Bernie Sanders on possible 2028 bid: ‘I suspect that’s not going to happen’
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After two high-profile presidential runs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) all but ruled out another try in 2028. Speaking with Robert Costa at the National Press Club, the interviewer relayed that several of Sanders’s allies had broached the prospect of the Vermont senator giving the presidency another shot in the next election cycle. Sanders, 84, began […]
Attorney general pick joined Trump’s legal team in 2023 – there seems little doubt he would be prepared to carry out the president’s wishesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailTodd Blanche’s nomination to be permanently made the attorney general marks the apex of a gamble from a man who bet everything on representing Donald Trump and became one of his most steadfast and punishing enforcers.Trump announced the news at the White House on Monday. The nomination will require Senate confirmation to become permanent. Continue reading...
Former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino suggested on Monday that he is not ruling out a 2028 presidential run. Bovino admitted as much on social media in response to a NewsNation report that says he launched a committee to explore a possible campaign for the White House. “NewsNation is reporting I’m exploring a run for […]
The man California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called "Gestapo Greg" is now gunning for the White House — and he's ready to take on whoever President Donald Trump has in mind as his successor.Gregory Bovino, the firebrand former Border Patrol commander-at-large who became the face of Trump's brutal immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis, has launched an exploratory committee for a 2028 presidential bid, NewsNation confirmed Monday. The move puts him on a direct collision course with Trump, who has publicly backed a Vance-Rubio ticket as his preferred succession plan."If I were President, I'd lead that [deportation] effort from the front and be on the front lines from time to time," Bovino said in a statement first reported by the Daily Beast — a barely veiled shot at Trump, whom he has accused of going soft on immigration.The bid comes loaded with baggage. Bovino was ousted in January after federal agents under his command fatally shot two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. He was widely photographed in a long dark coat that Newsom, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, described as looking like Bovino "literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb." When Bovino was subsequently removed from his post, Newsom wrote on X: "Gestapo Greg is out. Keep the pressure up. It's working."More recently, Bovino attended a far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal, where he was photographed alongside the event's organizer — a man who invoked the Weimar Republic as a model for mass deportation policy.His own party isn't impressed. When asked about Bovino's criticisms of the Department of Homeland Security, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin delivered a withering dismissal: "I never met the guy. He's irrelevant to me. I don't know who he is."Bovino's campaign website, Bovino2028.com, carries the slogan "House Bovino — Men Fight Back" and refers to immigrants as "foreign hordes."
At first, Graham Platner was under scrutiny for having a Nazi tattoo — but it has only gone downhill from there for the Democrat candidate.“This story is a bizarre one,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments, explaining that now, Platner has been exposed for sexting other women while married to his wife.“They’ve only been together for like a year and a half at the point that he gets caught sexting other women,” Stu says.The wife had “told the campaign about the messages she had found earlier in their marriage in the spring of 2025.”“She said, ‘Well, he’s been sexting tons of women on these apps,’ and you know, she apparently told this to one of the aides, who then has now kind of come out and made it more public after being fired during a previous controversy about the Nazi tattoo,” Stu says.“So, again, this all comes back to 'don’t get a Nazi tattoo,'” he adds.“Well, correct,” co-host Dave Landau agrees. “They also had a very lovely press conference where he looks at his wife and says, ‘You know, we love each other very much.’ And she looks like he’s holding a gun to her back or that she’s rigged with dynamite ready to explode.”Platner has also come under fire for controversial posts from his own Reddit account, which included comments playing down sexual assault and crude posts about sex workers and masturbation.But the controversy doesn’t end there.His account on Kik was exposed, which is apparently a popular private messaging app among child predators.“I don’t know that it’s popular among anyone else in the world except child predators, but they essentially have no moderation. So this is where child predators go to message children without moderation,” Stu explains, pointing out that Platner’s profile on the app contained a shirtless mirror selfie with a towel wrapped around his waist.“But I’m about to tell you the worst part about the story. The worst part about Graham Platner. This is the part that’s going to turn your stomach more than anything else in this story,” he continues, explaining that it's Platner’s user ID on Kik: phustle0331.“It makes me have chills that I don’t want to describe,” he adds.Want more from Stu and Dave?To enjoy more of Stu and Dave's lethal blend of wit, humor, and insightful commentary subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
