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Jimmy Kimmel revels in Democrats' blue wave as party takes back control of Congress
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel celebrated the Democratic Party sweeping the House and Senate in the midterm elections on Tuesday, saying that President Donald Trump got his "a--" handed to him in a blue wave.
"Oh, I'm glad you're happy," Kimmel told his audience. "I'm feeling pretty good, too, I will say. And I want you to know, in case you tuned away from the election coverage, we are monitoring those who are monitoring the results of the election as they come in."
"All the Nates were predicting a blue wave, not the kind of blue wave that pulls Nicolas Cage's beach house into the ocean," Kimmel said, referring to pollsters named Nate.
"And not just a wave — a blue tsunami," he said.
DEMOCRATS SEIZE HOUSE CONTROL IN STUNNING BLUE TSUNAMI, VOW RETRIBUTION AGAINST TRUMP ADMIN
"One election model from Harvard said the chances of Republicans keeping the House tonight was as likely as rolling the number 20 on a 20-sided die. They could have just said 5%, but somebody at Harvard really wanted to let us know they play Dungeons and Dragons. And that seems to be what is happening," Kimmel said.
Kimmel said, "It seems to be after all the talk about Nicki Minaj's a--, Jon Husted's a--, the only a-- on Trump's mind tonight is the one that just got handed to him."
In response to Fox News Digital's request for comment, the White House called Kimmel a "loser."
"Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience. He is so devoid of actual talent that nobody with any commonsense would ever watch him unless it was to laugh at him," White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital.
Democrats decisively recaptured majorities in the House and Senate in the midterm elections, riding a blue wave that exceeded expectations.
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Kimmel was also joined by the hosts of the "Pod Save America" podcast on Tuesday, who celebrated the victory alongside him.
Kimmel asked whether anyone in Trump's administration would lose their job following the midterm election results. Podcast host Tommy Vietor said he was unsure but expressed optimism about the country's direction.
"I think that tonight is the beginning of the end of the Trump era in America," he said.
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Kimmel noted earlier in the segment that all four men had worked in former President Barack Obama's administration during the 2010 midterm elections, when Democrats suffered major losses that Obama described as a "shellacking."
Podcast host Dan Pfeiffer described the 2010 election as "one of the worst nights of our lives" but said he would enjoy seeing Trump administration staffers experience a similar feeling.
"That night we went in, we knew it wasn't going to be great, so we had three scenarios: not that bad, kind of bad, pretty bad," Pfeiffer said. "We ended up with way worse than all of those. We were walking out of the White House at 3:00 in the morning. Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff at the time, looked at us and said, 'Tomorrow is about to be the worst day of your life and everybody is going to call for you to be fired.' And he was right. It was terrible."
"And I am going to enjoy every second of every Trump staffer feeling that way tomorrow," he added.
Riley Green drops acoustic 'Well Well Whiskey' performance on YouTube and fans can't get enough
Riley Green has fans buzzing after dropping a new video.
As our loyal readers know, the "Jesus Saves" singer is one of the most popular talents in all of country music.
His music is a blend of fun tracks and emotional stories that hit listeners right in the heart. Green also released his latest album – "That's Just Me" – back in September.
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Now, he has fans fired up with his latest drop online.
Green posted an acoustic performance of his popular song "Well Well Whiskey," which is from "That's Just Me," on YouTube for fans Tuesday.
As you'd expect, fans couldn't smash the play button fast enough to check out his latest acoustic performance.
It definitely didn't disappoint.
Give it a listen below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
Fans of Riley Green were quick to offer plenty of reactions in the comments. One viewer wrote, "Riley, this is soo incredible ❤❤❤❤."
Another added, "Damn good song…."
A third commented, "Acoustic version is so good!!!"
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Green has been consistently releasing acoustic versions of his latest songs, and every single one has been a hit on YouTube.
Now, he can add "Well Well Whiskey" to the list. Let me know your thoughts on his music at David.Hookstead@outkick.com, and keep checking back for the latest country music news.
Jim Jordan throws hat in ring for House minority leader as GOP picks up pieces after blue wave
There's blood in the water as House Republicans watch their razor-thin majority disappear under an ocean of Democratic victories.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is throwing his hat in the ring to lead the chamber's Republicans for the next two years, two sources told Fox News Digital, potentially setting up a bruising battle against Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to be in charge of the House minority.
It comes as the House of Representatives is projected to fall into Democratic hands for the remainder of President Donald Trump's term.
Republican lawmakers had for months expected Jordan to launch a bid for House minority leader should they lose the House majority in this year's elections. He's quietly been building up support and goodwill within the House GOP and spent much of the midterm season campaigning for various Republican candidates across the country.
