“Retiring Nevada Republican Rep. Mark Amodei said he won’t vote for the Trump-endorsed GOP candidate vying to replace him amid a string of stolen valor and other accusations — and warned that the once-safe Republican seat President Donald Trump won by 14 points is at risk of flipping blue on Election Day,” Politico reports.

“Amodei said in an interview Saturday he would ‘absolutely not’ vote for businessperson David Flippo in Nevada’s 2nd District.”

The Atlantic: “South Carolina’s First District is a reach for Democrats, but it is one of more than a dozen races across the country where the party is testing how deep into GOP territory it can advance in November. President Trump carried the district by 13 points in 2024. Democrats flipped the seat in 2018, during their blue midterm wave in Trump’s first term. But Republicans won it back two years later and then redrew the district’s lines to cement their advantage.”

“Now the unpopularity of both Trump and the outgoing incumbent, Representative Nancy Mace, has put the seat in play again for Democrats.”

Cook Political Report: “Republicans’ troubles this cycle are particularly pronounced in Midwestern red states, where voters are frustrated by both the federal and state governments’ handling of economic issues. Half of our latest House ratings changes, all of which are shifting toward Democrats, are in Ohio, Nebraska and Kansas — three states that, for the same reasons, also have competitive Senate races.”

“There’s a big factor missing from the next race to lead House Republicans: President Donald Trump,” the Washington Sun reports.

“With House Republicans facing the prospect that they could be in the minority next year, and Trump himself entering the back end of his own lame-duck period, some believe the president’s influence won’t close the deal for Mike Johnson if he runs to remain the top elected leader.”

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) “was heard telling a woman ‘you are rude’ after she started laughing while he was speaking during a debate,” Fox News reports.

Said Harris: “Ma’am, I gotta tell you. This is the problem, you all say you believe there is a First Amendment, but only if you agree with you. You should let me finish the sentence, ma’am. You are rude. You’re rude, OK?”

Punchbowl News: “Speaker Mike Johnson has spent most of 2026 insisting that the polls are wrong and House Republicans are well positioned to hang onto their razor-thin majority.

Said Johnson: “It feels like 2024 to me. I’m telling you the polling is not reflecting this. The polling is not letting everyone know what’s really happening.”

”But inside the House Republican Conference, there’s panic, anger and resignation.”

”In conversations with dozens of House GOP lawmakers, aides and operatives, there’s a deep fear of a complete washout on Nov. 3. Is it guaranteed? No. Polls are imperfect and often wrong. But the mood is exceedingly grim.”