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  Far from the campaign trail, Trump promotes his Reflecting Pool makeover before Election Day Trump’s decision to spend the day before the pivotal midterms showing off his renovations in the nation’s capital instead of barnstorming around the country was a puzzling way to pitch America on keeping his party in power. “It starts just with the setting being bizarre and being very self-focused,” said Doug Heye, a Republican strategist. “And then you had the pictures and the posters on the easels a...

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  Supreme Court quickly rejects Trump effort to target alleged noncitizen voters in California The Trump administration alleges that about 20,000 noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, an assertion disputed by the local officials. In a loss for Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday swiftly rejected the administration’s request that California separate out up to 20,000 mail-in ballots that officials allege could be submitted by noncitizens. The court in a brief order turned aw...

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  Supreme Court rejects Trump administration push to set aside thousands of California ballots The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s push to force California to set aside thousands of ballots from people the federal government claims are noncitizens, a decision that came hours before the final day of voting in the pivotal midterm elections. The high court refused to immediately intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely...

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  Who funded the midterms? Inside US elections’ historic bipartisan spending Ad industry tracker AdImpact predicts $11.6bn in ad spending this cycle, surpassing the $11.2bn spent in the 2024 presidential election. OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan research group tracking money in politics, pegs total spending in the midterms as on track to reach $11.9bn. The top 40 donors are giving more than ever before: $2.4bn by mid-October, seven times the amount the top 40 in 2014 gave, adjusted for inflation, ac...

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  Trump floats pardons to ‘protect’ Elon Musk and staffers from Democrat investigations Trump said he would consider pre-emptive pardons to protect Elon Musk and other close aides should Democrats take control of Congress Donald Trump said he would be willing to protect Elon Musk and his staff if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterm elections this week. In an interview for the “Pod Force One” podcast published Monday, Trump said he would move to “protect” the billionaire Space...

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  Ex-Michigan Governor spills on dinner with Haley Stevens: ‘Something snapped in her’ Ex-Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard (D) — a longtime friend of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) — revealed that her stunning endorsement of U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers ® occurred less than 48 hours after she told him over dinner that she planned to reiterate her support for Rogers’ opponent, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. In the lead-up to Sunday, the congresswoman — who is backed by the American Israel Public Affairs C...

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  Trump administration's social media posts ahead of elections criticized for being inflammatory The Trump administration’s online accounts are circulating images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween-themed background around a Black man apparently accused of food assistance fraud, in social media posts slammed by critics as inflammatory rhetoric.

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  Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is in the hospital after having a stroke, his office says

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  Trump says he'll become 'Mr Veto' if midterm elections don't go his way

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  Haley Stevens thrown out of the Michigan Democratic Party, state chair says: ‘You don’t abandon all your values!’ Michigan Democratic Party chair Curtis Hertel made it crystal clear on Sunday that Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) was no longer welcome in the state’s Democratic party. Hertel posted to X after Stevens yanked her support from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) and gave it to his Republican challenger, “Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor...

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  Haley Stevens slammed for statement suggesting she’s willing to sabotage midterms to halt progressive surge In the final days of the US Senate campaign in Michigan, Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leading in polls, winning praise for taking Donald Trump and his Republican opponent to task with incisive humor, and providing a clear closing message in evocative ads. But his former Democratic primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), said Friday that while she reiterated this week h...

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  Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign asks Haley Stevens to stay away in Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers seized on the fractured Democratic dynamic, suggesting Rep. Stevens should campaign with him. Feuding Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens were scheduled to make their first joint campaign appearance since August this weekend. Instead, their rift grew uglier, with El-Sayed’s campaign telling Stevens to stay away in the waning days of the state’s p...

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  Federal judge bars DoJ from threatening election workers to stop processing ballots Order says local officials can’t be forced to separate or stop counting ballots that the government deems to be disputed A federal judge has barred the justice department from threatening or coercing election workers to stop processing ballots. The order issued late Friday also bars the justice department from demanding local election officials segregate or not count ballots that the federal government deems...

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  Washington state finds U.S. citizens on DOJ’s noncitizen voter list, rejects demand to set aside ballots Washington election officials announced a preliminary review of a federal list of more than 400 alleged noncitizen voters has already uncovered U.S. citizens, inactive voters and people who are not currently registered. The revelation renews concerns about the accuracy of the Trump administration’s expanding effort to identify supposedly ineligible voters. Secretary of State Steve Hobbs (D...

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  The pro-Trump prosecutor trying to stop California ballots from being counted Bill Essayli has launched a crusade against ‘voter fraud’, in his latest push to pursue Maga-aligned cases Since he was sworn in last year, Bill Essayli, the top US prosecutor in southern California, has devoted his office to Donald Trump’s agenda – bringing splashy cases against sanctuary policies, protesters and the rights of young trans athletes. But Essayli’s latest crusade has significantly raised the stakes...

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  Republicans emphasize transgender ads, putting cultural issues over voters' economic anxiety Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year’s midterm elections, betting that struggling GOP candidates can leverage the divisive cultural issue to overcome voters’ concerns about President Donald Trump’s leadership and the state of the economy. The massive investment through Oct. 25 pro...

