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COLUMBIA — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham again called on two of his GOP challengers to fire campaign workers over social media posts, saying their “vile antisemitic” positions don’t belong in the Republican Party.Tuesday’s news conference marked the second time in two weeks that the Republican senator drew attention to the past posts and two of his GOP opponents: Mark Lynch, an Upstate furniture seller, and Paul Dans, a Charleston attorney.Both candidates, who launched their bids to unseat Graham last year and are the best funded among his six primary opponents, have dismissed the criticism while declining to address the specific posts or antisemitism generally.The campaign workers singled

President Donald Trump took Iranian leaders’ suggestion to wait his favored “two-weeks” before delivering the destruction of Iran’s power plants and road infrastructure. But Vox world news senior correspondent Joshua Keating said it’s hard to see what Trump got out of backing down after a “wild day’ of threats, chest-beating and ceasefire.“It’s unclear to what extent the adversary has actually surr

Chris Taylor, an appeals court judge and former Democratic lawmaker, was elected to an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday, securing a 5-2 majority for the Court’s liberal wing and ensuring that control remains intact until at least 2028.When the race was called by the Associated Press less than an hour after polls closed, Taylor held a 22 point lead over Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, making a four election winning streak for the liberal candidates running for Wisconsin’s highest court. It also gives an early signal on the mood of the state’s voters ahead of this year’s midterm elections, when the governor’s office, majority control of the Legislature and a few competitive congressiona

President Donald Trump is likely to lose the House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate during the 2026 midterm elections — which is why a political journalist just broke down the various methods he plans on using to not allow that to happen.“The 2026 midterms aren’t just about votes — they’re about who sets the rules,” wrote Katie Couric Media's News and Politics Editor Tess Bonn on Tuesday. “Over the course of his administration, President Trump and his allies are attempting to make moves that could reshape how Americans vote. That includes an executive order on mail-in ballots, a push for access to sensitive voter data, renewed calls to redraw

The conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal is putting the American vice president on notice for throwing his lot in with Hungarian despot Viktor Orbán, arguably to appease the Tucker Carlson wing of MAGA.JD Vance was in Budapest on Tuesday “to meddle in Hungary’s national election,” said the WSJ editorial board, but it appears to be in an effort “to help himself in 2028.”"By showing up in Budapest, and doing a rally and presser with Mr. Orbán, Mr. Vance is pursuing his s

President Donald Trump is putting Social Security in danger, a Democratic and Republican experts agree — although they arrive at that conclusion from different vantage points.“In the post-Cold War era, our ability to do deficit spending is used to prop up Social Security and Medicare, which are too costly to be sustained through current revenues,” wrote The Bulwark’s Jonathan V. Last on Tuesday. “We sell Treasury bills to a world that is hungry for them so that we can pay our Social Security and Medicare obligations every year.”Last argued that because America can borrow money cheaply, they are able to prop up Social Security and Medicare in this way. That will not last, t

President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iranian civilization unless it capitulated to American demands on Tuesday morning, then walked back his pledge on Tuesday evening — continuing his “Trump Always Chickens Out” (TACO) pattern, which many on social media quickly pointed out."After promising to destroy Iran, Trump agrees to a ‘TACO Tuesday’ two-week ceasefire,” wrote AF Post shortly after Trump’s Iran announcement. Similarly an account called “Republicans Against Trump” pointed out the president’s convenient flip-flop."BREAKING: Donald Trump agrees to suspend U.S. bombing of Iran for two weeks, ‘This will be a

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt railed his old party for putting party over country and refusing to curtail President Donald Trump’s power grabs.“It's an age of epic cowardice of selfishness of greed,” Schimdt told Left Hook podcaster Wajahat Ali. “These are despicable, villainous people, and I think the High Court of History is going to judge them very, very harshly.”Thanks to Republicans, Schmidt said the nation no longer has the system of checks and balances envisioned by the founders of the country.“A system with checks and balances and a separation of powers and a separation between chu

President Donald Trump is lying in ways that strangle democracy, and yet according to a conservative commentator, Americans who should take this more seriously simply are not doing so.“So far this year, the president has failed to convince Congress to pass his SAVE America Act, which among other things would require voters nationwide to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote or vote by mail,” wrote The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger on Tuesday. “But last week, he tried to scratch his election-meddling itch in an

An intelligence official who resigned from President Donald Trump’s administration to protest the war in Iran argued America now “stands in danger” of his rage.“Trump believes he is threatening Iran with destruction, but it is America that now stands in danger,” Joe Kent, former Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center, posted on the social media platform X on Tuesday. “If he attempts to eradicate Iranian civilization, the United States will no longer be viewed as a stabilizing force in the world, but as an agent of chaos — effectively ending our status as the world’s greatest superpower.”He added, “This wou