Democrats’ House majority is trending toward historic

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The 2026 midterm elections have clearly been very good for Democrats across the board. But their House majority is trending toward historic numbers.

CNN is projecting that Democrats have won more than 250 House seats, with a net gain of around 40 seats. And they could hit or even exceed 260 total seats by the time all is said and done.

That would give them around an 85-seat majority and make it the biggest Democratic majority since the early 1990s — the tail end of decades of Democratic domination of the House.

After flipping more seats on Thursday afternoon, Democrats have won or hold leads in 259 districts. If those margins hold, Republicans would end up with 174 (two Louisiana races are headed to runoffs).

Democrats lead by around a point or less in six districts: South Carolina’s 1st, Colorado’s 4th, Florida’s 9th, Minnesota’s 1st, North Carolina’s 5th and Tennessee’s 4th.

If Democrats get to 260 seats, it would be their biggest House majority since 1991-93, when they had 267. They had 258 seats in the following Congress and 257 after former President Barack Obama’s big win in 2008 swept Democrats into power.

By winning more than 250 seats, Democrats’ House majority is already bigger than any Republican House majority since the Great Depression. (The GOP’s high watermark since then was 247 seats after the 2014 election). If they won 260, it would mean Democrats have won 60% of the available House seats.

That’s compared to winning between 54% and 56% of the Senate (depending upon how the last two races in Alaska and Mississippi shake out).

It looks as though Democrats will have gained somewhere around 50 seats by the time all races are settled.

If they win the 259 seats where they’re currently ahead, it would be a net gain of 44 seats.

That would be the third-largest gain in the past half-century, behind 2010 (Republicans gained 63 seats) and 1994 (Republicans gained 54).

It would also surpass Democrats’ biggest recent midterms: the 2018 election (41 seats) and the 2006 election (31 seats).

But drilling into the details, the number of seats flipped might be even more significant than all of those.

The GOP flipped so many seats in 2010 in large part because Democrats had such a big majority after the 2008 election. That meant Republicans had lots of low-hanging fruit in conservative-leaning territory to go after.

Republicans were also chipping away at a nearly 260-seat Democratic majority in the 1994 election.

By contrast, the 2026 election began with nearly an even split in the House: Republicans at 220 districts to Democrats’ 215. Democrats were also contending with the fact that Republicans redrew several of their maps to give themselves more conservative-leaning territory (it didn’t work).

The other big metric here is the popular vote. Currently, Democrats lead by about 12 percentage points — a margin which could grow in the coming days as more votes are reported, especially from western, Democratic-leaning states.

There are some caveats with that. It’s skewed somewhat by the fact that California’s top-two primary system means that a handful of races are Republicans-versus-Republican and Democrat-versus-Democrat — rather than having all 435 districts include votes for both major parties.

But it’s still overall a good measure.

This will mark only the second time since 1982 that a party won the House popular vote by double digits — with the other one being the Obama election of 2008 (an 11-point Democratic margin), according to data from the Brookings Institution.

And the last time either party won the House popular vote by at least 13 points was in the post-Watergate election of 1976.

Ex-Alaska lawmaker details mystery recruiter as FBI, Congress widen ‘Decoy Dan’ scrutiny

November 5, 2026 4:32pm EST / Fox News

A former Alaska Republican lawmaker told Fox News Digital the FBI interviewed him after an apparent Democratic political operative allegedly posed as a conservative recruiter and tried to persuade him to enter the state’s U.S. Senate race amid an intensifying congressional investigation into the controversial “Decoy Dan Sullivan” ballot scheme.

The allegations raise questions about potential federal criminal liability. Article III Project attorney Will Chamberlain argued that a coordinated effort to deceive voters about a candidate’s identity could violate 18 U.S.C. § 241, the federal conspiracy-against-rights statute.

The revelations come after former campaign staff for Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spoke to the New York Times about their knowledge of a reported scheme to stack Alaska’s four-person ballot with other “Dan Sullivans” to help siphon votes from incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.

MARY PELTOLA’S CAMPAIGN, DEMS BACKED COVERT SCHEME TO FIELD SPOILER CANDIDATES IN ALASKA SENATE RACE: REPORT

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The ballot ultimately included Peltola, incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, Republican Gerald Heikes and retired Petersburg teacher Dan J. Sullivan. Whether the similarly named candidate diverted votes or affected the outcome remains unproven.

