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Retired Gen. Jack Keane forecasted Thursday that Iran’s military would ramp up its campaign against the U.S. approaching the November elections — a move he said would be a miscalculation.  “I think as we get closer to the midterms, it’s likely they will,” he told Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney.  “And the reason for that…
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Primary results this month in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin paint a muddled picture of just how far to the left Democratic voters want their candidates to be come this fall's midterm elections.
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As Congress enters its August recess, lawmakers are racing to reconcile different continuing appropriations resolutions to prevent a government shutdown before the Oct. 1 fiscal deadline and subsequent midterm elections.
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Correction: An earlier version of this file misstated Sen. Pete Ricketts’s (R-Neb.) lead over independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn in recent polling. Osborn led Ricketts in the poll. With 85 days left until the midterm elections, Democrats are increasingly eyeing the possibility of making significant gains in the Senate. While the Senate map still favors…
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Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday predicted a “kinetic war” between the U.S. and Iran will take place prior to Labor Day, just two months before the midterm elections. Kilmeade suggested President Trump will put economic pressure on Iran over the next several weeks, but that in the end, firepower will be necessary. “I think…
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