MSNOW Of All Outlets Challenges Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's Lie About Having No Familial Connections to the Muslim Brotherhood

Over the weekend, extreme partisan Kristin Welker asked Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed if he or his family had any connections to the Egyptian terrorist group which begat Al Qaeda and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood. He said "No," flatly, and Welker did not ask any follow-up questions nor confront him with tweets from his half-sister bragging about his mother's "activism" in the Muslim Brotherhood while in college.

As usual, when a Democrat media operative "asks questions" of a Democrat about a scandal, they do not challenge the Democrat -- instead, they helpfully offer the Democrat an opportunity to deny the allegation without any pushback or interrogation.

However, a male reporter at MSNOW confronted Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed in an on-the-street interview, and did ask him about his half-sister's praise of his mother for being a member of the terrorist group.

El-Sayed sputtered out various defenses, including the bizarre assertion that it's just not a "serious" matter whether or not he comes from a family of terrorists, and also objected to the very idea that he should be questioned about his terrorist ties. In the end, he seemed to suggest that it's just not important whether or not he belongs to a family of terrorists and we should just all MoveOn.org.

The new story he seems to have settled on is that he has never spoken with his mother about being a Muslim terrorist so it's not fair to charge him with knowledge of it or call him a liar for denying it.

Note that when he denied his mother's membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, he did not say "I never spoke to her about it." He just insisted she was not a member of the terrorist group.

Oh, and he claims his sister' reportage of his mother's membership in the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood is just "hearsay" that no one should bother themselves about.

Just some "hearsay" from people in the family who are the greatest authorities on the histories of members of the family.

Chuck Ross for Free Beacon:

Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed dismissed his sister's claims that their Egyptian relatives are members of the Muslim Brotherhood as "hearsay" in a heated exchange with Tom Llamas of NBC News. El-Sayed denied any personal knowledge of his family's deep ties to the Islamist organization.
Llamas pressed El-Sayed about social media posts from El-Sayed's sister, Eman Abdelhadi, in which she said her family has "long been" in the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdelhadi said her relatives in Egypt have been "jailed" over their ties to the group, according to the posts, which were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon. She also said that her and El-Sayed's mother, Fatten Elkomy, was active in the Brotherhood as a college student in Egypt in the 1970s.
The posts came to light after El-Sayed told Meet the Press on Sunday that neither he nor his family have ties to the Brotherhood. El-Sayed bristled when Llamas asked him to "just explain" them.
"You want to ask me about what was happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?" El-Sayed said.

Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo's a terrorist or not.

What a frivolous line of questioning! Ask about serious matters like what Trump's plan for reducing the price of arugla is.

"I get it, but you were asked a question," Llamas responded. "Yeah, I'm telling you, like, we--I have no ties. We have no ties," El-Sayed said. "So your mother had no ties?" asked Llamas. "I have never had these conversations with my mother," said El-Sayed. "Like, you're using hearsay evidence from a tweet. This is not serious."
When Llamas noted that El-Sayed has "gone after the president for truthfulness," El-Sayed responded, "Are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?" "I don't know. That's why I'm asking," Llamas responded.

No ties to the Muslim Brotherhood here, no siree!

It's not the first time El-Sayed claims to have been kept out of the loop of his Egyptian family's doings. He said as recently as 2016 that he had "dual citizenship" in Egypt and the United States. His campaign now says that statement was an "error" and based on inaccurate information from an unnamed relative.
In 2012, he signed an open letter calling on the newly elected Brotherhood to "purge" the press and police in Egypt, the Free Beacon reported. In a since-deleted 2021 Substack post, El-Sayed defended a "friend" of his who was jailed for funding the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, considered to be one of the most violent chapters of the group. El-Sayed's father in law, Tayeb Jukaku, is a longtime board member of the Islamic Society of North America, which federal prosecutors identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front group.
Abdelhadi, who was arrested last year for assaulting a cop in Chicago during an anti-ICE protest, did not respond to questions about her brother's remarks.

Video of the interview below.

🚨 OMG THIS IS BRUTAL. MI Senate candidate Abdul Mohamed El Sayed has LOST NBC NEWS after they found out he lied to Kristen Welker about being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood
When confronted, he's visibly shaken:
NBC: "You've gone after the president for 'truthfulness.' When people ask YOU a question, they expect the truth." 🤯
ABDUL: "Do you think, do you think, are you, are you insinuating somehow I was lying?!"
And yet the receipts of his own family stating ties to the Muslim Brotherhood are RIGHT THERE: "My family has long been MB"
Not what Abdul wants in October!
MIKE ROGERS HAS THE MOMENTUM.
Those posts came from his own sister, Eman Abdelhadi. She also said relatives in Egypt were jailed over their ties to the group
She wrote that their mother was active in the Brotherhood in college in the 1970s
He dismissed his own sister's words as "hearsay evidence from a tweet." IT'S HIS FAMILY'S OWN WORDS
When you lose NBC!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 15, 2026

Wow this is a terrrrrrrible way to handle this. Abdul is panicked and defensive. Shadyyyyy https://t.co/XQikkPHXUN
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) October 15, 2026

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has previously preached to the Muslim Students Association, which is itself a sub-group of the Muslim Brotherhood.

No ties here!

Muslim Students Association (MSA), also a Muslim Brotherhood group.
— Erielle Azerrad (@politicalelle) October 15, 2026

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's sister: "October 7th was the most beautiful day of my life." She's not talking about the weather or a Mets win.

If even MSNOW is reporting on El-Sayed's half-sister's admission that his mother is a terrorist, what kind of leftwing communist Third-Worldist hack would still deny it?

Enter CNN's Abby Philip:

If @abbydphillip followed the news she'd know @AbdulElSayed himself has claimed dual citizenship with Egypt and called himself "an immigrant from North Africa" and talked about how he spent every summer as a kid in Egypt. That's a little different than he "grew up in Michigan."
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) October 16, 2026

Bonus: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is also an accomplished Race Scientist who has done research proving that Arab women must only marry Arab men.

Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s scientific research is…odd.
Arab mothers who engage in “interethnic mating” have worse birth outcomes than those who mate with Arab men?
Also: Genetics, black race, and interracial mating?
Why research this? WTF? https://t.co/9ZXCftqeuW
— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 (@JDHaltigan) October 15, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM

Comments

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1 THE BLADE IS IN DA HOUSE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2026 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

2 1st

Posted by: GF at October 16, 2026 02:11 PM (/6m/H)

3 primo

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:12 PM (AKptf)

4 I read the content. And it is brutal. Brutale !

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:12 PM (AKptf)

5 This guy is the modern Democrat party. A f*cking terrorist.

How does Chuck Schumer even stand looking in the mirror?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 16, 2026 02:13 PM (guGkK)

6 I need to repoast this, from Abdul's research:
x.com JDHaltigan/status/2110849888233861389
He doesn't like blacks and doesn't think black men should marry white women. He doesn't like any sort of interracial mixing.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:14 PM (88C+u)

7 Speaking of elections...

Democrats are REALLY underperforming in Michigan in early voting for some reason.

https://x.com/davidslosttt/status/
2109818489578103175

Dude doing the analysis here is a hard leftist, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:14 PM (MdQMu)

8 Ah, it's in the main post, which I should have read before commenting.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:15 PM (88C+u)

9 Ah, it's in the main post, which I should have read before commenting.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:15 PM (88C+u)

Not reading the post before commenting is the mark of a true Moron.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 16, 2026 02:16 PM (guGkK)

10 This guy is the modern Democrat party. A f*cking terrorist.

How does Chuck Schumer even stand looking in the mirror?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 16, 2026 02:13 PM (guGkK)

Forget it Jake, it's DC.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 16, 2026 02:17 PM (b2YGo)

11 Muzzies gonna muzz

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 16, 2026 02:17 PM (q+ZCx)

12 All these freakin' Musloids. Sheesh.

Posted by: wth at October 16, 2026 02:17 PM (UjdFS)

13 Who is shorter and creepier? Talacreepo or this El-Sayed creep?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2026 02:18 PM (iFTx/)

14 Well, isn't it sharia that a woman's word is only hearsay unless she has what, 3 corraborating females (or 1 male)? Something crazy like that? Therefore...

