Democrats swept Republicans off the map in nearly every purple and blue state, but in many of those same states, voters also approved conservative ballot measures by wide margins.
Voters in eight states passed ballot initiatives strengthening voter identification requirements or explicitly restricting voting to American citizens. Oklahoma voters approved a voter ID constitutional amendment in August, bringing the year&#8217;s total to nine states.
Ohio voters — who elected Democrat Amy Acton governor and sent Sherrod Brown back to the Senate — simultaneously approved Issue 3, a ballot measure that writes the state&#8217;s photo ID requirement into the constitution, with 65% of the vote.
In North Carolina, where former Democrat Governor Roy Cooper won the state&#8217;s open Senate seat by 20 points, 60% of voters backed a measure that extends the state&#8217;s photo ID requirement to mail ballots. Kansas voters, who voted to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, also passed a citizens-only voting amendment 64% to 36%. Nevada voters gave a constitutional voter ID amendment its required second approval, after first approving the measure in 2024.
On trans issues, conservative ballot measures drew majority support, even in blue states.
In Washington state, voters approved Initiative 638, which bars boys from competing in girls&#8217; K-12 sports, was leading roughly 56% to 44%. Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson opposed the initiative.
Let&#8217;s Go Washington founder Brian Heywood, who filed the initiative, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/washington-transgender-athletes-girls-sports-ballot-measure.amp">told</a> Outkick the result shows &#8220;it&#8217;s not a Republican/Democrat issue, it&#8217;s a parental issue.&#8221;
Two Colorado measures also held leads as ballots continued to be counted. Proposition 134 — which requires K-12 and college teams to be designated by biological sex — leads with 52%, with 87% of the vote counted early Thursday. A companion proposition that restricts trans surgeries for minors meant to alter sex characteristics had roughly 52% support. Both remain uncalled by the Associated Press in the latest reporting review.
Both Colorado measures came from Protect Kids Colorado, a grassroots group that gathered more than 500,000 signatures with over 3,300 volunteers, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-state-on-verge-of-saving-girls-sports-and-stopping-child-gender-surgeries">reported</a>.
Conservatives also secured victories on sports measures in Nebraska and Arizona. After three straight years of Arizona Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs vetoing similar legislation, Arizona voters approved a measure extending sex-based sports and private-space restrictions to schools and athletic associations. Nebraska voters approved a constitutional amendment barring boys and men from competing on school and college teams designated for girls and women.
Tax measures offered conservatives additional wins, while California&#8217;s proposed billionaire tax was trailing.
California Proposition 40, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on individuals and trusts with more than $1 billion in covered assets, trailed roughly 55% to 45% with about 62% of the estimated vote counted. Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom opposed the wealth tax, arguing it would drive wealthy residents out of the state.
Florida voters passed a major property tax cut with 62% of the vote, clearing Florida’s 60% threshold for constitutional amendments. The measure increases the homestead exemption for non-school property taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.
Tennessee voters also passed a ballot measure prohibiting a state property tax, and Idaho voters rejected an effort to overturn the state’s abortion ban.

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Democrat Sherrod Brown is heading back to the Senate after defeating incumbent Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted in a massive flip for Democrats.
Brown is currently projected to win by just over two points with 84% of ballots counted. Decision Desk HQ called the contest at 11:15 p.m. Eastern Time. 
Husted’s defeat flips a state President Trump carried by more than 11 points less than two years ago, and could go a long way toward determining which party has control of the U.S. Senate starting in January.
With the flip, Democrats have now taken control of the Senate. 
Brown’s victory comes two years after Ohio voters ousted him from the Senate in favor of Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024. Brown had previously held Moreno’s seat since 2007. 
Brown is the first Democrat to win a partisan statewide election in Ohio since his own re-election in 2018, as Republicans have dominated the Buckeye State going back to President Trump’s first victory in the state in 2016.
Husted was originally appointed to the seat by Republican Governor Mike DeWine in January of 2025 after it was vacated by now-Vice President JD Vance. Brown will serve the remaining two years of Vance’s six-year term and will be up for re-election again in 2028. 
Brown held a three-point lead in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/special-election/2026/ohio/husted-vs-brown">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average in the two weeks heading into the election. Husted had been trailing Brown in the RCP average since June.
Since June, top GOP strategists had shifted more resources to the state — despite President Trump carrying it three times — out of concern that low turnout projections could spell the demise of the GOP ticket. 
Husted and GOP messaging groups had been hammering anti-socialist messaging and cast Brown as a career politician with little to show for his 32 years in Washington. President Trump also made multiple visits to the state ahead of Tuesday. 
The race drew more than $400 million in total ad spending, the most of any race in the country. Brown <a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2026/10/15/ohio-senate-q3-brown-husted">outraised</a> Husted for five straight quarters, but outside GOP groups spent heavily in the race, with the GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund committing <a href="https://www.nbc4i.com/news/your-local-election-hq/more-funds-funneled-into-ohios-u-s-senate-race-between-sherrod-brown-and-jon-husted/">$79 million</a> to the Ohio race — its largest investment of the cycle.
Brown, 73, presented himself as a moderate throughout the election, focusing on rising costs and data centers as key points of his campaign. 
The result leaves Ohio with a split Senate delegation, with Brown serving alongside the man who unseated him.

