Comment on The Next Senate Majority May Just Be a Rental

A new Gallup poll finds 41% of U. S. adults say they are “very concerned” that Donald Trump is too closely aligned with people who hold radical views, and another 14% are “somewhat concerned.” In contrast, 34% of Americans are very concerned and 15% somewhat concerned about Kamala Harris’ ties with political radicals.

“The party that takes the Senate on Nov. 5 may just be renting it for two years,” Semafor reports. “The Republican or Democratic victor will probably inherit a narrow majority that’s immediately vulnerable. Republicans have more paths to control this fall, but they’ll need a Trump-fueled red wave to carry them out of danger in 2026.” “The biggest unknown right now for the midterms’ congressional outlook is who resides in the White House: Whether it’s Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, the next president should be immediately preparing for a potential backlash in the midterm election.”

“A few months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, satellite imagery captured unusual activity at a restricted military research facility nestled among the birch forests northeast of Moscow,” the Washington Post reports. “The Russian site, called Sergiev Posad-6, had been quiet for decades, but it had a notorious Cold War past: It had once been a major research center for biological weapons, with a history of experiments with the viruses that cause smallpox, Ebola and hemorrhagic fevers.” “Satellite imagery over the next two years — collected by Google Earth and commercial imaging firms MAXAR and Planet Labs — shows construction vehicles renovating the old Soviet-era laboratory and breaking ground on 10 new buildings, totaling more than 250,000 square feet, with several of them bearing hallmarks of biological labs designed to handle extremely dangerous pathogens.”

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat for the popular vote, 48% to 48%, the final New York Times/Siena national poll has found. “The result, coming less than two weeks before Election Day, and as millions of Americans have already voted, is not encouraging for Ms. Harris.

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A new Wall Street Journal poll “finds that a majority of voters, 54%, say she would largely continue Biden’s approach and policies, while 41% said she would bring her own fresh ideas and new leadership to the White House. “ “The image of Harris as staying on Biden’s course was even more prevalent among the small portion of voters considered persuadable and still available to either campaign.