Posted by: RandomDave at October 16, 2026 02:19 PM (aJQbY)

15 Bonus: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is also an accomplished Race Scientist who has done research proving that Arab women must only marry Arab men.

Dose boys is miscegenators!

Posted by: Homer Sayed at October 16, 2026 02:19 PM (guGkK)

16 The weekend is here
Laughing at the Marxists Propaganda Ministry

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2026 02:19 PM (Ia/+0)

17 But I thought his religion is the Religion of Peace?

Dubya told me that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 16, 2026 02:20 PM (Ro12D)

18 10 This guy is the modern Democrat party. A f*cking terrorist.

How does Chuck Schumer even stand looking in the mirror?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 16, 2026 02:13 PM (guGkK)

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He was the DSA candidate who beat the establishment chosen candidate in the primary (doughy white girl). The doughy white girl was actually the clear choice of the black electorate (she won very large margins in black districts in the primary).

Democrats don't cut their candidates loose after it's "too late", so he's backing El-Sayed until election day. Probably hopes the fake doctor will lose, actually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:20 PM (MdQMu)

19 If I represented Republicans in Michigan, I'd have half my fraud task force down in Dearborn on election day. Those precincts are not going to be subtle in their inflated totals. I think may see our first vote total down there that exceeds twice the registered voter list.

Posted by: Orson at October 16, 2026 02:20 PM (dIske)

20 Democrats are REALLY underperforming in Michigan in early voting for some reason.

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they are waiting

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:20 PM (AKptf)

21 Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is also an accomplished Race Scientist who has done research proving that Arab women must only marry Arab men.
________

I clicked through and read the excerpts from his article. It might as well be AI gobbledygook. A midwit trying to sound intelligent.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

22 OK OK but she didn't renew her membership and subscription to Headchoppers Monthly after 1992.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at October 16, 2026 02:21 PM (ssz2a)

23 20 Democrats are REALLY underperforming in Michigan in early voting for some reason.

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they are waiting

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:20 PM (AKptf)

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"Where we've won over the last few cycles, we've won by running up huge early voting numbers that Republicans won't be able to overcome. We've banked votes early, making it easier to target the softer partisans later, and pad our numbers to get wins. But we're not going to do that anymore."

"Why?"

"I dunno."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:21 PM (MdQMu)

24 this possibly-literal motherfucker might even lose the black vote and i'm here for it

Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:21 PM (88C+u)

25 Makes me wonder if the Democrats are thinking him winning would be more trouble than it's worth and are ordering a mild code red.

Posted by: Jim Rose at October 16, 2026 02:23 PM (miqrx)

26 8 Ah, it's in the main post, which I should have read before commenting.

that's crazy talk

Posted by: anachronda at October 16, 2026 02:23 PM (oY6Yp)

27 this possibly-literal motherfucker might even lose the black vote and i'm here for it

Meh. Everyone knows there are hardly any black voters in Michigan.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 16, 2026 02:23 PM (guGkK)

28 24 this possibly-literal motherfucker might even lose the black vote and i'm here for it

Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:21 PM (88C+u)

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Black Democrats are racialist in the primary but partisan in the general.

El-Sayed will win the black vote. He will win it by many dozens of points like any other Democrat.

What will happen instead is that a percentage of black Democrats will simply choose not to vote. Their turnout rate will decline. They will become a smaller slice of the electorate, and suddenly 2% of the electorate that Democrats rely on to win in a closely fought race just won't be there anymore as black percentage of the electorate goes from 15% to 13% or so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:23 PM (MdQMu)

29 Had Michigan Dems nominated the lady from HR they'd be cruising to victory.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 16, 2026 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

30 Bonus: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is also an accomplished Race Scientist who has done research proving that Arab women must only marry Arab men.

Dose boys is miscegenators!

Is you is, or is you ain't my constitency?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (Riz8t)

31 "Where we've won over the last few cycles, we've won by running up huge early voting numbers that Republicans won't be able to overcome. We've banked votes early, making it easier to target the softer partisans later, and pad our numbers to get wins. But we're not going to do that anymore."

"Why?"

"I dunno."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:21 PM (MdQMu)

you wanna tell me who is going to win in that Senate race ?

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (AKptf)

32 >>The new story he seems to have settled on is that he has never spoken with his mother about being a Muslim terrorist so it's not fair to charge him with knowledge of it or call him a liar for denying it.

Note that when he denied his mother's membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, he did not say "I never spoke to her about it." He just insisted she was not a member of the terrorist group.
- - -

And then there's his father-in-law. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (rOKnE)

33 The biggest threat I see is that we seem to have a critical mass of people in this country who will vote for whoever/whatever has a (D) after their name.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (Ro12D)

34 Immigration is good. Always.

/ your chambers of commerce and GOP

Posted by: man at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (pfXMo)

35 This guy is the modern Democrat party. A f*cking terrorist.

How does Chuck Schumer even stand looking in the mirror?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 16, 2026 02:13 PM (guGkK)
_______

Cucky Chucky didn't want this creep. The establishment-approved primary candidate was some fat Karen, IIRC. But she lost to the creep, and Cucky Chucky very desperately wants to get control of the Senate, so he's holding his nose (and his asshole) and pimping for the Hamas candidate.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

36 Also, the dual citizenship: US and Egypt.
He's been inconsistent on explaining that.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:25 PM (rOKnE)

37 29 Had Michigan Dems nominated the lady from HR they'd be cruising to victory.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 16, 2026 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

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It'd probably be an easier race, for sure.

Black turnout probably wouldn't be as down. "But, TJM, the youth turnout wouldn't be up!"

Youth turnout is down anyway with El-Sayed. Youth don't vote in midterm general elections. Enough can vote in primaries to affect things because primaries are small electorates. But midterms with contentious senate elections ain't exactly mayor of NYC elections on some random Tuesday in Spring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:25 PM (MdQMu)

38 25 Makes me wonder if the Democrats are thinking him winning would be more trouble than it's worth and are ordering a mild code red.

spicy > mild

Posted by: new jersey salsa liberation front at October 16, 2026 02:26 PM (oY6Yp)

39 a muzzie American politician lying? c'mon!! no way!!

Posted by: DanMan at October 16, 2026 02:26 PM (8uzBS)

40 Abby Phillip is too stupid to realize that Muzzies don't like blacks. Even the ones who claim to be Muslim

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 02:26 PM (kGIZD)

41 Oh but Arab men can go after any woman on the planet

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2026 02:26 PM (Ia/+0)

42 Democrats: Don’t look at our candidates, what we have done, and what we say we’re gonna do.

Look over here—> the price of gas and groceries!! OMG Trump!!

Voting for us will make everything better, back to free shit for everyone!!

Posted by: That Guy at October 16, 2026 02:26 PM (acEXZ)

43 Dual citizens should never hold elected office. Too radical?

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2026 02:27 PM (Gqar8)

44 31 you wanna tell me who is going to win in that Senate race ?

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (AKptf)

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I don't have a crystal ball.

I just know that "Democrat voters are going to vote in person and overwhelm election day and undo their lagging performance in early voting" was said about this time 2 years ago.

And it didn't happen.

