Savannah Chrisley posted a triumphant Instagram selfie with her fiancé, Jason Galanis, amid backlash over their romance.
The pregnant reality star, 29, shared the smiling outdoor snap on her Story Tuesday night, marking the first time she has shown the 56-year-old’s face on her social media account.
“My forever adventure partner,” she captioned the sunny shot, alongside a heart emoji.
The hard-launch came on the heels of Galanis being identified as the father of Chrisley’s first child.
The “Growing Up Chrisley” alum kept her partner’s identity private and his face hidden from the camera when she revealed Tuesday morning that she is engaged and starting a family — but did drop clues.
She shared Galanis’ first name at the time, also telling “Unlocked” podcast listeners they had a “huge” age gap and met “in the world of politics.”
Chrisley fiercely defended the age difference, insisting he “does not look his age, nor does he act his age” with his “great” body and “sharp” mind.
She went on to write via Instagram that her fiancé has been her “safe place” and “protector” during her pregnancy.
Hours later, Galanis’ identity made headlines.
The convicted fraudster, once dubbed “Porn’s New King,” was in prison with Savannah’s dad, Todd Chrisley, at Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola, Florida.
Todd, 57, was serving time for conspiring to defraud banks and evade federal taxes, while Galanis had been found guilty of defrauding a Native American tribe and investors out of tens of millions of dollars.
The latter was sentenced to more than 14 years behind bars and ordered to forfeit about $80 million in proceeds and pay an equal amount in restitution.
The men were both pardoned by President Donald Trump last year.
Savannah, who became involved in criminal justice reform advocacy after her dad and mom Julie Chrisley’s releases, has not specified how she and Galanis first crossed paths.
The couple has been together since 2025, with Galanis proposing that December during a Cayman Islands vacation.
They are expecting to welcome their child in January and tie the knot in May.

Texas’ Senate candidates rally at dueling events just a few miles apart. No clear winner in Israeli election but Netanyahu looks far from defeated. And a new CDC report warns of rising threat of drug-resistant germs.
Here’s what to know today.
James Talarico faces off against Trump in dueling Texas rallies
In reliably red Lubbock, Texas, people waited for hours in lines that stretched for blocks to see Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. Less than three miles away, a similar scene unfolded for President Donald Trump, as he sought to boost the Republican Senate candidate, state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Yesterday’s dueling rallies in the city, which has a population of less than 300,000, underscored the high stakes in a Senate race that could see the Republican Party lose its grip on Texas.
At Talarico’s rally, Democrats panned the economy, high gas prices and closures of rural hospitals. The Senate candidate called Paxton corrupt and sought to tie him to Elon Musk, who has significant business interests in the state.
For Trump and Paxton, the stop in Lubbock was their second of the day, having held an earlier rally in Corpus Christi. At the evening event, Trump cast Talarico as a Second Amendment-hating, meat-loathing extremist out of touch with everyday Texans. Paxton leaned on Trump’s support, calling him “the greatest president of my lifetime.”
And in a potential sign that Republicans were looking to attract more voters, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has generally held higher approval ratings than others in the administration, was given a speaking part.
Here’s what else happened at the rallies.
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Israel’s election has no clear winner — but Netanyahu looks far from defeated again
When Israelis awoke on Wednesday, it seemed that their future had taken another twist overnight: Results that had looked like a narrow loss for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they went to bed now pointed to a narrow lead by dawn.
There is still no obvious winner, with uncertainty set to follow the country’s first election since the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
The votes are still being counted, and Israel’s Central Elections Commission said final results likely won’t be known until tomorrow. But the preliminary tallies from this pivotal contest still point to one clear outcome: Netanyahu suffered significant losses but he didn’t really lose.
Still, the Israeli public dealt Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister for nearly 20 of the past 30 years, a notable electoral setback.
With more than 84% of the votes counted, Netanyahu’s coalition, the most right-wing in Israeli history, would be diminished from 64 members to only 54, short of the 61-seat threshold needed to form a government.
