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President Donald Trump is so unpopular right now, he is heading toward a historic defeat in the upcoming midterm elections, a longtime Republican strategist recently argued.“Donald Trump's poll numbers and his coalition are falling apart,” Steve Schmidt, who advised the previous Republican chief executive President George W. Bush said in a Tuesday Substack post. “It's simply staggering — unprecedented, even. Across the entire coalition, his voters are running. The Trump catastrophe is starting to land, and it's starting to be felt at the gas pumps. Everything is going to get more expensive, not less expensive, as the sum

President Donald Trump’s political brand is based on convincing unexceptional people that they are better than they actually are, but one critic says he's doing so at the expense of exceptional people who happen to belong to marginalized communities.“Donald Trump is literally hypnotizing mediocre people into thinking that they are meritocratic geniuses, while telling highly accomplished Black, Brown, and Asian people that they are nothing — that everything they have was given to them by those same mediocre people,” liberal commentator Joy-Ann Reid said on Tuesday in an episode of

President Donald Trump’s meddling has delivered a distilled crop of Trump clones in Indiana Republican primaries Tuesday. But the problem for many Republicans, is that few people outside Republican primary voters even like Trump anymore, or his clones.“Indiana Republicans who defied Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme paid for it Tuesday, as primary voters ousted five of the seven state senators the president targeted with primary challenges after they voted against his redistricting push — a decisive show o

A prosecutor appointed by President Donald Trump has Georgia election workers in his sights.“Fulton County, Georgia, is trying to fend off a subpoena from a federal prosecutor in North Carolina seeking contact information for thousands of poll workers from the 2020 election,” The Guardian’s George Chidi reported on Tuesday. “The subpoena, issued in April by Dan Bishop, the interim US attorney of North Carolina’s middle district, demands the county provide rosters of election staff members who served in the November 2020 election, including their ident

Former White House press secretary Sarah Matthews says she believes a recent report claiming President Donald Trump and the White House are coaching staff on how to stonewall investigations from an inevitable Democratic Congress after November.“They see the writing on the wall,” Matthews told a panel at MS NOW’s “The Weeknight.” “They know that the midterms are going to be brutal for them. … [W]ith these midterms coming up, voters feel a lot of buyer's remorse. They feel l

People who regularly watch Fox News are more likely to believe in a debunked conspiracy theory that has been widely linked to violence, according to a recent study.“Recent years have witnessed an increase in white Americans’ support for the Great Replacement Theory (GRT), the xenophobic conspiracy theory that posits that political elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to bring in ‘obedient’ voters who will vote for them and who will eventually replace native white citizens,” scholars Jesse Rhodes, Seth Goldman and others wrote for the journal

The IndyStar reports Indiana’s high-populated Marion County appears to be topping recent primaries as President Donald Trump made moves to remove Republican incumbents who bucked him on a recent push for a mid-decade gerrymander.“Even though a few Marion County residents may still be waiting in line to cast their votes, voter turnout is trending toward 15 percent, Dan Goldblatt, communications director for the Marion County Clerk’s Office, sa

According to a top defense expert, President Donald Trump’s Iran war has made it impossible for millions of Americans to ever trust their government’s foreign policy again.“For decades, the U.S. government has been willing to start wars but not strategically and transparently manage them, consistently misleading its citizenry to justify adventurism abroad,” Alexander Langlois, a contributing fellow for Defense Priorities, wrote for Reason on Tuesday. “The conduct of the Trump administration in the current war with Iran is no exception.”Langlois added,

MS NOW Anchor Nicole Wallace and panelists took turns ruining President Donald Trump’s look of impatience with voters while he obsesses over his various pet projects around the U.S. Capitol. “This is who he is,” said Wallace, referring to a photo of Trump hoisting a design of his beloved White House ballroom and flaunting it to the media. “He doesn't give a hoot about your economic despair, couldn't care less and has no clue how much eggs cost or anything else. He’s angry at you for caring about the price of gas, is angry at you for caring about losing your health care, is angry at

As the war with Iran moves into its third month, President Donald Trump is increasingly desperate for the “magic formula” that will deliver victory, but according to Iran expert Steven Erlanger, he can’t win because he “doesn’t understand” the situation in the first place. Not only was he misinformed about what the conflict would entail, but he is ignorant of the psychology of the Iranian regime.Writing for the New York Times, Erlanger details Trump’s efforts so far, from the airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities last June, to the initial attempt at regim