Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* The list of retiring members of Congress got a little longer yesterday as Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal of California announced that he’ll step down at the end of this term. The five-term incumbent will turn 81 in the spring.
* A national Fox Business poll released yesterday showed President Joe Biden with a 47 percent approval rate, up a few points from his 44 percent support in the same poll last month.
* Democratic Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada believes her party’s state legislature made important mistakes when redrawing congressional district lines. “I totally got f—– by the legislature on my district,” she said this week. “I’m sorry to say it like that, but I don’t know any other way to say it.”
* In Georgia’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, Herschel Walker’s campaign claimed the former athlete graduated from the University of Georgia. That’s not true.
* According to an NBC News report, at this point four years ago, $58 million was spent on U.S. House campaign advertisements. This year, more than $126 million has been spent on ads in House races. * In Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, celebrity physician Mehmet Oz has boasted that he has metaphorical “scars” from having taken on the pharmaceutical industry. A HuffPost analysis suggests the claims aren’t exactly true. * And there’s been some national focus on a recall race in Seattle targeting City Councilmember Kshama Sawant. The socialist incumbent did, in fact, narrowly survive a recall vote, and the results will be certified today.
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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