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CFP rankings: Notre Dame faces sudden death, SEC feeling, and Big Ten close to hitting the panic button
Judging by the chaos we have already seen across college football this season, it should come as no surprise that the first CFP rankings were just as unpredictable as the product on the field.
The only certainty entering Tuesday night’s rankings reveal was that Miami would sit atop the polls after a difficult outing against North Carolina.
Now, with a showdown against No. 8 Notre Dame looming this weekend, this is shaping up to be an elimination game for the No. 11 ranked Fighting Irish.
And let me make it clear for folks out there that are not following on a weekly basis: don't freak out yet, just give it a few weeks.
But yes, you have my permission to start getting extremely nervous about the upcoming weekend, Notre Dame fans. It's clear that the CFP committee is telling Marcus Freeman's squad that they better beat No. 1 Miami on Saturday, or their chances of making the postseason will be hinging on others losing.
Don't forget, this is the final season for a twelve-team playoff, with an expansion to 24-teams coming next year as ESPN and CFP finalize their new television agreement.
As for what happens within the SEC, well they came out smelling pretty nice after spending the entire offseason emphasizing strength of schedule metrics. Now, the conference has to be feeling fantastic on Wednesday morning, with Georgia sitting at No. 2 in the first polls.
Alabama coming in at No. 5 and Kentucky being ranked No. 6 gives them a pretty solid landing spot if either one of those teams were to catch another loss.
Realistically, if Kentucky beats No. 13 Tennessee this weekend in Knoxville, the Cats' can afford an additional loss and still secure a playoff bid.
But, why in the world is Alabama ranked eight spots ahead of Tennessee if the Vols won the head-to-head matchup last month?
"The head to head matchup between Tennessee and Alabama is not going to come into play at this point becuase of where those two teams are viewed in the rankings process," CFP chairman Hunter Yurachek explained.
No. 7 Texas is the only current team in the country with wins against three ranked teams, with a number of others including Kentucky, BYU, Alabama, Ole Miss and Ohio State being ones with two wins on the season so far.
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It was undefeated No. 8 UCLA that came in behind No. 4 Indiana, after the Hoosiers hung on for dear life against Minnesota this past weekend, as the committee came off as confusing given the Hoosiers strength of schedule.
We could be witnessing a year in which the Big Ten might only get two teams into the College Football Playoff, especially if No. 12 Ohio State cannot figure out life without Julian Sayin.
The Buckeyes, in my opinion, deserved to be ranked in this area. But the argument over head-to-head matchups was not even discussed by the committee due to Ohio State not being in the same pod of teams, according to chairman Hunter Yurachek.
"They didn’t look like the same Ohio State team this past weekend against Southern Cal"
And, it's not hard to argue that the Buckeyes deserved to work for their spot. Obviously, they have time to prove to the world that they are a better football team than what we saw against USC, even though Hunter Yurachek pointed towards their defense more than offensive output.
Indiana has zero ranked wins this season, and have four of their five wins over power conference schools coming by one score.
What in the world has Indiana done to be ranked so high? And now, with USC being ranked 20th in the first poll, this could also give the Big Ten a spot at gaining a spot if the Trojans were to win out, while Indiana might not drop as far if they were to lose at home next week to Lincoln Riley's squad.
The Big 12 could be in an even more interesting position.
No. 3 Utah is the highest-ranked team from the conference, but No. 9 BYU has a chance to change the entire playoff picture when the two teams meet in Saturday’s "Holy War."
The Big 12 could potentially receive as many playoff bids as the Big Ten, although there is still a full month of the regular season remaining.
If the conference wants to place three teams in the College Football Playoff, BYU would likely need to win out, while No. 15 Texas Tech would need to finish the regular season undefeated. Utah would then most likely need to defeat BYU in the conference championship game.
That scenario would give BYU a legitimate argument for inclusion in the final CFP rankings, while Utah would receive the automatic bid and Texas Tech could make a strong case with only one loss.
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While in the past we could have countless arguments around the shenanigans that come with the CFP committee's rankings, this season might actually call for a little grace.
