Axios: Mamdani's bid for 2028 kingmaker New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani can't be president, so he's trying to be the next best thing: a progressive kingmaker for 2028. Mamdani has been meeting privately with union leaders, urgently talking up the need for a labor-aligned or leftist candidate to run for the White House, four people familiar with the talks told Axios. axios.com/2026/11/08/scoop-m…

President Trump told Ross Douthat that he thinks his deportation policy was “too tough” on the heels of the GOP’s historic midterms loss. Follow: @AFpost

There is no correlation between midterm results and the results of the next presidential election: web.archive.org/web/20220225…

The same scandal that kept Casey Desantis out of the Florida Governor's race will destroy any chance of her husband being President That was the plan. Casey would succeed Ron and they could extort special interest in the state for his 2028 presidential campaign. Then they got caught stealing $10M from Medicare and transferring it to their political slush fund stonezone.com/the-10-million…

This guy is just an absolute coward. He has all the smoke for Romney but can never muster up the courage to ever have a word of critique for the current president. I could not have less respect for him. Thankfully this loser will never be president.

🚨Governor DeSantis says fighting a regime-change war in Iran on behalf of Israel was an absolute MISTAKE. Says Iran is now more emboldened than ever. Calls out Rubio, Vance and Hegseth for sending conflicting messages about the actual objective. “Israel went and took out the Ayatollah. They took out clerics. There were U.S. strikes, obvious. And I think the goal was that the regime's going to collapse, and then something new would take its place. Now, the problem with that is that all the people that had been protesting in January were all dead by the time they did it in late February. And so that was done. That was a decapitation strike. That's like the point of no return, right? I mean, once you do that, it's like, how do you bring it to a successful conclusion? You just have a site you need to take care of. You did that in 2025. So then it kind of was like, okay, what's the thing? Did we win? Did we not? And then they responded, and they responded in ways that have caused problems economically. So what's the definition of victory at this point with that? January or June of 2025, you say, hey, we have these two problematic sites. We're going to take them out. We did that, and that was successful. This time, I think the goal, certainly from Israel, was that you'd have a regime change in Iran. Now, that's not something that we're going to be able to impose. That would require massive amounts of boots on the ground, massive amounts of treasure that the American people are not interested in providing. And so that's why I think the second time has caused more problems in terms of public acceptance and all these other things. I would love for Iran to have a pro-Western constitutional republic as their government, because the Persian culture has been very rich for centuries. The Islamic revolution really just snuffed that out, and it's been a terror state since then. I would love for that to happen. I don't think that us imposing it is something that would ultimately be successful. But once the Ayatollah is taken out, once these clerics, I think their goal was to have the government collapse, and that didn't happen. So now the people that are there probably are more powerful than they were prior to this. And what incentive do they have to do some type of deal? I hear like, oh, just negotiate a deal. Wait a minute. You took out the supreme leader. They view us as the great Satan. So my fear is that it's going to kind of drag on and kind of continue to be a sore spot given the trajectory it's gone. And I think that the midnight hammer in 25 was effective. I think this time has been, you got to know, what are you trying to accomplish? What's the concrete objective? Are you going to do it? And then you should be able to say, we accomplished the objective. There was never really a concrete, Hegseth said one thing, Secretary of State said another, Vice President, they all said a little bit different when this was launched. And that's, I think, been part of the problem.”

Romney is vastly more popular than he realizes. Normal people understand that Romney was right about pretty much everything.

Exactly. The left abandoned the traditional conception of environmental stewardship and natural resource protection in favor of climate ideology. We have done the largest environmental restoration project — the Everglades — in US history. We are now doing some of the federal projects related to the effort on behalf of the Feds (we do it quicker in FL). Huge accomplishment for our state and the nation!

Bye, bye

Jon Ossoff sounding more and more like a Democrat nominee in waiting…

This is Gene Wu, the new Majority Leader of the Texas House of Representatives.

DDHQ: Rep. Jeff Hurd (R) wins re-election in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. 🟥Republican hold

Should be mentioned that DeSantis actually won young Republicans in 2024 against Trump in iowa. Obviously a fraction of the electorate but worth remembering

Another parting gift from Governor DeSantis for Florida. CAIR, the largest Islamist organization in America, is shutting down in Florida after being designated a terrorist organization. This is what banning Sharia Law actually looks like.

U.S. Senate candidate @AbdulElSayed (D-MI) to opponent Mike Rogers (R-MI): "Enjoy your retirement...you chose hate, and Michigan chose hope. May we never have to see the likes of you in this state again."

Nick Fuentes is the future of the GOP

EXCLUSIVE: A meeting Wednesday morning at the White House was aimed at aligning the admin on post-midterm messaging. But after the huddle, Vice President JD Vance sent out an X post breaking with Trump on foreign policy. Vance is seeking a new alliance with disaffected Trump voters after crushing midterm losses, a source told Fox News Digital. He is aiming messaging to the "new right," which includes changing the nature of America's relationship with Israel. Full story here foxnews.com/politics/vance-c…

🚨Just in: President Trump calls Greg Abbott a RINO “If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his political left, he wouldn’t have lost. He went back to his original formula and it wasn’t pretty!”