Trump's MAGA Mortal Sin Against the American People

Trump was punished for sinning against the great American Dream
Janet Daley
Sat, November 7, 2026


The president may have wrapped himself in the flag, but he failed to understand what it means to be American - NurPhoto

This was not all about the price of petrol. Whatever you may have heard, last week's tumultuous events in the United States were more than a protest at the pumps, or even rage at the price of eggs. Which is not to say that the cost of living was not a big factor in the cataclysm.

But it is necessary to understand that, for Americans, a rise in the cost of goods which are essential to a functioning life is not just a practical problem: it is an existential threat.

The reason that you, or your parents, or your grandparents came to America was to "better themselves", to be free from poverty or the low expectations of their social position in the old country, and most importantly, to ensure that the next generation – their children – would be better off than they were.

Any circumstances, particularly those that arise from political decisions, which undermine that intention are unforgivable. They are a sin against the great American dream.

This can be quite difficult for Europeans – who have largely retained their paternalistic attitudes to class in spite of generations of supposed meritocracy – to grasp. For Americans to find themselves less affluent or financially secure than their parents expected to be is not just disappointing or infuriating. It is shameful.

Trump's electoral cataclysm is not explained by high prices alone - iStockphoto/eyecrave productions

If they can justifiably attribute the blame for this disgrace to elected political leaders, their fury is boundless. So yes, the cost of living was a considerable factor in the rout of Donald Trump's Republicans. But it was more an expression of moral outrage. American voters had been robbed of what should have been their birthright: self-improvement and proud independence.

There was another, less tangible, dimension to this repudiation of the Trump presidency. Alongside their profound Calvinist belief in material success as a sign of fortitude and virtue, Americans are raised with a reverence for their country's constitutional principles, a reverence that is also difficult for Europeans – even those who live in revolutionary republics – to comprehend.

The critical separation of powers between the executive and legislature, which is designed explicitly to prevent autocracy, is drilled into schoolchildren in the way that Roman Catholic pupils might be taught the catechism.

That division of authority between the branches of government means that no member of Congress may serve in a presidential cabinet, which is why Marco Rubio had to resign his Senate seat to become Trump's secretary of state.

This is precisely the opposite of our system, where no one who is not a Member of Parliament may serve in Cabinet (David Cameron had to be given a peerage before he could be appointed Foreign Secretary).

America's Founding Fathers are still seen as the ultimate moral arbiters - Universal Images Group Editorial/Universal History Archive

Here, a prime minister with a parliamentary majority can pass a party programme into law, in the knowledge that some future government might reverse it. The American founders were determined to limit such power in a presiding head of state with a rigorous system of checks and balances.

Watching Trump barging through those boundaries, sometimes using tactical work-arounds, without a thought for the spirit in which they were conceived, was truly shocking. How could he have been permitted to undermine the integrity of the country's most fundamental institutions?

I found it difficult to believe as I watched his bullish defiance that, however desperate voters might be for solutions to intolerable problems, somewhere in the consciousness of America there were no misgivings.

You may have noticed, as a bemused British observer, how frequently US politicians refer with solemn reverence to the Founding Fathers for ultimate moral sanction. That is because the Founders, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, are secular saints.

Without them – and the sacred documents which they composed – the United States, and the possibility of being American, would not exist. To threaten the integrity of those principles is to undermine what being an American means: the only thing that it can mean.

Unlike other republics which were created by revolutions in existing countries with established populations, America was invented as an embodiment of an 18th-century idea. It is populated by people who voluntarily accept the social contract that it offers, which is articulated in the Constitution.

The behaviour of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has struck many as profoundly un-American - AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT

Yet here was a president who arrived at his first inaugural waving his fist in the air like a tinpot dictator, swore vengeance against competitors who were his legitimate opponents, became outraged when he discovered that he did not have absolute power, and shamelessly monetised the presidency to make himself, his family and his cronies even richer than they had been.

So where was the American patriotic conscience? Surely the redneck army which British broadcasting finds so irresistible as comic interview fodder could not be all that was left in a country which has the highest proportion of university-educated people in the world?

Watching the news coverage assiduously, you could still catch glimpses of it. When those ICE raiders with their masked faces descended on communities to seize what they assumed were illegal migrants from the streets (or from the workplaces where they were earning a living), there were often furious protests, not from the terrified "illegals" who were being led away in handcuffs, but from righteous onlookers who regarded this treatment as profoundly un-American.

What now? Trump and his sidekicks are on the attack, of course. In their panic and outrage, they are choosing some bad targets: labelling any suggestion that Americans might need some form of universal healthcare as communist – when the US has one of the lowest life expectancies in the developed world, and even affluent families fear that extended illness could bankrupt them. But the Democrats, drunk on their electoral triumph, may yet fall into factional disarray.

There is scope for a Republican to emerge for the next presidential contest. JD Vance, however hard he tries to distance himself, is implicated in this terrible presidency and so, unfortunately, is Marco Rubio.

My bet would be on the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, the only reasonable Republican left standing. But that discussion is for another day. The good news now is that America does remember why it was created, and why that still matters.

Trump Falsifies Translated Extradition Documents to Impugn Anti-Zionist Activist

Do you still doubt that the US administration is a servant of the Zionists? Doubt no more. Look how low will Trump go to accuse an anti-genocidal-Israel protester. Zionists have indeed, and for a long time, infiltrated the American deep state such that one cannot tell an American interest from an Israeli interest. 

But things are beginning to change. The American people now know the truth after having their own US government enslaved for decades into Israel-first and America-second policies by the Zionist lobby AIPAC and its satellites like the ADL.

The "guilt" behind the request to extradite the accused? He simply paid the legal fees of protesters who participated in a 2023 protest against Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

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Trump administration accused of altering translation of request to extradite wealthy leftwing activist
Timothy Pratt
Sat, November 7, 2026 


James 'Fergie' Chambers poses for photos at home in Tunis, Tunisia, on 8 February 2024. Photograph: Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Attorneys for jailed wealthy leftwing donor James "Fergie" Chambers accused the Trump administration of making "malicious" and "bad faith" changes to legally required translations from English to Spanish in its extradition request to Spain, adding words like "violent", "detonate" and "fires" that are not in the original text.

Chambers' legal team also identified multiple instances where the US translation from English to Spanish created more serious legal accusations against Chambers than were indicated in the original text for his alleged involvement in paying the legal fees of activists who participated in a 2023 protest against Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

Chambers' case is the first known instance of the US seeking to extradite a citizen over alleged support for Hamas, an accusation apparently tied to a money laundering charge and donations Chambers has made to support Palestinians, including the Sameer Project, in Gaza.

The attorneys have filed a last-minute request to the National Court of Spain asking for a new translation and for the court to recognize the "bad faith" actions of the US, after also learning this week that Chambers' extradition hearing has been scheduled for 13 November.

