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McConnell invoked an iffy senatorial precedent to stonewall Garland’s confirmation, claiming that the Senate shouldn’t confirm high court appointees in the final year of a presidency.

Longtime Trump supporter and failed senatorial candidate Linda McMahon, former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, may soon be running the Department of Education, an agency that Trump has pledged to eliminate.

Mid-term elections are due in May next year, in which the entire lower house and half of the 24 senatorial seats will be contested.

Harris’s glimmers of senatorial interest in scaling back military largesse faded into standard bellicosity.

Mr Padilla, one of the country's most popular celebrities, ran for office in 2022 where he emerged as the country's top senatorial candidate.