Chamberlain told Fox News Digital the alleged operation could constitute a federal felony if prosecutors establish that participants conspired to interfere with voters’ constitutional rights.

PELTOLA CAMPAIGN’S ALLEGED DAN SULLIVAN SPOILER PLOT TAKES NEW TURN AS DOJ FACES MAJOR LEGAL HURDLE

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Dan J. Sullivan, who filed to run for U.S. Senate in Alaska, poses for a photo in Petersburg, Alaska, on June 26, 2026.(Katie Holmlund/Associated Press)

“The basic concept is you’re not allowed to conspire to injure or harm people’s constitutional rights. And one of those rights is to vote for the candidate of your choice,” Chamberlain said.

“These people conspired to put a fake ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan on the ballot in order to trick people who were going into the ballot box intending to vote for the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan,” he alleged. “There’s a lot of good precedent on this that suggests that’s a crime and a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.”

Chamberlain cited historical cases involving ballot manipulation, while acknowledging that the precise circumstances of recruiting a same-name candidate have not previously been addressed in an identical case.

“Nothing exactly like this has happened before in the sense of recruiting a same-name candidate to trick people in the ballot box,” he said, adding that a lot of slanted electoral messaging is not illegal.

ALASKA’S GOVERNOR ORDERS INVESTIGATION AFTER NYT REPORT ON ALLEGED DEM-LINKED SENATE ELECTION SCHEME

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“If you want to pretend that another Republican is better than the current incumbent or pretend that the incumbent’s not running and then persuade someone to vote for that candidate, that’s not a ‘conspiracy against rights’ because the right to vote for the candidate of your choice has not been impinged upon,” he said.

“It’s the fact that when you’re conspiring to put two people with the exact same name on the ballot to trick people who are going in there intending to vote for the incumbent and get them to vote for somebody else by deception.”

Meanwhile, former state Rep. David Eastman, a Republican from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, told Fox News Digital by phone from Wasilla that he was approached by an operative under what he later surmised were false pretenses to recruit him into the race. Eastman said he also received several “fake mailers” suggesting “Decoy Dan” Sullivan was the real or only Sullivan in the race.

The mailers, shared with Fox News Digital, are framed in a “meet the candidates” format and do omit Senator Sullivan.

Eastman told Fox News Digital he was approached in the Mat-Su by an operative he later identified in a blog post as Jerid Kurtz, who was named in the New York Times report. Eastman said the operative claimed to represent conservative donors and encouraged him to run for Senate.

“He approached me through a constituent. I sat down with him in April here in Wasilla,” Eastman said.

“He pretended to represent conservative donors and was looking for conservative candidates to run for federal office; none of which was true,” Eastman added.

Eastman alleged Kurtz “pretended” to represent conservative donors and used a false name, but said the operative never mentioned either Sullivan or disclosed an intention to confuse voters during their meeting.

Fox News Digital reached out to the DSCC, Peltola’s campaign and Wingspan Strategies — where Kurtz is named in congressional documents as a co-owner — for comment. Dan J. Sullivan reportedly “vanished” as investigators began knocking on doors in his remote community, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The allegations come as federal investigators examine whether Democratic political operatives improperly recruited Dan J. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters who intended to support Senator Sullivan.

The controversy has also reached Capitol Hill. In an October 29 letter, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requested that Kurtz appear for an in-person transcribed interview on November 6 concerning allegations that operatives associated with Mary Peltola’s campaign sought to recruit similarly named candidates to confuse voters.

“As a Democrat operative who was allegedly tasked with assisting in this effort, you have information that will assist the Committee’s investigation,” Comer wrote.

“If you do not voluntarily appear for the interview, we will be forced to evaluate the use of compulsory process,” he warned.

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Eastman said Kurtz did not mention either Sullivan or disclose an effort to confuse voters during their April meeting. He nevertheless questioned the operative’s intentions after subsequent reporting connected Kurtz to the alleged candidate recruitment effort.

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Eastman also confirmed the FBI has interviewed him. Fox News Digital reached out to the bureau for comment.