The Guardian has seen the 21-page request, filed Tuesday. It includes multiple, detailed examples of what the legal defense team calls a "translation [that] has fictitiously added incriminating acts, in presumed bad faith".

The goal, the attorneys assert, is "to lead Spanish authorities to commit errors in evaluating the facts [of the case] and in deciding about the extradition".

Both Spanish law and the extradition treaty between the US and Spain require extradition requests to be translated into Spanish by the requesting country.

"This is scandalous – in 20 years of practice, I've never seen anything like this," said Aitor Martínez, one of Chambers' lawyers, adding that the "shameful" translation joined a growing list of irregularities in the Trump administration's handling of the case – including the FBI taking Chambers' phone, in apparent violation of Spanish law and international extradition treaty, reported on by the Guardian last month.

The translations in question come from the criminal complaint and related documents underpinning the US extradition request.

It was recently revealed that there is no indictment behind the complaint, meaning the federal government hasn't had a grand jury evaluate evidence against Chambers and instead is seeking his extradition based on the affidavit of a single FBI agent, the basis for the sealed complaint.

Two of the three charges in the complaint – riot and conspiracy to riot – are related to allegations that he helped fund the legal fees of activists arrested in the late-2023 protests against Elbit.

The first example attorneys cite in the court filing concerns the protests. "Throughout October and November 2023, multiple direct action events occurred at Elbit facilities, causing significant damage," reads the original in English.

But then, in Spanish, those "direct action events" become "actos de violencia directo" – or "acts of direct violence".

In another example, the original refers to three activists arrested at one of the protests, saying "the three caused significant damage to the building" where Elbit Systems is located.

The "three activists" become "tres incendios", or three fires, in the Spanish translation.

There is no mention of "fires" in the original text, because the protesters didn't set anything on fire, Martínez told the Guardian.

In a third example, activists spoke about "risk[ing] arrest for trespassing". In Spanish, "trespassing" becomes "allanamiento de morada", which can also mean, variously, "burglary" or "breaking and entering" – a more serious offense.

Similarly, "set off smoke canisters" – the kind seen at football matches around the world – becomes "detonaron botes de humo", the Spanish verb being "detonate", as one would with explosives.

"In combination with the …bad-faith introduction of the three fires, this reinforces the idea of an attack with explosives that is not in the English original," the attorneys write.

Nicole Navas Oxman, a US Department of Justice spokesperson, declined to comment on the translations.

Chambers has applied for political asylum in Spain. He cannot be extradited until the asylum case runs its course, and also cannot be extradited if he is granted asylum. His legal team has also notified the government office evaluating his asylum petition of the incident.

A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, Chambers is also heir of the Cox family, owners of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises. As part of a settlement in which his family severed ties with him at the time, he sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023. Since then, he has been funding an estimated 100 progressive and humanitarian projects in 20 countries, according to his partner, activist and actor Stella Schnabel.

Chambers's views and donations have been extensively profiled in US media, including his public comments on Israel and Gaza. A week after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, he posted on X about Israel's response: "Stop calling it 'collective punishment'/There's nothing to be 'punished' for/No faction of the Palestinian resistance, Hamas or other, has done *anything* wrong/It's simply genocide/Like it has been."

After next week's hearing, the Spanish court has three days to decide whether to extradite Chambers. If the decision is affirmative, the Spanish council of ministers can weigh in and even reverse the court's decision.

This means Chambers' extradition may be one of the last decisions made under Pedro Sánchez, the socialist prime minister, before national elections on 29 November.

"There's been a lot of irregularities already," Martínez said. "Spain has to say, 'You can't ridicule the Spanish justice system any longer.'"

Watch the Worldwide Domino Effect of Trump's Midterm Trouncing

Paraguay president Santiago Peña is a right-wing cloned sycophant of US dictator Donald Trump. After the mongrel criminal Bolsonaros, Jair and son Flavio, in Brazil were kicked in the butt, it is pleasantly unsurprising to watch Peña's impeachment, ouster and arrest by his country's authorities, as an early sign of what will happen to all the corrupt autocrats and dictator friends of Donald Dumb around the world. 

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Ousted Paraguay president under house arrest after banking crisis leaves 60% of country unable to access accounts
Tiago Rogero South America correspondent
Sat, November 7, 2026


People protest on the street near Congress, following former President Santiago Pena's removal from office in an impeachment trial that looked at his connections to digital lender Ueno. Photograph: César Olmedo/Reuters

Paraguay's rightwing president has been placed under house arrest minutes after he was impeached by Congress, amid a severe crisis that left more than half the country's population unable to access their bank accounts.

Santiago Peña is being investigated about allegations he used his political influence to favour a bank that expanded exponentially under his government and was suspended this week after irregularities.

The move froze the accounts of 2.9 million people, about 60% of the country's adult population, who were customers of the bank – Ueno - and who overnight could no longer use their own money even for basic purchases such as bread and water.

Protests spread across the country, some involving violent clashes with police. Impeachment proceedings began on Wednesday before being concluded on Friday, minutes before Peña's arrest was ordered.

His vice-president, Pedro Alliana, was being sworn in as the country's new leader while a public prosecutor, accompanied by police outside Peña's home, told local media the former president had been placed under house arrest.

"It has been established that he is indeed inside his home. He voluntarily allowed officers to enter and made himself available for all procedural purposes," said prosecutor Elena Fiore Franco.

The public prosecutor's office had opened an investigation into Peña on Thursday on suspicion of illicit enrichment, money laundering and influence peddling.

Peña, who was one of US president Donald Trump's main allies in the region, had tried to resign on Thursday in an attempt to retain the special jurisdiction afforded to former presidents – who become senators for life in Paraguay – but lawmakers did not accept his resignation, leaving him subject to the ordinary courts.

Amid rumours he had fled to Argentina, the 47-year-old economist was expected to appear before Congress to present his defence during the impeachment proceedings, but left that to his lawyers and instead continued posting on social media.

Before the impeachment was concluded or the arrest warrant issued, he posted: "I say goodbye with gratitude, while fully recognising the anguish of those who are now waiting for answers," referring to former Ueno customers who are unable to access their own money.

Soon after taking office, Peña appointed Carlos Carvallo Spalding, a former CEO of Ueno, head of the country's central bank. Three months later, Spalding – who was by now regulating the company he used to run – allowed Ueno to become a digital bank, which put it on the path to becoming one of Paraguay's largest banks by deposits in just a few years.

The arrest warrant for Peña also includes Spalding.

Peña himself had about US$1m in shares he bought in 2019 in a company that would become Ueno Holding in 2022, the parent company of the conglomerate that controlled Ueno Bank. Even after becoming president, he only disposed of the shares in April 2025. He said he had bought them purely as an "investor".

As the bank aggressively expanded through an easy account-opening system and by promising returns far above those offered by the rest of the market, it also managed to bring public pension funds controlled by Peña's administration into its portfolio.

"Because Ueno had the blessing of the presidency, most of the pension funds close to the government went to deposit their money in the bank," said political analyst Hugo Duarte. An estimated $800m to $860m in state and pension funds were invested in Ueno.

As pressure mounted and retail sales fell by as much as 80% because much of the population could not access their own money, Peña lost the support of his own party.

During the impeachment session, opposition senator Rafael Filizzola said Paraguay was facing "one of the biggest corruption scandals since the return of democracy" and the "biggest fraud carried out from political power in the democratic era".

The Outhouse's Zionist Supremacist Nazi is Now Trump's Chief of Staff

As the American people wiped the floor with the dirty mop known as Donald Trump in this week's midterms, the Great American Orangutan Moron is reacting to his own self-made failure by lashing out at his subservient butler cabinet members. Out the incompetent Susie Wiles and in the Zionist Nazi-Feratu Stephen Miller as his Chief of Staff, signaling a further hardening by Trump of his right-wing criminality and his determination to dig his heels and continue with his racist, xenophobic, white supremacist, pro-Zionist policies that the American people rejected lock, stock and barrel.

The whole world breathed a sigh of relief at watching Trump receiving a shellacking by an American people that woke up from their Trump-lies-induced sedation. But the brainless infant-man moron still has two years during which, it seems, he intends to continue raping his own country and everyone else on the planet so he and his billionaire family members and friends can continue stuff their coffers with more billions while the rest of us struggle with the disastrous consequences of Trump's policies on our livelihoods and on the world at large.

Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump the "art" of stubborn bonehead stupidity, which does not require any thinking, and which explains why a brainless moron like Trump excelled at it. There is no hope for the mongrel dumbass as he will never back down from the edge, but it is such a pleasant spectacle to watch a defeated morose imbecile throw himself under the bus in a final tragic act of sublime bêtise.

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Stephen Miller Will Drag the GOP Further Into the Electoral Abyss
Matt Ford
Sat, November 7, 2026

As a high school student, Stephen Miller once told a booing crowd of his classmates that he was "sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us." Now he gets to reckon with a colossal political mess of his own making as the next White House chief of staff.

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Miller, his deputy chief of staff and domestic-policy advisor, would take the top job in a post-midterms shakeup starting on Monday. "Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation," Trump said in a post on his personal social-media website. "I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff—She has done a great job!"

Friday's announcement came after Trump and Miller had effectively handed control of Congress to the Democrats. Two years of disastrous results on corruption, immigration, tariffs, and the Iran War alienated enough of the electorate that Texas went blue after 40 years of GOP control. Now Trump may have just handed Democrats the White House in 2028 as well by promoting his most extreme and destructive advisor to oversee the last two years of his presidency.

The shift was met with applause in the most far-right corners of American conservatism. "Stephen Miller is a wartime chief of staff," Brent Scher, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, said on Twitter on Friday. "This is going to be awesome." Benny Johnson, a far-right YouTube personality, wrote on the social-media website that White House aides kept texting him "it's Miller time" after the news broke. "It's like the dogs have been let off the chain," he added.

As Trump's top domestic-policy advisor, Miller has functioned as a servile but ruthless shadow president for a chief executive who cares more about television footage than policy details. Like all authoritarians, Trump has attracted a mixture of thugs who revel in violence, weaklings who crave service to bullies, and opportunists who hope to advance their own fortunes. Miller has championed the deportation of as many immigrants as possible from the United States, taking an extreme approach even by GOP standards that evokes ethnic-cleansing campaigns and white nationalism.

Miller is also hostile to the American constitutional order and to international law. He argued unsuccessfully for Trump to suspend habeas corpus to round up immigrants last year and told CNN's Jake Tapper in a January interview that the U.S. should acquire Greenland by force. "We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power," he said, in remarks that would not sound out of place for a mid-20th-century German speaker.

His own leadership qualities are hardly stellar. Miller has a reputation throughout D.C. for openly berating junior staffers and senior officials alike for not effectively executing his draconian policies. A 2020 New Yorker profile recounted how he ended one such meeting with Department of Homeland Security officials by emotionally letting down his guard. "I didn't mean to come across as harsh," Miller reportedly confessed, describing his obsession with deportations. "It's just that this is all I care about. I don't have a family. I don't have anything else. This is my life." (He is now married with four children.)

During Trump's second term, he escalated a series of immigration raids in Los Angeles in 2025 by reportedly telling federal immigration officials to arbitrarily gather people off the streets. "Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. 'You guys aren't doing a good job. You're horrible leaders.' He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down," an unnamed DHS official told The Washington Examiner last May, recounting a meeting that he had attended. "Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. 'Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?'"

The snatch-and-grab tactics that DHS officials pioneered in Los Angeles and other major cities throughout 2025 came to a deadly conclusion this spring. Miller had championed the administration's siege of Minneapolis, where thousands of federal agents poured into the city and began grabbing suspected immigrants off of the streets at will. Massive protests and community actions disrupted some of the raids as Minnesotans tried to protect their neighbors. One federal agent shot and killed Renee Good, a writer with three kids, as she tried to drive away from one clash in her neighborhood in January. Another agent gunned down Alex Pretti, a local nurse, who tried to render medical assistance to a woman that the agent had knocked to the ground.

Footage of the shootings and protests prompted an intense public backlash to Trump's immigration policies. Millions of Americans were horrified at the sight of masked federal agents gunning down their fellow citizens in the street with no consequences. Miller was not among them. He described Good and Pretti as "domestic terrorists" and forcefully advocated for the administration's tactics in Minneapolis throughout the campaign. After other Republicans begged him to change course, Trump wound down most of the operation shortly after Pretti's killing and fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem a few months later. Miller stayed put.

Miller has often argued in recent years that Democrats are "not a legitimate political party," but rather a "domestic extremist organization." Nonetheless, his elevation is good news for Democrats in the short and long term. Trump had initially struck a rare conciliatory note in the wake of the GOP's crushing losses this week. He accepted the election results after more than a decade of election denialism when things didn't go his way. His administration's half-hearted, half-baked efforts to challenge ballots and candidates in Alaska, California, and elsewhere faded away overnight.

"We'll, you know, look forward to working with them," Trump told two New York Times reporters in a phone call on Election Night, referring to Democratic leaders. "We'll probably work something out." Similar messaging from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer led to growing rumbles in Democratic circles about whether they should be elected House speaker and Senate majority leader, respectively, when the new Congress takes over in January.

