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"I've been clear that I believer we'll pick up the House," said Rep. Ben Ray Lujan. "I never said it would be easy, I always said that it would be tough and that we'd have to fight for every seat," he said. He is the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The midterm election is Nov. 6. (Associated Press)

60 House Democrats raise over $1 million for midterm races

Sixty House Democratic candidates raised more than $1 million apiece for their campaigns over the last three months, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Thursday, putting them on firm financial footing roughly a month before the midterm elections.

October 4, 2018
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., waves to another member of the committee during a hearing of the the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for Steven D. Dillingham to be Director of the Census, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kamala Harris makes fundraising pitch for Joe Donnelly

Sen. Kamala Harris of California is pleading with voters to chip in money to help defend Sen. Joe Donnelly, the vulnerable Indiana Democrat who has come under fire for coming out against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.

October 4, 2018
Michael Avenatti, attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels, talks to reporters after a federal court hearing in Los Angeles, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. Judge S. James Otero appears poised to toss out a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump by Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. Otero said that a tweet the president wrote in April appears to be "rhetorical hyperbole" and protected speech. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)

Michael Avenatti’s Brett Kavanaugh client claim boosts 2020 profile

Lawyer Michael Avenatti's claim that one of his clients has damaging information on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh has thrust President Trump's nemesis back in front of the television cameras -- and into the living rooms of potential voters he's wooing as he ponders an unlikely presidential run in 2020.

September 25, 2018
Former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka told the audience at the Values Voter Summit this weekend that Donald Trump's presidential victory in 2016 was a form of "divine intervention." (Associated Press)

Values voters see Donald Trump’s ‘red tide’ for GOP

Predictions of a looming Democratic "blue wave" haven't soured Christian conservative activists, who say President Trump has notched so many surprise wins that they have faith he will again defy the naysayers and deliver Republican victories in November.

September 23, 2018
FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2006 file photo, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks at Northeastern University in Boston. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, the University of Virginia's Miller Center and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate are set to release the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project. It features 19 interviews with the longtime Democratic senator about his Senate career, which spanned almost five decades and 10 presidential administrations. The project also includes nearly 250 interviews with family, friends, colleagues, foreign leaders, journalists, and staffers. Kennedy died in 2009. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

Bill Bennett: Where was the liberal outrage over Ted Kennedy?

Conservative icon Bill Bennett said Saturday the uproar over Judge Brett Kavanaugh has exposed Democrats for having a political double standard, asking where was the outcry over former Sen. Ted Kennedy's involvement in a 1969 car crash on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts that left a woman dead.

September 22, 2018
Alumni of Holton-Arms School, Karen Bralove, class of 1963, left, Alexis Goldstein, class of 1999, and Sarah Burgess, class of 2005, speak to members of the media about a letter they delivered to the office of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who is also an alumni of the school, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The letter, which the group wants Capito to sign, calls for an independent investigation of accusations by Christine Blasey Ford, a 1984 alumni of the school, against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Christine Blasey Ford remembered in Dewey Beach bar scene

Christine Blasey Ford grew up in Washington's affluent Maryland suburbs, graduated from an expensive all-girls private high school and spent summers immersed in the wild nightlife of this Eastern Shore resort town.

September 20, 2018
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley speaks during a candidate forum at the annual Missouri Press Association convention Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, in Maryland Heights, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Republicans blast Democrats’ ‘ambush’ on Brett Kavanaugh

Republican candidates running for Senate in red states are rallying around Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and the party leaders pushing for his confirmation on Capitol Hill, picking sides in what has turned into a politically poisonous debate.

September 19, 2018