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Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign reported a record $2.4 million in donations on Sunday, the same day Haley Stevens withdrew her endorsement and backed Republican Mike Rogers. A new poll also shows El-Sayed leading Rogers by 11 points in Michigan.
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El-Sayed campaign reports record-breaking fundraising day after Stevens pulls endorsement
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign announced that it received $2.4m in donations on Sunday, the day that Haley Stevens announced she would now pull her support from the Democratic nominee and back Republican Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed’s campaign that the amount is a single-day fundraising record for his Senate bid. His staff also noted that more than 26,000 people contributed for the first time on Sunday.
In the four hours after Stevens defected on Sunday, Politico reported that El-Sayed’s campaign raised $1.2m, which was already its second-highest day of donations.
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Key events
As I noted earlier, the latest polling from the New York Times/Siena College shows Democrats leading in key Senate races ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. One of the major battlegrounds is the competition in Texas, where Democratic state representative James Talarico has a seven-point lead against Republican challenger Ken Paxton, the scandal-ridden attorney general who has Donald Trump’s endorsement.
My colleague David Smith reports from Austin on Talarico’s meteoric rise, and how he stands a chance of winning a Senate seat that has eluded Democrats for almost 40 years.
Read his full dispatch here:
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In an interview with CNN, Debbie Dingell, the Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, addressed the anger directed at Haley Stevens, her colleague, after the representative announced she would endorse Republican Mike Rogers in the state’s bitter US Senate race.
“I have been worried about her because I know it’s really hard to be in these kinds of circumstances. I talked to her multiple times last week,” Dingell said. “And I was shocked. I can’t lie about that.”
Various reports noted that just hours before Stevens made her announcement pulling her support for Abdul El-Sayed, she spoke to Dingell on the phone and assured her that she would still be backing the Democratic nominee in the upcoming election.
“I was very shocked at what she [Stevens] did, but the hate and the anger in this country right now is very scary and it’s coming from all sides,” Dingell added in the interview.
When asked specifically what was worrying Dingell about Stevens’ decision, the congresswoman said that it was clear “she has had some hurt feelings”.
Dingell added: “It’s very difficult to lose an election. There are many people that respect her. She was feeling torn. She has a very significant Jewish community that itself was torn on this issue. She’s had a lot of people saying many things to her.”
While Dingell said that she wouldn’t “speculate” about what changed for Stevens and why she ended up backing Rogers, she noted just how hard it has been to quiet the vocal frustration from within her party towards Stevens.
“I tried to get many of my colleagues to focus on tomorrow’s election because this is a distraction. It’s been a distraction for 10 days and focus on what the real issues are,” Dingell said. “But there are a lot of people that don’t understand what she did and are very, very angry and you’ve heard those words and seen those statements.”
She noted that the way the four-term congresswoman went out “has probably permanently hurt her” and her future within the Democratic party.
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While Donald Trump will rally in Washington DC today, his vice-president, JD Vance, will be in Rome, New York, to stump for Republican House candidates in competitive races in the state.
This includes, Anthony Constantino, the sticker company exec and rapper trying to keep Elise Stefanik’s seat in Congress red, and Kailee Buller, who served as a senior official at the agriculture department and is trying to flip her district.
Vance will be joined by the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, on the trail today, and the pair will head to Ohio later for another set of campaign events.
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Updated at 10.50 EST
Chris Pappas is stopping himself from getting too excited ahead of Tuesday’s midterm election.
“I take nothing for granted,” said the four-term US representative and Democratic nominee for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat. “This is a very purple, competitive state. Elections are never in the bag here.”
The race to replace the retiring Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen has emerged as a source of 11th hour anxiety for the party.
In their attempt to gain four seats and reclaim control of the Senate, Democrats can’t afford to lose one they already hold. But September polling showing Pappas virtually tied with his Republican opponent, former senator John Sununu, rattled party strategists and raised the prospect that New Hampshire could become an unexpected battleground.
The warning signs were striking in a state Donald Trump has lost in each of his three presidential bids.
While Pappas has regained a narrow advantage in most polls, and the Cook Political Report moved the race in early October from “toss-up” to “lean Democrat”, his closing message has focused heavily on tying Sununu to an unpopular president.
Trump’s approval rating sits at just 32% in the state, according to a recent University of New Hampshire poll, giving Democrats hope that voter frustration with the administration will ultimately benefit Pappas’s run.
“Sununu has spent most of the last year on team Trump, and now that we’re getting within range of the election, he’s recognizing how unpopular the president is,” Pappas said as he traveled the state in the final days on the trail, often joined by party heavyweights, like Arizona senator Mark Kelly and former vice-president Kamala Harris.
Sununu, however, has spent much of the campaign arguing that independence, not loyalty, defines his political record.
The former senator has emphasized his criticism of Trump’s trade war with Canada, which has affected several industries in the state, and in a recent campaign advertisement, he even claimed to have “never met” the president.
The former senator’s anti-Trump bona fides do have some roots. In 2024, he voiced his support or Nikki Haley in an op-ed during Republican primary campaign, and also branded Trump a “loser”.
Read my full dispatch from New Hampshire here:
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El-Sayed campaign reports record-breaking fundraising day after Stevens pulls endorsement
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign announced that it received $2.4m in donations on Sunday, the day that Haley Stevens announced she would now pull her support from the Democratic nominee and back Republican Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed’s campaign that the amount is a single-day fundraising record for his Senate bid. His staff also noted that more than 26,000 people contributed for the first time on Sunday.
In the four hours after Stevens defected on Sunday, Politico reported that El-Sayed’s campaign raised $1.2m, which was already its second-highest day of donations.
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New polling shows El-Sayed with lead in Michigan Senate race
The latest and final New York Times and Siena College poll before the midterm elections also shows Abdul El-Sayed leading Mike Rogers in the US Senate race in Michigan by 11 percentage points, outside the margin of error.
The survey took place before Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens announced that she would back Rogers in the contest – a vital seat for her party to retain in their quest for control of the Senate.
Democrats are leading in all of the seven battlegrounds this cycle, including midwest states like Kansas and Iowa that have become newly competitive in recent months.
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Updated at 10.03 EST
Stevens on 11th-hour endorsement of Mike Rogers: ‘This is just a weight off my shoulders’
After Haley Stevens announced her decision to back Mike Rogers in the Michigan US Senate race, she defended her move in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
“This is just a weight off my shoulders. Abdul [El-Sayed] has been getting angrier and angrier,” she said, referring to the Democratic nominee. However, anchor Anderson Cooper pressed
El-Sayed campaign reports record-breaking fundraising day after Stevens pulls endorsement
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign announced that it received $2.4m in donations on Sunday, the day that Haley Stevens announced she would now pull her support from the Democratic nominee and back Republican Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed’s campaign that the amount is a single-day fundraising record for his Senate bid. His staff also noted that more than 26,000 people contributed for the first time on Sunday.
In the four hours after Stevens defected on Sunday, Politico reported that El-Sayed’s campaign raised $1.2m, which was already its second-highest day of donations.
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Key events
As I noted earlier, the latest polling from the New York Times/Siena College shows Democrats leading in key Senate races ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. One of the major battlegrounds is the competition in Texas, where Democratic state representative James Talarico has a seven-point lead against Republican challenger Ken Paxton, the scandal-ridden attorney general who has Donald Trump’s endorsement.
My colleague David Smith reports from Austin on Talarico’s meteoric rise, and how he stands a chance of winning a Senate seat that has eluded Democrats for almost 40 years.
Read his full dispatch here:
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In an interview with CNN, Debbie Dingell, the Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, addressed the anger directed at Haley Stevens, her colleague, after the representative announced she would endorse Republican Mike Rogers in the state’s bitter US Senate race.
“I have been worried about her because I know it’s really hard to be in these kinds of circumstances. I talked to her multiple times last week,” Dingell said. “And I was shocked. I can’t lie about that.”
Various reports noted that just hours before Stevens made her announcement pulling her support for Abdul El-Sayed, she spoke to Dingell on the phone and assured her that she would still be backing the Democratic nominee in the upcoming election.
“I was very shocked at what she [Stevens] did, but the hate and the anger in this country right now is very scary and it’s coming from all sides,” Dingell added in the interview.
When asked specifically what was worrying Dingell about Stevens’ decision, the congresswoman said that it was clear “she has had some hurt feelings”.
Dingell added: “It’s very difficult to lose an election. There are many people that respect her. She was feeling torn. She has a very significant Jewish community that itself was torn on this issue. She’s had a lot of people saying many things to her.”