A defter and more chastened Trump might have made life difficult for Democrats in Washington by trying to compromise with Democrats, dividing a fractious political party that is normally united in opposition to him. Miller's promotion has brought that potential honeymoon period to a close. "Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands," Jeffries said in a post on Twitter on Friday. "His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor. Fire him today."

Trump's announcement is also the first major shake-up of his administration's top ranks since Democrats recaptured Congress by overwhelming margins on Tuesday. The president said he wouldn't dismiss Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday despite calls by conservatives for him to step down or be fired. Democrats and Republicans alike blame him for the disastrous course of the Iran War. Outgoing Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, a frequent Trump critic, plans to bring an impeachment vote against Hegseth later this month. Congressional Democrats are reportedly eager to target him with oversight hearings next year as well.

Indeed, nearly all of Trump's second-term departures have been women. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned over reports of the toxic, harassment-fueled workplace that she allegedly cultivated. Trump dismissed Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to prosecute his enemies and botching the Epstein files scandal. Noem was shuffled out of her role after the failed siege and occupation of Minneapolis, as well as a variety of corruption and personal-misconduct scandals. Kimberley Guilfoyle, the president's son's ex-girlfriend, lost her job as ambassador to Greece for soliciting payouts in writing from foreign billionaires in September. Katie Zacharia, a woefully inept hire who falsely described her legal credentials, only lasted four days as White House press secretary last month.

Trump's chiefs of staff also have a tendency to not stick around for long. Wiles was the fifth person to serve in the position so far. The role is a stressful and grueling one under any president. Only three of the twenty-five people to hold the post since 1981 have served for an entire four-year term, and none have done it in the last twenty years. Most do not even make it to a second year. Wiles' tenure was the second longest one of Trump's tenure, and was awarded to her in thanks for masterminding Trump's re-election campaign in 2024.

A White House chief of staff's power and responsibilities can vary. Generally speaking, they oversee the political staff at the White House. They coordinate policy decisions by the president and various other portions of the executive branch. They liaise with Congress and foreign officials. They go on cable news shows and talk to reporters behind the scenes. Some chiefs of staff, like Jim Baker under Reagan or Rahm Emanuel under Obama, can become nationally known figures in their own right, wielding more influence than even top Cabinet officials.

Like her fellow Trump-era predecessors, Wiles fell on the weaker end of the spectrum. Trump is notoriously capricious and mercurial. He is prone to trusting long-time sycophants like Miller over newer faces and more experienced voices. John Kelly, who served as Trump's second chief of staff during his first term, later publicly warned Americans ahead of the 2024 election described the then-ex president for whom he had worked as a fascist and predicted that he would govern like a dictator if re-elected that fall.

Indeed, during the first half of his second term, Trump exulted in his lack of constraints—thanks to a MAGA-stocked executive branch and congressional Republicans' supine posture—and simply did whatever he wanted. By most accounts, Wiles had comparatively little influence to other prominent Trump allies. She found herself overshadowed by Elon Musk, the South African-born billionaire who destroyed federal agencies and laid off civil servants in the first few months of 2025, and by Miller himself, who oversaw the Trump administration's sprawling mass-deportation agenda.

Now, Miller gets to supervise the wreckage of his own mistakes. He enthusiastically championed Trump's tariff policy, which drove up prices for Americans and wiped out entire markets for U.S. agriculture and manufacturing. After the Supreme Court struck down most of the tariffs in January, he denounced the justices in the majority as "cowardly." Even many devout MAGA enthusiasts regarded the Iran War as a betrayal of Trump's promise to avoid wars in the Middle East and prioritize American interests. Miller has vocally defended Trump's decisions even as the economic and political fallout doomed his fellow Republicans at the polls.

For Democrats, Miller represents all of the Trump administration's worst decisions—its authoritarianism, its bigotry, its arrogance, and its foolishness—in one person. There is little doubt that Miller will continue to push the second Trump administration down its self-destructive path, and that he will drag the rest of the GOP down with him. Vice President JD Vance, the putative GOP frontrunner for 2028, gets to spend the next two years publicly defending every extreme decision that Miller makes even as the electorate demands a new course. Other Republicans on the campaign trail will have to decide between embracing Miller's unpopular policies or distancing themselves from an angry, vengeful power center of far-right American conservatism.

Past presidents have spent the last two years of their administration trying to make things a little easier on their party and their successors. George W. Bush faded out of public view in 2007 and 2008 to avoid tarring the rest of the GOP with his deep unpopularity after the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. Bill Clinton, stung by the Lewinsky scandal and his then-historic impeachment, rarely appeared on the campaign trail in 2000 as Vice President Al Gore sought to turn the page. With Miller at the helm, there will be no quiet twilight for the Trump era. The two men will continue to inflict as much harm as they can on the country—and, by extension, on any remaining hope for the GOP to stay in the White House or reclaim power in two years' time.

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With Stephen Miller pick, Trump readies for a battle
Anthony Zurcher - North America correspondent
Sat, November 7, 2026 



In the aftermath of the Republican Party's sweeping defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections, Donald Trump said he would be willing to work with the newly ascendent Democrats in Congress.

On Friday, however, he elevated Stephen Miller, his bare-knuckled political operative and longtime adviser, to replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff.

Far from an olive branch to Congress, Miller's promotion could be a sign that the president is girding for political battle by installing a partisan firebrand in the top White House job.

"The mission now is more clear than ever: Fight with all of our soul to support our president and defend this magnificent republic," Miller posted on X, adding that he was "honored beyond words" to be Trump's pick for the job.

One of the most powerful positions in Washington, the chief of staff is gatekeeper to the president, agenda-setter in the White House and chief negotiator with Congress and other outside political interests.

"Stephen Miller's been with me since the beginning," Trump said in comments to reporters after announcing the move on his Truth Social website. "He gets it."

Miller is best known for being the driving force behind the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement policies, which has included ramping up funding for enforcement operations across the US.

He made headlines when he called Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal immigration officials during a massive deportation operation in Minneapolis, a "domestic terrorist" and an "assassin". He would later walk back those words, saying federal agents "may not have been following" proper protocol.

He has also reportedly played a leading role in the US military operations in Venezuela and against suspected drug trafficking operations in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, which critics have condemned as extra-judicial killings.

Miller joined Trump's political operation early in his 2016 presidential bid as a strategist and incendiary warm-up speaker at his raucous campaign rallies.

He was one of the few senior White House staffers to persevere through the entirety of his first term. He stayed loyal to Trump during his political exile following attempts to overturn his ballot-box defeat in 2020 failed. He then returned in the influential role of deputy chief of staff for policy in Trump's second term.

Wiles, who co-managed the president's successful 2024 re-election campaign, developed a reputation as a cool professional who avoided the White House staffing upheavals, dramatic policy reversals and personality clashes that typified Trump's first presidential term.

