The Republican National Committee (RNC) said Thursday that President Trump will appear in tele-rallies across 19 states before Election Day, an announcement which followed his two in-person event cancellations in Iowa and Kansas “Voters across the country want to hear from President Trump before Election Day, and this 72-hour sprint will be a huge boost…
Editor’s Note — This article was updated to more accurately reflect Garcia’s comments from his CNN interview. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif) reaffirmed his support Thursday for Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola after the House Oversight Committee announced a probe into ballot stacking allegations against her, though he acknowledged the state “should investigate any time there…
A bipartisan pair of senators are pressing Kalshi and Polymarket over prediction markets tied to the Nov. 3 midterm elections. “We write to express concerns about election-related prediction markets and to request specific information about your companies’ efforts to prevent insider trading, market manipulation, and wagers based on material nonpublic information,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)…
Disgraced former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner dropped an f-bomb in response to questions from a New York Post reporter who tracked him down in his remote oceanside community in Maine. “Who the f‑‑‑ are you weirdos?” Platner asked a reporter while pulling a kayak from the water. The reporter asked what Platner had been…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is warning President Trump against trying to meddle in his state’s elections amid growing concerns from Democrats over federal interference in next week’s midterms. “A warning to Donald Trump: I’m deploying election lawyers to key battleground districts in California to protect every vote,” Newsom wrote on social platform X. “And…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) criticized rapper Nicki Minaj on Wednesday, saying President Trump’s rallies were “poisoning” the artist’s mind. “Maybe she ought to get outside and get offline a little more,” Hochul told reporters. “And stop going to Trump rallies, it’s kind of poisoning your mind.” The Empire State governor was responding to…
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed responded to the fiance of his former primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), endorsing his GOP opponent former Rep. Mike Rogers (Mich.). “Well, I’m building a movement to take on the challenges that Donald Trump is facing. If folks have issues that are more important to them than that, that’s…
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) dropped $500,000 in Mississippi’s Senate race in support of Scott Colom (D), who is challenging Trump-backed Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.). A new ad focuses on Colom’s record as a district attorney in the Magnolia State, with the Democrat stating he’ll “take on anyone who stands in the way of…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) called for the “truth” from former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) amid what she said was a “pattern of lies and coverups” following reports the Democrat’s campaign recruited one of her midterm opponents to “ballot-stack.” “While some may try to write this off as just how politics works now, ballot-stacking should have…
Nonprofit leaker collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published data Wednesday on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, some of whom are working in the intelligence community. The collective did not identify the source who leaked the personnel information, referring to the unnamed individual instead as the “Department of Peace.” “This dataset…
Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot is looking to be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s primary opponent in an election cycle where Israelis are growing displeased with current leadership. Eisenkot worked in the Israeli military for 41 years before eventually serving as the country’s military chief. He has hammered Netanyahu for security failures, calling him an “anti-leader,”…
Meghan McCain, former Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) daughter, predicts that convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will get a pardon from President Trump. “One of my hottest, hot takes is that Elizabeth Holmes will eventually get a Trump pardon,” McCain wrote on the social platform X. She shared her thoughts in another post, asking comedian and…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly searched a California home tied to its current investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.). The Beverly Hills mansion, owned by a donor of Swalwell’s, was searched as part of the probe into the former lawmaker, CNN reported, citing two people familiar with the investigation. “Early this morning…
Danish and Estonian officials expressed skepticism over leadership from Finland and Norway communicating with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week amid heightened tension between Moscow and Kyiv. Estonian Foreign Affairs Minister Margus Tsahkna wrote on social platform X, “Only increased pressure on Russia will make it take peace negotiations seriously.” “Every contact with Russia…
A Cheesecake Factory jab from former President Obama quickly spiraled into a midterm spat between the GOP and Democrats as the competitive election cycle nears its end. Obama quipped during a recent campaign stop in Cleveland that President Trump has the White House “looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory, it’s just gold everywhere.”…
Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) said the midterms are trending toward being a “complete tsunami” ahead of the November elections where the GOP is projected to lose the majority in the House. “Well, the atmosphere is definitely right, I believe, for a complete tsunami,” the former senator said, responding to a question from Blake Burman…
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva bucked prediction market odds with his unlikely win in the Brazilian presidential runoff election this weekend. On Sunday, Lula was rated an underdog in the election, as his odds were at 20.2 percent on Kalshi and 20.5 percent on Polymarket at noon EDT. His opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, the…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mocked former President Obama outside a Cheesecake Factory in Washington on Monday after Obama likened recent White House renovations to the famous restaurant chain during a Saturday rally. “Well, two things. This is the man who built the museum that looks like Darth Vader’s tomb,” Bessent said while exiting a Cheesecake…
A bipartisan pair of former South Carolina governors endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews over Sen. Darline Graham (R) in the state’s Senate election. Former South Carolina Govs. David Beasley (R) and Jim Hodges (D) appeared in a video for Andrews’s campaign on Monday. “Now, over the years, the two of us haven’t always agreed on everything,”…
Six individual citizens — a civics teacher, a legal journalist, a student journalist, a human rights advocate, a historian and a media watchdog — are suing the president and Trump administration officials over the White House’s bans and restrictions on the press, according to the lawsuit filed Monday. The complaint, which named President Trump alongside…