I think Rogers might pull it off. We'll see. But, dozens of percent of the Democrat electorate didn't suddenly say, "Hey, let's stop voting early, like we've built as a habit over the last decade for no reason at all."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:27 PM (MdQMu)

45 Makes me wonder if the Democrats are thinking him winning would be more trouble than it's worth and are ordering a mild code red.

Ah, a Code Pink. Wait, that name's already taken.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2026 02:27 PM (Riz8t)

46 What’s worse than this is Hochul in NY. Did you see that debate? That woman is dumber than a bucket of paint. No wonder that state is in trouble. They asked her about a budget and she said- you mean the rental car company?

Posted by: That Guy at October 16, 2026 02:28 PM (acEXZ)

47 Abby Phillip is too stupid to realize that Muzzies don't like blacks. Even the ones who claim to be Muslim

I don't know why you say that. What's a little enslavement, rape of the women, and castration of all the males between friends?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2026 02:28 PM (Riz8t)

48 Abdul El-Sayed’s Father-in-Law, a Top Donor to an El-Sayed Super PAC, Is Among Top Leaders of Muslim Brotherhood Organization Linked to Terror Funding

https://tinyurl.com/5bjx3erc

Abdul El-Sayed's father-in-law, a top donor to a super PAC supporting the left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful, is among the top leaders of an Islamic organization identified by the federal government as a public facing group for the Muslim Brotherhood, a Washington Free Beacon review found. As part of his role with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which the federal government linked to the financing of Hamas, Tayeb Jukaku contributes at least $5,000 to the organization annually.

Jukaku has served on the 20-member founding committee of ISNA since at least 2007, according to the organization's magazine, Islamic Horizons, and has been a member of the group for a "long time, cannot recall [when I joined]," ... Federal prosecutors identified the organization as an unindicted co-conspirator in the landmark 2007 terrorist financing case USA v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which culminated in the conviction of the foundation's founders for funneling $12 million to Hamas. ..

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:29 PM (rOKnE)

49 O/T I'll get back to the all important polling stuff, here is this :

"Breaking: Katie Zacharia has been fired as White House Press Secretary after just 5 days Per NYT "

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:30 PM (AKptf)

50 I'm very interested to know if the Left will suddenly decide that CNN is not suited to hosting presidential debates now that they're owned by David Ellison.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2026 02:30 PM (Riz8t)

51 People voting for El-Sayed, TalaFreako or for that matter any Democrat have got to be ignorant.

I can't believe where we're at in this country. It's just insanity.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 16, 2026 02:30 PM (NpAcC)

52 Had Michigan Dems nominated the lady from HR they'd be cruising to victory.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 16, 2026 02:23 PM (2UnvF)

========

It'd probably be an easier race, for sure.

Black turnout probably wouldn't be as down. "But, TJM, the youth turnout wouldn't be up!"

Youth turnout is down anyway with El-Sayed. Youth don't vote in midterm general elections. Enough can vote in primaries to affect things because primaries are small electorates. But midterms with contentious senate elections ain't exactly mayor of NYC elections on some random Tuesday in Spring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:25 PM (MdQMu)
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Hamas Me Now is also a terrible candidate generally. Weird, creepy, slow on his feet, easily rattled, obvious liar, and looks like a retarded garden gnome.

The fat lady from HR wasn't much better, mind, but I think overall she was a more presentable candidate.

So sorry.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

53 Candidate al-Sayed have you ever been ridden by the Men of al-Zutt? If not, why not?
That would bring an interesting response

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 02:30 PM (kGIZD)

54
don't have a crystal ball.

I just know that "Democrat voters are going to vote in person and overwhelm election day and undo their lagging performance in early voting" was said about this time 2 years ago.

And it didn't happen.

I think Rogers might pull it off. We'll see. But, dozens of percent of the Democrat electorate didn't suddenly say, "Hey, let's stop voting early, like we've built as a habit over the last decade for no reason at all."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:27 PM (MdQMu)

down, but no by much ?

OSZ
@OpenSourceZone
·
3h
Michigan early votes Republican vs Democratic county share 2026 vs at the same point in 2024

2024:
🔵 52.9%
🔴 47.1%

2026:
🔵 52.2% (-0.7)
🔴 47.8% (+0.7)

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:31 PM (AKptf)

55 >>Dual citizens should never hold elected office. Too radical?

At bare minimum.
No naturalized citizen should, either. People like Ilhan Omar, Sri WhateverTFitis, Pramila Jayapal, et all are not working for America/Americans.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:31 PM (rOKnE)

56 Hamas Me Now is also a terrible candidate generally. Weird, creepy, slow on his feet, easily rattled, obvious liar, and looks like a retarded garden gnome.

GFY

Posted by: The Retarded Garden Gnome Anti-Defamation League at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (guGkK)

57 "Breaking: Katie Zacharia has been fired as White House Press Secretary after just 5 days Per NYT "

Why? Did she pull a Scaramucci?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (Riz8t)

58 I am not saying that Al Hamas will win, I think Rogers has a good chance.

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (AKptf)

59 Abdul is a midget and a liar. Also, never vote for a muslim.

They hate you.

Posted by: Mohammed Mohammed El Mohammed at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (NkqBW)

60 52 Hamas Me Now is also a terrible candidate generally. Weird, creepy, slow on his feet, easily rattled, obvious liar, and looks like a retarded garden gnome.

The fat lady from HR wasn't much better, mind, but I think overall she was a more presentable candidate.

So sorry.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

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Barring some strange, public behavior, she would have been generic Democrat.

El-Sayed has been outright antagonizing Jewish and black leaders in Michigan while he has serious problems with the white working class voters, especially in rural areas, who still call themselves Democrat (and the Republicans as well).

I can't wait for him to lose and for DSA to blame Israel because Schumer is Jewish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (MdQMu)

61 Democrats in Michigan are weird. They’ll sit it out waiting for some 1960’s style Democrats to run. It’s like they don’t understand the state of that party, any that they are never going back to what they were. I’ll tell you, I bet the pull my finger joke still works with a large part of that population.

Posted by: That Guy at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (acEXZ)

62 We’ll still vote for him because Trump is a Nazi and Republicans hate gays.

Posted by: Michigan Jews at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (4Oh8h)

63 Abby Phillip is too stupid to realize that Muzzies don't like blacks"

"All non white people of color get along"

/wineboxmckaren

Posted by: man at October 16, 2026 02:32 PM (pfXMo)

64 The polls somehow still have the Dems winning in every "close" race... Someone has to be wrong...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:33 PM (+gK6I)

65 The NYT, casting for new criticisms of Trump, has a front pager today accusing Trump of misogyny for having got rid of Guilfoyle. Takes the cake.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 16, 2026 02:33 PM (eCS0V)

66 He comes off like an arrogant prick in friendly interviews.

In adversarial interviews he just straight up lies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 16, 2026 02:33 PM (RIvkX)

67 64 The polls somehow still have the Dems winning in every "close" race... Someone has to be wrong...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:33 PM (+gK6I)

Maybe the polls are biased and agenda driven?

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2026 02:34 PM (Gqar8)

68 20 Democrats are REALLY underperforming in Michigan in early voting for some reason.

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they are waiting
Posted by: runner
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Unlikely. Democrats since 2016-2018 redesigned their turnout model to ballot harvesting mail in ballots. Lot cheaper and easier to send one person out to grab a bunch of ballots to be filled out by their boiler rooms than to actually go and transport their gimmedat clients to the polls. They were also doing things like registering non existent people to factories, shopping centers, vacant lots, etc. and retrieving those ballots to be filled out.

That was an urban cheat machine and in some other democrat voting areas like university towns.

