Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* With just days remaining before Wisconsin’s closely watched state Supreme Court race, Elon Musk will hold a campaign event in the Badger State on Sunday. While early voting is underway, Election Day is Tuesday, April 1.
* Speaking of next week’s closely watched contests, President Donald Trump held online events yesterday in support of the Republican candidates in Florida’s congressional special elections. The races are being held in GOP strongholds, and this level of intervention wasn’t supposed to be necessary.
* With the White House giving up on Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, House Speaker Mike Johnson has a new challenge: Axios noted that he now has to “reassure GOP lawmakers” after Trump said he’s nervous about a district that Republicans won easily last fall.
* In Arizona, there was some scuttlebutt that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes would launch a Democratic congressional campaign and try to fill the vacancy left by the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva, but Fontes announced that he’ll remain in his current position.
* Former Rep. Colin Allred ran a relatively strong U.S. Senate campaign last year, and the Texas Democrat told The Dallas Morning News this week that he’s “seriously considering” trying again next year. Sen. John Cornyn is expected to seek re-election in 2026, though the Republican incumbent appears likely to face a primary rival. * Speaking of the Lone Star State, the latest Texas Public Opinion Research poll found Cornyn struggling, with nearly three times as many voters wanting to replace the senator (36%) as those who want to re-elect him (13%). (Click the link for more information on the poll’s methodology and margin of error.) * And speaking of surveys, the latest national Gallup poll found Trump with a 45% approval rating, which is slightly better than the president’s standing at this point in his first term, but relatively low by historical standards. (Click the link for more information on the poll’s methodology and margin of error.)
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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