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HuffPost is hiring two politics reporters, reporting to yours truly.
One to cover the midterms and the 2028 presidential race: job-boards.greenhouse.io/buz…
One to cover conservatives: job-boards.greenhouse.io/buz…
Details in the job listings.
Read @ArthurDelaneyHP on how progressives are arguing permitting reform would inevitably benefit data center construction, hoping to make it a tough vote for Dems after a midterm campaign built in part around relentless attacks on data centers.
huffpost.com/entry/permittin…
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Where did @HaleyforMI donors go?
I spoke to donors who went to @AbdulElSayed and @MikeRogersForMI - and mapped out more broadly where Haley Stevens’ donors are now giving:
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I received the poll testing the ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a "liar." Comes from the polling firm Dynata. Before showing the ad, the poll asks whether it's true Acton was sexually abused and lived in a tent as a child. Then the ad plays twice.
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Jay-Z Chooses Himself to Be The 2027 Super Bowl Halftime Show Performer: Report tmz.com/2026/10/20/jay-z-pic…
The video featuring Amy Acton's mom:
• doesn't have the disclosures required of political ads.
• isn't running on TV, isn't in either the Meta or Google political ad archives.
• just started getting shared by right-wing influencers out of nowhere.
huffpost.com/entry/amy-acton…
The Acton campaign points a finger at the Ramaswamy campaign, who isn't commenting.
But it's all very odd. Did they think they could just put this out into the ether without any pushback? If you're going to take this step, you might as well own it.
huffpost.com/entry/amy-acton…
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wow, joel kaplan leaving meta per internal memo
not a household name but about as significant as could be in meta politics land
not lost on me that a midterms wipeout is expected and kaplan was the conservative whisperer at the top
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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…
