{"id":94365,"date":"2026-06-01T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/this-week-panel-both-parties-playing-defense-for-senate-dems-in-georgia-and-michigan-gop-in-texas-and-maine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:42:40","slug":"this-week-panel-both-parties-playing-defense-for-senate-dems-in-georgia-and-michigan-gop-in-texas-and-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/this-week-panel-both-parties-playing-defense-for-senate-dems-in-georgia-and-michigan-gop-in-texas-and-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This Week&#8217; Panel: Both Parties Playing Defense For Senate, Dems In Georgia and Michigan, GOP In Texas and Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Donna Brazile, Chris Christie, Patrick McHenry, and Faiz Shakur join ABC&#8217;s Jon Karl on &#8220;This Week&#8221; to discuss whether Democrats have a chance at winning this year&#8217;s Senate races in Texas, Maine, and other states.   &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the Republicans will lose, but I think they have to spend money,&#8221; Patrick McHenry said about the Texas race.   &#8220;There&#8217;s a populist mood in this country, and that&#8217;s why James Talarico is the nominee. He beat Jasmine Crockett in that primary because of an anger towards the elite and towards wanting to tax the rich, taking on billionaires<\" Faiz Shakur said.  \n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/31\/this_week_roundtable_both_parties_playing_defense_for_senate_dems_in_georgia_and_michigan_gop_in_texas_and_maine.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Brazile, Chris Christie, Patrick McHenry, and Faiz Shakur join ABC&#8217;s Jon Karl on &#8220;This Week&#8221; to discuss whether Democrats have a chance at winning this year&#8217;s Senate races in Texas, Maine, and other states. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the Republicans will lose, but I think they have to spend money,&#8221; Patrick McHenry said about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[430,53,5840,6749,2679,7443,6711,7285,2229,605,172,390,4452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}