
GOP Senate campaign chair Steve Daines plans to focus on getting "quality" candidates for 2024 primaries
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Montana Senator Steve Daines, the head of the Republican Senate campaign arm, made it clear he plans to pick and choose where to put National Republican Senatorial Committee's influence and support in trying to win back the Senate in 2024.
It's a departure from the approach taken by Florida Senator Rick Scott, the last chair of the NRSC, who followed a strict committee policy to stay out of primaries. The 2022 midterm election results disappointed Republicans, who failed to capture the majority, in part due to "candidate quality" or farther-right candidates winning their primaries but not the general election.
In the West Virginia Republican primary between Gov. Jim Justice and Rep. Alex Mooney, Daines is picking Justice, who's a popular figure among the state's voters.

Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church, a megachurch in Southlake, Texas, has been indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, stemming from alleged incidents dating back to the 1980s, the Oklahoma attorney general's office announced Wednesday. We are aware of the actions being taken by the legal authorities in Oklahoma and are grateful for the work of the justice system in holding abusers accountable for their actions. We continue to pray for Cindy Clemishire and her family, for the members and staff of Gateway Church, and for all of those impacted by this terrible situation.