Ex-Senator Bob Menendez has made vile statements with wild accusations against President Biden and fellow Democrats – all designed to kiss Trump’s ass in a sufficiently subservient manner to win Trump’s mercy and a pardon.
It’s pathetic to see him treating Trump’s sphincter as though it were the ring.
Let the disgraced – and disgraceful – former senator rot and serve his full sentence!
Menendez hoping for the best for Trump is clearly showing he can't reach out to any former Democratic colleague for help, even if it's pressuring Trump to pardon him.
Update: Noem Visited Biohazard Lab Before Hospitalization
Kristi Noem was hospitalized for an allergic reaction one day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a photo alongside Noem visiting a biosafety lab that was temporarily shut down due to safety concerns.
Does Miller-Meeks realize she's likely to lose her seat? If she hadn't been paying attention to that special election in January, Dems and D-leaning independents in Iowa are FIRED up.
11/3/2026 is going to be BRUTAL for House Republicans. Maybe for Senate as well.
What a wild night in VA. I was texting a friend who lives in NoVA about it; crazy how consistent the margin between the top 3 candidates for LG was, just a matter of who was in which place. Same thing goes for the AG race.
The AG race was much less wild than the LG race. Jones basically led most of the night, albeit never by major margins. Hashmi, Stoney, and Rouse traded places quite a few times. The ultimate irony of the LG race is that if anything it was Stoney's own city (Richmond) that cost him the nomination.
SCOTUS basically enabled red states to discriminate and target trans kids by banning puberty blockers. Utterly appalling, but considering the 6-3 makeup, I'm not that surprised.
"The party of small government". The decision should solely be made by the family and the doctor with scientific guidance.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, Donny's son is spreading propaganda that trans people are disproportionately likely to be shooters even when data literally says otherwise. MAGA is morally bankrupt and an ideological blight. But even the Third Way triangulation folks will now pull out polls saying that 55-45 or 50-40 support this so we need not oppose it even though most people just don't care, it doesn't even come up in top 15 issues.
I would've thought Amy Coney Barrett would've sided with her progressive peers on the court on this simply on her growing independent streak (ie privacy issues), but no.
If we win back a federal trifecta, court reform has to be in the top five priorities. Alito and Thomas need to go.
She is deeply Catholic and conservative but also a principled originalist, textualist so some of the results of her originalist calculations happen to overlap with liberal interpretations. Others like Thomas and Alito decide on the answer first and then work out the solution. I hope this mathematical analogy helps.
For Thomas and Alito, we need to win the senate seat from Texas at all costs.
And the Marist numbers bear out that. Last month, he was the first-choice for 18 percent of voters. Now 27 percent prefer the 33-year old assemblymember, while 38 percent picked the former governor.
Mamdani has gained ground among Latinos, winning that demographic 41 percent to Cuomo’s 36 percent.
ironic given king andrew's view of older citizens as expendable so that he could publish his taxpayer funded book claiming credit for saving new york from the pandemic
Makes sense to me. I’d imagine the logic for each group goes something like this. Younger voters priority = big change/aspirational, think any Democrat would win the Mayorship, so Mamdani. Older voters priority = remembering/fear Republican could win, think Mamdani is too left and would lose, so Cuomo “good enough”.
Or in simpler terms:
Young Democrats = hope for getting better.
Senior Democrats = protect from getting worse.
I personally think either could/would win as the Democratic nominee with 3/4 of New Yorkers saying they want the next mayor to fight Trump, but salt to taste on that one.
Ezra Klein and Annie Lowrey are husband and wife. It would be interesting to know what their household debates over this, and other issues/endorsements, are.
I'm not sure why, but big cities - and to a lesser extent larger states, seem to produce more corrupt politicians. Maybe its the consequence of urban politics? In NYC you have Rudy Giuliani, Eric Adams, and now potentially Andrew Cuomo. Chicago had Richard Daley and Rahm Emmanuel. Even the relatively "clean" mayors like Brandon Johnson in Chicago and Karen Bass in LA tend to end up with atrocious approval/favorability. The trend also seems to emerge at the statewide level too in larger states, notably Cuomo, DeSantis, and Rod Blagojevich. If the person in question is not unpopular, they're still highly controversial. Maybe larger states and cities just attract more scrutiny.
as horrible as daley was, he prevented nixon in 60. he was a bad man, but I remain grateful he delivered illinois to jfk and allowed us to enact the Great Society, Civil Rights, and almost every good piece of legislation trump and his thugs are attempting to destroy now
One factor that both New York and Chicago have, is very large city councils. Perhaps that prevents the legislature from being an effective check on the executive? Locally for me, Everett, MA, had a bicameral legislature with a 18 member lower house and a 7 member upper house, for a city of around 40,000. Their local government was notoriously corrupt. Boston by comparison only has 13 Councilors for a city more than 15 times larger and recently has produced popular and clean mayors, though there certainly was some corruption back in the day.