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Whoever wins House minority leader is all but guaranteed to take on the role of Trump's top defender against a barrage of Democrat-led investigations and potentially even impeachment efforts.
Jordan has spent the last six years as top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, where he's gone toe-to-toe with the very Democrats who will likely be at the forefront of the Trump accountability push.
Jordan previously ran for House speaker in October 2023 after a GOP rebellion deposed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., but failed to clinch the necessary chamber-wide majority. Moderate Republicans who opposed that campaign accused Jordan's allies of fomenting an aggressive public pressure campaign that even escalated to death threats in some instances.
But the Ohio Republican has spent recent years morphing his image from a divisive GOP bomb-thrower to a unifying leader for the right — and he's even campaigned for some of those same moderate Republicans who opposed him previously.
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And becoming minority leader is significantly easier than becoming House speaker. A candidate for speaker must get a majority of the entire House of Representatives to win the gavel, but a minority leader only needs a majority of their party.
It's not clear yet whether Johnson will seek to lead House Republicans in the minority, but it's widely expected that he will step aside.
Jordan is likely to face a significant challenge, however, from current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.
Scalise, as a member of senior House leadership, has been crisscrossing the country in support of fellow Republicans and has spent years as a potent fundraiser for the right.
It comes after a devastating night for Republicans across the federal and state levels. Both battleground-district Republicans and GOP lawmakers in safe-red seats fell to a tsunami of Democratic victories.
The losses prompted House Republicans to demand new leadership, which could work out in Jordan's favor, and many of those moderates who had opposed Jordan's 2023 speakership bid lost their seats on Tuesday night.
Democratic socialist sweeps into DC mayor's office, signals openness to working with Trump
A Democratic socialist whom President Donald Trump previously called a "communist" cruised to victory in the Washington, D.C., mayoral race Tuesday and signaled she is open to working with the administration.
Janeese Lewis George, a 38-year-old D.C. councilmember, captured nearly 85% of the ranked-choice vote in the contest against Green Party candidate Robert Gross and independent candidate Rhonda Hamilton, according to the latest data from the District of Columbia Board of Elections.
"The people of D.C. elect the mayor of D.C., and I am willing to work with this administration to the benefit of D.C. residents," Lewis George told FOX 5 DC. "And I’m also willing to stand up to this administration when it comes to doing just that.
"One of the things we're going to do early in my administration is a forensic analysis of every District agency, making sure we're taking account of savings and spending, and also fraud and abuse and mishandling," she added. "Those are ways that we, as a District government, can improve and make sure that District taxpayers trust us with their dollars."
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Lewis George will replace the outgoing Democrat mayor, Murial Bowser, who assumed office in 2015 and announced last year that she would not be running for re-election.
"Good morning DC. This is what the other side looks like," Bowser wrote on X Wednesday morning. "We promised to get here with our Home Rule intact and electing our next leaders. Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Janeese Lewis George. I’ll run through the tape and support a seamless transition. I love you, DC."
Lewis George now joins a group of Democratic socialist mayors including Zohran Mamdani of New York City, Katie Wilson of Seattle and Mayor-elect David Morales of Providence, Rhode Island.
"Washington DC, thank you for trusting this Daughter of the District to lead us!" Lewis George wrote in a message on X announcing her victory.
Lewis George told The Associated Press earlier this year that she will work to address "the affordability crisis here in D.C., which the Trump administration has only made worse by unjustly firing federal employees en masse and militarizing our streets."
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Following her primary victory in June, Trump vowed on Truth Social that he would not let candidates like Lewis George destroy the city.
"Janeese Lewis George, the Communist who is almost certainly going to be elected Mayor of Washington, D.C., has stated that she wants to empty the prisons, make D.C. a Sanctuary City, oppose ICE, welcome Criminal Illegal Aliens back into our beloved Capital, resist Anti-Crime Crackdowns, Defund the Police, continue and expand Cashless Bail, and so many other Capital destroying ‘things,’" the president said at the time.
"In the end, it will never work out, nor will I let it even have a chance because I have worked too hard to make Washington, D.C., the Envy of the World, with almost No Crime, and a Beautification process that has been second to none," Trump continued. "I will meet with Janeese Lewis George, but must forewarn everyone that Washington, D.C., is again a Safe and Prestigious Community.
"Many people, including myself, have worked long and hard to get it there, and we will not let it be destroyed by a Communist adherent who has no intention to, MAKE WASHINGTON GREAT AGAIN!" the president added.
Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner contributed to this post.
Radical socialist wing's huge night reveals ascending clout within Democratic Party
Democratic Socialists of America are poised to claim victory in two-thirds of the Tuesday elections in which it endorsed a candidate, making the radical offshoot an ascending force within the Democratic Party.
