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Michael Bloomberg spends $80m on Democrats as Trump moves $400m to Republican candidates

Billionaire ex-mayor of New York City is focusing funds on House races to help Democrats retake majority in midterms US politics live – latest updates The billionaire Michael Bloomberg will spend $80m to help Democratic candidates in the midterm elections , US media reported on Tuesday, a significant infusion of cash for a party that has recently…

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Housing Market Gets Hit as Mortgage Rates Skyrocket Ahead of MidtermThis could add another affordability headache for President Donald Trump and Republicans just weeks before the midterm elections.

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Ocasio-Cortez, Garcia latest Democrats to report receiving suspicious letterReps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) are the latest among several officials across the country who have reported receiving suspicious packages at their offices ahead of the midterm elections. Ocasio-Cortez released a statement Tuesday evening saying a suspicious letter was delivered to her district office in Hunts Point,…

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MAGA candidate's spoof of 'Democrats' backing him exposed in shady financials: reportA group that has called itself “Democrats for Mike Rogers,” now renamed “Together for Michigan,” draws much of its money from Republican-aligned sources, Federal Election Commission filings show, according to The Bulwark's Joe Perticone. The PAC’s two largest contributions came from GLCF, Inc., a conservative super PAC that has already been airing…

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North Carolina mail-in ballot restrictions to remain through midterms, judge rulesA federal judge ruled Monday that North Carolina is permitted to keep its strict mail-in ballot rules in place for November’s election, which were changed just before ballots were mailed in September. In the ruling, Judge Thomas D. Shroeder wrote that it was too close to the election to change the rules again, and that...

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Pete Hegseth met with Netanyahu during unannounced trip to Israel - Tue, 20 Oct 2026 PSTWASHINGTON – Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel this week, an encounter that comes as the Trump administrations weighs new strikes against Iran after November’s midterm elections. Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz met with Hegseth on Monday, a day after…

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Pollster scrambles amid looming investigation exposing their whole operation: reportA supposed upstart polling company has now revealed their entire operation was fake, and are claiming they did it all as a social experiment — but some election observers aren't buying. On Tuesday evening, the account for Wedgewood Polls, an outlet that has purported to release surveys on key races across the country, revealed all of their numbers were…

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‘Borders on the absurd.’ California fights Trump lawsuit to set aside 20,000 ballotsCalifornia’s top attorney called on a federal judge to block the Trump administration’s efforts to force the state to set aside up to 20,000 ballots that prosecutors claim could have been mailed to noncitizens. In a court filing Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Attorney General Rob Bonta said the lawsuit the Trump administration […]

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Election Odds Crash to New Low Amid Amy Acton Ad BacklashThe backlash comes as election forecasters rate the race for the Ohio governor's mansion as a toss-up.

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Pew finds majority of voters confident noncitizens won’t be able to vote in midtermsResearchers found that more than two-thirds of voters believe noncitizens will be stopped if they try to cast ballots, but Democrats are more confident than Republicans.

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Supreme Court justice sounds alarm over ‘nightmare’ unleashed by her colleagues: NYTA Supreme Court justice delivered a blistering assessment of her own court's record on elections just two weeks before the midterms. Justice Elena Kagan told an audience at Catholic University's law school on Tuesday that the conservative majority's rulings on campaign finance, partisan maps and voting rights have deepened the nation's divisions, The New…

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