Kevin Robillard

1 day ago | huffpost.com | Kevin Robillard

Watching oligarch Elon Musk and President Donald Trump break up in real time on Thursday afternoon, with both men using their preferred mediums ― Musk on the social media site he owns, Trump while talking to television cameras ― was deeply satisfying for Democrats who have come to loathe both men. Popcorn emojis are plentiful. Emotional satisfaction, however, might be all Democrats get out of the divorce between Trump and his biggest financial supporter, which gets nastier by the minute.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Arthur Delaney |Kevin Robillard

Elon Musk — world’s richest man, major government contractor, top donor and adviser to the President of the United States and guy who pays to cheat at video games — ended his tenure as a special government employee on Friday with a cheerful goodbye and thank-you from President Donald Trump.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Kevin Robillard

Earlier this month, an adviser to Democratic donors texted me to ask if I had a copy of “Original Sin,” the new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson chronicling former President Joe Biden’s “decline, its cover-up and his disastrous choice to run again,” in the words of the book’s subtitle. I told him I didn’t have one yet. “I want to know if there’s anyone else we should be mad at,” the adviser, who requested anonymity to preserve relationships, texted back.

1 month ago | huffpost.com | Kevin Robillard

Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp (R) won’t run for U.S. Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, removing the strongest potential challenger for Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. National Republicans had heavily recruited Kemp to challenge Ossoff, who is running for a second term in a swing state narrowly won by President Donald Trump in 2024. “I have decided that being on the ballot next year is not the right decision for me and my family,” Kemp told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kevin Robillard

Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp (R) won’t run for U.S. Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, removing the strongest potential challenger for Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. National Republicans had heavily recruited Kemp to challenge Ossoff, who is running for a second term in a swing state narrowly won by President Donald Trump in 2024. Democrats must hold Ossoff’s seat to have any hope of reclaiming the Senate after the midterm elections.