The SC Gov R primary could be interesting. Alan Wilson has real issues related to law enforcement protecting good old boys. The Alex Murdaugh case brought them to life. While Murdaugh's in jail, the corrupt state court judge, solicitor, and a sheriff eho helped him exploit people haven't been touched. Meanwhile 2 other high profile cases (Miller and Boyd) in Myrtle Beach are going nowhere, but the media coverage is exposing more good ol boyism. Also, a long dormant prosecution of another case in Charleston (Colucci) is in tatters because of some prosecutor error. Three of the four cases, including Murdaugh, have white female victims. Mace's accusations related to her own experience set her up well to expose Alan Wilson as an AG who doesn't protect women. And remember, it's SC, so white women are an important R voting bloc.
Being that Nancy Mace originally had been more moderate when she was elected to the House compared to today, an open race would actually be interesting as long as we're not talking about any familiar faces.
I get the feeling whoever the GOP would nominate to serve in SC-01 would likely be more to the right of Mace. The fact that the district is 68% white may get the GOP the edge a bit but it would still be competitive even as an open race.
I think both Mace and Wilson are going to run for Gov. Henry McMaster is term limited.
When Mace was first elected, the district was closer (which is why Joe Cunningham held it briefly) but it was made a little more conservative after last census and more Black population packed into Clyburns district.
Mace primary opponents have always run to her right. If Templeton were to get the nod for the GOP, I'd give the Ds a decent shot in current climate. Maybe 40% chance of winning. Not sure they'd hold it more than 1 term. Tariffs that tank Charleston industrial base and ports and/or bad FEMA response to a big storm might help the D.
I think a thoughtful non-Frat-bro type D would be a good option. Someone with some environmental chops but not too left socially. I thought former Charleston mayor John Tecklenberg might be good, but since he was defeated for reelection, maybe not. Also mayor's race is non-partisan, so not sure he's a D.
On the surface she's a reasonably strong candidate, having flipped a Biden-won state house seat in '21 and then winning another narrow Biden seat in '23. My opinion is that she's actually pretty weak because she's unlikeable and kind of hard right. To me, she reads as more "Moms for Liberty" than she does Barbara Comstock. I'm not particularly worried. Hopefully, she wins the nomination and then gets enough attention that she loses her senate seat in '27.
She could actually totally get away with it because this is the kind of thing that would never get put in an ad, so most people probably won't ever learn about it. The Democratic establishment is already leery of so much as mentioning Black Lives Matter, so they won't want to touch this with a ten-foot-pole. While the evidence strongly suggests Durant tried to hit people with her car and then lied, there isn't enough proof to outright say that in an ad without her calling it libel and it turning into a he-said-she-said.
I think the bigger problem is what it says about her character and the kind of campaign she's likely to run, but I doubt this gets brought up by the Vindman campaign. I just wanted to share it because it made my blood boil when I read it and thought it would help people understand who this person is. (I worked on the campaign against her in '23 and couldn't believe she got elected.)
"She tried to hit people intentionally with her car just because they were demonstrating peacefully, as shown in the police report" is something Democrats won't touch with a 10-foot pole? Do they _want_ to lose?
I don't buy it. Black people have been inundated with being associated with Black Lives Matter by Karens on more than one occasion to the point of it stoking fear in them.
The Democratic Party can paint the narrative that Durant does not care about black people and that's all they need to do. Bringing up BLM or any association is not necessary, especially considering Durant's intent was clearly a hate crime. Even if she were to try to defend herself, she'd make things worse for her ability to capture any form of the black vote.
Besides, VA-07 is a Lean Blue district. Not good optics for Durant in this situation.
Durant may be about the best the GOP can land there, though she may not have a clear path to the nomination.
But, like most freshman Dems, I think that if Vindman managed to win an open seat in 2024 then he's unlikely to lose it in 2026. VA-07 voted for Harris by 3 points (Vindman did about the same), and would probably do so by more now given Trump's unpopularity, enhanced by DOGE's impact in the area.
TX CD28 - A surprise to no one, the Republican County Judge for Webb County (Laredo), Tano Tijerina, formed an "exploratory committee" to run against Henry Cuellar. Tijerina swtiched parties after last year's elections and people already speculated then he might challenge Cuellar.
TX Fort Bend County Judge party switch - County Judge KP George switched parties from Democrat to Republican today. He just also happens to be facing 2 felony counts of money laundering as well as misdemeanor charge for misrepresentation of identity.
Fort Bend is a large suburban county (almost 1 million people) next to Houston. It's voted for the Democratic presidential nominee the last 3 elections after previously solidly supporting Republicans. Democrats have also won most of the local countywide offices in the last few elections.
I normally hate the "DNC Drama" the press has been doing and the NYTs is back on my shitlist for their pathetic "we won't endorse anyone but we will tell you who not to vote for in the mayor race" act. But, I am a little alarmed by this. It sounds like Ken Martin is working hard but the David Hogg bull shit has caused headaches and it sounds like the big donors are acting like cry babies because he called out Ben Wikler for being the favorite of the big donors.
I'm not too worried though because Martin is still pushing to keep the monthly million dollar donations to state parties. I don't think they'll end up having to borrow money and I think when the election 2024 autopsy report comes out very soon, Martin's going to have new talking points to donors on how they need to invest their money. As a YouTube strategist, I appreciate Martin wanting to do more with the platform because it's not being utilized enough and I did work on the Harris-Walz campaign on YouTube strategy, but this could be done so much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAIdVHBPr40&list=PLbrp7CilEOGryKdfo2THM3E5uV4rNDnUc&index=1
I never had to interact with them and I worked mainly with the Harris social team and colleagues from the DNC. I worked on her main channel promoting policy, campaign videos, YT shorts and the Community Tab. The fun shit posting stuff was done on the Kamala HQ side. I was brought in late on the campaign last year.
Ex-Senator Bob Menendez has made vile statements with wild accusations against President Biden and fellow Democrats – all designed to kiss Trump’s ass in a sufficiently subservient manner to win Trump’s mercy and a pardon.
It’s pathetic to see him treating Trump’s sphincter as though it were the ring.
Let the disgraced – and disgraceful – former senator rot and serve his full sentence!
I doubt there'll be a pardon-Trump has to remember that Menendez largely voted against his policy agenda in the Senate.
Menendez hoping for the best for Trump is clearly showing he can't reach out to any former Democratic colleague for help, even if it's pressuring Trump to pardon him.
IA-1: "who served in the state House in the 1970s" What in the Rick Nolan?
Per wikpedia, he's a spry and naughty 75.
Update: Noem Visited Biohazard Lab Before Hospitalization
Kristi Noem was hospitalized for an allergic reaction one day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a photo alongside Noem visiting a biosafety lab that was temporarily shut down due to safety concerns.
https://politicalwire.com/2025/06/18/noem-visited-biohazard-lab-before-hospitalization/
Yup, RFK Jr is "Making America Healthy Again" – starting with Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem!
My hunch is that the kitchen staff at the restaurant had something to do with it.
She won't be able to trust restaurant kitchen staff for the rest of her life!
A puppy whispered something in the chef’s ear.
While hospitalized, she won't have to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose Democrats are eager to question her about her treatment of Senator Padilla and many others. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/senate-judiciary-democrats-call-on-secretary-noem-to-testify-before-the-committee
It’s important that Noem recovers from the severe allergic reaction she got so she can be questioned at the right state of mind.
She does need to be held accountable.
Does Miller-Meeks realize she's likely to lose her seat? If she hadn't been paying attention to that special election in January, Dems and D-leaning independents in Iowa are FIRED up.
11/3/2026 is going to be BRUTAL for House Republicans. Maybe for Senate as well.
What a wild night in VA. I was texting a friend who lives in NoVA about it; crazy how consistent the margin between the top 3 candidates for LG was, just a matter of who was in which place. Same thing goes for the AG race.
The AG race was much less wild than the LG race. Jones basically led most of the night, albeit never by major margins. Hashmi, Stoney, and Rouse traded places quite a few times. The ultimate irony of the LG race is that if anything it was Stoney's own city (Richmond) that cost him the nomination.
Which, in retrospect, seems like the harbinger of a bad nominee. So, bullet dodged.
SCOTUS basically enabled red states to discriminate and target trans kids by banning puberty blockers. Utterly appalling, but considering the 6-3 makeup, I'm not that surprised.
