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Between Marshall's Cruelty And Trump's Madness, Democrats May Take Kansas

Between Marshall's Cruelty And Trump's Madness, Democrats May Take Kansas

Democrats have not held a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas in a whopping 94 years. But President Donald Trump’s horrendous shepherding of the economy is hitting Kansans especially hard, with Trump’s idiotic trade wars and boondoggle of a war in Iran slamming the state’s massive agricultural industry.

That’s turned reliably red voters in the state against their once Dear Leader and his Republican Party, putting Kansas’ Senate seat in play for the first time in decades. Indeed, the political handicapping outlet Inside Elections moved freshman GOP Sen. Roger Marshall’s race into the competitive column last week, saying polling shows Marshall’s reelection bid against Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton within the margin of error.

And Trump just made the situation even worse for Marshall and the GOP, threatening on Sunday to block sales of Canadian manufactured Bombardier planes in the U.S. as part of his moronic trade war with our neighbor to the north.

Bombardier employs more than 1,500 workers in the state, and Trump’s threat to ban the sales of the jets put those employees and their families at risk.

“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States—They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service—All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada—Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank.’ BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST!”

Marshall has yet to make a statement on Trump’s threat. But Hamilton tied Marshall to Trump’s trade bluster.

“Bombardier supports 1,500 Kansas families, providing good-paying jobs that put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads during a cost of living crisis caused by Washington. And now, the president is trying to take that away,” Hamilton wrote in a post on X.

Hamilton added, “The decision to ban Bombardier from selling in the U.S. is a direct attack on Kansas workers and Kansas jobs—yet Roger Marshall is notably silent. We cannot allow this chaotic economic policy to continue to hurt Kansans; they deserve so much better. As your Senator, I will always stand up for Kansas workers.”

That’s not even the tip of the iceberg for Marshall and his problems.

On Tuesday, The New York Times published a bombshell report that found Marshall—a multimillionaire who was an ob-gyn before launching his political career—sued 700 of his former patients, and had 81 of them arrested for unpaid bills for emergency surgeries, deliveries, and miscarriage treatment.

The report said Marshall sued patients for as little as $100, and even interviewed some of them—providing a roadmap for Democrats to launch devastating campaign ads against Marshall in the run up to the midterms.

“I had every intention to pay, I was just struggling,” Marshall’s former patient Kellie Clutts told the Times. The Times reported that Marshall sued Clutts in 2015 for an unpaid $129 bill for postpartum care.

Clutts added, “I was recently divorced, trying to do everything on my own. I told them I could make partial payments, but it seemed like no matter what I said, they wanted the full amount at once.”

The Times also interviewed Meischa Zimmerman, a woman who Marshall’s lawyers had arrested twice for failure to pay a bill for a C-section delivery.

“I asked them quietly: Can you not handcuff me in front of my daughter?” Zimmerman told the Times of her arrests. “I explained to my daughter I was going for a ride.”

She added, “I had to choose whether I’d pay my electricity or pay $50 to a doctor who didn’t need it.”

That’s a far different story than Marshall is trying to tell in campaign ads, in which he paints himself as a fighter for lower healthcare costs and working families—even though he supported the massive Medicaid cuts the GOP made.

Between Trump decimating the Kansas economy, and multimillionaire Marshall having indigent patients arrested for failure to pay small bills for his monopolized ob-gyn practice, Democrats have a real shot in Kansas.

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos


What's Their Excuse? Republicans Send Regrets To Trump's Midterm Confab

What's Their Excuse? Republicans Send Regrets To Trump's Midterm Confab


President Donald Trump will host a midterm convention this upcoming Wednesday and Thursday, which he absurdly says will help Republicans hold onto their House and Senate majorities this fall.

But even many Republicans admit the production is a shambolic affair that won’t help the GOP with voters and may even hurt their electoral prospects since Trump cannot stay on a palatable message.

And thus, numerous Republican lawmakers are not planning to go, making up excuses for their absences in a likely effort to avoid being the target of Trump’s wrath.

