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2026 Midterm Elections

Alarm bells ring after 'sobering' swing state poll shows MAGA leading

Political analysts sounded the alarm on Thursday after a new poll about a critical swing-state Senate race was released.

A recent Fox News poll conducted in Michigan found that MAGA candidate Mike Rogers has a slight lead over progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who has recently been criticized for campaigning with the controversial streamer Hasan Piker. Rogers polled at 51% support among registered voters compared to 47% for El-Sayed, according to the poll.

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Damning court filing reveals scandal-plagued Republican's own evidence quietly fell apart

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) is facing yet another serious allegation on top of an existing avalanche of scandals.

Miller swore under oath he had video proof his girlfriend witnessed a disputed custody exchange with his ex-wife. But according to Mother Jones, new court filings suggest that evidence quietly fell apart — and his own attorneys allegedly never corrected the record with the judge who granted him protection based on it.

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'Historic': Data guru finds Trump tanking Republicans in slew of ex-Confederate states

President Donald Trump's tanking popularity presents Democrats a "historic" opportunity to flip southern Senate seats they've been unable to claim for decades, according to an analysis by CNN's Harry Enten.

With less than three months until the midterms and Trump's approval rating sinking to new lows, polling shows Democratic candidates leading in three crucial states, according to the data analyst.

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House GOP gives up hope Trump will help them with fraud: Report

House Republicans have given up on a helping hand with fraud from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, according to a new report.

Congressional GOP lawmakers told Politico Thursday that they've grown deeply skeptical that Vance's plans to crack down on alleged abuse of social programs will reach Trump's desk this year — and that could spell trouble for the midterms.

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MS NOW host mocks Mike Lindell's 'absurd' election math meltdown: 'Not even close'

MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff opened Wednesday's edition of "All In" with a profile of one of the most colorful MAGA election deniers to get dealt a defeat this year.

Specifically, he said, it went down in Minnesota, "where Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, aka Mike Pillow, aka Lumpy Pillow Kiss My You-Know-What, was a candidate in the Republican primary for governor. Lindell used his own money to spread election lies in the lead-up to January 6th" — and he was even photographed exiting the White House "with a memo appearing to bear the phrases 'Insurrection Act now' and 'martial law if necessary.'"

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'Purveyor of fabrications': Columnist blasts Karoline Leavitt's legacy as she exits

A columnist excoriated President Donald Trump's press secretary after she announced her resignation on Wednesday.

Karoline Leavitt, who has been Trump's chief communicator since the beginning of his second term, announced she would step away at the end of the month to spend time with her family after having a baby in May. The news came as a surprise to some in the White House, considering that the midterms are less than three months away.

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Max Miller slapped with civil rights lawsuit after toddler's photos leaked

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) faces a new chapter of his scandal, as his attorney's release of an unredacted naked picture of his daughter has triggered a federal civil rights suit.

Per the complaint, detailed by the Chandra Law Firm, Miller and his attorney, Aaron Minc, published a public Dropbox folder on X earlier this month meant to rebut abuse allegations from Miller's ex-wife, Emily Moreno. Court filings allege the folder contained an image described as showing the toddler in a state that could qualify as sexual abuse material, with the girl's name left fully unredacted more than 70 times across the same document.

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'Rabid MAGA' candidate's 'delicious loss' reveals how far Trump has fallen: analyst

Former Republican operative Rick Wilson signaled that MAGA's reliance on President Donald Trump has backfired in primary elections this week.

In his Substack, the co-founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project detailed how Trump ally Mike Lindell's "amusing and delicious loss" in the Minnesota Republican primary revealed just how the president's standing has fallen among voters.

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Republican election meddling has crashed into a brick wall: analysis

The Republican Party's attempt to manipulate Democratic primaries by boosting beatable candidates is falling flat on its face.

According to MS NOW's Steve Benen, the loss by progressive Francesca Hong on Tuesday night in Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary, despite Republican PACs spending millions on ads supporting her, showed voters have caught on to the "meddling."

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Lindsey Graham's sister faces determined new enemy amidst GOP runoff: 'Whatever it takes'

Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) sister faces a significant new obstacle in her race to replace her late brother after a political foe of President Donald Trump's vowed to block her, according to a new report.

Darline Graham Nordone, a political novice, received just over 32 percent of the vote and will face Rep. Ralph Norman in a two-week runoff, Politico reported late Thursday night.

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'Huge embarrassment' for Trump as 'raving' MAGA candidate refuses to concede: reports

President Donald Trump suffered another withering defeat Tuesday night when a close and high-profile ally lost his primary race — and told the media he wouldn't concede.

Trump "suffered one of his biggest endorsement losses of the cycle," when MyPillow founder Mike Lindell's bid to be the GOP nominee in the Minnesota governor race crashed and burned, Politico reported Wednesday.

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Ex-NFL reporter who cozied up to Trump wins Republican Senate primary race

Former NFL reporter Michele Tafoya won the Minnesota Republican Senate primary race on Tuesday night.

NBC News and The New York Times called the race.

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Michael Steele tears apart 'simplistic stupidity' of MAGA's new election scheme

The newest MAGA plot to seize control of elections got withering reviews from former GOP chair Michael Steele on Tuesday's edition of MS NOW's "The Weeknight."

The president, Steele's co-host Eugene Daniels said, "is openly considering new ways to undermine the vote," as last night, "a far-right radio host pitched the president an unconstitutional plot to seize control of state-run elections." He rolled the clip of the exchange with Wayne Allyn Root.

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