#us-elections

#us-elections

"It has been baked in that the states are largely in charge of the election process, and that the federal government can set or override rules for that process if they wish, but it's very specific that that has to be done through Congress and not through lone executive action," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional and law of democracy scholar at Loyola Law School who was a non-partisan policy adviser for Democracy and Voting Rights during the Biden White House.

When you have top podcasters saying Jewish Americans are disloyal, saying Trump is controlled by Jews, saying Jews need to self deport to Israel, Gen Z glorifying Hitler and doing Seig Hiels all over Tik Tok, @TuckerCarlson infiltrating movements to say the people who killed Jesus killed Charlie Kirk at Charlie's memorial, and acceptance of videos portraying Jews as cockroaches,

It was a blue wave across America on Election Day. The Late Show, Late Night, The Daily Show, and The Tonight Show celebrated democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's triumph over the Trump-endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race in addition to Virginia governor-elect Abigail Spanberger and New Jersey governor-elect Mikie Sherrill. On the back of President Donald Trump declaring war on late night, Jordan Klepper, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, and even Jimmy Fallon took the opportunity to call Trump a loser, celebrate Mamdani's new policies, and, for the first time in a while, feel "good."

But first, let's look at the Senate vote today on bipartisan legislation to stop an unauthorized war against Venezuela. The proposals from Democrats Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff along with independently minded Republican senator Rand Paul would block the use of the US armed forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela, unless that action has been authorized by Congress.

It's not so much that Democrats have been winning; it's by how much they have been winning. For example, in a special election for a Virginia Congressional seat, the winner, James Walkinshaw, won by a 50-point margin. By comparison, Kamala Harris carried the same district by 34 points. Similarly, last April in two special Congressional elections in Florida, the Democratic candidates overperformed Harris by 16 and 23 points (but not enough to win the open seats).

Microsoft has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, exploiting vulnerabilities targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers. Additionally, the actor Storm-2603 has also been exploiting these vulnerabilities.

"In the last elections, Kamala Harris won by 8 percentage points among news consumers, while Trump led by 19 points among those who are uninformed about current affairs."