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After Bulwark Editor Sarah Longwell finished processing a recent slate of surveys, she said she was surprised by the sheer amount of indifference (and even suspicion) haunting respondents who had voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024.“Okay, let me just set the table on this because we did five groups this week all across the political spectrum, and not a single one brought up the White House correspondence dinner situation,” Longwell told podcast guest host and former GOP speechwriter David Frum. “Nobody brought this up organically — not in five groups where we asked ‘how do you think things are going in

An aide to President Donald Trump has revealed the current mood among White House insiders, telling MS NOW that administration officials are privately acknowledging the Republican Party is “already cooked” in the 2026 midterm elections.“The vibe right now is we know we are already cooked in the midterms,” the anonymous White House official told MS NOW, according to a report published Saturday morning.The source of the dismay is multi-faceted, including soaring gas prices, creeping inflation and an

The president's illegal and unpopular war against Iran is driving up the cost of gas so much that it seems all but certain that we're going to experience a inflationary recession. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, rose in March to its highest level in three years. I'm not an economist. I don't know when. I don't know how. But I do know that for 60 days, there has been a bubble of magical thinking around Wall Street. It seems ready to burst.Marketplace

Negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the war are at an impasse as the conflict enters its third month. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday that Trump has told aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iranian ports to ramp up the pressure on Tehran.Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. “when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be the illegal military naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,” says Drop Site News co-founder Jeremy Scahill. “Iran has maintained that it’s not shut down the strait, but that it’s just shut it down for any vessels that are linked to the U.S. war in any way.”Scahill says a disorganized Trump ad

The night before the Kentucky Derby, Republican President Donald Trump placed his bets on two Republicans facing crowded primaries — U.S. Rep. Andy Barr for U.S. Senate and Ralph Alvarado for a U.S. House seat in central Kentucky.Trump said he was backing “Proven Political Winner” U.S. Rep. Andy Barr in a race for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat Friday night roughly two weeks out from the primary election.The president gave Barr his “Complete and Total Endorsement” in a post on Truth Social.“Andy is the only Candidate who will easily defeat the Democrat in what will be one of the most important Elections i

Donald Trump, currently arguing on appeal that the 1st Amendment protected his right to incite the J6 mob, simultaneously claims the 1st Amendment does not protect a comedian’s right to insult him.Two days after a man tried to enter the Correspondents Dinner armed with weapons, Trump took to Truth Social

Yesterday marked 60 days since the start of Trump’s failed war in Iran. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) gives Congress the power “To declare War,” and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 — enacted over Nixon’s veto — mandates that troops be withdrawn within 60 days unless Congress extends the deadline or declares war.On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that Trump doesn’t need Congress’s approval to continue the war past the 60-day mark because the ceasefire agreement with Iran has effectively stopped the clock. (Trump echoed Hegseth’s claim today in a letter to Congress.)That’s bull----, of course. But the interesting question is why — when Republicans ha

Former CNN contributor Wajahat Ali called for MAGA commenter Scott Jennings to be fired from cable news after his humiliating Thursday night tantrum at liberal pundit Alan Mockler.Mockler demolished Jennings' arguments defending President Donald Trump’s Iran war, arguing that the war "is going to put us trillions and trillions of dollars more in debt," as well as "failing" and "not going [Republicans’] way."Jennings grew angry, accusing Mockler of having "the attention span of a gnat." Then he barhed for Mockler to "get your f—— hand out of my face."By late

Former Army major Harrison Mann says President Donald Trump tosses off lies and untruths, but his latest this week isn’t doing anything to help the party catching splash damage from his Iran conflagration.Trump claimed this week that his self-declared war on Iran is officially over, but Iran gets its own say and is maintaining its block on global oil tankers filing through the narrow Strait of Hormuz. This is walloping U.S. and global oil and fertilizer prices and delivering considerable damage to Trump and his party.“F

The Daily Beast reports President Donald Trump bragged about his ability to correctly identify common animals while touting his mental prowess on Friday, and he even suggested his fans could not pass such a test.Trump, who is now 79, said at a rally in Central Florida that he is proud that he managed to ‘ace’ three cognitive tests identifying animals like giraffes, bears and sharks.“You know I’m the only president to take a cognitive test, because I don’t think Obama could pass it. Didn’t he get into Harvard with a C-Average? I don’t think he coul