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Philip Melanchthon Wegmann @PhilipWegmannVice President JD Vance sent a letter to Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei to revive peace negotiations, scoops @natalieandrews, @alexbward, and @benoitfaucon.
Gerald Miguel LeRoy 🎃 @GeraldLeroy6@JakeLahut Prepare for random things you didn't want to know about electeds (but need to) and hockey
Josh Billinson @jbillinsonI wonder why they fired the campaign manager that thinks you can just Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy your way out of a story you gave to the New York Times
Kyle Clark @KyleClarkIs Rep Lauren Boebert changing her ways - and do voters notice? @JakeLahut from @NYMag looks at the unexpected close race for #CO4. (with the photo cameo by our political producer and my election night co-anchor @mallorygharris)
Fireball sommelier @Sheehan_SportsMASSIVE thank you to any and everyone that’s ever listened or watched. Love you all 💚 Here’s to seven more years but with more than just one bowl game episode 😀😀😀😀😀
Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohanNEW: [real] Dan Sullivan’s campaign spox Nate Adams tells @realDailyWire: “Alaskans deserve the truth. Mary Peltola, her campaign, and her senior advisors colluded with the DSCC, national Democrat lawyers, and Alaska Democrat operatives to recruit candidates to deliberately deceive and confuse voters, and then repeatedly lied about it.” “Not one player in this operation has acted in good faith with Alaska voters. Mary Peltola and her campaign have spent months gaslighting Alaskans, denying a scheme they were running all along. We always knew this was a concerted effort to deceive Alaskans, and Mary Peltola was hoping it would stay covered up until after the election.”
Ruth Serven Smith @RuthServenSmithOn air just now, Alabama talk radio host Jeff Poor says he’s seen internal polling with Rhett Marques down 4 points in AL-2. Says Marques is “underperforming,” Figures is a good retail politician and is capturing populist energy. “Where is Rhett Marques’ coalition?”
New York Magazine @NYMagOf the four House Republicans who pushed the Epstein vote over the line, Lauren Boebert is the last one standing ahead of the 2026 midterms. Now, she is fighting for her political life in a closer-than-expected reelection campaign under a cloud of controversies related to her personal life. First, her 21-year-old son was arrested in August on charges of sexual exploitation of a child. Then last month, a recurring critic, David Wheeler, accused Boebert in a House Ethics Committee complaint of having sexual relationships with male and female staffers. The allegation of multiple same-sex affairs only amplified the scandal. Boebert denied the claims, which also include allegations of hush-money payments, and in her interview with @JakeLahut, she swiped at the coverage. “Screw the media,” Boebert said. ‘“I don’t know if this was lazy or intentional, but this was announced by a man who has attacked me and my family for six years, who has been fact-checked by CNN, who has labeled photos of me that weren’t photos of me, who has said just horrendous things about me.” Caught between the wariness of Trumpworld and the gleeful animosity of Democrats, Boebert finds herself in a tough spot. It doesn’t help that she has a party-girl persona, bolstered by such incidents as her being kicked out of a regional-theater performance of ‘Beetlejuice’ in 2023 after aggressively fondling her date. A former Boebert staffer, who acknowledged she’s “kind of an adventure sometimes,” pointed to the congresswoman’s past behavior as a reason why Wheeler’s filing got outsize attention. “I think it’s complete bullshit,” the former staffer said. “But also, she hasn’t really put herself in a place to get the benefit of the doubt on stuff like this.” Read Lahut’s full report on Boebert’s last stand:
Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCCGreat to be back in Arkansas this morning where I will be joining @SenTomCotton @AGTimGriffin and law enforcement officials to announce an FCC action that will promote public safety.
New York Magazine @NYMagOf the four House Republicans who pushed the Epstein vote over the line, Lauren Boebert is the last one standing ahead of the 2026 midterms. President Donald Trump threatened to pull his endorsement of Boebert in a Truth Social post earlier this year, after she campaigned with Massie, but he didn’t follow through. “I don’t even know if the president wrote that,” Boebert tells @JakeLahut. Who did, Natalie Harp? “No, no. Natalie is a doll. Lots of people suggest lots of things,” she said. Read more:
