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- ‘I’ll Probably Grit My Teeth and Vote for Him’: Maine Democrats Give Graha...
(Photo Credit: CBS and Robert F. Bukaty) Despite a pile-up of controversies, several Maine voters told CBS they will still be voting for Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) in the state’s primary election. Correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns interviewed several voters during a segment that ran on CBS Mornings on Tuesday. “I’ll probably grit my teeth and vote for him, because I’m a Democrat,” a man named David Perez told her. Another voter named Maritza Frost said she was able to “separate what somebody is doing in their personal life and the mistakes — or whatever — that they’ve done from how they run politically.” And another woman said she doesn’t “think any differently” about Platner after news broke last weekend that he sexted with several women who were not his wife; Platner’s campaign confirmed the sexually explicit messages. Of the CBS interviewees, one man stood out from the pack, saying he didn’t plan on voting for Platner anyway. New: Many voters CBS spoke to in Maine tells us Platner’s latest controversy isn’t changing their vote. But this race will be long, and hasn’t even really started yet. Our @CBSMornings piece this morning, with reporting from @aaronlarnavarro in Portland: pic.twitter.com/0zOD5lBRNH — Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurns) June 2, 2026 The sexting report added to the issues that have sullied Platner’s Senate bid. He infamously had a Nazi SS “Totenkopf” symbol tattooed on his chest, which he has since covered up. Platner has denied it was a Nazi tattoo, arguing it was merely a skull and crossbones tattoo he got while serving in the military. A ton of unsettling posts Platner made on Reddit have also been uncovered during his campaign. Platner’s wife Amy Gertner slammed the mainstream press last weekend, hours after The Wall Street Journal broke the news about his sexts. The press should be focused on bigger issues than her husband’s sex life, Gertner vented. “It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like healthcare and education and childcare,” Gertner said in a video posted to X. Platner made similar comments, saying the “establishment press” was trying to “rip apart” his marriage. Polls show he remains the heavy favorite in next week’s Democratic primary. Watch above.The post ‘I’ll Probably Grit My Teeth and Vote… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Announces Bill Pulte — Known for Pushing Mortgage Fraud Allegations Agai...
(Mark Schiefelbein/AP photo) President Donald Trump has announced he is appointing William Pulte, his Housing Finance Agency boss, as the acting director of National Intelligence. Trump announced Pulte’s appointment in a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning. “I am appointing the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, William J. Pulte, to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence,” Trump said in the post. He added: “William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago. During this period, he will remain Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Congratulations to Director Pulte!” If the name rings familiar, it’s because he’s the Trump official who dug up the mortgage fraud allegations against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, and pushed for the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James. He also pushed similar allegations against Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). Pulte was also the subject of a Politico report last year that named him as the housing official who pitched Trump on the idea of 50-year mortgages, a notion that was met with criticism on both sides of the aisle. As a result of the controversial proposal, Pulte faced scorn in the West Wing for selling the president on mortgages that would take a half-century to pay off, according to the report. Pulte will replace Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation as DNI on May 22. Gabbard said she would step down from the role to be with her husband, who is suffering from bone cancer. “Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer,” she wrote in a letter. “At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle. Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage — standing steadfast through my deployment to East Africa on a Joint Special Operations mission, multiple political campaigns and now my service in this role.”The post Trump Announces Bill Pulte — Known for Pushing Mortgage Fraud Allegations Against Trump’s Foes — as New… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Jill Biden Says Joe Biden Would Have Beaten Trump in 2024 Election If He Had Sta...
Former First Lady Jill Biden said Tuesday that she believes her husband, former President Joe Biden, would have defeated Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election had he remained the Democratic nominee. Appearing for an interview on MS NOW’s Morning Joe to promote her forthcoming memoir, View from the West Wing, Jill Biden was asked by co-host Willie Geist about Democratic criticism that Biden missed an opportunity to leave office after the party’s stronger-than-expected performance in the 2022 midterms. She acknowledged there were discussions about whether the president should seek a second term, but said Democratic support remained firmly behind him heading into the 2024 campaign. She said: “I mean, Joe had to decide whether to run again. But like you said, you know, we did well, the Democrats did well in the midterms, and in 2023, the Democratic Party was totally behind Joe, and people, everywhere I went, ‘Joe’s got to do it again! He’s got to run! He’s got to run!’” “And he was like, ‘Well, I don’t know’ – you know – ‘Am I too old?’ I mean, it was the age question no matter where we went,” she continued. “And so, of course, you know, we heard that, what people were saying, but then people were doing polling, you know, who could beat Trump? And the only person who polled that could beat Trump was Joe Biden. And so that’s why Joe decided to continue on,” she added. “Do you or does the president now regret dropping out of the race?” Geist asked. “You know, I would never want anyone I loved to go through that again,” she replied. “And it was so painful, not just for us, not just for me and for Joe, but we have children and grandchildren. And to see them have to go through that was really a hard thing, a hard time for our family, and I would never want to put our family through that again,” Jill Biden replied. “But does he believe to this day that he would’ve defeated Donald Trump in that election?” Geist pressed. “I believe he would have beat Donald Trump in that election,” Jill Biden said. The remarks come as Biden continues a media tour that has renewed attention on the turbulent final months of her husband’s 2024 campaign. In recent interviews, she has also recalled fearing the president was suffering a… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Nate Silver Tees Off on California for Taking Weeks to Process Election Results:...
