GOP-MAGA: Did you Block Epstein Files Release to Protect Your Mafia Boss or Yourselves?

Trump's conservative filth: He whispers-shares wonderful secrets with Jeffrey Epstein.

Or perhaps to protect yourself? If you were innocent, why did you prevent the full release of the Epstein Files? Your filth as elitist lying politicians is now so obvious to the American voting public that you should honestly be terrified at what the voters will do on Tuesday.

When you used to accuse the Democrats of being a cabal of pedophiles, you really were following Trump's modus operandi: Every accusation is a confession. Whatever your own filth is, turn it around and blame your rivals for it.
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Ads accusing Republican candidates of protecting Epstein fill airwaves in final midterm push
Ariana Baio
Sat, October 31, 2026 



Politicians of all stripes appear eager to associate their opponents with the late sex offender.Photograph: Reuters

In races across the country, Democratic candidates or groups that support them have released ads accusing Republicans of protecting pedophiles by voting against legislation to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The ads appear intended to evoke an emotional response by accusing candidates of "protecting" Epstein, a notorious pedophile accused of running a sex-trafficking ring involving minors.

An analysis from CNN found that candidates and outside groups have spent more than $35m on Epstein-related ads. Another from the Washington Post found that Democrats spent more than $40m on Epstein-related ads across six key Senate races.

In Colorado, ads targeting Republican Jeff Crank note that the lawmaker voted against releasing the Epstein files. In one, the family members of Virginia Giuffre, a woman who survived abuse at the hands of Epstein and died by suicide last year, claim Crank "covered up Epstein's crimes to protect Donald Trump".

Ashley Hinson, a Senate candidate in Iowa, was accused of voting to "protect her donors" by refusing to vote to release the Epstein files.

"This week I had to explain to my boys, 'No, Mom does not protect pedophiles,'" Hinson said in a campaign ad responding to attacks over the Epstein files.

An ad targeting Mike Collins, the Republican running for a Georgia Senate seat, says "Mike Collins voted against releasing the Epstein files even after he knew Epstein's sex-trafficking operation exploited 14-year-old girls for sex".

Florida Republican Jimmy Patronis faced an attack from his Democratic opponent, claiming he called investigating Epstein "a waste of his time".

A spokesperson for Crank's campaign accused the Epstein-related ad of being "intentionally vague", in a statement to the Washington Post, because his position was that he would vote against the file's release until he could be confident that victim information was properly redacted. The campaign also said it was "unfortunate" that his opponent, Jessica Killin, was "preying on a grieving family with the help of the Washington Democrats".

Crank's staff invited and met with Giuffre's family, though Crank himself did not meet with them in person, the New York Times reported. Crank's campaign also said it offered to meet with Epstein victims before the vote on the legislation.

Last year, Democrats and a select few House Republicans tried to force a vote on the Epstein files through a discharge petition – a procedure used in Congress to bypass the traditional steps of legislation and force a vote on the House floor.

Donald Trump, who knew Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s, opposed the discharge petition for the files, reversing his campaign promise to increase government transparency. House Republicans largely aligned themselves with him, prompting anger from high-profile Trump voters.

Eventually, under pressure from allies, Trump supported the legislation, giving Republican lawmakers the go-ahead to vote for it. All but one House Republican voted for the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Many of the ads omit the fact that nearly every House Republican voted to release the Epstein files when the Epstein Files Transparency Act came to the floor, although at that point Trump had agreed to sign the legislation and release the files. Instead, the ads refer to Republicans opposing early attempts to force the legislation to the floor.

Republicans have pointed to this fact when disputing the attack ads.

"Of course I voted to release the Epstein files," Hinson said in a direct-to-camera ad, accusing her opponent, Josh Turek, of lying. While Hinson voted for the final Epstein Files Transparency Act, she did not sign on to the discharge petition.

Patronis, meanwhile, never called the investigation a "waste of time", but told a local radio station that while he had "no problem getting everything all released", the issue was a "massive energy and time suck at the end of the day".

Melissa Stone, a spokesperson for Patronis's campaign, highlighted his work with Trump to obtain disaster funding after Hurricane Isaias and said his opponent, Gay Valimont, was "still talking about a dead pedophile in a sad web video than helping the people of [the first congressional district] recover."

Some Republicans and groups supporting the GOP have sought to flip the script, accusing Democrats of taking money from donors who had ties to Epstein.

During a Georgia Senate debate, Collins accused his opponent, Jon Ossoff, of accepting campaign donations from Reid Hoffman, a tech billionaire who had ties to Epstein. Hoffman has said he only knew Epstein through fundraising relationships and regrets it.

"You can claim to fight against the Epstein class, but I'm going to tell you, this call is coming from inside the house and the Epstein class is on stage right now and it's you," Collins said.

In New Mexico's gubernatorial race, an outside group released an ad accusing Democratic candidate Deb Haaland of accepting a ride on Epstein's private jet and taking "tens of thousands of dollars from Epstein businesses" and then "asking for more".

Haaland did not fly on Epstein's jet, but did take a flight booked by one of Epstein's companies in 2014. Haaland has said she was unaware the chartered flight was owned by an Epstein-owned company.

Trump's Evangelicals are Just Like Their US-White-Trash "Savior": Jesus-Saved Crooked Criminals

The Evangelical crook below, a definite Trump voter, is a particularly obnoxious bigot. He hails from the backward slavery state of Georgia where Nepo imbecile white trash Daaarleeen Graham is running for Senator. His name indicates a venerable dynasty of southern inbred morons: Edwin Brant Frost IV... The Fourth!! No less. Dumb and proud to boot. At least, he will be saved from his sins by Jesus, the venerable son of the Big Zombie in the Sky who has also saved Pete Hegseth from his drunkenness and adulterous lifestyle. These "protestants" are just like the Catholics they hate: Fuck up and commit sins ad libitum, then confess and you're done so you can start again. How convenient!

The infamous soft-spoken MAGA moron Charlie Kirk, who thought he could lubricate his racism with candy-talk, had Edwin Brant Frost IV several times on his show. 

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Georgia evangelical promised 'Wall Street returns,' but his Ponzi scheme led to 15 years in prison
Leslie Sattler
Sat, October 31, 2026 


Photo Credit: iStock

A prominent Georgia Republican promised investors "Wall Street returns for Main Street investors." He was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for running an investment fraud scheme that left more than 300 people with losses exceeding $76 million.

