Новости за 08.11.2022

Former President Trump said he will force Senate Republicans to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) as their leader if he wins the presidency in 2024 and endorsed Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.) as a "likely candidate" for the job. In an interview Monday night with Fox News Digital aboard his private plane after holding a rally...

Former President Trump in an Election Day interview said that if the candidates he has endorsed win their races in the midterms, then he should get "all of the credit," although he believes he will see "very little." When asked how much he believes candidates' victories or losses should be credited to him, Trump told NewsNation's Markie Martin, "Well,...

For David Wasserman, senior editor for U.S. House elections at The Cook Political Report, Election Day is “typically a moment of Zen and calm.” It turns out Zen for Wasserman consists of county-level analysis and corned beef. In addition to building “county-by-county models of each candidate’s ‘break even’ number for a win in the most competitive...

“Black people are not monolithic, we can think for ourselves,” Hunt tweeted on Monday. “The Black Americans running and voting Republican this November know that our country is headed in the wrong direction.”

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is set to dissolve no matter who wins Tuesday’s midterm contest – but a GOP takeover of the House leaves a near zero chance it will be revived.  The panel, like all other select committees established this Congress, will sunset with the start of...

A group of medical organizations on Monday warned President Biden that hospital emergency departments were reaching a "breaking point" as they deal with influxes of patients seeking beds that are not available. The medical groups, which include the American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association, cautioned that the issue of "boarding," keeping admitted patients in...

Story at a glance A new analysis from the financial technology company SmartAsset compared 20 of the largest U.S. cities across five metrics to determine the costliest city for first-year homeowners. The analysis found that four of the top five most expensive cities were in California. In San Francisco, first-year homeownership costs are $426,997. The...

Former President Trump said on Tuesday that he voted for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in the state’s gubernatorial race. After casting his vote in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump told reporters that he voted for the incumbent governor, who is widely seen as his biggest competition to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. Days...

Presidential statements after midterm election losses are now a regular part of the political landscape.

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NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said on Monday that he believes Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is being “used” to spread antisemitic messages amid the controversy surrounding his tweet promoting an antisemitic film.  Last week, the Brooklyn Nets last week suspended the 30-year-old star for at least five games without pay due to his...

Story at a glance Between 2000 and 2016, the age-adjusted prevalence of dementia among the nation’s elderly fell by 30 percent. Disparities based on race and sex also decreased throughout this time. However, researchers stress more needs to be done to close these gaps for good. The prevalence of dementia decreased from 12.2 percent in...

Not all public relations are good public relations. One the one hand, you get global attention. On the other hand, you get global scrutiny.

Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel ripped “total phony” Mehmet Oz and his wife, saying they were once “disgusted” by former President Trump after witnessing him purposely push an older woman in the pool. The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host, a frequent Trump critic, knocked Republican Pennsylvania Senate hopeful Oz while delivering the monologue on...

One of the country’s leading election handicappers says the House is “easily” within the reach of Republicans, who are heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections with the highest expectations that they’ll have control of the chamber next year. In their final analysis heading into the polls, election experts at the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan group based in...

It was the most damaging moment of then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s (R-Wis.) 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings. After McCarthy leveled one more lie about the communist leanings of one more innocent victim, attorney Joseph Welch, chief counsel for the U.S. Army, stood and stared at McCarthy and asked: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”...

President Biden’s approval rating slipped to 39 percent, according to a new poll, as his party seeks to hold on to power in Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections.  The Reuters-Ipsos survey released late Monday found that the president’s approval rating dropped 1 point compared to polls conducted in mid-October and last week.  Democrats are seeking...

Trump Derangement Syndrome is what done did the Democrats in. On issue after issue, whatever former President Trump was for, the Democratic leadership and followership took an extreme position in opposition. And that is what killed the Democrats in this election. Trump campaigned on building a big beautiful wall on our southwestern border and...

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for Senate in the state, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday to argue that mail-in ballots with an incorrect or missing date should be counted following a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling against them being included in the vote count. Fetterman argued in the lawsuit that not counting...

After 700 days of punditry (and what seems like 700 fundraising emails every day), the midterm elections stagger to an exhausting finale.

An often cited proverb suggests that we would all be fortunate to “live in interesting times.” While at first glance this would appear to be describing a golden age of society, a second look finds the sinister, hidden meaning that “interesting times” are likely a curse. History shows us that periods of great turmoil and...

For Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr., the head of the Grammys, music runs in the family. Mason’s mother and father were both professional musicians, and his mother used to say she carried him in a bassinet into nightclubs, studios and even recording sessions. “I was just brought into the world of music, and I...

The 2022 midterm elections are underway Tuesday as voters will cast their final ballots to determine who controls Congress and capture key governor’s mansions. Early vote totals have pointed toward record-breaking turnout for a nonpresidential election year, reaching a 40-year high with more than 40 million votes cast. The first polls open by 6 a.m....

This story explains the Republicans path to the Senate majority. Click here to read about the other party’s path. The wind is blowing in the direction of Republicans retaking the Senate majority a day before the midterm elections. The number of paths to a GOP majority has expanded in the past six weeks, putting...

The prospect of Senate Republicans picking up as many as two to five seats in the midterms is fueling chatter of a showdown between Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Rick Scott (Fla.) in a race to serve as Senate majority leader. Scott stoked speculation about his...