Pratt will receive less than Trump 2024's 26%. In 2022, right-leaning gazillionaire Rick Caruso got 36% in primary, 45% in general.

Last pages of Radicalism of the American Revolution, in which he discusses how many Founders were disappointed in 19th century America -- too materialistic, individualistic, vulgar, anti-intellectual, evangelical, devoted to partisan politics (in other worlds, like us) -- never escape my mind. RIP.

A record number of Democratic women (364) have filed to run for U.S. House seats this year, according to @cawp-ru.bsky.social, passing the previous record with filing deadlines still open in several states.

Dem Senate candidate margin in most recent independent poll of every potential pickup opportunity NC: D+9 OH: D+8 AK: D+6 ME: D+2 IA: D+1 TX: 0

Seeing Graham Platner win by more than 50% in an election where 93% of voters had seen the latest news about him - after 10 years of Trump you just have to have the humility that most voters don't care about the same things that you do. Even ones who agree with you on other stuff

This year, Janet Mills pioneered an experimental campaign strategy of announcing a candidacy, campaigning lethargically, dropping out, then subtly hinting that she is still on the ballot but not officially running.

Nancy Mace 🤝 Riley Gaines Trans obsessed conservative women who placed 5th

The AP calls the Democratic nomination in Maine's Senate race for Graham Platner with just 8% of the estimated vote reporting. At this stage, he has 75% of the counted vote, with Janet Mills at 19% and David Costello at 6%. Platner is now slated to face Susan Collins in November.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Graham Platner wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine.

Xavier Becerra (D) and Steve Hilton (R) advance to the general election for governor of California, @nbcnews.com projects. Tom Steyer is eliminated.

Me, a smart free thinker who won’t surrender to the Woke mob: how is it possible a Republican lost in Los Angeles

Guys, the obvious solution is just to have California count all the mail ballots first and then wait to count the day-of-election ballots til the end. That sounds dumb but would absolutely address the complaints caused by "red mirage/blue shift"

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nithya Raman advances to November runoff in Los Angeles mayor's race.

This is the kind of thing on which Senate Rs resisted Trump, even before his current level of unpopularity. It helps that they can do it by inaction (their favorite thing!), rather by than going on the record against him.

If only there was a Maine Dem under 70 without a Nazi tattoo...

First ME-SEN poll in a while with MILLS matching up better (albeit slightly) than Platner over Collins Tavern Research, 6/5-8 Mills 52 Collins 48 Platner 51 Collins 49 Generic D 55 Collins 45 242750075.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na2.net/hubfs/242750...

The GOP undermining trust in Democratic state elections while resurrecting Jim Crow in the South is just beyond nauseating

he can still win, if Mike Pence has the courage

I read this slightly differently. Pelley is thinking about his audience here and is trying to create a story that would seem fair to a random person tuning in. Bari, meanwhile, is asking for changes based on what she thinks would seem fair to a person **in the administration**

I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.

Los Angeles is a staunchly Democratic state and Pratt did almost nothing to appeal to historically Democratic voters the way Richard Riordan did after the Rodney King riots or Arnold Schwarzenegger did in the recall.

VoteHub projects Nithya Raman to advance from the Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles Mayor.

“Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing... And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving *toward* the officer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

For all the talk about “imperfect candidates,” and not electing Ken dolls, how much of Zohran Mamdani’s success has been his willingness to change his past unpopular positions and the fact he is always smiling, wearing a suit and never curses?

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

They’re right to worry. Hegseth is clearly resegregating the military by race and sex.

BREAKING: In an interview with NYT, fired '60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley says, "right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire." "There's a subtle political bias that I've never seen at '60 Minutes' before or at CBS News before. We can save this. It's possible to land this plane."

LOS ANGELES UPDATE: With today's update, Nithya Raman pulls within 7,500 votes of Spencer Pratt. (She netted roughly 13K votes in today's batch of 59K ballots.) This cuts Pratt's lead over Raman (for second spot) from 3.4% to 1.1%. (Note: The city of LA has roughly 175K ballots left.)

Ballot measures are a relief valve in states where the GOP has otherwise rigged elections to be unloseable via gerrymandered state legislative seats. They're getting rid of the practice where they can or just ignoring the results of referenda (as they are in florida)

A perfect example of what I wrote about today: when you think your candidate is indispensable to your cause, your instinct is to defend your candidate to the hilt. But politicians are rarely indispensable, and causes need more than charismatic rogues More here washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/05/d...

Next week the world will likely have its first trillionaire and that person will be a nazi

The Dubious Theory That Working-Class Voters Want Candidates Who "Look Like Them": open.substack.com/pub/honestgr...

The latest on my Substack: "The Federal Service After Trump."

people are dragging them but I suspect they're making a calculation that Bari is gonna be gone soon, probably before the new season premieres, and will be replaced by someone more professional. Who knows if that's the case but it's what I'd guess is going on.

If "60 Minutes" lives, what will it live as?

In a joint letter to staff, Lesley Stahal, Jon Wertheim and Bill Whitaker say they are sticking around for the next season of '60 Minutes.' "Here's why we are staying: We don't want to see 60 Minutes die."

According to the WaPo poll on the DC mayoral race, the same may be true for Columbia Heights and Shaw.

The post-Dobbs Republican pivot to maternal and child support:

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

Like I said, you do not want to offer election night takes from CA

That’s not even the worst of it.

exactly the right response

In the old days, Graham Platner would never get nominated, not over adultery or racism, but because he seems like the kind of unreliable weirdo who would get kicked out of the Elks Club.

A reason not to nominate someone with a Nazi tattoo is that THEIR PROBLEMS TEND NOT TO BE LIMITED TO NAZI TATTOOS

The. Senate. Is. In. Play.

Just want to point out that Sherrod Brown is currently up by 8 in a state that Harris lost by 11, a +19 point swing. OTOH, Graham Platner is leading by 4 in a state that Harris won by 7, a swing of -3.