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哈里·恩滕解析:共和党中期选举惨败打乱2028年白宫竞选,形成“灭绝级结果”
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• 仍未决的竞选: 密西西比州和阿拉斯加州的投票仍在计票,这两个州的参议院竞选结果仍过于接近,难以确定。民主党已拿下参议院多数席位,围绕谁将带领民主党在参议院牵制总统唐纳德·特朗普的问题,争议正在发酵。
• 内阁调整: 据知情人士透露,因特朗普对导致共和党中期选举遭遇灾难性失利的策略极为愤怒,斯蒂芬·米勒将接替苏西·怀尔斯出任白宫幕僚长。面对华盛顿的新格局,总统暗示将进行更多人事调整。
• 蓝色浪潮: 民主党即将超过巴拉克·奥巴马就职时的257个众议院席位,以及比尔·克林顿任期开始时的258个席位。该党还在全国各州州长办公室和州议会取得全面胜利。
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怀尔斯离职之际,白宫本已派系林立
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作者:凯特兰·柯林斯
过去几天,白宫内部的派系分裂程度怎么强调都不为过。
助手们形容白宫充斥着紧张气氛和明争暗斗,将其比作特朗普总统第一任期时“刀子出鞘”的混乱时期。总统昨日宣布苏西·怀尔斯离职,这只会加速其核心圈权力平衡的转变。
随着共和党中期选举失利后对国防部长皮特·赫格斯的 scrutiny(注:此处保留原词,因属于敏感人物,后续统一译名:皮特·赫格斯)加剧,这也凸显出他与怀尔斯的关系已何等分裂。
据知情人士透露,数月来,怀尔斯一直对他在五角大楼的领导能力以及在特朗普内阁中的作用提出担忧。总统宣布她离职后不久,赫格斯就是第一批祝贺斯蒂芬·米勒升任幕僚长的高级助手之一。
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特朗普称将停止侮辱民主党人以推动达成协议
作者:洛根·希夏诺
唐纳德·特朗普总统表示,他可以在不侮辱民主党人的情况下与对方合作,此番表态之际,他正为总统任期最后两年做准备,届时共和党已不再掌控国会。
在为周日播出的《60分钟》节目录制的采访中,特朗普表示,如果两党能在政策上达成协议,他“非常容易”在六个月内停止攻击民主党人。
但在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻发布的一段几秒钟前的片段中,总统又用上了他对反对党成员的常用标签。
“我也把他们中的很多人称为‘傻瓜党’(注:此处保留原译,因是特朗普的侮辱性用语,原文为‘Dumbocrats’),”特朗普说道。
特朗普最近几天暗示,他愿意在移民和经济发展等问题上与民主党人合作。
“我认为我们实际上可以一起做很多事情,”特朗普周五对记者表示,“你们知道,很多事情也是符合常识的。我想你们会看到这一点。”
特朗普还承诺动用否决权推动民主党达成两党协议。
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休斯敦被移民执法局杀害男子之子回应休斯顿民众在其父亲纪念碑上贴“我投票”贴纸
作者:迈克尔·威廉姆斯
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休斯敦被移民执法局杀害男子之子回应其父亲纪念碑上的“我投票”贴纸
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休斯敦被移民执法局杀害男子之子回应其父亲纪念碑上的“我投票”贴纸
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今年,一名在休斯敦被移民执法局特工枪杀的男子的儿子表示,看到本周的选举结果以及得克萨斯州民众为他父亲献上的致敬,他感到“难以置信”却又“喜忧参半”。
现年的罗纳尔多·萨尔加多,其父亲洛伦佐·萨尔加多·阿劳霍于7月7日被一名联邦特工枪杀,他告诉CNN的维克多·布莱克威尔,他“从未料到”这一举动会传播得如此广泛。
萨尔加多表示,他投票后不久,在父亲的纪念碑上贴了自己的“我投票”贴纸,同时注意到另外两个人也这样做了。到周末时,数百张贴纸覆盖了纪念碑。
针对民主党在得克萨斯州击败该州共和党州政府,以及休斯顿市领导人承诺现在将限制与移民执法局的部分合作,萨尔加多表示,他相信该市的移民“能够生活得更自由、更安宁一些”。
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范霍伦表示,民主党参议院领袖人选“不会被加冕”
作者:帕特里克·斯维特克
民主党参议员克里斯·范霍伦今日表示,在中期选举中该党取得全面胜利后,参议院下一任民主党领袖人选不应“被内定”——不过他暗示自己不太可能参选该职位。
“我们需要在民主党党团内部进行讨论,我们需要了解民主党将如何运用这个新的责任和新的权力,任何人都不能在没有充分了解党团走向的情况下获得空白支票,”范霍伦在华盛顿特区举行的中期选举后民主党集会“Crooked Con”上表示。
展望未来几日,范霍伦称“真正重要的是,人们在与新当选的民主党参议员交谈并从中吸取教训之前,不要作出承诺”。这位马里兰州民主党人表示,他的首要任务是了解该党将如何利用参议院的新权力结束伊朗战争。
范霍伦在活动结束后告诉CNN,竞选多数党领袖“不是我的重点”,他反而“正在认真考虑竞选总统”。
相关背景: 参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默表示,他有信心再次当选多数党领袖。但几位新当选的民主党参议员誓言不支持他,而范霍伦的言论表明,并非所有现任参议员都立刻支持他。
提及舒默的名字时,Crooked Con会场内爆发出嘘声。
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“意义重大”:佐治亚州当选官员谈及多位黑人女性赢得全州职位
作者:凯瑟琳·尼科尔斯