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Republicans are trailing Democrats in the early voting numbers in multiple key battleground states as voters head to the polls Tuesday, but election experts warn that those figures alone cannot predict the outcome.
Decision Desk HQ analyst Geoffrey Skelley wrote on Sunday that though Democrats are so far outperforming their early voting numbers in 2024, the numbers are still not conclusive for either side.
&#8220;[A]bsentee and early voting data is only part of the overall electoral puzzle,&#8221; Skelley <a href="https://decisiondeskhq.substack.com/p/early-mail-vote-2026-midterms-senate-control-analysis-trends">wrote</a>. &#8220;On Election Day proper, many millions more voters will cast their ballots, and a vote counts the same regardless of when it’s cast.&#8221;
More than 57.5 million ballots have been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/early-vote">cast</a> early or by mail. According to <a href="https://onpointpolitics.us/maps/early-vote">On Point Politics</a>, registered Democrats account for approximately 40% of early ballots in states reporting party registration, compared with 33% for Republicans and 27% for unaffiliated or other voters. Registration identifies the voters&#8217; party affiliation, not which candidates they supported.
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In the 25 states that published party identification for early ballots in 2024, the split was 38% registered Democrats, 36% registered Republicans, and 26% unaffiliated or other. Compared with those figures, this year&#8217;s breakdown shows the Democratic registration advantage rising from 2 percentage points to 7.
In five crucial midterm states, the early-voting registration margins have shifted toward Democrats, according to Skelley&#8217;s Sunday write-up. Florida has shifted 8 points toward Democrats (R+11 to R+3), North Carolina roughly 13 points (R+1 to D+13), Maine 10 points (D+14 to D+24), Iowa roughly 13 points (R+0.2 to D+13), and Kansas 17 points (R+18 to R+1).
Skelley also points out that, as striking as these numbers appear on the surface, a stronger Democrat showing in early voting could leave a more Republican electorate to cast ballots on Election Day.
In Iowa, history favors the GOP on that point. In the 2014 Senate race, Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley led Joni Ernst by about 24,000 early votes, only for Ernst to dominate the Election Day vote — crushing Braley at the end of the night by more than 118,000 votes. Iowa&#8217;s reported 2026 early vote tally shows Democrats trailing their 2022 registration advantage by 7.1 points (D+17.8 in 2022 versus D+10.7 in 2026). But that comparison alone cannot establish how much support either candidate needs from independents or Election Day voters.
&#8220;E-Day voters have been a more GOP-leaning group in the COVID and post-COVID era, but how much more Republican they prove to be in 2026 will be critical,&#8221; Skelley wrote. &#8220;Higher Democratic turnout could also be cannibalizing votes that might otherwise have been cast on Election Day, limiting potential gains for that party.&#8221;
States like Texas do not register voters by party, and though many Democrats have pointed to record-breaking midterm turnout in blue counties as a promising sign for James Talarico, that does not mean that he will defeat Republican nominee Ken Paxton. In 2018, Texas also broke its record for midterm voter turnout as Beto O&#8217;Rourke challenged Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, and O&#8217;Rourke still lost by more than 225,000 votes that year.
One race where the early voting data has drawn attention is Kansas, where Democrats have sharply narrowed the Republican registration advantage among early voters. In 2024, Republicans accounted for 52% of early ballots compared to just 34% for Democrats. The registration lead has shrunk considerably, with Republicans accounting for approximately 43% and Democrats 42% as of October 30, according to Skelley. The outcome will depend in part on Republican turnout and how unaffiliated voters cast their ballots.
&#8220;Republicans need to catch up,&#8221; Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) <a href="https://www.kmbc.com/article/roger-marshall-trump-salina-kansas-rally-senate-election/74264988">said</a>, warning that Democrats are turning out at presidential-year levels.
In an October Substack <a href="https://pollvault.substack.com/p/for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-overinterpret">article</a>, RealClearPolitics Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende argued that readers should not overinterpret early voting data, especially this year. &#8220;The bigger problem is that we don’t really know how these individual voters are casting ballots,&#8221; Trende said.
&#8220;Election results can be thought of as a sort of formula. You take a party’s share of the early vote and multiply it by the number of votes cast before Election Day, and then add the product of the party’s share of the Election Day vote and the number of votes cast on Election Day,&#8221; Trende explained. &#8220;This gives you the party’s overall vote total. So if you know these four quantities (number of early votes, number of Election Day votes, Party A’s share of early votes, Party A’s share of Election Day votes), you can figure out the election result.&#8221;
The problem, according to Trende, is that &#8220;early voting gives us only one of those quantities.&#8221;
&#8220;All we really know is the number of early votes at a given point in time. Now we can use demographics and past precinct results to estimate the voting patterns of individuals who have returned ballots or who are identified as having voted early, but these are estimates. Worse, we know relatively little about the composition of the Election Day electorate,&#8221; Trende wrote.
The main metric most analysts, including Trende, are watching Tuesday night is the share of Election Day votes when compared with early votes — a number we won&#8217;t know until later Tuesday night.
In 2022, early ballots were only 30% of Iowa&#8217;s total and 35% of Maine&#8217;s, compared to 41% and 45% in 2024, respectively. If Tuesday&#8217;s turnout pushes the early share back toward 2022 levels, Republicans could have more opportunity to make up ground, provided Election Day voters turn out and favor the GOP strongly enough.