Rep. Max Miller, the Ohio Republican facing an unexpectedly tough reelection race due to domestic violence accusations, told The New York Times he won’t be going because he is “staying home to campaign and spend time with family.”

Rep. Nick LaLota, Republican of New York, told Politico that he is skipping the event in order to take his daughter to visit colleges.

Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar told CNN she has events in her district she can’t miss. The same went for vulnerable GOP Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan and Zach Nunn of Iowa, who told Politico they have events back home on the same day.

“I just felt I’d be more useful in my district,” Barrett said to Politico. “I travel a lot for this job and if I can be back home and see my family and do the job back home as well, then that’s sort of what I lean toward doing.”

Vice President JD Vance was asked on Thursday about the poor attendance from GOP lawmakers at his boss’ event, and he claimed that it wasn’t a big deal.

“No, that doesn’t concern me,” Vance said. “We don’t need a congressman in a tight race to be there in all cases. Sometimes it might be better if that guy’s out there raising money. But I think people are going to make a determination: What is the best way for me to spend my time as a candidate?”

However, it’s not just vulnerable Republicans who aren’t going. Lawmakers in safe seats are also skipping, citing all sorts of reasons.

Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole said he is going to a “dove hunt” and thus can’t make it. Also scheduled to attend the hunt are Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, and Oklahoma GOP Reps. Kevin Hern and Frank Lucas, putting their attendance in question.

“I had stuff already planned in my congressional district, or I would be there,” Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky told NewsNation about why he won’t be at the convention.

Other Republicans said they were undecided about going, citing not the politics but the insane cost of entry. It’s at least a $25,000 donation for two tickets, the ability to book one hotel room at an additional cost, and entry to a welcome event. What a steal!

“It’s $25,000, apparently—I just got a bill,” Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told Politico, saying because of that he’s “not sure” if he’ll go.

Ultimately, while Vance said he’s not worried about lackluster attendance, you better believe Trump will take it poorly. He is obsessed with optics and looking like a tough guy, and if the convention has sparse crowds, you can bet an infamous Trump tantrum is on the horizon.

We’ve got our popcorn ready. This thing is going to be a mess.

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos


Diesel Fuel Hits Record High As Holiday Drivers Cope With Gas Spike

Diesel Fuel Hits Record High As Holiday Drivers Cope With Gas Spike

The average cost of diesel fuel set a new record on Friday, hitting a whopping $5.85 per gallon, according to AAA’s fuel tracker—a 30 percent increase from the same time last year.

The timing of the diesel spike could not be worse for the GOP, which is directly responsible for the price increase as the party did not stop Trump from launching an ill-advised war that he now cannot seem to get out of.

The midterm elections are less than two months away, with mail-in ballots hitting mailboxes as early as today in states across the country.

And a surge in diesel prices will almost certainly trickle down to higher prices in the rest of the economy. That’s because diesel powers the trucks, boats, and trains that transport goods across the country. Diesel is also used in farming machinery to harvest crops, meaning a spike in diesel prices will also likely impact grocery prices.

Given that the cost of living is the issue voters say will determine how they vote in the election, that leaves Republicans in a terrible spot.

“This impacts you, even if you don’t fill up with diesel,” Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee wrote in a post on X of the new diesel price record. “Higher diesel prices > higher fuel costs for truckers > higher shipping costs for businesses > higher prices on store shelves > higher costs for you.”

Indeed, GOP operatives told Politico that they are resigned to the fact that prices will not come down in time to save them in the midterms, with handicappers saying Republicans are almost certain to lose their House majority—and their control of the Senate is in serious peril, too.

“In the spring, I was like, look, I think we need gas prices coming down starting in August, like in a significant way. I think voters need some time to kind of get over their frustrations, and I think we’ve run out of time,” an unnamed “Republican operative working on several races across the country” told Politico.

Compounding Republicans’ problems is that record-setting diesel prices hit their base hard, which could depress GOP turnout or even cause some Republican voters to defect to the Democrats. That would turn what was already expected to be a bad night for Republicans into a catastrophic one.