Among those affected were retirees who lost their life savings.

Edwin Brant Frost IV, 69, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in May after investigators examined First Liberty Building and Loan's June 2025 failure, according to The Independent.

The Newnan, Georgia-based operation advertised high-interest loans to businesses with potential yields as high as 16%.

Frost was influential among evangelicals and conservatives. Erick Erickson, Hugh Hewitt, and Charlie Kirk hosted programs that regularly promoted First Liberty investments.

The operation also issued millions of dollars in loans that went into default. According to The Independent, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit described how Frost diverted $17 million to cover his own expenses, give money to relatives, and support connected businesses. Another $570,000 taken from clients went toward political contributions.

The money invested in First Liberty came through religious and political networks.
What's being done?

In addition to serving the prison sentence, Frost must pay more than $76 million in restitution to address victims' financial losses.

The damage Frost left behind determined the length of his prison term, Chief U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May said.

Frost said it was "difficult … to listen" to the victims' impact statements. He also offered a public apology.

"I have messed up a lot of good people's lives," Frost told the court, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Religion, political connections, and hopes of financial success were the means Frost used to enrich himself at others' expense, U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said in a press release The Independent cited.

"This was a stunning, sinful, and sacrilegious abuse of trust that wrecked hundreds of investors, including retirees and seniors who lost their life savings," Hertzberg lamented.
Where can I learn more?

These related stories involve scammers who promised high returns, only for investors to lose money.

Trump: Even his Islamophobic Racism is Dumb

"Better a smart enemy than a dumb ally". With Trump as a friend, you won't need enemies.

‘Send Him Back to Where He Came From’: Trump Demands El-Sayed Be Sent Back To the United States
Michael Luciano
Sat, October 31, 2026 



President Donald Trump demanded that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed be sent "back to where he came from" – presumably all the way back to suburban Detroit.

Speaking at a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida on Friday night, Trump turned his attention north to Michigan, where El-Sayed, a former public health official, is squaring off against Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers, who has claimed that El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim to serve in the Senate, is a "risk to our national security." Trump has even called the Democrat a "jihadist."

During the rally, Trump shouted out people in the audience wearing shirts reading "Blacks for Trump."

"Blacks for Trump, you ought to vote for Mike Rogers," the president said before baselessly claiming El-Sayed "does not like" Jewish or Black people. "Not that other guy, because he doesn't like Jewish people and he doesn't like Black people. I'm talking about Abdul. Abdul is not a big fan of Jewish people, and he's not a big fan of Black people. And I hope you're going to vote against him and send him back to where he came from."

El-Sayed was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan in 1984 to his Egyptian immigrant parents.

Elsewhere during the rally, Trump told Black and Jewish voters that if they vote for El-Sayed, "You're not smart." At a rally the day before, Trump called such voters "crazy."

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And... his MAGA slave candidates are dumber than him. 

Mike Rogers, whose filth is from the bottom of the horse manure barrel, is proving himself dumber than Trump (see below). Meanwhile the traitor and sore loser Democrat, Rep. Haley Stevens who lost to El-Sayyed in the Democratic primaries, is doing everything she can to undermine El-Sayyed. Her head is so high up the Zionist rectum that she is blinded by her own Islamophobic insults against El-Sayyed, playing into the apartheid Fascist racist supremacist Zionists of AIPAC. 

Imbeciles usually do that: They jump one bad ship to climb onto another equally bad ship. A just response to Islamic fundamentalism is not Jewish fundamentalism, nor is it Christian fundamentalism; it ought to be a stronger commitment to the values of reason, justice and democracy.

Michigan voters: do not trust traitors and fence-sitters. Vote with your decent conscience, not the filthy conscience of others.
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GOP Candidate's Remark Has Critics Asking An Awkward Question About Trump
Anthony Orrico
Sat, October 31, 2026 

GOP Candidate's Remark Has Critics Asking An Awkward Question About Trump

Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers was ruthlessly mocked on social media after saying government officials shouldn't use their positions to make money.

"When you sign up for a government job, you cannot use it for your own financial gain," Rogers said Friday while taking questions from reporters.

The clip quickly went viral on social media, prompting critics to point out that the net worth of President Donald Trump — who has endorsed Rogers — has increased by billions since returning to the White House. Multiple reports have found Trump's various businesses generated more than $2 billion in income in 2025.

Some critics also brought up the $400 million jumbo jet Trump received from the Qatari royal family, which has been retrofitted to serve as Air Force One.

One commenter sarcastically questioned if Rogers was "talking into a mirror."

Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed are currently neck and neck in recent polls, with El-Sayed holding a slight lead in a race that could decide control of the Senate.

The race has become one of the most polarizing and expensive in recent years, with Rogers and his allies, including Trump, frequently using Islamophobic rhetoric to attack El-Sayed.

[UPDATED] Trump's Panicky Flip-Flop on Rallies Doesn't Help Rescuing Sinking MAGA Candidates

One ironical nuance to keep in mind: even as he flip flops - cancels campaign rally then reluctantly reverses his decision - Trump has become toxic to his own MAGA candidates. His presence hurts them because of his abysmally low popularity. They don't want him at their rallies, but they must humor the nasty boss and let him show up to talk about other men's butts. MAGA has become a disaster.

Fumbling MAGA moron Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall in panic mode after Trump dumps him to go rescue the sinking South Carolina NEPO Idiot candidate "Daarleen" Graham. (Mark Schiefelbein / via REUTERS)



Must-Win MAGA Senator Stammers After Grilling on Trump Plans
William Vaillancourt
Fri, October 30, 2026 

Donald Trump's Kansas Senate pick stammered as he awkwardly answered why the president left him hanging by canceling a rally in his state this weekend.

Trump, 80, had planned to lead a rally alongside Sen. Roger Marshall on Saturday, but the White House abruptly shelved the visit Thursday and announced he will instead host tele-rallies.

Marshall, 66, tried to spin the president's change of plans positively when Scripps News reporter Jacob Gardenswartz asked for his reaction—but he could hardly get an answer out at all.

"I'm, I'm not, I'm not sure, sure yet. I think, I, they think that I'm doing so well in the polls, that he's got, probably got better places to spend his time. Uh, not sure," he said.

Trump told reporters Thursday that he nixed the Kansas rally because Marshall "is doing very well," then insulted the appearance of a Reuters reporter who asked if he was getting tired of all the traveling he has done over the past month.

