Jackson will skip next Trump rally

By Jill Nolin | Editor

By Alander Rocha

Republican candidate for governor Rick Jackson will skip President Donald Trump’s upcoming rally in middle Georgia this weekend, opting instead to campaign in suburban Atlanta as the virtually tied race enters its final stretch.

The decision comes after Jackson on Friday joined Trump on stage at a rally in Dalton after taking part in a tele-rally with the president the previous Sunday. Now, Trump will head to Macon on Saturday for another push to turn out his  supporters for the midterms.

A Civiqs poll finds Trump at 33% approval in Georgia, the lowest since his second term began. A new poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution also shows that 55% of likely Georgia voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance.

By Jacob Fischler

Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century.

The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter predicts Democrats will gain a net of 10 to 20 House seats in the Nov. 3 elections, Erin Covey, the top House analyst at CPR, said Monday during a panel discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution. 

The party needs to pick up just three seats to gain control next year.

The Senate is closer to a pure toss-up, with the likely range of Democratic pickups between two and six seats, experts believe. A net gain of four would give Democrats a majority in that chamber.

By Shauneen Miranda

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. 

The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for women’s health research at NIH,” according to the NIH website.

The White House said first lady Melania Trump was involved in formulating and leading work on the order, which also creates a White House Women’s Health Task Force that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will co-chair. 

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