The president, however, began souring on Wiles in recent months, as his political standing in the US declined, culminating in Tuesday's electoral rout. He also reportedly chafed at news stories indicating that those in Wiles' orbit were landing lucrative consulting jobs through their connections to the president.

What has Stephen Miller's role been in Trump's second term?

Miller's hardline views sets up clash with Congress

While Trump praised Miller's effectiveness as a manager on Friday, working with Congress could prove to be a challenge.

It is difficult to overstate how disliked Miller is by most Democrats – and some Republicans.

"Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands," Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote on X. "His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor."

Earlier this year, Miller posted on social media that James Talarico, who had just secured the Democratic nomination to run for Senate in Texas, was "their first transgender Senate candidate".

The Democratic Party offered a terse, obscenity laced reply, telling Miller to shut up.

Now Miller will have to negotiate with a US Senate that includes a newly elected Talarico as one of its rising stars, after an election in which polls found that 58% of voters believe the administration's immigration enforcement actions had "gone too far" and Hispanics decisively turned against Republican candidates.

[Miller in flagrante delicto ass-kissing to a smiling Trump]
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On Wednesday, in a social media post attempting to explain the Republican midterm defeats, Vice-president JD Vance - who is an early frontrunner for the Republican 2028 presidential nomination - wrote that he was "open to the idea that we should change enforcement- by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance".

That now seems less likely with an immigration hardline taking the White House helm.

Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican senator who is retiring at the end of the year, has been particularly vocal in condemning Miller. He has called him "incompetent" and "the architect of some of the dumbest proposals from the Trump White House".

Other Republicans, however, have sung his praises.

"Stephen Miller has been a true conservative warrior since his days as a Senate staffer, a staunch defender of law and order against illegal invasions and leftist lawlessness, and a steadfast fighter for President Trump for over a decade," Utah Senator Mike Lee posted on X after Trump's announcement.

At a time when congressional Democrats are promising to launch new investigations and oversight into the Trump administration, it appears that a "warrior" and a "fighter" is the kind of person the president wants to have running his White House.

Botoxed Right-Wing Nut Laura LOSER Loomer is Eating Dirt But not Humble Pie

She is one of the pillars of the MAGA defeat in the midterms. Her racism, her hatred and xenophobia, and her radical idiocy that comforted the Great American Moron, contributed to the midterms crushing defeat by an awakened rebellious American people.

Good riddance to her as she exits the political scene and into the pig manure shed with her tail between her legs. Yet, she couldn't help spew more conspiracies and fearmongering insults along the way. Sore loser is what she is, especially that the young people (Gen Z) of this country have voted en masse against the MAGA cult and its filthy prophets. With their generation, there is no going back: The future of the United States has been designed by them in these midterms and that future will never be conservative again. 

The American people have rejected the GOP-MAGA's nostalgic Dying Swan attempt to return to a long gone past of 18th-19th century vintage when bigoted religion and greedy raw capitalism set the standards and when Africans, native Americans, women, immigrants and workers were enslaved. Just as the industrial revolution defined the liberation movements of the 20th century, artificial intelligence is now defining the struggles of out future with hundreds of millions of people discarded jobless out on the streets. Guess what these people will do? The young Americans who booted the conservative mongrels out of Congress already understand they will have to come together to fight the cruel, greedy and bigoted conservatism of a few billionaires that has defined the US for so long.

Loomer says the Democrat victories - emphasize the plural - is the death of America. No it isn't, Laura Loser Loomer, it is the long overdue death of your conservatism that is petrified like a fossilized pile of mammoth dung from the Jurassic. Conservatism is dying before our eyes, with occasional bouts of fleeting resurgence flashes, while you can hear its agonal breathing and death rattle. And every time it makes such a brief resurgence, it does so with leaders who are increasingly more grotesque. Donald Dumb was (yes, he's already in the past) their latest manifestation, a stupid, criminal, ignorant buffoon and Laura Loser Loomer was his court fool that entertained the MAGA herd with her absurd stunts.

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MAGA Loyalist Laura Loomer Announces ‘Hiatus’ After 119-Post Tirade Over GOP Rout
David Gilmour
Fri, November 6, 2026


(Screengrab via X)

MAGA loyalist Laura Loomer announced Thursday she is taking a break from her political podcast just days after launching into a furious social media tirade over Republicans' crushing defeat in the midterm elections.

Loomer, one of the president's most outspoken supporters, revealed in a post to X that she would suspend her twice-weekly livestream, Loomer Unleashed, saying that she was "running on empty" and needed "a healthy work life balance"

"I'm taking a hiatus from my show @LoomerUnleashed, which I livestream twice a week," she wrote on X.

She continued: "I've been running on empty for too long. Family, my personal life, my upcoming wedding, a healthy work life balance and just the act of having a life outside of my show and my work have all been on hold."

The announcement came barely 48 hours after Democrats swept control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterms, delivering a major political setback to President Donald Trump halfway through his second term.

Loomer responded to the results with an extraordinary posting spree, publishing 119 messages on X in less than 28 hours, according to an analysis by Newsweek.

During the barrage, she declared that the result was the "death of America as we know it" while predicting widespread political violence and terrorism following the Democratic victories.

Despite stepping back from broadcasting, Loomer insisted she would remain politically active and continue backing the president.

"I'll still be paying attention, fully supporting President Trump, breaking news, commenting on news, doing research and I'll be around. I will be present (I always am). But, I won't be doing my show for a while," Loomer said.

"I'll be back when the time is right," she added.

In a follow-up post, Loomer said she would use the break to redesign her studio and prepare political coverage and opposition research for 2027 and 2028 "ahead of the presidential election season."

Loomer, whose Rumble-based podcast launched in 2023, has built a substantial following through her confrontational political commentary and close relationship with Trump.

In October, the president praised her as "a great Republican strategist, a great person, a killer when she's angry at you."

Loomer's hiatus came after Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz accused Loomer of being "paid" for social media posts in a tense X exchange.

Her show has featured interviews with prominent figures including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Let the Impeachment Parade Begin: Pete Hegseth Earns First Spot

The Testosterone-zapped, Jesus-saved, womanizing racist drunkard TV warrior will lead the expected parade of impeachable Trump-MAGA morons. Even his Republican stooges hate him now that his moron boss's fumbled war has cost the neanderthal conservative cult the elections.

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Republicans quickly turn against Pete Hegseth after midterms rout
Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, Zachary Cohen, Alayna Treene, CNN
Fri, November 6, 2026


Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on July 21. - Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters' support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon's top leader.

Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday's wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit strategy — and no plan for managing the inevitable political fallout.