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Leftist streamer Hasan Piker is demanding at least $72.5 million from conservative commentator Scott Jennings, filing a defamation suit Tuesday over a segment in which Jennings said Piker had called for lynchings.
During a Tuesday livestream, Piker said the lawsuit is &#8220;not just about Scott Jennings.&#8221;
&#8220;I think for far too long we have allowed Republicans to get away with saying whatever they want,&#8221; Piker said.
The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.298060/gov.uscourts.dcd.298060.1.0.pdf">complaint</a>, which Piker filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeks at least $27.5 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages from the CNN contributor.
At issue is an August episode of Jennings&#8217; radio show, in which Jennings said Piker was &#8220;out there calling for Black voters to be lynched,&#8221; according to the filings.
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Piker argues that the 42-second compilation, first posted to social media by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and later aired by Jennings, presented sarcastic remarks as his actual views.
During a livestream in October 2024, Piker reacted to a debate between two black political commentators. After the conservative debater blamed &#8220;woke DAs&#8221; for policies he said were hurting black Americans, Piker paused the video and said, according to the complaint:
<blockquote>He said, &#8220;We need more Klansmen, okay? Can we go back to a better time when lynchings were happening? This is what I like as a Black man. Also, there&#8217;s no real racism in America.&#8221; My man said, &#8220;woke DAs,&#8221; dude. What are you saying?</blockquote>
The video Jennings aired and later <a href="https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/2087342051503300787?a=g_9W0lpiMwkilRurAxI&amp;s=20">posted to X</a> omits the words &#8220;he said&#8221; and Piker&#8217;s subsequent laughter, the lawsuit claims. The complaint also alleges that Jennings added the on-screen caption, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go back to a better time when lynchings were happening,&#8221; wording Piker&#8217;s lawyers say he never used in the 2024 livestream.
Piker has previously mocked black conservatives, including in an August 2024 video titled &#8220;Black conservatives are ridiculous.&#8221; Piker said he has “never met a black conservative that doesn’t telegraph that they are a black conservative.”
He has also used the N-word during appearances on &#8220;The Young Turks,&#8221; the show co-founded by his uncle, Cenk Uygur. The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/watch-hasan-piker-use-the-n-word-on-his-n-word-slinging-uncles-far-left-youtube-show/">reported</a> that one such instance occurred while Piker was discussing a Justice Department investigation into Baltimore police officers&#8217; use of racial slurs.
Piker&#8217;s complaint concedes he is &#8220;an admittedly controversial commentator,&#8221; but maintains that he has never advocated lynching anyone.
As a public figure, Piker must meet the &#8220;actual malice&#8221; standard to prevail on his defamation claims, proving that Jennings knew he was making false statements on his show or recklessly disregarded whether they were true.
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President Donald Trump&#8217;s drug czar is urging parents to check their children&#8217;s candy on Halloween, warning about brightly colored fentanyl pills that look like sweets.
Sara Carter, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, told The Daily Wire she is concerned about &#8220;rainbow fentanyl&#8221; — which she described as &#8220;illicit fentanyl packaged in colorful pills that resemble candy.&#8221;
The DEA first warned about the pills in <a href="https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/08/30/dea-warns-brightly-colored-fentanyl-used-target-young-americans">2022</a>, describing them as a &#8220;deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction amongst kids and young adults.&#8221;
&#8220;This is targeting American children — when you’re producing illicit fentanyl, and you’re making it colorful, and you’re putting it out on the streets,&#8221; Carter told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Many children have no idea what this is. A friend could give them a pill. It looks like it’s fun, it looks like candy, and they take it, and it’s the end of their life.&#8221;
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In September, a federal judge <a href="https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2026/09/25/hstf-investigation-leads-17-years-prison-for-tucsons-queen-south-bringing">sentenced</a> an Arizona woman to 17 years in prison for leading a drug-trafficking organization. Authorities said she claimed to have conceived the idea for rainbow fentanyl to boost sales for the Sinaloa Cartel.
According to Carter, small children are especially at risk because &#8220;if you have a toddler or a small child that comes into contact with or sees one of these, they&#8217;re obviously going to think it&#8217;s candy.&#8221;
As a precaution, Carter urges parents to check the candy their kids collect after trick-or-treating, avoid unwrapped treats, and stay in safe neighborhoods on Saturday night.
Carter said her own children would still go out for Halloween. She recommended that parents discuss the risks of drugs with their kids &#8220;in a way that is age-appropriate.&#8221; She also pointed to church- and community-sponsored trunk-or-treats as an alternative.
&#8220;Let them know that you love them and care about them and that you want them to have fun, but that they can&#8217;t eat anything until you get it home, or they get it home, and you can inspect it,&#8221; she said.
The issue is personal for Carter, whose son and son-in-law have both lost close friends to fentanyl, she told The Daily Wire.
Carter&#8217;s son lost one of his closest friends after high school when the friend took a pill he thought was Xanax that ended up being laced with fentanyl. Her son-in-law, a law school graduate, lost a close friend from his football team who died after using a drug laced with fentanyl at a party.