From Berkeley, California, to New York City, the hard-left group saw its preferred candidates win, underscoring how it is driving the larger party further toward socialism. The flex began in primary season, when the disciplined DSA took advantage of low turnout in deep-blue state and local elections to oust more moderate Democratic candidates. The fact that it carried through the general election solidifies the DSA's power within the party.
Fox News Digital analyzed races for 161 candidate contests in DSA's election tracker and found:
At 12:11 a.m., the DSA's official X account posted a message with early returns: "Over 50 DSA victories tonight prove socialism can win in the U.S. Workers deserve more and a reality where all of us live with dignity and hope is closer than we think. The job's not done, though. Tomorrow, we continue organizing, fighting, and winning for the working class!"
The DSA didn't respond to a request for comment.
The DSA also endorsed an estimated 58 ballot measures, ranging from rent control, public banking and social housing to abortion rights, voting rights and tax initiatives, with many sailing to victory.
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Among the candidates, the database lists 11 federal races, 88 local contests, 60 state competitions and two municipal races.
The geographic and political range is noteworthy.
In Berkeley, five DSA-backed candidates competed for the Rent Stabilization Board. Four — Ida Martinac, Vylma Ortiz, Nathan Mizell and Avery Arbaugh — were leading for the five available seats in the latest Alameda County returns. The fifth DSA-backed candidate, Derek Rodriguez, was trailing.
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At the other end of the spectrum, DSA-backed candidates won or were leading in congressional districts on the East Coast.
Seven DSA candidates running in traditionally Democratic congressional districts have won their races. They include Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez in New York, Melat Kiros in Colorado, Donavan McKinney in Michigan and Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won New York’s 14th Congressional District. Rashida Tlaib won in Michigan’s 12th Congressional District. Angela Gonzales-Torres is expected to win in California’s 34th District.
Two DSA-backed House candidates lost or expected to lose: Mai Vang in California’s 7th District is losing and Lauren Jewett in Louisiana’s 1st District lost.
One of the most revealing races is in Ann Arbor, Mich., where Democratic socialist Yousef Rabhi defeated longtime Democratic Mayor Christopher Taylor in the primary before advancing to the general election, which he won yesterday. The upset showed DSA’s ability to challenge not only Republicans, but also the Democratic establishment from within its own primary process.
In Los Angeles, DSA-backed City Councilmember Nithya Raman’s unexpectedly close race against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass offers an even bigger test of whether the organization can move from winning legislative seats to capturing executive power in America’s second-largest city; early returns show the race too close to call.
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Results in New York state are particularly important, following DSA-backed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rise to victory and power last year.
According to election results, 17 DSA-backed New York candidates are winners or expected winners, including three members of Congress, one state senator, 12 state Assembly candidates and one county legislator.
In California, DSA saw some defeats, revealing influence but not dominance. Of 43 California candidates, 23 were listed as winning or leading, while 17 are trailing.
The DSA was created in 1982 through the merger of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the New American Movement. Its roots are in socialist, labor, feminist and community organizing, but its national organization includes Marxist and communist wings.
On its election tracker, the DSA created graphics of its corporate logo — the red rose — spilling onto the page like confetti. DSA uses the red rose in its brand because of its longstanding history as an international symbol of socialism, labor organizing and working-class solidarity. The image also evokes the 1912 "Bread and Roses" textile strike, when workers "bread" and "roses," symbolizing dignity. DSA’s logo combines the rose with two clasped hands, which the organization says symbolizes multiracial solidarity against capitalism and "divide-and-conquer" tactics.
DEMOCRATS NO LONGER HAVE THE NO. 1 WEAPON TO KEEP THEIR SOCIALIST WING IN LINE
DSA's strategy has been clever. The DSA isn't formally a political party, and most of its candidates run on the Democratic Party ballot line because the country's winner-take-all system and state ballot-access rules make independent parties difficult to build. DSA’s strategy is to use Democratic primaries and local nonpartisan elections to elect candidates who identify with socialism and then organize them into a larger socialist movement.
DSA uses the Democratic ballot line as an electoral vehicle while openly describing its long-term goal as building an independent mass socialist party and ending capitalism. Its current endorsement criteria require candidates to identify publicly as socialists, support DSA’s national platform and, for national endorsements, meet its anti-Zionist requirements.
DEMOCRATS NO LONGER HAVE THE NO. 1 WEAPON TO KEEP THEIR SOCIALIST WING IN LINE
The results reveal that DSA is influential where three conditions exist: a safe Democratic district, a low-turnout primary and a disciplined local chapter capable of canvassing, fundraising and mobilizing volunteers.
