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Even though it's only February, President Donald Trump's attempts to gum up the works ahead of this fall's midterm elections are virtually guaranteed to fail. That's according to MS NOW's Ryan Teague Beckwith, who wrote in a Thursday essay that all of Trump's efforts to change the way the 2026 midterms will be conducted will likely all be for naught for one simple reason: He's too late. Beckwith wrote that even with nine months to go before Americans head to the polls, all of the preparations for the voting process are already being handled behind the scenes, meaning any sudden changes from the federal g

President Donald Trump's administration is now inviting election officials from all 50 states to a conference call later this month, where they will reportedly briefed on plans for this fall's midterm elections.Crooked Media correspondent Matt Berg reported Thursday on an email sent to state officials overseeing elections from an FBI agent identifying themselves as an "FBI election executive." The email invites states to participate in a February 25 conference call with "your election partners at the FBI, DOJ, DHS, USPIS [U.S. Postal Inspection Service] and the EAC [Election Assistance Commission]" where agencies will discuss "

Washington Monthly writer David Atkins says the Republican Party has been President Donald Trump’s greatest enabler, but even they might be willing to curb a president’s wanton power for granting pardons after Trump’s second term.“Often [Trump’s] pardons appear to have been a product of direct bribes to the president’s election campaigns himself,” said Atkins. “[I]n other cases, the recipients were donors or friends of donors; and, of

During President Donald Trump’s second term, the Republican Party has typically been a willing accomplice to the administration. The GOP has stood by his side during his many controversial power moves and they have ceded constitutional power as he bypassed the legislative branch to govern by executive orders while defying federal judges.But Politico

President Donald Trump is now saying he'll allow several billion dollars to flow to New York on one condition — that he be able to add his name to major landmarks.CNN reported Thursday that Trump communicated to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) that he would be willing to lift his hold on $16 billion for a long-planned railway project connecting New York and New Jersey underneath the Hudson River. However, the president said he would only release the money if Washington Dulles International Airport (which is in Virginia) and Penn Station in New York were renamed for him.Two unnamed sourc

While addressing the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump once again doubled down on the disproven claim that he won the 2020 election — particularly in Georgia. CNN host Jake Tapper spent part of his latest show taking apart the president's argument piece by piece.In a Thursday segment, Tapper noted that Trump remained "laser-focused on rewriting his 2020 election loss" in spite of overwhelming evidence that he lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College. He then observed that Trump used his captive audience at the National Prayer Breakfast — wh

MS NOW analyst Cornell Belcher argues a recent boo-down at a major professional wrestling event in Las Vegas reveals President Donald Trump may have lost a bigger sector of the voting class than originally expected.“That clip … at a wrestling match is, quite frankly, startling because the cultural stuff has such importance,” Belcher told MS NOW host Alicia Menendez. “These blue-collar non-college voters have been the face of Trump's support for a long time. Non-college white voters broke for Trump by 34 poi

President Donald Trump is defending allowing the nation’s last nuclear treaty with Russia to expire by declaring he’s already “stopped” nuclear wars between several countries. Experts and advocates warn that the treaty was the last barrier against a nuclear arms race.“As of today, for the first time in over half a century, the US and Russia don’t have a legally binding arms control treaty in place anymore,” observed Wall Street Journal national security reporter Robbie Gramer.“Without the New START treaty,”

One week after President Donald Trump sent FBI agents to seize Fulton County’s 2020 ballots as part of a criminal probe, a Georgia judge has apparently had it up to here with Trump-style election deniers.“The 2020 election is over,” said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, dismissing Trump-supporters’ lawsuit and effort to review ballots and materials they allege would prove Trump should have won Georgia.On top of tossing the suit, the jud

An upcoming televised hearing featuring testimony from former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has major implications for President Donald Trump, according to a recent analysis by the Bulwark's Joe Perticone.In a Thursday article, Perticone observed that House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) was successful in forcing the Clintons to testify, despite the former First Couple initially stiff-arming his subpoenas. However, after a bipartisan vote to th