[whimsicalism]

could be malware on your computer... Politico is pretty reputable.

[kortilla]

If there was already malware on the computer, what would be the point of redirecting a page to install some malware?

This has nothing to do with politico’s reputation. Likely one of the ad networks or 3rd party scripts got compromised that politico uses on its site.

[matkoniecz]

maybe an ad with malware?