🚨President Trump plans to soon nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general, the position he’s held on an acting basis since April, two administration officials tell @politico.
The president could make the announcement as soon as tonight and has already told Blanche, an official tells me.
https://t.co/Oy13c7uN2y
Exclusive: In a private meeting with Senate Democrats, Graham Platner attempted to quell growing concerns about a string of negative revelations about his life. https://t.co/XKZfmu11un
Primary night takeaways: Dem voters are playing it safe in the battlegrounds — and swinging further to the left in some safe-blue districts. https://t.co/EBB0yaFnVT
NEW - As doubts swirl about Maine, Dems look to Iowa for another Senate path.
Josh Turek, the DC fav, won big last night w/ help from $10M in outside spending.
https://t.co/5rFxx4ZzQ8
Senate Democrats following DSCC meeting with Platner earlier this evening:
Welch: “It’s going to be up to the voters in Maine”
Gillibrand: “I am very optimistic we are going to win Maine”
No further reaction to scandals exposed from the #MESEN candidate’s past.
New from me: He swiped right. She was recording everything.
In December 2024, Rob Field, then a top aide to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, met a woman on Bumble. Over five months of texting, dates and calls, he came to believe that the woman who identified herself as Leah Andrews might be his “forever person.”
But just over five months after they first met, surreptitiously recorded videos of their dates and calls were posted online by conservative influencer Steven Crowder. And “Leah” was not a progressive nurse. A lawsuit filed this week identifies her as a Florida woman named Alysia Gamble.
According to public records and online videos, Gamble — who is married with kids — was a former QAnon organizer.
Schumer: “I met with Graham Platner today, we’re going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.”
5 questions all on Platner, he gave the same answer each time
Scoop: Rep. Ashley Hinson said last week that the Iran war will become a "political liability" if it extends much longer, according to audio obtained by POLITICO.
https://t.co/9fizy1aOaD
.@alexanderburns makes the case for the ascendant entertainment wing of the GOP in ‘28
So, if there’s going to be a challenge to an orderly handover of Republican leadership in 2028, it is far less likely to come from one of the usual suspects — Rubio, Ted Cruz, Glenn Youngkin and so on — than from a Pratt-like fireball aimed at Washington.
The national political environment is awfully inviting for such a candidate.
https://t.co/j3bvDkbvUO
two Maine tidbits this morning:
1) from our reporting last night — Janet Mills doesn't seem to be on a path to unsuspending her campaign, even as some Dems may want her to (via @andrewjfhoward)
https://t.co/d62Hjd2KWD
“every week it seems like it’s something else”
“is he going to be an albatross to run with? absolutely.”
Dems are fretting Platner’s Maine bid as the revelations continue. w/ @lisakashinsky, @andrewjfhoward
https://t.co/d62Hjd2KWD
“Days after Graham Platner announced his Maine Senate bid, his wife informed the campaign about a potential political problem she had previously discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone: sexually explicit texts with several women”
https://t.co/TXXRVrJ2AR