Heard on the Hill – 10/15/24
“It’s not that hard, Tim”: Republicans are eagerly mocking Gov. Tim Walz (D., Minn.) after his pheasant hunting expedition showcased his inexperience around a shotgun. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R., Mich.) posted a video of him quickly loading his gun, using custom-made Huizenga for Congress shells, alongside some birds he killed, letting the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee know that loading a gun isn’t hard if you have actually done it before. Walz has faced scrutiny for lying about carrying “weapons of war.”
Plagiarism problems grow: President Joe Biden abandoned his 1988 presidential campaign amid a plagiarism scandal. New reporting from Chris Rufo suggests that Vice President Kamala Harris “appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime.”
Raking it in: Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) raised a record-breaking $27 million in the most recent fundraising quarter.
Empire State of mind: President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R., Ohio) will be making one of their final fundraising stops of the cycle in New York City on October 27, where supporters can give up to $924,600 for the “Ultra MAGA experience.”
Democrat’s “send [him] back” moment backfires: Rep. Jahana Hayes (D., Conn.), who won one of the closest House races in 2022, and is facing a rematch from Republican George Logan this go around. During a debate she told Logan, a first-generation American who would be Connecticut’s first Hispanic-American representative in Congress, to go “back to wherever he came from.” Logan, who “came from” New Haven, Connecticut, turned Hayes’s remarks around into a video featuring Democrats condemning anti-immigrant rhetoric. Throughout this campaign, Hayes has been hammered for her ties to a group so anti-Semitic that its leader was uninvited from a meeting with the Biden White House.