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Charlamagne Tha God calls on Dems to 'stop playing politics with people's lives' and reopen the government
On "The Breakfast Club" Wednesday, co-host Charlamagne Tha God urged Democrats to "stop playing politics with people’s lives" and reopen the federal government following several Democratic victories in Tuesday’s state and local elections.
"I feel for all those federal workers who have missed two paychecks already, especially when most of them are living paycheck to paycheck," Charlamagne said. "People are not getting their SNAP benefits. It’s time to reopen the government. I don’t care whose fault it was. Let’s stop playing politics with people’s lives."
Aside from federal workers going without pay and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits being delayed, the radio host also touched on another issue that was exacerbated by the ongoing government shutdown — rising healthcare costs.
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"It’s time to open the government back up, y’all. Dems, you had a great night last night. The premiums have already gone up," he said. "They are set for the year. It’s time to move on. We appreciate the fight, the valiant effort, but come on, man. People got rent due. People got childcare to pay for, light bills, car notes."
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said on Fox Business' "The Evening Edit" Tuesday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., privately encouraged Democratic senators to delay reopening the government until after Election Day.
"Chuck Schumer, in a private meeting with other Democrat senators, said that if you’ll just wait till after the election, I’ll release the handcuffs," Mullin claimed. "I added the handcuffs part, but basically I’m paraphrasing what he said."
"The reason why is because they’re afraid their base wouldn’t show up today in Virginia, New Jersey and in New York. So it’s been about politics," the senator continued. "It’s never been about policy. It’s been about holding the American people as leverage points regardless of the damage they cause to the livelihood of these individuals. But elections are more important than the Dems because they know their polls are at the very bottom than it’s ever been for the Democrat Party."
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Similar to his comments on Wednesday, Charlamagne urged Democrats on Monday to end the government shutdown, arguing that the party seems to be fighting in a stalemate over issues that have already been lost.
"The healthcare is going to go up anyway because of the ‘big beautiful bill’ because that didn't include the extension of the tax credits to keep the cost down. So, if it's going up anyway, what's the point of Democrats taking the stand to keep the government still closed?" he said.
Frequent contributor Mimi Brown agreed, noting that people have already been getting letters in the mail about changing healthcare premiums.
"And the premiums are set for a year," Charlamagne continued. "So at this point, if the premiums have already gone up, if they’re set for a year, at least give the people some relief and get the government back open."
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Charlamagne went on to appeal to Democrats directly, demanding they end the shutdown to bring back programs like SNAP.
"Democrats, you fought. It seems like you lost the fight. At this point, you know, go on and give it up," he said. "At least give the people some relief by getting the government back open. Let these people get these SNAP benefits. Let these government workers get their checks. We don't need all this craziness at the TSA during the holidays. Like, I think you lost... I feel like they lost, it’s over.'"
Fox News' Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
Prince Harry apologizes for 'hatgate' controversy after wearing Dodgers cap at World Series
Prince Harry apologized for his apparent support of the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 2025 World Series.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attended Game 4 of the series between the Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. The son of King Charles III donned a blue Dodgers cap as part of his attire. Prince Harry's hat choice confused fans, who believed the royal should have been rooting for the Toronto Blue Jays due to Canada’s link to the United Kingdom.
While in Canada to celebrate Remembrance Day, the prince apologized for the hat choice.
"Is there anything you would like to say about wearing that L.A. Dodgers hat last week and getting into hot water?" Prince Harry was asked Thursday during an interview with CTV News.
"Oh, the L.A. Dodgers hat – hatgate. Well, firstly, I would like to apologize to Canada for wearing it," Prince Harry said.
"Secondly, I was under duress," he continued. "There wasn't much choice. I was invited to the L.A. Dodgers box or the dugout by the owner himself. So, I was doing what I thought was the polite thing to do."
While at the game, the couple color-coordinated their ensembles with Markle wearing a white button-down shirt with a navy sweater draped over her shoulders with dark pants, while Harry wore a navy blazer over a white T-shirt with dark trousers.
The couple was spotted seated in the front row behind home plate, ahead of baseball icon Sandy Koufax.
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During the interview Thursday, Prince Harry put on a Toronto Blue Jays hat to emphasize his loyalty to the Canadian baseball team.
"I'm going to wear this from now on to make sure I don't make any more of those mistakes," Prince Harry quipped.
"When you're missing a lot of hair on top, and you're sitting under floodlights, you'll take any hat that's available," he joked.
"I'm very sorry to the Canadian public. I'm devastated that the Blue Jays lost, but go Jays."
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Prince Harry was hatless during Game 7 of the World Series, as seen in a video shared to Instagram by Markle.
Markle’s video showed the prince and her friend, Kelly McKee Zajfen, watching the end of the game as the Dodgers clinched back-to-back World Series titles. In the black-and-white clip, apparently filmed inside the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private theater room, Harry and Zajfen sat in chairs while Markle was heard cheering off camera.
Zajfen shared Markle's video on her own Instagram Story at the time, writing, "Best game ever!!! Sorry H your team didn’t win but mine diiiiiiiiid. @dodgers I LOVE YOU!!!!"
Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume contributed to this report.
Trump says Hungary's border stance keeps crime down, says Europe 'flooding' with migrants
President Donald Trump said Friday that European leaders should respect Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban "very strongly because he's been right on immigration."
"Look what's happened to Europe with the immigration. They have people flooding Europe all over the place. And it's hurting it. The crime rates are way up. A lot of bad things are happening. His crime rates are very low. They're the same as they always were, which is very little crime. Because he's kept it the way it should be," Trump said as he hosted Orban at the White House.
"He was right on immigration. They were wrong. They are flooding Europe with people from all over the world. And Europe is becoming a different place. And I tell the leaders all the time, ‘you better stop or you're not going to have Europe anymore.’ It's a very dangerous thing they're doing," Trump added.
"So on migration issue, just for clarification, in Hungary, the number of illegal migration is like that — zero, zero because we have a crystal-clear system. If somebody would like to come to Hungary first, he should ask for that," Orban said. "If he gives the permission, they can step in. Nobody can step on the territory of Hungary without having permission from the Hungarian authorities. This is the regulation. Simple, while working."
"What is the consequence of that? If we are under sanctions, financial sanctions of European Union, because we don't let the illegal migration to come to Hungary and to the European Union as well. So we have to pay just to inform you, we have to pay every day €1 million as a punishment... this is the absurd world we are living now in Europe," Orban added.
The Associated Press reported that in June 2024, the European Union’s top court ordered Hungary to pay a $223 million fine for depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum and an additional fine of 1 million euros per day for failing to comply.
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New York reportedly prepares to oppose the potential of a federal crackdown by Trump in the Big Apple
As President Donald Trump's administration targets illegal immigrants and crime around the U.S., he could potentially target New York City with a federal crackdown.
Reports indicate that preparations to prevent or push back the prospect are already underway and Empire State Gov. Kathy Hochul is involved.
She has convened a series of discussions with law enforcement, business figures, and activist groups, to block or mitigate potential federal intervention, Politico reported.
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"The goal is to prevent, and if we can’t prevent, then hopefully we can delay," Jackie Bray, Commissioner of the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES), said, according to the outlet, which reported that she is the governor's point person on the matter. "And if something happens, we then have to manage. All three scenarios have real planning behind them."
Fox News Digital reached out to the governor's office and to DHSES for a statement on the matter.
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White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement to Fox News Digital, "New York leaders should be focused on how to protect the City from Mamdani, the Communist who wants to run it into the ground – not President Trump."
Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, has previously repudiated the "Communist" label.
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He recently won the Big Apple's mayoral contest, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Trump pardons ex-MLB star Darryl Strawberry after faith, sobriety turnaround: report
President Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned former MLB slugger Darryl Strawberry.
Throughout his playing career, the former New York Mets star had numerous run-ins with the law fueled by drug and alcohol problems, leading to three separate suspensions from Major League Baseball.
A White House official told The Associated Press Friday that the decision comes as Strawberry has used his post-career time to find "faith in Christianity" and remain sober for a decade.
The official also noted that Strawberry also became active in ministry and started a recovery center that remains operational today.
Strawberry won the World Series with the Mets in 1986 and with the New York Yankees in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
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Sen Kennedy says shutdown could last 2 more weeks amid ongoing Obamacare dispute
Ahead of a 15th attempt to reopen the government, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told reporters that he doesn’t expect a resolution to the 38-day government shutdown to come any time soon, casting gloom on optimistic forecasts of a resolution this week.
"I think we're at least seven days and more likely 10 and very possibly two weeks away from opening up at the best," Kennedy said.
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He said he expected Democrats would maintain a united front against a short-term spending extension on Friday.
"I have been told that the Democrats who've been negotiating with us are going to all vote no to proceed to the bill. That is an accommodation to their more aggressive Democratic senators. They've agreed to vote no one more time," Kennedy said.