Having to make these types of decisions, based off the pure madness we've seen over the past eight weeks, certainly made life difficult for committee members.
"We still believe as a committee there is going to be a significant amount of movement within the entire Top-25 ranking, and we’re looking forward to the task at hand," CFP chairman Hunter Yurachek said after the rankings show.
"It will be a difficult task..This weekend is huge for college football"
Now, there is always something to nitpick, but this year has proven that any given Saturday could result in something wild transpiring within the Top-25.
Is their truly an elite team this season? We're about to find out over the next month.
Now that we know that the field looks like as of November 3rd, we can asses what the first round will look like with on-campus games.
No. 12 Ohio State at No. 5 Alabama
No. 11 Notre Dame at No. 6 Kentucky
No. 10 Ole Miss at No. 7 Texas
No. 9 BYU at No. 8 UCLA
No. 1 Miami vs. No. 8/No. 9 winner
No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 7/No. 10 winner
No. 3 Utah vs. No. 6/No. 11 winner
No. 4 Indiana vs. No. 5/No. 12 winner
We are in for one crazy month of November, and there will be plenty of nervous folks across the country tuning in over the next four weeks.
One thing that we learned after the first CFP rankings of the 2026 season is that there will be plenty of chaotic moments coming, but Notre Dame had better win this weekend if they plan on spending their December preparing for the playoffs.
Caitlin Clark tells Kylie Kelce she wants 'to be loyal to the red' after Colts' blue jersey controversy
Caitlin Clark plays for the Indiana Fever, who plays in a building is just a short walk from Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts.
Clark, who has routinely been spotted watching Kansas City Chiefs games from a luxury suite alongside music star Taylor Swift, joked that her football allegiance could shift toward the Indianapolis Colts. But she jokingly cautioned that throwing her support behind the Colts could leave Travis Kelce and Chiefs fans somewhat upset.
Clark appeared on the "Not Gonna Lie" podcast, hosted by Kylie Kelce, Taylor Swift’s sister-in-law, and recalled attending a Colts game last season. During her visit to Lucas Oil Stadium, Clark explained why she chose not to wear the custom jersey the team had given her.
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Kylie was supportive of Clark’s decision not to wear the blue jersey during the podcast. Clark also suggested it was best for her "to be loyal to the red," a reference to the Chiefs’ signature jersey color.
Clark was seen at Arrowhead Stadium as recently on Oct. 18, cheering for Kansas City alongside Swift.
Kylie then asked whether Clark had noticed any backlash over the jersey situation.
"Honestly, in real time I wasn’t thinking I’m not gonna put this on because I don’t want, like, the Chiefs fans mad or Travis mad or whatever, but after the fact, I didn’t realize that all my teammates had it on, so that made me look worse.," Clark said.
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The custom Colts jersey wasn't thrown out, in fact, Clark still has it. "It’s cool! They put my name on it," she told Kylie, who shared she’s "caught a lot of sh-- for not putting the red on" when she's taking in Chiefs games at Arrowhead Stadium with her husband, Jason Kelce.
Even so, Clark appears to have respect for the Colts organization and its leadership, which is overseen by the late Jim Irsay’s daughters, Carlie Irsay-Gordon, Casey Foyt and Kalen Jackson. Carlie leads the franchise’s day-to-day operations and has developed a reputation for her hands-on approach, including standing on the sideline during games with an earpiece to listen to live play calls.
"I love the Colts. I think it’s so cool, the Irsay daughters and what they do," Clark said.
Clark’s friendly relationship with the Kelce family also extends to Donna Kelce, the mother of Travis and Jason. Donna wore Clark’s jersey, and the two chatted before a Fever game in September.
The Colts have lost four consecutive games and appear to be entering a major roster overhaul. Amid the shakeup, running back Jonathan Taylor emerged as a potential trade candidate. ESPN, however, recently reported that the Colts "don’t wanna trade" Taylor, at least for now.
