Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸

Senior politics editor @HuffPost. Dad. Massachusetts native, Maryland Terrapin. Pitch me, book me: [email protected].

[Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard]

HuffPost is hiring two politics reporters, reporting to yours truly.

One to cover the midterms and the 2028 presidential race: https://t.co/k4abxORg7K

One to cover conservatives: https://t.co/AAgvT7KD7C

Details in the job listings.

[Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard]

It's been underrated how much Democrats still use Clinton to appeal to Hispanic/Latino audiences -- they sent him to NV and TX in '22, they always use him in Florida, etc.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Former President Bill Clinton endorses Bobby Pulido for Texas’ 15th congressional district.

[Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard]

mind-boggling that this has been more expensive than 2024

[AdImpact Politics @AdImpact_Pol]

🚨The 2025-2026 political cycle just became the most expensive cycle ever!

With 8 days to go, it's seen $11.21B in total ad spending and reservations.

The 2023-2024 cycle, complete with its $3.2B Presidential race, saw $11.20B.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for an attack on Iran ahead of Israel’s election, according to officials. https://t.co/2opt10GzHX

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents"

The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family https://t.co/idsWyGyTU6

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

New: woman alleges "brutal" rape by Donald Trump in interviews with House Judiciary Committee Democrats https://t.co/XFJZUiaKNA

[HuffPost @HuffPost]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term on Sunday, the country’s electoral court said.

[Benjamin S. Weiss @BenjaminSWeiss]

NEWS: In 2024, a Hindu temple in TX unveiled a 90-foot statue of Hanuman, the half-monkey deity of Hindu mythology.

At the time, it drew backlash from the fringe right. But years laster, anti-Indian rhetoric is mainstream in the GOP - and it may cost them elections.

More ⤵️ https://t.co/Sp3F9aL8vh

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

[Sam Levine @srl]

Talarico cuts an ad with Crystal Mason, who recently won a nearly decade long appeal of a 5-year prison sentence for illegal voting. https://t.co/fJim8eG242

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Voters are receiving so many political texts, calls and mailers that some are reconsidering ever donating to a campaign again

“I must get at least 10-20 texts A DAY from literally every single candidate in the country," a voter said " https://t.co/vnrh7HHquU

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

The @UofMaryland Athletics Department has agreed to First Amendment training with FIRE after two student journalists were reported to campus police for “suspicious activity” while trying to interview @umterps football players.

Student reporters should be able to do their jobs in public spaces without fear of unnecessary police encounters.

We appreciate Maryland Athletics’ willingness to address these concerns. Public universities — including their athletic departments — have a duty to protect press freedom, not intimidate those exercising it.

[Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard]

NEW: A mailer from Trump’s No Going Back super PAC attacks the family of Virginia Giuffre, alleging an ad her brother made criticizing his congressman for declining to meet with them about the Epstein Files is “completely false.”

https://t.co/fVy9P7cj7c

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

The first donor disclosure from Enough Promises Ohio, the pop-up super PAC boosting socialist Greg Levy in #OHSEN, shows it was entirely funded by Conservative Americans PAC, the GOP group that meddled in Democratic primaries for the House earlier this year.

https://t.co/ck5VFu94AF

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

Polling is like democracy, it’s the worst one except for all the other ones

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

Center Forward, a dark-money group focused on moderate politics that was very active in backing Haley Stevens this summer, put $1.8 million into the super PAC behind Susan Collins this month, per new filing.

[Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard]

Talarico making Musk an issue in the final days of Texas Senate race. Democrats have been internally debating how much to explicitly run against Musk and his money.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads?

Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them.

The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything.

@ElonMusk: Texas is not for sale.

[Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard]

This effectively nationalizes the controversy in a way most Republicans are going to hate -->

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Trump defends Vivek Ramaswamy's ad with Amy Acton's estranged mom, criticizes "RINO" Mike DeWine for wanting it taken down https://t.co/aNAsMF2Pp6 #OHGOV

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

News: police investigating assault at Trump rally yesterday in South Carolina. Victim said he was put in a headlock. https://t.co/5Iy9o7568H

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

#OHGOV: Amy Acton's campaign running search ads for voters who may have seen Vivek Ramaswamy's ad with her estranged mom

[Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸 @Robillard]

SMP made a $20M reservation in Michigan in May. I am … skeptical of the idea that they could or would have canceled it if Stevens were the nominee.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

@Jacket_Spangler Literally Rogers would have nothing to campaign against her on. He's going to attack her for being too close to Israel? I don't think so. We have to lock in to defeat Rogers here but I don't think the DSCC would have to have spent a dime in Michigan if Haley was the nominee.