DeSantis nukes ‘tech guy’ Vivek after Ohio drubbing: ‘Not in tune’ with blue-collar voters

The Florida governor argued Ramaswamy’s tech background and H-1B visa stance doomed his gubernatorial campaign

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Published November 5, 2026 4:47pm EST

Ramaswamy takes stage after gubernatorial defeat

Vivek Ramaswamy addressed supporters at GOP headquarters in Columbus after the gubernatorial race was called for Democrat Amy Acton.

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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted failed Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and his GOP handlers, arguing on a podcast that he wasn’t “in tune” with the working-class people of the state.

Biotech entrepreneur Ramaswamy lost his scandal-plagued race to Democratic candidate Amy Acton by 7.9 percentage points. Despite President Donald Trump’s endorsement and guidance from Vice President JD Vance’s top advisers, Ramaswamy lost amid a “blue wave” that produced major Democratic upsets across the country. The midterm elections were widely viewed as a referendum on Trump’s presidency.

But DeSantis, who ran for president in 2024 and is term-limited after 2026, shared on the Sage Steele Show that Ramaswamy bore some responsibility for his loss.

“I don’t know why they would have pushed him to be the candidate there. Oh, my mom’s from Youngstown. Ohio is a working class state, very blue collar. You know Vivek, he’s like a tech guy,” DeSantis said.

RAMASWAMY OUTLINES KEY CONTRASTS WITH DEM OPPONENT LESS THAN 100 DAYS OUT FROM KEY GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION

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Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during a campaign rally on February 25, 2025, at the Glass City Center in Toledo, Ohio.(Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Ramaswamy, who previously ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, is the founder of biotech company Roivant Sciences and anti-ESG investment firm Strive Asset Management. He also briefly co-led President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk.

He was warmly embraced by Trump, who endorsed him the same day Ramaswamy announced his candidacy. Trump had previously encouraged Ramaswamy to consider seeking Vance’s former Senate seat. Ramaswamy and Vance have known each other since their time at Yale Law School.

DeSantis criticized Ramaswamy’s support for a merit-based H-1B visa system, arguing that it likely further distanced him from Ohio’s blue-collar voters. Ramaswamy had said the current lottery-based system should be “gutted.”

‘He wants to bring in foreign workers on visas. That is not the type of person that’s going to sell.” DeSantis said.

Ramaswamy’s own companies have used the H-1B program, with Roivant Sciences having 29 H-1B applications approved between 2018 and 2023.

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Meanwhile, Strive Asset Management, the investment firm he co-founded, moved its headquarters from Columbus to Dallas in 2025, months before Ramaswamy launched his campaign for Ohio governor. Ramaswamy said he was no longer involved in the company’s operations, but remained a major shareholder.

FOX NEWS VOTER POLL: 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS USHER IN A BLUE WAVE AS DEMOCRATS WIN CONTROL OF CONGRESS

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“And I know he shot himself in the foot,” DeSantis said. “I know he did a lot of other stuff to make it a real landslide against him. But even with that, it’s like you know you got to meet the voters where they are on some of this stuff,” DeSantis said. “I think we would have done better in Ohio had we had a candidate that was more representative or more in tune with the interests of kind of these blue collar people that make the backbone of Ohio.”

Just weeks before the election, Ramaswamy’s campaign drew bipartisan outrage for using Democratic Gov.-elect Amy Acton’s estranged mother in an attack ad that called the Democratic candidate a “liar” and disputed her account of childhood poverty and homelessness.

The ad omitted that Acton had not seen or spoken to her mother since age 12, when her stepfather was arrested on charges of raping her. He pleaded not guilty but fled the area before trial, and court records show authorities continued seeking his arrest for years. Acton’s brother has said their mother remained married to him until his death in 2004.

Ramaswamy’s loss, alongside Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Husted’s loss to Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown by 4.9 percentage points, came just two years after Trump won the state by 11.2 percentage points.

DESANTIS CALLS GOP MIDTERM LOSSES ‘EXTINCTION-LEVEL EVENT’ — AND EXPLAINS WHY FLORIDA SURVIVED

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Amy Acton, former director of the Ohio Department of Health and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, meets with local residents while campaigning at Bottoms Up Coffee in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, April 6, 2026.(Stephen Zenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In addition to criticizing Ramaswamy, DeSantis took aim at Congress, saying Republicans are now on the “defensive” and faulting lawmakers for failing to codify Trump’s executive orders into law.

