Any indication of tepid support for Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, will be seen as a warning sign about his chances against Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent.
All eyes are on a key U.S. Senate race in Maine, where democratic senate hopeful Graham Platner, who has weathered a series of scandals, is likely to win a chance to unseat longtime Maine Senator Susan Collins in the general election. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.
Graham Platner and Lindsey Graham are both hoping for comfortably big victories.
At a Washington hearing on gender transition procedures, all mention of the alleged leading authority in U.S. transgender medicine was omitted by the party’s senators and their invited expert witness.
President Donald Trump's supporters are spreading a flurry of conspiracy theories about mail ballots after MAGA-aligned reality star Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral primary race — but he never had a chance, election data analyst Harry Enten told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday evening."Harry, can you tell us what the numbers actually are and what we are looking at in places like L.A.?" asked Collins.Enten started off by acknowledging "we would rather the system be that the votes were counted faster in California." But the fact remains, he continued, "this is ... the dumbest conspiracy theory I've ever heard."For starters, he said, this wasn't even the outcome the Democratic establishment in L.A. wanted. Incumbent mayor Karen Bass "wanted to face Spencer Pratt, for the simple reason that she would easily beat him. You could look at the runoff polls, right? [City Councilwoman] Nithya Raman actually is ahead of Karen Bass. Spencer Pratt was nearly 20 points behind Karen Bass."Indeed, he noted, net favorability polls show Bass "is greatly unpopular," but that Pratt "might be the one person in the [entirety of] Los Angeles who is running for mayor, who is less popular than she was. He would have been a God-given gift to her if she, in fact, faced him in the runoff." This is further underscored, he said, by the fact that Trump, whom Pratt heavily attached himself to, is down around 55 points in the city."What a surprise ... that a Republican is struggling in a city in which just 15 percent of the registered voters in that city are Republican," concluded Enten. "This isn't a conspiracy. It's simple math." - YouTube www.youtube.com
Republican candidate Steve Hilton won the second of two spots in the California Governor's Primary race on Monday evening, nearly a week after election day. The post BREAKING: Republican Candidate Steve Hilton Advances in California Governor’s Primary Race appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
What does California have to hide? After all, if the voting process were as fair, accurate and secure as Gov. Gavin Newsom and others have claimed, why not allow federal investigators to examine it? The rest of the country is, understandably, alarmed as it watches results come in from the June 2 primary — not...
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman, both Democrats, advanced to the general election in the city’s mayoral race on Tuesday, setting up a clash between one-time political allies and ending the hopes of reality TV star Spencer Pratt. With roughly 93% of the vote counted, Bass and Raman led a crowded […]
Jared Kushner's foreign business entanglements make Hunter Biden's overseas dealings look minor by comparison, an investigative author argued this week, accusing Washington of waving through a conflict of interest that dwarfs the one Republicans spent years probing.Casey Michel, whose forthcoming book "United States of Oligarchy" examines oligarchic influence in America, made the case on The Bulwark podcast on Monday alongside host Andrew Egger. He argued that Kushner went from being widely mocked in Middle Eastern diplomatic circles during Trump's first term to a billionaire reliant on money from Gulf autocrats.Asked to compare the two, Michel didn't mince words. "You cannot compare the final numbers, the totality of what Hunter Biden or Jared Kushner have taken in," he said.Hunter Biden was selling paintings for up to $100,000, a sum that would represent a great deal to most Americans. However, compared to Kushner, those figures are "miniscule," said Michel, adding that Kushner is a version of Hunter Biden who made exponentially more money. Kushner is now a billionaire, with Egger noting he's a version of Hunter Biden "who made 10,000 times as much money."At the center of the critique is Affinity Partners, the private equity firm Kushner launched in 2021 after leaving the White House. Reuters reported that the firm's assets jumped 60% to $4.8 billion by the end of 2024, up from $3 billion the prior year, after a cash injection from Gulf investors, including Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.Kushner is now serving as a U.S. envoy in talks covering Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran, all while holding no Senate-confirmed role and carrying no conventional diplomatic credentials. That dual role has drawn scrutiny even from Republicans — and has echoes of the foreign-influence concerns Democrats have raised for years.Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) questioned the arrangement in February, telling ABC News that Kushner and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff are "not subject to Senate confirmation, and they're not subject to oversight." Putting the pair in charge of three simultaneous negotiations, he added, "doesn't make any sense to me."According to a March 19 letter from House Oversight Democrats, Affinity has collected roughly $157 million in fees from foreign clients — including about $87 million directly from the Saudi government — while, the lawmakers said, generating little to no return for investors. The letter argued that the structure raised the possibility that Kushner was acting as an unregistered foreign agent.Republicans, by contrast, spent years demanding investigations into Hunter Biden's board seat at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and his overseas business ties. President Joe Biden pardoned his son in December 2024 before any foreign-influence case was brought.Jared Kushner Makes Hunter Biden Look Like a Boy Scout (w/ Casey Michel) by The BulwarkRead on Substack