He appears to have eked out a slight advantage over the bloc led by his main rival, former military chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, in contrast to the initial projection from exit polls on Tuesday night.
Each leader claimed to have received a mandate from voters but stopped short of claiming victory.
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Interest rates expected to hold steady ahead of midterms
The Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates unchanged today despite climbing inflation. With less than a week to go until Election Day, economic experts expect the Fed to keep its tradition of staying far away from politics, especially as rising prices are set to play a key role in the polls.
The Fed last month raised rates by a quarter of a percentage point. Inflation figures for September, released this month, show the annual rate rose to 3.7% from 3.4% the previous month, which some experts feel is reason enough to hike rates. But there’s also a sense among top officials that the central bank shouldn’t rush into interest rate decisions.
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CDC warns of rising threat of drug-resistant germs
A new CDC report sheds light on what the agency calls one of the nation’s most urgent public health threats: infections resistant to existing treatments, which kill more than 50,000 people in the U.S. each year.
The new report — the first comprehensive assessment of these pathogens in seven years — estimated that 19 drug-resistant germs cause 9.7 million infections annually in the U.S. Of them, four were ranked as the most worrisome, including the bacteria that causes gonorrhea, which has become resistant to all but one class of antibiotics used to treat it.
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During visiting hours, we met with a man who offered a first-hand account of what life was like inside. He spoke about some physical hardships but mostly about his mental-health struggles. Being held in a facility so far away from legal representation and his loved ones, he said, made him feel alone and forgotten.
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“The money New Labour had in the 90s is simply not there now… Britain has it harder now,” Chancellor John Healey said last month.
And from Andy Burnham, days before he became prime minister: “This change… is the most significant change moment in our politics for 40 years.”
As Helen Miller, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), puts it: “We have a relatively new government with seemingly big ambitions but facing a long list of constraints.
“Some of those constraints… are self imposed, others are being worsened by global events, most noticeably war in the Middle East.”
Let’s be clear, plenty in Westminster in all parties will say that the amount of money around isn’t everything – how well taxpayers’ money is spent and where it is spent matters too.
But in the bones of many in the Labour Party is an instinct that the government, the state, can and should be a vital agent in driving change and improvements in people’s lives – a world-view grounded in a sense that governments should proudly step in, rather than one that believes they should get out of the way.
And how do you deliver a proudly proactive state, delivering for people in a noticeable way, when the tax burden is generationally high, the national debt is sky high, energy bills are rising and inflation is higher than expected?
Many are expecting support on the cost of living, and in particular energy bills, to be targeted at the most vulnerable. On the eve of the Budget, Healey said he wants to “start the long-term action needed to get energy costs down for good”.
There will be an announcement about further spending on defence, but not yet how spending 3% of national income on our security will be delivered by 2030 – that will come in next year’s Spending Review.
And one of the prime minister’s key ideas – handing power away from Westminster and closer to you, devolution – will be central too.
There will be, the chancellor told BBC Newscast, a “really radical devolution of powers and resources to local leaders that are often better placed to get beyond the departmental systems.”
But some at Westminster fret extra money for mayors and others in local government are not yet accompanied by adequate checks and balances to ensure that money is well spent.
The chancellor will argue the economy is becoming more robust – and yes, there are some economic indicators that are more positive than forecast: growth is better than expected, as is productivity and unemployment is down.
But as the Resolution Foundation think tank points out: “John Healey’s problem is that conflict in the Middle East has once again pushed up energy prices and interest rates.
“So, despite the signs that the UK economy is becoming more resilient, household and public finances are in for another shock.”
In essence, we can expect a smaller Budget this time, compared to some in recent years, when it comes to the scale of tax and spending changes.
The chancellor has been talking up a desire to offer “breathing space” and “hope” – a tacit acknowledgement that there is a limit to what the government can do given the constraints it faces.
It has promised not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT, a self imposed constraint, as the IFS put it. And there are the international ones beyond its control too.
