Geoff Harris

DSA-backed candidates notched a wave of victories in elections, putting the organization on pace to win about two-thirds of the races in which it endorsed a candidate & signaling a growing shift inside the Democratic Party. @ThirdWayKessler, executive vice president for policy at @ThirdWayTweet, told The National News Desk's @GeoffHarrisTV that he would be concerned about the DSA wins if not for what he described as moderate Democrats also winning races. Read more: bit.ly/4ipfaxh

How did Democrats take control of the Senate? The National News Desk's @GeoffHarrisTV breaks down the balance of power & how we got here on Election Night. Read more: bit.ly/4sFJG9G

#RACECALL: Sen. Ashley Moody wins election to the U.S. Senate from Florida. @GeoffHarrisTV is also tracking how many Democratic Socialist & DSA-aligned candidates are on the ballot. Here’s how the party has made its mark across the U.S. and some of the policies they plan to put in place if the candidates get elected.

The National News Desk’s @GeoffHarrisTV breaks down how many Democratic Socialist and DSA-aligned candidates will be on the ballot Nov. 3. Some are running on the “Workers Deserve More” platform, which calls for abolishing the Senate, ICE, police and prisons.

A resurfaced clip from 2024 brings more scrutiny to Michigan’s Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed. An imam at a Detroit mosque Abdul El-Sayed reportedly attended called Zionists “the cockroaches of history.” El-Sayed continues to deny Muslim Brotherhood ties. Check out The National News Desk’s full report from @GeoffHarrisTV: bit.ly/4zdqGBH

Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny over his faith & family, including attention on sermons delivered by imams at mosques he has reportedly attended. According to a report, the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, a mosque El-Sayed reportedly attends, recently removed YouTube videos of its imam. @jihadwatchRS, director of Jihad Watch, criticized the videos. He told @GeoffHarrisTV he was not surprised to hear an imam “dehumanize the Jews or the Zionists in this way.” Read more: bit.ly/4zdqGBH

President Trump is making campaign stops in states where Republicans are working to defend seats, including Ohio, a state he flipped in 2016 with significant support from blue-collar workers who shifted toward the GOP. @bgsu_prof, a political science professor at @bgsu, tells @GeoffHarrisTV that Trump has made inroads in Ohio, historically a swing state, by taking his message and economic policies to working-class voters. Read more: bit.ly/48klccx

With Election Day nearing, Democratic Socialist-backed & aligned candidates have become a growing focus on the campaign trail. Some candidates broke through in Democratic primaries, catching incumbents off guard. However, @ThirdWayKessler, executive vice president for policy at @ThirdWayTweet, told @GeoffHarrisTV he does not believe the DSA will overtake the Democratic Party. Read more: bit.ly/47JGjVE

Anthropic’s AI model Claude accessed publicly available voter data in Georgia by bypassing a paywall, according to an Axios report & details later disclosed by the company. "So what they accessed is actually not a problem or concerning. It’s more how they did,” @AnnieChestnut, a policy analyst at the Center for Technology & the Human Person at @Heritage, told @GeoffHarrisTV. Read more: bit.ly/4jHzXNJ

The fight for control of the Senate is playing out across the country. The National News Desk's @GeoffHarrisTV does the math & explains how key races could shape the balance of power in Washington. More on the midterms: bit.ly/4scUdsO

An undercover video released this week by @JamesOKeefeIII & the @OKeefeMedia features a man identified as Abdoul Beckwith. He's described as a regional field organizer in Michigan & speaks with an undercover journalist, making claims that Abdul El-Sayed's receives donations from overseas. @GeoffHarrisTV speaks with O'Keefe as El-Sayed's campaign denies the claims. Read more: bit.ly/4eIYxKu

Questions continue to swirl around Abdul El-Sayed & his alleged personal & family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. The National News Desk's @GeoffHarrisTV interviews @DrZuhdiJasser, the GOP nominee for Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District & founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Jasser says El-Sayed has not done enough to disavow & distance himself from the accusations. Read more: bit.ly/4z1kBZd

From New York to Michigan, Medicare-for-all has become a major campaign issue this election cycle, drawing sharp opposition from many Republicans who argue a single-payer, government-run health care system would be too costly and disruptive. The National News Desk's @GeoffHarrisTV spoke with President of Paragon Health Institute, @brian_blase, about Medicare costs if it were to go through. Read more about the interview here: bit.ly/47PIGGh

Are Chinese foreign-agent busts on the rise? @USAttyEssayli announced the recent arrest of a woman accused of acting as an agent of China. Prosecutors say she surveilled the son of Taiwan’s president near Seattle last year. Read the full story by @GeoffHarrisTV: bit.ly/4yFIDZu

The death of a worker at an anti-plague laboratory in Russia prompts officials to quarantine at least one hospital facility & place nearly 200 people under medical observation, according to reports. @GeoffHarrisTV speaks with @ashishkjha, who served as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator. He questions why a young, otherwise healthy person would die from a treatable disease. Read more: bit.ly/3VjD701

Michigan Senate candidate @AbdulElSayed has made taking on billionaires a central part of his campaign against @MikeRogersForMI. But a new video reveals the Soros family has years-long ties to El-Sayed. @GeoffHarrisTV talks to VP of the @Govt_Acct_Inst @Eric_Eggers to break it down. Read more: bit.ly/4z7TU4H

President Trump kicked off his week with a big meeting with NYC Zohran Mamdani. The meeting comes as antisemitism continues to rise in NYC, the same day as Yom Kippur & just days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to arrive to address the UN. The two addressed the media after the meeting, saying they discussed immigration and affordable housing. @GeoffHarrisTV spoke with NYC Councilman @CMFrankMorano. bit.ly/4hGcR8s