民主党在中期选举中取得的巨大胜利,在佐治亚州创造了一个历史性里程碑,由当选州长凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯领导的一批黑人女性,将很快占据该州八大要职中的七个。
今天,当选州务卿彭妮·布朗·雷诺兹在与当选总检察长塔妮娅·米勒接受CNN维克多·布莱克威尔联合采访时,将这一结果称为“意义重大”。
“这在各方面都具有颠覆性,因为不仅是佐治亚州的黑人把我们推上了职位,”雷诺兹说,“还有白人、拉丁裔、独立人士、共和党人。因为我认为他们选择的是能力而非政治。”
但米勒补充称,这些女性是凭借能力而非身份赢得选举的。“我们凭借资质参选,凭借政策理念参选。”
“个人而言,我确实觉得有责任确保,虽然我可能是担任这一职位的第一位黑人女性,但不会是最后一位……”米勒说,“我认为,对我来说,在这个职位上履职……实现我向佐治亚州人民承诺的政策目标,真的非常重要。”
唐纳德·特朗普总统多次斥责有色人种女记者,并对掌权的杰出黑人女性进行审视,比如美联储理事丽莎·库克和纽约总检察长莉蒂希娅·詹姆斯。
雷诺兹表示,这两位佐治亚州的行政官员“将在唐纳德·特朗普离开后很长时间里担任州务卿和总检察长。还有两年时间他就要离任了。他对我们的担忧与我们无关。”
“我们都认为法律面前人人平等。我们宣誓遵守宪法。所以他会做他该做的事,”雷诺兹说,“但当佐治亚人民作出选择后,这只会越来越少。”
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中期选举失利后,伊朗强硬派要求特朗普为结束战争付出更高代价
作者:穆斯塔法·萨勒姆
伊朗强硬派认为德黑兰已在与美国的战争中胜出,他们正抓住唐纳德·特朗普总统中期选举失利的机会,要求他为结束冲突付出更高代价:一个有利于伊朗伊斯兰共和国的“新世界秩序”。
这群影响力巨大的保守派人士本周强化了他们的言论,公开要求不要在正在进行的谈判中向华盛顿提供妥协方案。
中期选举中特朗普领导的共和党遭遇重大失败后,最高领袖 Mojtaba Khamenei 周三在一份声明中警告不要“丝毫屈服”——强硬派认为,这一警告是针对伊朗谈判代表的。
特朗普在与福克斯新闻的通话中承认,伊朗战争是共和党中期选举失利的部分原因,但副总统 JD·万斯的表态更为明确,他周三在一篇长篇社交媒体帖子中表示:“我们失利的原因是这场战争。”
这些承认似乎鼓舞了伊朗强硬派,保守派政客和媒体将特朗普的中期选举失利视为伊朗的胜利。强硬派媒体《拉贾新闻》发表专栏文章称,美国在为攻击伊朗“付出代价”之前,不应被给予“退路”,不应允许特朗普“仓促达成协议而逃脱”。
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2小时6分钟前
数据中心在民主党中期选举历史性胜利中扮演的角色
作者:帕特里克·斯维特克
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8月26日,在得克萨斯州阿比林市拍摄的一处数据中心园区。
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选举之夜尘埃落定之际,致力于推举詹姆斯·塔拉里科的民主党人士对他在得克萨斯州254个县的压倒性胜选感到惊讶。但即便如此,有一个地区格外突出。
达拉斯东南部的考夫曼县是两个大型数据中心项目的所在地,已引发当地反对。该县最大的城市福尼市已开始在其辖区内禁止新建数据中心。
这个一贯支持共和党的县,是亲塔拉里科的超级政治行动委员会“孤星崛起”针对拟议或已获批的数据中心项目5英里范围内选民开展工作的55个县之一。该超级政治行动委员会向这些选民发送了一系列邮件和数字广告,指责共和党提名人肯·帕克斯顿导致了数据中心项目的出现。
塔拉里科以1个百分点的优势赢得考夫曼县,同时以12个百分点的优势在全州取得惊人胜利,帮助民主党自1994年以来首次在得克萨斯州全州获胜。
这只是众多案例中的一例,对数据中心的反对推动了民主党在中期选举中取得惊人胜利。从全州竞选到地方公投,选民展现出对数据中心采取更严格立场的广泛支持,即便没有明确反对其继续发展。
根据CNN选民调查,约四分之一的选民表示,人工智能和数据中心“对他们的中期选举投票至关重要”,其重要性低于生活成本和腐败等优先事项。但当被问及在社区建设数据中心时,约三比一的压倒性多数选民表示反对。
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2小时43分钟前
仍未决的密西西比州和阿拉斯加州参议院竞选局势
作者:肖倩·林
密西西比州和阿拉斯加州的计票仍在继续,其参议院竞选结果仍过早,CNN无法作出判定。
以下是这两个州的最新进展:
密西西比州
CNN Sightline 模型将密西西比州参议院竞选评级为“中立”,竞争过于激烈,难以判定。民主党候选人斯科特·科洛姆已扩大其对共和党候选人辛迪·海德-史密斯的微弱领先优势。
本周五,多个密西西比州组织呼吁该州正在进行的投票计票过程提高透明度,称他们在各县遇到了关于多少计票工作应向公众开放的问题。
与此同时,选举专家大卫·贝克尔表示,密西西比州正在进行的计票过程“完全正常”,“完全符合我们的预期”。
科洛姆坚称,他有100%的信心将成为该州的当选参议员,因为剩余选票来自民主党占优势的县。
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民主党参议员竞选人在密西西比州参议院竞选僵持中接受《OutFront》采访:“我们有大批律师”应对密西西比州选票之争
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民主党参议员竞选人在密西西比州参议院竞选僵持中接受《OutFront》采访:“我们有大批律师”应对密西西比州选票之争
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此前,密西西比州共和党主席声称,仍有数千张宣誓书选票有待统计,认为海德-史密斯仍有充足时间反超。
阿拉斯加州
在阿拉斯加州,Sightline 模型倾向于民主党人玛丽·佩洛塔,她对共和党现任参议员丹·沙利文拥有非常微弱的优势。
据CNN审查的文件显示,中期选举前几日,联邦检察官命令阿拉斯加州一位希望渺茫的参议院候选人杰拉尔德·海克斯携带其与竞选政治团体及其他候选人相关的所有记录到大陪审团面前接受质询。
这一传票是正在加速进行的刑事调查的一部分,该调查旨在查明佩洛塔旗下的竞选团队是否试图招募“搅局候选人”参选,其中包括另一位与现任共和党参议员同名的候选人。
司法部拒绝就此事发表评论。佩洛塔否认知晓招募其他候选人的相关努力。
_CNN的托里·B·鲍威尔、奥古斯特·菲利普斯、丽贝卡·赖斯和柯特·德文参与了报道。
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3小时5分钟前
特朗普第二任期内其他离任人员一览
作者:凯瑟琳·尼科尔斯
唐纳德·特朗普总统表示,在昨日宣布白宫幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯将离职后,他预计将对内阁进行更多调整。
据消息人士透露,怀尔斯离职当日,特朗普对导致共和党在中期选举中输掉国会多数席位的策略极为愤怒。
以下是特朗普第二任期内其他重要离任人员一览:
- 负责司法部反垄断部门的阿比盖尔·斯莱特,在二月被特朗普政府逼退,消息人士告诉CNN。据悉,斯莱特推动政府对科技公司采取强硬手段,而科技公司领导人常能影响特朗普。
- 前国土安全部长克里斯蒂·诺姆于三月被解雇,其行为包括涉嫌与首席顾问存在恋爱关系、部门现金分配问题,以及对涉及联邦移民特工的致命事件说法前后矛盾等问题受到日益关注。
- 数周后,时任国家反恐中心主任的乔·肯特宣布将辞职,理由是对政府的伊朗战争感到不满。
- 四月初,司法部长帕姆·邦迪被解雇。消息人士称,特朗普在多个方面对邦迪不满,包括她对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关文件的处理,以及她未对其政治对手进行足够调查或起诉。
- 同样在四月,劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默宣布将从特朗普政府离职,此前有内部调查发现其可能存在不当行为。
- 八月,特朗普宣布白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特将离职,以便陪伴家人。
- 莱维特的继任者凯蒂·扎卡里亚因一系列失误及对其工作的近乎普遍的反对,于十月任职五天后被解雇。据官员称,她的首次新闻发布会被描述为不寻常、尴尬、生硬,有时甚至令人不适。
- 同样在十月,美国驻希腊大使金伯利·吉尔福伊尔,因多起涉嫌不当行为的报道,被白宫逼退。
_CNN的亚历杭德拉·哈拉米略、凯特兰·柯林斯、普里西拉·阿尔瓦雷斯、克里斯滕·霍尔姆斯、安妮·格雷耶、劳伦·福克斯、扎卡里·科恩、汉娜·拉宾诺维茨、艾丽西亚·华莱士、贝齐·克莱因、阿莱娜·特里尼、基特·马赫尔、凯莉·阿特伍德、珍妮弗·汉斯勒和凯文·利普塔克参与了报道。
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3小时16分钟前
米勒是特朗普担任总统不到六年以来的第六位幕僚长
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作者:亚伦·布莱克
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2020年8月6日,华盛顿特区,唐纳德·特朗普总统在白宫椭圆办公室与斯蒂芬·米勒出席活动。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统在将苏西·怀尔斯替换为斯蒂芬·米勒后,成为其担任总统不到六年以来的第六位幕僚长。
怀尔斯的任职时间不足一年零22个月,创下任职时间最长的记录。这一职位经历了一些相当不寻常的时期:
- 特朗普的第一任幕僚长雷恩斯·普里巴斯,在非临时幕僚长中创下最短任期记录,仅任职六个多月。此前,新任白宫 communications director 安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇在《纽约客》一篇未经修饰的采访中称他是“该死的偏执狂精神分裂症患者、妄想症患者”,并表示普里巴斯“很快就会被要求辞职”,他随后递交了辞呈。
- 特朗普的第二任幕僚长约翰·凯利本应整顿混乱的白宫运作,但未能做到。离职白宫后,他称特朗普是法西斯主义者。
- 第三位是米克·马尔瓦尼,任职一年多,但从未拥有正式头衔,一直是“代理”幕僚长。他接手该职位时,曾在2016年竞选期间称特朗普是“糟糕的人”。2020年选举后,作为普通公民的马尔瓦尼撰写了一篇臭名昭著的专栏文章,向特朗普保证他会优雅接受败选。(特朗普并没有。)
- 第四位是马克·梅多斯,因试图推翻2020年大选结果在亚利桑那州和佐治亚州被起诉。他拒不认罪。
- 怀尔斯在2025年接受《名利场》一系列极为坦诚的采访,似乎证实了关于特朗普白宫的许多最坏说法。
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各方对特朗普任命米勒为新任幕僚长的反应
作者:肖倩·林
白宫幕僚长苏西·怀尔斯将离职,其职位将由斯蒂芬·米勒接替,米勒是唐纳德·特朗普总统的长期助手,负责推动其强硬移民议程。
这一举措发生在共和党中期选举遭遇灾难性失利三天后,将于周一生效。
米勒目前担任副幕僚长,是特朗普一些最具争议政策的幕后推手,在过去一年里,他扩大了职责范围,涵盖大部分国内政策,并倡导对行政权采取宽泛观点。长期以来,他一直被视为特朗普最有影响力的顾问之一。
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斯蒂芬·米勒将接替苏西·怀尔斯出任白宫幕僚长
斯蒂芬·米勒是唐纳德·特朗普总统的长期助手,也是政府移民议程的策划者,将成为白宫幕僚长。米勒将接替苏西·怀尔斯,后者在共和党中期选举遭遇灾难性失利几天后离职。CNN主播兼首席白宫记者凯特兰·柯林斯报道
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斯蒂芬·米勒将接替苏西·怀尔斯出任白宫幕僚长
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特朗普对此次人事调整的表态:
- 内阁将有更多调整: 特朗普暗示,怀尔斯的替换不会是最后一次,他接受CBS新闻采访时,被问及是否打算解雇人员时回答“是的”。“我认为他们都不错,但我可能会做一些调整。我不想提名人选,”他说。
- 决定的时机: 特朗普对记者表示,幕僚长离职“不是因为选举”。他说:“是时候了。有时你会更换人选,”他说。
- 为米勒的任命辩护: “斯蒂芬从一开始就和我在一起。他懂行,在政治上很有一套,而且是个非常好的人,”特朗普说,同时称赞怀尔斯“做得很棒”。
以下是议员和观察人士对米勒任命的看法:
众议员罗伯特·加西亚: 众议院监督委员会资深成员在一份声明中表示,“斯蒂芬·米勒应该聘请律师”,并补充道“监督委员会的民主党人将继续调查米勒的不当行为,我们将在国会和法院反对他的仇恨政策。”
前特朗普政府顾问奥利维亚·特洛伊: 她告诉CNN,她认为米勒是特朗普的“头号干将”。特洛伊还形容米勒忠诚且“确实令人畏惧”。
参议员汤姆·蒂利斯: 即将离任的共和党参议员抨击此次任命,称其为“巨大错误”和“可能的最坏选择”。蒂利斯是少数几位愿意公开与白宫决裂的共和党参议员之一。他过去曾与特朗普直接发生冲突,并多次严厉批评米勒。
佐治亚州当选州长凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯: 这位民主党人表示,特朗普提升米勒的行为“令人深感失望”,她称米勒“极具分裂性,并且是多项对美国人产生负面影响的政策的幕后推手。”
_CNN的安妮·格雷耶、亚历杭德拉·哈拉米略、丽贝卡·赖斯和托里·B·鲍威尔参与了报道。
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蓝色浪潮助力民主党在多个关键州赢得州长职位
作者:CNN工作人员
CNN正在监测12个关键州长竞选。目前已判定10个州的获胜者。
根据CNN决策部数据,共和党预计赢得1个州,民主党目前预计赢得9个州。
民主党预计获胜的州包括在佐治亚州、爱荷华州、得克萨斯州、俄亥俄州和内华达州翻转州长职位。
更正:本次推送此前误述了中期选举后预计民主党州长职位的百分比。CNN目前已判定10个关键州长竞选。
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Harry Enten explains ‘extinction level results’ after GOP’s midterm collapse upends 2028 race for White House
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Harry Enten explains ‘extinction level results’ after GOP’s midterm collapse upends 2028 race for White House
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Here’s the latest
• Outstanding races: Votes are still being counted in Mississippi and Alaska, where Senate races remain too close to call. Democrats have seized a majority in the upper chamber, and questions are brewing about who will lead the party in the Senate as it looks to place a check on President Donald Trump.
• Cabinet shake-up:Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff after Trump voiced fury at the strategy that led to Republicans’ catastrophic midterm losses, according to people familiar with the matter. The president has hinted at more personnel shuffles as he faces a new landscape in Washington.
• Blue wave:Democrats are on the verge of exceeding the 257 House seats at the start of Barack Obama’s presidency and the 258 at the start of Bill Clinton’s tenure. The party also swept into power in governor’s offices and state legislatures across the country.
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Wiles’ departure reshapes a West Wing already riven by infighting
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By Kaitlan Collins
It’s hard to overstate how factionalized the West Wing has become in the last several days.
Aides have described a workplace filled with tension and infighting, likening it to the “knives out” days of President Donald Trump’s first term. The president announcing Susie Wiles’ departure yesterday will only accelerate the shift in the balance of power in his inner circle.