The big question for many will be whether the Budget is – or can be – big enough to meet the moment? Opposition parties will argue it amounts to tinkering.
Conservative shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith argued the public finances are “on a cliff edge” and wants Healey to use the Budget to “take tough decisions, instead of continuing to kick the can down the road”.
For the Liberal Democrats, Daisy Cooper warned a “steady as she goes” Budget is “not going to cut it”, while Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick said the chancellor “can’t keep fiddling while the economy burns”.

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President Trump floats making Venezuela the 51st state during Texas rally: ‘You like that?’
President Donald Trump floated the possibility of making Venezuela the 51st U.S. state Tuesday, joking that the oil-rich South American nation could eventually elect a governor instead of a president.
“And who knows, maybe someday soon it will become a prosperous 51st state. That’s possible. Let’s make it. Let’s make it the 51st state,” Trump told supporters at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas while campaigning for Republican candidates there.
“And instead of a president, we’ll have an election for a governor. How about that?” he added.
Trump made the remarks while celebrating what he described as a historic American victory in Venezuela and hailing the country’s vast oil reserves.
The president also pointed to a tanker carrying 1 million barrels of Venezuelan oil near the port, saying the shipment was being provided to the United States at no cost to taxpayers.
Trump returned to the idea moments later, asking oil executive Harold Hamm, “Now let’s make it, Harold, the 51st state. You like that?”
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‘She was special’: Jocelyn Nungaray’s mother delivers heartbreaking tribute at Texas Trump rally
The mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was brutally murdered in Houston in 2024, delivered an emotional tribute to her daughter Tuesday after President Donald Trump invited her onstage during his Corpus Christi rally.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank President Trump for keeping my daughter Jocelyn Nungaray’s name alive, keeping and sharing her story, and proving that her death was not just a number. She was important and she was special,” Alexis Nungaray told the crowd.
Alexis described a little girl whose life was stolen before she could realize her dreams.
“She was a 12 year old girl who had her entire life ahead of her with dreams beyond her wildest imaginations,” she said.
“No parent should ever have to go through the grief that I’m going through and learn how to live life differently without your child.”
Alexis thanked Americans for remembering Jocelyn and credited her faith in Jesus Christ with giving her the strength to share her daughter’s story.
Trump, who has repeatedly shared the story of Jocelyn’s murder while advocating tougher immigration enforcement, embraced her mother’s message.
“I promised Alexis that I would deliver justice for Jocelyn,” Trump said, pointing to his administration’s crackdown on Tren de Aragua and the naming of a national wildlife refuge in Jocelyn’s honor.
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Nearly 1.4 million Michigan voters cast ballots with one week until midterms
Nearly 1.4 million Michigan voters have already cast their ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, representing 18.8% of the state’s active registered voters, according to the Michigan Department of State.
As of Tuesday morning, 1,392,170 ballots had been cast, including 1,176,375 absentee ballots and 215,795 votes at early in-person voting sites.
“Michigan voters are showing enthusiasm for early in-person voting, making the first weekend a great success,” Deputy Secretary of State Aghogho Edevbie said.
The state also reported more than 2.15 million absentee ballot requests, up from approximately 1.9 million at the same point before the 2022 midterms.
Michigan’s early in-person voting period continues through Nov. 1, with Election Day set for Nov. 3.
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Ilhan Omar’s radical streamer ally rallies with embattled lawmaker after DC home raid
Far-left streamer Hasan Piker dodged his controversial past in an exchange with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, hours after teaming up with embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on the campaign trail to co-host an event in her home state of Minnesota.
He also dismissed his disagreements with Democratic Party leaders after he called Republicans “terrorists” and Omar said the GOP is the “pedophile protection party” during the stream on Monday.
Omar’s decision to embrace Piker on the campaign trail marks a potentially risky political alliance, coming on the back of a high-profile raid on her Washington, D.C., home amid two dueling investigations — one for alleged immigration fraud, which could threaten her political future and citizenship status, and the other for fishy financial disclosure statement discrepancies.