It’s why states like Iowa, Ohio, and even Kansas—which all have major agricultural sectors that are heavily impacted by spiking diesel prices—are on the map for possible Democratic Senate pickups, even though they backed Trump by double-digit margins in 2024.

Worse still for Republicans is that regular gasoline prices are also elevated, with the average price of a gallon of gas at $4.15. That’s a record high for Labor Day, when millions of Americans take car trips for holiday getaways.

That, too, will leave bad tastes in the mouths of voters, who are reminded of Trump’s role in raising their cost of living every time they drive past a gas station or fill up their tanks.

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos

Why Democrats Are Loving (And Laughing At) Trump's Very Bad Midterm Ads

Why Democrats Are Loving (And Laughing At) Trump's Very Bad Midterm Ads

After months of complaining from Republicans, President Donald Trump’s political operation is finally opening its coffers to run midterm campaign ads. But there’s a problem for the GOP.

The two ads from Securing American Greatness, the nonprofit tied to Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC, are self-aggrandizing duds all about how Trump is supposedly America’s savior—a message sure to fall flat among an electorate that broadly dislikes Trump.

The first is, we kid you not, titled “Toughest Guy.” It’s all about Trump, featuring images of him and American flags to try to convince voters about how great Dear Leader is. Yet it says nothing about why voters should return his party to power.

It uses a speech from UFC President and CEO Dana White, in which he said that Trump “is the toughest, most resilient person that I’ve ever met, and nothing was going to stop him from fighting so hard for the country he loves.”

It does not once tout a single accomplishment, nor does it ask Americans to vote Republican in this fall’s midterm elections.

The second ad primarily uses audio from Trump’s unhinged State of the Union address from February, in which he claimed that he reduced egg prices by 60 percent and that he “took prescription drugs from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest.” The ad ends with a creepy male narrator declaring, “He’s fighting for you every day. Help him finish the job.”

Securing American Greatness is putting roughly $1 million behind the ads, an amount that may sound like a lot but is a pittance given that it’s running across several major metropolitan areas.

But given how terrible the ads are, maybe that’s a good thing for the GOP.

Trump’s approval rating is in the toilet. High-quality polls put his job approval hovering around 35% and sometimes even lower, closing in on former President George W. Bush’s rating in the years after the Iraq War began and as the Great Recession heated up.

Plastering Trump’s face on Americans’ television screens, alongside a message that he is the greatest and that voters should help him by voting this fall, is political malpractice. Americans are angry at him for his inflationary tariffs, boondoggle of a war in Iran, and comically out-of-touch building projects, the last of which is making the nation’s capital resemble Pride Rock after Scar’s ill-fated reign in The Lion King.

Indeed, Trump is so unpopular that some Republican candidates have begun to distance themselves from him, erasing mentions from their campaign websites and refusing to attend his impending disaster of a midterm convention.

However, Trump is an egomaniac who needs constant praise, so the fact that this is the message his political operation is putting out should surprise no one.

Still, a few Republicans were somehow shocked by the ads.

“The GOP is so screwed in November if this is how the president spends his money,” right-wing radio host Erick Erickson wrote in a post on X, regarding one of the ads.

Liberals, meanwhile, mercilessly mocked the advertisement.

“CHEF’S KISS! Watched this with no sound but encourage all Republican campaigns to amplify and put endless money behind this,” Bradley Beychok, co-founder of the Democratic opposition research firm American Bridge 21st Century, wrote in a post on X.

“If they want to spend money on a weird ad reminding people about the president that about 2/3 of voters disapprove of…go ahead,” Democratic strategist Josh Dorner wrote in a post on X.

Reprinted with permisson from Daily Kos


Pushing Unpopular Data Centers Is Trump's Latest Midterm Gift To Democrats

Pushing Unpopular Data Centers Is Trump's Latest Midterm Gift To Democrats

President Donald Trump on Monday vigorously defended unpopular AI data centers, saying those who oppose the resource-sapping warehouses “want to end up being backwards and poor.”

