Jacob Peters

My next mission... #FullSpeedAhead #ForArizona

Ran into @AdelitaForAZ at lunch today. #AZ06 and #AZ07, from neighboring districts to neighbors in Congress. 💙

He’s gonna lose and this will be a sad, weird episode we joke about

Here is the binary map of the Phoenix metro in the Governor contest. The loop 101/Gilbert rd. delineation line disappeared. Hobbs precincts stretch from Tonopah in the west to Apache Junction in the east. From just south of Anthem in the north to the city of Maricopa and Casa Grande to the south.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Democrats gain a trifecta to control the state House, Senate and governor’s office for first time in 60 years.

NEW: Republican sources in Tennessee tell me President Trump is “encouraging” Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn to appoint Pete Hegseth to her U.S. Senate seat. Blackburn could resign imminently. That would let outgoing Governor Bill Lee name Hegseth quickly and give Trump time to get a new Pentagon chief confirmed during the lame-duck session.

BACKSTORY - How Annie Andrews shocked the world in SC - After Graham won primary, Andrews spent $5M+ on ads when she basically had airwaves to herself. By October her campaign had a 3-point lead and never trailed but didn't release the poll - Trump's Graham endorsement backfired. Mark Sanford: “A Waterloo moment for Trump ... this is a person who said: ‘Close your eyes and pretend you’re voting for me.’ OK, they did ... They just didn’t like Darline as a candidate and felt it had been forced down their throats by Trump" - Andrews made big inroads with Rs by courting supporters of Ralph Norman, getting Beasley endorsement. She worked closely with Clyburn to help juice turnout and other than Warnock kept the campaign local - This all led to a convincing win and ... coat tails. Dems picked up the Lowcountry House seat. Andrews ran ahead of Dem guv candidate; and Graham ran way behind semafor.com/article/11/04/20…

This is quantifiable. Trump slipped after Liberation day to about 40, where he stabilized for about a year until the strikes. The decline also tracked with thermostatic reaction to immigration enforcement. He then plummeted to 33 percent by August of this year. CPI was 2.4 percent in February and up 3.8 percent in April. August headline CPI was 3.4 percent against core at 2.4 with energy accounting for most of the gap. Republicans’ approval of the economy was at 79 percent in February, but dropped to 64 percent by May. Tariff opinion has been stable since April 2025. The late drop was the war. 74 percent of voters in exits said the war was a major or crucial factor in their vote.

Vivek Ramaswamy concedes. “It is a tough night for us here in Ohio.” He said he left Acton a voicemail and wished her well. “It was a tough race. It was bitter, at times, in both directions.”

Thank you, Senator Kelly, for making the trip all the way up to Maine to support this working class movement. We are not backing down.

A democratic trifecta in Arizona is the most likely scenario at this point.

JAY FEELY WATCH PARTY UPDATE

I’m team @CaptMarkKelly, obviously. 🧑‍🚀

Trump and Republicans redrew #FL14, #FL22, and #FL25 and then spent OVER $50 MILLION trying to flip them. Democrats just won all three races.

Today’s first time voter was:  - Born in 2008  - 8 years old when Trump was first elected  - In middle school when Covid hit

The second law of thermodynamics says things fall apart. It doesn't say they have to. It says they will unless someone does the work. Our democracy is the same, and this election requires that we do the work.

While Ossoff, Bottoms and Democrats have been talking up "whole ballot energy" in Georgia, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins is mostly having to go it alone. ajc.com/politics/2026/10/mid…

Among the crowd here tonight is Ted Strickland. He was elected governor 20 years ago. No other Democrat has held the job since then.