The lawmaker’s appearance with Piker comes after Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed drew backlash from his own party for campaigning with the controversial Twitch streamer earlier this cycle.
Fox News Digital confronted Piker at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport heading out of Minnesota after the Monday livestream. He was pressed on the criticism stemming from Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., after the two condemned Piker’s comments and pushed back on Democrats’ choice to engage with him on the campaign trail.
“Well, Angie Craig lost, and I think Klobuchar is going to make for a great governor,” Piker told Fox News Digital while walking to security.
Klobuchar condemned Piker’s past statements as “reckless and unacceptable,” while Craig called his rhetoric “polarizing and dangerous” and directly called out Minnesota Democrats, like Omar and Fateh, for hosting Monday’s event with Piker as a “mistake.”
When asked if the two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota were right to call out the rhetoric, Piker wrote off their disagreements as “the beauty of democracy,” while also throwing jabs at Fox News.
“I know this is probably going to come across as confusing, because you work for Fox News, but we sometimes disagree with our leadership in the Democratic Party,” he said. “And sometimes our leadership disagrees with us.”
This is an excerpt of an article by Fox News Digital’s Hannah Brennan.
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New poll finds El-Sayed holds 6-point lead over Rogers in Michigan Senate race
Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed leads Republican Mike Rogers by roughly six points in Michigan, according to a new WDIV/Detroit News poll released Tuesday, just one week before Election Day.
The survey found El-Sayed ahead 51.4% to 45.1%, with 3.6% of likely voters undecided.
The poll also found El-Sayed with a 42.2% favorable rating compared to Rogers’ 32.2%.
The Glengariff Group surveyed 600 likely Michigan voters from Oct. 19 to Oct. 22.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
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Vance: if Paris protests happened in US, El-Sayed, Hasan Piker would cheer the rioters on
Vice President JD Vance suggested Tuesday that Michigan Democratic senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and far-left streamer Hasan Piker would be cheering on rioters if protests similar to the ones recently seen in France made their way to American soil.
“My friends, the scene of destruction in Paris may be an ocean away, but ask yourselves, are they really so hard to imagine here in the United States of America?” Vance told a crowd during a midterm rally in Howell, Mich.
“And I guarantee you, if those rioters were burning down New York or Detroit, the Hasan Pikers and the El-Sayeds would be right there leading them and cheering them on,” Vance added.
“Because what we saw in France, the hatred, the ingratitude, the desire to destroy rather than the desire to build. That exact same cancer is what has corrupted Abdul El-Sayed writ large. It is absolutely the sort of thing that has taken over the man’s soul,” the vice president continued.
“And I believe that the state of Michigan refuses to turn over its Senate seat to a man who would tear down this state and tear down this country,” Vance later said. “Next Tuesday, Michigan is going to remind the entire country exactly who it is. It loves the United States of America, and it’s going to send Mike Rogers to fight for it in the Senate.”
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Vance says Michigan is the ‘most important election’ in the US next week
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that “Michigan is the most important election in the United States of America in a week, because, more than any other state, it highlights the clash of competing visions that the far left has decided to run with against common sense American values.”
Vance made the remark during a rally in Howell, where he declared that Michigan “is going to elect Mike Rogers to the United States Senate.”
Vance said Rogers will “make a great fighter for the people of Michigan.”
“Now, did you all see the interview that Mike did with Kristen Welker of fake NBC News? What you saw in that interview is the reason why Mike Rogers is going to make a great United States senator,” Vance continued. “He didn’t lose his cool. I would have. He didn’t get angry. He sat there and he calmly and carefully explained why Abdul El-Sayed is a crazy person that should never be in the seat of power.”
“You know, one of the important jobs of the United States senator, because you spend your life around a bunch of politicians, is that you have to be able to calmly and carefully deal with bulls— ladies and gentlemen. And that’s exactly what Mike showed he was able to do,” Vance also said.
He described “the battle for your Senate seat [as] a proxy fight over whether America can be truly sovereign, if it belongs to men who feel contempt and disdain and hatred for the United States of America.”
