DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
WASHINGTON—In an effort to get ahead of the forthcoming criticisms of how they squandered such a commanding lead in the polls, the Democratic National Committee released a preemptive autopsy Tuesday into why their party lost the 2026 midterm elections. “Upon careful analysis, it’s clear our organization is going to bungle messaging in late October, costing us many key races across the nation,” said DNC chair Ken Martin, identifying the multitude of errors the Democratic Party expected it would make in the next four weeks. “While there’s no time left to defeat the GOP in the upcoming election, we’re hoping this pre-postmortem can serve as a guide to Democrats as we start gearing up to bungle the next presidential race. It’s tough to admit when you’re going to be wrong, but we can only hope we’ll learn from the mistakes we’ll absolutely be making over the next month.” Martin added that the main issue for Democrats was failing to put more resources into abandoning all their principles.
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Smiling, Unblinking Tom Cruise Just Wants To Know Why Nation Didn’t See ‘Digger’
WASHINGTON—Faced with a weekend of dismal ticket sales that ranked among the worst in the megastar’s career, a smiling, unblinking Tom Cruise calmly stated Monday that he just wanted to know why the nation didn’t turn out to see his new movie Digger. “Relax, I’m not gonna fly off the handle or anything like that, but I am just a bit curious as to why you chose not to see this film,” said a grinning Cruise, who leaned in closer so the nation could not easily escape his gaze and spoke in mild, measured tones as he explained that all he wanted was the truth. “Were you sick? Did you have other plans? I wasn’t made aware of these plans, but maybe you forgot to mention them. It’s totally fine if that’s what happened. I’d just like to know what you were doing instead of seeing Digger, that’s all. I’m sure it was more important than possibly my last chance to establish myself as a serious dramatic actor, right? Again, I’m not mad. There are still showtimes tonight. There are probably some right now, this very afternoon. Did I mention it was shot in VistaVision?” Cruise added that it would really be something if the poor box office derailed his Oscar momentum and then he began to laugh and laugh.
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Congressional Candidate Has Different Wife For Campaigning In Rural Counties
DARLINGTON, OH—In an obvious attempt to appeal to the county’s different demographic, U.S. House of Representatives candidate Jim Richardson reportedly showed up Monday to a campaign event in a rural part of Ohio’s 12 Congressional District with a different wife. “It’s natural for a candidate to subtly modulate his messaging for different constituencies, and one way we can see that is with the choice of spouse,” said campaign manager Cooper Ingraham, telling reporters that Richardson’s longtime partner Mariam, with her farming roots, love for the outdoors, and strong ties to the Presbyterian community, was a compelling figure for voters in counties with a population density of less than 400 people per square mile. “Of course, if Jim is campaigning in more urban areas like Zanesville or outside Columbus, voters are going to be more excited to see his wife Dr. Bailey Groves-Richardson, the firebrand author and outspoken daughter of immigrants who overcame her poverty-stricken childhood to become a lauded professor of sociology at Case Western.” Ingraham added that the campaign was hoping to firm up Richardson’s support amongst veterans by having him join other war widowers at a memorial for his late wife Sgt. Amy Richardson.
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Trump Drops Bombshell Evidence Biden Actively Campaigned Against Him
WASHINGTON—During an address to the nation Tuesday in which he claimed to have obtained definitive proof that the election was stolen, President Donald Trump presented bombshell evidence showing his opponent Joe Biden actively campaigned against him throughout the 2020 presidential race.
Trump, who spoke from the White House, detailed a conspiracy in which paid operatives and officials from every level of government—including at least three former U.S. presidents—participated in a highly coordinated effort to convince Americans to cast their votes for Biden. Trump alleged that members of this shadowy group regularly called and emailed voters to dissuade them from voting for him, part of a plot to ensure the Democratic nominee would be victorious at the polls on Election Day.
“This is a huge scheme, maybe the biggest, most illegal scheme anybody has ever seen,” said Trump, who later posted images of campaign mailers, yard signs, and the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Truth Social to support his assertion that Biden worked to turn voters against him. “For months, Crooked Joe went all over the country saying very nasty things about me: that I wasn’t fit to be president, that I was failing on Covid. Joe was telling everybody he should be president, not me. Right out in the open. He wasn’t even hiding it.”
“He went after people with speeches, television, the internet, all of it, and this reduced my votes while increasing his votes,” the president added. “Very, very fraudulent.”
According to Trump, Biden realized early on that he could sway the results of the 2020 election if he got a majority of Americans to support him, and so he took advantage of this vulnerability in the system by seeking to influence voter opinion. The president contended that at Biden’s behest, hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled into anti-Trump propaganda, which included unflattering videos broadcast on public airwaves that suggested Trump did not have the skills or temperament necessary to hold office.
“They called them ‘attack ads,’” Trump said. “Attack. Very violent word.”
As he stood at a podium in the Roosevelt Room, a TV played a compilation of the 2020 ads, which the president described as “totally deceptive,” saying Biden’s co-conspirators had selectively used footage of Trump praising white supremacists as “fine people” or downplaying a pandemic killing 1,000 Americans a day and had completely ignored his first-term achievements. An aide periodically paused the footage so the president could circle his own face with a laser pointer.
“It’s cheating,” Trump said of an ad in which he could be seen mocking a disabled reporter. “They picked the things people liked least and showed them over and over. But they kept out the beautiful things, the many, many perfect things. They didn’t show me cutting the ribbon. They didn’t show me getting into a helicopter. That’s election interference.”
“People see a Biden commercial, hear a Biden speech, and suddenly millions of ballots appear with his name checked instead of mine,” he continued. “Without those ballots, I win every single state. It’s a blowout.”
Trump went on to accuse celebrities, donors, and groups such as Joe Biden for President 2020 of serving as accomplices, describing a “vast criminal enterprise” that maintained offices in all 50 states and employed thousands of people who systematically studied voter lists, operated phone banks, and knocked on the doors of prospective supporters. According to the president, Biden’s organized crime ring even included his wife, Jill, and his running mate, Kamala Harris, both of whom joined him in campaigning against Trump.
“There were very powerful people helping to do it, to rig it,” Trump said. “Barack Hussein Obama, I’ve seen video, he went onstage before thousands of voters and said, ‘Don’t vote for Donald Trump, let’s fight like hell not to have it.’ And Michelle did the same. So did LeBron. The deep state—a very, very famous group of people, in many cases—they were doing it. They endorse Biden, and then Biden wins? That’s no coincidence. That’s the greatest scam in this country’s history.”
Reached for comment, many of the president’s advisors defended his assessment, saying American elections were too susceptible to this kind of fraud.
“The electoral system is a disaster,” White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino told reporters. “One candidate spends a year saying terrible things about the other candidate, promises people things, asks for their votes, and if enough people vote for him, they let him become president. How is that secure? Thankfully, Donald Trump won’t rest until we have a system where nobody can unseat the person already in the Oval Office.”
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