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America saw the blue wave coming — but drastically underestimated the extent of the Dem tsunami
Polling and election analysts pointed to Democratic gains in the 2026 midterms, but the results brought wider margins and bigger upsets that even some of the most ambitious predictions didn't see coming.
This included a historic Democratic breakthrough in Texas and other deep red strongholds.
Democrats won control of the Senate and House in Tuesday's election in what could be their largest House majority in nearly two decades.
The results marked a stunning rebuke to President Donald Trump, who ran in 2024 on fixing the economy and ending all wars. He launched a campaign blitz in the final weeks of the campaign cycle to rally Republican voters — but it wasn't enough to save the party's floundering message.
DEEP IN TRUMP COUNTRY, A NEW GENERATION REVEALS THE DIVIDE BEHIND TEXAS’ TIGHT SENATE RACE
That rejection was especially striking in Texas, where Democrats pulled off twin upsets, with James Talarico defeating Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gina Hinojosa unseating Gov. Greg Abbott. The victories defied expectations in a state Trump carried by double digits just two years earlier.
A Fox News poll in October showed Talarico and Paxton nearly tied, with Abbott leading Hinojosa. Both Democrats ultimately won by wide margins.
The Texas Senate race was marked as a "toss-up" by the bipartisan Cook Political Report that gave Republicans an advantage with an R+6 ranking. But as of the early morning hours of Wednesday, Talarico held 53.9% of the vote to Paxton's 44.2% — a 9.7% gap in a race where polls were showing a clean match-up.
Abbott's race was the biggest miss when it came to ratings and polling versus real results. Hinojosa flew mostly under the radar, with Cook ranking the race a "lean Republican" — but the Democrat candidate ran away with a nearly 7% victory gap as of 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
And the Texas results came amid a broader Democratic tsunami.
Texas’ Democratic upsets came as voters nationwide voiced dissatisfaction with Trump and the economy. A Fox News poll found Trump’s approval at 36%, while 74% of voters rated the economy negatively.
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Democrats’ sweeping gains extended beyond Texas, with Senate upsets in Kansas and South Carolina, two states Trump carried by double digits in 2024.
In Kansas, Adam Hamilton scored a historic defeat over Sen. Roger Marshall, ending Republicans’ 94-year winning streak in Senate races in the state. Kansas will send to the U.S. Senate their first Democrat elected senator in nearly a century.
While the race was ranked a "toss-up," it still marks a historic departure for the ruby-red state.
And in deep red South Carolina, Annie Andrews defeated Sen. Darline Graham, who had been appointed to succeed her late brother, Lindsey Graham, but couldn't secure a victory at the ballot box.
The race was ranked "lean Republican," but the divide was 4.2 points as of Wednesday morning, marking a significant upset and an end to the more than two-decade reign of Grahams' holding onto the South Carolina Senate seat after Lindsey was first elected in 2002.
While Maine has long been considered a purple state, its 30-year-tenured Republican Senator, Susan Collins, was ousted in Tuesday's midterm by Democrat Troy Jackson. Collins was widely viewed as a career politician and served five terms in the U.S. Senate.
Cook rated the race a "toss-up," but the 6-point divide was still viewed as a major political upset.
Taken together, the results showed that the Democratic wave reached well beyond the usual battlegrounds, sweeping into states and seats that Republicans had long counted on carrying.
The antisemitism horseshoe is playing out in real time — from New York to Paris and beyond
This past month has offered a clear picture of how antisemitism actually works. It does not arrive from one political direction. It arrives from both ends at once.
In Manhattan’s Diamond District on October 21, a 26-year-old Jewish man was stabbed in the back while doing outreach. The attack is being investigated as a possible hate crime; a woman has been arrested and charged. In north London around the same time, three Jewish women — including one pushing a baby in a stroller — were assaulted in the Stamford Hill area.
A suspect was detained by community security volunteers and later charged; police treated the incidents as suspected antisemitic hate crimes. These were not isolated street crimes. They fit a pattern in which visibly Jewish people are targeted while the broader political conversation treats Jewish safety as secondary or suspect.
