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Republican groups lost $1.1 billion in midterm Senate races while Democrat groups only lost $12 million, despite spending just over half of that of Republicans, at $677 million.
The massive funding differential between Republicans and Democrats had little impact on the decisions of voters at the ballot box.
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After the GOP's midterm defeat, Vance's political future is considered up in the air.
The VP may not run in 2028 but has declined to run for the Senate or the Governor of Ohio.
DeSantis is being floated as a potential replacement.
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Alex Bruesewitz has alleged that Laura Loomer was paid by private clients to make political posts without disclosing the payments.
Financial records confirmed by The Washington Post indicate that Laura Loomer and her Florida firm, King Breaker Media, received at least four separate payments north of $60,000 combined beginning in May of last year.
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Joel Pollak argues Vice President JD Vance owes his position to “pro-Israel activists and Jewish Republicans,” warning him against undermining the US alliance with Israel.
“You don’t repay that debt by then trampling on America’s alliance with Israel. You don’t do that.”
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Sayed Mohassib, a former NYPD officer and elementary school aide, arrested for the brutal stabbing murder of jogger Katie Suarez.
Her father discovered her body with a stab wound to the neck after she failed to return home.
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Georgia Insurance Commissioner-elect Keisha Sean Waites plans to ban insurers from using credit scores and ZIP codes to determine insurance premiums.
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Calley Means publicly calls out former White House CoS Susie Wiles and James Blair, demanding they “stop harassing me with texts and calls” following his explosive Joe Rogan appearance detailing corporate lobbying and obstruction of Trump’s MAHA agenda.
Means challenges Wiles to litigation over Ballard Partners, her former lobbying firm that recorded historic revenues during her tenure, and Continental Strategy, where her daughter Katie Wiles is a partner.
“If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it’s provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.”
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says opposition to US military action against Iran stems from “spiritual darkness.”
“Satan has blinded the minds of those and has captured their thinking.”
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Mayor Mamdani says he continues to keep in touch with President Trump over the phone and via text, despite their political differences.
When asked about who calls or texts first, Mamdani stated, “It varies. And I think that speaks to the fact that nobody’s very precious about who’s calling or who’s texting.
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Georgia election officials discover a missing memory card containing 388 uncounted votes, shifting a Georgia state House race from Democrat Harry James to Republican Gerald Greene.
Greene now leads by 262 votes as officials investigate.
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A midterms analysis of the 18-29 vote from 2024 to 2026 shows that young people who didn’t vote for anyone in 2024 voted blue and that a good chunk of young people who voted Trump in 2024 didn’t vote at all.
Young progressives turned off by Harris, possibly over Gaza, inflation, and related issues, mobilized for Democrats in the midterms while many young conservatives, feeling overlooked by the GOP and Trump administration, didn’t show up at the ballot box.
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog announces Gadi Eisenkot will receive the mandate to form a government, threatening Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power.
Eisenkot has 28 days to secure 61 parliamentary seats, with a possible 14-day extension. His bloc currently controls 48 seats.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says President Trump was “right” to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, but Israel’s pursuit of regime change prolonged the war.
“The goal for certain from Israel was that you’d have a regime change in Iran. That’s not something that we’re going to be able to impose.”
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Federal judge orders Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration to comply with an ICE subpoena targeting illegal immigrants with criminal histories.
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