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Republican pundit and Trump supporter Scott Jennings suffered an odd moment of silence after CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and Democratic strategist Karen Finney corrected his claim that inflation numbers today are better than they were under former president Joe Biden.Collins asked Jennings point blank for his take on President Donald Trump’s claim to “love” inflation—even as it plagues voters seeing $70 vehicle fill-ups and $500 increase in monthly grocery bills.“No, it was very inartful. I mean, I understand what he was I think he was saying that he feels encouraged that

President Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, which recently gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, has in theory disempowered Black voters — but he may actually have stirred them to action.“Democrats may have been rightly apoplectic with the Supreme Court’s ruling gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—and the rush to carve up the electoral power of black voters in the South that followed,” wrote The Bulwark’s Lauren Egan on Wednesday. “But in the short term, they have begun to see political opportunity.”Egan observed t

President Donald Trump is apparently tampering so thoroughly in elections that even a staunchly MAGA official is raising alarms about it.“[Maricopa County Attorney Rachel] Mitchell garnered national attention after Senate Republicans tapped her to question Christine Blasey Ford during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process after Ford alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her as a teenager,” wrote MS NOW’s Ja'han Jones on Wednesday. “Kavanaugh has flatly denied the allegation.”Yet despite Mitchel

While an endorsement from President Donald Trump can make or break Republicans in some state primaries, sticking to the president’s side may not be enough to pull you through by itself, reports the State.Such appears to be the case for freshman state Rep. Luke Rankin, R-Laurens, who lost his bid for reelection on Tuesday, even after sponsoring Trump’s failed legislation to redraw South Carolina’s congressional maps just weeks earlier.Republican Rick Shealy, founder of an environmental services company, defeated Rankin by about 20 points in the Republican primary, accordin

President Donald Trump reportedly squashed a potential meeting between New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, even though Petro is not regarded as a persona non grata by the US government.“New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was planning to hold his first meeting with a foreign leader this week, but the Trump administration effectively nixed it in a behind-the-scenes effort that marks a new flashpoint between the mayor and President Donald Trump, said four people familiar with the matter,” reported The Washington Post’s John Hud

President Donald Trump’s broken promises about the end of his war with Iran are so common now that even Fox News is getting in on the act of mocking it.Mediate reports Fox News played “a damning montage of President Donald Trump repeatedly saying that a deal to end the Iran war is just around the corner, only for there still to be no agreement.”The U.S. bombed Iran for the second day in a row at Trump’s order, largely in response Iran’s non-fatal downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter, despite Trump and his of

President Donald Trump and his supporters' plan to steal the 2026 midterm elections is more simple than was last time, according to a conservative commentator.“These days, Donald Trump reflexively denounces any election result he dislikes as stolen and fraudulent,” wrote The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger on Wednesday. “But it doesn’t always catch on. In April, Republicans seemed faintly embarrassed by his claim that Virginia’s redistricting referendum had been a ‘rigged election’ and ‘crooked victory’ after Dem

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was quick to defend President Donald Trump’s widely reported remarks following Wednesday’s sharp spike in inflation, which is now at a three-year high.“I knew somebody was going to ask me that,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju as he stepped into range of Raju's microphone. “It was totally out of context, you know what he was talking about.”When pressed whether Trump’s remarks were what voters want to hear right now, Johnson insisted that the president “is laser-focused on the domestic economic situation.” “He is working to bring down prices, he is going to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened,” Johnson insisted. “We have passed legislation, he has u

MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace had no patience for President Donald Trump’s officials stretching themselves to blame president Biden for Trump’s self-created inflationary mess. And her argument was buttressed by a host of agreement from politicians and assorted politicos.“A gallon of milk can cost $10 if it's organic and non-organic is like $6. … You don't have to be particularly price sensitive to know that the price of everything is through the roof. I mean, gas is up. You don't have to drive a truck to know that diesel is through the roof,” ranted Wallace, speaking of Trump’s helpless ignorance inside his own “fee

President Donald Trump’s administration is “falling apart,” a conservative wrote in the headline of his recent editorial — and he is not the only expert to reach that conclusion.“President Trump seems poised to throw away the achievements he has made,” wrote Elliott Abrams, a Republican foreign policy official who represented Trump in both Venezuela and Iran during his first term, in an editorial for National Review. He previously praised Trump for invading Iran to reduce their threat to global security, taking down the Venezuelan regime and increasi