
Good morning and happy Monday! This is Notice News. It’s November 2, Election Day is tomorrow, and whatever Haley Stevens was thinking just backfired in her face.
We’ll get into that, plus:
The final Times/Siena polls have Democrats ahead in all seven Senate battlegrounds
A judge tossed Trump’s lawsuit to freeze Alaska’s Senate result if his guy loses
Tucker Carlson says Trump may nuke Iran “within days”
Sen. Chris Murphy is recovering from a stroke
Trump is reportedly asking allies about Hegseth
Plus: SNL’s Trump says Texas is turning purple, just like his hand
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Rep. Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race is rightly being called a betrayal.
But just days before an election that could decide control of the Senate, it may also turn out to be a gift.
Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers two days before the election. Her own staff walked out.
Rep. Haley Stevens stood next to Republican Mike Rogers at Perfecting Church in Detroit on Sunday and endorsed him for Senate.
She lost the Democratic primary to Abdul El-Sayed in August and endorsed him afterward. This week, she demanded he condemn an ad from Rebellion PAC, an outside group his campaign had nothing to do with. His campaign told her to skip Sunday’s unity event.
“As you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign, and that I should stay away,” Stevens said in a video. “He’s right, and that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.”
Her staff didn’t come with her. Justin German, her chief of staff for eight years, resigned along with others on her team, and they’re backing El-Sayed.
“By endorsing Mike Rogers she has betrayed all those values,” wrote Arik Wolk, her communications director during the primary. “This is ridiculous and pathetic.”
At the press conference, a reporter asked how she could back a candidate who stands against so much of what she has stood for.
“Well... look! Nothing is perfect. Nothing is perfect,” Stevens said, as a man off camera kept shouting, “Haley Stevens is a traitor!” She cut the questions short and was driven away.
Later that night, Anderson Cooper let Haley Stevens absolutely bury herself for nearly 15 minutes.
Drop Site News also reported Sunday that Rogers spokesperson Abigail Ronson, who was at that press conference, is a registered foreign agent for Israel. So is Jesse Stokes, who appears to write many of the campaign’s press releases. Both work through Convergence Media, a Rogers vendor whose staff Drop Site ties to a $46.5 million Israeli government contract.
Democrats answered with their wallets. El-Sayed’s campaign raised more than $1.2 million in an afternoon, its second-best day since the primary.
“At the end of the day, I actually don’t think about Haley Stevens,” El-Sayed said. “I think about the 9,999,998 people who are not those two.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib had a suggestion. “Let’s make sure Haley loses to Abdul twice,” she wrote.
The final Times/Siena poll has El-Sayed ahead 53% to 42%. Stevens picked a side, and it’s down 11.
Between Haley Stevens’ defection and the dark-money groups spending millions against El-Sayed, the other side is throwing everything they’ve got at this one.
So we need to send a message and send him to the Senate anyway.
Having worked for the Bernie campaign, we can tell you just how critical these final hours are. Every penny now goes to getting people out to vote, from van rides to last-minute radio ads. In a close race, turnout is everything.
The final polls have Democrats ahead in all seven Senate battlegrounds
The last New York Times/Siena polls before Election Day put Democrats ahead in all seven states likeliest to decide the Senate.
James Talarico leads Ken Paxton 50% to 43% in Texas. Troy Jackson leads Susan Collins 51% to 45% in Maine. Sherrod Brown leads Jon Husted 49% to 44% in Ohio, and Adam Hamilton leads Sen. Roger Marshall 49% to 44% in Kansas.
Mary Peltola is up two in Alaska. In Iowa, Josh Turek leads Ashley Hinson 48% to 47%.
Only 38% of likely voters in those states approve of Trump.
Siena’s Don Levy is careful to say it isn’t over. “With so many races within the poll’s total margin of error, a Senate majority for either party remains possible,” he said.
Trump spent Sunday in Iowa, where Hinson is hanging on by a point. At his rally in Dubuque, he brought up her weight.
“I knew Ashley for a long time, and she was a little bit heavier, okay?” he said.
A protester cut in. “They get paid $250. They’re paid by [George] Soros. And they’re losers,” Trump said.
“But they always do it right in the middle of my punchline!”
Outside, protesters lined the motorcade route with signs reading “Jail The Pedos” and “Trump Epstein Files Coming Soon!” Someone covered the city’s 105-foot “Solidarity” mural with a tarp. The city says it didn’t authorize that.
Trump makes his closing pitch this afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. You make yours tomorrow.
A judge tossed Trump’s lawsuit to freeze Alaska’s Senate result if his guy loses
U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason on Sunday threw out a Justice Department lawsuit that sought to delay or block certification of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.
The target was the other Dan Sullivan. Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher from Petersburg, is also on the ballot. The DOJ wanted the state to “preserve and segregate” ballots ranking him. Trump said he ordered the suit.
“The United States provides no workable plan as to how it proposes to segregate ballots cast for Daniel J. Sullivan on Election Day and then conduct a court-ordered unspecified ‘investigation’ of those ballots in a manner that would preserve voter secrecy,” Gleason wrote.
The other Sullivan has raised about $20,000 and is $30,000 in debt.
The fight may not be over. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has refused to commit to certifying the race if Mary Peltola wins, Greg Sargent reports at The New Republic. “That may in fact impact whether somebody is seated in the U.S. Senate,” Dunleavy said.
