With the usual disclaimers about partisan imbalance, President Donald Trump’s job approval ratings are holding steady, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Texas Elections 2018
For a weekend, Texas is a battleground for Trump agenda, midterms
Texas may be a red state, but for at least the weekend, it served the role of a battleground for two party leaders determined to put their spin on President Donald Trump’s agenda in the lead-up to the midterm elections.
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Cruz, like Trump, points to lack of collusion evidence in Russia indictments
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is aligning with President Donald Trump in highlighting the lack of evidence in recently issued indictments that Russia’s government colluded with Trump’s 2016 campaign to influence the election.
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Politics
Indictment says Russians communicated with a person affiliated with a Texas grassroots group during the 2016 election
Russian nationals posing as U.S. citizens communicated with someone “affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization” during attempts to disrupt the 2016 election, according to a new federal indictment by the U.S. special prosecutor.
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Texas Elections 2018
We asked 40 Texas Republican candidates about Trump. They like him. The tweets? Not so much.
President Donald Trump is the elephant in the room of Texas Republican politics. In some GOP primaries, he’s everywhere. In others, candidates don’t want to talk about him. But many we talked to agreed: They wish he’d stop tweeting.
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Texas Public Policy Foundation head Brooke Rollins to join White House
Brooke Rollins, the CEO and president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is leaving to join the White House.
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Texas Elections 2018
Vice President Mike Pence to visit Texas for border tour, fundraising
Vice President Mike Pence is coming to Texas this weekend to tour the state’s border with Mexico and raise money for fellow Republicans.
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Politics
Trump to nominate Abbott adviser Oldham to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
For the second time in a matter of months, a top legal adviser to Gov. Greg Abbott has been named to a prominent judicial post.
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Energy
White House to withdraw controversial nominee to head Council on Environmental Quality
Kathleen Hartnett White, who once headed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, may no longer be in line to serve as a top White House environmental official.
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Congress
How U.S. Reps. Mike Conaway and Will Hurd explained their votes to release secret memo
Three Texans voted on the U.S. House committee that paved the way for President Donald Trump’s release Friday of a a high-profile GOP memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI. The committee’s deliberations shed light on their thinking on the divisive issue.
