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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) skated on public corruption charges dropped by the Department of Justice in January, but he now faces a five month trial in the court of public opinion among New Jersey voters, who will deliver their verdict in the November general election for the U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) leads likely Republican challenger Bob Hugin by just four points in a potential general election matchup for the U.S. Senate election this November in New Jersey, according to a new poll.

The New York Times has admitted that it lied about the size of the crowd at the Trump rally held in Nashville on Tuesday night, and changed their crowd estimate after the president called them out on Twitter.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–The crowd of more than 8,000 supporters here at the Municipal Auditorium on Tuesday night absolutely loved Donald Trump.

Rep. Tom Garrett (R-VA-5) announced on Monday that he will not seek re-election to a second term in Congress because he is an alcoholic.

The city government of Charlottesville, Virginia, will not renew the employment contract of City Manager Maurice Jones, whose role during the deadly August 12 rally held in the city has been questioned in press reports.

A poll released on Friday exclusively to Breitbart News by Gravis Marketing shows Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) currently leads the Republican party’s nominee, State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, by 13 points, 53 percent to 40 percent,  in a head-to-head match up for the U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia five months before the November general election.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) told the Tennessean on Monday afternoon that he turned down a recent offer from the Trump administration to become the United States Ambassador to Australia.

A contentious GOP convention to select the party’s nominee in Virginia’s 6th Congressional District ended with a move towards unity when Del. Ben Cline was nominated by acclamation on Saturday.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) voted against the confirmation of Gina Haspel as director of the CIA on Thursday.

A local Fox News affiliate in Minnesota broke the story on Monday that Somali immigrants are allegedly running an estimated $100 million daycare fraud scheme paid for by taxpayers.

The Republican Party of Virginia squares off against the local 6th Congressional District Committee in a nominating convention this Saturday in Harrisonburg, Virginia to select the GOP’s nominee to succeed retiring Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).

Dr. Mark Harris, the pro-Trump conservative populist who defeated incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) in the GOP primary in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District on Tuesday, said his opponent’s yes vote on the $1.3 Omnibus spending bill “was a real turning point in our race.”

President Donald Trump, West Virginia State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, and the populist conservative movement were the big winners in Tuesday’s West Virginia Republican U.S. Senate primary.

CNN released a poll on Wednesday with results that shocked its own pundits: the much vaunted “Blue Wave” hoped for by Democrats in the coming midterm elections has virtually disappeared.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) released a statement Tuesday afternoon, shortly after President Trump announced that he is ending United States participation in the Iran nuclear deal. “It is disappointing that the administration was unable to reach an agreement with our allies,” Corker said.

The Trump administration may remove control of the refugee admissions program from the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, according to a report published last week in Foreign Policy Magazine.

Only 1,639 refugees were admitted to the United States in April, bringing the total arrivals during the first seven months of FY 2018 to 12,188. At this pace, the Trump administration will admit fewer than 21,000 refugees in FY 2018, the lowest number of annual arrivals since the enabling legislation, the Refugee Act of 1980, was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter.

The main state political action committee for the Ohio Tea Party movement endorsed Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor for the GOP nomination for governor of Ohio on Tuesday, a sign that her campaign is picking up momentum.

With six days to go until the May 8 Indiana Republican U.S. Senate primary, businessman and former Democrat Mike Braun has turned a big bank roll and a clever gimmick into an effective branding tool that separates his candidacy from his two main rivals, Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) and Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN).

Two polls released on Monday show that a potential match up in November between incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Republican State Attorney General Josh Hawley in the Missouri Senate race is a statistical tie.

The campaign of State Auditor Matt Rosendale, the conservative front runner for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), released his first ad on Friday focused on the need to deliver a “buzz cut” to federal spending.

The Senate Ethics Committee slapped the wrist of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on Thursday in a Public Letter of Admonition.

A national poll conducted of 1,000 likely voters by McLaughlin & Associates and former Clinton pollster Dick Morris provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows support for President Trump and suspicion of the investigation of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.

The Associated Press declared Republican Debbie Lesko the winner of Tuesday’s special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District over Democrat Hiral Tipirneni at 11:08 p.m. Eastern, one hour and eight minutes after the polls closed.

A poll released by Emerson College on Monday shows Republican candidate Debbie Lesko “pulling away from her Democrat opponent Hiral Tipirneni” with a six-point lead one day before the special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District to replace Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), who resigned after a personal scandal.

Pro-Trump agenda State Rep. Katie Arrington, who is taking on incumbent Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) in the June 12 GOP primary in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, called her opponent, “the Jeff Flake of Congress” in an interview with host Matt Boyle, Washington political editor of Breitbart News, on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday.

A poll conducted last Wednesday by OH Predictive Insights shows Republican candidate Debbie Lesko has a ten point lead over Democratic candidate Hiral Tipirneni, 53 percent to 43 percent, in next Tuesday’s special election in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District to replace former Rep. Trent Franks.

A poll on the U.S. Senate race in Arizona released on Thursday shows that Dr. Kelli Ward has a nine point lead over her nearest rival for the Republican nomination, which will be determined in the August 28 primary.

A new Quinnipiac Poll released on Wednesday says a general election matchup in November that gives Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 47 percent of the vote and Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) 44 percent of the vote is “too close to call” because the results fall within the survey’s 3.6 percent margin of error.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), one of the nine voluntary agencies (VOLAGs), has named an interim CEO after the previous CEO, Linda Hartke, resigned abruptly in February.

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that the Democratic Congressional Generic Ballot advantage has dropped to just four points — not even enough to overcome the inherent five point gerrymandering advantage Republicans have in the upcoming midterm elections.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has endorsed West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in the May 8 Republican primary for the Party’s nomination to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the November general election.

The West Virginia Republican Senate primary between pro-Trump conservative firebrand, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, and establishment favorite Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) heated up last week, when Jenkins launched a series of factually incorrect attacks against Morrisey’s wife related to her professional career.

A poll released by Morning Consult on Thursday shows embattled Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is the least popular Democrat in the U.S. Senate.

The push by a number of prominent Democrats to completely politicize the impeachment process could backfire for them in the midterms, David Axelrod, the political advisor who helped elect Barack Obama to the Presidency in 2008, said on Sunday.