<p>CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said on Thursday that the American people were sending a very clear message to former President Joe Biden and his family: &#8220;Go away.&#8221;</p>
<p>Enten discussed the Bidens and their apparent waning popularity even as former first lady Jill Biden continues to do press for her new memoir, &#8220;View From The East Wing&#8221; — and as Joe Biden is expected to release a memoir later in the year.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Americans have one message for the Bidens: Go away.</p>
<p>Joe Biden left office tremendously unpopular &amp; remains so (-19 pt net favorable).</p>
<p>He&#8217;s by far the least popular of any former Dem prez at this point after their presidency.</p>
<p>Jill Biden was the least popular Dem first lady. <a href="https://t.co/gpJK8bzM1D">pic.twitter.com/gpJK8bzM1D</a></p>
<p>— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/2062551790034284937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Anchor John Berman asked Enten how the Bidens were doing in terms of popularity following Jill Biden&#8217;s book release, and the short answer was clear: not well.</p>
<p>&#8220;The American people have one message for the Bidens that is: go away!” Enten said, repeating, “Go away!”</p>
<p class="qualified qualified-2">&#8220;I mean, just look at this. Look at Biden&#8217;s net favorable rating in January of 2025; it was -22 points. Has it gone any better? No, not really,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;He’s still way underwater here at -19 points. He’s 28 points underwater with independents. Joe Biden ended his term as president as quite unpopular. And he remains quite unpopular.”</p>
<p>Enten went on to reveal why even some Democrats who might personally like the former president would still prefer that he remained out of the public eye: &#8220;He is an anchor to the Democratic Party and potentially their fortunes in the 2026 midterm elections.&#8221;</p>
<p>Berman asked how Biden compared to other former presidents — particularly Democrats — and the news did not get any better: former Presidents Barack Obama (+31), Bill Clinton (-3), and Jimmy Carter (+22) all fared much better than Biden.</p>
<p>The former first lady was in the same proverbial boat as her husband, Enten added.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jill Biden – obviously not Joe Biden, though they are married – okay, just look at this. Was she a popular first lady? Dem first lady’s net favorability at the end of their final term? She was just two points above water. Obviously, not as bad as Joe Biden, but Michelle Obama was 43 points above water. Hillary Clinton was 13 points above water,&#8221; he said.</p>


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<p>An adviser to embattled Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner reportedly wanted to use photos of his own penis in a puberty book for boys as young as 10 years old.</p>
<p>Morris Katz, who has also worked for New York City&#8217;s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, published the 112-page book titled &#8220;Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Puberty ― and Shouldn’t Be Googling: For Curious Boys&#8221; in 2020.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/us-news/mamdani-guru-wanted-to-use-images-of-his-penis-in-creepy-puberty-guide-for-10-year-olds/">the New York Post</a> reported, Katz made the revelation in a footnote below a series of images using snakes and butterflies, among other things, to depict physical changes to male genitalia during puberty: &#8220;At first, we were going to use images of my penis to get this point across but the publisher said it was inappropriate so here we are, with some fruit and animal metaphors.&#8221;</p>
<p>Billed as a &#8220;puberty book written by the cool older brother,&#8221; the Amazon description says that it provides &#8220;facts about developmental changes to tween and teen boys&#8217; bodies and brains are spelled out in fun, familiar, boy-speak and illustrated in edgy graphic novel format.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Platner fixer made headlines earlier in the week when the Bangor Daily News first reported that he&#8217;d been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/platner-campaign-threatened-female-staffer-who-exposed-sexual-deviancy">behind threats</a> aimed at a former staffer who contributed to reports exposing Platner&#8217;s explicit text messages sent to multiple women while he was married.</p>
<p>The message, sent through a third party, was directed at former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald, a Democrat, over her cooperation with The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just want to be clear on where we are right now,” he wrote, adding that Katz warned her that she would face a smear campaign if she assisted with the story. “If the story goes in its current iteration we’ll communicate directly on the record, and by name, that Genevieve violated the personal trust of Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also appeared to lash out at her in an X post, although he did not mention her by name, once the story went public: &#8220;It’s no one’s f*cking business what happened in Graham &amp; Amy’s marriage before he was ever a candidate for office. There should be no place in our politics for incompetent, opportunistic operatives who violate privacy, betray trust, and prioritize vengeance over decency.&#8221;</p>


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<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) made it clear on Thursday that he would not be surprised to see more damaging information come out about Maine&#8217;s Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.</p>
<p>Fetterman, when asked whether he was &#8220;concerned&#8221; that Platner might be at the center of additional scandals, pointed out the fact that Platner — who assured Senate Democrats earlier in the week that there would be no additional allegations against him — had been dishonest about some of what had already been revealed.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW: Senator John Fetterman slams fellow Democrat and embattled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner following a string of damaging personal controversies.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, he lied to everybody. He said that there wasn&#8217;t any after his Nazi tattoo situation, and now there&#8217;s more and more… <a href="https://t.co/bacJZN8fl8">pic.twitter.com/bacJZN8fl8</a></p>
<p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2062573608350744741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Are you concerned that there&#8217;s more to drop?&#8221; one reporter asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, he lied to everybody,&#8221; Fetterman said. &#8220;He said that there wasn&#8217;t any after his Nazi tattoo situation, and now there&#8217;s more and more other things. So he&#8217;s already lied about that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So I assume, you know, it&#8217;s like they say, for every ranch you see in Texas, there&#8217;s 50 that you haven&#8217;t seen. So I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s plenty — a lot of more ranches in P-Hustle&#8217;s life,&#8221; Fetterman added.</p>
<p>Platner, who went by the name &#8220;P-Hustle&#8221; on Reddit, has been the center of several scandals, ranging from his now-covered Nazi-inspired tattoo to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/platner-promises-dem-senators-there-will-be-no-new-accusations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexually explicit</a> text messages sent to several women while he was married. He has also faced backlash for a number of comments he posted on Reddit — some of which were vulgar and at least one in which he mocked and derided a wounded combat veteran and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/didnt-deserve-to-live-leftist-candidate-appears-to-mock-wounded-soldier-in-resurfaced-post">Purple Heart recipient</a>.</p>
<p>The Maine Democrat, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-am-still-on-the-ballot-janet-mills-reappears-as-platner-stumbles">leading</a> Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) in the primary before she suspended her campaign, is set to face off against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in November.</p>


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‘He Lied To Everybody’: Fetterman Says Graham Platner Saga Isn’t Over

'He Lied to Everybody': Fetterman Says Graham Platner Saga Isn't Over

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<p>A New Jersey Democrat declared that she had to stop going to church because she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t stand&#8221; being around so many people who had voted for President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Rebecca Bennett, the Democratic nominee to represent New Jersey&#8217;s Seventh Congressional District in the U.S. House, told a supporter about her decision to leave the church at a campaign event in February. Audio of their conversation was obtained and published Wednesday by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/new-jersey-dem-running-in-house-district-trump-carried-said-she-stopped-going-to-church-because-she-could-not-stand-being-around-people-who-voted-for-trump-audio-shows/">The Washington Free Beacon</a>.</p>
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<p>The audio begins with Bennett thanking her supporters for coming out and offering to take some of their questions. The first question comes from a woman who identifies herself as &#8220;a former progressive Dem, now a moderate&#8221; who is happy to hear Bennett describe herself as a &#8220;patriot&#8221; but concerned that others might hear that word and think she leans to the Right.</p>
<p>&#8220;I loved hearing you say that you&#8217;re a patriot, but what are you going to do about that being a right-coded way of presenting yourself?&#8221; the woman asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will say I use that word intentionally, and the reason that I do it is because, so, I grew up in the Presbyterian Church, and after Trump got elected, I stopped going to church for the first time in my life, because I was like, &#8216;I cannot sit in this room of people,'&#8221; Bennett, a former Navy pilot, explained. &#8220;At the time, I was stationed somewhere that was pretty conservative. I was still in the military at the time. I was like, &#8216;I cannot sit in this church full of people who voted for Trump.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And then, ultimately, I decided they do not get to decide what Christianity looks like, and to me, it&#8217;s the same thing about [how] they do not get to decide what patriotism is,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;You do not get to wrap yourself in the flag while you are literally murdering Americans in broad daylight.&#8221;</p>


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Dem Candidate Ditches Church Because She Can’t Stand Trump Voters

New Jersey Dem Ditched Church Because She Couldn't Stand Being Around Trump Voters

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<p>New York City converted the city council chambers to a drag runway and stage to kick off Pride Month.</p>
<p>Good Shepherd Services, an organization that <a href="https://goodshepherds.org">claims</a> to be &#8220;guided by social and racial justice,&#8221; shared video of staff members voguing — a kind of dance that originated in LGBTQ circles — during the council&#8217;s first &#8220;Pride Ball.&#8217;</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The LGBTQIA+ Caucus hosted the event, dubbed the city&#8217;s first Pride Ball, with Councilmembers Chi Ossé of Brooklyn and Justin Sanchez of the Bronx presiding over the raucous celebrations. </span></p>
<p>Performers in drag sauntered and sashayed around the chambers to applause, cheers, and loud catcalls.</p>
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<p>— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) <a href="https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/2062489337715925470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 4, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The City Council also released several official photos from the event.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">TENS ACROSS THE BOARD at last night’s Council Pride celebration!</p>
<p>The Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus hosted the Council’s first ever Pride Ball, turning the people’s chambers into a runway.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of the fierce performers and proud New Yorkers who joined us in strutting into… <a href="https://t.co/0PX5HqCgsE">pic.twitter.com/0PX5HqCgsE</a></p>
<p>— New York City Council (@NYCCouncil) <a href="https://x.com/NYCCouncil/status/2062213939367125460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The members of New York City&#8217;s Council appear to be picking up where Democratic socialist Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-says-one-month-isnt-long-enough-to-celebrate-queer-and-trans-new-yorkers">Zohran Mamdani</a> left off when he claimed that one month was not long enough to celebrate all of the queer and trans-identifying people of New York.</p>
<p>&#8220;It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers. From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City&#8217;s history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers,&#8221; Mamdani said in an X post on June 1. &#8220;To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.&#8221;</p>


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SEE IT: New York City Council Turns Chamber Into Drag Runway For ‘Pride Ball’

New York City Council Turns Chamber Into Drag Runway For PRIDE

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<p>Former reality star Spencer Pratt (MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills&#8221;) raised eyebrows when he threw his hat in the ring to run for mayor of Los Angeles — but soon, Pratt may not be the only one.</p>
<p>Mike &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino, who popularized the errands trifecta known as &#8220;GTL&#8221; (Gym, Tan, Laundry) on MTV&#8217;s &#8220;Jersey Shore,&#8221; said recently that he was thinking about a future run for governor in the Garden State.</p>
<p>Sorrentino has had his share of ups and downs since finding fame on the popular reality show, but has since parlayed his own previous struggles with addiction into a drug and alcohol rehab center called Archangels. At a recent launch party for VUE magazine in Wall Township, the former MTV star said that he planned to move into politics after he&#8217;d opened an Archangels Center in each of the 50 states.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I’d like to have an Archangels Center in every 50 states [sic], and after that, you know, I will introduce everybody to Governor Situation,&#8221; he explained.</p>
<p>He did not immediately give a party affiliation — but did offer a major hint in the form of a policy he might support: &#8220;I can’t announce it yet but I think the residents of New Jersey would like no property tax.&#8221;</p>
<p>New Jersey currently has the highest median property tax in the United States — meaning that residents pay more to own property in the Garden State than they would anywhere else in the country. Illinois ranks second, and Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont round out the top five.</p>
<p>Sorrentino may be preparing to follow Pratt&#8217;s road map and capitalize on the failures of previous leadership — which, in New Jersey, might simply mean finding a way to provide meaningful relief from the high property tax rates.</p>
<p>Pratt used that strategy to great effect, pressing incumbent Mayor Karen Bass on her handling of the deadly Palisades fire (in which Pratt lost his own home as well as his parent&#8217;s home) and the homelessness crisis and rampant drug use in Los Angeles. With 62% of the votes counted as of Thursday afternoon, Pratt is holding steady at second place in California&#8217;s jungle primary. If he remains in second place, he will head into a November runoff against Bass, who has already secured the top spot in the primary.</p>


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<p>The votes have not yet been fully counted in Los Angeles, but that has not stopped mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt from dropping a serious challenge on incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.</p>
<p>Pratt, who holds a seven-point lead over democratic socialist city councilwoman Nithya Raman, appears poised to hold onto second place and face Bass in a runoff in November&#8217;s general election, and he wants to debate her — weekly, if possible — until then.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Reporter: “Are you going to debate Karen Bass again?”</p>
<p>Spencer Pratt: “I love debating her on NBC. I look forward to a couple more on NBC and Fox. We can do debates every Friday if she would like. Because this actually became my most favorite thing to do.”</p>
<p>“So yes, as many… <a href="https://t.co/qkf7HiTSTh">pic.twitter.com/qkf7HiTSTh</a></p>
<p>— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) <a href="https://x.com/RedWavePress/status/2062134855001903575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Are you going to debate Karen Bass again?&#8221; a reporter asked Pratt on Tuesday evening outside his primary election night party. &#8220;And what do you want to tell her if she sees this?&#8221;</p>
<p>“I loved debating her on NBC. I look forward to a couple more on NBC, and Fox,&#8221; Pratt replied. &#8220;We can do debates every Friday if she would like, because it’s actually become my favorite thing to do. So, yes, as many debates as Mayor Bass would like.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What would you like to tell her now that it&#8217;s on?&#8221; the reporter asked.</p>
<p>“She knows it’s on. I hope she’s ready, you know, because I am — I literally could not be more excited,&#8221; the former MTV reality star added.</p>
<p>As the evening went on, Pratt voiced confidence that he would ultimately be the one to face Bass in November — and he declared that he was more than ready to do so: &#8220;I am ready for whatever God puts in front of me &#8230; I was going to be happy if I wasn’t moving forward, but now I feel very confident.&#8221;</p>
<p>As of Thursday morning, with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/los-angeles-mayor-results">62% of the vote counted</a>, Bass was leading the field with 35% of the vote and had already been projected to move on to the runoff in the general election. Pratt followed with 29.9% of the vote, holding just over a seven-point lead on Raman, who had 22.8%.</p>
<p>The mail-in ballots, which are likely to favor Bass and Raman over Pratt, are what remain to be counted — and could take days, as signatures must be verified prior to the ballots being counted. If Bass succeeds in earning more than 50% of the vote, she could avoid a November runoff altogether. If she doesn&#8217;t, she will be the first incumbent Los Angeles mayor to be forced into a runoff in 21 years.</p>


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The Votes Aren’t Even All Counted Yet, But Spencer Pratt Just Dropped A Challenge On Karen Bass

The Votes Aren't Even Counted Yet, But Spencer Pratt Just Dropped A Challenge On Karen Bass

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<p>Driven primarily by a shift among Republicans, support for LGBT causes is quickly losing steam in the United States.</p>
<p>According to a recent <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/710810/support-lgbtq-issues-remains-down-peak.aspx">Gallup poll</a>, support for legal same-sex marriage has flattened among Democrats — and dipped among Republicans — dropping across the board from 71% in 2022 and 2023 to 65% as of May 2026. The survey also found that only 62% of U.S. adults — the lowest number since 2016 — view same-sex relationships as morally acceptable.</p>
<p>In addition, American adults are showing less support for gender transition. Just 38% say it is acceptable for individuals to change their gender, down eight points from the 2021 peak.</p>
<p>The data comes from Gallup&#8217;s annual Values and Beliefs survey, taken between May 1 and 17 of this year, and shows a marked decrease in support — after years of consistent increases — across several prominent LGBT issues. That drop-off, the data indicates, is driven almost entirely by a dramatic shift among Republicans.</p>
<p>As recently as 2022, 55% of Republicans said they supported keeping same-sex marriage legal — but the latest survey shows that number has dropped nearly 20 points to 37%. Independents showed a single-digit drop — from 73% to 67% — over the same period, while Democrats have remained steady at 87% in support of legal same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Republicans also drove the change in how same-sex relationships were viewed from a moral perspective. In 2022, 56% of Republicans viewed same-sex relationships as morally acceptable — and that number has dropped more than 20 points to 35%. Independents again saw a drop of less than 10 points, from 72% to 64%, and Democrats saw almost no change at 81%.</p>
<p>A similar pattern appeared when those same respondents were asked whether they believed it was morally acceptable for individuals to change their genders. Support among Republicans dropped from 22% in 2021 to 5% in 2026. Independents saw a slight decline from 48% support to 42%, and even Democrats registered a seven-point drop from 67% to 60% in 2026.</p>
<p>The overall pattern is clear: support for the LGBT agenda peaked across all parties in 2021 and 2022, and Democrats have seen the smallest declines in support. Independents have registered slight declines in support across the board, and Republicans have shown the most dramatic shifts across every major issue.</p>


Pride Flags Above Regent Street In London

Conservatives Are Winning War Against LGBT Ideology, Major Poll Shows

Gay Rights

Same-Sex Marriage

<p>President Donald Trump weighed in on recently ousted &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/somewhere-cbs-newsman-scott-pelley-is-chewing-the-hell-out-of-his-innocent-glasses">Scott Pelley</a>, referring to the former CBS News personality as a &#8220;stiff.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump made the comments during an appearance on the Wednesday episode of Miranda Devine&#8217;s podcast, &#8220;Pod Force One,&#8221; where he argued that Pelley was one of a number of legacy media personalities who truly didn&#8217;t care about the United States. It&#8217;s unclear whether the podcast was recorded prior to Pelley getting the boot from &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; executive producer Nick Bilton.</p>
<p>Trump explained his most recent battery of tests to Devine — a physical and a cognitive test — which he said he took out of an &#8220;obligation&#8221; to show the American people that he was more than fit for the job he was doing, and Devine asked whether the memory portions of the cognitive test were difficult.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I have a great memory, I have a good — look, so far so good,&#8221; Trump chuckled, adding, &#8220;I hope I&#8217;m going to keep it that way. If I don&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll be the first to know, you&#8217;ll say, this interview, this isn&#8217;t the same Trump! I think he&#8217;s lost it!&#8221;</p>
<p>Devine pivoted to Pelley then, noting that he&#8217;d interviewed former President Joe Biden just after special counsel Robert Hur had done so. And despite Hur&#8217;s assertion that Biden shouldn&#8217;t be charged in the classified documents case because he was an aging man with poor memory, Pelley&#8217;s interview — through a combination of softball questions and edits — obscured that from the public&#8217;s view.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Scott Pelley’s got his own problems. He’s terrible,&#8221; Trump told Devine. &#8220;Look, Scott Pelley’s a stiff — and he’s afraid. And he’s part of this gang of crooked, stupid people that don’t care about our country. I watched that interview, that interview was a joke.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump also criticized CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos — the latter of whom he referred to as &#8220;a tough little cookie&#8221; who&#8217;d been forced to pay him $16 million — and said that they&#8217;d been equally guilty in helping to cover up Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline.</p>
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CBS News’ Coverage Of The Democratic National Convention

WATCH: Trump Rips Into ‘Stiff’ Scott Pelley

WATCH: Trump Rips Into 'Stiff' Scott Pelley

60 Minutes

CBS News

Scott Pelley

<p>Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt says he has a plan that could &#8220;eliminate&#8221; Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) from contention in the 2028 presidential election — he just has to get elected first.</p>
<p>Pratt, running to unseat Democratic incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, said during a recent podcast interview that he planned to investigate Newsom — bringing in the IRS if necessary — and find any fraudulent uses of Angelenos&#8217; tax dollars.</p>
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<p>Pratt laid out his plan on the &#8220;No Jumper&#8221; podcast, noting that Newsom was termed out at the end of the year and saying that, as mayor, he would absolutely investigate the outgoing administration for fraud.</p>
<p>&#8220;As mayor, I&#8217;ll be exposing his fraud with our tax money,&#8221; Pratt promised. &#8220;So I&#8217;ll probably actually eliminate him from being the president because I&#8217;m going to bring in the criminal investigation team of the IRS to go back in time and get all the documents, so that all the people have jacked all of our tax money, we&#8217;re going to find their Bentleys, we&#8217;re going to find their houses, we&#8217;re going to put them up to sale and we&#8217;re going to figure out how to put that money back into neighborhoods, the parks and the kids, the boys and girls club after school.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Because these people are stealing our money and it&#8217;s not going to the kids in the communities,&#8221; Pratt concluded.</p>
<p>The podcast host argued that Newsom, using the current state of California as his platform, should have a hard time winning a national election — but Pratt wasn&#8217;t so sure.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish that was true, but my experience being deep in this battle: people just believe lies,&#8221; he said.</p>


How Spencer Pratt Would ‘Eliminate’ Gavin Newsom As A Presidential Candidate

How Spencer Pratt Would 'Eliminate' Gavin Newsom As A Presidential Candidate

2028 presidential election

Gavin Newsom

<p>Hunter Biden, the embattled son of former President Joe Biden, finally weighed in on the cocaine that was discovered in the White House while his father was president.</p>
<p>Biden posted a video on Monday announcing that he had officially been sober for seven years, prompting a slew of responses on X. Some congratulated him for reaching the milestone, while others questioned whether he was telling the truth.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bullsh*t. That was your bag of coke in the White House,&#8221; one said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs,&#8221; Biden replied.</p>
<p>But it didn&#8217;t end there.</p>
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<p>Biden shared a second video on Tuesday about gratitude, saying that true gratitude could only be reached when people were able to be grateful for the bad along with the good — and then went on to explain that he was grateful for his past struggles with addiction because they&#8217;d laid him bare (literally) and made him better able to &#8220;connect&#8221; with people.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful that I was a crack addict,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t say that with the slightest bit of irony or bullsh*t. It has given me to me right here.&#8221;</p>
<p>He went on to say that he was able to reach this kind of gratitude because his addiction had resulted in everything being &#8220;taken away&#8221; from him.</p>
<p>&#8220;All that addiction took away from me, and then all that the consequences took away from me, any sense of me being better than anyone &#8230; I get to approach you and you get to see all of me,&#8221; he added, poking fun at himself and the nude photos that went public with the discovery of his abandoned laptop.</p>
<p>&#8220;You get to see the nude pictures, you get to see me in grief, you get to see me at my worst,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>One person responded to the video on X with the comment, &#8220;Crack head. I’m sure it was your coke in the White House. Embarrassment you are. You belong behind bars. Loser.&#8221;</p>
<p>Biden fired back, saying, &#8220;I was most definitely a crack head. It most definitely was not mine. You can’t embarrass me anymore. And you have a nice day, my friend.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I was most definitely a crack head. It most definitely was not mine. You can’t embarrass me anymore. And you have a nice day my friend.</p>
<p>— Hunter Biden (@HunterBiden) <a href="https://x.com/HunterBiden/status/2061863968117776849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Less than a gram of cocaine was found in a heavily trafficked area of the White House near the West Wing. It was discovered in July of 2023, and no suspect was ever publicly named.</p>


Jury Selection Begins In Hunter Biden Gun Trial

Hunter Biden’s White House Cocaine Excuse Actually Tracks

Hunter Biden Finally Addresses The White House Cocaine

Cocaine

Drugs

Hunter Biden

White House

<p>An adviser to Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner threatened the female former staffer who went public with Platner&#8217;s sexually explicit text messaging habits.</p>
<p>Morris Katz, a strategist for Platner who also advises New York City&#8217;s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, sent a message through a third party to former state Rep. Genevieve McDonald, warning her not to cooperate with The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal on stories that dug into Platner&#8217;s explicit texts to multiple women.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just want to be clear on where we are right now,” Katz wrote in the message McDonald first shared with <a href="https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/31/politics/top-graham-platner-adviser-threatened-former-aide-over-sexting-stories/">The Bangor Daily News</a>, warning her that she would face a smear campaign if she assisted with the story. “If the story goes in its current iteration we’ll communicate directly on the record, and by name, that Genevieve violated the personal trust of Amy and Graham and shared explicit falsehoods to sabotage the campaign.&#8221;</p>
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<p>McDonald was working on another campaign for Jordan Wood, also a Democrat, who is running in Maine&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District — but she quit over the weekend in an effort to shield Wood from any negative publicity she might get in the aftermath of the Platner stories going to print. The message from Katz was delivered to McDonald through another of Wood&#8217;s advisers.</p>
<p>Katz also appeared to lash out at McDonald via an X post, though he did not name her specifically, when the stories were published, saying, &#8220;It’s no one’s f*cking business what happened in Graham &amp; Amy’s marriage before he was ever a candidate for office. There should be no place in our politics for incompetent, opportunistic operatives who violate privacy, betray trust, and prioritize vengeance over decency.&#8221;</p>
<p>Platner has been dogged by a number of scandals throughout his campaign, from the discovery of a Nazi-inspired tattoo that he&#8217;s since had covered up to his Reddit posts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/didnt-deserve-to-live-leftist-candidate-appears-to-mock-wounded-soldier-in-resurfaced-post">trashing a wounded veteran</a> and Purple Heart recipient. The sexually explicit texts — to which his campaign has admitted — and his still-active profile on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-graham-platner-has-active-profile-on-predators-paradise-messaging-app">predators&#8217; paradise Kik</a> were only the latest wrinkles in his very bumpy campaign.</p>


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