Polls do not paint as rosy a picture as Marshall suggested.

A CNN/SSRS poll of 838 likely voters, conducted Oct. 20-26, found Democrat Adam Hamilton up four points, with a 4.5 percent margin of error.

In a late September New York Times/Siena University poll, the candidates were even, while an Emerson College poll earlier that month found Hamilton with a one percent lead.

Marshall's battle to hold his seat in ruby-red Kansas was far from a toss-up in the early days of MAGA 2.0. However, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says "a perfect confluence of events" has occurred in Hamilton's favor, and it now considers the race a pick 'em.

If Marshall loses, it would mark the first time since 1932 that Kansas voters elected a Democrat to the Senate.

Those who planned to see Trump and Marshall in person in Salina will instead have to tune in to a telerally. Kansas is one of "more than 20″ locations for virtual campaign stops that the White House now has planned, an official told the Daily Beast.

Trump held at least two such rallies at the White House on Thursday night, after returning from a South Carolina rally to support Sen. Darline Graham.

Other states on the list are deep-red Alabama, Montana, and Louisiana—reflecting the type of defense Trump has had to resort to amid poor polling for him and Republicans.

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GOP Senator Says Trump Scrapped Rally in His State Because He’s ‘Doing So Well’ — As New Poll Shows Him Trailing
Kathryn Wilkens
Thu, October 29, 2026


Screenshot via @reporterjacobg on X

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) suggested that President Donald Trump canceled an upcoming rally in Kansas because he is "doing so well in the polls" — despite a new survey showing the Republican trailing his Democratic challenger in the traditionally deep-red state.

Scripps News' Jacob Gardenswartz asked Marshall on Thursday about Trump's decision to scrap a planned weekend appearance in Kansas, where the senator is fighting for reelection in an unexpectedly competitive race.

"Any reaction to the president cancelling the in-person rally this weekend?" the reporter asked.

"I'm not — I'm not sure yet," Marshall replied. "I think — they think that I'm doing so well in the polls that he's probably got better places to spend his time."

The senator then shrugged, adding, "Um, not sure."

Marshall's explanation came the same day CNN released new polling showing him trailing Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton by four percentage points.

The survey also shifted the RealClearPolitics polling average narrowly in Hamilton's favor, giving the Democrat a 0.2-point edge in the closely contested race.

A Democrat has not won a U.S. Senate election in Kansas since 1932.

The White House confirmed Thursday that Trump's planned rally had been canceled, offering no specific explanation.

"President Trump will continue connecting directly with Americans nationwide through more than 20 telerallies before Election Day," the White House said in a statement. "These events give him the opportunity to highlight his accomplishments and expand his reach across the country."

The canceled appearance would have marked Trump's second Kansas rally in support of Marshall this campaign season.

During his previous visit last week, Trump faced repeated interruptions from hecklers, including a woman who shouted, "I f*cking hate you!"

The Republican senator has fielded hecklers as well, getting a wave of boos at a Kansas State Fair debate last month as he defended Trump's tariffs, with the crowd later breaking into chants of "Shame on you!" as he was pressed over his medical practice having sued hundreds of patients for unpaid medical bills.

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Trump’s flip-flop and freakout over weekend rallies expose a president in panic mode
Andrew Feinberg
Fri, October 30, 2026 


Trump’s flip-flop and freakout over weekend rallies expose a president in panic mode

With days to go until what polls indicate will be a brutal midterm election for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party, the man who has implored MAGA voters to "pretend I'm on the ballot" is starting to panic.

On Friday, White House sources let it be known that the president would indeed be traveling to Kansas and Iowa for a pair of his signature MAGA rallies in support of Senate candidates Roger Marshall and Ashley Hinson, marking a sudden U-turn in strategy after having scrapped those plans for a relatively leisurely weekend at his Palm Beach, Florida getaway.

It was an uncharacteristic reversal of a decision he'd made less than a day earlier, when he cancelled plans for the midwestern campaign swing, with aides instead arguing that he would be equally effective doing "tele-rallies" — effectively large-scale campaign conference calls for supporters who sign up and dial in to hear him and other speakers by phone — in hopes of getting out the vote before Tuesday's balloting. 

Trump, 80, has spent all or part of 23 days this month on the road in what has become a panicked barnstorm of formerly safe, reliably Republican states where his preferred (and in some cases, hand-picked) Senate candidates are in real danger of embarrassing losses next week.

He's visited the nominal GOP stronghold of Texas for three rallies to boost embattled candidate Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued state attorney general Trump pushed and prodded to victory in a primary over the incumbent John Cornyn — who had committed the cardinal sin of affirming the 2020 election results. Now Paxton looks set to become the first Republican to lose a statewide contest in the Lone Star State since the Clinton administration.

Trump's volcanic reaction to a reporter's question Thursday has left two Senate campaigns expecting presidential visits this weekend that they likely do not want (Reuters)

He's similarly held a trio of rallies in Ohio, which has been a reliably red state since his first campaign in 2016. It was there where he first began his bizarre habit of riffing on the aesthetics of incumbent Sen. Jon Husted's posterior — where the Republican appears in danger of being bested on Tuesday by Democrat Sherrod Brown just two years after Brown lost his own re-election bid to Bernie Moreno.

And with his approval ratings sinking dangerously close to 30 percent, he has even ventured to unthinkable destinations such as Mississippi, where incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith has at least some chance of becoming the first Republican to lose a Senate election to a Democrat there since 1982.

Trump insiders tell The Independent that the president's rally schedule has been calibrated to boost turnout in places where enthusiasm among the MAGA base may have waned amid the economic chaos he's wrought over his first two years back in office.

The thinking, they say, is that Trump remains the most popular figure in the party, with a unique ability to mobilize voters and connect with them on the stump.

And Trump himself has gone all-in on this theory, boasting on Truth Social that the latest set of rallies have drawn the "BIGGEST CROWDS" in midterm history while suggesting that his appearances have single-handedly revived flagging campaigns.

But Republican operatives outside of the White House's orbit tell a different story.

Among those working in the trenches on Senate campaigns, there is a very real sense that the president's presence hasn't done much at all to help — and it may have even hurt candidates by energizing Democrats, who are already quite enthusiastic about next week's elections.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the presumptive next Speaker of the House should Democrats take control of that chamber in the new Congress, posted a blunt assessment to X, writing that Iowa and Kansas Republicans had been "scrambling to keep Donald Trump as far away … as possible."

Trump's rallies are now frequently interrupted by protesters (Getty)

That dynamic, plus quiet pressure behind the scenes from embattled campaigns, was why Trump initially planned to stay at home in Florida and instead do a series of telephonic rally appearances this weekend, which the White House said would give him "the opportunity to highlight his accomplishments and expand his reach across the country."

Republican campaigns breathed a sigh of relief, seemingly free to run through the tape without having their final news cycles hijacked by the president's stump speech "weave" — let alone any talk about younger men and women's rear ends.

But that was before the president's ego got in the way.

As he prepared to board Air Force One to return from a rally in South Carolina on Thursday, a reporter from Reuters asked him to explain the rally cancellations that had just been announced and pressed specifically on whether he was "sick" of the road.

Trump, 80, only appeared to hear the reporter ask if he was "sick" and lashed out.

"You know what the reason is? I don't feel I have to go to Kansas," Trump said, as the rage clearly started to manifest in his reddening face.

"I feel perfect. You are disgusting," he lashed out at the reporter.

Less than 24 hours later, and with his outburst over the rally cancelations dominating headlines, Trump reversed course agin, with a source familiar with the situation only confirming to The Independent that the rallies were "back on" because Trump "loves his supporters."

"In addition to nearly 20 tele-rallies, he will hold back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday. No one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump," they insisted.

The source also claimed that the canceled and revived rallies in Iowa and Kansas had merely been "rearranged for scheduling purposes to accommodate dozens of additional tele-rallies."

But another person in the president's orbit, a former White House official who remains close to members of his team, said the reason for the about-face is more simple.

The president's team had prevailed on him to cancel his remaining appearances on behalf of Marshall and Hinson by telling him they either — or both — might lose, making the photographs of them on the eve of that loss potentially humiliating.

There had also been a true sense of unease at the number of protesters at Trump's rallies compared with the smaller crowd sizes requiring the use of correspondingly smaller venues.

But because of a reporter's honest query, all that planning went out the window.

"He canceled the rallies because the candidates didn't want them but he couldn't handle a simple question about why. So now he's doing them anyway rather than admit what everyone else already knows," they said.

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Kansas MAGA moron Marshall endorsed by Trump is sued for medical fraud. 

Former patient sues Sen. Roger Marshall for charging illegal interest

Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall was sued Thursday by a patient of his former medical clinic who accuses him of charging illegal interest rates on unpaid medical bills.

Marshall, R-Kan., has sued more than 700 patients over medical debt in his 25 years as an obstetrician-gynecologist, The New York Times reported.

Some 81 of those patients were arrested for missing court dates.

One of those patients, Meischa Zimmerman, is now a lead plaintiff in the case. The class action lawsuit accuses Marshall of charging patients up to 18% annual interest, exceeding the state's limit of 15%.

Zimmerman alleges the senator's clinic, Heartland Regional OBGYN, would often target low-income and uninsured mothers in "callous and predatory" debt collection schemes.

"Obviously, I think a jury will place a dollar value on our complaint over charging 18% usury rate on medical debt, but I will let the legal document speak for itself," attorney Kent Roth told NPR-affiliate KCUR.

The lawyer who sued patients on Marshall's behalf, Steven Johnson, told The Times that collection efforts were "pretty much the way it works in the state of Kansas."

"Generally, at the time of services for all our clients if they were not paid up front, the Debtor agreed to an 18 percent interest rate," Johnson told the newspaper.

Marshall is running for reelection against Democrat Adam Hamilton, a Methodist minister.

Texans: Why Would You Vote for the One-eyed Undertaker Paxton?

Even in his arrest mugshot, Paxton has this disgusting smirk on his face.

He's a cheat. An adulterer. One of Texas's most corrupt human being. A fake bigoted Christian. Aren't you tired of the same old creeps who say one thing but believe another? Dump Paxton, Texas one-eyed undertaker. Dump MAGA slaves. Dump Trump's cult. Return to decency, reason and sanity.

Paxton says his corruption is like Trump's but just as Trump's corruption "wasn't proven", so is his own corruption. But "not proven" doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And Paxton never said his corruption and Trump's corruption never existed, it's just was "never proven". How much more blunt criminality and depravity do you need to see before you see the light.

Many Republicans in Texas have seen the light and won't be voting for Paxton. You do likewise.

For a rundown on Paxton's corruption, check this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/timeline-of-attorney-general-ken-paxtons-legal-troubles/

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Newsmax Host Puts Ken Paxton On The Spot With 1 Blunt Question
Anthony Orrico
Fri, October 30, 2026 

The Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, Ken Paxton, was grilled in friendly territory on Thursday after some Republicans said they won't vote for him in the midterms.

Speaking with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty, Paxton watched an ad from his opponent, James Talarico, featuring self-identified Republicans saying they won't vote for the GOP nominee.

"I'm a Republican. And I'm passing on Ken Paxton," each of the GOPers in the ad said.

"OK, you can add Karl Rove to that list. George W. Bush's brother said he's voting for Talarico. So did his daughter, one of the twins. These are the guys who want to trans everything. What's your reaction to that?" Finnerty said.

Paxton said he wasn't sure how long the people featured in the ad had been Republicans and that he didn't believe they represented the majority of GOP voters.

"And obviously James Talarico can't prove any of what he's saying. He doesn't want to talk about his record or my record; 'Let's talk about something else called corruption that I make up' that has never been proven, just like it wasn't proven with President Trump," Paxton said.

James Talarico Brands Ken Paxton 'Most Corrupt Politician In America' Following Runoff Election

Recent polls show Paxton narrowly trailing Talarico in a race that could decide control of the Senate. Should Talarico prevail next week, he would be the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in Texas since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988.

Genocidal Olive-Tree-Phobe Zionists Face Unknown as Criminal Netanyahu is Ahead in Vote

Check:
https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/10/as-in-their-troubled-trouble-making.html

and

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/10/jewish-only-israels-conundrum-what-to.html

and

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-killing-olive-orchards-of-palestine.html

The genocidal Zionist colony in Palestine is on the verge of a religious civil war between the secular atheist Ahskenazi settlers who founded the colony in 1948 and the ultra-religious barbarian Arab Jews known as Sephardi who were imported later by the Ashkenazis to 1- present the colony as a culturally diverse entity and 2- claim that Jews who lived in peace and harmony for millennia in the Near East with their Muslim brethren were "persecuted" in those countries, hence justifying their relocation to Palestine.

