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If you ever receive a piece of spam that says it comes from Bruceh.com, I want to assure you that we do NOT ever send out any spam to anyone. Some of the e-mail addresses, such as for the webmaster used to be on this site and over the years, spammers have harvested those addresses and now they are used as the phony "From" addresses in their spam. Occasionally, you may receive an e-mail that your anti-virus warns you about that also looks like it comes from Bruceh.com. The newer mailer viruses get their bogus "From" addresses directly from the address books and browser caches of infected computers. This means that if someone infected with a virus happened to have been visiting Bruceh.com, then our address might end up in the from field. I have tried to make sure that all e-mail addresses have been removed from this site, even in the old pages so I hope one day this will stop. The spammers had years of access to the addresses on this site, so I won't hold my breath, however.
Historical data pages updated to responsive design.
December 15, 2015
The historical data pages (year picks, pick stats, and pair pick stats) have been updated to use a responsive design. The old SuperLotto pages (1991-2000) will not be updated and will remain static HTML.
New Javascript based lotto ticker.
December 10, 2015
The latest picked lotto number ticker that appears on this page and the lotto page has been updated to use Javascript instead of Java.
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The main four pages have now been redesigned in a responsive format and uploaded. There might be a few glitches, but I'll be working to stabilize things. Please try them out on your mobile device and let me know if you see any weirdness.
Responsive design update
December 5, 2015
The first couple pages have been redesigned to use a responive layout and are being tested in a local environment. I should be able to take some pages live soon.
Responsive design work started
November 20, 2015
There won't be any need for a separate mobile site anymore as we are going responsive. What does responsive mean you might ask. It means the site will automatically adjust for the device you are viewing it on. Fonts should remain readable and you shouldn't ever have a left/right scroll bar unless you get the window down below 320 pixels horizontally. Even the smallest smartphone screens are usually at least 320 pixels wide. I've been wanting to make this change for a long time and finally have some time to do it. Not to mention that Google won't even index the site anymore if it's not mobile friendly. I'll be updating the site incrementally starting with the 4 main pages from the menu.
Migrating away from Java applets
November 10, 2015

While I still love Java as a programming language, it seems to be more troublesome than it is worth to keep the Java applets on here. It's almost as if the browser folks have declared war on Java. Firefox disables the java plugin if it's too far out of date. A lot of times you have to go through a lot of confirmations just to run a java applet, and even after doing all that, the browser still might not let you run it. My graph of picked lottery numbers is a good example.

So, it's time to make a change and convert the couple Java applets I had on here to javascript. I'll start with the ticker that shows the current winning numbers for SuperLottoPlus and Mega Millions. Then I'll work on the graph applet.

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Sunday October 04, 2026
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Latino voters helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House. Now, they are turning on him, according to a new NBC News/Telemundo poll — a shift that gives Democrats a major opportunity to capitalize in a 2026 election that could hinge on states and districts with sizable Latino populations.

Like the broader electorate, Latino voters are racked by major concerns about high prices and Trump’s approach to immigration enforcement. The president’s approval rating sits at 27% among Latino voters. Two-thirds say his administration’s deportation policies have gone too far and three-quarters disapprove of how he has handled the economy and the cost of living.

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There are clear signs his party is paying the price.

A greater share of Latino voters hold negative views of the Republican Party than at any time since 2016, and Democrats have leads on issues like dealing with the economy, immigration, the cost of living, corruption and healthcare. Two years ago, Latino voters gave Trump a 4-point edge over then-Vice President Kamala Harris on handling the economy. Today, they give Democrats a 21-point advantage on the same question.

Against that backdrop, Democrats have a 24-point lead on whom Latino voters want to see in control of Congress, 59%-35%.

That’s double the lead they had among Latino voters at this point in 2024, though not quite at the heights the party enjoyed at this time in 2018, according to NBC News polling from just before that election.

Nearly a fifth of Latino voters who backed Trump in 2024 say they do not prefer a Republican-controlled Congress, with 14% saying they support Democrats and 8% unsure in their preference.

The shifts come after the Republican Party made Trump’s 2024 gains among Latino voters central to its plans to keep the House majority. In Florida and Texas, the party drew new, heavily Latino districts that looked deep red by the 2024 results — but many are shaping up to be competitive in the midterms as Latino voters’ preferences have changed. Statewide races in Texas, Nevada and more will also be shaped by the evolving Latino vote, though it will not move as one bloc everywhere in the country.

