Is the next JD Vance in Kentucky?: From the Politics Desk

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In today’s edition, Henry J. Gómez explores the campaign against the establishment of Nate Morris for the seat in the Mitch McConnell Senate in Kentucky. In addition, Andrea Mitchell examines the last threat of President Donald Trump to federalize the city of the city of DC.

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Meet the republican candidate for the Senate in Kentucky who could be the next JD Vance

By Henry J. Gómez

Nate Morris grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, with a single mother, a father and absent grandparents who educated him in the culture of the Apalaches and the forms of the working class.

After an elite education that included a degree from the George Washington University and an Oxford MBA, it built an innovative waste management company that attracted money from investors and renowned comparisons with Uber.

Now Morris is positioning himself as the stranger in a republican primary of the Senate who will determine who is nominees next year to succeed Mitch McConnell. Since he launched his campaign in June, Morris has relentlessly attacked the former Senator of the Kentucky Republican Party, while characterizing his two rivals, representative Andy Barr and former state prosecutor Daniel Cameron, as soft extensions of the McConnell legacy.

The biography of Morris and the anti-establishment launch, adapted to the right populist base of President Donald Trump, recalls the formula that sent JD Vance from the private sector to the Senate, and, more recently, to the vice presidency.

The Vance connection: Vance, a Yale Law graduate, reported his own turbulent childhood in his 2016 memoirs, “Hillbilly Elegy”. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and frequently visited the family in Jackson, Kentucky. Morris’s family descends from the nearby Morgan County.

At 44 and 41, respectively, Morris and Vance also have a close age. They made a friendship several years ago, when Morris directed Rubicon, the garbage company and high -tech recycling that he founded, and Vance was working on Silicon Valley Venture Capital.

“I sent him an email and said: ‘Hey, I see that you have Kentucky roots, I would love to connect,” Morris recalled in an interview this week with NBC News. “He wrote me quite fast.”

Morris was among the notable names in a fundraising that Vance met for Trump last year in Ohio. And Vance encouraged Morris to take a look at the Kentucky Senate race, said a source familiar with the conversation.

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🗳️ More of the medium -term campaign path

Tennessee: Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn announced that she runs for governor, reports Ben Kamisar. She is the third senator to launch a governor campaign this year, along with Republican Tommy Tuberville in Alabama and Michael Bennet in Colorado.

Pennsylvania: Republican Mastriano is causing another career against Democratic governor Josh Shapiro despite his loss of 15 points in the battlefield state in 2022, writes Allan Smith.

Texas: The Democratic legislators who fled the State in protest of the redistribution plans of Congress districts of the middle of the Republicans were evacuated from their Chicago suburban hotel this morning after a threat in the property, reports Natasha Korecki. And Zoë Richards writes that Republican governor Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit before the Texas Supreme Court to eliminate the position of Gene Wu, leader of Democrats in the State Chamber.

Indiana: Vance goes to the state of Hoosier tomorrow after Trump said he would consider redistributing plans in other states in addition to Texas, according to Gabe Gutiérrez. Republican governor Mike Braun said that if the issue arises, “it is exploratory” and that “no commitments have been made.”

Trump, again, threatens a federal acquisition of DC

Andrea Mitchell analysis

President Donald Trump, once again, threatens to take care of the DC government due to an attempt to theft of cars last Sunday at 3 am involving an alleged attack against a Duxt worker.

“If DC does not act together and quickly, we will have no choice but to take federal control of the city,” Trump published in Truth Social on Tuesday.

For registration, statistics from the Metropolitan Police Department show that until now in 2025, violent crime in the capital of the Nation has decreased 26% more than last year. According to the police, the victims of the automobile attempt and the alleged beating were Edward Coristine, also known online by the alias “Big Balls”, and a woman characterized in a police report as her partner.

The police report said that the officers who patrolled nearby observed 10 minors around Coristine’s car and assaulted him. The suspects began to flee, but the officers arrested two of them and accused them of theft of unarmed cars. The alleged suspects, two 15 -year -old young people from Hyattsville, Maryland, were taken to a youth detention center.

Even so, the incident has revived the often declared desire of Trump to federalize the city. In February, he told reporters: “I think we should execute it strongly, execute it with law and order.” In 2020, during his first term, he faced the mayor of the city, Muriel Bowser, when he sent the National Guard to support the police that responded to the protesters near the White House for the death of George Floyd. Again she made fun of Bowser when she criticized the lack of support of the National Guard during the attack of the Capitol of January 6, 2021.

“Maybe it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of violent crime. If this continues, I will exercise my powers and federalize this city,” Trump wrote on Tuesday.

Police said Coristine was attacked and treated on the scene by the DC Fire Department and emergency medical services (EMS) for their wounds. But car theft are not atypical in US cities. According to the National Insurance Crime Office, 35,000 car cars occur in the USA every year. The Criminal Justice Council says that it is a crime that has increased 93% from 2019 to 2023 in a sample of 10 cities, including DC.

As for taking charge of the city: complete dissemination, I have been a resident of DC since 1976. Our city won the right to govern us in a law signed by President Richard Nixon 52 years ago. That said, we pay federal taxes without the vote representation in Congress. Wasn’t there a declaration of independence adopted against that, almost 250 years ago?

Ryan Balberman contributed to the investigation.

That’s all of the politics desk for now. Today’s bulletin was compiled by Adam Wollner.

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