War criminal Ben-Yamin Netanyahu is ahead in last Tuesday's vote as he, again, curry favors of the religious Bronze Age terrorist barbarians to form a government coalition. Which means that the Zionist colony in Palestine will continue its barbaric ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians, prompting many Ashkenazis to pack up and leave the colony for good, and eroding the artificial goodwill earned by the Zionist colony as it blackmailed the Holocaust-guilty West. 

In sum, as it continues to implant itself artificially and violently in the Near East, the Zionist colony is evolving into a Jewish cognate of the Muslim fundamentalist states around it.  

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A week of Israel’s lockdown in Hebron: What’s happened, when will it end?
Al Jazeera Staff
Thu, October 29, 2026 


The Israeli military has been imposing a siege on Hebron since a shooting attack in the area [Mahmoud Illean/AP]

The Israeli army is continuing its military lockdown of Hebron for the seventh consecutive day, carrying out raids and tightening restrictions in the occupied West Bank's largest city.

Two Palestinians were injured and seven detained by Israeli forces on Thursday, according to the Wafa news agency, as Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and their vehicles in the Ras al-Joura area, near the city's northern entrance.

Israel has imposed a tight siege of Hebron since Friday last week, closing all entrances and exits and restricting residents' freedom of movement and their ability to access critical services. More than 3,000 people have been forced out of the city as a number of Palestinian homes have been converted into military posts and barracks.

Meanwhile, Israeli settlers carried out attacks on Palestinian communities around Hebron. In the latest incident on Wednesday, settlers assaulted three foreign journalists, Andrey Ilyich Khrzhanovskiy, also known as Andrey X, Adele Shoko and Jasper Nathaniel. Andrey X reportedly lost consciousness, was taken to a police station and remained detained without receiving medical care.

What has happened over the past week in Hebron?

Israel's campaign follows the killing of two Israeli soldiers by Palestinian gunmen at a checkpoint near the illegal Israeli settlement of Telem last week. The gunmen were later killed by Israeli forces in Hebron.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on social media that he had ordered security forces to immediately close Hebron and "prepare for a full lockdown across all of Judea and Samaria [the Israeli term for the occupied West Bank].

"We will act to destroy this place, to change it completely," he proclaimed.

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for "a comprehensive military campaign in [the West Bank]… exactly as we did in Gaza". A United Nations inquiry last year found Israel's war on Gaza constituted a genocide.

As the siege began, Israeli forces launched a large demolition operation on dozens of Palestinian buildings. Troops also stormed the Ein Deir Bahha neighbourhood, forcing dozens of families to flee their homes at night without any belongings.

Footage showed Israeli soldiers beating and injuring Hijazi Shawer, a 70-year-old Palestinian shopkeeper and community leader.

Israeli forces also fired tear gas canisters at Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, causing panic among patients and staff. Hospitals are strictly protected under international humanitarian law, but the Israeli military has been known to attack hospitals throughout its genocidal war on Gaza, as well.

On Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society reported that at least 110 people had been detained in the Hebron governorate since the raids began, including three women and seven children.

As Israeli forces besieged Hebron, they also isolated 12 villages and hamlets in the Masafer Yatta region in the south, leaving residents and farmers cut off from urban centres and markets, and dozens of patients who require daily medical care unable to reach hospitals.

Israeli settlers uprooted more than 200 fruit trees, destroyed water wells and agricultural facilities east of Hebron, and prevented farmers from harvesting olives, Wafa reported. Hebron accounts for about 40 percent of Palestinian industrial output and 30 percent of exports.

Israeli forces on Wednesday detained a Palestinian victim of a settler assault in the Khirbet Quwaweis area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. A young man and a woman were also detained in the al-Kassara area, south of Hebron, following an Israeli raid on Monday.

What have the responses to this been?

Palestinian officials have accused Netanyahu and his hard-right government of exploiting the operation to secure settler votes before Tuesday's elections in Israel this week.

Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq said the siege of Hebron violates international law and amounts to an international crime. "Given the illegality of Israel's military occupation and the illegal settler colonial apartheid regime, the entire military operation in Hebron constitutes a prohibited act of aggression," it stated.

The Israeli NGO B'Tselem said the Israeli military's "operation in Hebron has nothing to do with security. It is an act of collective punishment."

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said: "Collective punishment is a grave violation of international law. Threats to empty and erase entire neighbourhoods also raise serious concerns of ethnic cleansing."

Roland Friedrich, the director of UNRWA Affairs for the occupied West Bank, said the developments brought "alarming echoes of the massive displacement witnessed in the northern occupied West Bank in early 2025, where more than 34,000 Palestine refugees from Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps remain forcibly displaced over a year later".

Muhammed Shehada, at the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli government's use of collective punishment as a tool of deterrence against Palestinians has reached unprecedented levels.

"It's not just about punishing the family [of an attacker], but it's about punishing the entire community, the whole neighbourhood, the whole town and even the whole city," he said.

Shehada argued that the genocide in Gaza had turned previously "unthinkable" policies into "core tactics". "The Israeli government's goal is to advance de facto annexation, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank by making life impossible," he said.

In this context, Shehada added, collective punishment should be seen as "a terror tactic" to prevent any reaction to the unprecedented pace of ethnic cleansing and displacement of the Palestinian population.

Trump's Anti-Science Moron RFK Jr. Possibly Exporting Measles to Europe

US measles surge reminds of Europe’s vaccination gaps
The US risks losing its measles elimination status as under-vaccinated communities across Europe remain vulnerable to imported cases.
Giedre Peseckyte
Thu, October 29, 2026

The United States is at risk of losing its measles-free status as cases surge, raising fresh concerns about the vulnerability of European communities where vaccination coverage remains below the level needed to prevent sustained transmission.

More than 4,500 cases have been reported in the US this year — roughly twice the total reported last year. A forecast published in JAMA suggests that measles could become endemic again in the US if vaccination rates fail to improve, potentially resulting in 851,300 cases, more than 170,000 hospitalisations and 2,550 deaths over 25 years.

The outbreak across the Atlantic could also signal a wider risk, Kitty Mohan, vice-president of the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) and its rapporteur on vaccination, told Euronews.

