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.
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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.
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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
— Alexis McAdams (@AlexisMcAdamsTV) <a href="https://x.com/AlexisMcAdamsTV/status/2117651622067425418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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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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@MaineWireJon https://t.co/4pXeZuSQVO
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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.
&#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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Just hours after Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) announced her endorsement of former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) for the U.S. Senate seat in her state, another Michigan Democrat announced he had crossed party lines and backed Rogers as well.
Former Rep. Hansen Clarke posted a joint announcement with his wife of nearly 20 years, Choi Clarke — and in the attached photo, both wore stickers that said &#8220;I&#8217;m cool. I voted.&#8221;
&#8220;Choi Clarke and I stand with Congresswoman Haley Stevens in supporting Mike Rogers for the U.S. Senate,&#8221; Clarke captioned the photo. &#8220;I served with Mike in the U.S. House of Representatives. I know that he is committed to improving the quality of our lives, protecting our nation’s security, and working with Democrats to get the job done.&#8221;
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Stevens, who said she is still a &#8220;proud Democrat,&#8221; told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Sunday that she had only recently concluded she could not support her former primary opponent, Abdul El-Sayed. She said she had watched El Sayed become &#8220;angrier and angrier&#8221; as the campaign progressed, raising concerns about his views on Israel and his continued association with radical Twitch streamer and communist sympathizer Hasan Piker.
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She previously voiced her disapproval over an ad promoting El-Sayed that blamed U.S. military aid to Israel for the affordability crisis facing American families. She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-on-dem-violence-el-sayeds-defeated-primary-opponent-puts-new-anti-israel-ad-on-blast">condemned the ad</a> — and called on El-Sayed to do the same, but he did not.
&#8220;This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days,” Stevens said at the time. “Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people’s health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President.”
Stevens also told reporters Sunday that El-Sayed had told her she was not welcome on his campaign.

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Vice President JD Vance conceded to a major parenting fail at a Monday rally appearance in Rome, New York.
Vance, along with President Donald Trump, was in the Empire State to help give a boost to Republican candidates ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections — Anthony Constantino, who hopes to fill the seat left by outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY); and Kailee Buller, who is challenging incumbent Rep. John Mannion (D-NY).
The vice president opened his remarks with a story about his family, as he often does, and recounted what happened when he instructed his children to go through their belongings and find toys to donate to others.
&#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;d like you to identify maybe a couple of toys you&#8217;d like to donate here,'&#8221; he told his daughter, who will turn five in December. &#8220;So she brings me two of her brother&#8217;s toys!&#8221;
The crowd laughed as Vance hung his head, adding, &#8220;I realized that despite my best efforts, ladies and gentlemen, I have apparently raised a Democrat &#8230; stealing her brother&#8217;s toys to give to somebody else.&#8221;
The crowd roared, and Vance pivoted: &#8220;And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve got to do in just one day is beat the Democrats and win for America!&#8221;
The vice president concluded his remarks with one last call for Republicans to get out and vote, saying, &#8220;We are fighting for people who love the United States of America, not those who hate it! Get out there and let them know that we are gonna send a message that America belongs to those who love it, not to those who hate it!&#8221;
In addition to every House seat, the state of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/new-york-results">New York</a> will also elect a governor — either incumbent Kathy Hochul (D-NY) or Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman — and will decide between incumbent Letitia James (D-NY) and Republican challenger Samantha Komatireddy for attorney general.