As the scrutiny on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth grew following the GOP’s midterm losses, it only highlighted how fractured his relationship with Wiles had become.
For months, people familiar with the matter said, Wiles had raised concerns about his leadership inside the Pentagon and his role in Trump’s Cabinet. Shortly after the president announced her departure, Hegseth was one of the first senior aides to celebrate Stephen Miller’s ascension to chief of staff.
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38 min ago
Trump says he would stop insulting Democrats to help make deals
By Logan Schiciano
President Donald Trump said he can work with Democrats without insulting them, in an interview that comes as he prepares for the last two years of his presidency with Republicans no longer in control of Congress.
In the interview with “60 Minutes,” which was taped on Friday to air Sunday, Trump said he could “very easily” stop attacking Democrats for six months if it allowed the two parties to reach a deal on policy.
But just seconds earlier in a clip released by CBS News, the president reverted to one of his familiar labels for members of the opposing party.
“I also call many of them ‘Dumbocrats,’” Trump said.
Trump in recent days has signaled that he’s open to working with Democrats on issues like immigration and economic development.
“I think we can do a lot of things together, actually,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “You know, a lot of them are about common sense, also. And I think you’ll see that.”
Trump has also pledged to use his veto power to push Democrats into bipartisan deals.
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Son of man killed by ICE in Houston reacts to Texans placing “I voted” tags at memorial
By Michael Williams
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Son of man killed by ICE in Houston reacts to ‘I voted’ stickers at father’s memorial
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Son of man killed by ICE in Houston reacts to ‘I voted’ stickers at father’s memorial
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The son of a man who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston this year said it was “incredible,” yet “bittersweet” to see this week’s election results and the tributes many Texans left to his father.
Ronaldo Salgado, whose father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was shot and killed by a federal agent on July 7, told CNN’s Victor Blackwell he “never expected” the gesture to spread as far as it did.
