The Running Mate Moves On, Tossing Kamala Under the Bus.

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In politics, the tell is often what someone leaves out. A week before the midterms, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down for an interview that aired on C-SPAN. He was asked to give the national Democratic Party some advice. He answered right away: “Pick Pete Buttigieg.” He didn’t mention Kamala Harris, the woman who pulled him out of St. Paul and put him on a national ticket two years ago. He didn’t add a polite line about her service or nod to the campaign they ran together. He gave one name, and it wasn’t hers. There’s an irony here. Harris

Eight Days Out, Ilhan Omar Picks Her Company.

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Eight days before an election, everything a politician does sends a message: where she shows up, who she sits next to, and what she lets slide. On Monday night in Minneapolis, Rep. Ilhan Omar made her choices, and they told you a lot. The setting was a sold-out event called “I’m The Host Now!”, the first show from state Sen. Omar Fateh, the socialist who ran for mayor of Minneapolis and lost. Sharing the stage was Hasan Piker, the Twitch streamer best known for saying America “deserved” 9/11. Piker gave his crowd what it came for. “I’m not even gonna

America is Safer Under Trump, and the People Say So.

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Ask the Victims Don’t take the president’s word for it. Don’t take the cops’ word, either. Take the word of the people who’d know best: the ones who would have been the victims. Every year the Census Bureau asks Americans a blunt question. Did someone hurt you, rob you, break into your home, or steal your car? The Justice Department crunches the answers. It’s called the National Crime Victimization Survey, and it doesn’t depend on whether anyone called 911 or whether a police department filed its paperwork on time. The 2025 numbers came out Monday. They’re startling. Violent victimization —

She Rails Against the Rich. Her Hotel Bills Don’t.

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Politicians have to sleep somewhere. That’s only fair to say at the start. A campaign on the road needs beds, a staff, and someone to drive. Nobody expects a member of Congress to stump through Memphis and then check into a motel off the interstate. That isn’t the story. The story is the pattern, and the distance between the pattern and the message. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s re-election campaign has spent about $47,000 on hotels since April. That’s 45 separate charges, according to Federal Election Commission filings first reported by The New York Post. All 45 were at properties the industry

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