Brownstein, a 2-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, senior CNN political analyst & author of NYT best-seller Rock Me on the Water
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This is utterly disgusting — reprehensible even. It pales in comparison to the stuff AES has said and done that alienates me.
Sen. @tedcruz (R-TX) says that if U.S. Sen. candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) is elected into the Senate and is placed in the Senate Intelligence Committee, "there is a very real risk that Americans will die as a result."
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Missed this y'day in #TXSEN: At separate events, James Talarico was intro'd/endorsed by ex-GOP state Sen. Kel Seliger, who's clashed w/ his party for years — but also Victor Leal, Seliger's '18 primary challenger
Leal said he's a "recovering Republican" who's now a "Talafreako"
I interviewed Dolores Huerta once, in LA on a very rainy night just before the CA primary in 2008, at the iconic El Cholo restaurant. It was that rare moment, like talking to John Lewis, where you know you are in the presence of history. RIP.
Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96 trib.al/3i8LilH
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Moreno's also campaigning w his state's candidate for governor, who doesn't believe Jesus came here for our salvation (he's Hindu).
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Brent is right. In our polling basically NO Democrats are defecting to the GOP this cycle. It's quite astonishing actually, but true at the same time. #2026Election
More @brentbuc : "Age is a big divide inside the GOP with younger Republicans wanting less Trump influence after a loss. Of Republicans under 45, 41% want him to keep heavy influence, compared to 54% of those 45-to-64 and 64% of those 65+."
New @brentbuc poll offers some empirical insight on this: "On where the party should go once Trump leaves office, [Rep] voters divide into three ~ equal camps: 32% want to keep Trump’s policies...31% want a traditional conserv direction, 29% want the party to move to the center."
New @brentbuc poll offers some empirical insight on this: "On where the party should go once Trump leaves office, [Rep] voters divide into three ~ equal camps: 32% want to keep Trump’s policies...31% want a traditional conserv direction, 29% want the party to move to the center."
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Read my colleague @reilly_cait’s dispatch from Nebraska and give her a follow!
Really frames the question well: if the election goes badly for Republicans, in the aftermath will there be any reckoning about whether Trump has placed the party on a sustainable path? Or will the survivors be concentrated in such safe red territory that they don’t dare?
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I can confidently say that the 2026 election will be the most diverse midterm electorate in U.S. history. I provide here evidence in voter registration and early voting data michaelmcdonald.substack.com…
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I’ve covered dozens if not hundreds of Trump rallies and I can’t recall him ever holding one in a room as small as this arena in Chillicothe, Ohio. It’ll be packed and loud- but maybe 1000 people will fit.
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I've been describing it as, from the Dem perspective, something new (Delaware), something old (Mahoning), and something borrowed (Wood)
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Approval of President Trump’s job performance declined to 38% in September, and disapproval rose to 60%. In both first and second terms, Trump’s previous lowest approval was 40%. Approval has steadily declined through the second term. #mulawpoll
Kind of striking from the man who bent the knee to a man (Trump) who publicly mocked his wife as unattractive, which is not the kind of thing that would generally be called “manly” behavior in your typical Texas bar- or country club for that matter.
Sen. @tedcruz (R-TX) on U.S. Sen. candidate James Talarico (D-TX): "If you were to sit down and make a list of the top 1,000 adjectives to describe James Talarico, masculine would not be one of them."
Suffolk didn’t ask job approval but it captures a complete OH inversion: 56% of voters there now view Trump unfavorably after he won ~ that much in 24. 57% of college+ say they want their vote to force a change in Trump’s direction. That’s college voters in OH, not CO, CA or NY
Suffolk poll | 10/21-10/26 LV
Ohio Governor 2026
🟦Amy Acton 48%
🟥Vivek Ramaswamy 44%
Link to poll: newarkadvocate.com/story/new…
Appropriately enough for super heroes in the political world, that almost looks like an @thealexrossart Justice League or Avengers painting.
"That buzz is a reflection of Cook’s unusual role in the political mediasphere: The report is one of the last bastions of nonpartisan election wonkery that nearly everybody in Washington trusts."
New profile from the @washingtonpost:
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In 24, Trump seemed to provide the GOP an escape from the squeeze of the continued decline of their core groups, non-col, evangelical & rural Whites. But his answer-more support w/working class non-whites-is crumbling. He's @ 9% approval w/non col non-whites in SC, 18% MN, 29% FL
And, as I explained in @CNN Sunday, every data source agrees that college educated voters comprise 4-5 points more of the national electorate in each mid-term than in the preceding presidential. More here: cnn.com/2026/10/25/politics/…
And, as I explained in @CNN Sunday, every data source agrees that college educated voters comprise 4-5 points more of the national electorate in each mid-term than in the preceding presidential. More here: cnn.com/2026/10/25/politics/…
Even in SC, Trump's approval among college+ Whites is way underwater (42-57). Andrews is winning 47% of those college Whites, far more than Dems usually get in SC. Combined w/overwhelming rejection of Graham (and Trump) among col & non-col minorities alike, that puts her in range
In the @nytimes @SienaResearch SC Senate poll, far more voters who didn't vote in 24 remain undecided than Harris or Trump voters. Among the non-24 voters who have already decided, Dem Annie Andrews is +23. The share of non-whites who are undecided is also twice the % of Whites.