The poll results, collected Sept. 21-28, “indicate a striking reversal of Republican gains with Latino voters and point to trouble ahead for Republican candidates in the midterms,” said Democratic pollster Aileen Cardona-Arroyo of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the poll with Republican pollster Micah Roberts and his firm, Public Opinion Strategies. Latino voters comprised around a tenth of the total vote in recent midterm elections.

Roberts referred to Latino voters as “the swingiest of swing groups,” calling the reversal since 2024 “stunning.”

“What we can really say from this data is that 2024 was the outlier,” he said, adding: “Trump is a central figure. He’s had real consequences on our politics, and without his presence, I think none of these changes would be evident in the data among Latinos.”

But the results among Latino voters are not all good news for Democrats, who have not seen their party’s image improve in two years. And while Democrats have a midterm lead, Republicans are pulling more Latino support than in any NBC News poll before the 2024 election cycle, too, dating back to 2012.

“Despite a more favorable environment for Democrats, any Democratic gains this November will be driven largely more by opposition to Trump and the economic environment than by support for Democrats,” Arroyo-Cardona said.

Trump struggles

Latino voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the president’s handling of the cost of living (78%), the economy (74%), foreign policy (68%) and immigration (69%). Trump’s best issue of the five tested is border security — where 39% approve and 58% disapprove of his handling.

His marks on foreign policy, the economy and cost of living are significantly lower than where then-President Joe Biden sat with Latino voters in September 2022, when Democrats had a better-than-expected midterm result despite losing control of the House. Then, 60% disapproved of Biden’s handling of the cost of living and 54% disapproved of his handling of the economy.

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Latino voters say the president’s policies have hurt economic conditions, compared with 23% who say his policies have helped and 11% who say they haven’t made much of a difference.

Among Latino independents, just 10% believe his policies have helped the economy, while 72% believe his policies have hurt it.

Meanwhile, inflation and the cost of living ranked as the most important issue to 33% of Latino voters. That made it the top issue in the survey — and a majority (52%) ranked it as the most or second-most important issue.

Latino voters who say the cost of living is the most important issue also prefer a Democratic Congress by 22 points. That’s a shift from the 2024 poll, when Republicans had a 4-point edge among these voters.

A sizable majority of Latinos (63%) say their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living, while 25% say it is staying even and 11% say it is going up faster than the cost of living, similar to findings in 2024.

Luisa Santiago, a 59-year-old Florida retiree who participated in the survey, told NBC News in a subsequent interview that she voted for Trump in 2024 after a lifetime of voting for Democrats and convinced many of her friends to do the same. She was frustrated with the Democrats on the economy and on transgender issues.

“It was a big deal when we voted for Republicans, and then we feel like it was a complete mistake,” she said, calling Trump a “disappointment.”

“I’m more embarrassed than my friends because I was the one who convinced them to vote for him,” she added.

Santiago lambasted the president’s deportation policies as “brutal” and “cold,” while also saying the difficult economic climate is weighing heavily on her and her family.

While immigration didn’t rank as highly on the priority list, Latino voters expressed similar frustration with Trump’s hard-edged deportation policies.

Two-thirds say Trump’s immigration enforcement measures have gone too far, 22% say he’s struck the right approach, and 9% say he hasn’t gone far enough.

While 83% support deporting all undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes, just 37% support deporting every undocumented immigrant in the U.S.

Roberts, the Republican pollster, pointed to the difference between support for deporting serious criminals and deporting everyone in America illegally as he imagined “what might have been” for Republicans.

“There is support for a certain level of immigration enforcement, but the Latino electorate believes it’s gone way too far,” he added.

In the poll, 31% of Latino voters say they or someone close to them started carrying identification over concerns about ICE enforcement, while 27% say they know someone who has been deported or detained by ICE in the last two years.

Eighteen percent say they or someone close to them has considered leaving the U.S. over the last two years over concerns about ICE enforcement, and 17% say they or someone close to them has considered not voting in person this year because of concerns about ICE.

Maria, a Florida voter in her 20s who responded to the poll, told NBC News in a follow-up interview that Trump has “fallen short” in the two years since she voted for him. She declined to share her last name while discussing politics.

