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🆕 ➡️I recently started a new job at @StraightArrow__ as Senior Politics Reporter. 🗣️The beat: covering how politics stories get built, framed and sold. 📲Send tips & feedback: [email protected] | Signal: Azi.99
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13 days to go.
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In a statement, the WHCA says it “strongly objects to the decision to restrict a journalist's coverage simply because the president didn't care for their questioning. That is retaliation. The American public's right to an independent press depends on reporters being able to do their jobs without fear that challenging the president will cut off their access.”
New: Andrew Feinberg, the reporter that Trump snapped at here, was slated to serve as the print pool reporter on Thursday. Feinberg confirms to me that, without explanation, the White House told him today that he would no longer be the print pooler on Trump's Thursday trip.
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Debate moderators in Michigan tonight are strictly enforcing time limits, cutting off the candidates when they go too long. It's clear both have a lot to say and want to respond directly to deach. #MISen
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Much more from the Polling Unit here: foxnews.com/official-polls
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🦊🚨 NEW Fox News Poll TEXAS SENATE Talarico (D) - 49% Paxton (R) - 49% TEXAS GOVERNOR Hinojosa (D) - 47% Abbott (R) - 52% Oct 15-19, TX LV ±2.5 OHIO SENATE Brown (D) - 52% Husted (R) - 47% OHIO GOVERNOR Acton (D) - 50% Ramaswamy (R) - 48% Oct 15-19, OH LV ±2
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#OHGOV: Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker, wife of JB Pritzker, announces she’s sending $500,000 to Amy Acton after Vivek Ramswamy’s ad featuring Acton’s mom
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SCOOP: AIPAC will no longer endorse congressional candidates or earmark donations to congressional campaigns. The group's super PAC, United Democracy Project, will continue to operate and it will urge members to donate directly to pro-Israel candidates. jewishinsider.com/2026/10/ai…
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I asked Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and Vivek Ramaswamy's fiercest critic during the 2024 nomination fight, about the attack ad and Vance's defense. "For the last decade, our party has been infected by a corrupted moral center," he said. Full comment here:
WOW -- Vance *defends* Ramaswamy's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away from that. Do you think that ad was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest with you. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. My concern is who is gonna govern. I have to admit I'm a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans who are whining more about that ad than they are about what the Democrats want to do.
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Ramaswamy posted a longer clip of these remarks on April 14, 2026 xitter.cf/VivekGRamaswamy/status…
Unearthed video: Vivek Ramaswamy mocks Amy Acton for being raped by her stepfather and abused by her biological mother, saying she "complains about what someone else did to her"
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I'm sure the readership of the Metro Times was tilting toward Rogers before this
.@metrotimes writes: "For this reason, we are no longer reaching out to Rogers’ campaign for comment to avoid spreading falsehoods and bigoted attacks on El-Sayed’s Muslim faith."
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.@metrotimes writes: "For this reason, we are no longer reaching out to Rogers’ campaign for comment to avoid spreading falsehoods and bigoted attacks on El-Sayed’s Muslim faith."
🚨”Mike Rogers keeps lying about Abdul El-Sayed. We counted the ways” 🚨 Ahead of their second debate, a Metro Times analysis finds false attacks on El-Sayed and a congressional record that undercuts Rogers’ campaign pitch. metrotimes.com/news/mike-rog…
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NEW: Republicans are increasingly worried that NC-11 - a district Trump won by nearly 10 - is already lost. Said a NC GOP operative: "The rating in the 11th District should be likely Democrat, not lean Democrat.” Sign of how deep the Dem wave could go washingtonsun.com/campaigns/…
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In endorsing Amy Acton today, the Columbus Dispatch editorial board writes: "It should go without saying that sexual violence against children should not be politicized or taken as lightly as Ramaswamy appears to take it" dispatch.com/story/opinion/e…
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Vivek Ramaswamy brought up Nikki Haley’s daughter during a 2024 debate, and she responded by calling him “scum.” After the debate he defended the move. washingtonpost.com/politics/… youtu.be/ZZv06sfwVCE?is=uq7M…
Not laughing. Just seeing what we tried to tell everyone back then. He’s a bad guy. It’s a shame he continues to get away with it.
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TPUSA is putting some money into their super PAC... about $12 million in October, it looks like... docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/for…
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Same here. They went to great lengths to lie to me privately. @wedgewoodpol claims now that “The people running the firm had access to my account and sent the DMs above” but since they all remain anonymous, I have to think that if they were lying then, they are lying now.
When Wedgewood first appeared, I reached out to their head pollster to try to learn more about them. We spoke on the phone for about 15 minutes. He told me he was a college student at Boston University who had previously worked with SoCal Strategies and had paid for some inexpensive polls out of pocket. He also mentioned that the other member of the team was involved in local Democratic politics in Ohio. They struck me as nice kids with at least some understanding of polling, but obviously no professional experience. With that in mind, we assigned them a D grade and included their polling data on our site. A few years ago, I was a college student following politics as a hobby myself, so I try to give people in that position the benefit of the doubt. It's disappointing to see how this has unfolded, because it's going to be a hell of a lot harder for the next college kid who's actually well-intentioned and super into politics to break into the space after this.
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Even Roger knows this needs to be investigated.
If Byron Donalds is elected governor of Florida, he must appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Hope foundation scandal and the theft of $10M in Medicare funds by Ron and Casey DeSantis and their henchman James Uthmeier
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RT @FactbaseFeed: 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 Argh! While the speech was the longest, @realDonaldTrump only spoke for 89.21% of the event and 92.2% of the w…
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Our 2022 lawsuit failed to liberate Durham's reports - a judge read them in camera last year and ruled they were still withholdable. But this week, the interview reports, which are being processed on a rolling schedule, started to flow. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
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