Trump Promised To Visit Battleground Districts But Finds Himself In South Carolina Instead

Less than two weeks from the midterms, the president is shoring up his handpicked candidate in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat statewide in two decades.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-south-carolina_n_6ad7cfb6e4b02def98691b74?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs

The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP’s alignment with tech overlords over the public they’re meant to serve

Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Robert Reich highlighted the link between corruption and affordability. Today’s edition was written by Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit. Sign up for future editions here.

“The world should accept some bad things happening,” Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, said recently, “for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” Like so many things tech oligarchs say, it’s incoherent, since Altman would like to deny the world and the people in it the agency to decide whether or not we should accept his bad things. Surveys show that most Americans would like to pause AI; opposition to AI datacenters is a factor in many races in the midterm elections. People are outraged and anxious about what tech hath wrought, mad enough to fight back in what is coming to seem like a human v machine battle. Continue reading...


https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/oct/19/midterm-elections-tech-broligarchs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Ramaswamy Takes Responsibility For Ad With Amy Acton’s Mother And Will Spend Millions To Promote It

Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s team has confirmed it produced a controversial advertisement featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-election-2026-ohio-governor_n_6ad82d84e4b04f71533d9360?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Kansas Senate race on a knife edge as Democrats aim to end 94 years of Republican dominance

Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 – does Adam Hamilton have the courage, brain and heart to cause an extraordinary upset?

Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House, Republicans in the state are scrambling to retain their dominance. The battle for one of its two seats in the US Senate is too close to call, setting the stage for a potentially extraordinary upset.

Some recent polls even put Democrat Adam Hamilton on course for a historic victory. Kansans have not sent a representative of the party to the US Senate since 1932. Continue reading...


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/kansas-senate-race-democrat-adam-hamilton?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger