“The political operation founded by Charles and David Koch raised and spent well over half a billion dollars during the 2024 election cycle, showing that the family unit remains a financial juggernaut despite its opposition to President Trump’s re-election,” the New York Times reports.

New Republic: “Democrats need to move right to win back voters in 2026 and 2028—that’s the conventional wisdom from a slew of Democratic think tanks and Beltway strategists. To make their case, they’ve released reports and polling trying to prove that voters are more moderate on many social and cultural issues—like trans athletes in school sports and immigration—than the party’s far-left activists.”

“But an exhaustive new report makes a convincing counterargument. More importantly, it provides a road map for Democratic candidates that doesn’t require throwing vulnerable members of their coalition under the bus.”

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.