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Former rival dodges full-throated El-Sayed endorsement after bitter Senate primary
Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., repeatedly stopped short of saying she was “fully behind” Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed when pressed on national television Sunday, months after he narrowly defeated her in a bitter primary and just days before the midterm elections.
CNN’s Dana Bash first pressed Stevens on why she has yet to campaign alongside El-Sayed despite endorsing him after the primary. Stevens responded by pointing to her work campaigning for Democratic House candidates across Michigan.
But when Bash later asked directly whether she was “still fully behind” El-Sayed, Stevens again stopped short of saying yes.
“Look, I’m on the Democratic ticket,” Stevens said. “I can’t say that I agree with everything that’s gone on.”
Stevens instead highlighted her support for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson and House candidates, but not El-Sayed.
Bash pointed out that she had not mentioned him.
“Well, look, I would just say you asked me if I’m still on the team,” Stevens responded. “I’m on the team.”
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Carville advises Democrats cater to one key demographic for 2028 nominee
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville advised Democrats on Sunday that they need to pay attention to what Black southerners want when picking a nominee for 2028, warning they are not a very socially liberal demographic.
Political strategist Mark McKinnon spoke to Carville on the most recent episode of the “Politics War Room” podcast, noting the 2028 Democratic presidential primary will begin in South Carolina. When he asked Carville what impact that might have, the Democratic strategist offered one key piece of advice for the party.
“The key, single most important voting demographic in selecting a Democratic nominee is, was, and should continue to be southern Blacks,” Carville said. “There’s no more loyal constituency in the party. And by the way, just so people understand this, they’re not that liberal, OK?”
“And what they want and what we’re going to find out, and there’s an expression, is, ‘I don’t want someone that’s talk the talk. I want somebody that’s walk the walk.’ And when you go to South Carolina and make a pitch — advice from James Carville — talk about things you’ve done,” Carville continued.
He then parodied recent Democratic Party rhetoric, saying, “Don’t say, ‘I am a great friend of people of color.’ That’s the stupidest f—ing expression I ever heard.”
He advised that if a politician can actually show they have provided opportunities for Black Americans, then they will have actual credibility. Meanwhile, ideologically far-left intellectuals, he warned, would steer the party in an unwise direction, warning, “But don’t ever take power of nomination away from southern Blacks. ‘Cause if you give it to overly educated people, overly educated people f— everything up.”
“As long as that’s there,” he said of Black southerners being the core guidance of the Democrats’ 2028 nominee pick, “we’re going to have a pretty good nomination.”
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Obama cozies up to Dem Party’s socialist wing as former president makes surprising midterm moves
Former President Barack Obama is increasingly throwing his political weight behind socialist and socialist-aligned Democrats as the party’s left wing gains ground ahead of the midterm elections.
Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates have scored several notable primary victories this year, adding to signs of the left wing’s growing influence in Democratic politics ahead of November’s midterms. While Obama is not backing every socialist candidate, his recent endorsements and campaign appearances show he is willing to bring some of the party’s most progressive figures into the Democratic coalition.
“President Obama remains the most popular figure in Democratic politics and a kingmaker whose support candidates actively seek,” Democratic strategist Kevin Walling told Fox News Digital of the president who left office nearly a decade ago. “He understands that a Democrat who can win in New York City and a Democrat who can win in Michigan and Ohio have different politics, and the ability to bring those people into the same coalition is exactly what makes him so valuable.”
Obama’s embrace of the party’s progressive wing was on display Saturday in Michigan, where he campaigned alongside Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, while also lending his support to Florida Senate nominee Angie Nixon in a campaign video.
While El-Sayed does not identify as a democratic socialist or a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, he has embraced progressive policies, including Medicare for All, that have become central to the party’s left wing.
During the Michigan rally, Obama invoked healthcare to defend Democrats against accusations that the party has moved too far to the left.
“What is so radical about wanting everybody to have health care?” Obama asked, as he promoted El-Sayed’s pledge to expand access to affordable coverage.