“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign. The good news is that there are plenty of other places that want them. If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame. China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement. Actually, they can’t believe it is happening!”

Trump’s post insults Americans’ intelligence in order to defend Big Tech, and it comes as polling shows bipartisan opposition to data centers. It’s a rare point of political alignment in these polarized times.

That opposition stems from how the data centers use considerable amounts of natural resources, drive up electricity costs for consumers, and bring less long-term economic benefit for their surrounding areas than tech companies often promise.

Earlier this month, National Republicans released a memo saying GOP candidates who defend data centers are in trouble over the issue, and suggested that Big Tech should run advertising to defend them or risk hardened opposition to data centers that power their AI models.

The memo specifically named Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio as being negatively impacted by his support for data centers. It said that his reelection is imperiled due to the Democratic ad campaign highlighting Husted’s support for the issue.

Yet Husted hasn’t stopped simping for data centers, even as it hurts his campaign. On Monday, he appeared on NewsNation to extoll the virtues of data centers.

“There are literally communities in our state that have welcomed data centers who are seeing their local property taxes get cut dramatically as a result of the new revenue that comes in,” Husted said.

Ultimately, Trump’s full-throated support for data centers will test GOP voters’ opposition to the issue.

In the past, Republican voters have quickly adopted Trump’s positions on issues. But given that even many GOP voters are souring on their Dear Leader, it’s unclear whether they will change their minds.

A Fox News poll from July showed that a majority of every demographic group—including Republicans and MAGA Republicans—opposed the construction of a data center in their area. And responses to Trump’s Truth Social post show that his MAGA diehards are not taking his side this time.

At the end of the day, supporting data centers has become so politically toxic that Republican candidates and lawmakers are starting to come out against them. But given that Trump demands that GOP lawmakers adopt his views and defend his positions, Republicans could be forced to drop that opposition and defend data centers.

Leave it to Trump to take a position that could further imperil his party in the midterms.

Is The Trump Administration Using Media Leaks To Manipulate Oil Markets?

Is The Trump Administration Using Media Leaks To Manipulate Oil Markets?

The Trump administration on Wednesday appears to have leaked a story to its favorite Iran war stenographer at Axios that the military has created a secret shipping corridor out of the Strait of Hormuz, helping to escort 15 to 20 oil tankers through the narrow passageway per day.

Axios’ Barak Ravid reported: “The U.S.-led operation is mitigating one of the most painful aspects of the war: the disruption to oil supplies that sent crude prices soaring. While the amount of oil coming out of the strait is still below pre-war levels, it is making a discernible difference in global supplies, officials say.”

U.S. officials claimed to Axios that the operation was allowing the movement of “[a]bout 10 million barrels of oil a day.”

Commodity experts, however, are more than skeptical that this secretive operation has taken place, and wonder if this—like apparent past attempts by the Trump administration—is just an effort to manipulate oil prices to try to bring down the cost of gasoline.

“That’s a lot of oil, and much more than we’re currently seeing,” oil commodity expert Rory Johnson wrote in a post on X on Wednesday, adding that oil trackers have only seen 5 million barrels of oil leaving the strait per day, half of what the government claimed to Axios.

“We’re likely undercounting actual transits, but it feels like a stretch that they’re managing to get *double* that volume out entirely undetected—no sign of loadings, or where these ships may be landing on the other end,” he continued.

Tanker Trackers, a maritime intelligence firm that analyzes the amount of oil being shipped globally, also cast doubt on the Axios report.

“Maybe U.S. officials mean ten million barrels per convoy transfer and not per day. Industry consensus is much lower than that,” the company wrote in a post on X, giving the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt that they do not deserve.

If the Trump administration were using Axios to manipulate the oil markets, it wouldn’t be the first time.

Early on in the war, Ravid frequently reported right before oil futures markets opened that a peace deal was imminent, which would lead oil commodity prices to fall. However, they’d typically spike right back up when it became clear that there was no peace deal to be had.

