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Fox News’ final Power Rankings shifted to show Republicans could lose control of the Senate after the network moved South Carolina’s Senate race to a toss-up.

The move came Thursday in a Fox News Power Rankings forecast five days before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

The forecast moved the race between Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) and Democratic challenger Annie Andrews from leaning Republican to a toss-up, yet President Donald Trump won the state by 18 points in 2024, a Fox News map shows....

A storm system is shaping up to move through the central United States on Election Day, and it could influence turnout in some of the region’s competitive races, CNN Weather reported on Thursday.

Meteorologist Chris Dolce says forecasters are increasingly confident in widespread rain Tuesday from the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest down to the western Gulf Coast. Who gets hit hardest remains unclear, and more should be known by the weekend. For now, parts of Iowa, Kansas, Michigan and Texas, and possibly Ohio, could end up wet.

The Midwest and Plains could also see strong winds, with severe storms and heavy downpours possible from Texas toward the lower Mississippi Valley....

President Donald Trump’s attempt to rescue Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) from a medical-debt scandal has left some of his own advisers grimacing, according to a new report.

A longtime Trump adviser and another Republican close to the president told Zeteo’s “First Draft” newsletter that they were unhappy with Trump’s defense, saying his “viral, antisemitic-slur-prone” remark only spread the debt controversy further, both in Kansas and nationally.

The 80-year-old president defended Marshall earlier this month against a bombshell New York Times exposé by complaining at a rally that the senator’s opponents “made it like: Oh, he was some kind of a Shylock-type guy,” a reference to the moneylender in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” that has long been considered an antisemitic stereotype....

CNN surveys in four Senate battlegrounds find Democrats ahead in Michigan and Texas and in close races in Kansas and Maine, showing how much the midterm landscape has moved, according to CNN.

Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, is at 49 percent against Republican Mike Rogers’ 42 percent. CNN says El-Sayed now has 95 percent of Democratic likely voters behind him following the August primary, while Rogers’ unfavorable rating climbed to 50 percent from 42 percent in early September.

Texas Democrat James Talarico leads Ken Paxton 49 percent to 43 percent. Talarico has 63 percent of Latino likely voters, and 22 percent of likely voters of color who say they backed Trump in 2024, CNN found. Paxton draws unfavorable views even from some Republicans....

A new report sheds light on President Donald Trump's volcanic tirade against talk show host Bill Maher and reveals concerns about the information he's getting from his closest advisers.

The New York Times reported that Trump tuned in “expectantly” to Maher’s HBO show last Friday to watch his former press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, a trusted aide who left the White House in August, but instead he was “enraged” by Maher’s opening monologue.

The comedian brought up Trump’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and he also looked back on a friendly dinner he had at the White House in October, quipping that he “could not have been treated better if I was Russian.”...

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni argues that many of President Donald Trump’s former supporters have come to see him as a liar “in the biggest, most consequential way,” a shift he says helps explain Republicans’ trouble in the midterms, in a “Conversation” with conservative fellow columnist Bret Stephens.

Bruni says Trump’s long record of falsehoods, about his wealth, crowds and more, was something many supporters shrugged off as showmanship, as long as they trusted him on a better economy and ending costly foreign wars. He argues that tariffs and tantrums made inflation worse, his corruption showed he’s looking out for himself, and a war in Iran now more than eight months old has mostly embarrassed the country.

Stephens agrees with the larger point....

A protester interrupted President Donald Trump's Ohio rally Wednesday with an accusation that drew a chorus of boos before leaving with a crude gesture.

Trump was in the middle of a riff about Sen. Jon Husted's backside at the rally in Chillicothe when a man in the crowd yelled, "Trump went on Epstein's plane!" Trump supporters drowned him out with boos, and the protester flipped them the middle finger as he was hauled out. Moments later, a second protester interrupted Trump and held two middle fingers up at him while she was dragged away.

Trump turned his attention to the first heckler. "He mentioned Epstein," Trump said. "I threw Epstein out of a club like 20 years ago because I thought he was a whack job." He went on to claim that Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, "was a Democrat" and insisted, "I was totally exonerated." Trump offered no evidence that he ever threw Epstein out of his club....

A key moment has a former Trump White House insider thinking a damning new report on Jeffrey Epstein probably holds up.

Sarah Matthews, a deputy White House press secretary in Trump's first administration, said on Tuesday's episode of "The Bulwark Daily" that first lady Melania Trump's "weird random press conference" earlier this year is the "most convincing piece of evidence" that the House Judiciary Committee Democrats' report is "probably accurate."

Host Tim Miller, a former Republican strategist, opened the show by reading from the report's executive summary, which states that "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women during the mid to late 1990s."...

Michigan Republican Mike Rogers appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday was panned on MS NOW Monday morning for being a waste of time because he just sucked up to Donald Trump.

It was so bad that “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough refused to share any clips from it and said he would have pulled the plug immediately after it began if it had been on his show.

Speaking with host Kristen Welker, Rogers, who is facing Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed for a seat in the Senate representing Michigan, ducked questions about Donald Trump — specifically his tariffs — while also attacking “you guys on the national press,” calling a question about whether he considers himself “MAGA” as “disgusting.”...