The knives-out campaign comes despite private acknowledgement from House and Senate GOP strategists that the party's problems extended far beyond the war, triggering 2008-level losses that will take years to reverse. But for now, party leaders – and many in their ranks – remain unwilling to directly blame Trump for their woes.

Even among House Republicans who survived Tuesday's onslaught, there's zero expectation they will suddenly break from the president with two years left in his term. Yet that fealty does not extend to Hegseth, the combative defense secretary who has made few friends on Capitol Hill since taking over command of the Pentagon.

House Republicans are expected to vote to directly repudiate the defense secretary in a matter of days. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the famously anti-Trump GOP lawmaker, told CNN he plans to trigger a vote to impeach Hegseth when Congress returns next week — and multiple GOP sources said they expect it to pass.

Hegseth posted a defiant video on Thursday, comparing his situation to Trump's own impeachments. Pentagon deputy press secretary Joel Valdez said chief spokesperson Sean Parnell convened his team to "map the most aggressive defense of Secretary Hegseth and the President's agenda ever assembled, paired with planned offensive maneuvers that will define the next phase."

"A disgruntled, defeated congressman along with all his Democrat allies has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly. Just like they tried against President Trump twice," Hegseth said in the video filmed outside the Defense Department and posted to X. "It's all about the politics of personal destruction. Didn't work against President Trump, and it won't work with me."

Rep. Thomas Massie speaks to reporters after delivering a speech introducing a proposal to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, to the House of Representatives on September 16. - Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Hegseth, a vocal cheerleader for the war, oversold the US' ability to win the conflict quickly and easily, multiple Republicans argued to CNN, describing on condition of anonymity why many in their party are now turning against the defense secretary. They accused him of continuing to advocate for escalation despite little sign that continued bombing has brought Iran closer to surrender.

The conflict has since turned into a quagmire, they said, entangling the US in the Middle East indefinitely, worsening the affordability crisis, and triggering voters' midterm revolt against the GOP. On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance issued an extraordinary statement that "the reason we lost is the war," though he did not assign any specific blame for the conflict.

"The pivot is starting" on the war and Hegseth, a former senior Pentagon official said. "This has been primarily a Department of War-led effort because you chose to take military action to resolve a foreign policy matter."

Still, despite efforts around him to turn up the heat on Hegseth, Trump's own confidence in his defense secretary hasn't yet wavered even as he's continued to survey allies about his performance, multiple White House officials told CNN.

Trump personally likes Hegseth, and has told aides that he believes he should fight back against efforts to impeach him or launch investigations into his decision-making.

"Just two days ago the president was in the room with him, telling him, 'You're my best guy. You're the best guy I have,'" one of the officials said.

Trump may also feel an additional need to keep Hegseth around if he chooses to move forward with additional strikes against Iran, another source familiar with his thinking told CNN, especially with Democrats' new majority in the Senate likely to complicate any administration efforts to confirm new Cabinet appointees.

Pressed Wednesday on Hegseth's job status, Trump defended the war effort and denied any plans to fire him, saying he thought the defense secretary was "doing a very good job."

"If I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again," Trump said of his decision to go to war.

In an interview with ABC, the president later acknowledged receiving calls from allies unhappy with Hegseth, but brushed off the complaints and vowed to keep him on.

The White House also decried the prospect of Democratic investigations into the Pentagon, with spokeswoman Lauren Bis arguing in a statement that "if Democrats choose to pursue sham investigations and radical left policies, they are choosing to work against the American people."

But some Republicans feel it may be only a matter of time before Trump looks for someone to blame for the midterm losses, and they view Hegseth as an obvious target.

"If the president is serious about anyone taking responsibility for it, it's Pete Hegseth," one Republican close to the White House said of the electoral thrashing. "Pete has been either dishonest or incorrect — neither of which are acceptable — about timelines, goals and objectives since the beginning."

Trump has not yet signaled plans to fire any top officials. But in the aftermath of the GOP's midterm drubbing, allies and advisers widely expect him to eventually oversee some level of changes within the administration.

Within Trump's orbit, some have seized on Hegseth's likely impeachment as additional justification for making him the fall guy in the wake of an embarrassing rebuke of Trump's presidency — contending that he's bound to become a central target of Democrats' ire over the war anyway.

Hegseth, for his part, has been defiant about his ability to withstand the forthcoming wave of congressional scrutiny.

While he has at times discussed his potential future ambitions with allies — including possibly running for office in Tennessee — those closest to Trump don't believe that's an immediate goal of his, people familiar with the discussions said. (Some Republicans on the Hill, in the meantime, privately bristle at the prospect of Hegseth serving in Congress.)

In the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's midterm election results, one person close to Hegseth told CNN that Trump's defense secretary still expects to stay in his role and is prepared to fight an impeachment effort.

Hegseth has also communicated to the White House that he's prepared to own every policy decision and action taken by the Pentagon, the person said, believing that he's well-equipped to defend those moves in public hearings that would likely grow contentious if Democrats launch them after they take control of Congress in January.

In a statement, Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said that Hegseth "will not back down or be deterred by politicians seeking to score partisan points or launch phony investigations where no wrongdoing exists."

"We will continue to drive President Trump's agenda at the Department of War — despite threats of sham witch hunts from Democrats — and Secretary Hegseth is 100% committed to leading the Department until the end of President Trump's term in office," Parnell said.

Yet once that congressional scrutiny ramps up, Trump advisers and allies have questioned how long Hegseth's resolve might last. Even before Tuesday, several White House officials, members of the president's political operation and Trump allies candidly acknowledged the Iran war was — in their view — their biggest liability for the midterms. And Hegseth, one of the biggest proponents of military action in Iran, is intrinsically linked to that liability, they added.

"I think he probably knows he's dead but would like an exit sufficiently dramatic that it gives him a launching pad to run for POTUS," one administration official said.

For skeptics of the administration's open-ended war in Iran, successfully pushing Hegseth out of the Pentagon would mark a critical victory — but only the first step in a broader effort to bring the fight to an end.

After all, Massie noted, Trump has continued to argue for continuing the war in Iran, no matter the political and economic price paid at home.

"You don't screw up this badly an election with just one issue," Massie said. "It was completely avoidable if they'd just broken out of the cultish following of Donald Trump."

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[Updated] Whose Victory and Whose Defeat Are they Anyway?

[Read at the end of this post the statement by the Moron Republican governor of Florida]

The Democrat tsunami in the US is a harbinger of the next few decades around the world.

The massive crushing defeat of Trump and his conservative GOP-MAGA gangsters portend major upheavals worldwide.

