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The Bet on America With Bloomberg Opinion

With the US midterm elections approaching, the balance of power is up for grabs — and the implications extend far beyond Washington. Bloomberg Opinion’s Timothy L. O’Brien, Ronald Brownstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, John Authers, Allison Schrager and Nir Kaissar discussed these topics and more at an exclusive event for Bloomberg.com subscribers on…

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One White House operative 'walked to the gallows' as Trump seeks midterm scapegoat: reportWhite House aides are serving up a scapegoat to blame if Republicans get hammered in the midterms, and they’ve settled on the mastermind behind the GOP’s redistricting plan. Republican operatives privately say the real problem is President Donald Trump himself – he started a war with Iran in an election year, prices went up, and voters turned on the…

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'This Is Huge,' Economist Says as Filing Shows Zuckerberg Getting Ready to Pay California Billionaire TaxFederal filings released Wednesday reveal how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest men in the world, is getting ready to potentially pay a billionaire wealth tax that is on California's November midterm ballot—an indication of the grassroots campaign's impact. "This is huge," economist Gabriel Zucman, an outspoken supporter of the proposed tax,…

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Top Democratic Leader in Redistricting Fight ArrestedVirginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic leader behind the state’s redistricting effort, was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme. In a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lucas and six co-defendants were charged with conspiring to distribute and possess…

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Ecuador Arrests Noboa Opponent Luisa Gonzalez in Money Laundering ProbeEcuadorian police and prosecutors have arrested President Daniel Noboa’s left-wing opponent in the past two elections, linking her to a money laundering probe.

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Israel Election 2026: Will Trump-Endorsed Netanyahu Be Reelected?Israel is gearing up for an election on Oct. 27 that will effectively be a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister. This will be the first national ballot since the assault by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, the deadliest day in Israel’s history.

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Musk Giving Tops $445 Million in Midterm Election Push for GOPWith a fresh infusion of cash to his super political action committee in the first two weeks of October, Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle and become one of the biggest-ever contributors to such groups.

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Chris LaCivita and James Blair donate full Bosnian consulting fee to Trump presidential libraryWASHINGTON — President Trump’s election advisers Chris LaCivita and James Blair have donated their six-figure consulting fees from a controversial side-hustle in Bosnia and Herzegovina to Trump’s presidential library, The Post has learned. Trump was “gloating” and “very braggadocious” in private conversations this week upon learning the development, a…

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Trump tells Iowa rally crowd he encouraged Ramaswamy to keep running widely criticized campaign ad – as it happenedThis live blog is now closed. Sign up for the Breaking News US email Trump attacks Ohio governor over call for Ramaswamy to drop ‘deeply troubling’ ad Reporting from Anchorage, Alaska Mary Peltola’s campaign to represent Alaska in the US Senate has taken her to parts of the massive state’s interior that are inaccessible by road and on the frontlines of…

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Trump Says He Has ‘Right’ to Run for Third Term: ‘They Cheated Us’President Donald Trump argues that the 2020 election entitled him to seek the presidency again.

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India Voter-Roll Protests Widen as Farmers Set to Join InIndian farmers who helped force Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a rare policy retreat four years ago are set to join nationwide protests against a contentious overhaul of voter rolls on Friday, widening a movement challenging the country’s Election Commission.

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