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Dems hold 8-point generic-ballot lead in new poll, but some groups not enthusiastic
A new poll released Tuesday shows Democrats are holding an 8-point advantage over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot.
The NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll of 1,289 registered voters was conducted from Oct. 19 to Oct. 20, October 19th through October 20th, with a likely voter weight “applied to registered voters based on each respondent’s estimated probability of voting in the November 2026 election,” according to its methodology.
The poll found that 52% of likely voters support Democrats on a generic congressional ballot, compared to 44% for Republicans.
However, NPR reported that some “key pillar groups” for the Democrats are not very enthusiastic to vote on Election Day.
The poll found that only 42% of likely voters under 45, 53% of non-white voters and 56% of white women with college degrees, all groups who disapprove of the job President Donald Trump is doing, are “very enthusiastic” to vote.
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Trump says Ken Paxton is best attorney general ‘in the history of the state of Texas’
President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that Ken Paxton is “the best attorney general in the history of the state of Texas.”
Trump made the comment as he is heading to a midterms rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, later this afternoon.
“So we’re going to Texas campaigning for Ken Paxton, who is the best, according to just about everybody, the best attorney general in the history of the state of Texas,” Trump said. “That’s a big statement, but that’s a true statement. And he’s one of the best in the country. He deserves to win this race.”
“Ken Paxton deserves to be the next senator. The other guy, he does not stand for Texas values,” Trump added, referring to Democrat James Talarico. “Nothing. Nothing from get rid of the oil, get rid of the guns and get rid of the meat. Between the three things, it’s ridiculous.”
“A midterm is usually not that exciting,” Trump also said, previewing his event. “This has become very exciting. And the crowds are incredible.”
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Schumer, Dems are quietly betting big on one sleeper race in the Deep South
National Democrats are getting aggressive in the homestretch of this election cycle, sending money and party figureheads to a state that, for decades, has been out of reach.
Mississippi has been a Republican stronghold for the GOP in the Senate since the 1980s, but in a political environment that is proving tough for incumbents of the party in power, Democrats appear to smell blood in the water.
But Republicans aren’t buying the last-minute play in the Deep South, arguing that it’s a reach, at best, to make the race competitive.
“Largely, I think they’re just throwing s— at the wall at this point,” a GOP political operative told Fox News Digital.
The Senate Majority PAC, a political action committee with close ties to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reserved $1.2 million in advertising in the state to boost Scott Colom, a district attorney mounting a bid against Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
And major figures in the Democratic Party, like former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, have also made the trip or are set to appear in the state — Buttigieg is scheduled to hold a rally on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday.
Jake Monssen, Hyde-Smith’s campaign manager, told Fox News Digital in a statement that “This is simply Washington insiders making a last-ditch effort to give life to Scott Colom’s failing campaign.”
“Scott is bankrolled by the radical left because he is in lockstep with their agenda,” Monssen said. “He supports tax increases, open borders, taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants, and sex change surgeries for minors.”
Like in other races across the Senate map, Colom has a fight with history to contend with. Mississippi has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982, and the Magnolia State has consistently supported President Donald Trump.
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Oregon’s Tina Kotek talks ‘big game’ but is a ‘failed governor,’ Drazan says
Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan told “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday that incumbent Democrat Gov. Tina Kotek has “absolutely failed to deliver” for the people of her state.
“It is razor thin margins right now. And this race is going to come down to who wants this win more,” Drazan said. “We need people in my home state of Oregon to turn out and vote if we want change, which we desperately need.”
When asked about a CNBC ranking of Oregon as #42 in America’s top states for business, Drazan said her opponent is “talking kind of a big game right now since it’s election season.
“But the reality is, in the four years that she’s been governor, that business ranking you just mentioned, when she started, we were a top 20 business environment state. In the four years since she’s been there, she has dropped kicked us to the bottom eight,” Drazan continued.