It is the victory of liberal democracy over dictatorial autocracy. Europeans should be looking at the US right now and re-thinking their own sinking into their own right-wing conservative sewers like Le Pen in France, Meloni in Italy, Orban in Hungary and the rest of them. Their hysterical overreaction to immigrants from their former colonies is not the alarming threat that Putin, Le Pen and other rightwing Fascists have been describing. The Fascists want to destroy democracy, just like Hitler and Mussolini did some 100 years ago, scapegoating fake enemies like Jews, Gypsies, and Ethiopians. Similarly, today's racist Fascists like Trump, Le Pen and others have chosen to leverage an artificial fear among their populations by scapegoating dark-skinned non-Christian immigrants. 

The fact is that migrations have been taking place ever since Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Take France for example. The Gaulois celtic bedrock has not disappeared despite a multitude of migrations and invasions. In the southeast, the Roman invasion and occupation. In the southwest, the Arab Muslim Moorish invasion and occupation. In the northeast, a recurrent German invasion and annexation of the Alsace-Lorraine. In the northwest, the English invasions and occupations went on for centuries. In the north, the Norsemen and Vikings also had their share. Ultimately, all these outsiders came, settled, integrated and became French, and France remained France. 

Today's massive migrations from the East and the South may seem disturbing at first glance, but they are not military to begin with like the ones that peppered France's history, but they are a boost to the working population of a country with a declining birthrate, and a couple of generations from now, these people would have integrated and become indistinguishable from the average French. Of course, like all their predecessors, they will leave their mark on French culture, but they will not fundamentally alter it.

Therefore, the fear that many rightwing fascists are trying to instill in their populations against the migrants and immigrants is misplaced and is only exploited by them to gain control of government. This week's massive defeat of Trump's conservative Fascists is evidence that democracy welcomes change without cruelty, racism and hate. Latin American migrants and immigrants are Christians, they are not Muslims as many migrants to Europe are. This proves that the worldwide rightwing Fascist campaign against migrants has nothing to do with whether the migrants are Muslims or Christians or Hindus or Buddhists. It's just racist whose sole object is to seize power. 

If Americans were so afraid of the Latin American migrants as Trump would have wanted them to be, they would have kept his party in power. But they rejected him and his party, indicating that they welcome migrants who work the million jobs that Americans are unable or unwilling to do. Similarly in Europe, the fear instilled against migrants by Le Pen, Meloni and other fascists in their populations has nothing to do with the religious affiliation of these migrants. Europe badly needs these migrants to work, pay taxes, fund the retirement of older generations and maintain a demography in decline due to low birthrates. 

The answer to Muslim fundamentalism is NOT to fall back on Jewish fundamentalism (as the Zionist colony in Palestine is doing) nor is it to fall back on Christian fundamentalism (as many in Europe or the US are doing). The answer to ANY and ALL religious fundamentalisms is to further reinforce the democratic principles that have allowed Europe to be free of wars for the first time in centuries and to have reached a reasonable level of development. Democracy is messy and difficult to sustain; it is not even an objective as much as it is a method, a method that has shown itself to be the best so far that human societies have come up with. There is no perfect political system, and democracy is not perfect. But it is so much better than dictatorships, religious theocracies, autocracies....

The victory of the Democrats in the US is as much a victory for democracy as it is a refutation (by an  avowedly very conservative American society) of a rapist, brutal and cruel capitalistic conservatism that refuses change because change threatens its grip on power and money. Trump personifies this greedy unprincipled conservatism whose sole object is enrichment of the few at the detriment of the many.

Let us hope that Europe and the rest of the world will follow suit.

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[UPDATE]

The otherwise moronic MAGA governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis has uttered the truth when he reflected on the midterms disaster for his MAGA-GOP cabal: He said the midterms were "close to an extinction-level event" for the GOP.

Looking ahead to 2028 and beyond, the Republicans (long a white trash-dominated cult) will probably never see themselves in charge for a very long long time, if at all. The US has just witnessed the consequences of a demographic seismic shift, coupled with a generational shift.

Demographically, the white trash so-called "majority" has substantially eroding such that by the middle of this century it will become the largest minority. Immigration from white trash Europe has become a trickle (which explains Trump's desperate attempt to force-immigrate former white South African Nazi "Afrikaners"). Moreover, all Americans, except the indigenous Amerindian Nations) are immigrant bastards of a multitude of ethnic backgrounds, and there is no more shame in rejecting the "racial" categorization of Americans that their government imposes on them when it requires them to identify their "race" on every piece of official garbage documents: people, mostly young people who grew up in a globalized world, now are no longer hiding their mixed race background behind the dominant white Caucasian one to escape racism.

Generationally, younger Americans (Gen Z) have been scouring the historical archives of their country's past thanks to the Internet and to artificial intelligence. They have come to realize the occultation, the lies, the fabrications and the manipulations by the white trash (and their Zionist masters) that sought to keep power away from so-called "minorities". This is good news: There are no majorities or minorities anymore, racial or otherwise. We are all Americans, including immigrants, and we no longer want to be classified as anything but Americans because that classification has been used by the white trash to discriminate against everyone else.

Victorious El-Sayed's Words to Losers Donald Dumb and JD Dunce

Traitor and Zionist stooge Haley Stevens goes straight into the trashbin of history.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed addressed supporters and claimed victory over Republican Mike Rogers, in his bid to become the first-ever Muslim senator.

"They went all in on one of the ugliest campaigns we've seen in our lifetimes," he said of Republicans. "They might have been pointing to my name and my faith, but we all know that my name and my faith aren't the reason you can't afford your gas, not the reason you can't afford your groceries, not the reason you can't see a doctor."

Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo - PHOTO: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at an election night event, early Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, in Detroit.

"Now, as I was campaigning, some of you would come up and ask, 'How come you don't hit back? How come you don't call them racist or hateful?' Because here's the thing: I didn't run for myself, and in truth, they weren't targeting me," he said. "They weren't just attacking me. They were targeting and attacking you. They were targeting and attacking the very idea of America."

"They hate the idea of an America big enough for anyone who looks a little different, or prays a little different, or whose family comes from a different part of the world. That includes me, but it also includes anyone and everyone who doesn't look like them, pray like them, love like them, or isn't rich like them," he continued.

El-Sayed directly addressed some of his prominent critics. To his opponent Rogers, he said, "So, Mike, enjoy your retirement. I know you got a house in Florida and two yachts. See, you chose hate, and Michigan chose hope. May we never have to see the likes of you in the state again."

Brian Snyder/Reuters - PHOTO: Democratic candidate for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, greets his wife, Sarah Jukaku, while on stage after his victory in the US midterm elections, during an Election Night rally, in Detroit, Michigan, US, November 4, 2026.

He also addressed Vice President VD Vance, using a term of endearment and saying, "JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. So you know what that means, Wolverine one, Buckeye zero."

To President Donald Trump, El-Sayed said, "Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name, so after JD swears me in in January, you could just go on and call me senator."

El-Sayed also addressed allegations that his critical stance on Israel is antisemitic.