Although Kennedy isn’t directly involved in negotiations, his comments came after a closed-door discussion of the shutdown’s standing with fellow Republican senators on Thursday.
The country entered a government shutdown at the beginning of October when Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., rejected a Republican short-term government funding bill, demanding that lawmakers first consider expiring healthcare subsidies for Obamacare that the country implemented as a temporary, emergency response to COVID-19.
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Republicans, who maintain that the subsidies have little to do with government funding, have rejected those demands out of hand. According to the Committee of a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal policy think tank, continuing the subsidies could cost upwards of $30 billion annually unless modified in some way.
Over a month later, Kennedy said those same issues remain unmoved although some senators, like Kennedy, have signaled a willingness to address the subsidies — but not until after the government re-opens.
"Republicans are not going to vote to extend the Obamacare subsidies for the exchanges without changes," he said. "We will agree to doing it with changes, but I know we're not going to give the Democrats what they want."
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"The last time I talked to [Democrats], they wanted a vote on the Obamacare subsidies — and guaranteed passage. Then we're going to be shut down for a long time because that's just not going to happen," he said.
The Senate will vote on the Republican short-term spending extension on Friday. It’s unclear if the Senate will stay in Washington, D.C., over the weekend or whether they will continue with a scheduled recess for Veterans Day next week.
Suspected New Jersey jihadi fantasized about killing Jews with swords in alleged ISIS plot: feds
Federal agents say a 21-year-old from New Jersey went from online hate to detailed fantasies about killing Jewish people with swords — part of a wider ISIS-inspired terror plot that the FBI broke up before Halloween.
Prosecutors say Milo Sedarat was one of six suspects charged in three states after authorities uncovered plans for mass shootings in Michigan and plans to travel to Syria to fight on behalf of the Islamic State terror group.
"I'm the biggest anti semite (sic) in America," he allegedly wrote to an unidentified friend, according to a federal criminal complaint. And after widespread anti-Israel protests on college campuses broke out in April over the conflict between the Israeli government and Hamas terrorists, he allegedly wrote to the friend, "[b]ro everyone hates the Jews now...I hope a second holocaust happens to them."
He also allegedly told suspected co-conspirators that he wanted to kill his mother’s Jewish friends.
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"Bro my moms Jewish friends r brainwashing her...Into being a Zionist," Sedarat allegedly wrote to the friend in January, using shorthand. "I wanna kill her friends....I'm gonna stab them with my sword."
"Lowkey say the state of Israel...Instead of Israel," the friend, who is not identified in court documents, told him. "Cuz prophet Joseph is also Israel."
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She was apparently concerned about his threats, according to the complaint, and hid one of his swords. But a few weeks later, he allegedly shared images of himself holding multiple knives and swords.
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In another conversation, the friend said he saw an Israeli protest nearby.
"I'm gonna drive into the protest and run over like 10 Jews," came Sedarat's alleged reply.
"FBI HES JOKING," the friend wrote back.
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And in another exchange, he allegedly fantasized about lining up and executing 500 Jewish men in front of their families, then taking their wives as slaves.
Sedarat allegedly claimed he was willing to get shot or go to prison if he could kill a rabbi on the streets of New York, and argued that Hezbollah militants are "so lucky" because they launched "missles (sic)" at Israel.
"It's not the same tho...Even a gun...I wanna kill them with [a s]word," he allegedly wrote. "Look them in the eyes...As I take their women and stab them."
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Federal agents also allegedly gained access to a cloud storage account that contained videos of Sedarat firing at a gun range and text messages in which he wrote to another person that he was going to strap a bomb to his chest and blow up an unnamed company headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Federal agents arrived at his father’s house in Montclair, New Jersey, on Tuesday in tactical gear and armored vehicles to arrest him.
He did not enter a plea at his first appearance in federal court Wednesday.
His father, an Iranian-American poet and English professor at Queens College in New York City, has not responded to requests for comment.
Jon Stewart tempers Democrats' expectations after election victories, says party is still 'a mess'
"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart revealed Thursday he’s unsure the Democratic Party is back on track, even though it won several state and local elections on Tuesday.
During his "The Weekly Show" podcast, Stewart told his guests — MSNBC host Chris Hayes and former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe — that the Democratic Party hasn’t gotten it together despite the victories.
"I think the Democrats are still a mess. I truly believe they are a mess," Stewart said.
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Democratic candidates secured victories in several blue states across the country Tuesday night. Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger won Virginia’s governor’s race, while Rep. Mikie Sherrill captured the New Jersey governorship.
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani also won his election for mayor of New York City.