While the DSA has muscle, the results don't show that the DSA controls the Democratic Party nationally — yet. About one in three candidate contests are confirmed losses or expected losses. The group’s strongest results were concentrated in blue urban districts and local offices.
DSA’s reach also extends from Baltimore school boards to California education districts. DSA-backed candidates are winning or expected to win nine school-board or education-board races, including seats from Baltimore, Minneapolis and Chicago to Ferndale, Mich., Durham, N.C., and Petaluma, Inglewood and the Centinela Valley, Calif.
The geographic spread shows that DSA’s electoral strategy isn't limited to congressional districts or major city councils. It is also targeting the local institutions that shape curriculum, labor policy and education spending, stretching from the East Coast through the Midwest to the West Coast.
Rams QB’s wife complains the NFL screwed team out of a true bye week, worst TV quad box ever & Christmas beer
Welcome to Screencaps, "America's Best Daily Column," as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn't for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let's have some fun.
Full disclosure: I've always liked Kelly. She's been a fan of my work going back years, like a decade, when she was outspoken in Detroit where she once called a radio show to confirm that she paid for her own breast implants when it was implied that her husband used his money for the boob job.
This week, Kelly, 37, is making headlines over her latest comments over how the Rams aren't getting a true bye week because they'll be playing on Thanksgiving Eve. Instead of a full two weeks off, her husband's team will get just 10 days.
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"Just curious to hear the thought process behind making the Rams the only team in the NFL without a true bye week. Because damn, after 18 years around this league, even I need a week off during the season...and I have never played a single snap," she wrote on Instagram.
"I'm tired just watching from the stands. Can't imagine how the guys feel."
It sucks getting old, Kelly. I feel you. I hear you, but this complaint is going to sound hollow to people who go to jobs they hate and make way less than the $400 million that Matthew has banked over his career.
Guys, relax, Matthew doesn't always agree with his wife's complaints. During a podcast where Kelly complained about her feet hurting from walking around a game in cowboy boots, the Rams' Super Bowl-winning QB had no sympathy.
"You choose to do these trips," Matthew said of Kelly's need to go on the road and run herself ragged. "No one is telling you to do them," he added while the camera pans to Kelly in shock.
"Listen, I don't know if this is going to be your last year. I'm trying to make it a family year. I do this for you!" Kelly fired back.
If there's a silver lining, Kelly, Matthew and their girls will celebrate at home on Thanksgiving to rest their feet after a Thanksgiving Eve in their suite.
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Remember this woman from over the summer? She's the one who, given the chance to say she's rooting for the U.S. to win the men's World Cup, decided she would stay loyal to her voters, who also hate America. This is road we're going down in this country and it's brutal to watch.
This piece of work is heading to Congress. Let that sink in.
YouTubeTV is SICK for even allowing me to create this quad.
Welcome back, they/them! If we thought it was bad during woke 1.0, BUCKLE UP. We're officially living in world where new Texas Sen. James Talarico once said "God is non-binary." Good lord.
Wait until you see how many cities, perhaps states, start going after your gas mowers again. Your gas grills are officially in the crosshairs. The countdown is on.
How does last night's election affect OutKick? It makes this site even more important. Even more necessary. Woke 2.0 is going to take direct aim at the manosphere. The purple hairs will be back with a vengeance. Just watch.
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Short's is as woke as it gets up in Bellaire, MI, but dammit they make incredible sandwiches and great beer. The White Pepper might be America's best sandwich. True story: Last summer, without prompting, my dad started raving about getting the White Pepper at Short's. He had no idea that on golf trips to northern Michigan, we're literally eating the White Pepper over multiple days because it's so good.
Now Short's comes out with a beer that was a required purchase. Costco is selling it for $20 a 12-pack. Yes, that's high, but that's also how much I trust this brewery to make a really good product. I don't normally drink beer on a Wednesday night, but I will tonight to do a taste test for you guys.
• Tom T. is furious over that UK guy who took 28 years to walk around the world: You are spot on with regards to the father of the century candidate who abandoned his family. The very first thought that entered my feeble brain when I read the headline was – "****ing loser". What in THE HELL is going on in the UK these days? They arrest people for making fun of the government, and they praise this absolute loser. The guy WENT FOR A 28 YEAR WALK, he did not explore the furthest reaches of the solar system.
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• Joe in East Tennessee write on the state of college football: I agree with everything Sheriff John said, but I would add that the price of tickets for a major college football game is STUPID expensive!