She highlighted frustration on the economy and on deportations, arguing that while Trump promised to deport the worst of the worst, “I’ve had many friends, family members deported.”

“They were supposed to be here. They had paperwork, and it didn’t matter. And now they can never come back. One of my friend’s grandpas didn’t even get deported to his home country. He got deported to Mexico instead of Cuba,” she later added.

Midterms fallout

The numbers for Trump and Republicans could spell trouble in November in states and districts with sizable Latino populations.

“In a lot of the heavily Hispanic and Latino districts across the country that Trump and Republicans did well, and better than ever in, in 2024, you’re going to see that reversal,” said Roberts, the Republican pollster, noting Trump’s tough numbers on immigration and the cost of living.

“This entire poll is full of very clear directional signals that Latinos have turned from 2024 and are ready to make a different choice with regard to who’s in control of Congress,” Roberts said.

Democrats’ 24-point lead on the generic congressional ballot is twice as large as their margin in the 2024 version of the poll. But it’s not nearly as wide as the 43-point lead the party enjoyed at this point in the 2018 midterms.

Latino voters also now say Democrats would better handle the cost of living and the economy by significant margins, erasing the advantages Trump and Republicans have enjoyed in past elections.

Latino voters favor Democrats to handle other issues, and they break even on which party would better handle border security. More voters also say Democrats are more likely than Republicans to share their values and address the concerns of the Hispanic community.

Amid the economic frustrations, voters are also more motivated to head to the polls in November. A sizable majority (72%) rank themselves a 10 out of 10 in terms of interest in November’s elections, compared with 54% at this time in 2024. Meanwhile, 62% say they are more motivated to vote this year than in midterms past.

And a majority (54%) say their midterm vote is meant to send a signal of opposition to Trump, while 21% say they want to signal their support for Trump and 23% say their vote is not about sending a signal to the president either way.

While the poll results offer plenty of short-term upside for Democrats, they also outline longer-term changes trending against the party.

While Latino voters’ negative views of the GOP have jumped since 2024, views of the Democratic Party have not improved. Now, 62% of Latino voters have negative views of the Republican Party, a 16-point increase from two years ago, while 42% have a negative view of the Democratic Party, a 4-point increase from 2024.

“I’m still wary about the Democratic Party because I don’t really know that much other than what I was fed,” said Maria, the Florida voter in her 20s, before adding that she’s still leaning toward voting for Democrats: “I feel like I have to put my faith in them now to fix things.”

She said she voted for Trump in 2024 in large part because her family instilled a fear of socialism and Democrats in her.

The poll found that socialism remains underwater with Latino voters — 13% feel positively about it and 41% view socialism negatively, with 38% feeling neutral about socialism.

Cardona-Arroyo, the Democratic pollster, noted that the party has work to do after the midterms to develop a broader message.

“What do Democrats do to move beyond this place where they’re running on opposition to the Republican Party, which I think will work in ’26?” Cardona-Arroyo said. “It’s sort of an open question of whether that will work in ’28.”

The NBC News/Telemundo poll surveyed 800 registered Latino voters Sept. 21-28 via a mix of telephone interviews and an online survey sent via text messages. Overall, 20% of the interviews were conducted in Spanish. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

This article originally appeared on NBC News at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/poll-latino-voters-swing-away-trump-republicans-midterm-shift-rcna599894
Sunday October 04, 2026

Democratic House members are writing bills to rein in a president’s emergency powers. Lawyers are strategizing about how to insulate the Justice Department from presidential influence. A House measure would block a president from unilaterally remodeling the White House. Ethicists are writing rules to prevent a future first family from self-dealing.

Throughout Washington and beyond, President Donald Trump’s opponents are scrambling to ensure that after he leaves office, the changes he has imposed on the presidency, and the country, will fade with him.

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Whether they succeed could determine whether Trump’s aggressive exercise of executive powers will be limited to a finite stretch of U.S. history or will instead become a model for every president to come.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Maryland), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said that Trump’s uses of presidential power can and must be reversed - but doing so will take decades.

“We have a massive reconstruction task ahead of us,” Raskin said in an interview. “Fortunately, reconstruction has a great history in our country, and when it’s allowed to work, it has been a lot more successful than either authoritarianism or revolution. … We will have to go department by department, subject by subject, and public purpose by public purpose to determine what we salvage and what we re-create.”