WEAPONIZING THE CHARGE OF GENOCIDE FUELS AN INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS ANTISEMITISM
At the same time, online and in the streets, both extremes have continued to treat Jews as the explanation for larger problems. During France’s October student-led cost-of-living protests that turned into the country’s worst street violence in years, Palestinian flags and keffiyehs appeared regularly among the rioters.
Separately, a monitoring group documented more than 1,300 posts on X blaming Jews, Israel, or the Mossad for the unrest — classic conspiracies about Jewish elites, Rothschild’s and orchestration of chaos.
Far-right accounts declared that "the Jews did this to France." Far-left accounts framed the same events through the language of colonization and resistance. The two sides do not agree on economics, immigration or the future of the country. They do agree that Jews belong in the story as the problem.
B’nai B’rith has a significant presence with thousands of volunteers in close to 50 countries across the globe.
Our B'nai B'rith volunteers globally are not reading about these patterns after the fact. They are living them and reporting them to us in real time: heightened security concerns around synagogues and schools, Jewish students and professionals feeling the temperature shift in daily life, and the same dual narratives — conspiracy from one side, delegitimization from the other — appearing in local conversations and online spaces.
What shows up in global tracking reports is what our people on the ground are already describing from their own streets and campuses.
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Recently reported numbers show the same split in concrete incidents. In one recent week, far-right and far-left incidents were nearly equal in number. Swastika graffiti clusters appeared in the United States and Germany. Far-left and Islamist-inspired actions — graffiti, threats and assaults linked to anti-Israel rhetoric — continued elsewhere.
Calls to "globalize the intifada" circulated around the Oct. 7 anniversary in multiple countries. A network of fake AI "rabbi" accounts has been pushing classic antisemitic money tropes on social platforms. None of this requires a single coordinating hand. It requires only the willingness of people who otherwise oppose each other to land on the same target.
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This is the horseshoe. On one end, Jews are cast as alien outsiders who secretly run the banks, the media and the government. On the other, Jews are cast as white colonizers who do not count as oppressed and whose state should not exist. The words differ. The outcome is the same: Jews are positioned as the hand behind the curtain, then blamed for whichever crisis is underway. Other minorities are usually claimed by one side and attacked by the other. Jews are accused by both, then accused of belonging to whichever side is speaking.
The numbers have been clear for some time. In France, Interior Ministry figures put antisemitic incidents at roughly 1,320 in 2025 — more than half of all recorded anti-religious offenses —despite Jews making up less than one percent of the population.
In New York City, Jews have accounted for a majority of confirmed hate crimes. These are not abstract trends. They show up as a man stabbed while wrapping tefillin, women punched on a London street and a community that learns to calculate risk before walking to synagogue or sending a child to school.
Americans cannot treat this as a European problem that stays elsewhere. This trend is growing here in the United States. If you only watch the far right, you will miss the assaults, the campus rhetoric and the street protests that treat Jewish institutions as legitimate targets. If you only watch the far left, you will miss the conspiracy posts, the swastikas and the older tropes that never left. The people in the middle do not get to pick an end of the horseshoe and call it safe.
Bonta says he'll counter DOJ election monitors with observers of his own
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday afternoon that his office will deploy election observers in response to concerns that Justice Department monitors could intimidate voters.
Bonta said California was taking the same approach it used during the previous two elections, when the state dispatched its own observers alongside federal monitors.
The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has sent 1,000 monitors across the country to ensure election integrity and protect Americans' right to vote, a plan that has been public knowledge for months. The monitors will be personnel from across the DOJ, U.S. Attorney's Offices and employees from the Office of Personnel Management.
The department confirmed Tuesday that while federal election monitoring is routine, this year's operation is the largest in its history, with monitors deployed to all 50 states for the first time.
The DOJ also released a list of cities where monitors are being deployed. In California, they are being sent to Los Angeles, Alameda, Sacramento and San Diego.
Bonta and other critics have argued that the unusually large federal presence could spook voters or discourage some from casting ballots.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil Rights Division, told Bloomberg in an August interview that the role of DOJ election monitors would be to observe election practices and pursue investigations into any possible instances of fraud after the fact — not to intervene directly while people are voting.
In Tuesday's announcement, the DOJ added that monitors will also be responsible for ensuring that polling places are accessible for those with disabilities.
In her Bloomberg interview, Dhillon said the election monitors would respect the laws of whichever states they end up in. Many states restrict monitors from entering polling places and require them to remain behind designated boundaries outside.
"We respect state law," Dhillon told Bloomberg at the time. "We reach out to the states. If their perimeter is 150 yards, we respect that."
Dhillon also pointed out that the DOJ sent more than 80 monitors to observe primary elections across seven states this year, including locations in Minnesota, Michigan, Florida, Wyoming, South Carolina, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
The nationwide deployment appeared to be proceeding without major incident Tuesday afternoon, with no significant confrontations involving federal monitors publicly reported.
This comes after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's effort to require California election officials to segregate ballots cast by 20,000 voters the DOJ believes are noncitizens.
Trump pledges to veto 'insane' Dem bills, pinpoints issue partially to blame for Republican losses
President Donald Trump vowed to veto "insane" legislation from Democrats following the party's major midterm election victories Tuesday, while acknowledging that rising gasoline prices stemming from the conflict with Iran likely contributed to Republican losses.
Trump, who posted an image of a red hat with the word "Veto" to Truth Social late Tuesday night, told Fox News Channel during live Election Night coverage that he was surprised by the GOP's performance but expressed confidence that he could work with Democrats despite their electoral gains.
"They'll send over things that are insane and I'll veto them," Trump said. "And after a couple of months of vetoes, they'll go out and they'll say, ‘How do we get this stuff done?’ And we'll work together."
TRUMP CONGRATULATES DEMOCRATS AFTER DOMINANT MIDTERMS, SAYS HE LOOKS FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM
Democrats seized control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections, flipping at least seven Republican-held Senate seats and more than two dozen House districts. The sweeping victories dealt a major blow to Trump and the GOP, leaving Democrats positioned to block the president's legislative agenda, reject his nominees and launch investigations into his administration during his final two years in office.
The president pointed to his veto authority as a negotiating tool and revealed that several Democratic lawmakers had already reached out to him.
"You know, I have a lot of friends that are Democrats, believe it or not. I've already spoken to some of them," Trump said, adding that he had spoken with Democratic members of Congress, with others waiting to call.
Trump also addressed the GOP's disappointing election-night performance, suggesting that Americans were reacting more to higher gasoline prices than to the military campaign against Iran itself.
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"I don't think it's the war, Bret, I think it's the gasoline price," Trump told "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier. "People agree with what I'm doing on Iran, but they really probably weren't willing to do the short-term consequence of paying more for gasoline."
Trump defended his administration's actions against Iran, arguing that the economic consequences were temporary and necessary to achieve longer-term national security objectives.
"I think a part of it was Iran. But at the same time, people understood the importance of what I've done with Iran," Trump said. "I think historically it's going to be much more important than this evening, because you can't let the number one state sponsor of terror have a nuclear weapon."
The president also blamed some Republican candidates for failing to energize his supporters, arguing that enthusiasm at his campaign rallies did not necessarily translate into votes for those he endorsed.
"I'm a little bit surprised. I thought they'd do better," Trump said. "We had tremendous rallies. We had about 30 of them."
Trump said some candidates had alienated his MAGA base by previously opposing him, while others simply failed to inspire voters to turn out.
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"They didn't like the candidates and some of the candidates that I endorsed fought me, and they didn't like that they fought me," Trump said.
"And I wasn't on the ballot. If I was on the ballot, they would have gotten out," he added.
Despite expressing disappointment over Republican losses, Trump praised Democrats for their performance while rejecting the suggestion that the results amounted to a personal defeat.
"I think the Democrats did a good job, I really do. I think they did a good job. They fought hard," Trump said.
"I don't like to consider it a defeat," he added. "If you're on the ballot, it's different than if you're not on the ballot."
