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>Aug 17 (Reuters) - Rebuffing President Donald Trump for a second time, the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear his ‌appeal of a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist....

The 120th Congress is set to feature an unusually large number of new faces.

Ahead of the November elections, at least 83 incumbents across the U.S. House and the Senate won’t be returning to their seats.

Even now, the 119th Congress already looks different from when it began in January 2025, after a handful of resignations as well as deaths.

But the expected turnover at the end of the term will be even higher. The reasons vary: some members announced their retirement after decades of service, others have sought different offices. More than usual have lost primaries.

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In an interview with Punchbowl News released on Friday, the President asserted that he gets “a tremendous vote,” while expressing concerns about support for his party.

“If I don’t run, will those people go out and vote?” Trump said.

“The question is, will they vote? Because a lot of them are very angry at Republicans, to be honest with you,” he continued. “They’re not angry at me, but they are angry at Republicans.”

According to a New York Times/Siena poll conducted in May, about 64% of registered voters are dissatisfied with the Republican Party, including 23% of Republicans. The poll also found that, while the President is generally popular among voters in his party, there are many who want the GOP to move away from Trump: about 55% of potential Republican supporters said that they want the party’s next presidential candidate to follow in Trump’s footsteps, whereas 37% said that they want the next candidate to shift away from him.

And despite Trump’s claim that voters aren’t angry with him, his approval stands at just 33%, according to AP-NORC polling from July, a drop of 4 percentage points from June and far below where it was when he returned to the Oval Office for a second term last January. Support for Trump among Republicans remains high, though, with 73% approving of how he’s handling the job and just 27% disapproving.

The President has brushed off his low polling numbers as having been “made up by the Fake News Media.”