“Last night’s elections did not only kneecap the last two years of the Trump administration, it basically ensures the four years after that are going to either be Democrat years where they have a trifecta or where you have a Republican president that is hemmed in and limited,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis also pushed back against any 2028 speculation.

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“The only way that I would run for any office is if you can actually deliver big results,” DeSantis said. “I don’t want to just be a timepiece where I just sit there like a potted plant.”

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Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.

韩咏红：特朗普惨败世界面对更深不确定性

发布/2026年11月6日 05:00

“蓝潮”实现了美国民主的纠偏实践，但美国内部的紧张并没有减轻。

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美国总统特朗普和他所属的共和党在本次国会中期选举中遭遇滑铁卢。图为6月5日，特朗普在美国威斯康星州的卡斯特农场出席一场活动。 （路透社）

蓝色海啸、滑铁卢、溃败、骨牌般倒下……

政情观察家们早就预见到，美国总统特朗普和他所属的共和党，会在本次国会中期选举中吃大苦头，但很少有人预测到，他竟然会败得这么惨。

民主党眼看有望最终拿下众议院约255个席位，大幅超过控制众院所需要的218席。在参议院，共和党的深红堡垒也是相继倒下：堪萨斯州选出了自1932年以来的首位民主党参议员；具指标意义的南卡罗来纳州参议院席位出现了时隔多年后的“红转蓝”；得州更出现了让人震惊的“全面翻蓝”，产生了30多年来首名民主党籍的州长。“蓝潮”席卷下，这场选举还创下多项纪录，包括同时选出五名黑人州长、美国史上首名黑人女性州长、首名回教徒参议员。

CNN gets an inside look at how Mississippi is counting ballots

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Hegseth demands $350B for military, fires back at Dem impeachment push

War secretary touts Pentagon overhaul, vows to press ahead with Trump’s agenda

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Published November 5, 2026 3:28pm EST | Updated November 5, 2026 4:16pm EST

Hegseth calls for $350B defense boost as he vows to ‘finish what we started’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urged Congress to approve at least $350 billion in additional funding, arguing the investment is needed to rebuild the military and keep the U.S. ahead in a dangerous world. (Credit: @SecWar)

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth urged Congress Thursday to approve at least $350 billion in defense funding while pushing back against efforts to impeach him.

In a video posted to X, Hegseth defended his Pentagon overhaul, including eliminating DEI initiatives, removing military leaders and rebuilding recruitment.

Hegseth dismissed the impeachment push as political theater while defending his efforts to overhaul the Pentagon and advance President Donald Trump’s military agenda.

HEGSETH FACES BIPARTISAN IMPEACHMENT THREAT AFTER IRAN WAR GETS BLAME FOR GOP MIDTERM SLAUGHTER

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., April 30.(Cliff Owen/AP Photo, File)

“We need every vote from every patriotic member of Congress,” Hegseth said, calling for a reconciliation bill of at least $350 billion to strengthen the military and defense industrial base.

The impeachment effort is being led by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who introduced eight articles against Hegseth in September, accusing him of violating congressional war powers during the Iran conflict and abusing his authority in other military operations.

Massie, who lost his Republican primary in May, plans to renew the effort when Congress returns next week. The House has not voted on the articles.

Trump defended Hegseth on Thursday, telling ABC News he intends to keep him in his Cabinet despite the impeachment push.

GOP REP THOMAS MASSIE INTRODUCES 8 ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST WAR SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduced eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth in September.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, File)

Hegseth dismissed the effort as politically motivated.

“A disgruntled, defeated congressman along with all his Democrat allies, has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly,” Hegseth said.

He also took aim at former President Joe Biden and former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, accusing them of leaving the Pentagon in disarray and forcing the Trump administration to rebuild the military.

“We ended the weird and the woke and elevated patriots in strength,” Hegseth said, defending his efforts to eliminate diversity initiatives and change military personnel policies.