‘LAWYER UP’: Democrats, Republicans waste no time in setting social media ablaze after midterm sweep
Explosive reactions to the 2026 midterm elections quickly spread online as it became clear that Democrats had routed Republicans in key contests, reclaiming control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate early Wednesday morning.
While Republicans quickly looked for a source of blame, jubilant Democratic reactions ranged from calling the moment the end of Trump’s MAGA movement to aggressive predictions of what the party could accomplish with their newfound majorities.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., summed up his vision for Senate committees in only one word.
"Subpoenas," Wyden said in a post on X.
‘LAWYER UP’: DEMS IMMEDIATELY PUT TRUMP ON NOTICE AMID REPUBLICANS' MIDTERM BLOODBATH
Democrats like Wyden have long promised to summon members of the current administration, former officials and business leaders before lawmakers for questioning if they captured a majority.
In the House, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., echoed Wyden’s thinking with a brief post of his own.
"LAWYER UP," Garcia wrote.
Still other voices in the Democratic Party expressed the magnitude of the victory in more colorful terms.
"WE’RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WORK RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hasan Piker, a progressive streamer and socialist, said in a post to X.
Piker, who aligned himself closely with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the 2026 midterms, supported several candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He also campaigned with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, who won his race against Mike Rogers, a former congressman.
"GOD IS NONBINARY NOW MFS!!! IT'S LAW!!!" he wrote in another post, referring to James Talarico’s Senate victory in Texas over Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Talarico received widespread criticism from Republicans for past comments where he described God as "nonbinary" — an instance Republicans used to characterize Talarico as too progressive to represent a Republican-leaning state like Texas.
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After Fox News Decision Desk projected victories by Talarico and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gina Hinojosa over Gov. Greg Abbott, other progressives cast the wins as a symbol of Democratic momentum.
"TEXAS IS BLUE. THIS IS HISTORY," Dean Withers, another progressive political commentator, wrote in a post to social media.
"MAGA IS DEAD. THEY’RE F---ING DEAD. WOKE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE BACK," he added.
On the other side of the aisle, Republicans and conservatives took to social media to vent frustrations and begin identifying where they thought the party had lost traction with the public.
To Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who lost a primary earlier this year to a Trump-backed challenger, the midterm outcome boiled down to a set of unfulfilled promises: broken pledges to stay out of foreign conflicts and commitments to bring transparency around Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced businessman who had died in prison while awaiting trial.
"Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises. All Republicans had to do was: 1. put Americans First 2. not start another war 3. prosecute sex traffickers," Massie wrote.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former congresswoman who resigned her seat earlier this year over disagreements with the administration, delivered a similar message.
"Trump’s biggest betrayal to the American people isn’t what he failed to do. It’s what he promised NOT to do… and did it anyway," Greene wrote in a post to X.
"We gave President Trump our support, we gave him our money, we gave him our vote and gave him our time and we got behind him publicly, and he didn’t deliver," she added.
Conservative political commentator Matt Walsh offered similar criticisms of Trump, focusing on the U.S. conflict with Iran.
"The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles," Walsh said.
"There’s no way to soft-pedal this. It’s a political catastrophe of historic proportions. The Republican Party needs all new leadership. None should be spared from blame, starting at the top," Walsh added in a separate post.
El-Sayed mocks Trump, Vance and Rogers in gloating victory speech signaling combative tone in Senate
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed mocked President Donald Trump and his opponent in a combative victory speech Tuesday night in Michigan.
El-Sayed, who defeated Republican Mike Rogers, said his opponents "went all-in on one of the ugliest campaigns we've seen in our lifetimes."
"They might have been pointing at my name and my faith, but we all know my name and my faith aren't the reason you can't afford your gas or afford your groceries," El-Sayed said.
ABDUL EL-SAYED DELIVERS MAJOR BLOW TO GOP IN MICHIGAN AFTER BRUISING SENATE RACE
He said Trump's comments about him became "uglier and coarser" and that "to all the parents who struggle to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost."
