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Haley Stevens Was a Democrat Until Democrats Chose Someone Else 0

Commentary / Politics

Haley Stevens Was a Democrat Until Democrats Chose Someone Else

Two days before an election that may decide control of the United States Senate, Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Trump-backed Republican Mike Rogers over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. She called it “this one vote,” as though Senate control were a side dish she could send back without affecting the meal. Funny how one vote becomes small only when it could help Donald Trump control the Senate. Stevens lost the Democratic primary, endorsed El-Sayed, pledged to help him, then switched sides when that help mattered most. That is not ordinary intraparty dissent. It is the conduct of a Democrat in name...

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Meta Does Not Get to Call This an Election-Season Glitch

One week before the midterm election, as Angie Nixon’s campaign was trying to turn Latino voters out in Osceola County, its Spanish-language Instagram account disappeared. The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate said @LatinosConAngie was taken down while her team was actively posting from an October 27 rally in Kissimmee. Instagram cited a violation involving “account integrity,” but Meta offered no specific public explanation. The page was back by Wednesday morning. The hours were returned. The lost moment was not. This is more than suspicious. It is not proof that Mark Zuckerberg personally ordered a Democratic campaign silenced, nor is it proof...

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Trump Blew Up the Better Deal and Came Back Calling Defeat a Win

Trump’s Iran posture now looks like the purest form of self-inflicted failure: wreck a functioning framework, escalate into a wider crisis, then come back asking the public to celebrate a thinner, looser arrangement as if it were proof of genius. We lost. Not in the cartoon sense where somebody signs a surrender document on camera, but in the real sense that matters in politics and statecraft: the United States appears to be moving toward a deal that is visibly weaker than the one it already had, after paying the price of blowing the first one up. That is not strength....