Stewart argued that those victories don’t prove that the party is turning a corner following their disastrous 2024 performance, but said there’s "energy" within the electorate that they haven’t quite tapped into.
"What this shows to me is, again, there is this underlying potential energy within the United States of America that is much larger than I think any of us could have imagined and channeling that energy directionally will be the challenge for whoever wants to harness it."
"I still don’t believe they’re doing that," Stewart added, referring to Democratic leaders.
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Plouffe responded that conditions in the midterm elections next year should be "just as good, if not better, for Democrats," as Republicans are currently "in complete control and people are deeply dissatisfied."
However, he did agree with Stewart on the state of the Democratic Party, acknowledging that even though the GOP faces struggles, the Democrats do as well.
"And then the big part where I agree with you, Jon, where the Democrats are still too much of a mess is, the Republican brand is terrible. We kind of have market failure. 80% of the country doesn't like either option," Plouffe said.
He noted that the strategy going forward is to focus on making the Democratic Party "stronger."
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"So, if we become stronger, if we have candidates who seem different — they're good at critiquing Republicans, but also seem that they want to challenge the status quo and say the Democratic Party's gotten some things wrong," the party will win the tougher races in states that aren't deeply blue, he argued.
"And we have a long way to go because Virginia and New Jersey are not Iowa and Ohio and the Sun Belt. So that's where we have to get to as a party is — can we maximize Republican weakness but also maximize Democratic strength? You put those things together, that's how we become more competitive in more places — which, for the fate of the nation, is what we have to do," Plouffe said.
Katy Perry hints at reason behind Orlando Bloom breakup
Katy Perry is done pretending everything’s picture-perfect.
In her first new single since splitting from Orlando Bloom in June, the singer focuses on the themes of lost love and quiet disappointment.
The music video for the song, titled "Bandaids," opens with Perry washing dishes — until she accidentally drops what appears to be a wedding ring down the drain.
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As she plunges her hand into the sink, she sings, "Hand to God I promise I tried / There’s no stone left unturned / It’s not what you did, it’s what you didn’t / You were there, but you weren’t."
Throughout the rest of the song, Perry doesn’t hold back on what may have gone wrong in her relationship.
She doubles down with lines that cut even deeper: "Got so used to you letting me down / No use tryna send flowers now / Telling myself you’ll change, you don’t / Band-Aids over a broken heart."
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Throughout the three-minute video, Perry endures a series of painful — and symbolic — stumbles: her hand caught in a garbage disposal, a fall from a tree and a near miss with a speeding train.
"On the bright side, we had good times / Never faked our pictures," she sings. "We were perfect 'til we weren't / Now we've got too many splinters."
Perry, who shares 5-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with Bloom, didn’t shy away from sharing what seem to be deeply personal lyrics.
"It’s not that complicated / To ask me how my day is / I’m flatlining trying to save this / Bleeding out, bleeding out, bleeding out slow," she admitted.
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But in the end, she chooses grace over grief.
As a train barrels toward her near the final moments of the video, Perry spots a daisy on the tracks — seemingly a nod to her daughter — and dodges disaster.
Her final lyric lands as a sign of acceptance: "If I had to do it all over again / I would still do it all over again / The love that we made was worth it in the end."
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The song follows the former couple's split in June, which a source told People was "amicable."
"They got to a point where they feel there is no going back to a healthy relationship and that it’s better to live separate lives," the source added.
Just months after her emotional split from Bloom, Perry has reportedly struck up a romance with former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
"Katy didn’t expect to fall for somebody so soon, but Justin checks all the boxes," a source told People in October. "He has a great sense of humor, he’s charming and treats her with respect. Dating Justin is something she never saw coming, but she's really enjoying this surprising life twist."
Fox News Digital reached out to reps for Perry and Bloom.
Obama once urged Black men to back Harris — then he, Democrats reversed race rhetoric legacy in 2025
Democrats historically have touted race and identity politics in the lead-up to high-profile elections, including former President Barack Obama chastising Black men for not supporting former Vice President Kamala Harris for president just one year ago.
On the 2025 gubernatorial campaign trail in Virginia, however, race was dropped from the common talking points as Obama and other Democrats rallied around former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a White woman, in her battle against Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, a Jamaican immigrant and Marine veteran. Earle-Sears would have been the state's first Black female governor if she had been victorious Tuesday.
Former Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is in the midst of his 2026 Senate campaign to replace outgoing Sen. Mitch McConnell, advocated that identity politics should be dropped from public discourse and replaced with discussions on merit, while noting Democrats employ race rhetoric when it's most advantageous.
