George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley predicted on Wednesday that &#8220;buyer&#8217;s remorse&#8221; was inevitable after Tuesday&#8217;s midterm sweep for Democrats.
Turley told Fox News host Sean Hannity that members of the far-left wing of the Democrat Party had been given outsized influence over the rest of the party and in Congress, saying that he believed they would take the power afforded them and use it to overstep.
&#8220;I think that people are gonna realize they didn&#8217;t offer any actual, constructive ideas about how to improve the economy,&#8221; Turley began. &#8220;The economy is actually doing very well. Gasoline prices have really proven to be horrendous for this election, but the Democrats don&#8217;t have much to offer here.&#8221;
&#8220;The DSA is driving this train so far, and what Schumer and Jeffries are going to find out is that that wing is going to have oversized power in the coming Congress,&#8221; Turley continued. &#8220;And so I think this is going to be a bit of a train wreck.&#8221;
&#8220;But this is — we&#8217;re looking at gridlock here. They don&#8217;t have the votes to move these reforms, and that&#8217;s the reason they&#8217;re going to turn to investigations and impeachments,&#8221; he explained.
Indeed, the votes had not even all been counted before some Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-campaigned-on-your-bills-but-their-victory-threats-reveal-another-priority">let the mask slip</a>. Several — including a few who will likely chair powerful committees once the new Congress is seated in January — were already threatening to start issuing subpoenas.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) posted just two words: &#8220;LAWYER UP.&#8221;
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-dem-promises-retribution-against-anyone-who-helped-trump">Jamie Raskin</a> (D-MD), who is poised to take control of the House Judiciary Committee in January, told MS NOW&#8217;s Nicolle Wallace that he would &#8220;not hesitate to go after&#8221; anyone who had &#8220;collaborated with&#8221; President Donald Trump.
As Turley noted, a vast majority of Democrat candidates ran on platforms that focused on ending the Iran war, lowering gas prices, and addressing the overall affordability crisis affecting many American families. They have yet to explain how investigations — and, as Turley suggested, possible impeachments — would aid them in addressing the kitchen table issues that propelled their campaigns.

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Jonathan Turley Says Post-Election ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ Is Coming

Jonathan Turley Says Post-Election 'Buyer's Remorse' Is Coming

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attempted to hand-pick her successor on her way out of Congress, but San Francisco voters rejected her candidate in favor of a state senator who fought a blanket ban on registered sex offenders holding office.
Connie Chan, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, conceded the election to state Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA) on Wednesday with ballots still being counted.
&#8220;After reviewing the results and the ballots remaining to be counted, while we expect the margin to narrow significantly, we do not have a clear path to victory. I congratulate Scott Wiener on his election and wish him success in serving San Francisco,&#8221; Chan said in a statement. At the time of her concession, Wiener was leading by about 11 points.
Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosis-attempt-to-pick-her-successor-isnt-going-as-planned">endorsed Chan</a> two weeks before California&#8217;s June primary. At an event in August, she said, &#8220;Nobody knows Congress better than I do. Nobody. And I think she would be the best member of Congress.&#8221;
But Pelosi&#8217;s influence was not enough to get Chan across the finish line.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Wiener made no attempts in recent years to hide the fact that he was gunning for Pelosi’s seat. He had previously said he would not run for the seat until Pelosi announced her retirement, but ultimately jumped into the race before she announced that she would not seek another term.
Some suggested his timing prompted Pelosi to root for his opposition — and others wondered whether she endorsed Chan because Wiener&#8217;s announcement undercut a potential run by her own daughter, Christine Pelosi, for the seat.
Wiener has been serving in the California State Senate since 2016, but <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-dems-trigger-outrage-after-siding-convicted-child-sex-offenders-shocking-vote">raised eyebrows</a> for opposing a blanket ban on registered sex offenders holding office. In August, Senate Democrats rejected an amendment to AB2691 that would have broadened the bill&#8217;s restrictions to cover all three tiers of California&#8217;s sex offender registry.
&#8220;Right now in California, someone convicted of sexually abusing a child can still sit on your school board. That&#8217;s not a loophole. That&#8217;s a choice. And in my perspective, and most, that&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; state Sen. Suzette Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, said at the time.
Wiener argued, however, that a blanket ban based on California&#8217;s sex offender registry would cast too wide a net and disqualify people he thought should not be barred from holding office.
Explaining that not every person on the state&#8217;s registry was there because of violent, predatory acts, Wiener argued that the amendment would unfairly punish &#8220;a gay guy who had sex in a park or in a car and got arrested.&#8221;
&#8220;Sex offender registry is not punishment. It is a tool for law enforcement to be able to monitor people who may potentially cause a risk. And when we use the sex offender registry as a proxy for anything else, we get into problems,&#8221; Wiener said, arguing that the registry should not be used to disqualify people from holding public office.
&#8220;I’m a mom. This one isn’t complicated for me. Today, 40 senators had the chance to say convicted sex offenders should NEVER hold public office in California. Ten Republicans stood up to vote for what is right,&#8221; Valladares told Fox News Digital in late August. &#8220;My amendments would have closed the door. No loopholes. No exceptions. No convicted sex offenders serving in positions of public trust, including on our school boards. Protecting our kids should NEVER be partisan. I’m deeply disappointed, and I’m not done fighting.&#8221;
Wiener voted for the narrower bill. It passed the Legislature in August and was signed into law on September 27.

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Nancy Pelosi’s Hand-Picked Successor Loses To Dem Who Wanted To Protect Sex Offenders

Nancy Pelosi's Hand-Picked Successor Loses To Dem Who Wanted To Protect Sex Offenders

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A longtime strategist for former President Barack Obama is already looking forward to 2028, saying that he&#8217;s spoken to 29 Democrats who are at least toying with the idea of running for president in the next election cycle.
Jim Messina, who managed Obama&#8217;s 2012 presidential campaign, laid out his thoughts during an Election Day appearance on Bloomberg TV, where he said that the Democrats&#8217; Tuesday blowout — particularly with regard to the gubernatorial elections in key swing states — changed the presidential map going in to the 2028 cycle.
&#8220;If we win the House and the Senate, we will have won it because of rural, more red districts, and so that&#8217;s the most important thing,&#8221; Messina explained as the votes were still coming in on Tuesday. &#8220;I just met with my 29th person who&#8217;s thinking about running for President of the United States — 29, just on the Democratic side — so everyone&#8217;s kicking tires.&#8221;
&#8220;When you talk about the map, you&#8217;re talking about Texas, you&#8217;re talking about Arizona, a state where Barack Obama didn&#8217;t compete either time. Georgia, we didn&#8217;t compete there either time, North Carolina is now moving blue,&#8221; Messina continued. &#8220;The map is just much better if we win some of these.&#8221;
Democrats did, of course, go on to win many of the races he&#8217;d mentioned and then some on Tuesday — but the wide range of candidates who racked up wins in the D column still leaves questions as to which faction of the Democrat Party would have the momentum to run a national campaign.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to spend a year fighting out who actually has the mandate — left/center/populist — and then in 2028 we&#8217;ll have our answer,&#8221; Democrat strategist Lauren Hitt told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/11/05/democrats-factions-midterms-test-2028">Axios</a>.
Democrats saw big wins from relative moderates like Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) — who coasted to re-election with a 22-point margin — as well as from card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and every possible stripe in between.
And thus far, the potential candidates for 2028 appear to cover that same wide swath — from Shapiro to Democrat socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and from outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Messina did not reveal the names of any of the potential candidates who had spoken to him.

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Obama’s Top Strategist Says He’s Already Talked To Nearly Three Dozen 2028 Options For Dems

Obama's Top Strategist Says He's Already Talked To Nearly Three Dozen 2028 Options For Dems

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Despite the fact that his party had largely campaigned on kitchen table issues like the Iran war, gas prices, and general &#8220;affordability,&#8221; Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reacted to Tuesday&#8217;s Democrat sweep by promising to &#8220;go after&#8221; any business or law firm that &#8220;collaborated&#8221; with President Donald Trump.
Raskin, who currently serves as the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, is poised to take on the role of committee chair when the new Congress is seated in January. He told MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace that he and his colleagues &#8220;will not hesitate&#8221; to target anyone who collaborated with Trump.
&#8220;We will not hesitate to go after the private corporations that are collaborating in all of the lawlessness with Donald Trump. We&#8217;ve done it before, and we will absolutely do it again,&#8221; Raskin vowed. He did not indicate which specific actions he was referring to as &#8220;lawlessness&#8221; — but suggested that any law firm that made a deal of any kind with the Trump administration was automatically suspect.
&#8220;The law firms that you mentioned, we know that there were many heroic law firms that have stood up against all of the lawbreaking and then the attempt to shake them down for the time of their partners and of their young associates, and yet there are major law firms in America, including Paul Weiss, that have capitulated to these coercive tactics by Donald Trump and have basically surrendered and made all kinds of outrageous concessions,&#8221; the Democrat added.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve sent a number of letters to those law firms, and they have been not forthcoming up until now,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But when we have the power of subpoena, and we have the power to conduct oversight, we believe a lot of these law firms are going to be coming forward and telling the truth. Otherwise, they are law firms that have no respect for the rule of law, and we&#8217;re going to make sure that they comply with the federal subpoena; it is the exact same legal force as a judicial subpoena does. Subpoena means &#8216;under the power&#8217; or &#8216;under the penalty of law.'&#8221;
Raskin did not say what the remedy might be if the law firms had been telling the truth from the start, nor did he explain how the strategy he was detailing would align with his party&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-campaigned-on-your-bills-but-their-victory-threats-reveal-another-priority">campaign promise</a> to lower gas prices, lower the overall cost of living, address the affordability crisis, or put an end to the war in Iran.

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Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed laid hands on Sky News reporter James Matthews during Election Night coverage on Tuesday, berating the British journalist for daring to ask questions as he bluntly declared he wanted &#8220;zero votes&#8221; from people in the United Kingdom, hours before he won.
Sky News went public with the video, with several angles showing an angry El-Sayed stepping uncomfortably close to Matthews before he placed both hands on the reporter&#8217;s shoulders and scolded him for attempting to cover an election in the United States.
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Michigan&#8217;s Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn&#8217;t answer his questions as he wants &#8220;zero&#8221; votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ https://t.co/hrELyhg17W
— Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2117766605572645068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Are you registered to vote in the state of Michigan?&#8221; El-Sayed asked, immediately getting in Matthews&#8217; face. &#8220;Are you registered to vote?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not, I&#8217;m a journalist —&#8221; Matthews tried to respond, but El-Sayed quickly cut him off, placing a hand on each of the reporter&#8217;s shoulders.
&#8220;So why would I care to have a conversation with you?&#8221; El-Sayed asked, as his tone grew increasingly condescending. &#8220;Explain it to me why would I care to have a conversation with you? You&#8217;re a journalist? In the UK? You know how many votes I want to get in the UK? Zero! I&#8217;m never running for office in the UK. So I actually do not care what you think, or the questions you ask, you literally —&#8221;
El Sayed took his hands off Matthews&#8217; shoulders to clap in his face as he emphasized the words &#8220;do not care.&#8221;
&#8220;This election matters to the world,&#8221; Matthews said, keeping his cool. &#8220;You&#8217;re bidding to be a senator —&#8221;
&#8220;A senator in where, what country?&#8221; El-Sayed asked, putting a hand on Matthews again as he spoke.
&#8220;In the United States of America,&#8221; Matthews replied. &#8220;The leader of the free world.&#8221;
Putting his other hand on Matthews&#8217; other shoulder, El Sayed continued to talk down to him.
&#8220;What country are you in?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m based in the United States,&#8221; Matthews shot back.
&#8220;No, no, no, no, no,&#8221; El-Sayed interrupted. &#8220;But, but, but, but, but you report for where? Where are your viewers?&#8221;
Matthews pointed out that his viewers were all over the world, but El Sayed kept berating him anyway.
&#8220;Sky News is not viewed in the United States of America,&#8221; he claimed, talking over Matthews&#8217; protests. &#8220;It&#8217;s only viewed in the U.K. Like five people watch it, my guy.&#8221;
The confrontation continued — with El-Sayed concluding the interaction by declaring that he&#8217;d answered all the questions he intended to answer and demanding that Matthews &#8220;stop chasing me around.&#8221;
Matthews pointed out that he&#8217;d only asked questions — none of which were ever actually answered — as El Sayed turned on his heel and walked away.
Turning to the camera, Matthews noted that El-Sayed had expressed interest in serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — meaning his responsibilities as a U.S. senator would have international implications, and he would likely face more questions from international media. His behavior thus far suggests that such interactions are likely to be unfriendly at best.

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WATCH: El-Sayed Lays Hands On Reporter During Election Day

WATCH: El Sayed Manhandles Reporter During Election Night Coverage

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President Donald Trump reacted to Democrat sweeps of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, saying that he was willing to deal with Democrats in the coming year.
During a phone interview with <a href="https://www.politico.com/video/2026/11/03/president-trump-calls-into-politico-elections-live-talks-blue-wave-with-dasha-burns-2219479">Politico</a>, the president said that he was certainly ready to work with the new Congress in order to “make sure things go well for our country.”
When the outlet pressed for more specifics, asking directly whether he would work with Democrats on immigration, he replied, “I’d consider doing whatever I think is appropriate and good for the country.”
The president also told Politico that at the end of the day, some of the Republican candidates just hadn’t resonated with voters — but stopped short of calling them out by name: “I don’t want to blame anybody. I just want to say, you know, it was — it was a very interesting period of time. I watched with great interest, learned from it.”
He took a similar position when he spoke with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/politics/trump-midterm-election-results.html">The New York Times</a>, saying that he was happy to work with Democrats as long as they brought him “good ideas.”
“I have total veto power, so they have to come to us,” he pointed out. “And if they have some good ideas, I’m certainly open to working.”
Trump told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pledges-veto-insane-dem-bills-pinpoints-issue-partially-blame-republican-losses">Fox News</a> that he had initially been surprised by the extent of the Republican losses in Tuesday’s midterm elections, saying that he’d expected better results after seeing the response to Republicans on the campaign trail.
“I thought we would do better. We had tremendous rallies, thousands of people outside let alone inside that couldn’t get in,” he said, and then posted on Truth Social that he believed Republicans would have done much better across the board if he had been on the ballot as well.
He also used a Fox News election night interview to remind Democrats that he still had veto power: “They’ll send over things that are insane and I’ll veto them. And after a couple of months of vetoes, they’ll go out and they’ll say, ‘How do we get this stuff done?’ And we’ll work together.”

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Trump Says He's Ready To 'Deal' With Democrats After Midterm Rout

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Officials were still counting ballots in elections across the United States when Democrats began openly advertising what they planned to do with their newly acquired power.
As soon as it became clear that Democrats would retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) issued a two-word warning indicating that he intended to spend the next two years investigating people in President Donald Trump’s orbit.
“LAWYER UP,” he posted on X — and as the current ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Garcia is poised to chair that powerful investigative committee come January and the induction of the new Congress.
LAWYER UP. 
— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) <a href="https://x.com/RepRobertGarcia/status/2117818643342041235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2026</a>
And while Garcia has long promised to investigate the Trump family and members of the administration, in the days leading up to the Tuesday midterms, he was singing a slightly different tune.
“The Democratic priorities are crystal clear: Lowering the cost of gas, groceries, rent, and taking on this Administration’s corruption,” he <a href="https://x.com/RepRobertGarcia/status/2115929576195149906">posted</a> on October 29, suggesting that the focus would be on addressing issues related to affordability first. “The American people deserve a government that works for them.”
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), as it became clear that Democrats would also control the U.S. Senate, issued a warning of his own: “Subpoenas.”
Subpoenas. 
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) <a href="https://x.com/RonWyden/status/2117830246342828496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2026</a>
Wyden, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, is also in a good position to take on the role of committee chair in January — and will therefore be in charge of oversight on hotly contested issues such as tariffs, federal taxes, and international trade.
Just hours earlier, he’d <a href="https://x.com/RonWyden/status/2117669661022032234">encouraged</a> Oregonians to get out and vote, saying, “Democracy, reproductive freedom, health care, inflation, tariffs, ICE, LGBTQ+ rights and so much more are all on the ballot today.”
“Noem, Markwayne, Miller, Homan, Bovino, what’s up? Clear your schedule,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) posted.
Noem, Markwayne, Miller, Homan, Bovino, what’s up? 
Clear your schedule. 
— Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (@repdeliaramirez) <a href="https://x.com/repdeliaramirez/status/2117823240815215033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2026</a>
“Thank you, Mr. President. Our thank you will come in January &#8211; with subpoenas,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) posted.
Thank you, Mr. President. Our thank you will come in January &#8211; with subpoenas. 
— Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (@RepYassAnsari) <a href="https://x.com/RepYassAnsari/status/2117837319294324972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2026</a>
“They are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we’ll be printing,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said, the Green New Deal advocate throwing environmental concerns out the window at the prospect of prosecuting his political opponents.
They are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we’ll be printing. 
— Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) <a href="https://x.com/EdMarkey/status/2117834099696205871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2026</a>
MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian read the tea leaves accurately as the scope of the Democrat sweep became clear late Tuesday evening.
“We are about to enter an era of Congressional investigations unlike anything we’ve seen in recent memory,” he <a href="https://x.com/kdilanianmsnow/status/2117843006367674493?s=46">predicted</a>.
Club for Growth senior analyst Andrew Follett predicted that there could be a silver lining for Republicans underneath all the subpoenas and investigations — and that silver lining might be the investigations themselves.
“Democrats won on a cost of living platform,” he said. “They will totally ignore that, and instead spend 2 years on obviously nonsensical investigations into Democrats[‘] political enemies.”
Democrats won on a cost of living platform. 
They will totally ignore that, and instead spend 2 years on obviously nonsensical investigations into Democrats political enemies. 
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) <a href="https://x.com/AndrewCFollett/status/2117827631512998212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2026</a>
Years of such investigations into — and even criminal prosecutions of — President Trump and his allies ahead of the 2024 elections accomplished little for Democrats, and Follett was one of many to predict that they were still likely to try the same tactic again.

Dems Campaigned On Affordability But Their Victory Threats Reveal Another Priority

Dems Give A Preview Of What's Coming In The New Year

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Democrat candidate Xavier Becerra defeated Republican Steve Hilton to succeed outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) as the next governor of California.
Becerra, who was the first Latino Health and Human Services Secretary under former President Joe Biden, pulled ahead of Hilton 65% to 34% with 54% of the vote counted. Decision Desk HQ called the race at 11:13 p.m. Eastern Time.
The former California attorney general will replace Newsom, who could not seek re-election due to term limits, following an election that began with a field of more than 60 candidates.
The California gubernatorial <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-races-come-into-focus-as-first-votes-pour-in">race</a> was unusually wide open from the start. Some of the state’s biggest Democrat names — including former Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. Alex Padilla, and Attorney General Rob Bonta — all declined to even enter the race, leaving a crowded field of mostly lesser-known candidates to battle for position.
Becerra rose to the top of the Democrat heap in April only after former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was forced to suspend his campaign — and ultimately resign from Congress as well — after several women came forward with accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior and at least one accusation of rape. Swalwell is still facing ongoing investigations.
Becerra campaigned on affordability and health care, attempting to leverage voters&#8217; anger over inflation and higher gas prices — which he attributed almost entirely to the war in Iran. Before Election Day, polls <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/xavier-becerra-lead-over-steve-hilton-gov-race-latest-poll/">showed</a> Becerra ahead by 25 percentage points.
Trump-endorsed Hilton, on the other hand, argued Becerra’s policies would do nothing to change the issues driving voter frustration — and would only bring Californians more of the same. He pledged to end the homeless crisis in the state.
&#8220;I&#8217;m a pragmatic problem solving change-maker,&#8221; Hilton <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-news/steve-hilton-governor-campaign-event-boyle-heights/3920398/">said</a> in a July event. &#8220;We may not agree about national politics, but I think we can agree we need change in California. So many people are desperate to see that.&#8221;
Still, the voters chose Becerra on Tuesday.

“Stop the Power Grab” with Xavier Becerra

California Chooses Biden-Era Throwback As Next Governor

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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) has requested protection from the U.S. Marshals Service after receiving death threats over her surprise endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan&#8217;s Senate race, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/11/03/haley-stevens-death-threats-marshals">according</a> to Axios.
Two senior, unnamed Trump administration officials told the outlet about the request, which Axios reported Tuesday. Stevens endorsed Rogers on Sunday over Democrat nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated her in the Democratic primary.
&#8220;She has received death threats and reached out to the Marshals Service. There&#8217;s a process to go through but she&#8217;s a member of Congress and we expect her request will be fulfilled,&#8221; one told Axios.
Stevens has faced a wave of public backlash over her endorsement, mainly from within her own party. Some have accused her of betraying the Democrat Party — despite her continued backing of other Democrats in the state of Michigan and around the nation — and others have said that she betrayed those who had supported her in the Democrat primary — which she ultimately lost to El-Sayed in a close race.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/midterm-elections-live-america-picks-sides-with-congress-on-the-line?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Midterm+Elections+Live%3A+America+Picks+Sides+With+Congress+On+The+Line" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIDTERM ELECTIONS LIVE: AMERICA PICKS SIDES WITH CONGRESS ON THE LINE </a>
Some critics have also accused Stevens of acting out of jealousy or &#8220;sour grapes&#8221; because she lost the primary or have suggested that her fiancé influenced her decision to back Rogers over El-Sayed.
Stevens <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abdul-was-getting-angrier-and-angrier-haley-stevens-defends-shocking-gop-endorsement">defended her decision</a>, however, saying that she&#8217;d been uncomfortable with El-Sayed&#8217;s stance on Israel for some time — and that an ad from the outside group Rebellion PAC blaming American affordability issues on U.S. aid to Israel had increased her concerns.
El-Sayed rejected the ad&#8217;s contents Saturday, before Stevens endorsed Rogers.
The last straw, she said, was being told she was no longer welcome on the campaign trail with El-Sayed, despite having initially endorsed him.
&#8220;Abdul has been getting angrier and angrier,” Stevens told CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper. “I was trying to help, and I endorsed him. That ad was very painful. There are so many Democrats who want to vote for our Democratic nominee, and they’re just being told, ‘hey, this is a party you don’t belong in,’ or ‘this is a campaign you don’t belong in.&#8217;”
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Vandals targeted the Biddeford, Maine, office belonging to Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) late Monday night ahead of Election Day.
Red paint was spread on the sidewalk in front of her office door, along with the phrase, &#8220;Blood on her hands&#8221; — marking the second time that office has been targeted since September.
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NEW: Susan Collins’ office was vandalized AGAIN overnight &#8211; the second time in a month.
Photos show “BLOOD ON HER HANDS” spray-painted outside, with red paint poured across the sidewalk.
Her campaign tells @FoxNews the staff is “undeterred.” https://t.co/PB1cP4r2gj
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The Maine Wire&#8217;s Jon Fetherston reported on the vandalism, showing local workers cleaning up the mess.
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Local police said that they received a call about the vandalism around 11 p.m. on Monday, and by Tuesday morning the paint had been washed away — but as Fetherston reported, members of Collins&#8217; staff were shaken by the attack.
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Collins&#8217; Chief of Staff Katie Brown issued a statement on Tuesday, saying, &#8220;This is another incident in a series and the second attempt at our Biddeford office to intimidate the senator and her staff. These tactics are disturbing, but not effective. Our staff is undeterred and on the job.&#8221;
The Biddeford office was also targeted on September 28, when someone spray painted the doors with the words, &#8220;Trump whore.&#8221;
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Susan Collins&#8217; office in Biddeford was vandalized this morning.
This targeted vandalism and violence against conservatives in Maine is a pattern we&#8217;ve seen repeated countless times over the last few years. https://t.co/bHMCdWNSTY
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) <a href="https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/2104630776390156778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Collins later revealed that her Bangor home had also been <a href="https://www.wmtw.com/article/susan-collins-maine-home-egged-bangor-vandalism/73985989">targeted</a>, recounting the story during a radio interview.
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&#8220;About a week ago, someone threw eggs all over our garage door, the front porch, window (and) front door,&#8221; Collins explained, saying that her husband, Tom Daffron, had only noticed the carnage when he got up to walk their dog.
&#8220;He said, &#8216;Susan, come out here. You won&#8217;t believe this.&#8217; And sure enough, the garage door was stained with broken eggs and eggshells on the ground. It was our dog, Pepper, who noticed, because she went over to start to lick it, that there were eggs that had been thrown at our front door, our window and our porch,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;That&#8217;s just so unacceptable. I think it shows, unfortunately, the level that politics — even in the great state of Maine — have degenerated to.&#8221;
Collins, who followed the late Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in supporting the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is no stranger to <a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2018-10-17/collins-husband-ricin-threat-mentioned-kavanaugh-vote">threats and attacks</a>. After she declared her intention to vote in favor of Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation, she received dozens of threatening phone calls and letters — including one sent to her Bangor home that said it contained deadly ricin, but was later determined to contain only starch.
The longtime Maine senator is currently battling to keep her seat against a challenge from Democrat Troy Jackson — who jumped into the race when the previous nominee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/platner-caves-suspends-senate-campaign">Graham Platner</a>, was forced to leave the race after a number of scandals including accusations of sexual assault.
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Actor Nicolas Cage told fans that he&#8217;s still &#8220;a little bit homeless&#8221; and living in hotels more than a month after a large sinkhole opened up at his Malibu property.
Cage, 62, was taking questions from the audience at Los Angeles Comic Con on Saturday when someone asked whether his Halloween plans included decorating his hourse or watching a scary movie, Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/11/02/celebrity-news/nicolas-cage-says-hes-currently-homeless-after-giant-sinkhole-opened-up-next-to-his-l-a-mansion/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">reported</a>.
&#8220;Absolutely. I’m currently a little bit homeless. Something happened to my house in Malibu, so I’m just sort of living in hotels, so I don’t have normal trick-or-treaters I would like to enjoy tonight,&#8221; he said.
The &#8220;National Treasure&#8221; star said he planned to take his four-year-old daughter, August, trick-or-treating and watch &#8220;The Shining&#8221; after putting her to bed.
&#8220;I am going to watch a movie,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to watch a movie where the director was actually nominated for the worst director at the Razzies, called &#8216;The Shining,&#8217; Stanley Kubrick — can you believe that? That is one of my favorite movies ever made, he directed the hell out of that movie.&#8221;
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-earth-just-tried-to-swallow-nicolas-cages-house">previously reported</a>, a large sinkhole opened up at Cage&#8217;s property in September — the apparent result of coastal erosion and heavy rains. A large portion of his driveway was swallowed up when the sinkhole first formed, but no one appeared to be at home at the time.
The Academy Award winner has not been able to live there since, and some neighbors had to evacuate in the immediate aftermath as local authorities assessed the scope of the damage. In total, all 31 homes on the beachfront drive were <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/11/02/celebrity-news/nicolas-cage-says-hes-currently-homeless-after-giant-sinkhole-opened-up-next-to-his-l-a-mansion/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">marked as unsafe</a> either due to their proximity to the hole or because the damage made access impossible for residents and emergency services.
Blaming &#8220;the loss of access for Fire and Sheriff’s personnel to respond to medical, fire or law enforcement emergencies,&#8221; the city deemed the house on that stretch of road to be unlivable: &#8220;The collapse of a beachfront driveway extended into the roadway, blocking resident and emergency access.&#8221;

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CNN&#8217;s top data analyst warned on Monday that polls predicting major wins for Democrats might not be telling the whole story, even with less than 24 hours until polls open on Election Day.
Harry Enten laid out the numbers, noting that the most recent polling suggested Democrats could come out of the midterm elections with 54 seats in the Senate — but then he explained why those polls might not be a fair indicator of what was to come, and it all hinged on polling trends in the era of President Donald Trump.
In recent elections — specifically between 2018 and 2024 — Enten explained, &#8220;The GOP has beaten the final Senate polling average in close races in states Trump won in the prior election by — look at this — by four-point-one points, by four-point-one points on average.&#8221;
Enten emphasized that he was discussing polling averages rather than individual polls. Applying that historical error to the current Senate map, he said, would give Republicans enough seats to hold their majority.
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&#8220;So let&#8217;s just assume that we do get these polling errors and the GOP is in fact, underestimated. What might that do?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Well it might do something like this. Hello! Okay, you go from all of a sudden Democrats fall significantly from 54 seats down to 49. Why? Because Alaska goes red, Texas goes red, Kansas goes red, Ohio goes red — and so I think that people should keep in mind that polls are just tools. There are definitely scenarios that are out there in which Republicans could very well hold the United States Senate.&#8221;
Enten also warned that because polling had been so inaccurate in recent years, it was also possible that Democrats could be underestimated.
NBC News ran some interesting numbers that could explain, at least in part, why Republicans might be underestimated in polls that ask specifically about the candidates running.
When voters were asked which party they trusted more on specific issues, <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2117329243378163787">NBC&#8217;s poll</a> found that although Democrats had gained ground since 2024, they may not have gained enough on the issues voters care about.
On immigration, for example, voters favored the GOP by 11 points. On corruption, they preferred Republicans by five points — and on the overall economy, Republicans led by two points. Democrats, by contrast, led by five points on the Iran war and by one point on inflation. The parties were dead even on upholding democracy.

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