Election lawyer Marc Elias isn’t worried. “Whatever the governor may feel, it is his legal obligation to sign the paperwork to go to the U.S. Senate,” he told Sargent. “If he doesn’t, he will be sued. And he’ll have to sign it anyway.”
If anyone tries to intimidate you at the polls tomorrow, the Election Protection hotline is 866-OUR-VOTE.
The lawsuit asked a court to count Alaska’s votes only if Republicans liked the result. The court said no.
Tucker Carlson says Trump may nuke Iran “within days”
Tucker Carlson posted a long warning late Sunday claiming the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran.
The target, he says, would be Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the government has restarted enrichment. Carlson argues no conventional US weapon can get through 300 feet of granite, which leaves a nuke as the only military option.
He says Benjamin Netanyahu is behind the push, because after last week’s Israeli election, Netanyahu can’t form a government without Trump’s help. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” an observer told him.
According to Carlson, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are following Netanyahu’s lead, while JD Vance and Steve Witkoff are urging Trump to cut a deal. He says Trump could decide by this Saturday, November 7.
None of this is confirmed. A White House official said the administration doesn’t comment on plans that “may or may not exist,” and Iran denies any nuclear activity at the site.
But Trump himself named Pickaxe Mountain to reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday. He said the US still had one or two sites to deal with and could handle them in 10 minutes.
Carlson writes that fallout from a ground blast would poison the water supply for 100 million people around the Persian Gulf.
We really hope he’s wrong.
Sen. Chris Murphy is recovering from a stroke
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 53, had a stroke on Saturday, his chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, said Sunday.
“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,” Herwitt said.
“He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment. The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery.”
Murphy has spent the fall campaigning for Democrats in Michigan, Minnesota and Florida, and was due at an event in New Hampshire on Sunday.
Many online noted the timing of this after he just came out calling Trump’s Iran War blueprint "insane," claiming it would lead to the "likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law." It drew comparisons to Russia.
We’re wishing him a full and speedy recovery.
Trump is reportedly asking allies whether Hegseth is up to the job
Trump has started asking allies about Pete Hegseth’s performance, The Atlantic reports, citing two outside advisers. They think he may be lining Hegseth up to take the blame for the Iran war, and that it could come before a firing.
“Hegseth is good at telling the president what he wants to hear,” one of the advisers told the magazine.
“President Trump and everyone at the White House have full confidence in both Secretary Hegseth and General Caine, who are fully aligned with the President’s mission,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said.
His own party is squeezing him too. The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee told Hegseth to hand over documents on the Caribbean boat strikes or see a Trump nominee blocked, the Washington Post reports. He eventually gave in, according to two sources.
Defense officials are also reportedly collecting emails, memos and meeting notes from his 22 months on the job. “We’re ready with the receipts,” a longtime Army officer told the Daily Mail.
The White House has full confidence in him. The president, apparently, has questions.
KEPT OUT OF YOUR FEED
SNL’s Trump told viewers Texas is turning purple, “just like my hand”
Trump told his Iowa crowd he “would’ve won The Vietnam War in a week”
A rally-goer yelled “AOC for president!” and AOC answered, “I’m going to need us to focus”
Mayor Mamdani spent marathon Sunday handing out water to runners at the 13-mile mark in Long Island City
Raphael Warnock says people sometimes mix him up with Jon Ossoff, but “I’m the one with hair”
JB Pritzker told Meet the Press that Trump is “trying to rig” the midterms
Witness video shows a masked federal agent pointing a gun at a bystander during an arrest in Southern California
D.C. and Virginia sued to stop Trump’s 250-foot “triumphal arch” at the doorstep of Arlington National Cemetery
The $5.1 million gold job on D.C.’s horse statues already has streaks running down the base. One local reporter says it’s rainwater
A New York Times analysis found Trump now uses about 15 swear words per 10,000, up from six a decade ago
One gust of wind on the Air Force One stairs exposed the bald spot Trump works so hard to hide
NBC News found Ohio’s Medicaid fraud crackdown has left disabled residents without caregivers
Heidi Klum went to her 25th annual Halloween party as a giant, bloody severed hand
NOTICE POLLING
Yesterday, we asked: A judge threw out Trump's $10 billion Epstein lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for good, and Trump says he'll sue them again anyway. Should he have to pay the paper's legal fees?
98% OF YOU SAID YES, HE SHOULD PAY:
“Yes, absolutely. He should also have to pay for all the wasted hours and efforts of the court staff. We pay taxes that support that staff, but someone who continually bring frivolous lawsuits should be made to pay those costs.”
- moroz61166
“He's a sore loser and he never pays for anything, we do.”
- shbendickson
“He has a habit of continuing to bring the same law suits over and over again. ... It is a waste of time and money and shows he has no respect for the law.”
- v38235829
“He’s always bringing up these absurd court cases most likely to try to intimidate because he is such a bully. He should be responsible for what others have to pay to defend themselves against this nonsense.”
- a.smoot
“Trump apparently doesn't know when to quit. If he tries once more to sue the Wall Street Journal, it will be dismissed again, and the judge should make him pay the costs of legal fees incurred by the WSJ!”
- cdmalin
“He's playing games he knows he can't win. Running out the clock!”
- sisterboo42
“He should have to pay using his own money.”
- dalesallybaldwin
81 of you said yes. Two said no, and only the Yes side left comments.
That’s all for today — thank you so much for reading. We’ll see you tomorrow!