Democrats "certainly pick and choose when they want to highlight a candidate's race and use that for political expediency," Cameron said. "But the Republican Party has been consistent that we're a party about merit."
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Obama campaigned in the Old Dominion state to drum up support for Spanberger, who is the first woman elected governor in the state, just roughly a year after he chastised Black male voters in Pennsylvania for not offering an outpouring of support to then-Vice President Harris' campaign.
"We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running," Obama said of support for Harris' race.
"Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. So if you don't mind — just for a second, I've got to speak to y’all and say that when you have a choice that is this clean: When on the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, went to college with you, understands the struggles (and the) pain and joy that comes from those experiences," Obama said, continuing that Trump "has consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person — and you are thinking about sitting out?"
A year later, Obama called on Virginia voters to snub the Black female candidate in favor of Spanberger.
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"There is absolutely no evidence Republican policies have made life better for you, the people of Virginia," Obama said in his speech from the Virginia campaign trail Saturday. "I mean, they've they've devoted enormous energy to trying to entrench themselves in power and punishing their enemies and enriching their friends and silencing their critics. They they put on a big show of deporting people and targeting transgender folks. They never missed a chance to scapegoat minorities and DEI for every problem under the sun."
Obama, specifically, has a lengthy list of invoking identity politics while on the campaign trail or in public settings, while Democrats since his presidency have amplified their promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the highest echelons of government down to school classrooms until Trump signed executive orders barring such programs from government.
"I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election," Obama said in 2016 of the Black community supporting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's failed presidential run. "You want to give me a good send-off, go vote."
Former President Joe Biden also focused on identity politics during his lengthy tenure in the nation's captial, including vowing he would nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court as he went through the merits of candidates. Biden ultimately nominated now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in 2022.
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"While I've been studying candidates' backgrounds and writings, I've made no decision except one: the person I nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity — and that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court. It's long overdue, in my view," Biden said before announcing Jackson's nomination.
Race, however, was left out of the 2025 gubernatorial race in Virginia as Earle-Sears faced off against Spanberger, with Cameron saying Democrats "played it down" as it did not benefit their party.
"The leadership in the Democratic Party certainly discounts race when it's not somebody from their campaign or not somebody on their side of the aisle that is in the election. And that is what you saw here, is that they discounted it and they played it down, it didn't have much significance," Cameron told Fox Digital in a Thursday Zoom interview.
"I do think the Democratic Party historically has focused on the identity of candidates. And that's why I tell folks that we don't need a country that's built on diversity, equity, inclusion. We need a county that's built on merit, excellence, intelligence and integrity. And that should be the case … not only in the corporate space or in industry, but in politics as well. Does a candidate connect with people? Does a candidate have the values of a particular community? That should be the focus," he said, adding that Republicans are all-in for supporting candidates with merit over identity.
Fox News Digital reached out to Obama's office for comment regarding his previous remarks on race and identity politics compared to the 2025 election but did not immediately receive a reply. Fox News Digital also reached out to the Winsome-Sears campaign for any post-election comment Thursday.
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Spanberger's campaign was rocked by an undercover video showing a campaign organizer lamenting the race pitted a "White woman who was in the CIA" against "a Black woman."
"CIA agent, literally, which is crazy, like yeah, vote for the CIA agent, guys, like what the f---," a campaign organizer for Spanberger said in a video with an undercover journalist in September that was first reported by Fox News Digital.
"I don’t know what happened. We’re in, like, the darkest timeline," she continued. "Our only choices are between a Black woman, which ordinarily all for, but this time you think we should bring back slavery, Winsome.… Even with that, it’s like either vote for the Black woman who thinks that slavery should be brought back or vote for the White woman who was in the CIA."
Only two states across the country held gubernatorial elections this off-season election in 2025: New Jersey and Virginia. Earle-Sears was the only Black candidate to run for governor out of the four major-party candidates running in either state.
Cameron said that his tenure as Kentucky attorney general, as well as his run for the Senate, focus on his merit and policies, while encouraging that example be used by all politicians going forward.
" I want folks to focus on my values when I was the attorney general, certainly," he said. "I won, I think, 113 of 120 counties, and people didn't care what I looked like. They cared about my values. And so I'm optimistic that when it comes to the future of this country, people, here in Kentucky, and I think in Virginia, and a lot of places is: Do you stand with the America first agenda? Are you focused on standing with president Trump? And that's certainly something that I'm focused on in my race here for the Senate here in Kentucky."