Getting people to the polls to EV or vote on Election Day is a lot harder than getting some low iq gimmedat to give the pretty young ballot harvester their ballot in exchange for a gift card or some other goodie. The gimmedats don't have to even worry about filling it out. Same goes for the nonexistent ballots without voters attached.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 02:34 PM (E4rtv)

69 54 OSZ
@OpenSourceZone
·
3h
Michigan early votes Republican vs Democratic county share 2026 vs at the same point in 2024

2024:
🔵 52.9%
🔴 47.1%

2026:
🔵 52.2% (-0.7)
🔴 47.8% (+0.7)

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:31 PM (AKptf)

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Guess who won 2024!

Additional is that this is 1/3 the turnout of 2024.

And, no, the young don't turnout on election day. Election day demos are always older than early voting demos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:34 PM (MdQMu)

70 64 The polls somehow still have the Dems winning in every "close" race... Someone has to be wrong...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:33 PM (+gK6I)

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Why the fuck do people still believe polls after Brat Summer 2024?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:35 PM (MdQMu)

71 wait! WAIT! it's not over !

"NYT: AOC Transfers $1 Million to Help El-Sayed in Final Sprint in Michigan"

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 02:35 PM (AKptf)

72 The NYT, casting for new criticisms of Trump, has a front pager today accusing Trump of misogyny for having got rid of Guilfoyle. Takes the cake.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 16, 2026 02:33 PM (eCS0V)
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The same people screaming of the head of attractive white Katie Zacharia. Odd.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 16, 2026 02:35 PM (iFTx/)

73 I'm passing through.

Cautiously optimistic about America's 2026 Mid-terms - "Measuring America's Rot."

CNN and MSNow are elated and keep running segment after segment on how the battlefield is expanding into red states. Talarico did raise $67 million in the last quarter.

However, who's to say how that's been funneled into his campaign of liberal hope.

Meanwhile, VDH has serious concerns about the polls, The Republicans seem to have a nice war chest and for some reason people are donating to the group that wants to tax them out of existence, Must has put in $267 million into races. And I've seen the occasional story "What if the polls are wrong?" and the occasional "Trump will try to steal the election."

Cautiously optimistic.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 16, 2026 02:36 PM (Sco7b)

74 65 The NYT, casting for new criticisms of Trump, has a front pager today accusing Trump of misogyny for having got rid of Guilfoyle. Takes the cake.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Maybe the NYT can pay her credit card bills next time she visits 5th Avenue.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:36 PM (88C+u)

75
Why the fuck do people still believe polls after Brat Summer 2024?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:35 PM (MdQMu)

I think the polls are screwy... I can't believe Talarico could be ahead in Red Texas....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (+gK6I)

76 Man...the left missed when they intentionally lost 2024, which they could have stolen but chose not to, handing over the imperial presidency and DOJ to Donald Trump, a man they'd tried to jail and murder, so that they could bank on some impeachment theater 2 years later, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 01:06 PM (MdQMu)
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The GOP actually did much better work - too many eyes on the prize, and of course with the attempt to bankrupt and imprison Trump being the main effort, I'm not sure they had the setup again to pull it off. It all comes down to GOP turnout. If they are tracking ahead of their normal midterm turnout the GOP is going to win, because the dems are not turning out. Specific House races are too small to say. The fact that the GOP has to defend three times as many tossups in the House means for the dems to not win the House would be a mild upset.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (7/DDO)

77 64 The polls somehow still have the Dems winning in every "close" race... Someone has to be wrong...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:33 PM (+gK6I)
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Harry Enten came right and said if polls undercount Republicans by 2-3 points (less than past error), GOP takes the House and the Senate. I'm counting on that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (eCS0V)

78 El-Sayed needs a couple weeks in a mental health facility, to get back on his Taqiyya track, rather than his Jihadist track.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (vbXSk)

79 Guess who won 2024!
-

In the senate race, I won in 2024.

Posted by: Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (4Oh8h)

80 But these people wanted to put Trump in JAIL for 700+ years over what was essentially a difference of opinion over how he characterized an expense in his check book....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (QGaXH)

81 people are NOT donating to the Dems

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (Sco7b)

82 Over at X there are back to back posts about Ohio early turnout. One days it favors Dems , the other Republicans. I still think the Rs will hold the Senate there and Acton is running a Biden hide campaign. We'll see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 02:38 PM (kGIZD)

83 Maybe the NYT can pay her credit card bills next time she visits 5th Avenue.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:36 PM (88C+u)
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$100K in AMEX debt is kind of an achievement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (eCS0V)

84 I don't understand the early v. late voting dynamic and strategy.

Is it to try to derail the democrat's cheat machine?

Bottom line, is it better for us for me to vote early, or to vote on Election Day?

Posted by: LASue at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (lCppi)

85 74 65 The NYT, casting for new criticisms of Trump, has a front pager today accusing Trump of misogyny for having got rid of Guilfoyle. Takes the cake.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Maybe the NYT can pay her credit card bills next time she visits 5th Avenue.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 16, 2026 02:36 PM (88C+u)

Some news item about Guilfoyle (Newsom's ex-wife) bragging about her sexual exploits with a former FOX contributor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (l3cgK)

86 >>The NYT, casting for new criticisms of Trump, has a front pager today accusing Trump of misogyny for having got rid of Guilfoyle. Takes the cake.

Ah, the classic DNC-MSM tactic:

1. Tirelessly demonize every non-white/non-male/non-straight Republican

2. When they have been successfully destroyed, then point at the GOP and scream, "Look at the party of white men -- BIGOTS!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (rOKnE)

87
5

How does Chuck Schumer even stand looking in the mirror?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 16, 2026 02:13 PM

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He sucks in his gut.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (VWtfl)

88 84 I don't understand the early v. late voting dynamic and strategy.

Is it to try to derail the democrat's cheat machine?

Bottom line, is it better for us for me to vote early, or to vote on Election Day?

Posted by: LASue at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (lCppi)

Yes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (l3cgK)

89 28 will be LIT!!!! around the HQ, judging by 26.

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (Gqar8)

90 Obama put Abdul's sister on a watch list and yet, he's campaigning with him anyway......

https://tinyurl.com/bdcrhuse

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (kX27y)

91 Schumer looks in the mirror the same way he cooks cheeseburgers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 02:40 PM (kGIZD)

92 Marty!~~

@DocBrownLloyd 7h
Finally…flying cars @Tesla

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2026 02:40 PM (nEUC6)

93 90 Obama put Abdul's sister on a watch list and yet, he's campaigning with him anyway......

https://tinyurl.com/bdcrhuse

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:39 PM (kX27y)

Obama enjoys terrorist cock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:40 PM (l3cgK)

94 91 Schumer looks in the mirror the same way he cooks cheeseburgers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 02:40 PM (kGIZD)

Gray, rotten, and flaccid?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:41 PM (l3cgK)

95 ~~people are~~ USAID is NOT donating to the Dems

fify

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:41 PM (rOKnE)

96 93 90 Obama put Abdul's sister on a watch list and yet, he's campaigning with him anyway......

https://tinyurl.com/bdcrhuse

Oops - that should be Abdul's sister in law, not sister.

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:42 PM (kX27y)

97 @96 probably the same

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 02:42 PM (kGIZD)

98 Bottom line, is it better for us for me to vote early, or to vote on Election Day?

Posted by: LASue

Cheat by mail state, vote early so you can make sure your vote is counted. And if you are going to vote anyway, it allows the party if they are tracking it, to concentrate on other people harder to get to the polls. The parties and the state government (and possibly depending on the state, other ngos) have your voting history before them and can predict based on past behavior whether you will vote or not. Harder to guess who you voted for in some places without party reg. but not impossible.