From the beginning of the republic, the three branches have jostled for control over spending, war-making, immigration and virtually every other government function. Trump is hardly the first president to try to sharply elbow the other branches out of the way.

In 1981, Ronald Reagan startled critics by firing more than 11,000 air traffic controllers. George W. Bush, jolted by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, secretly approved tactics against prisoners that many considered torture.

Barack Obama, initially critical of such actions, went on to expand presidential authority in his own right. He created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012 by executive order, prompting GOP complaints that he was simply making up a law. He used drone strikes to target and kill suspected terrorists far from traditional battlefields. And he put numerous “czars” over areas like energy and health care, which Republicans charged was a way to avoid confirmation fights.

Tiffany Justice, executive vice president of the conservative group Heritage Action, pointed to this history to dismiss talk of post-Trump reforms, saying the president is doing nothing Democratic presidents have not done and predicting that Democrats’ plans will go nowhere.

“They are full of baloney - I don’t think Democrats would ever limit the power of a Democratic president,” Justice said. “The idea of Democrats saving democracy, it’s nonsense.”

Administration officials argue that Trump has changed the country forever and followed established procedures for everything he has done. “The Trump administration has abided by all legal decisions and gone through the appellate process with great success,” said a White House spokesman. “His successes on behalf of the American people will be imprinted upon the fabric of America and will be felt by every other White House that comes after him,” said White House communications director Steven Cheung.

But Trump’s critics say that in the scale, sweep and sheer aggressiveness of his actions - from demolishing the East Wing of the White House to pursuing legal actions against political opponents - Trump has pushed executive authority far beyond any previous modern president.

With a possible recapture of Congress just one month away, Democrats’ efforts to limit the staying power of those changes are heating up.

Several lawmakers are crafting bills to curtail a president’s ability to declare emergencies, which Trump has used in novel ways, declaring about a dozen emergencies to justify policies as varied as imposing tariffs, accelerating deportations and deploying the National Guard. Reps. Suzan DelBene (D-Washington) and Don Beyer (D-Virginia) have introduced a bill forbidding a president from levying tariffs under the guise of a national emergency unless Congress agrees.

Raskin has drafted bills to ban a president from accepting payments from foreign governments without Congress’s consent and require a public review for renovations of the White House. Another measure would block a president from entering monetary settlements with his own government, which a federal judge scolded Trump and the Justice Department for this summer, saying they had attempted to “use” and “manipulate” the court to legitimize a deal that would have shielded Trump from IRS scrutiny and set up a nearly $1.8 billion fund for alleged victims of politicized prosecutions.

Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and potential Democratic presidential candidate, recently released an ethics proposal for all three branches of government that would ban trading stocks and betting in prediction markets, require a blind trust for anyone worth more than $1 million, and forbid individuals from accepting foreign gifts. Trump has traded millions of dollars worth of individual stocks since taking office and famously accepted the gift of an aircraft from the Qatari government.

And Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) has introduced a No Political Enemies Act, forbidding executive branch officials from prosecuting or punishing individuals or groups for their speech, something Trump has done relatively openly.

Some of these proposals may be partly symbolic, aimed at galvanizing voters and showing resistance to Trump rather than serving as strict blueprints for reform. Democrats themselves do not know when, if ever, they may have the public support to push them through. They have no guarantee of success; Trump survived two impeachments, prosecutions and investigations before winning the White House a second time.

Still, the Democrats say they see little alternative to trying.

The Partnership for Public Service, which trains government employees and advocates for ways to improve the public workforce, has crafted proposals to strengthen civil service protections, making it harder for future presidents to fire employees en masse as Trump and his ally Elon Musk did. Congress, for example, could strengthen rules requiring that hiring and firing must be based on merit and due process - and then confront an administration that violates those rules.

Would-be reformers argue that periods of excess in U.S. history often prompt waves of reform. The Gilded Age of the late 1800s gave way to the Progressive Era. The corruption of Watergate in the 1970s generated a slew of new ethics laws.

It is not clear whether Americans support a new wave of reform laws. But a Pew poll last year found that 78 percent of Americans had concerns about expanding presidential power.

“Throughout American history, reform follows scandal,” said Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, a liberal-leaning think tank that focuses on law and democracy. “It does not always follow scandal, but that’s when it happens. I think there will be a real hunger, I hope from both parties, to write into law some of the protections that were assumed to be there before.”

