip 21 more House seats to control the lower chamber.

Democrat Joe Manchin wins re-election in West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin will win re-election in West Virginia, CNN projects, defeating Republican challenger Patrick Morrisey and keeping in Democratic hands a seat in a state that voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump. The state, once a Democratic stronghold, has become so heavily Republican that the sitting governor, Jim Justice, switched to the GOP last year. He broke with the rest of the party to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, though he waited to announce his position until Kavanaugh’s confirmation was already guaranteed. Barr's win comes in a district President Donald Trump carried by 15 percentage points in 2016. It was seen as a must-win for the GOP's hopes of holding onto control of the House. McGrath, who defeated Lexington Mayor Jim Gray in a Democratic primary, was part of a surprisingly strong crop of Democratic political newcomers, many of whom had military experience. These 4 Democratic senators will win re-election, CNN projects Four Democratic senators will win re-election, CNN projects. They are: Sen. Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota Sen. Martin Heinrich in New Mexico Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in New York Watch below: Latest projections for key Senate seats The mood at Trump’s watch party is "good," source says A White House source described the mood at President Trump’s watch party in the White House as “good,” adding one main reason is because it’s still early in the night. The source echoed what other White House officials are saying tonight — that if anyone learned anything from 2016, it’s to not make assumptions based on exit polls. Melania Trump is watching election results Sen. Sherrod Brown calls his win the "blueprint for our nation in 2020" Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, in his victory speech, referred to his victory as “the blueprint for our nation in 2020” — a line certain to spark 2020 presidential speculation around the populist lawmaker.

Tightening races in two states where Joe Manchin and Bob Menendez hoped to hold on to their Senate seats: West Virginia and New Jersey; insight from Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing…

Politicians often avoid the truth because it can be unpopular. “It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem,” McConnell said. Everyone from budget hawk conservatives to big spending liberals can reasonably agree that the significant decline in revenue from corporate tax collections because of the rate reduction contained in the 2017 tax plan contributed to the spike in the deficit, to $779 billion. However, McConnell is absolutely correct that Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds are in deep trouble. The non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reports that these entitlement program trust funds “will all be exhausted by 2032 without action to stabilize their finances.” Congress doesn’t want to tackle entitlement reform because it means hard choices—reduce benefits, raise the retirement age, increase taxes. McConnell’s mere suggestion of the importance of reforms fed neatly into the Democrats mantra this election cycle that Republicans want to cut healthcare. Politico reported Manchin claimed Morrisey would curtail benefits “in a heartbeat.” Morrisey pushed back, calling Manchin, “one of the most dishonest politicians you are going to find.” But back to McConnell. He also said having one party in charge of the White House, the House and Senate is not conducive to entitlement reform because neither party is going to be willing to take full ownership of the difficult choices. “I think it’s pretty safe to say that entitlement changes, which is the real driver of the debt by any objective standard, may well be difficult if not impossible to achieve when you have unified government.” That’s unpopular truth-telling from McConnell, and something that Republicans don’t want to hear two weeks before the election when they are trying to hold their advantage in the Senate and avoid losing a majority in the House. But today entitlement reform is more of a political weapon.

It appears that the midterms will either empower Democrats to continue their chaos campaign or allow the president to continue the astounding prosperity and security agenda that he has delivered on over the last two years. FOX News Channel (FNC)…