Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), an ardent ally of President Trump, will launch her long-expected bid for governor Friday, Politico reports.

Charlie Cook: “Tuesday’s results back up my oft-stated argument that the November 2024 election was a highly focused repudiation of President Biden, the Biden-Harris Administration, and, by extension, Vice President Kamala Harris, not the top-to-bottom repudiation of the Democratic Party that many have made it out to be.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said that then-President Joe Biden “didn’t want that debate,” describing a reluctant president whose fateful night on stage accelerated President Trump’s return to the White House, Axios reports.

Said Harris: “If you don’t want to be in the competition, it will absolutely have an impact on your performance. I’m pretty sure that he did not want to debate… I think he got talked into it.”

“In late August, a photographer in Santa Monica, California, stumbled on an odd sight. Parked at the beach was a bus emblazoned with ‘Kennedy 2024’ and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s smiling face,” the Boston Globe reports.

“The ‘spotted’ post on Instagram was just the beginning of what appears to have been a cross-country trip for what was the official bus of Kennedy’s now-defunct presidential campaign. Days later, in early September, it was spotted in Reno, Nevada, with bicycles mounted on the back, and then again in Venice, California. In between, it appears to have been at the desert art and culture festival Burning Man, according to multiple posts on Reddit.”

Vice President JD Vance had some choice words for Kamala Harris saying she had no “substance” and that each time he listened to her he felt “dumber in the process,” The Wrap reports.

Said Vance: “The problem is not that Kamala’s campaign was too short. It was too long. When people actually listened to what she had to say, per polling, it went down and down and down. A 150-day campaign, three additional senators, and Donald Trump would have won by an even bigger landslide.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on The View and reflected on her October 2024 interview where she was asked if there was anything she’d do differently than then-President Biden.

Said Harris: “I didn’t fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and President Biden.”

Pete Buttigieg told Meet the Press that President Biden “should not have run” for reelection in 2024, but conceded that “it was literally his decision” to do so.

Said Buttigieg: “He should not have run. And if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off. But it literally was his decision.”

He added: “I was not included in the process of deciding whether the president should run again. He made that decision and I think I’m not alone in believing that he should have made the decision not to run sooner.”

“Of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out. I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”

— Kamala Harris, in her new book, 107 Days.

Seth Masket polled Democratic Party county chairs in November 2024 and then again during the summer of 2025.

“What really stands out about this figure is that there was even less of a consensus about the causes of Harris’ loss in the summer of 2025 than there was right after election day in 2024. Most chairs had named economic conditions as their top narrative in November. This was still the top answer in July, but quite a few of those originally naming economic conditions had bled to blaming Biden’s unpopularity, candidate traits, or other causes.”

Ashwin Ramaswami (D), who unsuccessfully ran for a state Senate seat in November, has filed a lawsuit against his Republican opponent, state Sen. Shawn (R) for making “outrageous, false, and malicious” statements, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Landmark Communications, a political consulting firm that worked on Still’s campaign, is also named in the lawsuit.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told CNN that Democrats turned their backs on the working class.

Said Sanders: “I like Kamala, she’s a friend of mine. But her core consultants, you know, were very influenced by wealthy people.

He added: “How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families?”

Washington Post: “Democrats are eager to turn the page on their 2024 losses — but their central figures from the last election keep stepping back into the spotlight, complicating their efforts to forge a new identity.”

“Many in the party are wary of elevating the people who led them to defeat in 2024 and exasperated to see the drama of that election repeatedly relitigated when they want to keep the focus on pushing back against Trump’s second-term agenda and identifying new leaders.”

“Former President Biden’s top political aide Mike Donilon told congressional investigators Thursday that he was paid $4 million for his work on Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign and would have made an additional $4 million if Biden had won,” Axios reports.

“Donilon’s testimony shows he had a financial incentive for Biden to run for re-election even as the majority of voters expressed doubts about the president’s ability to do the job another four years.”

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he’ll pack his bags and flee to Florida if he loses the NYC mayoral race to socialist Zohran Mamdani, the New York Post reports.

Said Cuomo: “It’s all or nothing. We either win or even I will move to Florida. God forbid!”