Inside Politics

It's a beef over the Cheesecake Factory. The Inside Panel digs into the viral Obama-Trump fight.

More than 32 million Americans have already voted — including 4.5 million in Texas alone. @DanaBashCNN walks through what the latest early voting numbers tell us about voter enthusiasm.

PA Gov. Josh Shapiro tells @DanaBashCNN why he shifted his position on data centers: "I took the time to travel across the commonwealth... I came back to Harrisburg after listening all across Pennsylvania, wrote the strictest guardrails in the nation."

CNN's @IsaacDovere sat down with Kamala Harris and asked her about her thinking about 2028. "What she said is a lot of people are running just to look in the mirror. We need people who are going to look at the American people and what they want."

Democrat @ZachDemboKY's effort to flip a Trump-won district is being supported by a PAC funded by billionaire Reid Hoffman. But Dembo tells @DanaBashCNN: "I'm the only person saying none of these super PACs should exist... I don't know the guy. I've never talked to him."

.@DashaBurns on President Trump's closing midterm message: "Part of what he's doing... is trying to incite that anger that fueled him the first time around because anger is actually what's helping Democrats right now."

With just 9 days to go until the midterms, is early voting data signaling an edge for Democrats? @mkraju and @bresreports discuss the numbers in key battleground states. #InsidePolitics

"You have to assume... Republicans are going to try to come up with any diabolical scheme to prevent November 3rd from being a free and fair election," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells @mkraju, on the trail in California. #InsidePolitics

Israel goes to the polls this Tuesday. Is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in danger of losing his job? @OrenCNN joins @mkraju from Jerusalem. #InsidePolitics

SUNDAY 8a & 11a ET: @mkraju goes one-on-one with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, on the trail in California. #InsidePolitic

SUNDAY 8a & 11a ET: Presidents Obama and Trump hold dueling midterms rallies... Democrats reach into Mississippi & South Carolina... @mkraju interviews Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who could become the next House speaker. @bresreports, @alaynatreene & @daveweigel join #InsidePolitics

Republicans hoped to pick up at least a dozen seats with mid-decade redistricting. But those efforts may not pay off much at all. Cook Political Report's @ercovey tells @DanaBashCNN: "They're not performing as well as they'd hoped because the environment is so bad."

.@KristenhCNN on President Trump standing by Vivek Ramaswamy's incendiary ad against Amy Acton: "He wants the candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, to win and he wants this ad out there."

Latino voters who shifted toward Trump in 2024 could now be key to helping Democrats win back the House and Senate. @MariaTCardona warns, "I have always told my party: they are not part of our base. They have always been some of the swingiest voters that there are."

With voters turning on President Trump and Republicans, Arkansas GOP @RepFrenchHill is facing one of the first competitive reelection campaigns of his career. He tells @DanaBashCNN, "when I disagree with the president, I speak up."

CNN's @FoxReports tells @DanaBashCNN how Ohio voters are reacting to the incendiary attack ad against Amy Acton: "They simply sometimes just want to turn the channel when they see it because they do know this backstory."

.@JasJWright on the "risky bet" Ramaswamy is making on an incendiary ad that features Amy Acton's estranged mother: "Vivek and his campaign are basically betting on the idea that a Republican voter in Ohio is going to see this ad and then do no additional research."

.@DanaBashCNN runs through some of the biggest warning signs for Republicans in the brand-new CNN poll.

Democrats' top Senate PAC just decided to put more than a million dollars into the Mississippi Senate race.

Republicans have a spending advantage in nearly every battleground Senate race. CNN's David Chalian tells @DanaBashCNN, "money does not always solve" the environment or candidate quality but, "in these tight races you'd rather be the one with the money advantage."