Some historians say many of Trump’s actions will be hard to reverse. It is far easier to smash through guardrails, they say, than to rebuild them. Most modern presidents have expanded executive power at the expense of Congress. Whether that trend continues could depend in large part on whether the legislative branch begins to reassert itself as a counterweight to the presidency.

“Once we get through this nightmare, the rest of our careers will have to be devoted to reviving American progress and building institutions that endure and succeed,” Raskin said. “That is going to be the work of the rest of our lives.”

The temptation for revenge - or acquiescence

The midterm campaigns have spawned numerous Democratic candidates with sharply combative anti-Trump messages. If they win majorities in Congress, some Democrats could well be tempted to turn the president’s hardball tactics against him and his followers once he leaves the scene.

A post-Trump president could, for example, prod the Justice Department to investigate his own political adversaries, as Trump has.

“It will be very tempting for Democrats to say, ‘Oh, you think we are going to limit our abuse of the Justice Department? We don’t want to be suckers,’” Waldman said. “But I think that would be a big mistake. Everybody benefits when the rule of law is in play across the government.”

More immediately, the next administration will have to decide whether to prosecute Trump officials who may have broken the law by misusing their authority. Some Democrats, for example, say the way Justice Department officials have targeted Trump’s enemies is illegal and could expose those officials to charges.

Trump, in an effort to counteract such moves, has promised that before he leaves office he will preemptively pardon anyone who has come “within 200 feet” of the Oval Office, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

Some liberals say Democrats should take a lesson from Trump on how to govern with force and purpose. Trump does not hesitate to take actions that skirt the edges of legality, happy to let the courts sort it out. He pressures private firms to back his policies. He issues sweeping executive orders rather than trying to persuade Congress to act.

“This president litigates the way he bargains: He makes some very far-out claims, not expecting to win them all, but sort of ‘what the hell’ - that’s his theory,” said William A. Galston, a former domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton. “If you lose cases no other president would have dreamed of bringing, and you win a few big ones, you’re ahead of the game.”

It may be tempting for future presidents to act the same way. “There has been an overcautiousness in some Democratic and some Republican administrations that will seem quite quaint after this administration,” said Ben Olinsky, senior vice president at the Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank.

That is especially true of executive orders and actions, which Trump has refashioned as all-purpose policy and communications weapons. He has issued more than 280 so far in his second term, far outpacing his recent predecessors, according to figures compiled by the American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

“A new administration will do a lot of governing through executive order,” said Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University. “They will want to show that they can act decisively.”

Even while they plot a post-Trump future, many Democrats say they cannot simply return to a status quo that voters hated. Yet it is far from clear what their new agenda will be.

Max Stier, president of the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, said the damage Trump has inflected on the current system opens up new possibilities. Stier has suggested slashing the roughly 4,000 political appointees in the government, saying they can be unqualified and unaccountable.

“There is opportunity in this madness, the opportunity to reexamine some of the basic expectations around our government,” Stier said. “Because the status quo has been disrupted, the ability to think larger and bigger is there.”

Tiffany Justice, of Heritage Action, challenged that entire narrative. Trump is not wielding the presidency in some new way, she said, but rather using it as Democrats always have - and that is what truly upsets the left.

“President Trump is using his power in a way that Democrats have in the past,” Justice said, citing, for example, President Joe Biden’s order protecting gender transition care. “Republicans always in the past have been uneasy about using power. Democrats are never uneasy about using power.”

Another Watergate?

If there is anything that gives would-be reformers hope, it is the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard M. Nixon.

Nixon, like Trump, stretched presidential authority in ways that challenged the law and the Constitution. After his 1974 resignation, a previously quiescent Congress roared back to action, as lawmakers rushed to make sure Watergate could not happen again. Congress passed bills restricting a president’s ability to misuse private data, spy on Americans, misspend campaign cash, declare emergencies, control spending and more.

Some critics envision a post-Trump America swept up in a similar reform fever, with lawmakers scrambling to score political points amid widespread public revulsion over Trump’s self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment.

For example, Congress could make it illegal to do what Trump’s firebrand housing official Bill Pulte has done - accuse the president’s critics of mortgage fraud with little evidence. Or it could restrict the ability of a Federal Communications Commission chairman, like Trump’s Brendan Carr, to target outlets disliked by the president.