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In 2021 I paid less than $100 for a ticket to the TAMU v Bama game at Kyle Field. Since moving to the Knoxville area I've checked prices online to see a Vols game and can't find anything for less than $375-ish. I've got a REALLY nice TV that I can watch four games on simultaneously and a garage-fridge full of good beer... I'll skip the traffic and the crowd, thank you.
• Duncan N. on the Michael Jackson craze: My 14 year old son watched the Michal Jackson movie multiple times. He loved and it loves to do the "hee hee" like Michael. He did not think about dressing up as MJ for Halloween because he isn’t the same race so it wouldn’t be appropriate. But I did see a kid around 10 years old dressed as Michael in the neighborhood parade.
Kinsey: I'm still stunned by the MJ stuff. A quick search reveals that the documentary was available on Hulu. I'm shocked kids even turn on Hulu. My kids barely watch anything other than YouTube shorts, sports with me and movies with mom.
I was a little turned off by the Akron QB trying to run and throw sidearm like he was Mahomes throwing off one foot.
Actress Mckenna Grace rejects Hollywood nudity, 'hypersexual' roles
Rising Hollywood star Mckenna Grace has drawn a firm line against participating in on-screen nudity, and separately revealed that her dream is to one day play a Disney princess.
Speaking with Cosmopolitan, Grace explained that she respects actors who appear in explicit scenes but said those roles do not align with her personal career goals.
"At this point, I definitely don’t do nudity or very hypersexual things," Grace said when asked whether there were any roles she would turn down.
"I respect anybody who can, but it’s terrifying to me. I don’t know if that’ll ever change," she added.
The 20-year-old actress, who is set to appear in the upcoming "Hunger Games" prequel "Sunrise on the Reaping," began acting as a child. Her credits include the "Ghostbusters" films, "Scream 7" and Hulu's "The Handmaid’s Tale," for which she earned an Emmy nomination.
Grace said she does not intend to limit herself to wholesome roles. However, she hopes to pursue opportunities that align with her personal boundaries and long-term ambitions.
"It’s not like I only do wholesome things — my character literally gets gutted by Ghostface in ‘Scream’ but my dream is to try and be a Disney princess someday," Grace added.
On Tuesday, Grace clarified on Instagram that "The two quotes being used right now in these titles are unrelated," referring to her comments about wanting to play a Disney princess role.
"I’m not uncomfortable doing nude scenes/hypersexual roles simply because ‘I want to be a Disney princess,’ it’s just because of my own personal comfortability I have with that sort of thing right now at this point in my life!" Grace added.
Grace is not alone in setting boundaries around intimate scenes in Hollywood. Entertainment critic Christian Toto suggested that Grace’s earlier appearances on family-friendly shows may have influenced her decision.
"Mckenna got her showbiz start on family-friendly shows like ‘Crash & Bernstein.’ Perhaps some of those lessons have stuck," Toto, host of "The Hollywood in Toto Podcast," told Fox News Digital.
"Or, she's seen former child stars go the hyper-sexual route and wants no part of it. Either way, her instincts here are solid, and she may just carve a healthy lane for her Hollywood career moving forward," he added.
Actress Amy Adams previously recalled turning down a sexually explicit comedy sketch after portraying Giselle in Disney’s 2007 film "Enchanted." Speaking on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Adams said she declined a graphic "Saturday Night Live" musical sketch proposed by Andy Samberg because she was mindful of the film's young audience.
"I was so keenly aware of all the young girls that were watching ‘Enchanted,’" Adams said. "And I didn’t want to be the princess singing about that particular act, you know?"
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Other actors have also established boundaries around intimate scenes. "You" star Penn Badgley discussed his request to reduce intimate scenes on his "Podcrushed" podcast in 2023, citing his marriage as a factor in the decision.
Veteran actor Neal McDonough has also spoken publicly about his longstanding refusal to participate in sex scenes or kiss other actresses on screen, citing his Catholic faith and respect for his wife.
Meanwhile, Angel Studios announced "The Angel Promise," a set of content standards that the Utah-based studio says will prohibit on-screen sex, nudity and gratuitous profanity in its original releases.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Angel Studios co-founder and chief content officer Jeff Harmon argued that Hollywood has increasingly moved away from the values of family audiences.
"I think Hollywood generally kind of lives in a bubble," Harmon said. "These are excellent craftsmen. They're the best storytellers in the world. Hollywood has built the best storytelling infrastructure in the world."
"But at the same time, they've kind of drifted more and more away from the values-based audience that they used to serve," Harmon said. "And with that, in our view, as brothers and as fathers, as a father, Hollywood hasn't been giving me consistently what I need. Once in a while, you get a good one, but you have to sift through all these things to find your good movies and your good stories."
Harmon said that the studio's pledge guarantees families will never have to worry about encountering graphic material, reflecting what he described as an audience-first model that aims to step out of the "Hollywood bubble" and into "middle America's shoes."
