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News: Former Sen. Joe Manchin will campaign with GOP Sen. Susan Collins this week in Maine
Manchin said his visit is motivated by the attacks on Collins for voting too often in support of President Donald Trump: He said his trip is dedicated to “debunking” the idea that she’s been an enabler for Trump:“She is not a Trump senator"
Expect a lot of talk about their bipartisan work together on covid $, infrastructure and Electoral Count Act
Collins: "We need more people in the Senate, not fewer, who are willing to put partisanship aside, listen to one another, and deliver results"
semafor.com/article/10/19/20…
Read @PaulBlu on how Trump’s plans to meddle in the midterm elections keep crashing and burning: huffpost.com/entry/donald-tr…
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Leo Wise, a hard-nosed ex federal prosecutor whose career spanned Enron to Hunter Biden makes a powerful case that the Supreme Court has made public integrity prosecutions impossible — ushering a golden age of corruption.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Elected Democrats not saying “impeach the motherfucker” these days huffpost.com/entry/democrats…
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On THE MICHIGAN MOUTH
My column on the Abdul show, coming soon to a screen near you, America*
*if he wins
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
New: The Democrat who knows what a blue wave feels like.
Tom Perriello is waging an uphill battle in VA-5, but thinks this year's wave will be even bigger than the one when he won the seat in 2008.
huffpost.com/entry/perriello…
The big difference between '08 and today: It's driven much more by anger at GOP than any hope in Dems, Perriello says.
But he also sees the seeds of new coalitions: "I think there’s a chance this is going to be the first election of the post-Trump era."
huffpost.com/entry/perriello…
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NEW: Sen. John Hickenlooper (D) says he now regrets voting to confirm Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Hickenlooper previously claimed his support “reduced the damage” for Colorado. He said in our #COSEN debate that the strategy didn’t work.
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Asked by @PHirschkorn for an example of a time she voted against her party and it changed the outcome, Susan Collins points to how she organized the opposition to Pete Hegseth. Pressed, she concedes it didn't change outcome (one R changed vote), but she notes it almost did.
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Caught up with a Republican congressman about inflation and the Iran war.
“Right now we are defending U.S. assets there, so there is no war as we speak,” he told me
huffpost.com/entry/rob-wittm…
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Fox News poll:
Top concerns:
1. Corruption in government
2. Inflation and high prices
3. Gas prices
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Americans oppose live-streaming Nidal Hasan's execution, 80%-18%, per a new WaPo-ABC poll.
But one group supports it: MAGA Republican men, who back it 57%-42%.
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Senate Leadership Fund raised $273 million in the third quarter.
$158 million of that was from Elon.
axios.com/2026/10/15/elon-mu…
There are many reasons to expect a polling miss favoring the GOP -- primarily the idea that low-propensity Rs don't answer polls but will show up to vote.
But it's worth remember the last statewide general elections we had in 2025 actually had polling misses favoring Democrats.
Potentially big deal here, depending on how much they spend. Both parties have looked at the RNC, which has about $125M on hand, as a potential source of cash late in the cycle.
FLASH: The Republican National Committee and Ashley Hinson campaign are placing coordinate TV ad spending. Start date is tomorrow, 10/15
#IASen
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I'm glad this Capital News Service reporter (from the University of Maryland's journalism school) knew her rights far better than I did in 2013: politico.com/blogs/media/201…
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An award-winning ESPN producer resigned after 24 years over the network's embrace of sports betting: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” cjr.org/the-interview/nicole…
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I keep thinking about this exchange. Blakeman says he's "created wealth" because of the skyrocketing home prices in Nassau County. The idea that young families are priced out just doesn't occur at all
New: Democrats are torn over how ambitious the party can afford to be as it looks at its best political environment in two decades.
"At what point do you play for a wave versus just playing for a majority?," asks @ASDem.
huffpost.com/entry/democrats…
Both parties now think the GOP spending blitz has had a limited impact so far. But other sources of cash loom.
-Pritzker coming in with major $$ in TX, NM and elsewhere.
-Dems wondering how much Future Forward can spend.
-Rs still have RNC + MAGA Inc $$$ left over.
The question for Ds is whether they have the money & the political enviro to just win majorities, or if they can go for the kind of wins -- like Texas governor or Mississippi Senate -- that could repudiate Trump and fundamentally alter American politics.
huffpost.com/entry/democrats…