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“The instincts of being a 60-year-old doctor and doing public health and preventive medicine—it’s always about going to ground. It’s always about the community as your patient. That was my instinct all along, and I started going around listening even before I filed my paperwork to make the decision to run.” — Dr. Amy Acton, The Bulwark “Watching Acton, it seems to me that she doesn’t work a room so much as observe it, and in a way that reminds me of the moment a physician looks you over before starting the conversation during an exam. In response to questions, she sometimes pauses to take in the questioners for so long that it’s almost physically discomfiting. Call it retail bedside manner.” — Jim Swift on Dr. Amy Acton, The Bulwark “I’m a doctor. I’m not much of a politician” — Dr. Amy Acton, The Bulwark “When I was growing up in Youngstown, we didn’t know what party you were in” — Dr. Amy Acton, The Bulwark “Everywhere we go, people are longing for public servants again, and they’re longing for this hate and chaos and vitriol and purposeful pitting against one another to end” — Dr. Amy Acton, The Bulwark “There are lawsuits challenging whether Tuberville can even be on the ballot. Although they’re still ongoing, the courts have allowed him to stay on the ballot, for now. But there are still legal questions percolating.” — Joyce Vance on Tommy Tuberville, Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance “He certainly has the fresh face quality and I think is introducing himself on the national stage where there's a desire to hear from some new people. So I could definitely see him making something work.” — Astead Herndon on Wes Moore, America, Actually with Astead Herndon “I could see a group of kind of progressive candidates or candidates fighting for that group, splitting votes, and someone like Josh Shapiro being able to really kind of do what Biden did in 2020 and coalesce a moderate lane.” — Astead Herndon on Josh Shapiro, America, Actually with Astead Herndon “I love him like a brother. And his wife, I mean, his wife's a friend. And I just think that he is brilliant. He has a good heart. He's handsome. And people really like him. He is a charismatic personality.” — Don Lemon on Wes Moore, America, Actually with Astead Herndon “Here's why I like him. I just was with him actually last week. He is incredibly well-spoken, rich as can be, so he can fund a lot of stuff. He's very well-liked and very pro-business and at the same time, very good at pushback and he's been effective. He also has like a dad vibe.” — Kara Swisher on JB Pritzker, America, Actually with Astead Herndon “In the absence of that, the governors cannot just sit on our hands.” — Wes Moore, Broadband Breakfast “On one hand, I get that his focus is local. It is a governor's race after all. But I still think it's notable that when Ramaswamy talks about things like bringing jobs back to Ohio, he makes no mention of Trump's tariffs. The administration's signature economic policy aimed at regions just like this one.” — Astead Herndon on Vivek Ramaswamy, America, Actually with Astead Herndon “If I am so fortunate to win, and this is not in the bag, I don't have any thoughts that I'm a shoe-in or anything like that. This really is a toss-up. This is a dead heat. And it's really going to take all of us to win this race.” — Mary Peltola, The Bulwark “I think everyone across Alaska is feeling the weight of the corruption in Washington, D.C. and the corporate greed that has been allowed to happen really unfettered. If you look at every single thing we're paying for, we are getting crushed by these runaway prices, whether it's diesel or gas, transportation costs, freight costs, health care costs, grocery costs.” — Mary Peltola, The Bulwark “62% of Alaskans are independent, nonpartisan, undeclared. Most of us don't see ourselves through a partisan lens. If I had to describe myself, I think a Democrat might be the hundredth way that I would even describe myself. So every issue is unique and every circumstance is unique. And I think you just need to keep an open mind and really listen to Alaskans.” — Mary Peltola, The Bulwark “In Alaska, I just really feel like all of the marquee issues for us fit into one or two of those categories. Take health care, families, childcare, families, food insecurity, fish, resource development, fish, our abundance issues, fish, corporate greed, fish, and many other things. And then freedom, of course.” — Mary Peltola, The Bulwark “against presumptive GOP nominee Mike Rogers, a former GOP House member who took money from pharmaceutical companies and has a long record of supporting Republican bills to take health care away from people.” — Jonathan Cohn on Mike Rogers, The Bulwark “The outside money was paused on behalf of that race. They pulled it out in terms of ad spending in North Carolina in early October. The president himself has said that he is worried about that race. He's worried about Michael Whatley, the Republican candidate, but thinks that he'd be a great senator.” — Karen Travers on Michael Whatley, Start Here “Mike Johnson has made sure the House of Representatives is not in session. So nobody can stop Trump unless he calls them back into session and unless John Thune calls the Senate back into session. And that was really quite deliberate on the part of Johnson's, on Johnson's part. The more Congress is out of session, the more Trump can do. And he's clearly running with that through the midterms.” — Heather Cox Richardson on Mike Johnson, Heather Cox Richardson “it's an open question how much interest El-Sayed would show in such deal-making, or how much capacity he has for it. It requires EQ as much as IQ, and not disparaging adversaries in the way he has treated Stevens multiple times” — Jonathan Cohn on Abdul El-Sayed, The Bulwark “In that sense, the main impact of electing El-Sayed would be adding to that chorus another, younger version of Sanders—somebody who would push the whole caucus in the direction of expanding health care access, and who could inherit the Medicare for All movement whenever Sanders, now 84, decides to hang up his democratic socialist spurs.” — Jonathan Cohn on Abdul El-Sayed, The Bulwark “In the end, politics is about a competition of ideas. I think you lose that competition if you're not willing to take your ideas and present them to a broader public, and I think it's important for voters to have an alternative to somebody who's corporate bought.” — Abdul El-Sayed, The Bulwark “would send the wrong message to Iran and to our troops.” — Susan Collins, Drop Site News “Of the 14 times Democrats forced the Senate to vote on Iran war powers measures since the conflict began in February, Collins voted five times against failed resolutions.” — Nathan Bernard on Susan Collins, Drop Site News “It’s obvious why Kelly Ayotte has been doing the bidding of the data center and cryptomining industry, rolling out the red carpet for them to build in every corner of our state,” — Cinde Warmington, The Lever “Bill Cassidy has also declined to endorse Julia Letlow after she beat him in the GOP primary for his Louisiana Senate seat” — Gabe Fleisher on Julia Letlow, Wake Up To Politics “I believe Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, and John Hickenlooper, all former governors, think of themselves as pragmatic moderates. And if you look at their records as governors, they clearly were pragmatic moderates.” — Matthew Yglesias on Senator John Hickenlooper, Slow Boring (Matt Yglesias) “Since late September, HMP has run ads in at least nine House races accusing Republicans of doing favors for the data center industry. The first, launched Sept. 22, labels Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) “Data Center Derrick” and says he took tens of thousands of dollars from the industry.” — Donald Shaw on Derrick Van Orden, Sludge “The same poll, conducted by Oregon Public Broadcasting, found Kotek struggling in her bid for re-election, two percentage points behind rival Christine Drazan, who would be Oregon’s first Republican governor in 40 years.” — Gabe Fleisher on Tina Kotek and Christine Drazan, Wake Up To Politics “Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity publicly supported data centers in the summer of 2025. Then, according to audio obtained exclusively by The Bulwark, she voiced the same opinion at a December 2025 Greene County Republicans event, saying … they are a “nice opportunity for rural PA, where we have a lot of space where it wouldn’t be so intrusive.”” — Brendan Hartnett on Stacy Garrity, The Bulwark

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