“When it comes to our schools, she’s made no progress since Covid. She was speaker of the House and voted to keep our schools closed longer than any other state in the nation, and our kids have not recovered,” she also said.
“We are now at a point in our state where we’ve got homelessness numbers that have gone up. We’ve got an economy that’s on the decline, we’ve got kids that are suffering in our schools. You couldn’t pick an issue set that where she has actually succeeded in delivering results for the people of this state across any issue that Oregonians care about right now, including affordability,” Drazan told “America’s Newsroom.”
“So we have a failed governor in the state of Oregon who just has absolutely failed to deliver for the people of this state. And that’s what this election is about,” she concluded. “It’s about a bigger vision for the future. It’s about optimism. It’s about opportunity and affordability.”
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Vance says Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed has a ‘lot of weird friends’
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed “certainly has a lot of weird friends.”
Vance made the remark after being asked by a reporter if he believes El-Sayed is “a jihadist like the president said.”
“He’s said a lot of crazy stuff. And he’s identified himself with a segment of the Democratic Party, which, by the way, I don’t think represents most Democrats in the country, but unfortunately, it represents a lot of elected Democrats who seem to align with people who justify violence against the United States of America,” Vance added. “I don’t know what’s in the guy’s heart. I just know he has a lot of weird friends.”
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New York has ‘crisis of confidence’ in Letitia James as Cornell case hearing looms, opponent says
Republican New York attorney general candidate Saritha Komatireddy told “Fox & Friends First” on Tuesday that incumbent Democrat Letitia James’ office is grappling with a “crisis of confidence” as a hearing is set for her removal from the Cornell 7 case.
Attorney Andrew Miltenberg, who represents Cornell student Gillio Lopes, previously argued to Fox News that the case has become a “cultural battleground” and that James’ public statements supporting the accuser compromised her ability to conduct an impartial investigation as a special prosecutor.
You have to have a system and a prosecutor who inspires confidence in the process of investigating and prosecuting a case if prosecution is warranted,” Komatireddy said. “And what we have right now is no confidence, because Tish James has already prejudged the case.
“We have an attorney general here in New York who’s actually never prosecuted a criminal case in her entire career,” she continued. “And a few days ago we found out that her office is frantically looking for outside counsel, someone else to pay to handle the case for her, because she hasn’t even staffed her office in a way that there is anyone prepared to investigate and prosecute this case.
“So we have a crisis of confidence in the attorney general’s office right now and it’s an issue that’s certainly specific to this case, but it’s broader to this case,” Komatireddy also said. “And I think about how much attention is being paid to this particular case because of the publicity involved with it. There are so many crime victims across New York and they’re dealing with an incompetent attorney general’s office. It’s a problem.”
Fox News Digital’s Madison Colombo contributed to this post.
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Rogers fields questions while campaigning at Michigan diner, warning against electing El-Sayed
GOP Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers claimed Tuesday morning during an appearance on “FOX & Friends” that his Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed “wants to represent Palestine,” while he wants to represent the state.
“I mean, we cannot afford Abdul El-Sayed’s policies and we can’t risk his ideology,” Rogers said.
Rogers, a former House lawmaker backed by President Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate contest, fielded questions from people at a diner in Romeo, Michigan.
One person asked about the potential “of us getting some help on the gas tax in this state.”
Rogers explained that he has advocated for a “gas tax holiday until” the conclusion of the “Iran conflict.” He has previously called for suspending the state and federal gas taxes.
Another person asked Rogers if he would support a data center moratorium.
Rogers said that he has “called for a moratorium. Make sure it stays local control. I don’t think they should take that to the state. I think that would be a mistake.”
He also called for “every dollar” in tax revenue resulting from a data center in a local community that allows such a facility to be utilized to “defray their property tax in the community” where the data center is located.
El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s comment request on Tuesday.
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Marking 3 years as House speaker, Johnson credits ‘extraordinary success’ to ‘team effort’
As the GOP tries to cling to the House majority during the 2026 midterm elections, Speaker Mike Johnson, who recently surpassed three-years of wielding the speaker’s gavel, said that “extraordinary success” had been accomplished via a “team effort.”
