@vanityfair: Welcome to the 2026 midterms: weird, wild, vital, nasty, and unnervingly online. If 2024 was the podcast election, 2026 is shaping up to be the short-form-video election. A fresh crop of young Democrats is using viral videos to catapult their campaigns to national attention and build massive war chests. Ossoff has pulled in $110 million this election cycle thanks in part to this modern media strategy, while Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is betting that social media stardom can translate into votes. In Vanity Fair’s series leading up to Election Day, we’re popping around the country to examine the hope and mire of the campaign trail and take stock of where the country might go next. Read more from Vanity Fair’s Aidan Mclaughlin at our link in bio.

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