&#8220;So I hear stories like this all the time,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Look, it&#8217;s just better to be safe than sorry.&#8221;
Carter, who took over as President Trump&#8217;s drug czar in January, credited his policies for a steep decline in overdose deaths — down nearly 40% from the peak during the Biden administration.
The CDC <a href="https://cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/releases/20260513.html">estimates</a> there were 69,973 overdose deaths in 2025, the third consecutive year of declines. That compares with approximately 112,000 in the 12-month period ending May 2023.
Carter pointed to the designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, which she said expanded the government&#8217;s ability to target them &#8220;at every single level&#8221; with a whole-of-government approach. Trump also signed an executive order in December 2025 designating illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
When she first got into office, Carter said she prioritized making emerging threats &#8220;Chapter One&#8221; of her office&#8217;s 2026 <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/05/2026-national-drug-control-strategy-released/">National Drug Control Strategy</a>, released in May. She said her office is working with the CDC to expand wastewater testing nationwide to identify emerging drug threats.
Her office has also issued warnings about cychlorphine and medetomidine, the latter also known as &#8220;rhino tranq.&#8221;
Despite the progress against overdoses, Carter said, &#8220;Still, one life is far too many.&#8221;
&#8220;Take 10 minutes to go through your kids&#8217; bag and just make sure that there&#8217;s nothing in there that can harm them, and you&#8217;re going to have a great Halloween night,&#8221; she said.

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A school board candidate in Orange County, California, says an Apple AirTag he hid on one of his campaign signs tracked the missing sign to the home of his Democrat-backed opponent.
Marco Carralero, who is running for a seat on the Capistrano Unified School District board, says someone took one of his yard signs off a street corner last Tuesday. That evening, the tracker showed the sign located at an address the voter file lists as the home of his opponent, Melissa Caldwell, according to Carralero.
Carralero says he filed a police report and tagged Caldwell in a Facebook post on Saturday asking her to explain the situation.
“What’s going on here? Can you clarify why my campaign sign wound up at your home?” Carralero <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A1oPo77BN/">wrote</a>.
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Carralero <a href="https://socaldailypulse.com/post/cusd-candidate-melissa-caldwell-accused-stealing-campaign-signs/">told</a> the SoCal Daily Pulse he began hiding AirTags on his signs and banners after repeatedly finding them kicked over, defaced, or missing entirely. He did qualify that he is unsure whether Caldwell took the sign herself or if it was someone else close to her.
If proven in court, the alleged theft would carry a fine of up to $1,000 and up to six months in county jail, per the SoCal Daily Pulse. Carralero said he included screenshots, timestamps, and other records to back his claim in the police report — but there has been no announcement of an official investigation into Caldwell as of Sunday.
The Daily Wire also reached out to Caldwell&#8217;s campaign, but has not received a response.
School board candidates in California run as nonpartisan, but prominent Democrat political action committees — such as Women for American Values and Ethics — have come out in support of Caldwell. The Women for American Values and Ethics PAC is supporting multiple California Democrats ahead of the November election, including Reps. Mike Levin (D-CA) and Dave Min (D-CA) — and lists Caldwell as a &#8220;recommended&#8221; candidate on its <a href="https://www.wave4all.org/elections/candidates/">website</a>. Caldwell is also receiving <a href="https://socaldailypulse.com/post/capistrano-teachers-union-political-fund-enters-all-three-board-races-with-six-figure-reserve/">financial support</a> from the district&#8217;s local teachers union.
This is not the first time that Orange County has had a sign-stealing incident. In 2024, Orange Unified School District Trustee Madison Miner hid digital trackers on &#8220;No on the Recall&#8221; signs during a Democrat-led campaign to remove her from the board, the Anaheim Observer <a href="https://www.anaheimobserver.com/2024/02/28/digital-trackers-used-to-catch-and-arrest-pro-ousd-recall-activists-for-stealing-anti-recall-campaign-signs/">reported</a>.
The trackers led her to homes where she and Orange police recovered dozens of stolen signs, including several for a Republican state Senate candidate and a GOP supervisor candidate. Miner made citizen&#8217;s arrests of three people in front of officers.

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A Somali rap song that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), whose real name is “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,” according to the Department of Justice, set as background music in a video of a lakeside stroll threatens to punish, humiliate, and subjugate the singer’s enemies, according to an English translation.
The 27-second clip, which Omar posted to X days after the feds raided her Washington, D.C., home, shows her walking along a Minnesota lake with her husband, Tim Mynett. The caption read, “Less scrolling, more strolling. Enjoying our beautiful Minnesota lakes.”
The soundtrack is “Nimaan Ciilayba Icaaya” by Somali rapper Ilkacase Qays, with the first verse warning that anyone the narrator confronts will be suffering and screaming by nightfall, according to an English translation commissioned by the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/you-will-suffer-and-cry-ilhan-omar-taunts-trump-with-venomous-somali-hip-hop-diss-track/">Washington Free Beacon</a>:
           The Almighty has given me strength. 
           If I confront you in the afternoon, 
           By evening, I will teach you a lesson, 
           And keep you awake throughout the night.
          Yes, you will suffer and cry in seething, 
          You will scream like a demon. 
          After all, you are not Arabs, 
          So swallow your anger and chew on it. 
A later verse brags about throwing people into a well and imposing taxes on enemies, and the song closes with a vow to punish, dominate, and shame them:
<blockquote>Let me show you who I am, hey, hey! 
No enemy dares to threaten me. 
Wherever I set foot, he runs away. 
Yes, he runs away and stays away.</blockquote>
The video comes as Omar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-crimes-that-could-be-behind-the-ilhan-omar-raid">faces</a> a federal criminal investigation into her immigration history and her finances. The song appeared to be a jab at President Donald Trump, who said last week the probes could lead to Omar’s deportation or arrest.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar’s Washington home on October 12, seizing her phone, passport, computers, and notebooks, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilham-omar-hires-bidens-personal-attorney-as-feds-probe-her-immigration-history">reported</a>.
Investigators are examining whether Omar or her late father misstated her age on naturalization paperwork, along with long-running allegations that her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a marriage to her brother. Omar has denied any wrongdoing.
A Justice Department filing tied to the search lists Omar as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” without explanation. Omar responded in a post on X, writing, “My name has always been Ilhan Omar.”
The Justice Department is reviewing Omar’s financial disclosures, which include an accounting error that cut Omar’s reported 2024 net worth from as much as $30 million to no more than $65,000, according to U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro.
Omar has blasted the investigation as a politically motivated smear campaign.
“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” she said in a statement earlier this month. “I will not be silenced.”

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the campaign trail for New Hampshire Democrats over the weekend and delivered a meandering monologue on her time in the Senate less than two weeks before the midterm elections.
Harris made the comments at a phone banking event in Portsmouth and was joined by Democrat Senate nominee Rep. Chris Pappas, gubernatorial candidate Cinde Warmington, and House candidate Stefany Shaheen.
In the 76-word clip, Harris attempted to lean on her Senate résumé to make the pitch to voters, but delivered this word salad instead:
<blockquote>I was a United States senator, so I know what happens in those rooms. In those rooms there are conversations that happen, where it&#8217;s important for certain people to stand up and speak, to help at least encourage a certain conscience about what we should care about, in terms of the work we do in the halls of Washington, D.C., and with some clarity about how it will actually play out in the streets of America.</blockquote>
Harris says &#8220;certain&#8221; twice and &#8220;rooms&#8221; twice but fails to explain who &#8220;certain&#8221; people are, what they should say, or what &#8220;conscience&#8221; she wants them to &#8220;encourage.&#8221;
The trip could double as a visit to an early primary state, since Harris has reportedly <a href="https://www.wcax.com/2026/10/14/kamala-harris-adds-nh-her-final-midterm-campaign-stretch-her-decision-about-2028-comes-later/">not ruled out</a> another White House bid. New Hampshire holds the third contest on the Democrats&#8217; 2028 primary calendar, and Harris opened her midterm tour in Nevada — which hosts the second statewide primary.
New Hampshire is set to be one of the most competitive states in November. Pappas, who currently represents New Hampshire&#8217;s 1st Congressional District, faces former Republican Sen. John Sununu — who is seeking to reclaim the seat he held from 2003 to 2009.
Harris also sat down with abortion advocates in Manchester for a live recording of the &#8220;My Body, My Pod&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/kamala-harris-new-hampshire-democrats-campaign-chris-pappas/4036799/">podcast</a> during the visit.
The most recent incident adds to a growing file of Harris&#8217; public gaffes and strange comments.
At a Detroit roundtable last month, Harris argued that &#8220;an attack on DEI &#8230; is an attack by definition on maternal care,&#8221; in a rant that Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appeared to struggle to sit through. Other entries include another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-delivers-another-brutal-word-salad">brutal word salad</a> in June and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-trades-word-salads-for-baby-talk">baby talk</a> last week.
Harris will continue her campaign tour in Wisconsin on Monday to rally with Democrat gubernatorial nominee David Crowley, and will close with a three-day trip through Georgia starting Wednesday, her office told the Associated Press.

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Kamala Harris Returns To Campaign Trail With A 76-Word Head-Scratcher

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Hackers took control of refrigeration systems at hundreds of French grocery stores Sunday night, cranking the heat up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, spoiling food, and reportedly sparking fires at several stores.
The attack targeted refrigeration systems made by Danish manufacturer Danfoss, hijacking software that lets retailers remotely manage their refrigerators and freezers. The systems normally undergo a short defrost cycle, but the hackers forced them to stay in that mode for several hours.
Managers arriving Monday at French grocery stores were met with a wave of hot air from the freezers, and several reported small fires, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yo">BBC</a>. Two supermarkets in eastern France alone reported about $302,000 in combined losses, according to French media reports.
Les Mousquetaires, which owns Intermarché, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/france-supermarket-hack-cyberattack-fridges-fires.html">told</a> CNBC that fridges at around 180 of its stores were affected, reaching 122 degrees Fahrenheit for about six hours overnight. Les Mousquetaires CEO Thierry Cotillard told BFM TV he expects nationwide losses to reach &#8220;tens of millions of euros.&#8221;
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Huge losses for hundreds of French supermarkets after hackers increased the temperature to highs of 50c, causing tens of millions of euros in losses.
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In a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cyberattack-supermarkets-refrigerators-france-fires-food-losses/">statement</a> to the AFP, Danfoss said almost all affected units were &#8220;legacy&#8221; products that &#8220;no longer receive software or security updates,&#8221; and that it had previously urged French grocery chains to upgrade these models for better security.
In August, cybersecurity firm Claroty published <a href="https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers">research</a> detailing major vulnerabilities in Danfoss&#8217;s controller software that could let attackers bypass its login protections and compromise refrigeration systems. Claroty said Danfoss addressed the vulnerabilities in a firmware update. Neither French authorities nor Danfoss has linked those flaws to this week&#8217;s attack.
French prosecutors are investigating what they called a &#8220;large-scale&#8221; attack &#8220;affecting the refrigerators of several major food retail chains across France,&#8221; and France&#8217;s National Cybersecurity Agency has identified a vulnerability in Danfoss software, according to a source close to French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
Separately, cybersecurity companies have warned about artificial intelligence&#8217;s potential to enable attacks. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-hackers-hijack-u-s-ai-in-first-autonomous-cyberattack">reported</a> last year that suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers manipulated Anthropic&#8217;s AI coding tool, Claude Code, to target roughly 30 organizations in what the company called &#8220;the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention.&#8221;
Anthropic <a href="https://capacityglobal.com/news/anthropic-takes-project-glasswing-to-15-countries/">warned</a> in April that its Mythos model can outperform all but the most skilled hackers at finding and exploiting software flaws. The company said that, in the coming years, the challenge for companies and governments would shift from finding vulnerabilities to patching them before attackers using AI could exploit them.

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A massive aerospace company aggressively vying to build the successor to the International Space Station could be undermined by its cozy stance toward China, our main competitor in space.
The California-based Vast is one of several companies competing for the NASA <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/jsc-procurement/cldc/">contract</a> to fund the private-sector successor to the International Space Station ahead of its planned retirement in 2030. Vast, however, has key business ventures that align it with the Chinese Communist Party.
In February 2024, Vast <a href="https://www.addvaluetech.com/media/vast-selects-addvalue-for-haven-1-space-station-connectivity/">partnered</a> with satellite communication firm Addvalue Technologies to supply communications systems for a precursor to its proposed ISS successor. Addvalue operates inside China through a wholly owned Beijing subsidiary, Zhongxin Chuangzhi Technologies (Beijing) Ltd, and lists an office inside the capital city.
That subsidiary has deep ties to the Chinese Communist government, supplying CCP-aligned companies with communications technology for years. The subsidiary signed a lucrative <a href="https://www.addvaluetech.com/media/addvalue-secured-new-additional-contract-for-its-ifleetone-terminals-to-cttic-shanghai/">contract</a> to supply thousands of vessel-monitoring terminals to licensed satellite distributor CTTC-Shanghai. CTTC Shanghai&#8217;s parent company, the China Transport Telecommunication and Information Center, is an arm of the CCP&#8217;s Ministry of Transport.
A former Trump administration national security official told The Daily Wire that this is &#8220;not just another procurement.&#8221;
“The U.S. should not entrust taxpayer-funded, national security-sensitive space infrastructure to Vast while serious questions remain about the company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; the national security official said. &#8220;A commercial space station is not just another procurement, it is a strategic asset with direct implications for American technological leadership and national security. Washington must ensure that any company seeking federal contracts is independent of foreign influence, control, or leverage.”
Another obstacle to its procurement is its posture towards President Donald Trump. Garret Reisman, a former NASA astronaut and Vast&#8217;s astronaut advisor, said in an Instagram video endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris that he would like to &#8220;punch Trump in the face.&#8221; The post drew likes from multiple Vast employees.
Vast founder and crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb, who continues to serve as the company&#8217;s primary financial backer, gave $500,000 to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/we-deserve-better-inc/C00858779/summary/2024">We Deserve Better</a>, a super PAC that backed the Democrat presidential campaign for Dean Phillips, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Top employees also aligned themselves with Eileen Gu, the American-born Olympic star who opted to abandon the U.S. team and instead represent Team China in the Winter Olympics.
Drew Feustel, Vast&#8217;s lead astronaut and former NASA acting chief astronaut, and chief design and Marketing Officer Hillary Coe liked an Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DXKsz7NiGlc/">post</a> from Eileen Gu — the American-born Olympic star who opted to abandon the U.S. Olympic Ski and Snowboarding team and instead represent Team China in the Winter Olympics. Gu has never publicly acknowledged or condemned the CCP&#8217;s human rights abuses, including its treatment of Uyghur muslims.
The aerospace company has also fully embraced DEI and other leftist tropes in official proceedings. In a 2024 filing with the Biden Federal Communications Commission, Vast urged regulators to move away from gendered language like &#8220;manned spacecraft,&#8221; writing that such language is &#8220;misaligned with recent FCC proceedings that have sought approaches that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.&#8221;
Vast is seen as a serious contender for the contract to replace the space station. NASA is expected to finalize the Phase 2 contract in the coming months. China&#8217;s Tiangong space station will be the only permanent station in orbit if no American station is ready when the ISS is retired.
Vast did not respond to a request for comment.

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The Company That Wants To Build America’s Next Space Station May Have A China Problem

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A California Democrat running for Congress in one of the most competitive races in the country is on the school board that approved the hiring of a known child predator who went on to sexually abuse two students, according to school board records reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Randy Villegas, a Democrat on the Visalia Unified School District board, voted “aye” at an October 11, 2022, meeting to approve the hiring of Dejaun Jones as campus supervisor at Mt. Whitney High School, the records show.
What parents and families at Mt. Whitney High School did not know was that Villegas and the board had just hired someone the district fired a decade ago for predatory behavior, and that he would repeat that behavior just months into his tenure.
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Jones, 40, had been terminated by Visalia Unified in 2013 from his position as girls&#8217; track coach at the same high school after police investigated him for sending inappropriate text messages to one of his student-athletes. Jones was also investigated by the police for sending other inappropriate messages to students at a different high school.
Now Villegas is running as the Democratic nominee in a crucial Republican-held seat that his party may need to take control of the House. He&#8217;s taking on Republican Congressman David Valadao in what is widely seen as a toss-up race.
Villegas was previously in hot water for what many call a cover-up of the district&#8217;s sexual abuse scandals — voting to allocate nearly $14 million in payouts to five victims in closed board sessions. That includes nearly $12 million <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-19/school-districts-california-secret-settlements-childhood-sex-abuse-claims">paid</a> to Jones&#8217; two victims, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Villegas, who is running for Congress on a platform of transparency, denies the payouts were intended to silence the victims, <a href="https://sjvsun.com/news/politics/moderate-dems-blitz-villegas-on-visalia-unifieds-hush-hush-sex-abuse-settlements/">saying</a>, &#8220;I stand by my record of public service.&#8221;
Now he will have to contend with records showing that Villegas and five other trustees voted unanimously to approve the hiring even after seeing a report that included Jones&#8217; &#8220;Classified personnel report.&#8221;
A cover memo from the district&#8217;s human resources chief noted that every new &#8220;classified&#8221; employee was a replacement for a departing employee &#8220;except for the Campus Supervisor &#8211; Mt. Whitney,&#8221; but did not mention Jones&#8217; history or previous employment.
The memo said the hiring of Jones aligned with the district&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;creating physical and social-emotional safety in all learning environments.&#8221;
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Six months after the vote, police <a href="https://tulareda.org/former-school-employee-sentenced-for-lewd-acts/">arrested</a> Jones for molesting a 15-year-old student and receiving explicit content from the underage victim. Jones pleaded guilty to all 11 felony counts and was sentenced to five years in prison, according to the Tulare County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.
The attorney representing the two victims <a href="https://abc30.com/post/former-visalia-unified-school-district-employee-faces-felony-sexual-abuse-charges/18115204/">called</a> Jones a &#8220;textbook predator,&#8221; adding, &#8220;he should not have been hired again.&#8221;
The district <a href="https://kmph.com/news/local/fox26-investigates-rehired-despite-prior-misconduct-allegations-at-visalia-unified">told</a> KMPH that it follows a comprehensive pre-employment screening process.
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Villegas said hiring and rehiring decisions are made by the Visaila Unified School District administration, not by school board members,&#8221; calling the charges against Jones &#8220;deeply disturbing and unacceptable.&#8221;

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California Dem Voted To Hire Known Child Sex Predator. Then History Repeated Itself.

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In less than a year, a massive community has gathered on social media giant Facebook of people opposed to the growth of data centers, which have surged in prevalence across the country along with the explosion of artificial intelligence.
The group &#8220;Say NO to Data Centers,&#8221; was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/saynotodatacenters/">created</a> in September 2025 and now has more than 170,000 members. It is filled with average Americans asking reasonable questions about water tables, property values, and utility rates.
A Daily Wire investigation finds that the group&#8217;s grassroots energy is being channeled by Democratic operatives linked to Soros-funded organizations — and is part of an openly stated effort to turn local frustration over data centers into votes and candidates for the Left.
At the heart of the group is the work of a man named George Duarte. He is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/saynotodatacenters/members/experts">designated</a> in the massive group as one of five “Group Experts” and presents himself as an expert in &#8220;Maps &amp; Navigation Apps&#8221; from Beverly Hills, California.
He is the creator of &#8220;PoweredByWho,&#8221; the movement&#8217;s most sophisticated tool: a national <a href="https://poweredbywho.com/">database</a> tracking 2,299 data center projects across 46 states, mapping their corporate and political money, and packaging it all with a &#8220;Community Toolkit&#8221; on how to stop a project.
Duarte shares map info with the Facebook group almost daily and claims the project is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CW18o1MTB/">funded</a> solely by its readers.
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PoweredByWho is an extremely technically sound, research-intensive project — all carried out due to his self-professed commitment to the fight against data centers. But what Duarte fails to mention to the group is his day job.
Duarte is the <a href="https://www.upswingresearch.com/team">director</a> of digital research and AI strategy at Upswing Research &amp; Strategy, a political consulting firm in Washington, D.C., with a <a href="https://www.upswingresearch.com/our-work">client list</a> that includes nearly every single Democratic campaign committee: The Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Governors Association.
Upswing&#8217;s client list also includes a wide range of progressive organizations that are directly involved in the opposition to AI data centers: the Center for American Progress, the Working Families Party, and leftist activist group Indivisible.
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Another political operator serving as a &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/saynotodatacenters/members/experts">Group Expert</a>&#8221; in the Facebook group is Mark Schlosberg, a senior adviser at Food &amp; Water Watch (FWW) — a Washington group demanding that Congress halt all new data center construction. Schlosberg claimed in a statement to the Daily Wire that neither FWW nor its affiliated PAC &#8220;has a role with this Facebook page.&#8221;
According to Power the Future, FWW is the anti-data center campaign’s “chief political quarterback” and <a href="https://www.powerthefuture.com/wp-content/uploads/PTF_ManufacturedOutrage_Rev3.pdf">receives</a> its funding “almost entirely through anonymizing donor-advised funds.”
FWW’s affiliated PAC, Food &amp; Water Action, has backed Democratic candidates almost exclusively. In 2024, it <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/food-and-water-action-fwa/">supported</a> Kamala Harris, three Democratic congressional candidates, and one Working Families Party candidate. That same year, the group ran get-out-the-vote operations in Pennsylvania — a swing state where Food &amp; Water Watch has also organized opposition to data center development.
That is the machinery of a national political party, and its fingerprints sit on the anti-data-center movement&#8217;s central nervous system. Duarte himself bragged on LinkedIn that his project has become a voter-registration machine in swing states like Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin — a departure from his role as a Facebook group&#8217;s &#8220;Maps &amp; Navigation&#8221; expert.
&#8220;They don&#8217;t just get mad. They register to vote,&#8221; Duarte <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/george-duarte-2b2111110_poweredbywho-whos-building-data-centers-share-7445481364407099392-lAw3/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAFJIH6sBi3y_S6JsatzcBpCrQ2cbmUadb3c">posted</a>.
Duarte told The Daily Wire that PoweredByWho is an &#8220;independent personal project&#8221; he built himself, and that Upswing &#8220;plays no role in it at all.&#8221; Upswing did not respond to a request for comment.
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Indivisible, another client of Upswing, is a leftist activist network best known for <a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15202777/dark-web-power-no-kings-protests.html">bankrolling</a> the anti-Trump &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests. It is now among the most active funded organizers in the anti-data-center fight.
Indivisible has driven data-center fights nationwide — an April &#8220;week of action&#8221; in Temple, Texas, complete with a City Hall protest and a council recall; scripted phone banks in central Indiana; and anti-data center rallies from Massachusetts to California. The American Energy Institute has also tracked the group funding similar activity across Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Georgia, and California.
The grants database of the Open Society Foundations, George Soros&#8217;s $32 billion philanthropic juggernaut, <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?filter_keyword=Indivisible">shows</a> more than $7.6 million flowing from George Soros to Indivisible, $3 million of which was earmarked for &#8220;social welfare activities.&#8221;
The American Energy Institute <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-foreign-billionaires-fund-groups-trying-to-cripple-ai-infrastructure">tracked</a> another $1 million in 2025 going to Indivisible from the Berger Action Fund, the advocacy vehicle of Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, according to the fund&#8217;s tax filings. Wyss is notorious for donating to left-wing advocacy groups such as the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which, in turn, is well <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/18/liberal-billionaire-nonprofit-dark-money-00018513">known</a> as a major fiscal sponsor and “dark money” hub for leftist causes.
Wyss has been investigated by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for allegedly illegally funneling millions in foreign money into U.S. elections through a network of left-leaning nonprofits, although the FEC complaint was later dismissed. Foreign nationals are barred from funding U.S. elections, but money routed through nonprofit advocacy groups remains legal, a loophole congressional Republicans have spent years trying to close. The American Energy Institute <a href="https://americanenergyinstitute.com/docs/aei_data-center_report_v2.pdf">tallied</a> more than $39 million in foreign money flowing to 12 organizations active in opposing data center development.
The Working Families Party (WFP), a left-wing party that helped elect Zohran Mamdani to office in New York with $23.7 million in <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/us-news/soros-funneled-37-million-to-lefty-groups-backing-mamdanis-mayoral-run/">funding</a> from George Soros, is also one of Upswing&#8217;s clients. FEC <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?+Strategy%22&amp;data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00606962&amp;recipient_name=Upswing+Research+">records</a> show the WFP&#8217;s federal PAC paid Upswing nearly $80,000 over two years.
The WFP has publicly <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/opposed-to-data-centers-the-working-families-party-wants-you-to-run-for-office/">urged</a> critics of data centers to run for office in another attempt to convert local frustration into votes for the far Left.
The party is recruiting data center opponents as candidates in northern Virginia, the upper Midwest, and the Southwest. WFP national press secretary Ravi Mangla told Wired, &#8220;You can&#8217;t fill a community center or a town hall just organically.&#8221;
The same small world of Democratic firms, donors, and organizers surfaces at every layer of an anti-data-center movement that otherwise presents itself as grassroots.
The 170,000 members of &#8220;Say NO to Data Centers&#8221; were never told that their &#8220;Group Expert&#8221; draws a paycheck from a key Democratic firm — and some have not welcomed the Facebook group&#8217;s increasingly partisan tone.
One woman posted in the group earlier this year that it seemed to be getting away from its core focus on the data center issue.
&#8220;Are we supposed to be making political posts in here,&#8221; the woman wrote amid a string of purely political posts in the group, &#8220;or stay on topic about AI data centers?&#8221;
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The Hidden Soros Connection In America’s Data Center Wars

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