(Photo Credit: Armchair Expert podcast on YouTube) Journalist Nate Silver slammed California for having a seemingly never-ending election process that routinely takes weeks to count the votes — which he said makes The Golden State look like an incompetent third-world nation, not a modern democracy. Silver called out California in a few X posts on Tuesday morning. “The fact that California elections often can’t be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world,” Silver said. He continued by saying the fact that it takes California weeks to count votes is “failed state sh*t” and “should be much more stigmatized.” He added it was a textbook example of “learned helplessness” that Californians even tolerate it, although some natives have griped about it for years. The fact that it's tolerated is bad too a textbook example of learned helplessness. — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 2, 2026 By state law, counties have 30 days after elections to process valid ballots, including late-arriving mail ballots postmarked by Election Day. California elections have often taken between 30 and 38 days to certify in recent years, and the 2024 election was not certified until 41 days later; the 2022 election took a similar length of time. Silver’s posts were timely, given that the statewide primary is being held on Tuesday. Californians will vote on the top two candidates who will advance in the gubernatorial race, with Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton — who received President Donald Trump’s endorsement — leading in most polls. Becerra was mocked by several former Democratic colleagues for having no friends and few policy ideas, according to a Politico report on Monday. Los Angeles will also be voting on the top two candidates who will advance in its mayoral race; Spencer Pratt (R) has jumped ahead of councilwoman Nithya Raman and is expected to go head-to-head with incumbent Karen Bass (D) in the election. Pratt has made Bass’ response to the 2025 LA wildfires that burned his home — and 12,000 others — down a key aspect of his race, along with the city’s handling of its homeless crisis.The post Nate Silver Tees Off on California for Taking Weeks to Process Election Results: That’s ‘Failed State Sh*t’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Calls Out ‘Remarkable’ Revolt Against Trump’s ‘I...CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins called out the “remarkable” revolt against President Donald Trump’s “iron grip” as the $1.776 billion fund has been “stopped in its tracks” amid court cases and GOP pushback. The Trump Justice Department announced the creation of a so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund” last month as part of the settlement in Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns by a former official. But the pushback against what has been widely seen as an unaccountable “slush fund” has been so fierce that he’s reportedly on the verge of abandoning it — maybe. On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins opened the show with a commentary noting the “rare moment” of opposition to Trump, and calling out the ambiguity embedded in the reporting. She pointedly told viewers that “it’s possible that the administration is merely pausing plans until the political pushback dies down”: KAITLAN COLLINS: And as we come on the air tonight, sources say that the White House is signaling that it will back off that $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, after facing serious pushback from their own party on Capitol Hill. The question is whether those private signals from the White House, while the President has yet to say anything about it publicly, are enough for skeptical Republican senators. The Justice Department tried to signal that that’s the plan. But right now, sources don’t seem to be taking their word for it. For a president who has such an iron grip on his party as Donald Trump, what we are watching happening, right now in Washington, is pretty remarkable. The pushback from Senate Republicans has been so intense and, for the White House, so unexpected, that it’s a rare moment of the administration considering backing down from its position. Now, President Trump, as I noted, has yet to confirm that they are definitely scrapping the fund. And until he does, it’s possible that the administration is merely pausing plans until the political pushback dies down. But the plans remain essentially stalled, as we told you on Friday night, for that fund, after a pair of federal judges basically stopped it in its tracks. One ruling came from a federal judge in Florida, who wants to know if the whole case was a sham, just to reach a settlement, out of court, between the President and the… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- ‘What the F*ck Is that Sh*t?!’ Shawn Ryan Goes OFF on ‘Very Self-Servingâ€... MAGA fan-turned-critic Shawn Ryan went ballistic on President Donald Trump during a podcast with Megyn Kelly and rattled off several problems he has with the president’s second term. “I just don’t see any positivity coming out of this administration,” Ryan vented during the Monday episode of his podcast. “It seems very self-serving.” He told Kelly he has a “list of sh*t” the Trump administration has screwed up, in his view, printed out. But he ran through several of his gripes off the top of his head while talking to Kelly — another pundit who backed Trump in 2024 but has since criticized him on numerous issues, like the Iran war. “He f*ckin’ made it so he had Todd Blanche do his dirty work so that him or anybody in his family could not be audited by the IRS,” Ryan said. “What the f*ck is that shit?” Ryan continued, “The drone company, the $400 million jet from Qatar, the executive club — you hear about that?” “Yeah, yeah, that they started in D.C.,” Kelly affirmed. “You don’t hear about any of this sh*t,” Ryan said. “Does this sh*t look like he’s serving the American people?” Ryan then called out Fox News, saying the right-leaning network doesn’t cover any of the ways Trump has sold out the country, in his view. “None of it. None of it,” Kelly agreed. “There’s no question that the corruption in the administration has been far beyond what—” Ryan cut Kelly off before she could finish to fume that Trump “sued the f*ckin’ government!” His brutal assessment of Trump comes less than two years after the former Navy SEAL hosted Trump on his podcast. Ryan later confirmed he voted for Trump in 2o24, with one key reason being he wanted more information on dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein published. Kelly also supported Trump against ex-Vice President Kamala Harris, but recently argued that Trump’s MAGA base has eroded. “MAGA is not what it was. MAGA is now this very, very small group of Trump diehard loyalists who have to love Mark Levin,” Kelly said in May. “And so that’s by definition an increasingly tiny group.” She reiterated that take to Ryan on Monday. “The problem for Trump now is that he has defined MAGA literally to those who agree with Mark Levin,” Kelly said. “If you don’t agree with Mark Levin, you’re not MAGA. Which means you must be… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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