"Due to international travel routes and the ease and speed at which people move across borders, combined the infectiousness of measles before the rash starts, people can travel quite far whilst infectious and so the disease can spread rapidly," Mohan said.

Measles is among the most contagious infectious diseases. People can transmit the virus for around four days before the characteristic rash appears, meaning they may travel across borders before realising they are ill.

"15 mins face to face with someone who is infectious will mean you are likely to get measles," Mohan said.

The US is not the only country where measles continues to circulate. The biggest outbreaks currently are in Bangladesh, with cases surpassing 65,430, Indonesia with 46,578 and Guatemala with 31,222 cases.

"Whether an imported case leads to further transmission in Europe depends primarily on immunity levels in the affected community in Europe and whether the virus reaches groups with low vaccination coverage," the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) told Euronews.

Vaccination coverage was 92% for the first dose and 88% for the second dose — a "strong population protection," ECDC said.

But that remains below the recommended 95% two-dose coverage needed at national and local levels to prevent sustained transmission and achieve measles elimination. National averages can also conceal areas or communities with lower vaccination coverage.

"Most measles cases occur in unvaccinated people," the ECDC said, recommending that countries close immunity gaps, ensure both vaccine doses are administered on time, offer catch-up vaccination to eligible adolescents and adults, and maintain strong surveillance and outbreak-response systems.

The consequences extend beyond those who can choose to get vaccinated. Infants who are too young to receive the vaccine, as well as people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or whose immune systems cannot mount an adequate response, depend on high levels of immunity in the wider population.

"Herd immunity or maintaining vaccination rates above a threshold would protect these groups - so lower rates make them more susceptible to disease," Mohan said.

The problem is not confined to countries with low national vaccination rates. Clusters of unvaccinated or under-vaccinated people can emerge within otherwise well-protected populations, creating local conditions in which outbreaks can take hold.

Coverage gaps can reflect a range of factors, including difficulties accessing vaccination services, limited information or awareness, and concerns about vaccines.

"There are traditional risk groups - such as traveller communities and some religious groups who historically have been reluctant to vaccinate," said Mohan.

However, ECDC underlined that "the presence of a group of unvaccinated people does not automatically mean that a large outbreak will spread across the wider population," using the Urkult festival in northern Sweden as an example. The outbreak at the festival occurred between 30 July and 2 August this year, mainly affecting unvaccinated children and adolescents. It involved 28 cases, including 12 secondary cases, but did not lead to sustained transmission in the wider population.

"The fact that there were relatively few secondary cases among those exposed at the festival is due to the high level of immunity within the population, a result of strong participation in the childhood vaccination program," said Johanna Rubin, Acting Head of the Vaccination Unit at Sweden's public health agency.

"This once again highlights the importance of high community-level protection," ECDC said.

For now, the risk for Europeans remains the same, ECDC said, as per its latest assessment, with the overall risk set as moderate for infants under 12 months, children aged one to five and immunocompromised people. For older unvaccinated children and adults, the risk is estimated to range from low to moderate. People with immunity from vaccination or previous infection are considered to have a low risk of measles.

ECDC surveillance data indicate fewer reported measles cases in 2026 than in 2025, although 2026 figures remain preliminary and should be interpreted with caution.

Measles is endemic in twelve European countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Türkiye, and Ukraine.

Romania reported most of the cases, with numbers reaching 30,692 in 2024, up from 3,371 in 2023.

Six European countries: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan have re-established endemic measles transmission based on the number of cases in 2024 earlier this year.

Size Matters: Obama's vs. Trump's Crowds

Trump's got small hands. His former sexual abuse victims say he's got a small schmuck. And now, he's getting very very small crowds at his stupid rallies where he rants about men's butts. 

I wish these elections were about him because there would be no doubt who's gonna win. Ironically, but not surprisingly for an idiot like him, he's been begging his herd of MAGA morons to imagine him on the ballot instead of his candidates, which is destroying the MAGA-GOP candidates' chances. Trump has become toxic to his candidates who avoid his appearance at their campaign rallies like the plague.

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Obama's crowds 8,000 (Left). Trump's crowds 2,400 (right).




Obama Blitzes Trump With Massive Crowd in Major Humiliation
Cameron Adams
Thu, October 29, 2026 

The tiny crowd at Donald Trump's latest rally has been brutally compared to the much larger turnout Barack Obama enjoyed that same night.

Trump, 80, has been frantically touring America in an attempt to secure votes for the Republican Party next week, including two rallies in one day in Texas on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Trump headed to Ohio to support his man-crush Sen. Jon Husted and embattled Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for governor. He selected the Shoemaker Center, an indoor athletic facility inside Ohio University's Chillicothe campus.

The venue's website said it has bleacher seating which can accommodate "approximately 2,400 spectators." A damning photograph posted on X by NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Garrett Haake showed how small his chosen rally venue was.

"I've covered dozens if not hundreds of Trump rallies, and I can't recall him ever holding one in a room as small as this arena in Chillicothe, Ohio," Haake posted. "It'll be packed, and loud-but maybe 1,000 people will fit."

A photo posted by USA Today reporter Jessie Balmert from the rear of the venue, behind the elevated media platform, showed how compact the room was.

Donald Trump at the 2,800 capacity Shoemaker Center at Ohio University on October 28. / Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

At the same time, Barack Obama headlined a campaign rally near Atlanta, Georgia, supporting the MAGA boogeyman Jon Ossoff, who is running for re-election to the Senate, and Keisha Lance-Bottoms, the Democrat running for governor of Georgia. The rally was held at The Arena at Southlake in Morrow, Georgia. The venue's website lists its capacity at 8,000.

Footage and photos from the event showed the arena was at capacity, with more than three times as many people as Trump's rally as even the upper seats were clearly filled.

Barack Obama shared a live feed from a venue in Georgia. / Barack Obama/X

Photos from outside the venue showed thousands of people lined up to enter the arena—something Trump often claims is occurring at his rallies, even as empty seats are clearly visible while he speaks.

People wait in line for a rally with former US President Barack Obama at The Arena at Southlake in Morrow, Georgia. / ERIK S. LESSER / AFP via Getty Images

On Wednesday, Ossoff introduced Obama, who came on stage to U2's "City of Blinding Lights," which was his signature walk-on song during his presidency. U2 members Bono and The Edge performed the song at the opening of his Presidential Center in Chicago in June this year.