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  Conservative influencer James O’Keefe charged with unlawful voting and identity theft in Minnesota O’Keefe was charged alongside fellow influencer Cam Higby after they allegedly misrepresented themselves at polling places during Minnesota’s primary in August. A Minnesota prosecutor on Wednesday charged conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and influencer Cam Higby with felony counts of unlawful voting and identity theft after they misrepresented themselves at polling places in August using t...

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  Vivek Ramaswamy was warned not to air ‘liar’ ad and now staff want to resign days before election: report MAGA world figures describing the ad as a ‘self-inflicted wound’ in private, report claims Vivek Ramaswamy was reportedly warned by Ohio Republicans and campaign staffers not to run the controversial attack ad on Democratic opponent Amy Acton that featured her estranged mother - but went ahead anyway. Some campaign staffers are so incensed by the decision to run the ad - which featured...

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  ‘They mobilized a whole government response to that joke’: Obama laughs off Trump attacks in rally for Ossoff Obama has been casting caltrops behind him with each campaign stop, offering pointed criticism of Republican candidates and Donald Trump that has been unusual for the former president. He continued to do so on Wednesday, again invoking the image of Trump’s gilded renovations of the White House and noting Trump’s strident reaction to his crack last week likening it to Saddam Hussein deco...

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  Ted Cruz calls Abdul El-Sayed a "jihadist leprechaun," as GOP closing message leans into attacks At a campaign event outside of Detroit, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas attempted to tie Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood — a claim El-Sayed has repeatedly denied. “My nickname for the guy is the jihadist leprechaun,” Cruz said about El-Sayed. Cruz later said that El-Sayed would get top-level security clearance as a U.S. Senator if elected, claiming that El-Saye...

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  Trump floats nominating Ted Cruz to Supreme Court for future vacancy Donald Trump floated nominating Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court for a future vacancy on the nation’s high court, joking that the Texas Republican senator’s confirmation would earn unanimous Senate support because senators from both parties would like to see him gone. Trump, who has mentioned Cruz previously for the Supreme Court, suggested the third-term senator again at an Oct. 27 midterm campaign rally in Lubbock, Texas as t...

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  Sure looks like Obama’s ‘Cheesecake Factory’ diss got under Trump’s skin

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  Maurene Comey was illegally fired as federal prosecutor, judge rules Daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, a Trump foe, was dismissed in 2025 despite her work being widely praised Maurene Comey, the daughter of the former FBI director James Comey, was unlawfully fired from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York last year, a federal judge ruled on Monday. Judge Jesse Furman said that Comey, who was an assistant US attorney for a decade, was illegally fired in July 2025 despite her wo...

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  She voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the bills That’s true for many Americans, as rising healthcare costs leave more families with a sinking feeling after seeing the bill for surgery or medication. Heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, about half of registered voters said healthcare costs are a major problem for them and their families, up from a little more than one-third four years ago, according to a Fox News poll from September. With party control of Congress at stake...

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  Obama, in Midwest, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seized on what he described as cruelty and indecency coming from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, stepping into one of the nation’s ugliest midterm fights as he worked to rally Democratic voters in two Midwestern battlegrounds. First in Ohio, Obama took aim at Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who has doubled...

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  Catholic bishops regret White House prayer photo with Trump, say it was used politically Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with Donald Trump. Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob, in a statement titled “A Public Apology,” said Sunday that he had received many questions and comments — some of them distraught — about the meeting on Thursday which he and 11 other bishops attended. He said t...

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  Woman arrested for child endangerment shows up in ad decrying Dem as a danger to kids: report A local official in Iowa is taking heat for appearing in a political ad denouncing a Democrat as “just plain dangerous” for kids — while having once been arrested for child endangerment herself. Shellie Flockhart, who serves as a council member at large in Dallas Center, Iowa just outside of Des Moines, is not identified by her political position. The spot focuses on Iowa state Sen. Sarah Trone Gar...

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  Trump threatens to ‘veto everything’ during a Democratic Congress Donald Trump threatened to veto every piece of legislation put forward during the second half of his administration if Democrats flip control of the House or Senate during next month’s midterm elections. “Well, I think the Republicans are going to win. But if there was, you call it gridlock, what happens is I veto everything,” Trump told reporters Friday morning while speaking on the South Lawn. “And then the Democrats come and...

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  Justice Department orders California counties to set aside ballots from suspected noncitizens The Justice Department on Friday ordered California election officials to identify suspected noncitizens on voter rolls and set aside their mail-in ballot – warning that officials who knowingly count ballots cast by noncitizens could face criminal liability. The stipulation marks an escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to scrutinize voter rolls as the government continues to double down o...

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  US consumer sentiment nears lowest point since index began ahead of midterm elections American household confidence dipped close to a historic low in October, as elevated prices stemming from the Iran war worsened the public’s economic outlook ahead of midterm elections. The Consumer Sentiment Index from the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers dropped to 48.0 this month, down from a final reading of 48.1 in September. Economists surveyed by Reuters had predicted the index would land...