Political analysts are looking to past election cycles to predict what might happen this year. Popular examples include 2018, the year of the midterm elections during President Donald Trump’s first term, and 2010, given the current tea party-like climate in the Democratic Party. Top Cook Political Report editor Amy Walter goes back 20 years to […]
Abdul el Sayed achieved what progressives are hailing as the Democratic Party’s “biggest upset” in modern politics with his Michigan Senate primary win against establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI). But the progressive insurgent, supported by socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), now faces his biggest test of all following a […]
Abdul el Sayed’s victory in Michigan‘s Democratic Senate primary is forcing many Jewish Democrats to confront a difficult question: support the nominee who is already being labeled “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America” or vote for the Republican. Within hours of Tuesday night’s result, some Jewish Democrats said they were already hearing from […]
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed waved off Twitch streamer Hasan Piker‘s role in the state’s bruising Democratic primary, saying he does not share Piker’s perspective that the party should rally behind the recent winner. Piker has become one of the loudest voices in the progressive flank of the Democratic Party, stumping for el […]
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday ruled that key provisions of a nearly century-old federal firearms law can no longer be enforced, finding that Congress lost the constitutional basis for regulating suppressors and certain short-barreled firearms after eliminating the tax that originally justified the restrictions. U.S. District Judge James Hendrix, a President Donald Trump […]
Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday poured cold water on reports that a meeting between himself and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned sour, saying there was no confrontation between the two leaders. Speaking with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle, Vance was asked about a sit-down with Netanyahu at Blair House, which […]
President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that gasoline prices could climb again as the conflict with Iran continues, saying lower prices would return once the war is over. Speaking in Las Vegas, Trump touted his administration’s economic success, but acknowledged how the war with Iran, which led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, […]
Democrats are dealing with the fallout of progressive William Lawrence’s win over two moderate Democrats in one of their top pickup seats this cycle. Lawrence beat out Navy SEAL Matt Maasdam and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, but while progressives celebrate the win over the establishment, many Republicans are celebrating with them. “Tom […]
President Donald Trump devoted a healthy portion of his Wednesday speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, to attacking newly minted Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed. El Sayed emerged victorious Wednesday morning over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the Democratic primary. Trump has previously claimed that el Sayed “hates Jews,” and he repeated that line of attack Wednesday […]
Republicans began to coalesce around nominee Thomas Smith, whose defunct campaign shocked Trump-back Navy veteran Amir Hassan in Tuesday’s primary. Smith won Tuesday’s primary after suspending his campaign last month, but will now resume his campaign for the swing seat despite raising virtually no money for his bid and otherwise being a nonfactor for much […]
