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Some Republicans fretting about the upcoming midterms on social media could not seem to squeeze into a comfortable position Tuesday night after incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) lost his seat to Republican challenger Ken Paxton.MAGA faithful delighted in the news, with right-wing pundits like Nick Sorter crowing victory Tuesday night after results rolled in.“HEY THUNE: Texas is sending a MESSAGE to you. You could’ve avoided this ENTIRE PRIMARY and KEPT John Cornyn if you would’ve just passed the SAVE America Act,” Sorter said on X. “You snubbed us, thinking you could just BUY elections. YOU WERE WRONG. Voters

President Donald Trump may believe himself to be dying and is acting without regard to his popularity for that reason.That, at least, is the theory promulgated by commentators Wajahat Ali and Allison Gill in a Tuesday post on their Substack called The Left Hook.“Trump is decaying, both in body and popularity,” Ali and Gill wrote. “The nearly 80-year-old vulgarian is a diminished man with historically low favorability ratings. He has dragged the GOP down with him. His actions are more reflective of a paranoid, weak King who knows his end is near and is desperately trying to san

President Donald Trump will leave power of his own accord if one thing happens, argues a longtime political expert — and that one thing is very much in the American people’s control.“We’re looking to achieve a staggering, breathtaking, comprehensive, and total defeat of Trumpism. I think we can do that,” longtime Democratic strategist James Carville told Politicon on Tuesday. “But it requires all of us pushing in the same direction.”Carville argued that, instead of rejecting the claim of having “Trump De

President Donald Trump’s 11th hour endorsement against incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn seems to have paid off in Texas as Trump’s champion Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton swamped Cornyn in the Senate primary, according to CNN and MS NOW projections.Trump routinely targets Republicans he finds too independent by fielding or supporting more Trumpy candidates in primaries. More recently, Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, became the latest victim of Trump's effort to

President Donald Trump is forcing the Republican Party into a politically perilous position in advance of the upcoming midterm elections — and they are now relying on a gamble that traces back to former President Richard Nixon’s administration.“Even as Congress abandoned plans to pass an immigration-spending package before Memorial Day, as Republicans revolted against the Trump administration’s pursuit of a $1.776 billion settlement fund for his allies, key House Republicans were discussing a sprint toward a third bill under the so-called budget reconciliation process that would advance by the end of next month,”

President Donald Trump recently nominated Kari Lake, the failed Arizona Republican candidate for senator and governor, to be US ambassador to Jamaica — and Arizonans are expressing their chagrin.“The former Phoenix newscaster doesn’t have any obvious connection to the country, other than having vacationed there on repeated occasions, and her history in the public eye evidences a distinct lack of diplomatic tact,” reported Phoenix New Times' Zach Buchanan on Tuesday. “But who knows, maybe the post will fit her like a glove. Maybe it’s not, as many in the political realm see it, an obvious demotion to get a troublesome Trump acolyte out of his orbit.”Prio

President Donald Trump’s FBI director, Kash Patel, has repeatedly been accused of firing agents who do not explicitly show partisan loyalty to Trump’s Republican Party. Now those alleged partisan terminations have reached a celebrated agent — one who worked on a case concerning endangered lawmakers nearly a decade ago.Deputy Assistant Director Emily Morales was fired by Patel, as reported by MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian on Tuesday, allegedly because she did not arrive at a pro-Republican conclusion about the 2017 congressional baseball shooting by

President Donald Trump is trying to create a climate of fear in America, but his former Homeland Security chief of staff told MS NOW that the courts are punishing him for his effort.“Just think about this — our friend Kyle Cheney over at Politico, I think as of earlier this month, documented that there had been 10,000 cases judges had thrown out of people illegally put in immigration custody,” Miles Taylor told Nicole Wallace on MS NOW. “That's just one type of case — 10,000 thrown out. There's a 9-to-1 loss ratio when the government gets challenged on illegal detention. That is breathtaking. And that's just immigration.”He added, “Then you look at the big constitutional suits against this

Last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX released its IPO prospectus in preparation for going public in June, and now that experts have had a chance to pore through its 277 pages, one analyst has bad news for interested investors: the company is a “trainwreck.”This is according to Ed Elson, a prominent financial and tech analyst who is particularly well known among Gen-Z, who posted on Tuesday, “I read all 277 pages of SpaceX's IPO filing so you don't have to.” His nutshell assessment was not optimistic: “Losses up 700 percent. Revenue decelerating. 107x pr

The stress cracks are undeniably starting to show in the White House, if explosions from White House staff are an indicator.MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace cited White House spokesperson Steven Cheung’s social media response to Mike Pompeo criticism of a deal being negotiated by the Trump administration to end the Iran war, telling the one-time Trump ally to “shut his stupid mouth.”“Mike Pompeo has no idea what the f—— he's talking about. He should shut his stupid mouth and leave the real work to the professionals. He'