(L) (L/R) US Vice President JD Vance and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) applaud as President Donald Trump speaks during a breakfast meeting with Senate Republicans in the State Dining Room of the White House on November 5, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 5: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks at the podium alongside fellow Republicans during a news conference on November 5, 2025 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The record for longest shutdown in the U.S. Government was broken Wednesday as it entered its 36th day. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Johnson stresses that Tuesday’s Democrat election wins are ‘not indicative of what’s to come’ while VP Vance shares message of his own

GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson sought to calm uneasy Republicans on Wednesday, brushing off the party’s losses on Tuesday’s off-year elections as a temporary “blip” that doesn’t foreshadow trouble in the 2026 midterms.

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Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris walks onstage before speaking at the Wiltern Theatre on September 29, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) / (L) George Clooney on the CBS Morning Show. (Photo via: screenshot taken of interview)

Clooney says Kamala’s presidential run was a ‘mistake’ for Democrat Party despite endorsing her: ‘She had to run against her own record’

George Clooney revealed that he believes it was a “mistake” for the Democrat Party to crown former Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee in the 2024 presidential election after former President Joe Biden dropped out, despite previously endorsing her and urging Biden to drop out.

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