Salgado said he left his own “I voted” sticker at his father’s memorial shortly after he cast his ballot and noticed two other people doing the same. By the end of the week, hundreds of stickers covered the memorial.
Reacting to the Democrats’ rout of the Republican state government in Texas, and pledges by city leaders in Houston to now limit some cooperation with ICE, Salgado said he believes immigrants in the city “will be able to live a little bit more freely, a little bit more at peace.”
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Van Hollen says “no coronation” for next Senate Democratic leader
By Patrick Svitek
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen said today that there should be “no coronation” of the chamber’s next Democratic leader after the party’s sweeping gains in the midterms — though he suggested he was unlikely to seek the post himself.
“We need to have a discussion in the Democratic caucus, we need to understand what the Democrats are going to do with this new responsibility and these new powers, and nobody should get a blank check without a full understanding of the caucus as to where we’re going to go,” Van Hollen said at Crooked Con, a post-election Democratic gathering in Washington, DC.
Looking to the coming days, Van Hollen said it was “really important that people withhold commitments” until they can speak to newly elected Senate Democrats and learn lessons from them. The Maryland Democrat said his highest priority was understanding how the party will use its new power in the Senate to end the war in Iran.
Van Hollen told CNN after he spoke at the event that running for majority leader himself was “not my focus” and that he was instead “seriously kicking the tires on the presidential race.”
Some context:Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed confidence that he will be reelected as majority leader. But several incoming Senate Democrats have vowed not to support him, and Van Hollen’s comments show not every returning member is immediately onboard.
The mention of Schumer’s name drew boos inside the ballroom at Crooked Con.
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“Monumental”: Incoming Georgia officials reflect slate of Black women winning statewide
By Catherine Nicholls
Democrats’ massive wins in the midterms delivered a historic milestone in Georgia, where a slate of Black women led by Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms will soon occupy seven of the state’s top eight executive offices.
Joining CNN’s Victor Blackwell this morning in a joint interview with Attorney General-elect Tanya Miller, incoming Secretary of State Penny Brown Reynolds called the outcome “monumental.”
“It’s seismic on every proportion because it was not only Black Georgians that put us in office,” Reynolds said. “It was Whites. It was Latinos. It was independents. It was Republicans. Because I think they chose competence over politics.”
But Miller added that the women won their races by focusing on competence, not identity. “We ran on qualifications. We ran on policy ideas.”
“Personally, I do feel, sort of, the responsibility to make sure that, while I might be the first Black woman to hold this position, that I’m not the last…,” Miller said. “And I think it is really important for me to execute in this office… and to accomplish the policy objectives that I promised the people of Georgia.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly berated female reporters of color and targeted prominent Black women in positions of power for scrutiny, like Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Reynolds said the pair of Georgia executives “will be the Secretary of State and Attorney General long after Donald Trump is gone. And so he has another two years to go. His concerns about us is irrelevant to us.”
“We both feel that no one is above the law. We took oaths to the Constitution. And so he will do what he does,” Reynolds said. “But that will be minimized more and more when the people of Georgia have spoken.”
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1 hr 17 min ago
Following midterms losses, Iran’s hardliners want Trump to pay a steeper price to end war
By Mostafa Salem
Iranian hardliners who believe Tehran has already emerged victorious in its war with the United States are seizing on President Donald Trump’s midterm losses to demand that he pay a steeper price for an exit from the conflict: a “new world order” that favors the Islamic Republic.
The influential group of conservatives intensified their rhetoric this week, publicly demanding that Washington not be offered compromises in ongoing negotiations.
After the midterm elections saw Trump’s Republican Party suffer a major defeat, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned in a message Wednesday against the “slightest inclination towards submission” – a caution hardliners believe was directed to Iran’s negotiators.
Trump acknowledged in a call with Fox News that the war in Iran was partly to blame for the Republicans’ midterm losses but Vice President JD Vance was more explicit, saying in a lengthy X post Wednesday that “the reason we lost is the war.”
Those admissions appear to have galvanized Iranian hardliners with conservative politicians and media outlets celebrating Trump’s midterm loss as a win for Iran. A hardline outlet, Raja News, published a column saying the US should not be given a “way out” before it “pays the price” for attacking Iran, and Trump should not be allowed to “escape with a rushed agreement.”
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2 hr 6 min ago
How data centers played a role in the Democrats’ historic midterms victory
By Patrick Svitek
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A data center campus is seen in Abilene, Texas, on August 26.
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As the dust settled on Election Night, Democratic operatives working to elect James Talarico were surprised by the breadth of his victory across Texas’ 254 counties. But even then, one area stood out.
Kaufman County, southeast of Dallas, is the site of two massive data center projects that have sparked local backlash. The largest city in the county, Forney, is already working to outlaw new data centers within its city limits.
