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Betting markets currently favor JD Vance for the Republican nomination and Jon Ossoff for the Democratic nomination in 2028, and Ossoff won the CrookedCon straw poll with about 38 percent. Both men face questions about charisma and retail politics, with donors describing Ossoff as stronger on stage than in small rooms and Vance often seeming stiff and awkward.
Senator John Kennedy said Republicans who treat the midterm rout as a normal election are stupid, arguing voters sent his party an unmistakable message. He also offered the bizarre advice that a wise man does not urinate on his hands, meaning Republicans should stop creating problems and then congratulating themselves for cleaning them up.
Midterm exit polling showed voters who viewed the economy negatively and felt worse off than two years earlier moved toward Democrats in large numbers. The results suggest a politics built on owning the libs loses its appeal when voters cannot afford groceries, rent or health insurance.
The United States has recorded more than 5,100 measles cases this year with at least eight deaths, and a Johns Hopkins tool estimates the outbreaks have cost nearly $83 million so far. The country may also lose its measles elimination status while vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr runs the Department of Health and Human Services.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact sits at 222 electoral votes from 18 states plus Washington, DC, just 48 short of taking effect. New Democratic trifectas in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona hold 61 electoral votes, enough to push the compact to 283 before 2028.
Finally, Trump told reporters an intelligence memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Alice Huang, the suspected Chinese spy tied to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, did not make much of an impact on him. He also said he called Huang, asked whether Huang knew she was allegedly a spy, and believed his denial.
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The paragraph about Huang needs some cleaning up. Initially I read it as Trump called Ms. Huang and asked her if she knew she was a spy, and that she didn't make much of an impact on Trump. Which could have been hilarious if it weren't so serious.