While Dingell said that she wouldn’t “speculate” about what changed for Stevens and why she ended up backing Rogers, she noted just how hard it has been to quiet the vocal frustration from within her party towards Stevens.
“I tried to get many of my colleagues to focus on tomorrow’s election because this is a distraction. It’s been a distraction for 10 days and focus on what the real issues are,” Dingell said. “But there are a lot of people that don’t understand what she did and are very, very angry and you’ve heard those words and seen those statements.”
She noted that the way the four-term congresswoman went out “has probably permanently hurt her” and her future within the Democratic party.
Share
While Donald Trump will rally in Washington DC today, his vice-president, JD Vance, will be in Rome, New York, to stump for Republican House candidates in competitive races in the state.
This includes, Anthony Constantino, the sticker company exec and rapper trying to keep Elise Stefanik’s seat in Congress red, and Kailee Buller, who served as a senior official at the agriculture department and is trying to flip her district.
Vance will be joined by the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, on the trail today, and the pair will head to Ohio later for another set of campaign events.
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Updated at 10.50 EST
Chris Pappas is stopping himself from getting too excited ahead of Tuesday’s midterm election.
“I take nothing for granted,” said the four-term US representative and Democratic nominee for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat. “This is a very purple, competitive state. Elections are never in the bag here.”
The race to replace the retiring Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen has emerged as a source of 11th hour anxiety for the party.
In their attempt to gain four seats and reclaim control of the Senate, Democrats can’t afford to lose one they already hold. But September polling showing Pappas virtually tied with his Republican opponent, former senator John Sununu, rattled party strategists and raised the prospect that New Hampshire could become an unexpected battleground.
The warning signs were striking in a state Donald Trump has lost in each of his three presidential bids.
While Pappas has regained a narrow advantage in most polls, and the Cook Political Report moved the race in early October from “toss-up” to “lean Democrat”, his closing message has focused heavily on tying Sununu to an unpopular president.
Trump’s approval rating sits at just 32% in the state, according to a recent University of New Hampshire poll, giving Democrats hope that voter frustration with the administration will ultimately benefit Pappas’s run.
“Sununu has spent most of the last year on team Trump, and now that we’re getting within range of the election, he’s recognizing how unpopular the president is,” Pappas said as he traveled the state in the final days on the trail, often joined by party heavyweights, like Arizona senator Mark Kelly and former vice-president Kamala Harris.
Sununu, however, has spent much of the campaign arguing that independence, not loyalty, defines his political record.
The former senator has emphasized his criticism of Trump’s trade war with Canada, which has affected several industries in the state, and in a recent campaign advertisement, he even claimed to have “never met” the president.
The former senator’s anti-Trump bona fides do have some roots. In 2024, he voiced his support or Nikki Haley in an op-ed during Republican primary campaign, and also branded Trump a “loser”.
Read my full dispatch from New Hampshire here:
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El-Sayed campaign reports record-breaking fundraising day after Stevens pulls endorsement
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign announced that it received $2.4m in donations on Sunday, the day that Haley Stevens announced she would now pull her support from the Democratic nominee and back Republican Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed’s campaign that the amount is a single-day fundraising record for his Senate bid. His staff also noted that more than 26,000 people contributed for the first time on Sunday.
In the four hours after Stevens defected on Sunday, Politico reported that El-Sayed’s campaign raised $1.2m, which was already its second-highest day of donations.
Share
New polling shows El-Sayed with lead in Michigan Senate race
The latest and final New York Times and Siena College poll before the midterm elections also shows Abdul El-Sayed leading Mike Rogers in the US Senate race in Michigan by 11 percentage points, outside the margin of error.
The survey took place before Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens announced that she would back Rogers in the contest – a vital seat for her party to retain in their quest for control of the Senate.
Democrats are leading in all of the seven battlegrounds this cycle, including midwest states like Kansas and Iowa that have become newly competitive in recent months.
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Updated at 10.03 EST
Stevens on 11th-hour endorsement of Mike Rogers: ‘This is just a weight off my shoulders’
After Haley Stevens announced her decision to back Mike Rogers in the Michigan US Senate race, she defended her move in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
“This is just a weight off my shoulders. Abdul [El-Sayed] has been getting angrier and angrier,” she said, referring to the Democratic nominee. However, anchor Anderson Cooper pressed
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Source: The Guardian US
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