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Late Polls And Early Votes Stir Fear Of 'Train Wreck' Among Republicans

With the midterm elections now just four days away, Republicans are in a defensive crouch, battening down the hatches in red states amid uproar over President Donald Trump and his handling of the economy.

How badly are things going?

Trump on Wednesday announced his final event of the cycle will be a tele-rally in Louisiana, a state he won by 22 percentage points just two years ago. He will be stumping for Rep. Julia Letlow, the Republican he recruited to oust GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy in the primary.

Letlow’s general-election race hasn’t been on anyone’s radar for most of the cycle. However, anemic GOP turnout in the early-vote period, coupled with a massive surge in Black voters going to the polls, is making Republicans anxious about that seat.

And then the bad news kept on coming.

On Thursday morning, CNN released a raft of polls that showed Democrats leading Senate contests in Maine, Texas, Kansas, and Michigan, the last of which Republicans were hoping to pick up this year. If Democrats are victorious in all of those races, they will almost surely win a majority since North Carolina’s Republican-held Senate seat is projected to flip blue as well.

But Thursday also saw Fox News move its rating of South Carolina’s Senate contest from a “Lean Republican” race to a “Toss-up.” Trump-backed GOP nominee Darline Graham is struggling to win a state Trump took by 18 points. Graham is floundering because even many Republican voters view her as unqualified and are angry that Trump forced her upon them with his endorsement.

“It’s a fucking train wreck,” Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, told MS NOW of the GOP’s woes in the Palmetto State.

Meanwhile, in the race for the House, Democrats are injecting cash to run ads in a spate of GOP-held seats in districts Trump won by double-digit margins two years ago. It’s a sign they see encouraging data that will help them increase the size of the majority they are overwhelmingly favored to win Tuesday night.

The spending includes Nebraska’s 1st District, a seat Trump won by 13 points but where rural voters’ backlash to Trump’s tariffs and war in Iran have made the GOP uniquely vulnerable this cycle.

Democrats are also spending in multiple Republican-held House seats in Florida that Trump carried by double digits, signaling that the gerrymander Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican legislature passed may indeed be the dummymander Democrats warned it would be.

Indeed, things are so bad that once-optimistic Republicans are now sounding increasingly pessimistic about their party’s odds. That includes GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini, who was writing pieces in September arguing polls were overstating Democrats, but he is now sounding alarm bells about Republican early-vote turnout in the South and what that could mean for his party on Nov. 3.

Less than a week from polls closing, and there is little good news out there for Republicans.

Nasty Nancy Mace Launches Expulsion Bid Against An Even Worse Republican

Nasty Nancy Mace Launches Expulsion Bid Against An Even Worse Republican

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has launched a new crusade.

After the Republican firebrand cruelly tried to ban a transgender lawmaker from bathrooms on Capitol Hill and feuded with airport leadership in her home state of South Carolina—two battles where she was objectively in the wrong—she has now taken on a new foe. And this time, her target is valid.

Mace is trying to expel fellow House Republican and skeeze ball Cory Mills, who is accused of a whole host of horrific things including assault, domestic violence, revenge porn, stolen valor, and even illegally obtaining federal contracts as a member of Congress.“The swamp has protected Cory Mills for far too long and we are done letting it slide,” Mace said Monday in a statement after introducing a resolution to expel the Florida man from Congress. “We tried to censure him and strip him from his committee assignments. Both parties blocked it, but we are not backing down. The evidence against Mills is overwhelming: beating women and telling them to lie about it, cyberstalking women, lying about his military service, and profiting off his seat. Any Member who votes to keep him here is voting to protect a woman beater and a fraud. He needs to be expelled immediately.”

Mace resorted to an expulsion resolution because Mills is refusing to resign—despite multiple other GOP members of Congress urging him to do so.

“There’s absolutely no reason to resign,” Mills told CNN. “He [Johnson] told me not to resign, and he told me that this is why we have this process.”

Indeed, House Speaker Mike Johnson has been protecting Mills for months, and even admitted to CNN that he did actually tell Mills not to resign.

“It is not something I encourage, no. Look, we have a process here,” Johnson said about encouraging his members not to resign amid personal scandals. “So no, I’m not in favor.”

Of course, that’s not surprising in the least. Johnson was happy to keep now-former Rep. Tony Gonzales around after the Texas lawmaker was exposed as a serial sexual harasser, because Gonzales was a reliable vote in Johnson’s slim GOP majority.

Related | Vile allegations against GOP lawmaker? Mike Johnson says no biggie

But wait, the story gets even messier!

Rather than lay low and hope the scandal goes away, Mills has actually picked a fight with Mace, threatening to expel her from Congress.

And he’s taunting her on social media as well, firing off multiple posts on X on Wednesday attacking Mace for her own scandals.

“Hey Nancy, I have no restraining order or any criminal or civil cases open. Can you say the same?” Mills wrote in a post on X, even though he has had restraining orders against him in the past. “What about your restraining order for harassment of your ex fiancé? What about the current gag order issued by the judge in SC and pending cases?”

Mills posted subsequent screeds on X accusing Mace of being mentally unwell, of drinking alcohol, and of being “fake MAGA.”

Related | Nancy Mace’s ‘very nasty’ conduct revealed in police report

Ultimately, in this battle between two utterly detestable and morally repugnant people, Mace is right.

Mills is a pig who belongs nowhere near a position of power, let alone as one of 535 people who make our country’s laws.

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

'Draft Lindsey Graham!' MAGA War Opponents Troll America's Loudest Hawk

'Draft Lindsey Graham!' MAGA War Opponents Troll America's Loudest Hawk

Conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is not only a supporter of President Donald Trump's war against Iran — he also favors an expansion of U.S. troops in that conflict. But he is getting some pushback from other parts of the right.

In Montana, Tom Jandron, a Libertarian candidate running for the U.S. Senate, proposes subjecting the 70-year-old Graham to the military draft. Jandron, in a March 25 post on X, formerly Twitter, wrote, "I'm running for US Senate. If elected, the first bill I introduce will draft Lindsey Graham into any conflict he publicly supports while in office."

Republican opponents of the Iran war are speaking out against Graham as well.

On X, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), tweeted, "Washington's war machine is hard at work. They are try to drag us into Iran to make it another Iraq. We can't let them."

The Hill's Sarah Fortinsky, in an article published on March 30, reports, "Graham, a longtime war hawk and close Trump ally, has drawn sharp criticism in recent weeks from fellow Republicans for urging the administration to ramp up military pressure on Iran and send more troops overseas…. Earlier this month, in an interview on Fox News' 'Hannity,' Graham floated sending more troops overseas as he urged U.S. allies in the Middle East to step up support."

Graham's "longstanding support for overthrowing the Iranian regime," according to Fortinsky, has "fueled backlash among an anti-interventionist wing of the GOP that is wary of a widening conflict and the scope of Graham's influence over Trump Administration policy."

On social media, GOP activist Meghan McCain — the late Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) daughter — said of Graham, "Nothing like a single, childless, septuagenarian telling American mothers to send their children to go possibly die in a war."

On X, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) posted, "There are some in the Senate that advocate for war everywhere. Lindsey Graham is one of them. He does NOT tell the President what to do, nor does he control Congress. I have spoken with the administration a number of times, as well as other members of Congress over the last week or so, and nothing has changed regarding boots on the ground."

Luna also wrote that there should be "NO BOOTS on the ground" in Iran and that if Graham "wants to go fight in a foreign conflict, let him be the first to volunteer."

Reprinted with permission from Alternet


Trump Reportedly Implores Boebert And Mace To Drop Epstein Files Discharge

Trump Reportedly Implores Boebert And Mace To Drop Epstein Files Discharge

As explosive emails emerged Wednesday from late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, CNN reports that top officials in President Donald Trump's administration were setting a meeting to discuss a petition in the House of Representatives that would force a vote on releasing Justice Department case files as soon as the government reopens.

That meeting was to include Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who has wanted the Justice Department to release the files and has signed onto the House's effort to force the vote compelling their release.

While CNN can't confirm whether or not the meeting has taken place, they note that "intention of a meeting underscores the Trump administration’s concerns around the Epstein saga, which roared back Wednesday morning when the House Oversight Committee released more documents it had obtained from Epstein’s estate."

Boebert has been particularly vocal about releasing those files, saying, "Every associate of Jeffrey Epstein deserves to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. There should be no safe haven for them."

Boebert was one of only four House Republicans, along with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), to sign the bipartisan discharge petition in September 2025 to force a floor vote on a resolution that would require the full release of all unredacted Justice Department files related to Epstein.This put her at odds with Trump, who had downplayed the issue and asked his allies to "move on."

Rumors emerged Tuesday night that Mace may have been planning to remove her name from the petition, setting it back to 217 after Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva's swearing in scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni reports on X that "Trump himself called Boebert, regarding her signing onto the Epstein petition and spoke to her yesterday, I am told. Trump playing phone tag with [Nancy] Mace. So far, they are not planning to remove their names from the petition."

Reprinted with permission from Alternet

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