Campaigns & Elections

On Friday’s episode of Real Time, HBO’s Bill Maher sought to frame the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico as “Attila the Hun” versus “a nice guy.” At the same time, after former GOP Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pointed out that Talarico has said some whacky things in the past, MS NOW host Katy Tur stepped in to defend Talarico by claiming “he’s taken that…

PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart teamed up to try to absolve the media from their past errors on Friday by making the curious claim that “Joe Biden's health has been litigated in public exhaustively.” For his part, Capehart went so far as to try to shift the presidential health concerns to President Trump for simply having three semi-annual…

PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough has his priorities out of order. On Wednesday, he penned an article declaring GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton “false” for calling his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, a vegan. However, he could have rated Paxton “half-true” or written another article labeling Talarico “false” because Paxton also cited Talarico’s previous comments about there being six…

Polls show that former reality TV personality turned Republican candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt, has a real shot to advance to November’s general election, which caused ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to stage an intervention on Wednesday and plead with people not to vote for him.

During MS NOW’s Texas Senate Primary election coverage, the new helm of the spin-off network’s election big board, Ali Velshi said American elections could turn into elections in Russia and Iran with meaningless ballots. He then stated he felt a groundswell movement, as seen with anti-DOGE and Minneapolis’s protests, would rise to vote in the upcoming midterms to stop it.

The “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC were enthralled Wednesday morning with the possibilities of a blue Texas Senate seat in November as they declared the Republican nomination of “controversial” Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent John Cornyn could “backfire for the GOP” with Democrat state Representative James Talarico serving “as their best chance to win in decades.”

CNN This Morning began its coverage today of Ken Paxton’s decisive victory over John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff by airing interviews with exactly two Texas Republicans who swore they won’t vote for Paxton. One even declared she will “absolutely” vote for Democrat James Talarico in November.

After Tuesday’s GOP Senate Primary in Texas, MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera welcomed former Bush and McCain advisor Mark McKinnon to her show the following day to react. McKinnon twice stated that the matchup is more than Republican Ken Paxton versus Democrat James Talarico but that it is “good versus evil.”

In what took only a few seconds and thus proving how easy it should be to do their supposed jobs as journalists, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings became the first flagship morning or evening broadcast network newscast — meaning ABC, CBS, and NBC — to mention Texas Democrat senatorial candidate James Talarico’s radical views on gender and religion in a larger piece about Tuesday’s Texas…

On Saturday’s edition of The Weekend on MS NOW, a panel discussion about the Texas Senate race offered some unusually candid pessimism about the Democrats' chances. The panel conceded that even with the more controversial Ken Paxton on the ballot, Democrats still face steep odds in Texas.

And the campaign has begun. Arguably one could say the mid-term elections began the moment the 2024 election was over. But now, at last, the 2026 mid-term campaign is edging into public view. You could see President Trump campaigning in New York for GOP Congressman Mike Lawler.

On her eponymous Monday show, MS NOW host Chris Jansing presided over a discussion on South Carolina redistricting in which her Democrat guests claimed blacks are being "disenfranchised" there and that white Americans refuse to vote for blacks because of "racism." It was not mentioned at all in the 11-minute segment that one of the state's two U.S. Senators -- Tim Scott -- is black.

On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish casually threw Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s viral campaign videos into the same bucket as Iranian regime propaganda. Pratt’s offense that led to this comparison? Using A.I.-generated images to lampoon California politicians as Batman villains and dark side force users from Star Wars. Cornish tried to make the absurd…

On Thursday, the DNC released its 2024 autopsy and based on the reaction from Chairman Ken Martin, an autopsy for the autopsy might be warranted. Joining MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera reports, White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez reacted to the train wreck by lamenting her biggest takeaway was that the party was not strong enough in its response to President Trump’s “identity politics.”