Top Senate Democratic Super Pac pours millions more in Michigan and Maine races
The top Super Pac for Senate Democrats will pour more than $7m into two marquee races this cycle: Michigan and Maine.
The Senate Majority Pac has reserved $3.7m for its campaign in Michigan, to support the Democratic nominee , Dr Abdul El-Sayed, against the Trump-backed Republican, Mike Rogers. The group is also investing $3m in Maine, to boost Democrat Troy Jackson’s chances against Susan Collins – the five-term moderate GOP incumbent, who Democrats see as increasingly vulnerable in a cycle where anti-Trump sentiment has colored much of the election.
This comes after reports that the Senate Majority Pac has also paused ad spending in North Carolina and Georgia. Semafor was first to report on the updated spend.
Key events
A Trump administration raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home this week is part of an investigation intended to build a case to strip her of her US citizenship and deport her, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US officials and other people familiar with the probe.
During his second term, Donald Trump’s administration has aggressively pursued work to denaturalize US citizens. Since returning to office, the president’s administration has filed more than 200 lawsuits against people it is seeking to denaturalize. Previously, the government filed denaturalization cases fewer than a dozen times a year, the Journal reports, citing the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Kamala Harris says ‘I haven’t decided’ about 2028 presidential run
Kamala Harris said she has not decided whether she will run for president in 2028, the former vice-president told Keke Palmer during an interview on the actor’s podcast Tuesday.
At the end of the interview – which covered the midterm elections, the Trump administration and Black voters – Palmer asked whether Harris was considering a 2028 presidential run.
“I haven’t decided. I haven’t decided yet. I will, I promise,” Harris said.
JD Vance offered his best wishes to Pope Leo, following the news that the pontiff is recovering from lung cancer surgery.
“Our family continues to pray for the good health and full recovery of Pope Leo XIV. May God grant him strength as he works to get better. I hope he knows that millions of American Christians are thinking about him,” Vance wrote in a social media post.
The Catholic vice-president and the pope have not always seen eye-to-eye. In April, Vance effectively told Leo to stay in his lane after the head of the Catholic church criticized the White House over the Iran war.
Anthropic will add official US voting information to its Claude chatbot this month, the AI company said. It will source the information from the nonpartisan non-profit Democracy Works.
Claude will also show live results on election night, Anthrophic said.
Federal authorities investigating the Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar seized the Democratic lawmaker’s phone and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her relatives, according to a person briefed on the inquiry.
The subpoenas were issued for a grand jury collecting evidence in Minnesota as federal authorities probe potential fraud in Omar’s immigration paperwork, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation. The investigation led to federal agents searching Omar’s Washington DC home on Monday just weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar is seeking re-election.
The scope of the investigation into Omar is unclear, though the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, has suggested that authorities were examining potential crimes related to her family’s immigration paperwork.
Zelenskyy says he feels ‘betrayed’ by Trump over Starlink access
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he feels personally betrayed by Donald Trump after it emerged that Ukraine’s military has had its access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite squeezed, raising doubts about long-term US support for Kyiv.
The Ukrainian president, on a visit to London, accused Trump of picking the other side after more than four years of war, risking a breakdown in relations already strained by the US agreeing to buy diesel from Moscow.
Ahead of a meeting with the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, in 10 Downing Street, Zelenskyy appeared in a TV interview where he was asked whether the sudden restriction of Starlink was deliberate and if he felt betrayed by Trump.
“Really, yes … but it’s a little bit more complicated than just my emotions or my feelings,” the Ukrainian president replied, adding: “It’s a pity that we are losing, we are losing a strong partner.”
Here’s the full story from my colleagues Dan Sabbagh, Jessica Elgot and Andrew Roth:
After a tight one-hour-and-40-minute set, Donald Trump has wrapped up his remarks to supporters in Arizona. He is en route to Montana where he will speak again this evening.
Robert Mackey
In his ongoing remarks in Arizona, which have now blown past the 90-minute mark, Donald Trump claimed that Democrats had refused to stand for a 104-year-old veteran awarded the Medal of Honor during his State of the Union address in February. Here is video of Democrats standing and applauding at that moment.
Trump was misremembering a stunt at another point in the same speech, when he said: “I’m inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”
When Democratic lawmakers did not stand, Trump scolded them: “You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up.”
Andy Biggs briefly joined Donald Trump on stage near the end of the president’s hour-and-20-minute address.
“Vote Republican top to bottom. Let’s turn Arizona red,” Biggs said before stepping off stage.
Donald Trump claimed that he has secured $21.2tn in foreign investments in his first 15 months in office.
The White House website itself disputes that number, claiming instead that “the US has seen a surge of private and foreign investment” totalling $11.3tn.
That figure includes not only foreign funding, but also domestic deals that have not yet been finalized, such as a $608bn investment from Nvidia, a $600bn investment from Meta and a $500bn deal with Stargate partners Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle. According to its own website, about half of the White House’s $11.3tn figure comes from domestic projects.
Some of the largest deals touted on the White House website, including a $1.2tn “investment” from Qatar have previously been described by the White House itself as an “economic exchange”, and others are still being negotiated, such as an alleged $1tn deal with Japan that is still in the framework stage.
Trump has boasted of false investment numbers during his campaign tour ahead of the midterm elections. Speaking in Alaska yesterday, Trump repeated his claim that South Korea has agreed to spend $50bn to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska, just days after Alaska Public Media reported that Korean officials told state lawmakers in Anchorage that the country had not agreed to invest in the pipeline and would consider investing in the project if it’s commercially reasonable.
At his campaign rally in Arizona, Donald Trump said “incomes for hard-working Americans have soared” and said inflation was record high during Joe Biden’s administration. The president’s statement came as inflation accelerated to 3.7% last month amid the Iran war. Today, US stocks dropped to their worst day since July.
Speaking in Arizona, Donald Trump just repeated his false claim that he had to start his war on Iran because Iran was “two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon”.
In fact, two months into Trump’s second term, US intelligence agencies reported to Congress in 2025 that Iran had suspended its pursuit of nuclear weapons in 2003.
Despite that assessment, in the summer of 2025, Trump ordered the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities which he later claimed had “obliterated” the country’s nuclear program.
Eight months later, in February 2026, Trump announced that a full-scale war on Iran was necessary to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
