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From the staff of Inside Politics with @DanaBashCNN & Inside Politics Sunday with @mkraju. Watch weekdays at 12p ET & Sundays at 8a & 11a ET on @CNN.

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SUNDAY 8a & 11a ET: @mkraju goes one-on-one with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, on the trail in California. #InsidePolitic

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SUNDAY 8a & 11a ET: Presidents Obama and Trump hold dueling midterms rallies... Democrats reach into Mississippi & South Carolina... @mkraju interviews Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who could become the next House speaker. @bresreports, @alaynatreene & @daveweigel join #InsidePolitics

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Republicans hoped to pick up at least a dozen seats with mid-decade redistricting. But those efforts may not pay off much at all. Cook Political Report's @ercovey tells @DanaBashCNN: "They're not performing as well as they'd hoped because the environment is so bad."

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.@KristenhCNN on President Trump standing by Vivek Ramaswamy's incendiary ad against Amy Acton: "He wants the candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, to win and he wants this ad out there."

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Latino voters who shifted toward Trump in 2024 could now be key to helping Democrats win back the House and Senate. @MariaTCardona warns, "I have always told my party: they are not part of our base. They have always been some of the swingiest voters that there are."

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With voters turning on President Trump and Republicans, Arkansas GOP @RepFrenchHill is facing one of the first competitive reelection campaigns of his career. He tells @DanaBashCNN, "when I disagree with the president, I speak up."

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CNN's @FoxReports tells @DanaBashCNN how Ohio voters are reacting to the incendiary attack ad against Amy Acton: "They simply sometimes just want to turn the channel when they see it because they do know this backstory."

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.@JasJWright on the "risky bet" Ramaswamy is making on an incendiary ad that features Amy Acton's estranged mother: "Vivek and his campaign are basically betting on the idea that a Republican voter in Ohio is going to see this ad and then do no additional research."

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.@DanaBashCNN runs through some of the biggest warning signs for Republicans in the brand-new CNN poll.

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Democrats' top Senate PAC just decided to put more than a million dollars into the Mississippi Senate race.

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Republicans have a spending advantage in nearly every battleground Senate race. CNN's David Chalian tells @DanaBashCNN, "money does not always solve" the environment or candidate quality but, "in these tight races you'd rather be the one with the money advantage."

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Democratic Montana House candidate @SamForstag responds to GOP attacks on his stances on trans issues: "Government is not here to impose a worldview on us one way or the other... we don't have to throw our friends under the bus to win elections."

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Sen. Blumenthal tells @DanaBashCNN about a call he arranged with Pres. Zelensky: "He was emphatic in blaming the Trump administration for purposeful and intentional disruption, and he was really heartbroken, almost tears in his eyes, when he talked about the toll on his country."

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Think you're seeing more AI-generated campaign ads than ever before? You're right -- spending on them has ballooned to at least $137 million. And this could be just the beginning. The Inside Politics panel breaks down the brave new ad world

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DANA BASH: Taxing billionaires. Can you be specific?
TROY JACKSON: Income tax. 
BASH: What percentage?
JACKSON: We'll figure out what that percentage is going to be when I get there. But no more income tax cuts and rolling back the cuts that they've already got.

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"It's a central theme of Trump," @kannoyoungs tells @mkraju, after President Trump has made a habit of commenting on male candidates' physiques on the campaign trail -- including repeated references to Ohio GOP Sen. Jon Husted's posterior. #InsidePolitics

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The Trump administration's fight to redo a public golf course in Washington, DC, may come to a head during a critical hearing Monday, as the administration tries to remove the judge from the case. #InsidePolitics

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"I don't think I've ever voted for a Democrat senator." @mkraju hit the trail in Kansas, which hasn't elected a Democratic senator in 94 years. But now it's a battleground, with Democrat Adam Hamilton neck and neck with GOP Sen. Roger Marshall. #InsidePolitics

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SUNDAY 8a & 11a ET: President Trump visits key states in a last-minute push to maintain Senate control. PLUS: @mkraju travels to KS and catches up with candidates Adam Hamilton and Sen. Roger Marshall. @LACaldwellDC, @jeffzeleny & @KannoYoungs join #InsidePolitics

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SUNDAY 8a & 11a ET: @mkraju hits the campaign trail with Kansas Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton and his GOP opponent, Sen. Roger Marshall, in a surprisingly tight race that could determine control of the Senate. #InsidePolitics