The solidly red county was one of 55 counties where a pro-Talarico super PAC, Lone Star Rising PAC, targeted voters within 5 miles of a proposed or approved data center project. The PAC sent them a series of mail pieces and digital ads blaming the project on the Republican nominee, Ken Paxton.
Talarico carried Kaufman County by 1 percentage point as he notched a striking 12-point victory statewide, helping lead Democrats to statewide victory in Texas for the first time since 1994.
It was one of many examples where backlash to data centers fueled Democrats’ staggering victories in the midterms. From statewide races to local ballot initiatives, voters demonstrated sweeping support for a tougher stance toward data centers, if not outright opposition to their continued development.
About a quarter of voters said AI and data centers were “crucial” to their vote in the midterms, trailing higher priorities such as the cost of living and corruption, according to CNN’s Voter Poll. But when voters were asked about building data centers in their communities, they were overwhelmingly opposed by a roughly 3-to-1 margin.
Read more on this in our full article here.
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2 hr 43 min ago
Where things stand in the Mississippi and Alaska Senate races that remain too close to call
By Xiaoqian Lin
Vote counting continues in Mississippi and Alaska, with their Senate races too early for CNN to call.
Here are the latest developments in these states:
Mississippi
CNN Sightline rates the Mississippi Senate race as neutral, with the contest too close to call. Democratic candidate Scott Colom has grown his narrow lead over Republican candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Several Mississippi-based organizations Friday called for greater transparency in the state’s ongoing ballot-counting process, saying they had run into issues with counties over how much of the work is supposed to be open to the public.
Meanwhile elections expert David Becker said the ongoing ballot-counting process in Mississippi is “entirely normal,” and “exactly what we would expect to see.”
Colom maintains that he is 100% confident he will become the state’s senator-elect, because outstanding ballots are in Democratic-leaning counties.
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Dem candidate in tight MS Senate race speaks to OutFront: ‘We’ve got an army of lawyers’ for MS ballot fight
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Dem candidate in tight MS Senate race speaks to OutFront: ‘We’ve got an army of lawyers’ for MS ballot fight
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Earlier, the chairman of the Mississippi’s Republican Party claimed there are still thousands of affidavit ballots left to be counted, arguing that Hyde-Smith has plenty of time to take the lead.
Alaska
In Alaska, Sightline favors Democrat Mary Peltola, who has a very slight edge over Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Days before the midterms, federal prosecutors ordered Gerald Heikes, a longshot Senate hopeful in Alaska, to appear before a grand jury with any records he has related to political groups and other candidates in the race, according to documents reviewed by CNN.
The subpoena was sent as part of an accelerating criminal probe into whether operatives aligned with Peltola sought to recruit spoilers into the race – including another candidate who shares a name with the sitting Republican senator.
The Department of Justice declined to comment for this story. Peltola has denied any knowledge of efforts to recruit other candidates.
CNN’s Tori B. Powell, August Phillips, Rebekah Reiss and Curt Devine contributed reporting.
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3 hr 5 min ago
A look at other departures during Trump’s second term
By Catherine Nicholls
President Donald Trump says he expects to make more changes to his Cabinet, after announcing yesterday that Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, would be departing her role.
Wiles’ departure came the same day Trump voiced fury at the strategy that led to Republicans decisively losing majorities in Congress in the midterms, sources said.
Here’s a look at other significant departures that have taken place during Trump’s second term:
- Abigail Slater, who ran the antitrust division for the Justice Department, was forced out by the Trump administration in February, sources told CNN. Slater was known to be pushing the administration to be aggressive on tech companies, whose leaders often have the ear of Trump.
- Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was fired in March amid growing scrutiny over her conduct, including her alleged romantic relationship with her chief adviser, distribution of her department’s cash and her conflicting accounts over fatal incidents involving federal immigration agents.
- Weeks later, Joe Kent, who had been serving as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced he was stepping down from his post, citing misgivings about the administration’s war with Iran.
- In early April, Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired. Trump had been frustrated with Bondi on multiple fronts, sources said, including her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and that she had not investigated or prosecuted enough of his political opponents.
- Also in April, it was announced that Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer was stepping down from the Trump administration amid an internal investigation into possible misconduct.
- In August, Trump announced that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt would be leaving her role to spend more time with her family.
- Leavitt’s replacement Katie Zacharia was fired in October after five days amid several missteps and near-universal backlash to her performance. Her first press conference was described by officials as unusual, awkward, stilted and, at times, uncomfortable.
- Also in October, Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, was forced out of her job by the White House following a string of reports about alleged misconduct.