"They try to call you hateful if you believe that Palestinian kids should get to grow up in the land of their forefathers without being murdered by our tax dollars. If you believe in equal rights to peace, dignity and self-determination that's not hate, it's love," he said.

Democrat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has won his senate election against his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers.

He makes history as this country's first ever Muslim Senator. He faced consistent Islamophobic attacks from top Republicans, including the president.

Brian Snyder/Reuters - PHOTO: Democratic candidate for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, reacts alongside his wife, Sarah Jukaku, after his victory in the U.S. midterm elections, during an Election Night rally, in Detroit, Michigan, Nov. 4, 2026.

El-Sayed consistently led in the polls, but faced a late challenge with Rep. Haley Steven's endorsement of Rogers on Sunday, but was able to rally the party around him in the closing days. His campaign focused on issues like Medicare for all and campaign finance reform. He distinguished himself in the primary with an aggressive stance against U.S. support for Israel.

His victory will almost certainly be used by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party to argue their viability nationally and that they are the future of the party. He will join Sen. Elissa Slotkin in the Senate, giving them the interesting distinction of being two politicians who defeated the same candidate, Rogers, serving together.

South Carolina: Please Don't Vote for the Nepo Imbecile 100% Trump Stooge Daaarleeen

This combination of photos shows Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., on Oct. 21, 2026, in Pendleton, S.C., left, and Dr. Annie Andrews, Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina, on Oct. 11, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Meg Kinnard) (AP Photo/)

Being the sister of feu Lady Lindsey Graham (a closeted and bigoted hypocrite homosexual) doesn't make Daaarleeen knowledgeable about politics and policies, let alone be a Senator. She herself admitted she knows nothing about foreign affairs and domestic policies. And that is precisely why the Great Moron Trump likes her and picked her because she's a stupid dumba-s whom he can manipulate like a hand puppet and order her to vote according to his crooked wishes and not according to her knowledge, experience or conscience. She's a 100% Trump stooge.

In contrast, her opponent, Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina is a practicing physician, someone with knowledge and expertise who will use her brain and her own conscience when she votes in the Senate. 

South Carolinians: Why would you pick a brainless stupid stooge over an independent-minded candidate with education and integrity? Voting for Daaarleeen would confirm the stereotype about stupid ignorant southerners from South Carolina.

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South Carolina Senate race gets unexpectedly close after Lindsey Graham's sister Darline stumbles
MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS
Updated Tue, November 3, 2026 


WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months ago, the South Carolina U.S. Senate race was expected to be another straightforward campaign for incumbent Lindsey Graham and his dominant Republican Party.

But Graham's sudden death in July and the elevation of his political neophyte sister Darline from a placeholder role to seeking her own six-year term have roiled the race.

Now supporters of Democrat Annie Andrews can envision something that seemed impossible in this century of double-digit Republican wins — flipping a Senate seat in one of the nation's most reliable GOP strongholds.

Whoever wins will be the first woman elected to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. But that bit of history has taken a backseat to whispers that have grown into actual predictions that Andrews could be the first Democrat since 1998 to win a statewide race for the U.S. Senate or the governor's office.
Darline Graham went from political sibling to stand-in senator

Darline Graham, by her own admission, is a reluctant candidate. She was abruptly thrust into the political spotlight after her brother, a U.S. Senate stalwart, died seeking his fifth term.

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham to finish her brother's term in a widely hailed move, given the siblings' close relationship. Lindsey Graham helped raise his younger sister after their parents' early deaths.

Darline Graham's decision to seek a full six-year term was more surprising. The snap primary, organized just a month after Lindsey Graham's death, drew some of the top names in South Carolina politics.

President Donald Trump wanted Darline Graham in the Senate, and he immediately and forcefully backed her. The president had feuded with her brother at times but saw Lindsey Graham as an ally during his second White House term, particularly on the war with Iran.

As Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, an occasional Trump critic, battled it out in a primary runoff, the president campaigned for her in the state and returned twice in the final weeks before the election.

But that presidential backing may be eroding Graham's support from both sides. It bothers independent voters unhappy with Trump's second term and Norman supporters on the right who are unhappy that the president interfered in what should be a decision left up to the state's voters. Both groups are uneasy about Graham's inexperience and the prospect of turning the seat into a Graham family dynasty.

In a primary debate, Graham was asked whether the U.S. has a national security interest in Taiwan and the South China Sea — a longstanding contention of both Democratic and Republican administrations. She struggled to answer before admitting, "National security is not my thing."

As Republican-affiliated groups across the country reshuffled last-minute campaign spending, Senate Republicans' primary super PAC sent reinforcements to deep-red South Carolina to shore up Graham, even as Republicans said they remained confident they would retain the seat.

Annie Andrews retooled her campaign to face Darline Graham

Andrews had already been campaigning for more than a year and had won her primary outright when Lindsey Graham died, forcing her to rejigger a general election plan centered on ousting the incumbent.

Andrews has benefited from South Carolina's leadoff status on Democrats' 2028 presidential nominating calendar. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly have visited the state, boosting her visibility and their own.

But in recent weeks, Andrews has run an independent campaign and has rarely appeared alongside prominent Democrats from South Carolina or elsewhere. She has focused on economic problems and says Graham will be like her brother, a part of the same Washington cabal that enriches only itself and cares little about the people back home.

When they met for their sole debate last month, Graham and Andrews traded barbs over the economy, war with Iran and artificial intelligence. But they mostly argued over who was less qualified for the South Carolina Senate seat. Andrews came up short in a 2022 challenge to Rep. Nancy Mace but has remained visible since, though she's never held office or run statewide.

Graham fended off Andrews' accusation that the Republican was seeking to ride her brother's political coattails, saying she had legally kept her maiden name to maintain a connection to her parents, both of whom died when she was young. "Thank you for bringing up a horrible, tragic memory for me," she added.

It's been decades since South Carolina elected a Democrat to the US Senate

A New York Times/Siena poll conducted in October appeared to show a close race.

But polls also showed an apparently close race in 2020, when Lindsey Graham, Democrat Jaime Harrison and outside groups supporting their campaigns spent hundreds of millions of dollars in South Carolina's most expensive election. In that reelection, Lindsey Graham's last, the Republican sailed back into office by a 10-percentage-point margin.

The last Democrat elected to a Senate seat in South Carolina was Fritz Hollings, who won his final term in 1998. Since then, Republicans have held both Senate seats, and only one Democrat — Jim Clyburn — represents the state in the U.S. House.

Republicans have benefited from straight-ticket voting, which allows voters to choose all GOP candidates on their ballot. The race for South Carolina's open governor's seat hasn't appeared as close as the U.S. Senate contest.

Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates are also on the general election ballot.
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Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina.