UFC President Dana White played along with President Donald Trump&#8217;s press secretary joke Monday before making clear he didn&#8217;t want the job.
White joined Trump at a White House press briefing, even taking a few questions.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to do this: Who has the first question?&#8221; he asked, prompting laughs from around the room. &#8220;I have zero political aspirations. I was at a fight &#8230; when he called me and told me that he had done this, and the last 24 hours of my life has been insane. But &#8230; yeah, good to see you!&#8221;
The first question, as it happened, was right up White&#8217;s alley: the reporter asked whether Trump or former President Joe Biden would win in a cage match, all other things being equal.
&#8220;The toughest, most resilient human being that I&#8217;ve ever met in my entire life,&#8221; White said, gesturing toward Trump as he spoke.
&#8220;Many times during the last eight, ten years — whatever it&#8217;s been — I&#8217;ve told him, &#8216;Why do you keep doing this? Why are you doing this?&#8217; When he was going through everything that he went through, and as tough and as resilient as I thought, after he got shot, I, ah &#8230; yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;He is a on-of-one unique human being and —&#8221; he trailed off.
Then came the follow-up question: &#8220;Would it be a knockout victory for the president?&#8221;
&#8220;It would be — it would be very bad, yeah,&#8221; White said. &#8220;Yeah, I think it would be very bad.&#8221;
As reporters continued to wave their hands and call out his name, White seemed both baffled and amused: &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe you actually have questions for me.&#8221;
Another reporter asked about a possible pardon for the late Pete Rose — which both White and Trump seemed to agree was a good idea.
CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins pressed White on a more pressing issue, asking whether he&#8217;d ever officially told President Trump &#8220;no&#8221; to the job offer.
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t tell the president &#8216;no&#8217; to anything,&#8221; White said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t say &#8216;no.&#8217; I — literally every media outlet was calling me and I didn&#8217;t want to be disrespectful and say anything until he said something first.&#8221;
Trump then described how the situation had played out, saying that he&#8217;d been having a &#8220;bad press day&#8221; and thought of White&#8217;s name — and so as a joke, he&#8217;d said to the press that he intended to have White come and be his new press secretary. Of course, he said, the press ran with the story as if it wasn&#8217;t a joke — so he&#8217;d invited White to come to Washington so they could &#8220;have a little fun with it.&#8221;
Trump later asked White directly whether he&#8217;d like the job — &#8220;or do you just want to stay with this ridiculous UFC?&#8221;
He immediately got a firm response: &#8220;I do not want to be in politics. No.&#8221;
&#8220;I am devastated to hear this,&#8221; Trump laughed. &#8220;Goodbye everybody!&#8221;
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🚨 LMAO! President Trump just had this gem moment then walked out of the room
&#8220;Dana — would you like to be PRESS SECRETARY of the United States of America? Or do you just want to stay with this ridiculous UFC?&#8221;
DANA WHITE: &#8220;I do not want to be in politics. No.&#8221;
TRUMP: &#8220;I am devastated to hear this. Goodbye everybody!&#8221;
Definitely one of the most memorable pressers of this administration 🤣
Trump should rotate in @NICKIMINAJ next!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2119918468157825025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighed in Monday on War Secretary Pete Hegseth — who is already being targeted for impeachment by incoming Democrats and at least one outgoing House Republican.
Rubio made it clear he stood firmly behind Hegseth and believed he&#8217;d done an excellent job in his current role, saying the people attacking Hegseth were doing so because of politics rather than any real failure on the War Secretary&#8217;s behalf.
&#8220;I think he&#8217;s done a great job. I mean, I&#8217;ve worked with him every single day on many of these topics, I&#8217;ve seen the work he does and seen the professionalism he brings to it,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;He&#8217;s very smart, he works very hard, he puts a lot of hours into this. And on all of the policy issues we&#8217;ve worked on together, I think he&#8217;s done a very good job.&#8221;
One reporter tried to ask about artificial intelligence, but another reporter cut in with a follow-up on Hegseth. Specifically, did it concern Rubio that one of the loudest voices calling for Hegseth&#8217;s impeachment was a Republican: ousted Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who lost his primary and will be replaced in January.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s unfair,&#8221; Rubio replied. &#8220;Yeah, look, I think it&#8217;s — I think Pete&#8217;s done a good job, I really do. Again, I work with him, and so I see perhaps a side of him that the media doesn&#8217;t see and members of Congress may not see. But I think Pete works really hard; he&#8217;s incredibly smart.&#8221;
Rubio went on to note that Hegseth and the War Department had been instrumental in delivering on key priorities — in Iran and around the world — for President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.
&#8220;But obviously politics are politics,&#8221; Rubio concluded, acknowledging that there would always be opposition but saying again that he believed Hegseth had done a great job as War Secretary.
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Two Marines have been scrubbed from the roster of the U.S. Navy&#8217;s elite Blue Angels stunt-flying team, but the details around their abrupt exits are few and far between.
Marine Maj. Scott Laux was the first to be removed from the team, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/blue-angels-pilot-scott-laux-booted-from-elite-navy-flight-team-for-failing-to-meet-standards/">reported</a>. A third-year member who served as narrator for the group, Laux was reportedly pulled from the last performance this year for &#8220;failing to uphold standards&#8221; — but there was no explanation regarding which standards he might have violated.
The Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) confirmed Laux&#8217;s departure on Friday with a statement from the public affairs office: &#8220;Blue Angel #6 was removed from the team for failing to uphold the standards expected of members of the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron and will not participate in the team’s remaining performance this season.&#8221;
That last performance — the annual homecoming air show at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida — took place on November 6 and 7 with only five of the usual six jets in the air.
But the story did not end there: as The Aviationist first <a href="https://theaviationist.com/2026/11/07/blue-angels-remove-maj-scott-laux/#deny">reported</a>, Marine Capt. Danielle Cribb was also scrubbed from the team in recent weeks. She had listed Laux as her &#8220;mentor.&#8221;
Cribb, who served as the Blue Angels’ Public Affairs Officer, disappeared from the team&#8217;s website sometime between August 7 and October 16, The Aviationist reported based on archived snapshots stored on the Internet Archive&#8217;s Wayback Machine. Both her bio and photo were removed from the website — and Laux&#8217;s have as well.
According to the now-removed bio, Laux spent nearly a decade as a Marine fighter pilot in the cockpit of an F/A-18 Hornet before joining the Blue Angels in 2024. In the 2025 season, he became the group&#8217;s narrator — and in 2026, he was moved to the No. 6 position, flying as the opposing solo.
The opposing solo position flies a series of high-speed head-on crossing passes, mirror-image maneuvers, and minimum-radius turns in coordination with the lead solo — the No. 5 position.
Losing the opposing solo means the team&#8217;s lead solo flies the patterns alone. Opposing crossing maneuvers, for example, would be replaced by <a href="https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/initiatives/airshow/Blue_Angles_Maneuvers_Manual.pdf">single-aircraft passes</a> executed by the lead solo while the other four jets fly in the traditional diamond pattern. Instead of maneuvers like the &#8220;Mirror Image Dirty Pass,&#8221; in which the lead and opposing solos fly together (one inverted and one upright), the lead solo executes an &#8220;Inverted Dirty Flat Pass&#8221; down the flight line.
The rigorous training — which includes more than 120 practice flights during winter training at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California — does not allow the team to keep backup pilots on standby.
None of the reports have indicated whether Laux or Cribbs have been permanently removed. Cribb&#8217;s family members, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/blue-angels-quietly-removed-another-officers-bio-from-website/">the New York Post</a>, have said that her removal from the team is unrelated to Laux.

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Tim Tebow issued a stark warning to parents about a disturbing trend targeting young boys — particularly young male athletes.
The former Denver Broncos quarterback explained the way &#8220;sextortionists&#8221; preyed on young male athletes by posing as young women and sending them explicit photos. If the boys respond in kind, the perpetrators would then threaten to go public with the images if they did not pay a specified sum — something that they knew could damage the boys&#8217; reputations and even interfere with potential scholarships and leadership opportunities.
Tebow shared video from a recent podcast addressing the situation, captioning the clip, &#8220;PARENTS: If your son plays sports, hear me out. Predators are targeting athletes on purpose. Boys with a platform. A reputation. A starting spot. Something to protect — that’s exactly why they’re picked. The scheme: a predator poses as a girl, sends an explicit photo, and once your son sends one back — the trap closes: &#8216;We got you now.'&#8221;
&#8220;This moves fast. Faster than most parents realize,&#8221; Tebow&#8217;s caption continued. &#8220;Shame keeps boys silent, and silence is what predators are counting on. This is a growing crime and it’s happening on the same apps your son uses every day. Have this conversation before he needs it: if this ever happens, he comes to you. No shame. No punishment. Just help.&#8221;
&#8220;We know the enemy is going after boys that play sports,&#8221; he said in the video. &#8220;Because they assume they have a platform in their school and a reputation, catfishing them and pretending to be a pretty young girl and sending them an explicit photo and the boy&#8217;s responding believing that it&#8217;s a beautiful young girl.&#8221;
Once the catfisher had photos of the boys, they used them to extort money by threatening to publish the photos.
&#8220;Unfortunately, dozens and dozens of boys have now committed suicide because of it, and often within the first two hours,&#8221; Tebow continued. &#8220;Because they don&#8217;t know what to do and they feel so ashamed. This is a huge, growing issue — and actually, the start of that trend, it was more about pedophilia and the pleasure side of it. But it&#8217;s actually grown to be more of the goal of individuals trying to lure, groom, to gain money and truly to sextort them.&#8221;
Tebow has been a vocal advocate for parents to be proactive and discuss the threat with their children before it becomes an issue urging parents to remind especially young boys that they are loved no matter what.
According to the National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children (NCMEC), sextortion cases exploded from about 10,000 reports in 2022 to more than 30,000 just two years later in 2024. More than two-thirds of those engaging in the schemes demanded money either in addition to or instead of images.
The FBI and other advocacy groups have confirmed Tebow&#8217;s claim that dozens of boys have been driven to suicide by the threat of exposure — reports indicate there have been as many as 36 suicides related to <a href="https://www.ice.gov/features/sextortion">sextortion</a> cases just since 2021.
The threat has become widespread enough that the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-and-partners-warn-student-athletes-of-sexual-exploitation-schemes">NCAA and the FBI</a> issued joint warnings to college athletes, advising them that scammers often researched their targets and targeted their scams to reflect what the specific athletes were expected to earn under the new NIL rules allowing them to profit individually.
“We hope to break down barrier so law enforcement can help prevent further abuse and connect college athletes who may be targeted with the right support,” said NCAA Vice President for Enforcement, Jon Duncan. “If we play even a small role in preventing these crimes or getting justice or appropriate support for the people impacted by them, we will do everything we can to help.”

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President Donald Trump admitted during a recent interview that he would likely have a hard time getting into heaven if God required him to forgive some of the people who had attacked him.
Trump sat down with CBS News host Ross Douthat for a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview that aired Sunday evening — and while much of the conversation focused on the previous week&#8217;s bruising midterm elections and Trump&#8217;s path forward with much more opposition in Congress, Douthat asked Trump to share his thoughts on heaven.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about death,&#8221; Douthat said, and Trump appeared amenable to the discussion. Douthat then mentioned the repeated attempts on Trump&#8217;s life — including the day the president was shot in the ear at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally in July of 2024 — and asked what he believed would become of him when he did eventually leave this life.
&#8220;You have survived multiple assassination attempts,&#8221; Douthat said. &#8220;One came very, very close to you. I imagine that had some kind of effect on how you think about mortality. What do you think happens when you die?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I hope I&#8217;m missed,&#8221; Trump said with a chuckle. &#8220;I hope — no, but I really mean it, I hope I&#8217;m missed!&#8221;
&#8220;I understand. I mean to you — what do you think happens to Donald Trump when you die?&#8221; Douthat asked again, clarifying that he meant the question more in a literal sense. &#8220;Not your memory, your self.&#8221;
&#8220;You mean where I go?&#8221; Trump asked. &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m a religious person, so in theory I go to heaven.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you think you&#8217;re going to heaven?&#8221; Douthat asked.
&#8220;I hope so; I don&#8217;t want to go to hell,&#8221; Trump replied.
Douthat went on to press Trump on things he had said about his political opponents — and &#8220;enemies.&#8221; He referenced Erika Kirk&#8217;s statement about forgiving the man who assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and asked whether Trump thought he could ever forgive his own enemies if that were required for him to enter heaven.
&#8220;You said, &#8216;I hate my opponents, and I don&#8217;t want the best for them,'&#8221; Douthat recalled, and Trump nodded along. &#8220;Let&#8217;s say you pass away. You&#8217;re entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, anyone who you expressed hate for over the years: do you think you can do it?&#8221;
&#8220;Then I wouldn&#8217;t be real, would I? I mean, if I said to you, sure, the easy answer to that&#8217;s, &#8216;Oh, yes, I could forgive,'&#8221; Trump replied. &#8220;I found them to be extremely dishonest people, very bad people, very bad for our country, I love our country far more than I can love people, and people like that —&#8221;
&#8220;Is the answer no?&#8221; Douthat prompted.
&#8220;The answer is no,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I want to be honest.&#8221;
&#8220;Before the judgment throne of God?&#8221; Douthat asked again.
&#8220;Before the judgment — I think they were very bad people. I dislike — I can use the word hate, I do hate some of my enemies,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been terrible. Look what they put me through, the weaponization. I got indicted, I got impeached —&#8221;
&#8220;Mr. President, you have had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you are telling me you couldn&#8217;t find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?&#8221; Douthat pressed again, not really acknowledging Trump&#8217;s reference to the Democrats&#8217; repeated attempts to either throw him out of office or into jail. &#8220;After all that&#8217;s been given to you?&#8221;
Trump stuck to his guns, repeating, &#8220;I mean it&#8217;s such an easy answer, all I have to do is say, &#8216;Yes, I can.&#8217; Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.&#8221;

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Following his conviction on rape and sexual assault charges, actor Russell Brand has been mocked and taunted by the other inmates at HMP Wandsworth.
According to a <a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16274951/Russell-Brand-cowering-fear-cell-prisoners-chant.html">report</a> from The Daily Mail, Brand has been reduced to &#8220;cowering in fear&#8221; as his fellow inmates shout vulgar nicknames at him: &#8220;There’s a Brand new nonce on the wing! A Brand new nonce. Brand, you c*nt, you ain’t so f*cking lairy now.”
Making a play on the actor&#8217;s name and adding a slang term for &#8220;rapist,&#8221; &#8220;child molester,&#8221; or &#8220;sex offender,&#8221; the chant refers to him as &#8220;a Brand new nonce.&#8221; The word &#8220;lairy&#8221; is a British slang term used to describe a person who is loud, brash, rowdy, or over the top — either in their behavior or their dress — particularly if the behavior is fueled by alcohol.
The other inmates may only be part of the problem for Brand, however, as Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/11/07/celebrity-news/russell-brand-cowering-in-fear-in-cell-as-shout-abusive-chant-at-him-report/">reported</a> that HMP Wandsworth has been the center of several disturbing reports regarding the living conditions of inmates.
Classified as a Category B prison — which often handles prisoners who have not yet been sentenced or who are awaiting transfers to other prisons — HMP Wandsworth often operates well over capacity.
The Howard League for Penal Reform issued a <a href="https://hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_reports/hmp-wandsworth-3/">report</a> following a surprise inspection of the prison in 2024, declaring the facility unsafe, the staff inattentive, and the prison a hotbed of violence and drug use among the inmates.
<blockquote>Wandsworth was not safe: there had been 10 self-inflicted deaths since the last inspection, seven of which had occurred in the last 12 months. The rate of self-harm was high and rising, and yet around 40% of emergency cell bells were not answered within five minutes.</blockquote>
That same report determined that, at the time, the facility was responsible for 1,457 inmates even though the prison was only approved to house 894 inmates at a time — meaning that HMP Wandsworth was operating at 163% of its allowed capacity.
Brand was sent to HMP Wandsworth following his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russell-brand-convicted-of-rape-sexual-assault">conviction</a> on one rape and three sexual assault charges. As The Daily Wire previously reported, he was also acquitted of two additional rape counts and one count of attempted indecent assault.
The charges stemmed from incidents that allegedly occurred between 1999 and 2009, and Brand admitted to living a sexually promiscuous lifestyle in his younger years, but denied all charges — and has said that his recent conversion to Christianity has changed his life for the better.

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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) warned President Donald Trump&#8217;s new White House Chief of Staff to &#8220;lawyer up&#8221; — but he could not name a single crime that might make that necessary.
Garcia aimed that warning at Stephen Miller, the long-time Trump adviser who was promoted to replace outgoing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — but when CNN anchor Dana Bash asked what crime he believed Miller may have committed, Garcia could only name policies with which he disagreed.
The California congressman — who is poised to chair the powerful House Oversight Committee when Democrats take control of the chamber in January — sat down with Bash for Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union to discuss his party&#8217;s sweep of the midterm elections on Tuesday and what was likely to come in the next congress.
Garcia told Bash that President Trump&#8217;s DOJ had already threatened an investigation into him over comments he&#8217;d made in the past about bringing &#8220;<a href="https://patch.com/california/longbeach-ca/justice-department-scrutinizes-rep-garcia-over-alleged-musk-threat">weapons</a>&#8221; to the &#8220;fight for democracy&#8221; — and complained that people within the administration had &#8220;thin skin.&#8221; He went on to say that Democrats had &#8220;a job to do,&#8221; and would do it whether the DOJ investigated them or not.
&#8220;Let me ask you about the job that you said you had to do,&#8221; Bash prompted. &#8220;You did say that Stephen Miller needs to &#8216;lawyer up.&#8217; Why are you going to investigate him? Do you think that he committed a crime?&#8221;
&#8220;What we think is that Stephen Miller is the architect of this horrific unjust policy happening across the country and the way that we are treating folks — look, Stephen Miller called Alex Pretti, as we know, an assassin,&#8221; Garcia began, and he laid out a laundry list of personal and political complaints about Miller — none of which appeared at face value to be criminal.
&#8220;The way that he is going around creating immigration policy that separates families, that is causing people harm, that&#8217;s creating a detention process where a few large companies are profiting, the unconstitutional detention of people,&#8221; Garcia continued. &#8220;The way that folks are losing their due process rights, that has to be investigated, and we know that Stephen Miller has been an architect of that.&#8221;
&#8220;So what&#8217;s happening there, what&#8217;s happening in Iran, Stephen Miller is at the center of the major policy decisions that are happening in the administration, so it does deserve oversight and investigation,&#8221; Garcia concluded.
&#8220;Oversight and investigation,&#8221; Bash repeated, asking again, &#8220;Do you think that anything he did was criminal?&#8221;
&#8220;That — look — what&#8217;s important is, we believe that he&#8217;s been at the center of actions that are unconstitutional, unjust, and possibly illegal,&#8221; Garcia insisted, but still was unable to point to any specific crime for which Miller might actually need to &#8220;lawyer up.&#8221;

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Newly-selected White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller promised on Friday that he was all in, and ready to support President Donald Trump and his administration for the rest of his term.
Miller joined the president and a number of his supporters at Mar-a-Lago — after Tuesday&#8217;s bruising midterm elections handed control of both the House and the Senate to the Democrats — and struck a defiant tone as he declared his intention to stand with the president no matter what.
&#8220;It was the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump all the way back in 2015 when he came down that Golden Escalator,&#8221; Miller said, recalling Trump&#8217;s initial entry into the 2016 presidential election. &#8220;And let me tell you, if it wasn&#8217;t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now.&#8221;
&#8220;This man saved America,&#8221; Miller continued. &#8220;He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. And he saved our country from threats at home and abroad, which would&#8217;ve been the end of the American Dream forever.&#8221;
Miller went on to point out the opposition Trump had faced from Americans, adding, &#8220;This man took a bullet for us. He faced down life in prison for us. He saved the Republican Party from the ash heap of history and has made it stronger, more popular, and more resilient than ever before.&#8221;
&#8220;We need to stand with the man who has stood with us and this country with every fiber of his being,&#8221; Miller declared. &#8220;It is the honor of my life to be President Trump&#8217;s Chief of Staff — and I swear to you and I pledge to you, Mr. President, my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment, and my total devotion to your success and the success of this country. Thank you, President Trump.&#8221;
Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-defends-trumps-iran-call-by-reminding-americans-why-they-elected-him">Marco Rubio</a> also spoke to the crowd on Friday, reminding them that President Trump had been reelected in 2024 to make the hard decisions — even when those hard decisions came with tough political consequences like the recent Democrat midterm sweep.

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In the aftermath of the bruising midterm elections, Secretary of State Marco Rubio took a moment on Friday to remind voters why they had elected President Donald Trump two years earlier.
Rubio, began with a light-hearted crack about the multiple jobs he holds within the Trump administration — currently serving as National Security Adviser in addition to his duties at the State Department — and attributed at least a portion of the damage wrought in Tuesday&#8217;s elections to President Trump&#8217;s willingness to make tough decisions, even when they might not give him any political advantage.
&#8220;I see firsthand that this is a man who wakes up every morning with one thing as a priority: you,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;Our country and its future. The most important thing a president can do for a country is to keep it safe, and there are people around the world that want to destroy it. They want to destroy our country, they want to destroy our way of life.&#8221;
&#8220;[Trump] was elected to do the hard things — the hard things. It would have been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is to ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy,&#8221; Rubio continued. &#8220;Put it aside and don’t worry about it — that would have been the easiest thing to do, honestly, to just basically say leave it alone, who cares, that’s going to be someone’s problem in the future. But this president didn’t do that.&#8221;
&#8220;He confronted it because what Iran wants to do is not just destroy our country and to destroy our way of life, and threaten our children — we cannot live in a world in which the most radical terroristic regime on the planet possesses a weapon of mass destruction. And we’ve had president after president ignore it and allow it to linger, but this president wasn’t allowed — wasn’t elected to ignore it,&#8221; the former Florida senator concluded. &#8220;And he wasn’t elected to allow threats to linger. And he did it for you. Not for him, not for anybody else — he did it for you and for our country, and for that we, our children, and children not yet born owe a sense, a deep sense of gratitude. And I know he’ll continue to do it and that’s why I’m so honored to be his Secretary of State. And that’s why I know he’s so honored that all of you are here today.&#8221;
Democrats swept the midterm elections on Tuesday, retaking control of both the House and the Senate and flipping a number of traditionally Republican seats in the process. Many of the Democrats who won big in those elections campaigned on putting an end to the war in Iran and fixing kitchen-table issues to make life more affordable for Americans — but in the days since, they have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-campaigned-on-your-bills-but-their-victory-threats-reveal-another-priority">suggested</a> that they are more interested in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-dem-promises-retribution-against-anyone-who-helped-trump">investigating and prosecuting</a> anyone who has ever been in President Trump&#8217;s orbit.

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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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