CNN’s Alejandra Jaramillo, Kaitlan Collins, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox, Zachary Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz, Alicia Wallace, Betsy Klein, Alayna Treene, Kit Maher, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Kevin Liptak contributed to this reporting.
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Miller is Trump’s 6th chief of staff in less than 6 years as president
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By Aaron Blake
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President Donald Trump is moving on to his sixth chief of staff in less than six years as president after replacing Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller.
Wiles holds the record for longest tenure, at less than one year and 22 months. And the position has seen some rather interesting times:
Trump’s first chief of staff, Reince Priebus, logged the shortest tenure ever for a non-interim chief of staff, at a little more than six months. He resigned shortly after new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called him a “f*king paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac” in an unguarded New Yorker interview and said Priebus would be “asked to resign very shortly.”
- Trump’s second chief of staff, John Kelly, was supposed to impose order on a chaotic operation but failed to do so. After leaving the White House, he called Trump a fascist.
- No. 3, Mick Mulvaney, served more than a year in the position – but never with the full job title, always as the “acting” chief of staff. And he took the job despite having called Trump a “terrible human being” during the 2016 campaign. After the 2020 election, Mulvaney as a private citizen wrote an infamous op-ed in which he assured Trump would gracefully accept defeat. (Trump did not.)
- No. 4, Mark Meadows, has been indicted in both Arizona and Georgia for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He pleaded not guilty.
- Wiles in 2025 delivered a remarkably unvarnished series of interviews to Vanity Fair which seemed to confirm many of the worst narratives about the Trump White House.
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3 hr 16 min ago
Here’s some reaction to Trump’s appointment of Miller as his new chief of staff
By Xiaoqian Lin
Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, is departing the role and will be replaced by Stephen Miller, a longtime aide to President Donald Trump who orchestrated his hardline immigration agenda.
The move, which came three days after Republicans suffered catastrophic losses in the midterm elections, will take effect Monday.
Miller, currently a deputy chief of staff who has been the mastermind behind some of Trump’s most polarizing priorities, has widened his portfolio over the past year to include wide swaths of domestic policy and has advocated for an expansive view of executive power. He has long been viewed as one of Trump’s most influential advisers.
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Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff
Stephen Miller, longtime aide to President Donald Trump and architect of the administration’s immigration agenda, will become the White House chief of staff. Miller is set to replace Susie Wiles, who is departing the role days after the catastrophic losses for Republicans in the midterm elections. CNN Anchor and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins report
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Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff
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What Trump has said about the staffing shakeup:
- More Cabinet changes to come:Trump signaled Wiles’ replacement will not be the last, telling CBS News “I do” when asked if he intended to fire people. “I think they’re good, but I’ll be doing maybe a few changes. I don’t want to mention who,” he said.
- Timing of the decision: Speaking to reporters, Trump said his chief of staff’s departure was “not because of the election.” He said: “It’s just time. Sometimes you change,” he said.
- Defending Miller’s appointment:“Stephen’s been with me from beginning. He gets it, very good politically, and he’s a very good man,” Trump said, while also praising Wiles for having done a “great job.”
Here’s what lawmakers and observers think about Miller’s appointment:
Rep. Robert Garcia: The ranking Member on the House Oversight Committee said in a statement that “Stephen Miller should lawyer up,” adding that “Oversight Democrats will continue to investigate Miller for his misconduct, and we will fight against his hateful policies in Congress and the courts.”
Former Trump administration adviser Olivia Troye:She told CNN she believes Miller is Trump’s “toughest bulldog.” Troye also described Miller as someone who’s loyal and “actually feared.”
Sen. Thom Tillis:The outgoing Republican senator slammed the appointment, calling it a “colossal mistake” and “the worst of all possible choices.” Tillis has been among a small number of Senate Republicans willing to publicly split with the White House. He has clashed directly with Trump and has been sharply critical of Miller in the past.
Georgia Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms:The Democrat said it is “deeply disappointing” that Trump would elevate Miller, someone who she said “has been so divisive and has been behind so many of the policies that have impacted negatively Americans.”
CNN’s Annie Grayer, Alejandra Jaramillo, Rebekah Reiss and Tori B. Powell contributed reporting.
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The blue wave swept Democratic governors into office in several key states
By CNN staff
CNN is monitoring 12 key governor’s races. So far, winners have been projected in 10.
Republicans are projected to win one, while Democrats are currently projected to win nine, according to CNN’s Decision Desk.
The projected Democratic victories include flips of the governor’s office in Georgia, Iowa, Texas, Ohio and Nevada.
Correction:A previous version of this post misstated the percentage of projected Democratic governorships after the midterms. CNN has projected 10 key gubernatorial races so far.
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