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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...

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  9th Circuit blocks path for Trump to again deploy National Guard without state approval Trump illegally usurped Gov. Gavin Newsom’s command of the California National Guard by ordering a surge troops deployed into Los Angeles and across the state amid protests against the White House’s mass deportation program last year, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The 2-1 decision split the president’s own appointees to the court, with Judge Eric D. Miller of Seattle siding with Judge Jenn...

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  Trump boasts he ordered DOJ to sue Alaska to get election result tossed out if they lose Attorney General Todd Blanche has declined to pledge DOJ’s independence from the White House and would not rule out similar suits in other states Donald Trump says he ordered the Department of Justice to sue the state of Alaska in an effort to block the results of a U.S. Senate election from being certified, unless the incumbent Republican wins. Government attorneys filed a lawsuit Friday arguing that t...

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  Elon Musk pumps nearly half a billion dollars into Republican campaigns ahead of midterms: report Elon Musk has reportedly injected around $77 million into his America PAC in the first half of October alone SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has pumped more than $445 million into Republican campaigns ahead of the midterm elections, according to a report. ​The GOP has been forced to contend with grim polling ahead of the midterms, with Democrats surging in polls across the country amid public anger over t...

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  Voters want the next Congress to focus on costs and Iran, not on Trump, a new AP-NORC poll shows Regardless of the outcome in the coming election, a new AP-NORC poll shows voters from both major political parties want the next Congress to focus on making life more affordable and ending the war in Iran, while fewer are looking for an emphasis on Donald Trump — whether it’s investigating him or supporting his agenda. The results suggest that voters are ready for Congress to tackle core issues,...

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  Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will move out of her Washington, DC, home after federal search U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar will move out of her Washington, D.C., home that federal agents searched last week, she said Wednesday, noting that attention brought on by the raid has made her feel unsafe there. Federal authorities are investigating potential fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork and have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of her relatives, a person briefed on the investigation told The Assoc...

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  Elon Musk reportedly on top of Dems’ list to investigate after midterms

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  George W. Bush's brother trashes Paxton, says he voted for Talarico Former President George W. Bush’s brother, Neil Bush, has revealed he voted for Democratic candidate James Talarico for U.S. Senate in Texas, calling Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election “an affront to our democratic institutions.” “I voted early today, and I voted for James Talarico for the United States Senate,” the Texan businessman wrote in a post on Facebook on Tuesday in a snub to Republican candidate Ke...

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  Judge curbs Trump administration’s hunt for noncitizen voters in some states, citing flawed data A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop certain investigative actions in its hunt for noncitizen voters, writing that the department’s efforts rely on faulty data that includes US citizens legally allowed to vote. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín wrote in the order that DHS’s data alleging hundreds of thousands of possible illegal voters “is widely known to inadvertent...

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  DOJ’s suspected non-citizens list includes ‘high percentage’ of those born in US, LA officials say The statement revealed in court papers raises questions about the reliability of the list of 20,000 people in California The statement, made in court papers, raises further questions about the reliability of a list of 20,000 people the justice department provided to election officials in Los Angeles last week. The department sent the county and California secretary of state the list last week an...

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  Trump and Vance’s Oval Office announcement turned into a spectacle of barely contained rage Donald Trump has found a new way to make America great again: paying people to become professional snitches. On Tuesday, the president and JD Vance unveiled a $25 million fraud whistleblower fund, under which Americans who provide tips leading to successful prosecutions would receive large financial rewards. Basically, you can rat on your enemies to the government for cash now — and, Trump added, he wi...

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  Trump rages against ‘crazed lunatic’ judge who halted Potomac Golf Course work in early-morning Truth Social tirade Donald Trump lost it on the federal judge opposed to the government’s work to improve a public golf course in Washington, D.C., in a social media screed early Monday morning, saying his administration has an “absolute right” to perform the work. In a Truth Social post before dawn, Trump attacked U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes, a day after he unveiled his plans to close the pub...

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  Trump heads to Kansas amid farmers' concerns over a costly harvest season Economic struggles are becoming a significant political issue for Republicans in states long considered party strongholds Farmers have spent months feeling the squeeze as costs for inputs like diesel, fertilizer and seed have soared due to refinery constraints and supply disruptions tied to the Iran war. Diesel averaged $6.30 per gallon nationwide on Friday, more than 70% higher than a year ago, according to motor...

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  Abdul El-Sayed heckler exposed as ex-GOP staffer with ‘Christian nationalist ties’: report The attendee who pressed Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a tense town hall this weekend was exposed as a former GOP staffer with “Christian nationalist ties,” journalist Marisa Kabas reported. As first reported by Kabas on her Substack The Handbasket, Tommy was actually Thomas Teepell, who previously served as operations director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)...

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  Jon Stewart to stay at ‘The Daily Show’ through the 2028 election Jon Stewart will remain at the helm of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” through December 2028, extending his once-a-week hosting role through the next presidential election. Skydance announced the two-year extension on Monday, resolving uncertainty about Stewart’s contract, which was due to expire in December. The new deal means one of television’s most prominent critics of Donald Trump is staying in place for the rest of Tr...