Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* To the disappointment of Democratic officials who assumed she would lose, right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced late Friday that she will not launch a U.S. Senate campaign in her home state of Georgia. The Republican congresswoman’s statement did not, however, comment on a possible gubernatorial candidacy.
* Ohio’s 2026 gubernatorial primaries are still a year away, but the Ohio Republican Party has nevertheless officially thrown its support behind Vivek Ramaswamy’s candidacy. This was an outcome backed by the Trump family, despite Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s efforts to prevent it.
* To the surprise of no one, Miami-area state Sen. Jason Pizzo launched an independent gubernatorial campaign in Florida late last week. The kickoff comes roughly a month after Pizzo, the former Democratic leader of the state Senate, abandoned his party.
* Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary got a little more crowded over the weekend, as former state House Speaker Joe Tate threw his hat into the ring.
* According to The Associated Press, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, has held discussions with Donald Trump about taking down Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy next year. As part of the apparent plan, Landry and the president would rally behind Rep. Julia Letlow — who has not launched a Senate bid — against the incumbent senator. * It’s generally assumed that Republican Sen. Susan Collins will run for yet another term in Maine next year, but as CNN reported over the weekend, the longtime incumbent hasn’t yet officially announced her 2026 plans. Collins originally promised Maine’s voters that she’d step down after two terms, but if she runs for re-election in the midterm cycle, she’ll ask for a sixth term. * And as Gov. Gavin Newsom weighs his political future, the California Democrat, apparently eager to get under the president’s skin, launched a new ad over the weekend critical of the White House’s policy on trade tariffs. The commercial ran on Fox News, where Trump was presumably likely to see it.
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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