Nearly six months later, there is still no resolution to the war, with Iranian leaders continuing to use the Strait of Hormuz to inflict pain on the global economy in the hopes they can get Trump to fold on his demands that they drop their nuclear ambitions.

Indeed, as the persistently high price of fuel is spiking inflation, Trump’s approval rating has fallen and is threatening his Republican Party with massive midterm losses.

Even Trump is showing public signs of frustration, threatening to “bomb the shit out of” countries that cross him.

What’s different about Axios’ report now is that it seems traders have wised up to the apparent manipulation efforts.

Oil prices rose again on Thursday. The average price per gallon of gasoline in the U.S. is now at $4.10, according to AAA—up nearly $1 per gallon from a year ago.

Johnson, the oil commodity expert, revisited Axios’ story again on Thursday morning, saying he is even more convinced now that the report isn’t accurate.

“What’s fascinating is just how aligned ~every ship tracker is right now on Hormuz exit flow,” Johnson wrote in a post on X. “There’s a *strong* incentive for someone to break from the pack and to be the tracker who confirms the WH numbers. And yet.”

And yet, indeed.

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos




Angry Families Of Sailors Stranded On USS Lincoln Slam Trump And Hegseth

Angry Families Of Sailors Stranded On USS Lincoln Slam Trump And Hegseth

Family members of the military personnel who have been left to languish on the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier off the coast of Iran are irate at President Donald Trump and his unqualified Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying the two men’s callous comments about the suffering of the service members are beyond the pale.

Both Trump and Hegseth denied widespread reports that the troops aboard the ship are facing a lack of proper nutrition, working toilets, and declining mental health due to their historically long deployment. The two have also had the audacity to say that the troops haven’t been deployed long enough.

“I grew up in a United States where you have to be very respectful of the military, as they’re making the ultimate sacrifice and protecting their country, and now you have the commander-in-chief and defense secretary dismissing their experiences and calling them liars. I’m really angry,” the sister of a crew member aboard the ship, who declined to give her name due to fear of retribution for her brother, told The Guardian. “It’s a feeling of betrayal. These are frustrating, false and careless comments, and they are going to have a lot of consequences for my brother.”

A mother of another young sailor on the ship echoed those sentiments.

“My son signed up to serve his country. But why isn’t his country serving him? They are not feeding him or supplying clean water, and living conditions are horrible. He didn’t sign up for that,” she told the Guardian.

Karen Bramlett, the grandmother of a service member aboard the ship, also was aghast at Trump’s dismissal of her grandson’s suffering.

“Donald Trump needs to be ashamed of himself to let them suffer the way that they’re doing,” Bramlett told NPR. “They’re over there fighting for our country. And this is the thanks they get? They can’t even get help from him or his administration.”

While Trump and Hegseth have denied the poor conditions, Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, visited the aircraft carrier on Saturday to assess the situation for himself, and acknowledged there were problems related to improper food supply and hot water. But Cooper said those issues were raised “months ago” and have been addressed—which also contradicts the reports from the family of troops on the ship.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shown on Aug. 3.AP

“What I found aboard the Lincoln is that many elements of those stories are old news,“ Cooper said in a statement after his visit.

Ultimately, the reports of the poor treatment of the troops forced to wage Trump’s ill-planned war in Iran are unlikely to help Trump and the GOP, who face serious midterm peril over the public’s disapproval of the conflict.

Kat Cammack

Some Republicans Finally Urge Alleged Abuser Miller To Drop Out As Deadline Looms

Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller’s response to horrific domestic violence allegations has been a complete train wreck, with Miller looking worse and worse as he attempts to deny that he was ever violent toward his ex-wife and two-year-old daughter.

First it was releasing a nude photo of his toddler to try to claim he did not break her collarbone. Then it was releasing a string of text messages and emails to deny that he withheld the toddler’s beloved blue bunny stuffed animal, but which only proved that he did just that.

The saga has Republicans terrified that Miller will cost them a House seat in November’s midterms that should otherwise easily stay in the GOP column.