Fox News Digital’s Rachel del Guidice contributed to this report.
Yes, Alabama's College Football Playoff ranking is absurd, but one team got royally screwed by the committee
People woke up today in a brand new world. A new era. A new age.
The world we knew yesterday? She's gone. Everything is different now, and people are furious. And confused. And asking themselves, "What happened?"
And why did this happen? How did this happen? Most importantly, we're all asking ourselves where we go from here? These are uncharted waters, and we could all use a little course-correction.
Yes, the first edition of the 2026 College Football Playoff rankings are officially HERE, and they stink to high heavens. Beyond Miami being the consensus No. 1, and Georgia at No. 2, I'm not sure anyone agrees with any of it.
The biggest beef, as far as I can tell? Easy ...
How in the world is Alabama the No. 5 team in the country?
Fans are — rightfully so — trying to figure out how the committee justified putting a two-loss Alabama team over, say, the two-loss Tennessee team that beat them a few weeks ago.
It's a good question. A fair one. I get it.
I don't think the Vols are very good, for what it's worth, but that argument is certainly a valid one today. It's also a tough look putting a team at No. 5 in the country when they've lost two of three. No, I don't care who the losses came against. It's just a bad look.
The optics aren't great with this one.
Obviously, college football fans have been shouting about the committee and ESPN having some sort of "SEC-bias" for years now. Putting 'Bama at No. 5 will only strengthen that argument. Those voices will only get louder.
To be fair, I'm not sure Utah or Indiana belong anywhere near the top five, either, so this works for other conferences as well. Perhaps the committee is just ... not very good at the one thing they're supposed to be good at? They've proved this for a decade now, and these latest rankings only bolster that argument.
And if you want a really good example, look no further than Wake Forest at No. 16. You want to talk about an oversight? The Demon Deacons got completely hosed in this first batch of rankings.
HOSED.
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I'd argue that Wake Forest is the most underrated team in college football right now, and it's been that way for most of the season. I know this because I've wagered a lot of money on Wake Forest for about two months now, and Vegas still hasn't caught up.
The Demon Deacons have dominated every single team they've played this year except Miami, and they nearly beat the Hurricanes on a random Friday night earlier in the year.
We all ignored it then and just chalked it up to Miami having an "off second half." It wasn't. Wake Forest had a real shot to win that game, and they've only gotten better since.
The Demon Deacons have won their last four games by 156 points, folks. One-hundred and fifty-six!
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"But Zach, they haven't beaten anyone!"
Sure, that's a fair argument. Wake Forest's one "big" win is Louisville — a team that nearly knocked off Ole Miss to open the season, but has since fallen off. I get it.
But LSU is ranked two spots ahead of the Demon Deacons, and the Tigers have one more loss and the same amount of "big" wins.
Zero.
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They've lost to Kentucky and Ole Miss, and beaten ... who? Clemson? Mississippi State? A horrific Texas A&M team?
Come on.
I'd argue that No. 1 Miami doesn't have any "big" wins either ... except Wake Forest! Who else have the 'Canes beaten? Frankly, they should've lost FSU. Maybe even North Carolina.
If the committee is putting Miami at No. 1, they're doing so because A) they're undefeated, but B) because they do have one impressive win.
And it was against Wake Forest.
And by the way — I'm no ACC fan. I'm a hardcore SEC guy. I'm admittedly biased towards the SEC. I believe it is, far and away, the best conference in college football.
But fair is fair, and the committee whiffed on this one.
Big time.
From Texas to Kansas, 6 stunning midterm results that upended the political map
The 2026 midterms have been dubbed a referendum on President Donald Trump, and voters have decided.
Republicans have lost their control of the House and Senate, with Democrats so far winning 54 Senate seats and flipping seven of those seats. Meanwhile, Republicans' slim House majority was wiped away, as Democrats have won 228 seats, flipping 25 seats, and Republicans are at 139 seats.
Here are the top six surprises from Tuesday's election night.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was ousted from her seat by Democratic candidate Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger, who campaigned on abolishing ICE and establishing Medicare for All.
Jackson’s victory marks the end of Collins’ nearly three-decade tenure as a bipartisan moderate. Collins previously broke ranks with Republicans on major votes such as Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and Trump's second impeachment trial.
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She is Maine’s longest-serving member of Congress and chaired the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, a position that gave her significant influence over federal spending and funding for Maine projects.
Meanwhile, Jackson, who has been involved in Maine politics since the 2000s, entered the campaign in July after former Democratic nominee Graham Platner dropped out of the race following allegations of sexual assault, which he denied. Platner's campaign was riddled with controversy for months, following old Reddit posts from an account belonging to him in which he made disparaging remarks about poor White people and referred to himself as a "communist." He also faced criticism for a tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol.
