Deputy national politics editor @WashingtonPost focused on campaigns. Fenitn.33 on Signal / fenit.nirappil@washpost.com
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Key thing to remember about SC elections is the straight-ticket voting option: one click & voters can cast their entire ballot for the party ticket instead of going by race
A result like this would likely take a lot of folks foregoing that, but Rs still acknowledge a close race
NYT/Siena poll | 10/19-10/26 LV
US Senate South Carolina 2026
🟦Annie Andrews 48%
🟥Darline Graham 48% (incumbent)
Link to poll: nytimes.com/2026/10/28/upsho…
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Former “Sunday Night Football” sideline reporter Michele Tafoya has emerged as an unexpectedly formidable Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, forcing Democrats to fight for a seat they once expected to hold comfortably. wapo.st/4jGmVjq
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DOJ is usually quiet in the months before an election.
“But (Todd) Blanche has had some of his busiest weeks as attorney general ahead of next week’s midterms, cannonballing into politically fraught cases as the president cheers him on” washingtonpost.com/national-…
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Useful guide here to the seven toss-up Senate races with more data, context from @theodoricmeyer & @KlaraAuerbach washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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New: The FDA has rarely inspected the foreign facilities exporting the vast majority of fresh fruits & vegetables to the U.S., per WaPo investigation.
Only 7.6% of the facilities have been inspected by the agency since 2009.
With @caitlinsgilbert
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Insightful story from smart reporters who know Texas and came here to listen to voters: The sleeper issue that could decide the U.S. Senate race in Texas wapo.st/4yIujhW
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Just 2 years ago, RFK (Robert Kennedy) was in Dearborn meeting with Arab-Americans, posing for selfies with them. Today, he’s making disparaging remarks about Arabs. Video I took of him in Dearborn a few days before Nov. election.
Niraj Warikoo
RFK: “There's 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.”
Every aspect of that statement (save Fields) is absolutely false.
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Smart @jherrerx piece on why so many elections are unexpectedly in play
“Republicans have lost one of their greatest advantages in the last election: the border is quiet, and the fear and insecurity people once felt in South Texas has dissipated.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Coincidentally, we found two disaffected Republican voters from two states who are frustrated by $700 power bills and are quoted in two different articles
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Trump 2024 voters who now disapprove of him make up about 8 percent of the electorate and are key to the midterms.
What a quote: “It’s kind of like if your wife is screwing the guy next door. You know, you’re kind of butt hurt about it.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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More than a year ago, @dr_demetre resigned from CDC leadership to protest RFK Jr. and fight him from the outside.
@bylenasun has stayed in touch to report on what happened next.
Read the last installment of our Fight or Fold series for free: wapo.st/4BqcoiO
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For Democrat Scott Colom to pull off the biggest upset of the midterms in Mississippi, he needs huge Black voter turnout and about a quarter of the white vote.
@SchneiderG went to Mississippi to report on why that's so hard washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Last night in Michigan, Obama directly tied Abdul El-Sayed's campaign and political story to his own, including how they both faced anti-Muslim rhetoric.
“We have seen this movie before. I starred in it,” Obama said. “This stuff didn’t work on me."
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Democrats hold leads in the two Pa. swing districts GOP flipped two years ago, our latest poll shows inquirer.com/politics/pennsy…
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Best profile I’ve read of Hakeem Jeffries and an illuminating portrait of the man poised to be the next House speaker. From @AnnaLissRoy: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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We polled Arab Americans.
They're shifting left, and many who voted for Trump now disapprove of him, especially his handling of Israel's war in Gaza. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Scoop | Hegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.
Photos obtained by The @washingtonpost show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt.
By @AlexHortonTX @DanLamothe
Gift link wapo.st/3WF2YQo
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President Donald Trump's approval rating hit a record low in three major polls (including ours) this week washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Striking how many Democrats told @merica that there’s little enthusiasm for Troy Jackson in the Maine Senate race.
But they see anger at Susan Collins as reason enough for him to win, which polling backs up washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Groups backed by Elon Musk have now spent more than $430 million in the midterms and counting washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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