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opinion
How Bruce Blakeman Could Block Mamdani
Summary What if Mayor Zohran Mamdani only cut ribbons and rode in parades? New York City could do worse than boast a young figurehead with limited powers and abundant pizzazz. Bruce Blakeman could make this happen. Fifty-one weeks ago, Mamdani won City Hall. Alas, he has proved himself to be a democratic socialist dynamo, rivaling only Rep…. -
opinion
The House Is Restless. It Has Been Before.
Summary PITTSBURGH—In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington. They called themselves Coxey’s Army. It was a protest march of jobless workers led by Jacob Coxey, an Ohio businessman, and they were marching on the Capitol. The country was in the second year of… -
opinion
President Trump: Cheerleader-in-Chief
In 2014, President Barack Obama, during the last midterm of his presidency, was 53 years old. He did seven rallies, four of which took place in October. In 2022, President Joe Biden, during his only midterm election, was 79 years old. He largely avoided traditional rallies. President Donald Trump, during the last midterm of his… -
opinion
Social (In)Security
“We will always protect Social Security, Medicare!” says President Donald Trump. That would be nice. But when I look at these programs’ balance sheets, I don’t see how he’s protected anything. Both Social Security and Medicare are on track to run out of money. Politicians mostly ignore the problem. Worse, progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders… -
analysis
10,000 Swing-State Voters Were Asked About Socialism. Here’s What They Said.
Summary A growing number of socialist candidates are running for Congress this year, promising to bring radical changes to Washington, D.C. They’ve embraced a nickname, “The Bloc,” and an ambitious agenda of far-left policies aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. Fortunately, a majority of voters in America’s swing states hold an unfavorable opinion of… -
analysis
Why This European Ally Is Standing With Trump
Summary Romania’s national security adviser visited Washington, D.C., this week with a message to his American counterparts: We’re open for business. Ambassador Marius-Gabriel Lazurca spoke with the Daily Signal shortly after arriving in the nation’s capital and expressed optimism about U.S.-Romania relations. “I’m here to tell my American interlocutors that our strategic relationship has done… -
opinion
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats’ Dirty Midterm Tricks Are Backfiring—and the Media Are Looking Away
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So Victor, we have the midterms coming up very soon and lots of things going on. I was wondering, before you… -
exclusive
EXCLUSIVE: Walberg and Allen Demand Explanation From UAW President on John Deere Vote
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—On Friday, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., chairman of the Committee on Education and Workforce, and Rep. Rick Allen, R-Ga., chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, sent a letter to the president of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) demanding an… -
news
Georgia Election Vendors Boast of Equipment as Lawmakers Prepare to Issue Report
Summary ATLANTA-The Joint Election Equipment Specifications and Standards Committee held its sixth meeting at the State Capitol on Thursday morning, hearing from two vendors who made their pitches as to why their recommendations should be considered in the state’s next voting system. The committee is made up of two co-chairs, state Sen. Max Burns, R-Sylvania,… -
analysis
Brazil’s Election Is a Warning, But Not of the End of the Donroe Doctrine
The media and the global left have hailed the apparent reelection of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a turning point for the Latin American left’s electoral future, upending the recent conservative wave in the region and marking the downfall of the Trump administration’s highly successful “Donroe Doctrine” of hemispheric engagement. In reality,… -
opinion
Pretending the Justice Department Was Never Partisan Under Democrats
The most obnoxious lie that erupts routinely in the “independent media” is that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is weaponized in a way that no Democrat has ever contemplated. It’s like they all observed everything that the Biden Justice Department did to put Trump and his allies in jail and considered it to be… -
news
Senate Dems Up Demand for Oz to Drop Anti-Ballot Harvesting Efforts in Nursing Homes Before Election Day
Days before the midterm elections, Senate Democrats are pushing for the Trump administration to drop guidance aimed at preventing ballot harvesting or coercive voting practices in nursing homes. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., along with six others, wrote to Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, asking him… -
analysis
Who’s Really Fighting the DOJ’s California Noncitizen List?
California Democrats have spent months insisting the state’s elections are free and fair. But progressive groups that spend heavily on Democrat voter outreach walked into a Los Angeles courtroom this month almost as soon as the Department of Justice sued the state over a list of more than 20,000 names it says are likely noncitizens. … -
news
Unclear Abortion Ballot Measures Leave Voters Unsure What They’re Voting For
With voters in four states considering abortion-related ballot measures this Tuesday, Clare Ath, senior policy analyst at Human Coalition, a pro-life nonprofit organization, said one of the challenges facing the movement is explaining to voters exactly what those abortion ballot measures would do. “The pro-abortion movement is trying their best to conflate abortion and miscarriage… -
news
West Texas Republicans Sue for Statewide Hand Count of Ballots
A West Texas Republican Party has filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to stop the certification of the upcoming midterm election unless county officials hand count every ballot in the state. The Potter County GOP and its chairman, Daniel Rogers, filed an federal lawsuit earlier this week in the Amarillo Division of the U.S…. -
opinion
Midterms: Closing Argument
Summary Heading into Election Day on Tuesday, here are the four most important reasons to vote for patriotic populist candidates: Sovereignty After America endured the madness of the open border of former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance brought sanity back to migration policies and enforcement. According to DHS, we’ve now seen the lowest annual encounters… -
breaking
Trump to ‘Electrify’ Voters in Two Rescheduled Rallies
President Donald Trump’s canceled rallies to Kansas and Iowa are back on. He will galvanize supporters in both states in back-to-back rallies on Sunday, a source familiar with the matter told the Daily Signal. Trump’s in-person rallies this weekend were canceled and replaced with tele-rallies in order to reach more voters. However, the rallies are… -
opinion
Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls
Summary With four days to go until the end of Virginia’s 45-day election season, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics updated its predictions made by “Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” a nickname that Larry Sabato earned in the 2002 midterm elections when he accurately predicted the outcome in 433 of the 435 contests for the House… -
opinion
The Real Affordability Question
Summary One word is echoing in all discussions of the upcoming midterm elections: affordability. When pundits talk about affordability, they almost always start and end with the pump, the grocery store, and the housing market. That framing has two problems. First, most Americans are busy working, raising children, and paying bills. They do not carry… -
news
Dead Registrants Still Haunt Voter Rolls in These Battleground States Days Ahead of Midterms
The names of dead people still remain on state voter rolls across the country, including in key battleground states, with just days to go before the midterm elections. A Department of Homeland Security memo from July noted more than 400,000 deceased individuals were on the voter rolls across 25 states that were using the SAVE…
