2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1450+ words) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe can be paid for with funds from the so-called “Trump Platinum Card,” which hasn’t even been launched yet. Lutnick shared this ridiculous idea with NBC News on Thursday. The Platinum Card is…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (158+ words) Donald Trump’s tailspinning continues. A CNN analysis finds that Trump has a lower approval rating than any of his predecessors going into midterms in this millennium. That’s worse than Joe Biden in 2022, Barack Obama in 2014 and 2010, and even George W....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (641+ words) It isn’t every day that Republicans admit that Donald Trump is harming their midterm hopes. After all, that would require an admission of Trumpian fallibility, which is unacceptable to MAGA. But on Thursday, Kentucky Representative James Comer dropped a revealing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1034+ words) At least two Republicans in Congress are now calling for Pete Hegesth’s ouster as secretary of defense. Following Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation on Wednesday, Senator Thom Tillis called for President Trump to fire Hegseth, saying that he has “never…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1118+ words) Republican House leadership has announced that the largest U.S. governing body will be taking a massive fall break, seriously cutting legislative calendar before November’s midterm elections. This comes after the House was already out of session for 5 weeks until returning on…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (606+ words) Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about her parents. They both passed away fairly suddenly—her mother of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and her father of a heart…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1780+ words) In addition to those headaches, Scudder created one of his own by restructuring the party’s operations. Rather than being centralized in Austin, staff are now distributed across Austin, Dallas, Houston, Eagle Pass, and Amarillo. Some staff quit as a result....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1458+ words) It’s been at least 75 days since Senator Mitch McConnell has been seen in public. Yet on Thursday—despite McConnell supposedly being weeks into an intensive rehabilitation routine—his team blatantly refused to provide a progress report. The last time his…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1411+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. So here’s the question: Could what Trump is doing here make a difference and hurt Republicans in the midterms? We…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (173+ words) This week, Donald Trump aggressively highlighted a long screed from a MAGA influencer that sharply criticized the GOP for failing in all kinds of ways. This is aimed like a laser at depressing the Trump base. Making this matter more,…...