And the campaigns, parties, and ngos, concentrate on turning out those reliable voters and those that are occasional voters in a tight race.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 02:42 PM (E4rtv)

99 Lifelong Democrat Sheriff of Saginaw County has switched parties, endorsed Rogers and James.

Weird that people would jump onto a sinking ship. Maybe he knows something...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 02:43 PM (ZOv7s)

100 USAID shuts down. Democrats have no miney.

Causation, not correlation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM (eCS0V)

101 100 USAID shuts down. Democrats have no miney.

Causation, not correlation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM (eCS0V)

I read the first as castration, which also works.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM (l3cgK)

102 76 The GOP actually did much better work - too many eyes on the prize, and of course with the attempt to bankrupt and imprison Trump being the main effort, I'm not sure they had the setup again to pull it off. It all comes down to GOP turnout. If they are tracking ahead of their normal midterm turnout the GOP is going to win, because the dems are not turning out. Specific House races are too small to say. The fact that the GOP has to defend three times as many tossups in the House means for the dems to not win the House would be a mild upset.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 16, 2026 02:37 PM (7/DDO)

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Nah.

Democrats can cheat no matter what. They can win no matter what. Any loss is just misdirection.

There's been no hit to their cheat machine, and they can win at the flip of a switch.

It's science.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM (MdQMu)

103 Lie down with trannys, wake up with a dick in your mouth.

Posted by: fd at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM (MWfyi)

104 99 Lifelong Democrat Sheriff of Saginaw County has switched parties, endorsed Rogers and James.

Weird that people would jump onto a sinking ship. Maybe he knows something...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 02:43 PM (ZOv7s)

Only when the ship your on is sinking faster...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:45 PM (l3cgK)

105 Michigan is always a coin flip. They still have that law on the books that allows people who have never even step foot in Michigan to register to vote there. For example, if the parents reside in Michigan, and have a baby who lives with another relative in Iraq for all his or her life, and comes of age, that 18 year old Iraqi can vote in the Michigan election.

It's a stupid law to begin with....but more so because it can be abused and exploited ad nauseum with a single concocted credential. Do you trust the Muslims in Michigan NOT to exploit this law?

Posted by: Orson at October 16, 2026 02:45 PM (dIske)

106 >>Obama put Abdul's sister-in-law on a watch list and yet, he's campaigning with him anyway......

https://tinyurl.com/bdcrhuse

So let's see, we now have his mom, FIL, SIL associated with MB and his half-sister is a Hamas-loving professor/campus Pali protest leader.

Yup, nothing to see here!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:45 PM (rOKnE)

107 My feeling is we win this one, Maine, Ohio , Texas and lose NC... Of course I actually have no clue

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:45 PM (+gK6I)

108 A lot of revisionism on polls from 2024.

In the summer Kamala was ahead, true. However that lead evaporated into September and October. By mid October it was a dead heat with several polls showing Trump winning swing states. It’s all available online to go back check.

Betting markets had Trump as the clear favorite for the last 2 weeks of the campaign. Polymarket had him steady around 60% and as high as 65% a few days before Election Day.

Posted by: Reality at October 16, 2026 02:46 PM (q/mq0)

109 Guilfoyle, Noem, Taylor, Mace. We've got our own nutbags.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 16, 2026 02:46 PM (uOLcV)

110 There was a newer commercial I saw yesterday accusing Abdul of getting 'Dirty Money' from organizations such as CAIR and others.

If you could believe that.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 16, 2026 02:46 PM (Sco7b)

111 103 Lie down with trannys, wake up with a dick in your mouth.

Posted by: fd at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM

That's a common fortune cookie wisdom here in Portland.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 16, 2026 02:49 PM (OkYzo)

112 108 A lot of revisionism on polls from 2024.

In the summer Kamala was ahead, true. However that lead evaporated into September and October. By mid October it was a dead heat with several polls showing Trump winning swing states. It’s all available online to go back check.

Posted by: Reality at October 16, 2026 02:46 PM (q/mq0)

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"A lot of revisionism on polls. Sure, they were wrong for months, but you have to still believe the summer polls today. Sure, I dismiss the ones that got it most right as "Republican leaning" while giving credence to Ipsos who always gets it wrong because i have to because polling is actually pretty good."

The defense of polling if fucking stupid.

It's deeply, deeply broken. We have results from THIS YEAR of polling be off by double digits in key races.

"Oh, the curated average of a handful of final polls were sort of accurate, so I have to believe the generalized polling environment when it's not final polls," is the sentiment of a fucking retard.

If we're going to compare final polls from 2024 to polls this year. We have to wait for final polls from 2026.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:49 PM (MdQMu)

113 Bottom line, is it better for us for me to vote early, or to vote on Election Day?
both

Posted by: doug at October 16, 2026 02:49 PM (B1+sW)

114 >>Guilfoyle, Noem, Taylor, Mace. We've got our own nutbags.

Naturally, we do, and amazingly, they are censured, kicked off committees, primaried, fired, prosecuted, etc..

Meanwhile, the Dem nutbags are running the show and protectively embraced by the MSM and legal system.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:49 PM (rOKnE)

115 OK I gotta get to working on this map but I had to show you all this cute and funny clip of a kid making fun of influencers

https://tinyurl.com/4z2mtrum

mom in back just loses it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 16, 2026 02:50 PM (nIKjK)

116 Oh, and "Well, we're not in summer now, so believe the polls."

Senate polling is now herding to 50/50 in most of the races.

Abdul 46 Rogers 44?

Fucking please. That's just saying, "no matter what the final result, I'll be right because of the margin of error."

In most of these races the candidates will be between 51 and 47 percent. And yet for months we've been getting polls with candidates between 57 and 38%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:50 PM (MdQMu)

117 If this is true, maybe that's why one of the critically injured girls looks like she does, thick glasses, looks mildly down syndrome-like.......awful.

Autism Capital 🧩
@AutismCapital
The shooter went to the SPECIAL ED room. Evil.

This LEGEND was just driving by and saw this go down and decided to act because he had a concealed carry.

Carpenter. Girl dad. Patriot.

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:50 PM (kX27y)

118 Regarding polling!!

RON PAUL!!!

You had to admire their enthusiasm.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 16, 2026 02:51 PM (Sco7b)

119 "What do you want, a live son in therapy for gender dysphoria, or a dead fake daughter"? Better Therapist

Posted by: illiniwek at October 16, 2026 02:52 PM (vbXSk)

120 "Which polls were right and when?" is the best question you can ask.

"Well, you have to believe polling now because a curated average of polls was right at the end," is the saying of an incurious dumbass.

If you're saying, "Harvard-Harris can't be right because it's outside of the generalized sentiment this year," but Harvard-Harris has been the best single pollster for a decade, then you might be retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:52 PM (MdQMu)

121 The fact that the GOP has to defend three times as many tossups in the House means for the dems to not win the House would be a mild upset.

Posted by: Black JEM

I checked the Cook list the other day. It is simply not that reliable anymore and I say that as someone that used to use it and the Almanac of American politics twenty year or so ago as data for election models.

This year, control of the House is going to come down to mebbe about 20 races or so. Of that, you will be able to tell one way or another in prior to the election for about half of those based on turnout modeling. And the joker in the deck is that GOP candidates for governor in places like NY and CA are doing well which raises chances for GOP House candidates in those states and contra poorly performing Democrats governor candidates can sink Dems in places like AZ or perhaps IA where close races are ensured by non partisan redistricting commissions writing district lines.

So I would ignore most media House prognostications and just quit worrying about it. Razor thin Dem or GOP victory is possible but money and better candidates than most of the Dems this cycle give GOP a chance. Call it 50/50.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 02:53 PM (E4rtv)

122 It's science.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM (MdQMu)

Can I suggest not arguing with people who have already made their minds up.

When they say that "all is lost" we're all gonna die! DoooooM!!

Just nod along and say, "okay now"

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 16, 2026 02:54 PM (/6Ute)

123 All I can say about the polls is that it is obvious they are under estimating Republican voters and enthusiasm... And I'm a known pessimist....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:54 PM (+gK6I)

124 122 It's science.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:44 PM (MdQMu)

Can I suggest not arguing with people who have already made their minds up.

When they say that "all is lost" we're all gonna die! DoooooM!!

Just nod along and say, "okay now"

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 16, 2026 02:54 PM (/6Ute)

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There is literally nothing holding Democrats back from cheating at 2020 levels!

I'm not scarred by 2020! You're scarred by 2020!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:54 PM (MdQMu)

125 I dunno. I can’t wait to see the results of these elections, compare polls for the past few months, look at EV by party, mail-ins, etc. the. Do a real party by party breakdown. Just to see the math.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 16, 2026 02:55 PM (EWq0C)

126 No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot. The 7 year old critically injured girl was in a wheelchair.

https://tinyurl.com/bp7544cn

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (kX27y)

127 Fucking please. That's just saying, "no matter what the final result, I'll be right because of the margin of error."

In most of these races the candidates will be between 51 and 47 percent. And yet for months we've been getting polls with candidates between 57 and 38%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:50 PM (MdQMu)
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Don't bother, he's actually lying about what the polls showed. I've caught him at it before.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (ZOv7s)

128 Vermont’s Bernie Sanders just turned 85. Maine’s “independent” who caucuses with the Democrats, Angus King, is 82. Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal and Massachusetts’s Ed Markey are 80, Vermont’s Peter Welch is 79 (in his state, he’s the young one!), and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono will turn 79 on Election Day. Rounding out the top ten oldest Democratic senators is Massachusetts’s Elizabeth Warren (77), Oregon’s Ron Wyden (77), Rhode Island’s Jack Reed (77 next month), and New York’s Chuck Schumer (76 next month).

Posted by: SMOD at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (AFudc)

129 127 Don't bother, he's actually lying about what the polls showed. I've caught him at it before.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (ZOv7s)

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If I yell louder, do I become more persuasive?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (MdQMu)

130 126 No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot. The 7 year old critically injured girl was in a wheelchair.

I figured he had been a student there

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (+gK6I)

131 In the summer Kamala was ahead, true. However that lead evaporated into September and October. By mid October it was a dead heat with several polls showing Trump winning swing states. It’s all available online to go back check.

Posted by: Reality

Polling is worse regardless when state races or house districts are involved. The same sample sizes are needed as in a national race but getting the proper electorate for a state or congressional district is damn near impossible now with polling getting 1 out of 100 response rate. That means you weight the polls based on what the pollster thinks is going to be the electorate and most pollsters are doing their gig for the media.

You would do about as good taking a dart to a dartboard and figuring 50/50 in each race.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (E4rtv)

132 And then there's his father-in-law. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 02:24 PM (rOKnE)

You don't choose your family, but you *do* choose what family you marry into.

Well, you do in Western civilizations, at least. I'm sure if El-Sayed claimed that it was an arranged marriage, it'd go over REALLY WELL with the Michigan AWFLs.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (Wt5PA)

133 126 No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot. The 7 year old critically injured girl was in a wheelchair.

https://tinyurl.com/bp7544cn

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (kX27y)

Yeah, he was on those meds, wasn't he?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (l3cgK)

134 Carpenter. Girl dad. Patriot.
Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:50 PM (kX27y)

Toxically masculine. -- The Usual Suspects

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (fOTAm)

135 Good up face within the MOE. Ain’t I great?

-Every pollster.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (EWq0C)

136 128 Vermont’s Bernie Sanders just turned 85. Maine’s “independent” who caucuses with the Democrats, Angus King, is 82. Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal and Massachusetts’s Ed Markey are 80, Vermont’s Peter Welch is 79 (in his state, he’s the young one!), and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono will turn 79 on Election Day. Rounding out the top ten oldest Democratic senators is Massachusetts’s Elizabeth Warren (77), Oregon’s Ron Wyden (77), Rhode Island’s Jack Reed (77 next month), and New York’s Chuck Schumer (76 next month).

Posted by: SMOD at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (AFudc)

Tales from the Crypt...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:58 PM (l3cgK)

137 If I yell louder, do I become more persuasive?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (MdQMu)
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You can't persuade a paid troll.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 02:58 PM (ZOv7s)

138 I'm not scarred by 2020! You're scarred by 2020!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:54 PM (MdQMu)

Okay now...

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 16, 2026 02:58 PM (/6Ute)

139 135 Good up face within the MOE. Ain’t I great?

-Every pollster.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (EWq0C)

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"No one will grade me on my polls from the December after the previous election to mid-October before the next election, so I can say whatever the fuck I want. Besides, they'll defend me by proxy because Harvard-Harris does a decent job."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:58 PM (MdQMu)

140 137 If I yell louder, do I become more persuasive?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (MdQMu)
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You can't persuade a paid troll.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 02:58 PM (ZOv7s)

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I'm convinced these people do it for the love of the game.

Their comments get deleted too frequently and quickly for anyone to pay them to do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 02:59 PM (MdQMu)

141 Posted by: SMOD at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (AFudc)

_____________________________________

You could take out a significant portion of Congress by doing a loud prank in the Capitol Building. And, then hiding the defibrillators.

Posted by: Orson at October 16, 2026 03:00 PM (dIske)

142 Watched clips of two of the four debates in Maine. Collins is coming off as a professional, while Jackson can't stop being an ahole. Collins was down in the polls in 2020 by 7 two weeks before the election. She won by 9. There have been more leftists move to Maine ( I know one) but she's still sleeping n good shape

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 03:00 PM (kGIZD)

143 133 126 No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot. The 7 year old critically injured girl was in a wheelchair.

https://tinyurl.com/bp7544cn

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (kX27y)

Doesn't look Trans but looks "off"... I have to doubt the story about the Mother buying him a shotgun for his Birthday...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 03:00 PM (+gK6I)

144 142 Watched clips of two of the four debates in Maine. Collins is coming off as a professional, while Jackson can't stop being an ahole. Collins was down in the polls in 2020 by 7 two weeks before the election. She won by 9. There have been more leftists move to Maine ( I know one) but she's still sleeping n good shape

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 03:00 PM (kGIZD)

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"Polling can't be all wrong."

*screenshot of Collins losing literally every poll in 2020 but winning by 8*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (MdQMu)

145 126 No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot. The 7 year old critically injured girl was in a wheelchair.

https://tinyurl.com/bp7544cn
Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (kX27y)

Dude just oozes malevolence. There are plenty of angry young men out there, but this one takes the cake.

My son was never responsible enough to be allowed access to any of our firearms. I can't imagine this dude's mom would let that miserable mug near any of hers, but there ya go.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (fOTAm)

146 126 No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot. The 7 year old critically injured girl was in a wheelchair.

https://tinyurl.com/bp7544cn
Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM

He looks frightening. I wonder what meds he was on.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (EROzA)

147 Luv the tight shirts. He so sexy I want to be raped.

Posted by: Michigan AWFL at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (UjdFS)

148 >> Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot. The 7 year old critically injured girl was in a wheelchair.

And just like the Sandy Hook murderer, mom thought it was a great idea to buy a teen with emotional and special needs issues a firearm.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (EWq0C)

149 125 I dunno. I can’t wait to see the results of these elections, compare polls for the past few months, look at EV by party, mail-ins, etc. the. Do a real party by party breakdown. Just to see the math.
Posted by: Vengeance

Time enough to do that after the election. Just go and vote and ignore the bullshit that media, polling, and even politicians spew. All manipulation and spin.
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Even EV and mail in ballot requests analysis can be flawed unless you have cross year comparisons and rates of voting per day comparisons which GOP and Dems are not the same. VoteHub, one such source, has been caught doing shady shit with numbers apparently in Ohio so little reason to trust them or those relying on them either.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (E4rtv)

150 Like I said it’s all online go back and check. Mid to late October polls in 2024 were generally saying a Close Trump win in swing states. What happened? A close Trump win in swing states. Imagine that.