“It has been my highest honor to serve these past three years as the 56th Speaker. Our extraordinary success has been achieved through a total TEAM effort, and I’m grateful for the hard work and faithful support of so many trusted friends,” Johnson stated in the post on X.
“We look forward to delivering even more in the days ahead,” he added.
Johnson became House speaker on Oct. 25, 2023.
Multiple GOP lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital earlier this month said they anticipated Johnson would step aside if Republicans lost the House. If they win, however, Johnson is all but assured of keeping his job — and with Trump’s blessing.
Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report
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Trump won this reliably red state by double digits. Now a deadlocked race is bringing him back
LUBBOCK, Texas — President Donald Trump is heading back to Texas in the final stretch of the midterm campaign in an attempt to rally Republican voters in a too-close-for-comfort Senate race.
Trump will campaign in Corpus Christi on Tuesday morning before heading to Lubbock, deep in West Texas, alongside Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton.
The two-stop visit comes exactly one week before Election Day and with early voting already underway. And Republicans are confronting an unusually competitive Senate contest in a longtime red-stronghold state that Trump carried by nearly 14 percentage points just two years ago.
A new Fox News poll shows the closely-watched race against Democrat State Rep. James Talarico in a deadlock.
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The Federal Reserve is set to announce its latest interest rate decision on Wednesday with the midterm elections less than a week away.
Policymakers at the Fed say they avoid letting politics influence their monetary policy moves, and can be hesitant to hike or cut interest rates at meetings that occur ahead of the election.
Inflation has remained stubbornly high and the September consumer price index (CPI) data showed inflation rose faster than expected, with headline CPI rising 0.6% on a monthly basis and 3.7% from a year ago. The latter figure is well above the central bank’s 2% inflation target.
Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, told FOX Business in an interview that while the September inflation data was hotter than expected and raised the prospects of an October rate hike, the Fed is likely to wait to “hike again in December.”
CONSUMER INFLATION ROSE FASTER THAN EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER, CPI REPORT SHOWS
“This hotter than expected inflation data did increase the chance of an October rate hike, but it’s a very high bar to increase in October, they would do it within a week of the election. I know they like to say that they’re not political, but it’s a high bar for October,” she explained.
“Right now, this data indicates that the Fed needs to act again, but it’s not a five-alarm fire. They don’t have to act immediately, they could wait until December.”
“The reality is, gas prices have come down a little bit since the September highs, so we would expect the October data – you know, it won’t be great, but it could be a little bit cooler than what we’re seeing today. And the Fed has a reasonable case to say, we’re probably still gonna hike, but let’s wait a few more weeks and see just how broad-based this problem really is,” Long said.
FEDERAL RESERVE HIKES INTEREST RATES FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2023 AMID STUBBORN INFLATION
The market expects the Fed to hold rates steady this week, with the CME FedWatch tool showing a 90.6% probability of rates remaining at their current target range of 3.75% to 4% – up from 84.5% a week ago and 35.8% last month.
For the Fed’s meeting in mid-December, the tool shows a 75.1% probability of a 25-basis-point interest rate hike, which could mark the resumption of the rate-hiking cycle if inflation remains elevated.
WHY THE FED ISN’T READY TO DECLARE VICTORY ON INFLATION
“The Federal Reserve will definitely hike interest rates again, probably in December,” Long said. “The big question is how many more times do they have to hike after that? And what was scary in this latest inflation data for September is to see so many areas of hot inflation: to see used car prices, airfares, recreation costs, auto repair costs, buying a used car, medical costs.”
“The story really is starting to take shape that it’s probably going to take a couple more hikes in 2027, and this higher-for-longer borrowing costs and mortgage rates well above 7% is going to stick around for at least a year, maybe longer,” Long said.
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The CME FedWatch tool shows the market is anticipating multiple rate hikes by March, with a 46.5% chance that rates will be 50 basis points higher than they are now at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%.