2026 Midterm Elections

[Noodles]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Kudlow: "You need an ID to adopt a kid, but no idea for voting? Really?"

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Ah yes, the Constitutional right to adopt a child.

You know, a home study report from a social worker is also a requirement for adoption. Should this be mandatory for voting, too? You also must provide statements on why you want to adopt, and information about your parenting "philosophy." Do we need something similar for voting now?

I mean, these jokers think they own their wibes and children, and the Constitution does guarantee "Life".

/s

 

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and the Constitution does guarantee "Life".

Well, not exactly. The Fifth and Fourteen Amendments guarantee you can't be deprived of life (or liberty, or property) without due process of law. And who can say just how our laws will be processed these days.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Kudlow: "You need an ID to adopt a kid, but no idea for voting? Really?"

bsky.app

Ah yes, the Constitutional right to adopt a child.

You know, a home study report from a social worker is also a requirement for adoption. Should this be mandatory for voting, too? You also must provide statements on why you want to adopt, and information about your parenting "philosophy." Do we need something similar for voting now?

Please don't give them ideas.

 

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Republican Sounds Alarm Over Trump Polling: ‘We Are Going to Get Massacred’

A conservative media personality is sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s polling on key issues ahead of November’s midterm elections.

“November is a long way away, but if these numbers hold, we are going to get massacred in the midterms. That’s just reality,” Jesse Kelly, host of The Jesse Kelly Show, wrote on X, alongside the results of a new CBS News/YouGov poll that showed Trump underwater on issues including the Iran war, the economy and immigration.

From your Twi..X post to Odin's one good eye, Jesse!

 

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Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

The president cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to county records.

www.nbcnews.com

President Donald Trump cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to Palm Beach County records, as he publicly condemns the voting method as fraudulent.

"Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all," Trump said Monday.

Public records indicate his mail ballot was received and counted by election officials in Palm Beach County, where he is registered to vote, though the records don't detail how it was delivered to election officials.

 

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I've been passing posting on news of state-level elections (that way madness lies). But this is too good.

Democrat Flips Mar-a-Lago's District in Special Election

Republican won the state House seat by 19 points in 2024

www.newser.com

President Trump's vote by mail didn't swing it. Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that is home to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, the AP reports. The president endorsed Gregory's Republican rival, Jon Maples. Republican Mike Caruso, who resigned from the seat to become Palm Beach County's clerk, won the district by 19 percentage points in 2024. Trump won the district by about 10 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election.

The result in Florida's District 87 adds to a total of more than two dozen seats that Democrats have flipped in state legislatures since the 2024 election, the New York Times reports.

 

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Oh kay...

GOP governor candidate explodes at Black voter: 'You should be lynched!'

A viral clip posted to X on Thursday showed Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback blowing up at a Black voter and telling him he should be "lynched" for asking about the allegations of inappropriate behavior with teenagers.The clip was posted by the account @JustinUSA, who...

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Fishback (the Banned from all Waffle Houses candidate) is a fringe player polling low single digits so his chances were already bad, but this is Florida so - who knows?

 

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We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress

Republicans are relieved over Trump’s steps toward reconciliation in Iran — but they worry the measures are too little, too late to save them from a brutal midterm election cycle.

Behind the public celebration by many Republicans of the temporary two-week ceasefire announcement, longtime party operatives continue to warn of a bleak political reality as the cost-of-living concerns around the war including spiking gas prices that are likely to continue for weeks if not longer even if the fragile ceasefire holds.

A person close to the White House, granted anonymity to speak candidly, put it bluntly.

“This war in Iran almost cements the fact that we lose the midterms in November — the Senate and House,” the person said.

Expecting a tripling down on the SAVE act, soon.

 

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Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

The president cast a mail ballot in an upcoming Florida special election, according to county records.

www.nbcnews.com

"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote."

- Terry Pratchett, "Mort"

 

[Essence Lumin]

We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress

Unlikely the way things are going. Trump just declares the elections off due to an emergency and the democrats do nothing because, well, they do nothing.

 

[Sheera Khan]

And Chuck Schumer will write a stern letter to the president about it...

 

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Craig R. Brittain (@craigbrittain.com)

Kamala Harris: "It's bigger than Trump. We have midterms coming up. Anyone who is facilitating this by their silence or actively needs to be held accountable. It's gonna take more than one election - " Crowd: "RUN AGAIN!"

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[Noodles]

And Chuck Schumer will write a stern letter to the president about it...

That he won't read, because he is illiterate.

Maybe Chuck should have drawn a stick figure cartoon on the inside of a McDonald's hamburder wrapper.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

That he won't read, because he is illiterate.

Maybe Chuck should have drawn a stick figure cartoon on the inside of a McDonald's hamburder wrapper.

He'd also give statements to the press that will get butchered and lied about on Fox News. They'll twist his words into saying dems just don't care about election security or stuff like that. That's what dear leader will see.

 

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Good to see this.

Postal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting as Trump assails the method

The American Postal Workers Union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail. This comes as President Donald Trump has raised skepticism about mail-in ballots.

apnews.com

A major U.S. Postal Service union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail, stepping into a politically charged debate as skepticism about mail-in ballots has been raised by President Donald Trump and others.

The 30-second message features a variety of voters, among them a busy farmer and a flight attendant, explaining why they cast their ballots by mail. Sponsored by the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union, the advertising campaign announced Tuesday will begin airing this week in Ohio, where Union Army soldiers during the Civil War cast the first mail ballots in 1864. It will then move to other states.

The ad ends with the message: “Vote by mail — keep it, protect it, expand it.” It comes two weeks after Trump signed an executive order that seeks to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and subsequently bar postal workers from sending absentee ballots to those who are not on each state’s approved list.