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Humiliated Trump's shady reply as he's interrupted five times and Natalie Harp is exposed
Donald Trump is meant to be center of attention during his speeches, but his audience was more interested in the hecklers at his Kansas rally


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Humiliated Trump slams hecklers as 'losers' as he is interrupted 3 times at North Carolina rally
President Donald Trump once again faced down hecklers, this time in North Carolina at a rally meant to boost Republican candidates before the midterms


... Democrats are hoping to flip a North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. Whatley is currently trailing in the polls against Cooper. His lead has been enough to have Republican groups divert advertising funds from Whatley to races in other states at a time when Whatley has limited funds, NBC reports.

... Data shows Democrats casting ballots during the early voting period at a much higher rate than Republicans. Forty-six percent of early ballots cast through Oct. 18 have been submitted by Democrats, according to state data. About 20% of early ballots came from Republicans, and 35% were cast by “unaffiliated” voters. Unaffiliated voters are the state’s biggest voting bloc, according to WRAL....
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Dems chance of taking the Senate up to 68% on the betting markets.

That's encouraging.
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GoCubsGo wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2026 11:56 pmDems chance of taking the Senate up to 68% on the betting markets.

That's encouraging.
Is that with or without martial law?
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Vrede too wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 12:45 am
GoCubsGo wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2026 11:56 pmDems chance of taking the Senate up to 68% on the betting markets.

That's encouraging.
Is that with or without martial law?
That would change the calculus a bit.
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The question has merit and could be a win for the Trump administration if it comes into play .
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supesalemgr2 wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 11:33 am
The question has merit and could be a win for the Trump administration if it comes into play .
How?

Possibly with a trump friendly judge, then what? You think they're going to declare a winner?
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This has already been litigated:
... an Alaska trial court ruled against that exclusion and the Alaska Supreme Court summarily affirmed that decision, putting Dan J. Sullivan back on the ballot.
This quirk has been known for months, reaching me in NC several times. If MAGAts are confused that's on them. The feds should not have to hold the snowflakes' hands.
... "The lawsuit is based on very real and valid concerns about voter confusion," Michael Morley, the Sheila M. McDevitt Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Election Law Center at the Florida State University, told Newsweek.

"The Alaska secretary of state concluded Daniel J. Sullivan is not an actual good-faith candidate but rather was running only to confuse or mislead voters. Having said that, the DOJ's lawsuit is completely meritless," he added.

The DOJ sued under the National Voter Registration Act, Morley said, but does not even allege that the statute has been violated here. "Rather, the DOJ is claiming that allowing the election's results to be impacted by a sham candidacy would undermine the law's purpose. That's not a valid basis for suing," the professor said.

"Moreover, any concerns about the sham candidacy could have been raised before the election, before votes were cast. Indeed, Alaska courts refused to allow election officials to remove him from the ballot," Morley added.

... Professor Mark Brown, of Capital University School of Law, agrees. "No federal statute authorizes the relief the DOJ seeks and the Alaska Supreme Court has already concluded that Dan J. Sullivan was illegally under Alaska—and federal—law removed from the ballot," he told Newsweek. "The Alaska Supreme Court thus restored his name to the ballot. DOJ's lawsuit is frivolous."
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... The newly published ballots show that Alaska election officials have come to something of a solution to solve the debate around the two Sullivans. The ballots list incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan as a "Registered Republican" and mark him as the "Incumbent." The retired teacher appears under his full name, "Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.," without a party designation displayed beneath his name.
Could not be any more clear. DonOLD and DOJ are premature crybabies.
... With less than two weeks ahead of Election Day, every poll released this month gives Peltola a narrow but consistent lead over Sullivan, while the other two candidates typically receive less than 5 percent of the vote in the first round.
Sweet. If Sullivan and Dementia Don didn't suck so much the election would not be in doubt.
... A new YouGov survey shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans want the president and his administration to accept the outcome of the midterm elections, no matter the result. According to the poll, conducted on October 22, 2026, among 8,694 U.S. adults, 71 percent of Americans think Trump should "accept the results" if Republicans lose their majority in the U.S. House.

The opinion is bipartisan: 87 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Independents, and 61 percent of Republicans said the same. Only 8 percent of all voters said Trump should not accept the results, while 21 percent said they were not sure.

YouGov has not released a similar poll on the Senate.
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GoCubsGo wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 12:06 pm
supesalemgr2 wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 11:33 am
The question has merit and could be a win for the Trump administration if it comes into play .
How?

Possibly with a trump friendly judge, then what? You think they're going to declare a winner?
This situation is one that will just have to play out. Folks can speculate, but nobody knows. Senator Sullivan winning outright resolve all the questions.
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'Senator Sullivan winning outright resolve(s) all the questions" ?? Homey don't think so. First, as mentioned above, the issue of the "fake" Sullivan on the ballot has already been litigated up to the Alaska Supreme Court. But secondly, if the issue is whether an attempt to confuse voters occurred or if so, if it was illegal would exist no matter who won.
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O Really wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 1:21 pm'Senator Sullivan winning outright resolve(s) all the questions" ?? Homey don't think so. First, as mentioned above, the issue of the "fake" Sullivan on the ballot has already been litigated up to the Alaska Supreme Court. But secondly, if the issue is whether an attempt to confuse voters occurred or if so, if it was illegal would exist no matter who won.
I think the point is that Senator Sullivan winning outright makes moot whether MAGAts were confused by the alleged decoy.
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Vrede too wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 1:25 pm
O Really wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 1:21 pm'Senator Sullivan winning outright resolve(s) all the questions" ?? Homey don't think so. First, as mentioned above, the issue of the "fake" Sullivan on the ballot has already been litigated up to the Alaska Supreme Court. But secondly, if the issue is whether an attempt to confuse voters occurred or if so, if it was illegal would exist no matter who won.
I think the point is that Senator Sullivan winning outright makes moot whether MAGAts were confused by the alleged decoy.
The aspect of voter confusion in this case is laughable. One Sullivan is clearly indicated on the ballot as "Republican - Incumbent" and the other Sullivan is only defined as Republican. Anyone confused by those labels is just ignorant. The trump cult claims the other Sullivan is a Democrat plant (of course).

