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GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick sounds the alarm on health care, Ukraine, and GOP’s affordability agenda.
He’s one of 3 Rs in a Harris district.
On health care, he says of Rs: “They have never offered a better alternative.”
More Sunday on “Inside Politics Sunday” on @cnn. 8aET/11aET

Defiant GOP congressman rejects push by party bosses to drop out of Texas primary, scrambling race for Senate majority | CNN Politics GOP leaders in Washington are ramping up pressure on Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt to drop out of the Texas Senate race, warning that his candidacy could cost their party tens of millions of dollars and...

New — Wesley Hunt and his plans to shake up race for Cornyn seat.

R leaders had hoped Hunt would bow out before filing deadline, but he tells us he “absolutely” will file this week.

Increases chances of costly runoff

All sides wooing Trump, who is staying out for now

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The speaker later told reporters: “The words that the president chose are not the ones that I would use.”

"Obviously, I don't think that this is...these are crimes punishable by death or any of that.”

He went on to criticize the Dems’ comments.

Asked Speaker Johnson about Trump’s post about Dems’ ‘seditious behavior’ and about that being ‘punishable by death,” Speaker Johnson takes no issue with Trump’s statements and criticizes Democrats’ rhetoric as “wildly inappropriate.”

How the shutdown left Democrats questioning Chuck Schumer’s future more than ever | CNN Politics As eight senators in Chuck Schumer’s caucus broke ranks to side with Republicans and vote to end the government shutdown fight he had engineered, the New York Democrat was on the phone trying to make ...

NEW from me and @mkraju.bsky.social: How Schumer is reacting to the trouble he knows he’s facing in DC as leader and back home in New York when he’s up in 2028.

“It’s his last term, and he may be the only one on Earth unaware of it,” one House Dem from NY told me. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

Dem Sen. Andy Kim to me after Senate vote: “What just happened in the Senate chamber was an absolute disgrace. I can't stress it enough,” saying it’s “very profoundly disturbing” to see bill passed in chamber where McCain voted to block repeal. “I'm just really gutted right now.”

New — @InsidePolitics 8aET/11aET @cnn.com
- Intense final weekend before NJ/Va/NYC elections
- What early voting says
- Live intvw w GOP Rep. Van Drew as shutdown set to be longest ever
- Boat strikes in Caribbean and Trump’s military actions
— The feud over making Daylight Saving Time permanent

Plan B is Plan A, Thune says, as shutdown poised to be the second longest in history and likely to go much longer

New — @insidepolitics: 8aET/11aET: @cnn

- Trump v. IL Dems as tensions boil in Chicago
- Shutdown news: Which side will blink first?
- Gaza talks: Live report from Israel
- SCOTUS: Momentous term set to begin.

The current state of shutdown politics

New @insidepolitics 8aET/11aET
-Trump hasn’t spoken with Schumer since Jan. 20 and hasn’t ever met with Jeffries. On Monday’s meeting ahead of shutdown
-Trump retribution tour latest
-My intvw with Rep Seth Moulton weighing a big primary challenge
-New CNN polling on swing voters

New — Inside Politics Sunday 8aET, 11aET @cnn
— Mamdani and Dem divide
— ICE raids
— Trump’s economy
— New reporting on Epstein fight and Trump’s targeting of Massie
— Live interview with Baltimore’s mayor on Trump’s threats to send in troops
— Battle in Congress to set NIL rules on college sports

New — @insidepolitics 8aET/11aET: @CNN

— Trump’s plans to expand military in US cities
— John Bolton latest
— Firing officials to stamp out dissent
— Interview with Dem vying to take on Susan Collins in marquee race
— Which party has edge in gerrymandering war
— Newsom’s strategy

New — @InsidePolitics 8aET and 11aET
— Trump-Putin as world watches
— My interview with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, leading Dem charge to redraw House maps and knock off 5 California Rs
— RFK Jr’s vaccine moves and the commitments he made to Sen. Bill Cassidy

What Sen. Cory Booker told me about his party.

More at 8aET and 11aET on CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday”

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GOP candidate for VA governor declines to answer questions why Trump has not endorsed her | CNN Politics CNN’s Manu Raju presses Lt. Governor (R) Winsome Earle-Sears, candidate for governor of Virginia, on why President Donald Trump hasn’t endorsed her and if she will take steps to further restrict abort...