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When it comes to prediction markets, the artificial intelligence bubble has nothing on Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Nearly tied with Vice President JD Vance in the odds for the 2028 GOP Presidential nomination, Rubio’s odds are more overvalued than any other political bet. That’s not to say Rubio is doing a poor job as […]
Recent Supreme Court decisions have eased the way for states to enact more partisan gerrymanders. Now legislatures are racing to redraw their congressional maps in rare mid-decade redistricting efforts that may reconfigure the calculus of who will win the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the midterm elections this November.These endeavors were inspired by President Donald Trump, whose exhortations last year for Texas lawmakers to redraw their maps in favor of his party kicked off a frenzy of tit-for-tat redistricting from both GOP-controlled and Democratic-led states, with Republicans in particular benefiting under the aegis of the conservative-majority Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Trump has successfully challenged some of the GOP state legislators that stood in the way of his redistricting plan, supporting primary opponents more likely to follow his bidding.Legal experts worry that the end result of this partisan gerrymander scramble will be a reduction in fair representation in the U.S. House, with Republican voters in blue states and Democrats in red states less likely to have their voices heard. Moreover, Democratic-leaning nonwhite voters could see their political power considerably diluted—if not wiped out entirely in the red states racing to delete majority-minority districts.“By 2028, I think we are likely to be looking at a radically and maximally gerrymandered national map, in which blue states elect almost entirely blue delegations, red states elect just about entirely red delegations,” worried David Daley, a senior fellow at the civic organization FairVote and the author of Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count. “It’s the kind of map we’ve seen before in this country. It’s just that back then, we called it the Union and the Confederacy.”Since Trump called on Texas to redraw its maps last year, several states have undertaken this process, resulting in new districts ahead of the midterms. These efforts could add up to a dozen or more new Republican House seats after the November elections. Although some Democratic states—notably California, the most populous state—have punched back, other efforts have been rebuffed. An attempt to redraw Virginia’s electoral map to add new Democratic seats in 2026 was struck down by the state Supreme Court. Meanwhile, both Republican- and Democratic-majority states will take up redistricting ahead of the 2028 cycle. (In their gerrymandering efforts, some Democratic-led states have argued that this is a temporary measure intended to counter Republican mid-decade redistricting.)Omar Noureldin, senior vice president of policy and litigation at Common Cause, a government watchdog group that supports national redistricting reform, said allowing politicians to “choose their voters” would skew lawmakers’ incentives away from the constituents they purport to represent.“When politicians don’t believe that there is accountability, that allows for those politicians to advance either their personal interests or very narrow political interests—by the wealthy, the well-connected, corporations,” said Noureldin. As a result, he continued, Congress will become “less and less responsive to the needs of everyday Americans.”In April, the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act, making it much more difficult to challenge partisan gerrymanders that dilute the power of minority voters. Piling onto the preexisting map-redrawing efforts in states such as Ohio, Texas, and Missouri, additional GOP-controlled Southern states moved this spring to redraw their congressional maps with the goal of reducing the number of Democratic districts. This will result in reduced representation for Black voters.In early June, the Supreme Court paved the way for Alabama to eliminate one of two majority-Black districts, in an unsigned shadow-docket decision. This proposed map had been struck down by a lower court, which included two Trump-appointed judges. To Kareem Crayton, a vice president for the Brennan Center for Justice, a think tank focused on democracy and voting rights, this decision demonstrates how the conservative majority on the court believes drawing maps to benefit Republicans is wholly divorced from how it might affect minority voters—who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.“This court seems way more attentive to the concerns of protecting power than they are to the Constitution’s attention to assuring that voters have their say,” said Crayton.The current race to gerrymander congressional districts is not unprecedented in the modern era. Republicans underwent a concerted effort ahead of the 2010 election to win state legislative majorities with the goal of controlling redistricting after that year’s census.