In PA of the last 20 polls taken, 8 showed Trump winning, 7 were ties.

In NV of the last 10 polls taken 4 showed Trump, 3 ties.

In NC of the last 10, 8 had Trump winning.

Posted by: Reality at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (q/mq0)

151 no one will read what i write

Posted by: Paul at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (yqraH)

152 You would do about as good taking a dart to a dartboard and figuring 50/50 in each race.
Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 02:57 PM (E4rtv)
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The complicating factor this year is that the Dem candidates are unusually batty, so historic trends don't really apply. Trump is not on the ballot, and the Dem candidates are so downright weird that it's off-putting.

They found some of the least attractive people possible to put at the top of the ticket, and that's going to have down-ballot effects.

What's weird to me is the complete lack of any down-ballot signs or campaign activity. Did they really think that they'd crush the top and win everything by default?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (ZOv7s)

153 I'm convinced these people do it for the love of the game.

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lol , Hunger games ?

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 03:02 PM (AKptf)

154 Paul is so wasted, he's incoherent.

God is waiting. Go to him. You don't have to live like this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 03:03 PM (ZOv7s)

155 My son was never responsible enough to be allowed access to any of our firearms. I can't imagine this dude's mom would let that miserable mug near any of hers, but there ya go.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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At least a couple of reports that he stole it. Another that she bought it for him. Details take awhile to sort out in these cases.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:03 PM (E4rtv)

156 Meant “toss up race”.

It’s the bourbon.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 16, 2026 03:03 PM (EWq0C)

157 136 128 Vermont’s Bernie Sanders just turned 85. Maine’s “independent” who caucuses with the Democrats, Angus King, is 82. Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal and Massachusetts’s Ed Markey are 80, Vermont’s Peter Welch is 79 (in his state, he’s the young one!), and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono will turn 79 on Election Day. Rounding out the top ten oldest Democratic senators is Massachusetts’s Elizabeth Warren (77), Oregon’s Ron Wyden (77), Rhode Island’s Jack Reed (77 next month), and New York’s Chuck Schumer (76 next month).

Posted by: SMOD at October 16, 2026 02:56 PM (AFudc)

Tales from the Crypt...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 02:58 PM (l3cgK)

They love power more than their own families. Who wouldn't want to retire and spend time with the grandkids? These fools, apparently.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 16, 2026 03:03 PM (fOTAm)

158 God is waiting. Go to him. You don't have to live like this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Not sure if Pual is a bot or has been taken over as a puppet by Gaymondo.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:03 PM (E4rtv)

159 Vacuumed out the car, wiped down all seats and dash.
If I wash the car, blaming the ONT for the idea

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2026 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)

160 What's weird to me is the complete lack of any down-ballot signs or campaign activity. Did they really think that they'd crush the top and win everything by default?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (ZOv7s)

My phone has been blowing up with Political Texts, and my mail box full of political ads.... Central Calif...

So... Regional?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2026 03:05 PM (mP0Kj)

161 Pual is a felon. No one IRL wants anything to do with him, so he's polluting the iterwebs. Like many of his kind.

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 03:05 PM (AKptf)

162 "No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot"

yeah, he doesn't show signs of being a tranny in that pic, but likely on some sort of meds for his "social problems".

Posted by: illiniwek at October 16, 2026 03:06 PM (vbXSk)

163 159 Vacuumed out the car, wiped down all seats and dash.
If I wash the car, blaming the ONT for the idea
Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2026 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)
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Go ahead...wash and wax it. I dare ya.

Posted by: Ace's Crows with digestive issue from all the peanuts at October 16, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

164 Press Secretary fired.

CNN and MS Now happy circle jerks.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 16, 2026 03:06 PM (Sco7b)

165 They found some of the least attractive people possible to put at the top of the ticket, and that's going to have down-ballot effects.

What's weird to me is the complete lack of any down-ballot signs or campaign activity. Did they really think that they'd crush the top and win everything by default?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Dems are strapped for cash this year, GOP is flush but given all the bad things that Democrats have been caught doing to GOP signs, houses, cars, etc. I think a lot of GOP supporters in mixed areas are not putting a sign up because they fear Democrat crazies.

Raged filled Democrat nut jobs are proliferating as Trump progressively breaks their brains into insanity. They really thought, I think, that Utopia was just around the corner from eternal Democrat rule. And the Orange Man has destroyed the dream, now they want revenge.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)

166 ress Secretary fired.

CNN and MS Now happy circle jerks.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 16, 2026 03:06 PM (Sco7b)

@49. sorry kid!

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 03:07 PM (AKptf)

167 "In defense of polling: The final polls are okay. So, you must believe all polling. Sure, they may just ultimately be herding towards being within the MOE of a 50/50 race, but that means that they're right in the middle of summer, too. Polling is awesome."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 03:07 PM (MdQMu)

168 Looked around, what happened?

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2026 03:08 PM (Ia/+0)

169 160 What's weird to me is the complete lack of any down-ballot signs or campaign activity. Did they really think that they'd crush the top and win everything by default?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 16, 2026 03:01 PM (ZOv7s)

My phone has been blowing up with Political Texts, and my mail box full of political ads.... Central Calif...

So... Regional?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2026 03:05 PM (mP0Kj)

No matter how many numbers I block, I keep getting texts. I text "STOP", they keep coming. I expect it to get worse until the election is over.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 16, 2026 03:08 PM (l3cgK)

170 161 Pual is a felon. No one IRL wants anything to do with him, so he's polluting the iterwebs. Like many of his kind.
Posted by: runner
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Well that would figure if Pual was a furry that liked to lick his balls in public because he could.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:08 PM (E4rtv)

171 The old time Dems have no other life . They were involved bun politics since college and literally would shrivel up and die if the left the game. Not that they aren't relatively shriveled now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2026 03:08 PM (kGIZD)

172 You’ll all be pining for the days of 80+ year old senators once millennials and GenZ start winning these races.

Posted by: Off My Lawn at October 16, 2026 03:08 PM (L76AR)

173 The reason she had to go is a bit of fluffing on her resume.

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 03:09 PM (AKptf)

174 >>You don't choose your family, but you *do* choose what family you marry into.

Well, you do in Western civilizations, at least. I'm sure if El-Sayed claimed that it was an arranged marriage, it'd go over REALLY WELL with the Michigan AWFLs
- - - -

Seems like he's running as if he were single, and targeting the AWFLS with his dancing ads, and the one where he pretended to be a Love Island cast member. No wife on campaign trail from what I've seen, though I'm not paying close attention.

However, his FIL is reported to be one of his big campaign donors, so he could win because of him, not in spite of him.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 16, 2026 03:09 PM (rOKnE)

175 Pollsters don't herd towards trying to be within the MOE in their final polls because their methodology has always been awesome and suddenly the electorate shifted.

They're doing it so that they can get an A rating from Nate Silver and hang that on their polls at any other time of the year where they can say whatever the fuck they want without needing to worry about being right.

"Of course, the electorate shifted 37 points from June. That happens all the time."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 16, 2026 03:09 PM (MdQMu)

176 155 At least a couple of reports that he stole it. Another that she bought it for him. Details take awhile to sort out in these cases.
Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:03 PM (E4rtv)

72 hour rule.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 16, 2026 03:09 PM (QGaXH)

177 My phone has been blowing up with Political Texts, and my mail box full of political ads.... Central Calif...

So... Regional?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2026 03:05 PM (mP0Kj)

No matter how many numbers I block, I keep getting texts. I text "STOP", they keep coming. I expect it to get worse until the election is over.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Do you use privacy software subscriptions that kill your info being sold by databrokers? I do and the calm is amazing. Online footprint is shrinking to zero.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:09 PM (E4rtv)

178 El-Sayed's sister: "October 7th was the most beautiful day of my life." She's not talking about the weather or a Mets win.