"They want an America that is too small for some of us, but we know America is big enough for all of us," he continued.
He also mockingly spoke of Vice President JD Vance, a foe he has combatted with frequently in recent months, saying, "There is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. So you know what that means. Wolverine one. Buckeye zero."
He then shifted his focus to Israel, saying Americans want their money spent in the U.S.
TRUMP SAYS ISRAEL WILL STOP RECEIVING $4B IN US AID BY YEAR'S END, CAN STILL BUY WEAPONS
"We don't want our money spent on apartheid or genocidal war," he added.
El-Sayed also had mocking words for his opponent, telling Rogers to "enjoy your retirement."
"May we never have to see the likes of you in the state again," he added.
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Throughout the campaign, El-Sayed outran alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, concerns about his rhetoric over Israel and Jewish voters in Michigan and criticism from fellow Democrats for his ties to controversial political streamer Hasan Piker.
Rogers failed to outrun the political headwinds that have buffeted Republicans this cycle, including affordability issues, President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada launched in the thick of the midterms and the Iran war, despite his attempts to distance himself from the latter issues.
El-Sayed’s victory serves as a major blow to the GOP’s push against the progressive lean in Democratic politics, where for much of the cycle after his shock win over Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., Republicans painted him as the face of socialism and communism in their messaging.
Fox News' Alex Miller and Luke Trevisan contributed to this report.
Dem AG pulls off upset of sitting Republican governor after blistering campaign in key swing state
Nevada Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford has successfully ousted Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo in Nevada, a significant pickup for Democrats in the critical battleground state, The Associated Press projects.
Ford's defeat of Lombardo comes in one of the most closely watched gubernatorial races in the country.
Ford’s victory makes him Nevada’s first Black governor and gives Democrats control of the governor’s office for the first time since Lombardo defeated Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak in 2022.
Ford, who has served as Nevada’s attorney general since 2019, campaigned on affordability, housing, education, healthcare and protecting access to abortion. He argued that Nevada families were struggling with high housing costs, energy bills and other rising expenses under Lombardo and the Republican administration.
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The result could also give Nevada Democrats unified control of state government depending on Tuesday night's election results, with the party already holding majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature. Ford will enter office with a legislative majority aligned with his agenda, although significant disagreements could remain over taxes, education spending, public safety and the state’s business climate.
Ford repeatedly criticized Lombardo for aligning himself with President Donald Trump and national Republicans. He argued that Nevada needed a governor who would challenge the administration on federal funding, immigration and voting rights while focusing on the state’s cost-of-living crisis.
The Republican incumbent defended his record on public safety, education, economic development and government spending. Lombardo argued that his administration had increased education funding, expanded workforce development and worked to diversify Nevada’s economy beyond tourism and gaming.
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Lombardo also accused Ford of proposing costly new government programs without explaining how they would be financed. His campaign pointed to a campaign analysis estimating that fully implementing Ford’s platform could cost billions of dollars over four years.
Ford rejected that analysis, arguing that Lombardo’s administration had included spending mechanisms and assumptions that were not part of his actual proposals. Ford said his agenda could be accomplished through a combination of existing state resources, federal funding and policy changes.
Housing affordability was one of the defining issues of the campaign. Nevada has faced a shortage of affordable homes, particularly in the Las Vegas and Reno areas, while rising rents and mortgage rates have placed pressure on working- and middle-class residents.
The candidates also clashed over energy costs, public education, crime, abortion, immigration and the state’s reliance on tourism and gaming.
Nevada’s growing energy demands, including those connected to data centers and other large industrial projects, became another major campaign issue. Lombardo promoted efforts to attract businesses and investment, while Ford argued that economic development should not result in higher costs for residents or additional pressure on the state’s infrastructure.
Ford will now face pressure to deliver on his campaign promises while governing a state with significant budget, housing, education and infrastructure challenges.
As attorney general, Ford frequently challenged Trump administration policies in court. His election is likely to make Nevada a more prominent Democratic counterweight to the federal government as the state moves toward the 2028 presidential election.