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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) defended her decision to endorse former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) in Michigan&#8217;s U.S. Senate race on Sunday, telling CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that her former primary opponent — Abdul El-Sayed — has been getting &#8220;angrier and angrier&#8221; recently.
&#8220;Your fellow Michigan congresswoman, Debbie Dingell, said that she talked to you at midnight last night, and that you told her you were not going to endorse Mike Rogers. If that is true, what changed between then and this morning?&#8221; Cooper&#8217;s tone was immediately accusatory.
&#8220;Well, look, this is just a weight off my shoulders, okay? Abdul has been getting angrier and angrier,&#8221; Stevens replied. &#8220;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&#8217;re just being told, &#8216;hey, this is a party you don&#8217;t belong in,&#8217; or &#8216;this is a campaign you don&#8217;t belong in.'&#8221;
Stevens said earlier on Sunday that she&#8217;d been told in no uncertain terms that she was not welcome on the campaign trail for El-Sayed — and that some of his comments had only reinforced her own feeling that she did not belong with his campaign.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve never cast a present vote in the Congress. I&#8217;m making a decision here. And, you know, that&#8217;s just where I landed on this,&#8221; Stevens continued. &#8220;I woke up this morning clear-eyed, fresh, and, you know, focused on what was in my heart. And that&#8217;s that, you know, and there&#8217;s a lot of incredible things going on around Michigan. And frankly, this country, with these elections here.&#8221;
Cooper continued to press, his tone still accusatory, trying to get at when exactly Stevens had changed her mind and what had pushed her over the edge.
&#8220;My question, though, is what changed from the phone conversation you had with Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, and waking up refreshed in the morning? Did you talk to anybody? Did you have a long night of the soul? Were you up all night? What — did you have a dream? What happened?&#8221; Cooper asked.
&#8220;No, look, I would just say that, you know, I had some time to, you know, think,&#8221; Stevens replied, noting that she had spoken with Dingell but wasn&#8217;t sure how late they&#8217;d been on the phone.
&#8220;I was there, and just, you know, alone with my thoughts. I was writing things out, and look, this level of anger and the things that we are seeing, we all want Democrats to win. I&#8217;m a really proud Democrat. And by the way, Abdul&#8217;s got every other Democrat with him. He just doesn&#8217;t have me and a few other people who — who love this party,&#8221; Stevens said.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just wondering what changed,&#8221; Cooper said again.
&#8220;Look, look, this is about Abdul getting angrier and angrier and saying, &#8216;I don&#8217;t want these people in my campaign,'&#8221; Stevens said.
&#8220;But he didn&#8217;t get angrier from midnight —&#8221; Cooper protested. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t get angrier from midnight to this morning, so I&#8217;m — I mean, something changed your mind. I&#8217;m just curious.&#8221;
After more back and forth, Stevens concluded, &#8220;The deal is, Anderson, is that, you know what? This is a weight off my shoulders. I&#8217;m being straight with everybody. You know, I&#8217;m trying to help the Democratic Party. I felt the same way with [Graham] Platner and his Nazi tattoo, and then the cases of abuse. And I&#8217;m just one person here. All right? That&#8217;s it. And I&#8217;m voting for Democrats up and down my ballot.&#8221;
Stevens sent waves of panic through the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-lose-it-after-haley-stevens-rejects-el-sayed-and-endorses-republican-mike-rogers">Democrat Party</a> on Sunday when she first attended a church service alongside Rogers and then went public with her endorsement. Most accused her of betraying the party and her own supporters, and a number suggested that she&#8217;d allowed her fiancé — who had previously said he was voting for Rogers — to influence her position.

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‘Abdul Was Getting Angrier And Angrier’: Haley Stevens Defends Shocking GOP Endorsement

Haley Stevens Defends Shock GOP Endorsement: 'Abdul Was Getting Angrier And Angrier'

Fox News host Dana Perino tore into Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday, mocking him for trying to dictate which questions he&#8217;d allow the press to ask.
Perino, who served as White House press secretary for former President George W. Bush, weighed in on the situation early Sunday afternoon, just hours after El-Sayed&#8217;s opponent in the Democrat primary — Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) — announced her endorsement of his opponent in the general election, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).
The conversation began with the ad that had started the firestorm — an ad made by Rebellion PAC that blamed the American affordability crisis on U.S. funding for Israel — and the fact that El-Sayed had never outright condemned it. That had been a sticking point for Stevens, who has always described herself as a non-Jewish Zionist.
&#8220;Even his — the spokespeople on El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign said, &#8216;Oh, he condemned it,&#8217; but he wouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; Perino said. &#8220;And it is so insulting. Everybody should absolutely condemn that, and what was really crazy is you had people on the Democratic side of things even after that ad came out saying that Jews in Michigan have a moral obligation to vote for El-Sayed.&#8221;
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Perino went on to say that the reaction to Stevens — from a number of Democrats — had been to accuse her of betraying the party ahead of the general election on Tuesday.
&#8220;&#8216;How could she ever look at Barack Obama again?'&#8221; she quoted some as saying, adding, &#8220;And I think no, the difference here is that she was willing to say, &#8216;I am not going to just sit here and take it. All of you expect me to just be called an idiot.'&#8221;
Perino then argued that El-Sayed&#8217;s failure to condemn the ad was &#8220;intentional&#8221; on his part, and predicted that he was &#8220;going to have to pay for it.&#8221;
&#8220;I also love this whole thing of, like, he loves America so much then and he tells every reporter sitting there like, &#8216;You&#8217;re not allowed to ask about this.&#8217; That&#8217;s not how it works,&#8221; she added. &#8220;He answers every question with a question.&#8221;

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Former Bush Admin Official Cheers Stevens Giving El-Sayed A Taste Of His Own Medicine

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