My interview with Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP nominee for #vagov

- On why Trump hasn’t endorsed her
- Her position on DOGE cuts to federal workforce
- On how she’d handle abortion as governor

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New on “Inside Politics Sunday:” 8aET and 11aET on @CNN

The batttle for the House and new reporting on the Dem counterattack as Trump pushes to redraw TX lines to gain five GOP seats in the midterms.

“They’re trying to cheat to win,” Jeffries says of GOP.
More tomorrow:

When Senate passed big bill, Lisa Murkowski said: “This bill needs more work across chambers and is not ready for the president’s desk.” But House jammed it through.
Asked her if it was naive to think House would change it

“It was not naive to suggest that it could have happened.”

New -- @insidepolitics Sunday
8aET and 11aET on @cnn
- Trump latest: Ramped-up trade war, deportation fallout and TX response
- New reporting one year after Butler from
- What Lisa Murkowski told me about her key vote
- Newsom’s moves
— MAGA world blowup over Epstein

News at the top of the hour

New — “Inside Politics Sunday” 8aET and 11aET on CNN

— Crucial week in Senate as Trump agenda hangs in balance
— World awaits Trump’s two-week decision
— My interview with Senate Ds’ campaign chairwoman on the midterms
— The intense NY mayoral primary on Tuesday

The latest reporting from Washington, the campaign trail and around the world

“Inside Politics Sunday.” This Sunday and every Sunday. 8aEt and 11aET on @CNN

News on @insidepolitics 8aET/11ET on @cnn.com
-   Trump’s move to federalize National Guard in CA amid immigration unrest
— First time since Rodney King
-  GOP Rep. Mike Lawler live on Trump’s big bill
-  Musk v. Trump latest
-  Tuesday election night preview

GOP frustration grows at Musk as he steps up his attacks and puts Rs on defensive amid deficit fears.
But moderates like Murkowksi wary of deeper cuts, as hardliners say they won’t accept less from Senate.
Senate Rs need to cut deeper, Chip Roy warns, “or the bill's dead.”

‘We can’t afford it’: Senate GOP balks at House megabill as messy fight awaits | CNN Politics Before Speaker Mike Johnson could get his first real stretch of sleep in three days, the House GOP’s painstakingly drafted “big, beautiful bill” was running into resistance in the Senate.

More on the Senate GOP demands ahead of a messy fight

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How hardliners got to YES from NO on Trump’s bill, despite their red line over growing the deficit.
Upshot: They justified their yes votes over narrower wins in the bill, Trump promises of executive action and pressure to advance agenda.
They’ll have to deal w Senate changes next

NEW -- @InsidePolitics 8aET+11aET on @cnn
— Trump confronts courts and Congress stalling agenda
— Latest on weekend talks over big bill
— GOP Sen. Curtis to me on his handling of Trump
— What Ds are saying on Biden
— New reporting from on Kamala Harris’ future

Plus on IP Sunday:
— Trump's economy as auto tariffs take effect
— Latest after WH shakeup
— 2028 Ds’ moves
— Jon Ossoff on Trump’s crypto venture
— Big retirement decision looms
— What Fetterman told me
— Inside the Conclave

GOP amps up Trump impeachment talk in midterm battle as party leaders woo Kemp for Senate | CNN Politics President Donald Trump and GOP leaders are beginning to plot their midterm push to hang onto power amid a shaky political environment, courting key candidates in critical battleground House and Senate...

New on “Inside Politics Sunday” on @cnn at 8aET/11aET

Trump and midterms
- GOP eyes impeachment talk to rev base
- Senate GOP leaders in big push for Kemp for #gasen. Thune, Scott, Daines, Ricketts spoke to him
- What Ossoff told me
- What Bacon said about retirement

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New — Looming primary fight has GOP leaders nervous — #txsen — amid fears it could cost $100M
- Thune urges Trump to endorse Cornyn
- Paxton sending signals of running
- Wesley Hunt blasts Cornyn, eyes bid

w/@sarahnferris and on @InsidePolitics 8a/11aET

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