After a wild reception from the audience, which he said made him "fired up," Obama stated his experience in politics meant, "You can tell when an election comes along, that just feels a little different. An election where people are so ready for something new...everywhere you go, it feels like change is in the air."

Even the bleachers were full for President Barack Obama. / ERIK S. LESSER / AFP via Getty Images

Trump's previous rally in Ohio, on October 12, was held at the Covelli Center, which can accommodate up to 7,000 people. However, only around 3,000 people attended that rally, according to estimates by the Tribune Chronicle.


A comparison of the audience for Democrats, left, and Republicans, right, on Wednesday.

Despite the small capacity, Trump made a bizarre comment on Wednesday about the popularity of his rallies, claiming "every rally" was "totally sold out, with thousands of people that can't get in." Trump has previously referenced viewing screens erected outside venues for people unable to get inside.

The senior president then appeared to flash back over a decade, talking about how the media covered Bernie Sanders compared to him.

"I have 42,000 people, 'Donald Trump showed up'," Trump said, referring to how the media reported on him. "Bernie Sanders had 312 people, we counted 'em. 'Bernie Sanders had a very active crowd, tremendous crowd.' I have 42,000 people, they refuse to acknowledge it."

That figure appears to refer to a rally in Mobile, Alabama, in August 2015, which his team said drew 42,000 people. However, police and fire officials estimated the crowd at around 20,000.

Trump's rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday was also slammed for its low capacity. Breck Worsham, a former Trump supporter who claimed that she once worked on Trump's campaign, stated, "He's gone from selling out football stadium-sized venues to high school gyms."

Trump's Plans to Scuttle Elections as his MAGA-GOP Gang Faces Defeat in Midterms

If Democrats win, elections are rigged.

If Republicans win, elections are fair.

That is the Trump axiom for how to cheat and steal elections.

Mr Wang below is kind and polite for referring to cheating as "interference".

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How Trump Could Interfere With the Midterms on Election Day, and the Days After
Philip Wang
Wed, October 28, 2026


President Donald Trump wears an "I Voted" sticker after voting in the midterm elections on Oct. 24, 2026, in West Palm Beach, Florida. —Brendan Smialowski—AFP via Getty Images

With less than a week until Election Day, the Trump administration is ramping up efforts to shape the outcomes, prompting concerns that the midterm elections could face unprecedented interference by federal authorities.

In recent days, Trump officials have sued to potentially block the certification of a Senate race in Alaska, threatened election officials in California with jail time, and implied that the outcome in a Senate race in Minnesota couldn't be trusted if the Republican didn't win. Trump's allies have also been urging the President to potentially take drastic measures, including declaring martial law to seize ballots.

Election officials in dozens of states are preparing for a wide range of possible interference on Tuesday when millions of voters will cast ballots, as well as in the days that follow as the votes are counted, the final batches of mail-in ballots come in and the election outcomes are certified.

The prospect of so many challenges has led to intense efforts by voting rights groups, election officials and teams of lawyers to be ready to respond to election meddling anywhere in the country.

Here's how the Trump Administration could potentially interfere in each step of the election process—and how state and local officials, and various outside groups, are preparing for each scenario:

Polls open for in-person voting

Election workers are preparing for possible federal interference both inside and outside polling places on Tuesday.

Over the past few months, officials from the Trump Administration have given vague answers when asked if the Administration might try to deploy federal agents to the polls. Federal laws explicitly prohibit military or federal officials from stationing troops or armed men where elections are held in an attempt to interfere with a federal election. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine assured a Democratic senator in late August that the military had "no plan" to be deployed to polling locations during the midterm elections. Yet Trump has declined to rule out measures such as declaring a federal emergency on Election Day or sending ICE agents to the polls, telling TIME in an interview in September that he didn't "rule anything out" at this point.

At least three lawsuits have been filed to preemptively block ICE agents from being deployed to polling sites on Election Day. According to one of the lawsuits, at least one county sheriffs' office in Colorado has already been cooperating with ICE and conducted "warrant checks at polling locations" this year.

Along with the prospect of ICE agents conducting immigration enforcement, election officials have also expressed concern that the federal government might try other ways to disrupt polling places, citing voter fraud allegations as a premise. For months, the Administration has been involved in a legal fight with dozens of states over allegations that noncitizens are on their voter rolls. Election experts say voter fraud is incredibly rare.

In some local communities, there are indications that federal agents showing up at polling locations could sow chaos at the polls. Virginia's Arlington County stated in its preemptive legal filing against federal agents at the polls that the county had developed plans regarding "whether and how to make arrests, and any prosecutorial response or civil legal actions that might be necessary."

"Arlington has never before needed to prepare for these threat scenarios," the filing adds. When reached for a statement, the Arlington County government says the local police department remains in contact with election officials and is prepared to respond to any reported incidents.

Polls close and ballot counting begins

As polling stations close Tuesday evening, local election officials and voting rights groups are bracing for the prospect of federal officials possibly seizing election materials and voting machines. In January, the FBI raided the Fulton County election office in Georgia and seized election materials in connection with the 2020 election. In May, a federal judge ruled that the federal government could continue to retain the ballots. The FBI has not announced any wrongdoing stemming from the investigation.

"The lesson of Fulton County was that you have to be ready to be in court literally in minutes," Norm Eisen, the executive director of Democracy Defenders Action, tells TIME. Eisen has been working closely with voting rights groups as well as local and state election officials in multiple states to prepare for any federal interference in next week's elections. That includes being ready to immediately file lawsuits as soon as any federal officials try to seize any ballots or voting machines.

Other legal scholars are also encouraging judges to consider alternative solutions if federal authorities seek to retain election materials. Rick Hasen, a law professor and director of UCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project, published a white paper urging judges who might see warrant applications for ballot seizure to consider ordering copies of the ballot to allow the election certification process to continue.

Waiting for the last batches of mail-in ballots

Many mail-in votes won't arrive until days after Election Day. Some will be from members of the military stationed overseas. The fight over who can receive mail-in ballots, and which mail-in ballots should be counted, has been underway for most of Trump's second term.

In March, President Trump signed an executive order requiring states to work with the United States Postal Services to establish lists of verified voters and asking USPS to withhold mail ballots from anyone not on the lists. The executive order was quickly met with a flurry of lawsuits, which resulted in a preliminary injunction blocking the USPS from enforcing any new rules in response to Trump's order.

