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Deputy managing editor of news @MSNOWnews. Former editor of @playbookdc at @politico. Macomb County native. Signal: zstanton.01
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Zack Stanton retweeted
Today we crossed $8B in aired ad spending for the 2025-2026 political cycle!
Aired spending:
🔴$3.7B 🔵$3.3B ⚪️$1.0B
Dates previous cycles surpassed $8B in aired spending:
2023-2024: 10/16
2021-2022: 11/2
2019-2020: 10/30
Zack Stanton retweeted
NEW in @playbookdc:
“This has opened the floodgates. The knives are now fully out for these two,” a person close to the WH tells us.
The backlash against top Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and James Blair is growing after revelations they traveled to the Balkans to advise a Russia-friendly regime’s reelection effort as Republicans struggle ahead of the midterms.
Zack Stanton retweeted
El-Sayed responds to the president:
He knows my name is Abdul. He says it everyday.
But he’s not just attacking me. He’s attacking all of us. He thinks so low of us. He thinks he can use my name and my faith to distract us from the suffering his policies are inflicting on us at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor’s office. He thinks we don’t know any better.
It’s time for change.
Zack Stanton retweeted
This is THE issue people are talking about in Maine right now. Here’s a (free) on-the-ground look at why this is a perfect storm of bad for Maine folks. midcoastvillager.com/news/mi…
Iowa’s Ashley Hinson slams the savings habits of millennials politi.co/4yOdxPe
Zack Stanton retweeted
By my count, eight separate protests during Trump’s rally in San Antonio. I’ve covered hundreds of his events and most I’ve personally seen.
Zack Stanton retweeted
NEW @MSNOWNews I spoke w Bernadette Greene-Placentia about coming forward w allegations of sexual assault in the midst of her campaign. She said she thought she would be a “hypocrite” if she didn’t, adding, “Me coming forward is me taking my power back.”
ms.now/news/rape-candidate-g…
Zack Stanton retweeted
NEW: Footage and interviews reviewed by CNN repeatedly show Abdul El-Sayed — who is set to campaign with Barack Obama — calling Obama’s presidency a failure and that the country was no better off after eight years of his presidency. cnn.com/2026/10/07/politics/…
Zack Stanton retweeted
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
w/@DanaMattioli @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ
wsj.com/politics/policy/guil…
Zack Stanton retweeted
El-Sayed to me on some of the pushback he's still getting:
“I’m not the Democrat the Democrats want, but I am the Democrat that Democrats have. And I am decidedly not a Republican. But this is what I’ll tell you: I am a Democrat that Michiganders want."
cnn.com/2026/10/07/politics/…
Zack Stanton retweeted
A Club for Growth affiliate group is going full negative against the Democratic nominee in #TX32, which was redrawn last year to be Trump +18: youtube.com/watch?v=xDH5wO_e…
Zack Stanton retweeted
“El-Sayed recently called Piker and warned his rhetoric was costing El-Sayed votes, asking him to stop”
cnn.com/2026/10/07/politics/…
Zack Stanton retweeted
SCOOP: Ken Paxton, asked about the biggest drag on his campaign, said, "It's the war, it's gas prices," per audio obtained by @axios
He agreed he can't stop the Iran War and said: "I don't ... know what's behind some of the decisions."
w/ @StefWKight
axios.com/2026/10/07/ken-pax…
“We watched a really good documentary on Roy Cohn,” she says. “And the Uzbekistan version of America’s Got Talent.”
Inside Warren Buffett's nightly trips down the YouTube rabbit hole:
wsj.com/lifestyle/warren-buf…
1/ Mind blowing story about Trump accounts by @RichardRubinDC & @ashleaebeling. Under Treasury's new rules, a company can donate stock to a child's Trump account; parents can’t pick the stocks, reject donated shares, or sell for 5 years. Some possible implications...
Zack Stanton retweeted
SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government.
@JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…
Zack Stanton retweeted
THREE Senate ratings changes today at @CookPolitical:
#KSSen: Lean R to Toss Up
#NCSen: Lean D to Likely D
#NHSen: Toss Up to Lean D
We now estimate Democrats will pick up between two and six seats -- squarely within the range of four seats they need.
cookpolitical.com/analysis/s…
Zack Stanton retweeted
Lots of activity recently around the KS senate race 👀 The CPR change up comes on the heels SLF PAC shifting more ad dollars to Marshall + NYT/Sienna poll showing the race is tied.
Today, The Cook Political Report is moving three Senate races, all towards Democrats.
• Kansas from Lean R -> Toss Up
• North Carolina from Lean D -> Likely D
• New Hampshire from Toss Up -> Lean D
Read @JessicaTaylor's full analysis:
cookpolitical.com/analysis/s…
Cook Political Report moves Kansas Senate seat to "Toss-Up"
cookpolitical.com/analysis/s…