The Justice Department is a particular focus of the would-be reformers, many of them former department lawyers frustrated by the way Trump has used DOJ to pursue his adversaries. Under Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly Trump’s personal attorney, and his predecessor Pam Bondi, many experienced attorneys have fled the department or been forced out.

Vanita Gupta, who served as associate attorney general under Biden, said Justice Department veterans of both parties are discussing how to restore the department to its former ethos of independence.

“Rebuilding will be challenging, no doubt, but former DOJ officials from Republican and Democratic administrations are already thinking about how to get it done,” Gupta said. “Seasoned career leaders have told me that they would return to rebuild the department, even knowing lifetime tenure may be a thing of the past.”

Historians concede the Watergate analogy has its limits. The 1974 scandal propelled Democrats to overwhelming majorities of 61-39 in the Senate and 291-144 in the House; those margins are unthinkable today. Americans have become more polarized in the past 50 years, a trend that works against any broad-based reform crusade.

A powerful executive has gained additional theoretical backing in recent decades, as conservative legal scholars have advanced a “unitary executive” theory, arguing the U.S. Constitution gives the president nearly unfettered, unreviewable control over the executive branch.

What the people want

Ultimately, the shape of the post-Trump future will be determined by how Americans feel when he exits the stage: Will they applaud his exercise of power and attacks on long-standing structures? Or will they recoil?

“The president and the courts are staring at one another over the mostly supine body of the Congress of the United States, and it’s very dangerous for constitutional government,” Galston said.

The Supreme Court’s path is unclear as well. Some Democrats privately echo a sentiment voiced by Clinton - that the justices may not give future presidents the same leeway they have accorded Trump. The court has already been far more deferential to Trump than it was to Biden, these Democrats say.

“I have a sinking suspicion if our party wins the White House in the next election, there will be a hallelujah moment and the Supreme Court will rediscover the Constitution,” Clinton said on ABC’s “The View” last year.

Even if some curbs on presidential power are reestablished, Trump’s demonstration that they can be dismantled is likely to have long-term effects.

Young people might be less willing to work for a government whose policies vacillate wildly from one president to another, and where long tenure is not guaranteed. Foreign allies have made it clear they are far less trusting of Washington’s commitments. Businesses and nonprofits could be less interested in accepting funding they fear could be abruptly withdrawn.

“It’s not like a toggle switch that you can just turn it on and off,” Waldman said. “Much of the federal government took a century to build.”

Some historians note Trump’s unique qualities, saying his combination of celebrity, aggressiveness and disregard for tradition is unlikely ever to be replicated. That suggests future presidents cannot simply repeat his performance, they say.

“Any thought that [Vice President] JD Vance or [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio gets to be president and do the same thing with the same abandon - I don’t see that happening,” said John Lawrence, a historian and former top aide to former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California). “He has created his own unitary executive theory, and I don’t know how it works outside the size and force of the personality of Donald Trump. But that doesn’t mean a Republican successor wouldn’t try.”

In the Progressive Era, Americans took to the streets by the thousands to demand reform, Stier said, and if Trump’s changes are ultimately reversed, it will be because of a similar groundswell.

“The most important question we face is whether we can return to a consensus that we had among Republicans, Democrats and independents for 140 years that an operating government of our values requires leaders committed to the public good, not the private interests of the officeholder of the day,” Stier said. “Can we get back to that? I think the answer is yes. But we need a public that demands it.”

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Sunday October 04, 2026

Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a mass shooting from early Sunday morning, leading to two deaths and dozens injured.

Dooly County Coroner Brett Walls told WALB and WMAZ that two people were dead, a 20-year-old man and a 23-year-old man in Vienna, two hours south of Atlanta.

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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that they were assisting with response to the incident on Pine Street, working with the Dooly County Sheriff’s Office.

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Walls said the scene was “horrific.”

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Sheriff Craig Peavy told WALB and WMAZ that the Vienna shooting happened during a homecoming celebration from Saturday night and into early Sunday.

Peavy told WMAZ the celebration had about 1,000 people attending and during the festivities, shots were fired at about 50 people.

Police there told WALB that the number of injured was high but could not provide a specific count, at the time.

The sheriff told WMAZ that as many as 25 people were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.

On Sunday morning, the GBI said 35 people were injured.

It is still unclear if any suspects are being sought or in custody, nor is a possible motive for the shooting known.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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