Trump Thinks Repulsive Ohio Attack Ad Is 'So Good,' Actually

The president decried Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine for suggesting the controversial ad be taken down.


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Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad for Ohio ‘shameful, disgusting’, says Republican congresswoman – US politics live

Nancy Mace said: ‘This ad is going to go down as the most shameful, disgusting, offensive ad this election season’

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. We’re less than two weeks out from the mid-term vote and the campaigns are getting even more nasty.

Condemnation continues of Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign in the Ohio governor race after his team put out an attack ad, featuring the estranged mother of his Democrat rival Amy Acton criticising her daughter and calling her a liar.

This ad is going to go down as the most shameful, disgusting, offensive ad this election season.

I just can’t believe that this is what passes for decency in this election. Continue reading...


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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.


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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...


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