These Republicans are so pathetic and such hypocrites. Just yesterday I was reading about MO Republicans trying to undo a recent abortion amendment MO voters approved last year. The Republican state legislature is trying to run the same initiative again but the language of the new proposal is exactly opposite what it was in the initial referendum (if you voted "yes" for the abortion amendment, a "yes" vote on this new initiative will actually negate the approval the issue had with voters last year). The state legislature has purposefully convoluted the text to make it confusing. So lying about a Republican candidate in Alaska being a Democrat "plant" and lying that two different candidates presented on the ballot in two clearly different ways creates "confusion" is fine. Looks to me like it's more likely that Republicans are the ones wishing to create confusion. Lies and confusion are powerful tools when applied to low wits among us. Hell, lies and confusion is what the Republican party has been all about for at least the last twenty five years.
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neoplacebo wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2026 8:18 amThe aspect of voter confusion in this case is laughable. One Sullivan is clearly indicated on the ballot as "Republican - Incumbent" and the other Sullivan is only defined as Republican. Anyone confused by those labels is just ignorant. The trump cult claims the other Sullivan is a Democrat plant (of course).

These Republicans are so pathetic and such hypocrites. Just yesterday I was reading about MO Republicans trying to undo a recent abortion amendment MO voters approved last year. The Republican state legislature is trying to run the same initiative again but the language of the new proposal is exactly opposite what it was in the initial referendum (if you voted "yes" for the abortion amendment, a "yes" vote on this new initiative will actually negate the approval the issue had with voters last year). The state legislature has purposefully convoluted the text to make it confusing. So lying about a Republican candidate in Alaska being a Democrat "plant" and lying that two different candidates presented on the ballot in two clearly different ways creates "confusion" is fine. Looks to me like it's more likely that Republicans are the ones wishing to create confusion. Lies and confusion are powerful tools when applied to low wits among us. Hell, lies and confusion is what the Republican party has been all about for at least the last twenty five years.
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Crystal clear. Might some Republicans be pissed off that Dozy Don is calling them stupid on behalf of Sen Sullivan?
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TX Gov Abbott is running TV ads here, wtf?
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Vrede too wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2026 12:14 pm
neoplacebo wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2026 8:18 amThe aspect of voter confusion in this case is laughable. One Sullivan is clearly indicated on the ballot as "Republican - Incumbent" and the other Sullivan is only defined as Republican. Anyone confused by those labels is just ignorant. The trump cult claims the other Sullivan is a Democrat plant (of course).

These Republicans are so pathetic and such hypocrites. Just yesterday I was reading about MO Republicans trying to undo a recent abortion amendment MO voters approved last year. The Republican state legislature is trying to run the same initiative again but the language of the new proposal is exactly opposite what it was in the initial referendum (if you voted "yes" for the abortion amendment, a "yes" vote on this new initiative will actually negate the approval the issue had with voters last year). The state legislature has purposefully convoluted the text to make it confusing. So lying about a Republican candidate in Alaska being a Democrat "plant" and lying that two different candidates presented on the ballot in two clearly different ways creates "confusion" is fine. Looks to me like it's more likely that Republicans are the ones wishing to create confusion. Lies and confusion are powerful tools when applied to low wits among us. Hell, lies and confusion is what the Republican party has been all about for at least the last twenty five years.
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Crystal clear. Might some Republicans be pissed off that Dozy Don is calling them stupid on behalf of Sen Sullivan?
Opps! I was wrong. I wrote that D.J. Sullivan was listed as Republican. He is not. The lack of confusion with regard to the ballot stands. There is none.
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The past couple days I've been seeing ads here showing different Democrats in video clips saying they will not vote for trump's big beautiful bill. But trump's voice booms out "they voted against no tax on tips, they voted against no tax on social security" but trump never mentions that the Democrats were talking about not voting "yes" for massive tax cuts for the wealthy and massive cuts to Medicaid. It instantly reminded me of trump's ten billion dollar lawsuit against the BBC for "election interference" for using short video clips of trump's speech on Jan 6th. Yet another example of how with trump every accusation is a confession.
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Hmmmm.

Polymarket has NC 11 tilted 86% for Ager (D).
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GoCubsGo wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:33 pm Hmmmm.

Polymarket has NC 11 tilted 86% for Ager (D).
Jennifer Balkcom is not a good GOP candidate.
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supesalemgr2 wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:59 pm
GoCubsGo wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:33 pmHmmmm.

Polymarket has NC 11 tilted 86% for Ager (D).
Jennifer Balkcom is not a good GOP candidate.
Why do you think so?

A ton of money is being spent on Balkcom ads. Let's hope our string of weirdos has ended. Will Ager pile on the coming House flip?
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Vrede too wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 2:04 pm
supesalemgr2 wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:59 pm
GoCubsGo wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:33 pmHmmmm.

Polymarket has NC 11 tilted 86% for Ager (D).
Jennifer Balkcom is not a good GOP candidate.
Why do you think so?

A ton of money is being spent on Balkcom ads. Let's hope our string of weirdos has ended. Will Ager pile on the coming House flip?
She is not appealing and her ads are horrendous. The one about Ager staging a party for transgenders is inaccurate and I'm sure turned others off. Tim Moffit would have been a much better GOP choice.