HEGSETH’S LEADERSHIP QUESTIONED BY GOP MILITARY VETERAN AS DEMOCRATS TALK IMPEACHMENT

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Trump defended Hegseth on Thursday, telling ABC News he intends to keep him in his Cabinet despite the impeachment push.(Aaron Schwartz/AFP via Getty Images, File)

Hegseth also defended the administration’s military operations against Iran, describing the campaign as a historic effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The war secretary closed with a message to troops amid the political fight in Washington.

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“Don’t blink. Ignore the noise. Never hesitate,” Hegseth said.

“We will not back down. We put America and the warfighter first, always and without apology.”

Brittany Miller is a Fox News Digital breaking news writer and former Independent reporter who graduated from Syracuse University in 2023.

Judges appear open to Trump’s push to overturn hush money conviction

2026-11-05T21:30:16.388Z / CNN

Two years into his second term, President Donald Trump is still trying to wipe his [2024 felony conviction] from the books. A panel of New York appellate justices on Thursday heard Trump’s legal challenges to his conviction on falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to influence the 2016 presidential election.

The five justices – who were all appointed by Democratic governors – at times appeared open to Trump’s arguments that federal election law and presidential immunity could affect the conviction.

His lawyers argued the conviction tied to the reimbursement of hush money payments to Stormy Daniels should be overturned based in part on the argument that federal election law preempts state law.

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Trump’s legal team also says the trial judge ran afoul of the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision on presidential immunity by allowing testimony of White House officials and Trump’s tweets – official conduct – to be used as evidence in a criminal case involving unofficial acts.

Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records with the intent to commit or conceal another crime.

At trial, prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said that crime was to promote or prevent an election through unlawful means, which could include violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), falsifying bank records, or tax crimes.

“For purposes of the underlying election law conspiracy, the point is that (Trump) and his co-conspirators were really indifferent to the legality of what they were doing. They wanted to hide what they were doing, and to make these hush money payments without anybody finding out,” Steven Wu, Chief of Appeals for the DA’s office, said Thursday.

The FECA violations were the most obvious ground for conviction, prosecutors said at trial, but Trump’s attorney Robert Giuffra told the appellate panel it’s actually “the most obvious ground for reversal.”

“And the law is quite clear,” he said. “The Department of Justice and the Federal Election Campaign Commission have exclusive jurisdiction to regulate and enforce contribution and expenditure violations.”

A jury of 12 New Yorkers found Trump guilty on all counts, making him a felon. Trump was reelected president,and days before his inauguration the judge sentenced him to an unconditional release.

The panel Thursday challenged the state’s attorney on how heavily the trial team relied on the FECA violations to prove the 34 counts of falsifying business records against Trump.

“Only partially,” Wu said, adding that evidence of Trump’s FECA violations were facts for jurors to consider rather than elements of the charged crimes.

“What preemption does is prevent the state from directly enforcing a federal statute. That’s not what the prosecution was doing here,” Wu said.

Associate Justice Bahaati Pitt-Burke pressed Wu further, noting the case dealt with campaign contributions. “That’s clearly within FECA purview. What are you using to get around that?”

Wu said, “FECA is limited to direct limitations on contributions and expenditures. That comes from the cases, that comes from the regulation. But this prosecution and the statutes under which defendant were convicted are not about expenditures or contributions at all.”

“If you think about the focus of this prosecution – the fraud that was committed in the records of a New York enterprise. That is not what FECA regulates at all,” the judge added.

Giuffra leaned heavily on the federal preemption argument, but still said the appellate interpretation of the SCOTUS 2024 immunity decision could be precedent-setting.

“It could be some other president down the road,” Giuffra said. “It’s not just about President Trump – it’s about future presidents.”

Conversations with White House staffers and Trump’s tweets were both about unofficial acts and so not covered by immunity, Wu argued adding that even if the judge erroneously allowed the evidence there was plenty more to convict Trump.

They were a “drop in the bucket” in terms of evidence of Trump’s guilt, Wu argued, so any presumed error would be harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of Trump’s guilt.

“Can there be such a thing as harmless error with regard to presidential immunity?” Justice Shlomo Hagler challenged.

The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling determined presidential tweets can be official actions because that’s how he communicates with the American people, Giuffra said.

Justice Troy Webber read from the Supreme Court decision and asked Guiffra how Trump’s discussions with former White House communications director Hope Hicks to respond to media inquiries about the payment go toward enriching Americans’ lives.