Abdul El-Sayed won the swing state of Michigan, becoming the first Muslim to be elected to the Senate.
The former Detroit Health Department leader faced pushback from a coalition of Jewish voters and Democrats concerned about his rhetoric on Israel and his ties to controversial political streamer Hasan Piker.
In his victory speech, El-Sayed invoked the Arabic phrase "alhamdulillah," which means "praise be to God."
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The progressive candidate also issued a warning shot to his defeated opponent, former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers.
"Enjoy your retirement," El-Sayed said of the Republican candidate. "You chose hate, and Michigan chose hope. May we never have to see the likes of you in this state again."
El-Sayed ran his campaign on a two-point agenda, consisting of Medicare for All and getting corporate dollars out of politics. While not a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), El-Sayed campaigned with socialist heavyweights, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Meanwhile, Rogers was joined by President Donald Trump on the campaign trail, who warned that an El-Sayed victory would be detrimental to the country.
"If Abdul and the Democrats win, they will open the floodgates and invite hordes of jihadis to our shores, creating a nightmare of violence and terror until you cannot even have a Christmas," Trump said at a rally last month.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas lost his re-election bid to Democratic candidate Gina Hinojosa, a state representative, ending his more than a decade in office.
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"It has been the joy of my life to be the governor of the state of Texas," Abbott said to a crowd of supporters.
His defeat followed years of delivering key conservative priorities, including the nation’s largest school voucher program, expansions of gun rights, stronger border enforcement, restrictions on abortion access and major property tax cuts. With affordability top of mind for voters, Abbott centered his re-election campaign on ensuring the cost of living remained low in Texas.
Meanwhile, Hinojosa framed the race as a fight against an affordability crisis being fueled by "the billionaires and the corporations," a message that carried her to victory and ended 36 years of Republican control of the governor’s office.
Her key campaign promises included implementing moratoriums on data centers, rolling back the tax breaks Abbott gave to data centers and ending the school voucher program.
"Everything is bigger in Texas, including the shock of this win," Hinojosa said to a crowd of supporters. "We shocked the world tonight. With a Texas chip on our shoulder, we show that anything is possible."
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, who has been an ally of Abbott since 2016, blamed Abbott for losing his seat on X.
"If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost," Trump wrote. "He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty!"
James Talarico will become the first Democratic senator to represent the Lone Star State in close to 40 years, defeating Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was backed by Trump.
The upset comes as national Republicans and supporting PACs poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Paxton's campaign.
Trump and Paxton sought to portray Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian, as a far-left candidate, targeting his support for transgender minors and labeling him a "communist." Trump also dubbed him "Talafreako."
Paxton's defeat comes as Trump took a gamble in endorsing him a week before the May runoff race against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Trump dubbed Paxton a "true MAGA Warrior," and said Cornyn was a "good man," but said the incumbent was not always behind him when "times were tough."
Darline Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., lost her election bid to Democratic challenger Annie Andrews, a pediatrician.
Andrews' victory marks the first time a Democrat has been elected to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate since 1998.
The loss came despite two Trump campaign appearances and Graham’s name recognition as Lindsey Graham’s sister. Her brother has held the office since 2003.
"She’s smart and incredible. She’ll never let you down," Trump said as he praised Darline at an Oct. 21 stop in Upstate South Carolina.
After Lindsey passed away in July, Gov. Henry McMaster appointed his sister to fill out the remainder of the late senator's current term, which concludes at the end of this year.
Lindsey had already won his primary race, so Darline ran in the special election following encouragement from Trump.
Democratic strategist Mally Smith told Fox News Digital that "South Carolina bows to no king."
"President Trump tried to handpick his successor in South Carolina, and the voters emphatically rejected his choice. Americans are sick of electing MAGA puppets to higher office who enable Trump’s erratic behavior and blatant corruption," said Smith.
A Democratic candidate won the U.S. Senate seat for Kansas for the first time in 94 years, as megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton defeated first-term Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan.
Prior to the election, Marshall shared with Fox News Digital that he predicted if he wasn't able to win his re-election bid, then he believed Republicans wouldn't be able to maintain control of the Senate.
"I think that, you know, I'm not a political expert, I'm a physician, but if we lose Kansas, I don't see how we keep control of the Senate," Marshall told Fox News Digital in an interview before the election.
And Marshall's pre-election prediction came true as Democrats reclaimed control of the Senate.