But election officials are still preparing for the possibility that some federal officials may try to get in the way of mail-in ballots being counted. On Monday, the DOJ asked the state of Washington to not count ballots from more than 400 voters whom it suspects to be noncitizens, as more than 1 million ballots have already been cast.

Even with the federal effort on hold, state governments have pressed ahead with new rules that are already pushing ballot rejection rates higher. In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections implemented a new rule that requires voters to use at least three different envelopes to deliver their ballots and copies of their ID. Failure to seal any of the three envelopes would result in the ballot being rejected. So far, the state is already seeing an uptick in the ballot rejection rate compared to the previous election cycle, from 2.6% to 3.1% statewide, according to local media outlets.

Certifying the election results

After all the votes are tabulated, county officials will begin certifying the election results. Although each state has its own rules on raising and resolving a challenge from county officials, certifying the election results is a mandatory duty. According to the Campaign Legal Center, if an official delays or refuses to certify results, state officials and courts can step in to compel certification. State officials can also pursue criminal or civil penalties to hold local officials accountable.

On Thursday, the Justice Department preemptively sued the state government of Alaska to block the certification of its closely-watched Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola. The department accused the state of failing to "protect the integrity of the election" by allowing independent candidate Dan J. Sullivan on the ballot.

"The DOJ attempting to intervene at this late stage is entirely against department policy, as there is no legitimate enforcement of federal law here, and it raises serious concerns about political interference," said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research. "I cannot recall an administration ever attempting to stop the certification of an election — and certainly not 11 days before polls close."

Various election officials expect that Alaska won't be the only state that says a certification challenge. During the 2020 election, President Trump sought to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to undo the state's certification of Joe Biden's win and "find 11,780 votes"—the number needed to overturn his loss in Georgia. Trump's allies also led a pressure campaign, meeting with lawmakers in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona in an attempt to overturn the election results, according to the investigation by the bipartisan January 6 committee.

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Nate Silver Outlines Why Trump and GOP Could Face Midterm Losses
Ewan Palmer
Wed, October 28, 2026 




Polling expert Nate Silver has reeled off a laundry list of reasons why the midterm elections could be disastrous for Donald Trump and the GOP.

Speaking on the Central Air podcast, the founder of FiveThirtyEight and author of the Silver Bulletin Substack said there were multiple reasons to suggest a Blue Wave on Nov. 3 would be a "normal, unsurprising outcome" rather than a shock.

Silver said the "most basic baseline" was that the party in power historically suffers major losses in the House—where the GOP currently holds a razor-thin majority—during the midterms, with Democrats winning an additional 40 seats in 2018 during Trump's first term.

The election forecaster then gave several specific examples from Trump's second term to suggest that voter backlash against the president could be particularly brutal this November.

Donald Trump is at risk of seeing out his final two years in the White House with Democrats controlling Congress. 

"We know that every time you drive by a gas station, it's a number that starts with a four or maybe higher," Silver said. "We know that the president seems to be more unpopular than he was at any point in his term so far, in either of his terms.

"We know that Democrats have a coalition that tends to be very engaged by midterm elections and special elections, off-year elections, and things like that," he added. "We know we're in a stupid war with Iran. We know the president is 80 years old. We know that some Republicans feel betrayed about the Epstein files."

Silver said Trump was also on the "wrong side" of an 80-20 issue involving AI and the construction of mammoth data centers in people's communities.

While Democrats are almost certain to regain control of the House in the midterms, the party faces a tougher challenge in flipping the Senate. Democrats will need to win at least four Republican-held Senate seats on Nov. 3 while holding on to the seats they currently occupy.

Silver said Democrats had better chances of success in purple states such as North Carolina and Maine, but there remained "uncertainty" in other red states.

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is one of those hoping for a massive victory at next week’s midterms. / San Antonio Express-News/Hearst / San Antonio Express-News 

"Democrats need to win some combination of Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Alaska—if you're getting more far-fetched, Nebraska, South Carolina—and these are all states that Trump carried by as few as 10 points to as many as like 19 or 20 points in 2024."

Democratic candidates are leading in the polls in several of these crucial Senate races. Silver said his forecast model predicted that Democrats would be able to flip the Senate around 75 percent of the time.

"So three out of four chance," Silver said. "Flip a coin twice. If either flip comes up heads, Democrats win the Senate. If not, we still have a GOP majority. Maybe 50-50 Senate, where JD Vance is the tie-breaking vote.

"So all of that lays out like reasons why a big Democratic win sort of sounds like a normal, unsurprising outcome rather than a big surprising outcome," he added.

The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.

Jesse Ventura: Donald Trump is a Coward Vietnam War Draft Dodger

'Coward': Jesse Ventura Bodies Trump For Never Serving In The Military
Kelby Vera
Updated Wed, October 28, 2026 

Retired pro-wrestler and former governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura slammed President Donald Trump as a "coward" for getting out of serving in Vietnam but having the audacity to say he has the skills to be a general in the U.S. military.

Ventura defended his decision to call Trump a "fascist" during a conversation with political streamer Hasan Piker this past Sunday, saying that as a U.S. Navy veteran, "I think I have the right and have earned my opinion of both my country and anything else."

"When I speak out against my country, I don't want anybody bringing up patriotism," he went on.

Ventura compared his history to Trump's record, saying, "Here's the part that pisses me off: I did two tours, 17 months. So did my brother. Southeast Asia. That was at the same time Donald Trump was running and hiding like the coward he is."

"Why didn't he join us in the Vietnam War? I've heard him talk. He said he should be a general!" Ventura said of Trump, who received five draft deferments from 1968 to 1968 before being reclassified as permanently exempt from military service in 1972.

As Piker reminded Ventura that the president received a medical deferment for bone spurs in his heels, Ventura joked, "Well, fine and dandy, never stopped him from golf, did it?"

Mocking Trump's bravado, the ex-politician said he wished he could ask the president, "Why didn't Trump join us? If he's as smart as a general, I would appeal to him today. Donald, we could have won!"

When Piker pointed out how the U.S.'s protracted war with Iran probably reveals the reality of Trump's military prowess, Ventura said, "We would have never gone through any of this had Donald Trump had courage and gone to Vietnam."

"He'd have known what Jesse Ventura knows," the ex-politician continued. "You can't go into a 4,000-year-old country and bomb them into submission."

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