Giuifrra said the tweets relate to Trump’s fitness for office. Other presidents have had to similarly defend themselves against allegations in public statements while in office, Trump’s lawyer added.

Longtime Trump adviser and senior personal counsel Boris Epshteyn attended the proceedings as well, demonstrating the importance of the case to the president.

美媒：中国月之暗面寻求租用欧洲英伟达先进晶片算力

2026年11月6日 07:01

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中国人工智能（AI）初创企业月之暗面据报寻求通过欧洲的数据中心，租用美国晶片巨头英伟达的先进AI晶片。 （路透社档案照片）

中国人工智能（AI）初创企业月之暗面据报寻求通过欧洲的数据中心，租用美国晶片巨头英伟达先进AI晶片提供的运算能力，以绕过美国对华晶片出口管制的限制。

美国消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）星期四（11月5日）引述四名知情人士报道，月之暗面今年曾与多家在欧洲运营数据中心的新兴云服务供应商洽谈，寻求租用英伟达图形处理器（GPU）提供的运算能力。

其中三名消息人士透露，月之暗面主要寻求租用英伟达最新的Blackwell系列晶片。一名消息人士称，双方曾讨论租用部署在欧洲、规模达8000枚或以上Blackwell晶片的运算集群。

消息人士形容，这家中国AI实验室在争取更多算力资源方面表现得“非常积极”。

另有消息人士指出，月之暗面主要希望利用这些晶片进行AI模型推理，即向终端用户提供模型服务，但也有意获取用于训练模型的运算资源。

美国目前禁止向中国出口英伟达最先进的AI晶片，但现行法律尚未赋予监管机构广泛权限，限制中国企业通过境外云端服务远程使用这些晶片，为中国AI企业获取先进运算资源留下空间。

白宫今年7月曾指称，月之暗面通过泰国的数据中心远程使用英伟达Blackwell晶片。消息人士透露，月之暗面在白宫提出上述指控后，也曾就租用欧洲数据中心的算力展开洽谈。

据报，由于担忧美国未来进一步收紧远程使用限制，部分云服务供应商和融资机构希望通过收取更高的预付款来降低风险。一名消息人士称，曾有提议要求月之暗面支付比非中国客户高出30%至50%的预付款。

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何立峰北京调研：加大对AI及算力网建设金融支持

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中共中央政治局委员、国务院副总理何立峰11月4日到北京调研期间，在北京怀柔调研相关科技基础设施。 （新华社）

中国国务院副总理何立峰指出，要加大对人工智能（AI）、算力网建设等领域的金融支持和要素保障，有序扩大新型基础设施建设投资，推动经济持续向新向优向好发展。

据新华社报道，何立峰星期三至四（11月4日至5日）在北京调研期间指出，要认真学习贯彻中共二十届五中全会精神，加快高水平科技自立自强，强化科技创新与产业创新深度融合。

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Democrats ‘divorced from voters’ as 5 states back citizen-only voting, bolstering GOP push

Kansas, Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and West Virginia each passed noncitizen voting bans with more than 60% support

By Elaine Mallon Fox News

Published November 5, 2026 3:34pm EST

Noncitizen voting bans won broad support despite ‘blue wave,’ advocate says

Honest Elections Project Action Executive Director Jason Snead says voters overwhelmingly support proof-of-citizenship requirements and urges the Supreme Court to clear the way for states to verify voter registrations.

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Voters in five states overwhelmingly approved ballot measures barring noncitizens from voting, including Kansas, where Democrats scored a major Senate upset, and Alaska, where the Senate race remains uncalled.

Federal law already prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, but measures approved in Kansas, Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and West Virginia clarify or explicitly codify citizenship requirements for voting in state and local elections, with support exceeding 60% in each state.

Election integrity advocates pointed to the results as evidence supporting President Donald Trump and Republicans’ argument that their push to require proof of citizenship for federal voter registration has “overwhelming bipartisan support.”

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“I would absolutely agree that noncitizen voting bans are overwhelmingly popular,” Jason Snead, executive director of Honest Elections Project, told Fox News Digital. “They enjoy bipartisan support.”

