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Democrats need to win at least 5 of 7 key Senate states to take the chamber, including Maine, Michigan, and North Carolina as likely pickups. But the fact that Alaska and Texas are even being discussed as Democratic possibilities is itself extraordinary evidence of how unpopular Trump has become.
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Rory Stewart raises the spectre of Jeremy Corbyn: that the existence of radical figures on the left, however reasonable their positions might seem in a European context, will be deployed by opponents to define the entire party. He reveals that when he tried to explain to his son Sasha why Mamdani's positions would frighten American swing voters, Sasha replied that he agreed with everything Mamdani said and couldn't understand the problem. [1] — Rory Stewart "The existence of some people out on the far left will be used to brand it and it'll be seen by people like Trump as a gift because they'll …" 08:44 This generational gap in political perception is, Rory suggests, itself part of the story. He also notes that not all Democrats are following the same path — Ritchie Torres won his Bronx primary by 50 points on a pro-Israel platform, and the Democrats' candidate for New York 17 is a combat veteran, reflecting the party's simultaneous pull in opposite directions.
Pro-Israel Democrat Ritchie Torres won his primary in a poor Bronx district by 50 points against a radical left challenger, showing Democrats are not uniformly moving left.
Alastair Campbell argued Democrats must win at least 5 of 7 contested Senate states — Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Alaska, Iowa, Texas, Ohio — to take the Senate.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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