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2026 Midterm Elections

Progressive takes down Trump foe in Florida Senate election

A Democratic member of Florida's House of Representatives pulled off a stunning upset on Tuesday night in the state's Senate special election.

Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Alex Vindman, a retired Army Lieutenant colonel who reported President Donald Trump's 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that triggered his second impeachment. CNN and NBC News called the race.

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Ex-Republican turned anti-MAGA Dem clinches Florida governor nomination

A former Republican lawmaker has been nominated for governor of Florida — as a Democrat.

David Jolly, a moderate lawmaker who has been outspoken against President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement for years, easily swept the Democratic nomination on Tuesday evening, according to CNN and NBC News.

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Another Republican caught begging for gas money after green-lighting Trump's war: report

Yet another embattled Senate Republican incumbent has been caught begging supporters for gas money — after voting to continue President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

According to The Daily Beast, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told her supporters in a fundraising email this week that “organizing a tour of this scale takes a lot of coordination, enthusiasm, and quite literally fuel. Will you chip in just $5 today to help us put gas in the tank and keep our team moving forward?”

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Chilling warning as GOP strategist sees midterm disaster ahead: 'As bad as I have seen'

Republicans are headed for an apocalypse in the fall — at least, that's the prediction of one GOP strategist.

Mike Madrid, writing for his Substack, outlined how the current environment is "as bad for the Republicans as I have seen in thirty years."

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GOP turmoil looms as Trump chooses his greatest love over Republicans: ex-GOP strategist

Former Republican operative Rick Wilson argued that President Donald Trump doesn't plan to use his 'MAGA money pile' to save Republicans in the midterms.

In his Substack on Tuesday, Wilson revealed that Trump's deepest affection is for one thing and one thing only: cash.

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Crowd erupts as Trump foe mocks his MAGA 'scandal piñata' opponent

Georgia Senate candidate and Trump foe Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) took a swipe at Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) that got laughs from a crowd on Tuesday.

Ossoff and Collins are vying to represent Georgia in the Senate. During a campaign event in Columbus, Georgia, joined by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — another President Donald Trump adversary — Ossoff launched a jab at the MAGA candidate endorsed by the president.

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Dire warning as 'lightning' strike forecast in MAGA's epicenter: analyst

A political analyst on Tuesday revealed that despite the challenge, the conditions could be right to flip red-state Florida blue.

As Florida voters cast their ballots on primary election day, Newsweek national political correspondent Alex J. Rouhandeh took a deeper dive into the competitive race among Democrats and how President Donald Trump's low approval rating could "create the kind of climate" ripe for a swing.

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Panicked Trump 'flooding' red state with Cabinet members to prop up 'shaky' candidates

President Donald Trump's administration is "flooding" Iowa with Cabinet officials over election fears as polling paints a grim picture.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood inside a bar at the Iowa State Fair on Monday, delivering what amounted to a 19-minute campaign speech for Rep. Zach Nunn, a Republican in a surprising "toss-up" House race.

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GOP stunned after 'unheard of' defection rocks high-profile race

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico just hired a five-year veteran of Republican Sen. John Cornyn's office to help sink GOP nominee Ken Paxton.

Jacob Smith, who served as Cornyn's deputy legislative director and policy adviser, is joining Talarico's campaign as deputy political director," NOTUS reported on Monday.

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Trump calls mail votes 'cheating' — as he quietly mails in his own ballot again

President Trump voted by mail in Florida's primary elections this week, just weeks after branding the very same practice "cheating" and while his administration fights in the Supreme Court to gut mail-in voting access nationwide.

Palm Beach County records show Trump requested an absentee ballot for Florida's Republican primary, with his completed ballot received August 14, The Independent reported. Trump hasn't set foot in Florida since May and previously voted by mail in a March special election too.

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Mayor humiliated after poll showing her up big revealed as fake

A polling company that claimed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a commanding lead over challenger Nithya Raman just admitted the whole thing was fake, an elaborate experiment designed to test how bogus data spreads through politics unchecked.

Median Strategies published a "poll" showing Bass leading Raman by nearly 12 points ahead of November's runoff, claiming a 560-voter sample and a 4.1% margin of error. When the Los Angeles Times pressed for verification, the company came clean.

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Trump admin's $1 billion election ultimatum immediately sparks new legal war

The Department of Homeland Security was dragged into federal court this week after threatening to withhold $1 billion in anti-terrorism funding for several states if they don't change election rules.

In Nashville vs. DHS, a bombshell federal lawsuit filed Monday by the Brennan Center and co-counsel on behalf of cities and counties challenging DHS's demand warned that the Trump administration's coercive move would not go down without a fight. The federal agency had pushed for "adopting a series of burdensome changes to their election procedures" for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, Harris County, Texas, the City of Columbus, Ohio, and El Paso County, Texas.

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Clock running out for Trump as he's 'visibly struggling to stay awake': Fox News analyst

President Trump's endorsement, once a golden ticket in Republican primaries, has turned into a lead weight as the clock winds down on his second term.

In a column for The Hill, longtime Fox News contributor Juan Williams wrote that the president's declining influence is matched by declining mental faculties as he has been observed "visibly struggling to stay awake and then weaving in and out of coherent answers."

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