A 2024 Gallup poll found that 83% of Americans, including 66% of Democrats, support requiring first-time voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

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A volunteer picks up a “Require Voter ID” sign at a news conference at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters March 2, 2026, as GOP lawmakers gather in support of placing a voter ID measure on the November ballot.(Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNews Group/The Sun via Getty Images)

The ballot measure wins also come as the conservative-majority Supreme Court prepares to consider a related dispute over whether Arizona can require proof of citizenship on its state voter registration form and remove suspected noncitizens from the rolls before an election, a ruling that could affect how states enforce citizenship requirements.

Related election measures failed in California and Arizona. California’s Proposition 39 was defeated 58.5% to 41.4%, a margin of roughly 17 percentage points; the measure would have required voter ID and additional citizenship-verification procedures.

“I would note that the unique thing there is not only that California is openly hostile to the idea of trying to prevent noncitizen voting in terms of its elected leadership, but also the left poured more than $30 million into the ballot measure campaign to defeat that,” Snead told Fox News Digital.

Snead said Arizona’s measure was broader legislation that included several provisions beyond noncitizen voting, which may have contributed to its defeat.

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The victories for the measures barring noncitizens from voting follow the Trump administration and congressional Republicans’ failed efforts to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.

ARIZONA VOTER LAW FIGHT REACHES SCOTUS AS ELECTION GROUPS WARN ‘ABSURD’ CONSEQUENCE COULD ENSUE

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An election official sorts ballots during early voting Oct. 28, 2025, in Portland, Maine.(Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

The SAVE America Act also became a flashpoint in Congress, with Republicans and Democrats sparring over whether to attach it to a budget reconciliation package. Trump’s effort to tie the bill to Department of Homeland Security funding contributed to a prolonged standoff during the department’s shutdown.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republicans lacked the votes to pass it, while Democrats argued it would disenfranchise eligible voters.

Hans von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission and senior legal fellow of Advancing American Freedom, said the Democratic Party is completely “divorced” from its voters.

Snead agreed, saying Democrats took a “90-10 issue” and turned it into a highly politicized fight.

“The left is far out of step with the American public, and they really should be answering the question, ‘Why are you opposed to something that 90% of the public is in favor of?” Snead said.

“Only citizens should vote in our elections. And if you believe, as the left claims to, in democracy, well then, we should start by making sure that we have free and fair elections that are decided only by American citizens.”

But while Spakovsky applauded the passage of the ballot measures, he warned they could prove ineffective unless states are allowed to verify voters’ citizenship.

“Look, I’m glad those states passed that referendum, but those provisions aren’t going to be much good unless states are able to do two things,” Spakovsky said.

Spakovsky pointed to Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, a case in which the Supreme Court will decide whether federal law prevents Arizona from requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and from removing suspected noncitizens from its voter rolls.

He said the ruling could affect how effectively states can enforce citizenship requirements.

ELECTION EXPERT SOUNDS ALARM ON HOW NONCITIZENS ARE LANDING ON VOTER ROLLS

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 8, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Snead said simply checking a box attesting to citizenship on a federal form has not been sufficient.

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“As we have seen in a number of recent arrests by the Justice Department, with indictments going out against noncitizens, and with the failures of the automatic voter registration system in New Jersey, which added 6,600 noncitizens to the rolls, with almost 400 of them voting, we clearly have been let down by that check-a-box system,” Snead said.

However, Spakovsky said a ruling in favor of Arizona would only go so far, arguing that proof of citizenship would only apply to future voter registrations.

“The only way for them to try to check the citizenship of people who are already registered is by using the SAVE database at the Department of Homeland Security, and with complete control of Congress, I have no doubt that one of the first things Democrats will do is try to defund the database so that states can’t use it,” Spakovsky said.

Snead applauded the Trump administration’s efforts to expand states’ access to the SAVE database to clean up their voter rolls, arguing the previous process of tracking down ineligible voters was “cumbersome.” He also voiced concerns that Democrats will gut the database.

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“I would not be surprised if they try to defund the entire safe system or pass legislation to prevent its use for cleaning up voter rolls,” Snead said.

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“I think that we are fast approaching the point where it is fair to say, ‘Why are Democrats actively pushing for noncitizen voting?’” Snead continued. “I think that’s the direction that we are going.”

Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.

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