"The party of small government". The decision should solely be made by the family and the doctor with scientific guidance.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, Donny's son is spreading propaganda that trans people are disproportionately likely to be shooters even when data literally says otherwise. MAGA is morally bankrupt and an ideological blight. But even the Third Way triangulation folks will now pull out polls saying that 55-45 or 50-40 support this so we need not oppose it even though most people just don't care, it doesn't even come up in top 15 issues.
I would've thought Amy Coney Barrett would've sided with her progressive peers on the court on this simply on her growing independent streak (ie privacy issues), but no.
If we win back a federal trifecta, court reform has to be in the top five priorities. Alito and Thomas need to go.
She is deeply Catholic and conservative but also a principled originalist, textualist so some of the results of her originalist calculations happen to overlap with liberal interpretations. Others like Thomas and Alito decide on the answer first and then work out the solution. I hope this mathematical analogy helps.
For Thomas and Alito, we need to win the senate seat from Texas at all costs.
Yes. Term limits for Supreme Court members should be on the plate.
2 things about last night’s primary results:
1) Democrats are now voting their Ossoff once again after Trump got elected.
Sam Shirazi
@samshirazim
Currently around 478K votes in Virginia Dem primary
A few thousand more final ballots will be added
Probably won’t hit 495K in 2021 primary
But that had Governor race with 5 candidate
I had been expecting around 400K
Overall decent sign for Dems looking towards November
2) No NOVA Democrat on the ticket?!
Joe Szymanski
@JosephSzymanski
I have been corrected- this is the first Democratic ticket in Virginia to not have a representative from NOVA since 1985- forty years on the dot!
What are you trying to relate to by naming Ossoff here?
I think that was just a pun.
"Vote your Ossoff" was a saying used in the 2017 special election for GA-06.
And considering there was no Gubernatorial candidate on the ballot, that's a BFD!
NYC-Dem Primary: Another poll showing a big shift in support towards Mamdani from the last one.
The previous Marist poll had Cuomo up 24 points in May. Now they have him up by only 10 points.
https://archive.ph/SZs3A
And the Marist numbers bear out that. Last month, he was the first-choice for 18 percent of voters. Now 27 percent prefer the 33-year old assemblymember, while 38 percent picked the former governor.
Mamdani has gained ground among Latinos, winning that demographic 41 percent to Cuomo’s 36 percent.
Those under 45 prefer Mamdani to Cuomo 52-18, while older voters pick Cuomo by a 30-point margin.
ironic given king andrew's view of older citizens as expendable so that he could publish his taxpayer funded book claiming credit for saving new york from the pandemic
Makes sense to me. I’d imagine the logic for each group goes something like this. Younger voters priority = big change/aspirational, think any Democrat would win the Mayorship, so Mamdani. Older voters priority = remembering/fear Republican could win, think Mamdani is too left and would lose, so Cuomo “good enough”.
Or in simpler terms:
Young Democrats = hope for getting better.
Senior Democrats = protect from getting worse.
I personally think either could/would win as the Democratic nominee with 3/4 of New Yorkers saying they want the next mayor to fight Trump, but salt to taste on that one.
Surprisingly, Ezra Klein has endorsed Lander and semi endorsed Mamdani while attacking Cuomo.
Annie Lowrey endorsed Lander and crypto-endorsed Cuomo while attacking Mamdani and ranked choice voting.
Why is that surprising? Mamdani describes himself as a big abundance supporter.
Very sensible of Klein to endorse Brad Lander, far and away the best candidate.
Ezra Klein and Annie Lowrey are husband and wife. It would be interesting to know what their household debates over this, and other issues/endorsements, are.
ABCC Anybody but creepy Cuomo.
I'm not sure why, but big cities - and to a lesser extent larger states, seem to produce more corrupt politicians. Maybe its the consequence of urban politics? In NYC you have Rudy Giuliani, Eric Adams, and now potentially Andrew Cuomo. Chicago had Richard Daley and Rahm Emmanuel. Even the relatively "clean" mayors like Brandon Johnson in Chicago and Karen Bass in LA tend to end up with atrocious approval/favorability. The trend also seems to emerge at the statewide level too in larger states, notably Cuomo, DeSantis, and Rod Blagojevich. If the person in question is not unpopular, they're still highly controversial. Maybe larger states and cities just attract more scrutiny.
as horrible as daley was, he prevented nixon in 60. he was a bad man, but I remain grateful he delivered illinois to jfk and allowed us to enact the Great Society, Civil Rights, and almost every good piece of legislation trump and his thugs are attempting to destroy now
One factor that both New York and Chicago have, is very large city councils. Perhaps that prevents the legislature from being an effective check on the executive? Locally for me, Everett, MA, had a bicameral legislature with a 18 member lower house and a 7 member upper house, for a city of around 40,000. Their local government was notoriously corrupt. Boston by comparison only has 13 Councilors for a city more than 15 times larger and recently has produced popular and clean mayors, though there certainly was some corruption back in the day.
The SC Gov R primary could be interesting. Alan Wilson has real issues related to law enforcement protecting good old boys. The Alex Murdaugh case brought them to life. While Murdaugh's in jail, the corrupt state court judge, solicitor, and a sheriff eho helped him exploit people haven't been touched. Meanwhile 2 other high profile cases (Miller and Boyd) in Myrtle Beach are going nowhere, but the media coverage is exposing more good ol boyism. Also, a long dormant prosecution of another case in Charleston (Colucci) is in tatters because of some prosecutor error. Three of the four cases, including Murdaugh, have white female victims. Mace's accusations related to her own experience set her up well to expose Alan Wilson as an AG who doesn't protect women. And remember, it's SC, so white women are an important R voting bloc.
What are the chances of putting SC-1 on the table for Dems if Nancy Mace becomes the AG nominee?
I'm torn on whether we'd have a better chance at SC-1 as an open seat or with Nancy Mess—I mean, Mace—running for re-election there.
She's the Southern Joni Ernst!
That gives Mace far too much credit for competency. Lol
Being that Nancy Mace originally had been more moderate when she was elected to the House compared to today, an open race would actually be interesting as long as we're not talking about any familiar faces.
I get the feeling whoever the GOP would nominate to serve in SC-01 would likely be more to the right of Mace. The fact that the district is 68% white may get the GOP the edge a bit but it would still be competitive even as an open race.
https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=45&cd=01
The "moderate" Mace was just as phony as the current MAGA-fied version.
Agreed. Persona wise, she became more extreme but wasn’t originally a Trumper.
I think both Mace and Wilson are going to run for Gov. Henry McMaster is term limited.
When Mace was first elected, the district was closer (which is why Joe Cunningham held it briefly) but it was made a little more conservative after last census and more Black population packed into Clyburns district.
Mace primary opponents have always run to her right. If Templeton were to get the nod for the GOP, I'd give the Ds a decent shot in current climate. Maybe 40% chance of winning. Not sure they'd hold it more than 1 term. Tariffs that tank Charleston industrial base and ports and/or bad FEMA response to a big storm might help the D.
I think a thoughtful non-Frat-bro type D would be a good option. Someone with some environmental chops but not too left socially. I thought former Charleston mayor John Tecklenberg might be good, but since he was defeated for reelection, maybe not. Also mayor's race is non-partisan, so not sure he's a D.
Texas Polling:
GOP Senate - Paxton 49% - Cornyn 33%
Senate Election - Generic Democrat 42% - Paxton 39%
Senate Election - Cornyn 42% - Generic Democrat 35%
Stratus Intelligence / June 8, 2025
Cornyn will be lucky to make double digits in a head-to-primary against Paxton.
VA-7:
https://www.fxbgadvance.com/p/stoney-concedes-tara-durant-declares
Republican State Sen. Tara Durant declares for Congress against Eugene Vindman.
Anyone from or near Virginia -- is Durant a potential threat, or a weak candidate?
On the surface she's a reasonably strong candidate, having flipped a Biden-won state house seat in '21 and then winning another narrow Biden seat in '23. My opinion is that she's actually pretty weak because she's unlikeable and kind of hard right. To me, she reads as more "Moms for Liberty" than she does Barbara Comstock. I'm not particularly worried. Hopefully, she wins the nomination and then gets enough attention that she loses her senate seat in '27.
Forgot to mention this little gem earlier: it seems probable that in 2021, Durant tried to hit Black Lives Matter protestors with her car, then lied about being assaulted by them to try to get the police on her side and drum up sympathy for herself. Classic Karen. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tara-durant-black-lives-matter-protest-exaggerated_n_654143aae4b0ae2dc0b5a243
Not going to help her at all as in VA-07 there’s 20% black population.
Even worse for her, VA-07 only has 49% in white population. The rest of the percentage of voters are of different non-white demographics.
How on earth does Tara Durant expect she’s going to win?