Political strategists have said Hamilton's name recognition as the leader of the largest United Methodist church helped him in the state, while Marshall remained closely aligned with Trump, who joined him twice on the campaign trail weeks before the election.
"He was able to bring Republicans, independents and Democrats together to pull a stunning upset. The combination of a blue environment, a scandal-plagued incumbent and a strong Democrat like Hamilton made this upset possible," Democratic strategist Mally Smith said of Hamilton to Fox News Digital.
Meet the far-left socialists coming to Congress next year
As House Democratic leaders prepare to take the reins of power in Congress, they are also poised to reckon with far-left rebels who could make their lives difficult over the next two years.
Democrats are projected to win back the House majority after Tuesday night’s midterm elections.
It comes after a far-left insurgency roiled Democrats' primary elections, and some of those socialist candidates are now expected to be heading to Capitol Hill next year.
Darializa Avila Chevalier is projected to be the next House representative from New York's 13th congressional district, which covers Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx.
Chevalier's victory comes after she scored an upset victory over Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., amid an anti-incumbent wave that swept Empire State elections.
Born in Florida to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, she moved to New York City to attend Columbia University for her undergraduate degree.
Chevalier has already earned criticism from her future Republican colleagues for past comments, including a now-deleted post on X, then Twitter, where she purportedly wrote, "I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me."
She's notably withheld support from Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to be the next speaker of the House, telling Vanity Fair she would need certain "commitments" on progressive issues like Medicare for All.
Claire Valdez is another member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who scored an upset victory during New York's primaries, defeating a Democrat backed by retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., for the party's nomination.
Valdez is now projected to take over Velázquez's seat in New York's 7th congressional district, which includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
Valdez is currently a member of the New York State Assembly. On her campaign website, she touts herself as a "dual citizen of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Nation and the United States."
She also has not confirmed whether she will support Jeffries for speaker, telling New York Magazine she would not "negotiate in public" but that she would "see how the midterms shake out."
Donavan McKinney in Michigan's 13th congressional district is another beneficiary of the anti-incumbency backlash during the 2026 election cycle. He's now projected to come to Congress after earlier defeating Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., in the primaries.
McKinney is a DSA member and was backed by other prominent socialists like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
The district he is poised to represent includes part of Detroit and its suburbs.
He recently told Jacobin Magazine that his biggest policy goals include Medicare for All, universal childcare and getting corporate money out of elections.
Also in the interview, he accused his primary opponent of having taken campaign cash from Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractors, the pro-Israel lobby and other corporate interests.
Israel had been the defining issue in his primary campaign. Thanedar was a former DSA member who left the organization over members' celebrations of the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas.
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Melat Kiros is a DSA member and former attorney whose upset victory in Colorado's 1st congressional district is forcing an end to longtime Rep. Diana DeGette's political career.
DeGette, D-Colo., a progressive who has been in Congress since 1997, lost her Denver-area seat in a shocking primary loss to Kiros, a 29-year-old political newcomer.
Kiros was born in Ethiopia "just weeks before her father was selected by the United States' Diversity Visa Lottery," according to her campaign website.
She's drawn controversy for her fierce anti-Israel stance, which includes calling the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas an "inevitable" result of the Jewish country's own actions, according to multiple reports. She has also opposed its existence as a Jewish state.
Kiros is also among those who will not commit to supporting Jeffries for speaker.
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Pennsylvania state lawmaker Chris Rabb is poised to enter the House of Representatives to represent the state's 3rd congressional district next year.
The Democratic socialist has called for the U.S. to "immediately dismantle the military industrial complex, cease all imperialist foreign policy, and end all U.S.-led efforts for regime-change," according to his campaign website.
Rabb has also called for a universal basic income for Americans as well as guaranteed housing, high-speed internet, free transit and "national grocery stores."
He previously took aim at establishment Democrats in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" in August, saying, "I think listening to folks who have been institutionalists and corporate Dems is probably the wrong thing to do when what your own poll shows is that there is an exhaustion."
Former New York City comptroller Brad Lander is no longer a DSA member, having left the organization over its response to the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
But his campaign was backed by some of the DSA's biggest stars, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Lander's campaign for New York's 10th congressional district, which includes downtown Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, served as a proxy battle between the Empire State's establishment left and socialist factions.
While Lander was backed by Mamdani, his primary opponent, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., was backed by Jeffries. Lander also campaigned alongside Chevalier and Valdez.
While he left the DSA over Israel, Lander has still been a fierce critic of the Jewish state. He was recently detained by Israeli law enforcement during a trip to the occupied West Bank to join Palestinian olive farmers harvesting their crop. Israeli authorities released him upon learning his identity.
Unlike his far-left New York cohorts, however, Lander has said he is inclined to support Jeffries for speaker.