Could Trump interfere in the US midterms – and what checks and balances could stop him?
Presidential power has limits. But these midterms could test safeguards on the integrity of US elections like never before. More
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These midterms could effectively end the Trump era – but neither side is yet ready for what comes next | Nesrine Malik
Despite the US president’s ratings being at rock bottom, undoing his legacy will be difficult, not least because the Democrats are in disarrayThe stats and polling all suggest one thing: the Republicans are set for a hammering in the midterms. Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any US president going into a midterm election since Harry Truman. And it’s still dropping. The Democrats are projected to win by a margin of 11 percentage points, the largest swing by any party in almost 20 years. It is possible that the Democrats flip the Senate and secure a large majority in Congress. Those majorities would make a material difference, perhaps finally establishing oversight of the policies Trump has brought in during his second term: immigration enforcement, trade disputes, gutting the federal workforce, the Iran war, to say nothing of his own family’s corruption. The tide seems to be turning, and one question is on everyone’s mind: is the Trump era really ending?“Nobody wants to jinx it,” wrote David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times, but: “All the signs we have suggest that, historic or not, these midterms are likely to mark the end of a political era.” What that gives way to is a much more complicated picture in which the US will be delivered from Trump himself, but remains a country riven and undermined by what he has unleashed. By the time he is gone, Trump will have been president for eight years, and a toxic force for more than 12. That is a long time even for a normal politician. Under one who shatters norms and forces himself into the centre of everything, Trump’s effect is as if he were president for decades. Continue reading… More
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The ‘blockers’ who stood up to Elon Musk’s Doge – podcast
What happens when Elon Musk and a bunch of tech bros try to rip up the US government?Journalist Michael Lewis – the author of Moneyball and of The Big Short – talks to Nosheen Iqbal about his new book Blockers, which tracks the story of the civil servants who stood up to Elon Musk’s ‘department of government efficiency’ as it tried to dismantle the US government. Send your comments and questions to [email protected] Continue reading… More
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Trump launches racist diatribe against Abdul El-Sayed at Iowa rally
President again took aim at progressive Senate candidate and lauded Haley Stevens for endorsing Mike RogersDonald Trump railed against Democratic US senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed at a campaign event in Iowa Sunday, repeatedly referring to the Michigan progressive as a “jihadist”.Trump’s comments aimed to influence a neck-and-neck race that will play an outsized role in determining which party controls the senate after Tuesday’s midterm elections. Continue reading… More
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Trump praises Haley Stevens’ defection while lobbing Islamophobic insults at El-Sayed – video
On stage in Iowa, Trump praised congresswoman Haley Stevens’ defection from the Democrats to support Mike Rogers’ Senate campaign – going so far as to welcome her to join the Republican party. He then called Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, a ‘jihadist,’ continuing a line of a Islamophobic attacks against the progressive Democratic Senate nominee.Trump launches racist diatribe against Abdul El-Sayed at Iowa rallyDemocrat Haley Stevens endorses Abdul El-Sayed’s Republican rival Mike Rogers Continue reading… More
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Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Abdul El-Sayed’s Republican rival Mike Rogers
Endorsement was met with backlash from the party, condemning Stevens for her ‘betrayal’Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed his Republican rival, Mike Rogers, in an extraordinary rebuke of her party’s nominee on the eve of the midterm elections.Her endorsement came in a video posted to X after she attended an event with Rogers at the predominantly Black Perfecting church in Detroit on Sunday. Stevens’s endorsement was the culmination of an escalating feud between the former primary rivals – primarily over support for Israel – that has roiled one of the most fiercely contested Senate contests of the cycle. Continue reading… More
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Judge dismisses Trump attempt to block Alaska Senate race results if Republican loses
Incumbent Dan Sullivan says he will accept election results after ‘unprecedented intervention’ by Trump’s DoJA judge has dismissed the Donald Trump-backed lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s US Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.Trump said on 23 October that he had ordered the justice department to file the lawsuit in a move that voting rights experts called an “unprecedented intervention” by the federal government with control of Congress in the balance. Continue reading… More
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Connecticut senator Chris Murphy hospitalized after stroke
Democratic senator was at his son’s hockey game when he felt a numbness in his arm and was in Johns Hopkins Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.Murphy, 53, started feeling numbness in his arm while attending his son’s hockey game on Saturday, according to the Connecticut senator’s chief of staff, Allison Herwitt. A hospital visit confirmed that Murphy had experienced a stroke. Continue reading… More
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Nearly all Americans believe corruption is a problem. But will it decide the midterm elections?
The vast majority of Americans believe government corruption is widespread – both Democrats and Republicans. Politicians have taken notice. More