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/50000US5107-congressional-district-7-va/
She could actually totally get away with it because this is the kind of thing that would never get put in an ad, so most people probably won't ever learn about it. The Democratic establishment is already leery of so much as mentioning Black Lives Matter, so they won't want to touch this with a ten-foot-pole. While the evidence strongly suggests Durant tried to hit people with her car and then lied, there isn't enough proof to outright say that in an ad without her calling it libel and it turning into a he-said-she-said.
I think the bigger problem is what it says about her character and the kind of campaign she's likely to run, but I doubt this gets brought up by the Vindman campaign. I just wanted to share it because it made my blood boil when I read it and thought it would help people understand who this person is. (I worked on the campaign against her in '23 and couldn't believe she got elected.)
"She tried to hit people intentionally with her car just because they were demonstrating peacefully, as shown in the police report" is something Democrats won't touch with a 10-foot pole? Do they _want_ to lose?
I don't buy it. Black people have been inundated with being associated with Black Lives Matter by Karens on more than one occasion to the point of it stoking fear in them.
The Democratic Party can paint the narrative that Durant does not care about black people and that's all they need to do. Bringing up BLM or any association is not necessary, especially considering Durant's intent was clearly a hate crime. Even if she were to try to defend herself, she'd make things worse for her ability to capture any form of the black vote.
Besides, VA-07 is a Lean Blue district. Not good optics for Durant in this situation.
Durant may be about the best the GOP can land there, though she may not have a clear path to the nomination.
But, like most freshman Dems, I think that if Vindman managed to win an open seat in 2024 then he's unlikely to lose it in 2026. VA-07 voted for Harris by 3 points (Vindman did about the same), and would probably do so by more now given Trump's unpopularity, enhanced by DOGE's impact in the area.
Polls Show Trump’s Approval Rating Slipping Again
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/polls-show-trumps-approval-rating-slipping-again.html
TX CD28 - A surprise to no one, the Republican County Judge for Webb County (Laredo), Tano Tijerina, formed an "exploratory committee" to run against Henry Cuellar. Tijerina swtiched parties after last year's elections and people already speculated then he might challenge Cuellar.
https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/south-texas-border-district-republican-primary-20383507.php
TX Fort Bend County Judge party switch - County Judge KP George switched parties from Democrat to Republican today. He just also happens to be facing 2 felony counts of money laundering as well as misdemeanor charge for misrepresentation of identity.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/fort-bend/2025/06/18/524328/embattled-fort-bend-county-judge-kp-george-switches-from-democratic-to-republican-party/
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fort-bend-county-judge-kp-george-republican-party/285-92164567-88b4-4227-81a0-c7abb36530c4
Fort Bend is a large suburban county (almost 1 million people) next to Houston. It's voted for the Democratic presidential nominee the last 3 elections after previously solidly supporting Republicans. Democrats have also won most of the local countywide offices in the last few elections.
Back to my Election Diaries. This time, I decided to give Mamdani a boost: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/18/2328861/-NYC-Mayor-Marist-Poll-Has-Zohran-Mamdani-Gaining-Fast-On-Cuomo-Let-s-Get-Him-Over-The-Finish-Line
I normally hate the "DNC Drama" the press has been doing and the NYTs is back on my shitlist for their pathetic "we won't endorse anyone but we will tell you who not to vote for in the mayor race" act. But, I am a little alarmed by this. It sounds like Ken Martin is working hard but the David Hogg bull shit has caused headaches and it sounds like the big donors are acting like cry babies because he called out Ben Wikler for being the favorite of the big donors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I'm not too worried though because Martin is still pushing to keep the monthly million dollar donations to state parties. I don't think they'll end up having to borrow money and I think when the election 2024 autopsy report comes out very soon, Martin's going to have new talking points to donors on how they need to invest their money. As a YouTube strategist, I appreciate Martin wanting to do more with the platform because it's not being utilized enough and I did work on the Harris-Walz campaign on YouTube strategy, but this could be done so much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAIdVHBPr40&list=PLbrp7CilEOGryKdfo2THM3E5uV4rNDnUc&index=1
thanks for the insight, during your time working for the campaign were you ever frustrated by Future Forward?
I never had to interact with them and I worked mainly with the Harris social team and colleagues from the DNC. I worked on her main channel promoting policy, campaign videos, YT shorts and the Community Tab. The fun shit posting stuff was done on the Kamala HQ side. I was brought in late on the campaign last year.
Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson Fight Over Iran
You know it’s a problem for the GOP in the 2026 midterms when Ted Cruz of all people has lost Tucker Carlson over the issue of War in Iran.
Cruz is for it but Carlson is against it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz33wwS2Eaw