U.S. senator and Republican candidate for Tennessee governor
3 stories from The GOP Files, newest first. Last in the news Oct 31.
Puck reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants Tennessee's Senate seat if Sen. Marsha Blackburn wins the governor's race. The Pentagon calls that gossip, but it comes as an impeachment vote looms over his Iran war leadership.
Voters in five states say touchscreens picked the wrong candidate, and the posts are spreading ahead of Nov. 3. Election officials say the cause is almost always a stray touch or a miscalibrated screen, and voters can fix it before they submit the ballot.
At Kansas's final Senate debate, Republican Sen. Roger Marshall said he would remove the cap on income taxed for Social Security, going further than his Democratic opponent. In 2020 his stated fix for Social Security was to look at raising the retirement age for younger workers.
