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9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (171+ words) “Mayor Zohran Mamdani bashed Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman in a video released Thursday in support of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s re-election campaign as he ramps up his vocal support of Hochul in the last stretch of the race,” the New…...

9+ hour, 59+ min ago   (137+ words) “Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is no longer serving as the Trump administration’s special envoy for the Shield of the Americas initiative, though she remains involved in the administration’s efforts to coordinate security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere,” CBS…...

10+ hour, 1+ min ago   (217+ words) “Days into a tumultuous tenure as White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia sought to clear the air. In her first sit-down interview in the role on Thursday, she defended her rocky performance during Tuesday’s debut briefing, arguing that the tight…...

9+ hour, 50+ min ago   (111+ words) “Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian refineries after Moscow repeatedly violated a ceasefire on energy targets,” the Wall Street Journal reports. I drink a lot of coffee while putting together Political Wire every day. And one of my favorite discoveries has…...

10+ hour ago   (173+ words) MS NOW: “In 2014, Republican Sen. Susan Collins won 39% of Maine’s Democratic voters, according to exit polls. In 2020, she won 13% — still enough to hold her seat in a state President Donald Trump lost that same year. This week, a Suffolk University…...

6+ hour, 54+ min ago   (178+ words) “Seven years ago, a political appointee in the first Trump administration approached U.S. immigration authorities with a request that alarmed career staffers: Scrub the immigration records of Rep. Ilhan Omar, then a newly elected Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota, for evidence…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago   (132+ words) “Vice President JD Vance told CBS News on Thursday that anybody who is ‘selling access to the White House’ should ‘suffer consequences.'” Said Vance: “If somebody’s selling access to the White House, that’s disgusting and despicable and they should suffer…...

6+ hour, 26+ min ago   (120+ words) “Chris Cuomo admitted he ‘fucked up’ when he told viewers to be ‘open’ to voting for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election,” Mediaite reports. 2024 Campaign, Media Buzz I drink a lot of coffee while putting together Political Wire every day....

6+ hour, 55+ min ago   (158+ words) Susan Glasser: “At a time when Donald Trump’s party is struggling to hold both houses of Congress and his own approval ratings are cratering to historic lows, the President has been campaigning hard all week against… Volodymyr Zelensky.” “Yes, Trump’s…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago   (147+ words) “In late December, two months before the U.S. war with Iran began, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George warned that his service was critically short on missile defense munitions and that the shortage would last another five years,” CBS…...