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NEW: @NYCMayor's team abruptly & inexplicably fired his director of advance, Val Sanders. By many accounts Sanders did his job well & staffers were surprised by the nature of his ouster. It comes as 3 deputy mayors' chiefs of staff have left their posts.
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/nyreg…
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Alex Thompson joined @KateBolduan to discuss Dems' high midterm expectations & his reporting on the headaches facing potential 2028 contender Beshear.
📺: @NewsCentralCNN | @AlexThomp | @axios
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Spanish-language text messages hitting Miami smartphones to tout Florida’s Attorney General for his role in bringing charges against Raul Castro over the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown
Just in time for the kickoff of in-person early voting…
Miami judge signs warrant for Raul Castro on state charges in Brothers to Rescue case miamiherald.com/news/politic…
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Scoop: Secretary of Defense Hegseth made unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, met Netanyahu, per two sources with knowledge. My story on @axios
axios.com/2026/10/19/pete-he…
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NEW: All that Republican money?
It's almost exclusively giving the GOP an edge in Senate TV ad spending — the spend in the House is practically equal.
With an amazing visual via @LazaroGamio.
Lots to unpack here —>
nytimes.com/2026/10/19/us/po…
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Over the years I've asked different variations of the, "Are you going to run for President?" question hundreds of times. It rarely, if ever, generates an interesting response. Enter @GavinNewsom. #NHPolitics #FITN – at Manchester, NH
New in Axios 2028:
2028 rivals take advantage of Beshear’s handling of the Texas gov race.
Pritzker gave an extra million
Newsom raised 75k
Moore privately gave 100k from his re-election
Latino lawmakers furious Beshear didn’t get on a call this month
axios.com/2026/10/18/beshear…
“It just baffles me that someone who was even thinking of 2028 would disrespect us and not meet," Rep. Silvia Garcia told Axios, noting that seven Latino members of Congress were on the call.
"Just freaking five minutes on a Zoom … and excuse yourself….I really felt like he disrespected the group, and that he is going to have a serious Latino problem if he doesn't know how to do the outreach and the communication that's going to need to get us to the White House."
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Exclusive: Secret pay-for-play text rocks Trump White House as it pits top MAGA insiders Ric Grenell & Alina Habba against each other
At the center of the feud: an alleged stolen Kennedy Center donation & a $17.6m transaction out of Congo
Read it here
axios.com/2026/10/19/kennedy…
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Axios: Rivals pile on Beshear over his resistance to Latinos' push for funds
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is in open war with prominent Latino lawmakers, and his potential 2028 rivals for president are taking advantage.
Pritzker, a potential 2028 rival to Beshear who already had donated $200,000 to Hinojosa's campaign, then publicly announced he was donating an additional $1 million to Hinojosa. That won the Illinois governor, a billionaire who has strategically spread some of his personal wealth across the party, some fans.
Newsom, meanwhile, sent a fundraising email that brought in $75,000 for Hinojosa.
axios.com/2026/10/18/beshear…
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#TexasGovernor
Axios: Andy Beshear recently skipped a Zoom call with Latino leaders and lawmakers from Texas to discuss the governor's race.
"It just baffles me that someone who was even thinking of 2028 would disrespect us and not meet," Rep. Silvia Garcia (D-Texas) told Axios, noting that seven Latino members of Congress were on the call. "Just freaking five minutes on a Zoom … and excuse yourself."
"I really felt like he disrespected the group, and that he is going to have a serious Latino problem if he doesn't know how to do the outreach and the communication that's going to need to get us to the White House."
Axios: Rivals pile on Beshear over his resistance to Latinos' push for funds
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is in open war with prominent Latino lawmakers, and his potential 2028 rivals for president are taking advantage.
Pritzker, a potential 2028 rival to Beshear who already had donated $200,000 to Hinojosa's campaign, then publicly announced he was donating an additional $1 million to Hinojosa. That won the Illinois governor, a billionaire who has strategically spread some of his personal wealth across the party, some fans.
Newsom, meanwhile, sent a fundraising email that brought in $75,000 for Hinojosa.
axios.com/2026/10/18/beshear…
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Abdul El-Sayed in the front row of church in Flint, standing alongside Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).
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Nearly two-thirds of builders said immigration enforcement is affecting their labor force, up from 23% in March and 13% a year ago, according to a September John Burns Research & Consulting survey.
“We’re almost dead in the water because our workforce is gone,” said Scott Brannock, president of Jacksonville-based Tidewater Homes and the Northeast Florida Builders Association.
“We have national builders who are missing projections, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because they have slabs sitting on the ground and no one to frame.”
wsj.com/us-news/the-immigrat…
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Scoop: Trump wanted to hire @MariaBartiromo as press sec before picking Zacharia, but POTUS was told no, 2 senior admin officials told @axios
"She's no longer on air but she's still on the Fox payroll & the taxpayers can't compete with that,” said one
axios.com/2026/10/16/trump-k…
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New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia “transitions” out after 5 rocky days on the job that left Trump underwhelmed
Here’s what happened behind the scenes
w/@josephine_walkr, @axiosalex
axios.com/2026/10/16/trump-k…
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SCOOP: Susie Wiles' daughter @KatieWiles0303 traveled to Srpska in August with a Texas energy entrepreneur to explore a gas pipeline deal with the pro-Russian gov't.
The entrepreneur has ties to Trump's orbit & counts @DonaldJTrumpJr as an investor. nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/po…