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or a Met's win . . . cold but funny

Explainer: The Mets weren't playing October baseball in 2023.

Posted by: something worth doing, is worth doing right at October 16, 2026 03:09 PM (anL5R)

179 "No mention if he was a tranny, but menacing photo of him with his mom in the article. Turns out he was in the special needs classroom at one point and that's where he went to shoot"

yeah, he doesn't show signs of being a tranny in that pic, but likely on some sort of meds for his "social problems".

Posted by: illiniwek at October 16, 2026 03:06 PM

This sort of dovetails into my post last week about how the medical profession has redefined the autism diagnoses downward so that 20% of school age kids are now on meds for autism when that number used to be less than 2% 20 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 16, 2026 03:10 PM (I43vL)

180 @49. sorry kid!

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 03:07 P

Okay.

Man, I have to read content AND comments.
Exhausting.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 16, 2026 03:10 PM (Sco7b)

181 nood

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 16, 2026 03:11 PM (3ImbR)

182 177 My phone has been blowing up with Political Texts, and my mail box full of political ads.... Central Calif...

So... Regional?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2026 03:05 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm also in Central CA and same thing.

Posted by: beckster at October 16, 2026 03:11 PM (kX27y)

183 Dems are strapped for cash this year, GOP is flush but given all the bad things that Democrats have been caught doing to GOP signs, houses, cars, etc. I think a lot of GOP supporters in mixed areas are not putting a sign up because they fear Democrat crazies.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)

Nearly no political signs from the conservatives around here, because there's no reason to put them up. A few lefties have all the signs in their yards, because of course they do. Makes it easy to discover who to rely upon when the burning times come.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 16, 2026 03:11 PM (fOTAm)

184 161 Pual is a felon. No one IRL wants anything to do with him, so he's polluting the iterwebs. Like many of his kind.
Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 03:05 PM (AKptf)

Here's another clue for you all
The walrus is Paul.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 16, 2026 03:11 PM (QGaXH)

185 180 @49. sorry kid!

Posted by: runner at October 16, 2026 03:07 P

Sorry, but it was mentioned in the last thread

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2026 03:11 PM (+gK6I)

186 The reason she had to go is a bit of fluffing on her resume.

Thanks. I was wondering, although I also suspect that if she'd done a great job in her inaugural press conference, they'd have ignored the fluffing. Don't they do test press conferences to see how a person reacts under stress.

I'd give that job to Steven Miller.

https://tinyurl.com/mrz6rja6

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2026 03:13 PM (Riz8t)

187 I’m defending polling at this time in 2024 which was accurate. I said the last 20 in PA and the last 10 in NV and NC. Those were all polls taken from mid October on.

Where are we now? Oh what do you know, mid October.

Posted by: Reality at October 16, 2026 03:13 PM (L76AR)

188 72 hour rule.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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As bad as the media is getting, I would say one week at a minimum. You get a couple of bare facts within 72 hours but a far more complete story when the bloggers get into the details that the media refuses or ignores to put out about a story. Cornell 7 was a perfect example of the op orchestrated by Dems to juice AWFL turnout by making men into gang rapists. Took about a week for all the sordid text messaging to dribble out.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:14 PM (E4rtv)

189 Re senatorial ages, one of the many hilarious schticks that Fritz Hollings had was to note, that as the "junior" senator from SC (think he was 84 at the time), blah blah blah.

And of course he pronounced the "junior" in his trademark Foghorn Leghorn voice, tone rising, with emphasis. Reminds me of some hilarious oratory of his at the time of Hurricane Hugo, which hit Charleston pretty hard IIRC. The way he pronounced "Hugo".

Posted by: rhomboid at October 16, 2026 03:15 PM (U/Byj)

190 A lot of revisionism on polls from 2024.

In the summer Kamala was ahead, true. However that lead evaporated into September and October. By mid October it was a dead heat with several polls showing Trump winning swing states. It’s all available online to go back check.

Betting markets had Trump as the clear favorite for the last 2 weeks of the campaign. Polymarket had him steady around 60% and as high as 65% a few days before Election Day.

Posted by: Reality at October 16, 2026 02:46 PM (q/mq0)
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Yes, they all moved right at the end. Which is how they are all starting to move now. They are going to lose MI. We are going to lose NC it would seem. We probably pick up one of NH, MN, GA though Ossoff is probably moving into it would be a huge upset territory. I cannot believe with what is going on in Fulton county it isn't closer. Some pollsters while noticing a bit of a Harris bump had it as a Trump +1 or 2 from the beginning.

TJM's prediction of same Senate split with a reversal of the House narrow margin in favor of the dems seems the odds on favorite right now.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 16, 2026 03:15 PM (7/DDO)

191 Oh and of course Fritz was junior because Strom was .... 100? 100+ at the time. At that point Strom was rarely entertaining, except for the epic hearing at SASC on gays in the military.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 16, 2026 03:17 PM (U/Byj)

192 187 I’m defending polling at this time in 2024 which was accurate. I said the last 20 in PA and the last 10 in NV and NC. Those were all polls taken from mid October on.

Where are we now? Oh what do you know, mid October.

Posted by: Reality
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I seriously doubt you can describe polling methodology and how it is done. So your opinion on the matter is scarcely useful in discourse.

I've done it (not political but other survey research for Census and USDA), used it professionally in research, and had friends that were members of AAPOR that actually ran polls as operation managers and directors. Was there when our university opened its own polling shop where research staff could piggyback and have research questions added.

And the issue was even these polling specialists knew that polling methodology as we knew it from twenty years ago was dying and soon to be dead. This was before 2010. A combination of lying, non response bias, and other factors make them about as useful as a naive assertion that GOP and Dems are 50/50 in a contested race.

Posted by: whig at October 16, 2026 03:19 PM (E4rtv)

193 164 Press Secretary fired.

CNN and MS Now happy circle jerks.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 16, 2026 03:06 PM
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She might have been a "place holder". From my perspective, the last two years of Trump's second term are going to be wild. I was surprised at what he has been able to accomplish since the beginning of this term....but I think the motto for the remainder is "no f*cks to give" and that requires more of a bouncer type as press secretary. Someone who commands the room, and Katie Zacharia didn't have that IMO.

It has to be someone who is 100% on board with the policy, and has the tools to explain that policy in no uncertain terms. And, it has to be someone who doesn't mind getting combative using facts and statistics. I think Colonel Allen West would be entertaining in that role. Not sure he'd be up to it on various issues, however.

Posted by: Orson at October 16, 2026 03:20 PM (dIske)

194 With all the net redistricting pick-ups for the House GOP how the F can they lose ground? Yeah yeah mid-term party out of power. But still. Have already long since finalized my assessment of the country but in this context handing the House to the Dems is incredibly damning.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 16, 2026 03:21 PM (U/Byj)

195 She might have been a "place holder". From my perspective, the last two years of Trump's second term are going to be wild.
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This - there is someone else they prefer but that person is not available right now.

Harriet Miers 2.0.

Posted by: something worth doing, is worth doing right at October 16, 2026 03:44 PM (anL5R)

196 Meanwhile - the "liberal press" attacks an attractive young woman for NOT being a lawyer.

Pretty funny stuff actually.

Trump is trumping again.

Posted by: something worth doing, is worth doing right at October 16, 2026 03:46 PM (anL5R)

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