Larry Sabato

A favorite JFK quote: "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.'

“We are manufacturing a whole new generation of terrorists in the Middle East,” former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel tells me, saying the Trump administration's conduct of its war in Iran appears to him unprecedented.

"We're flying wherever we want - we have nobody even shooting at us," President Trump says minutes after this report. x.com/halbritz/statu…

Two former FBI agents who helped investigate President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results sued the federal government on Thursday, alleging they were wrongfully terminated simply because they worked on the probe. cbsn.ws/4rKc9sR

SCOOP: A newly posted video of Trump's visit to Moscow in the mid-1990s shows a previously undisclosed participant: Leon Black of Apollo Global Management bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @JeffGrocottNYC

Good news: The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award going to the people of the Twin Cities is a recognition of how our state persevered and led the way in defending freedom and democracy.

🚨BREAKING: Armed suspected ICE agents are now grabbing young women outside college fraternities… Yesterday, a young woman was surrounded by armed men and taken, outside a fraternity house, at the University of Washington… And we need to stop pretending this is normal. Armed men grabbing a woman in public, and refusing to identify themselves, is exactly what we teach women to fear… and now the government is normalizing that, and calling it “law enforcement.” And this doesn’t just affect one person… it lowers the safety of every woman, on every campus. Because now, there’s no clear line between law enforcement and a predator. If unidentified men can take a woman from a dorm, a campus, a fraternity… then any man can pretend to be ICE and do the same thing, and that confusion is exactly what predators rely on. But, it gets worse… ICE has a pattern of detaining people they shouldn’t, then releasing them without belongings, without support, sometimes far from where they were taken… Now, apply that to a college student… away from family, in an unfamiliar place, suddenly without a phone, ID, or any way to get home. ICE agents are illegally taking whoever they can… and every time people excuse it, the line moves further. Because the second a country normalizes masked armed men grabbing any women in public, especially college students, and refusing to identify themselves… That’s not only NOT public safety… it’s actively putting every woman at risk.

Such a diplomat! My mother would have kicked my father’s leg under the table for this one.

DHS: ICE Can Enter Homes Without Pants theonion.com/dhs-ice-can-en…

@kardinal_der Media attention

@LarrySabato Attention to MAGA? Can we even say that much? He promised MAGA lower prices, lower inflation, increased jobs, and no new wars.

Trump has truly tanked with Independents. Too much attention to MAGA, not enough to Independents.

NEW: Families requested no cameras at today's dignified transfer at Dover, yet Trump’s White House released and promoted photos from the ceremony across social media, including TikTok. meidasnews.com/news/trump-rel…

Perfectly matches the recent uptick in GOP candidates declaring very confidently, “God is on our side.”

AP follows the @NOTUSreports piece on how the Trump administration had already gutted the State Dept’s staff of Middle East policy experts — and “eliminated the dedicated Iran office ..” @AP apnews.com/article/iran-s…

WSJ: Arab governments were furious about Israel’s attack and the U.S. failure to head it off, officials said. They had aggressively lobbied the Trump administration to stop U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure and now feel a target has been put on their backs, they said… America’s Arab allies are now fuming that they don’t seem to have any influence with the Trump administration despite heavy investments of time and money.

Is there no shame left in politics today? Answers from @Center4Politics' @kkondik. news.virginia.edu/content/qa-the…

@SamsonSignori @Center4Politics @JeffESchapiro Great job. Thanks for coming.

Great to be with @LarrySabato and @JeffESchapiro at the @Center4Politics to discuss November’s big wins. Thanks for having me!

.@LarrySabato's Crystal Ball shifts rating for the Arizona governor's race from "toss-up" to "leans Democratic" as Dem @GovernorHobbs seeks re-election. centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/si…