However, few Republicans have publicly called for Miller to step aside—likely because Miller has thus far dug in his heels and said he will fund his own campaign, and condemning him publicly would just add ammo for Democrats to use this fall.

The line among many House Republicans seems to be that the abuse allegations are “sad” and that right now they want a House Ethics Committee probe that Miller himself initiated to play out before they comment on whether they think Miller should step aside.“There’s all sorts of domestic events going on with 435 members of Congress all the time, it’s not my business to get engaged in it,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Politico, adding that “we have to allow this process to play out. It’s just begun.”

Ick.

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL), chair of the GOP Women’s Caucus, used similar wording.

“These are deeply troubling allegations, and they deserve a fair, thorough review. Due process is not optional—it is how the truth is established and justice is served. This is clearly an evolving situation, with new allegations continuing to emerge, which is all the more reason to let the full process play out and follow the facts wherever they lead,” Cammack said in a statement. “The Ethics Committee is now reviewing these allegations, and I respect that process. Above all, this is an incredibly painful situation for everyone involved, and my heart especially breaks for the little girl caught in the middle.”

So much for the women’s caucus sticking up for women.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was asked if he agrees with Ohio GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno—Miller’s ex-father-in-law—that Miller should not only resign but be in prison, and he demurred.

“It’s a family matter and, um, I don’t have any observations beyond that,” Thune replied. What a backbone he has.Meanwhile, Sen. Jon Husted, an Ohio Republican facing a challenging reelection in the Buckeye State, at first echoed Thune’s sentiments.

“Let’s focus on letting them sort through this on a family level,” Husted told Newsmax on Tuesday when asked if Miller should drop out.

But by Thursday, after the disturbing bunny withholding story caught fire, Husted had changed his tone to call on Miller to step aside—likely because Miller depressing turnout in his House seat could also hurt Husted’s odds at reelection.

“I know both Max Miller and Emily Moreno, as well as their families,” Husted wrote in a post on X. “I am deeply saddened that their personal lives have become such a public matter, especially as it relates to their daughter, Ruthie.”

But Husted added, “Given everything they are facing, I do not see how a campaign for Congress benefits any of them. I believe Max would be making the right decision to step aside as a candidate and resign from Congress to focus on what is in the best interest of his daughter. Years from now, I believe he will look back and know it was the right choice for her.”

Time, however, is running out for Republicans to save this seat.The deadline for Ohio Republicans to replace Miller’s name on the ballot is Monday evening. And as of Friday, when this article was written, Miller had not dropped out.

Ultimately, if Republicans weren’t cowards, they wouldn’t be in this situation at all. Miller’s domestic violence allegations had been known for years, yet Republicans were silent and refused to punish him or call on him to step aside.

Now, they may pay for that cowardice with the loss of a winnable House seat.

'Platner On Steroids'! GOP Scrambles To Contain Explosive Ohio Scandal

'Platner On Steroids'! GOP Scrambles To Contain Explosive Ohio Scandal

On Sunday, Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller went live on camera to deny the horrifying domestic abuse allegations levied by his ex-wife, saying that her accusations are false because she returned to him days later.

“My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her. Here’s what actually happened, and I have the Ring doorbell footage that backs that up,” Miller said in a cringeworthy, direct-to-camera address, in which he said he has no plans to drop out of the race. “If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?”

Of course, victims of abuse often return to their abusers, doing things like cooking them dinner to try to placate them in the hopes that they won’t be subject to the same abuse again. So Miller’s claim that she cooked him dinner after the alleged abuse doesn’t absolve him of anything.

What’s more, Miller has a history of violent conduct, and has been accused of domestic violence by other women, including former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, making his denials even less believable.

Until now, Republicans had buried their heads in the sand about Miller, refusing to condemn him or force him to step aside despite the disturbing abuse allegations.

But now, GOP operatives are raising alarm bells about Miller’s ability to hold on to Ohio’s Seventh District, a seat Donald Trump carried by 11 points in 2024, according to data from the Downballot. It’s one Republicans need to win this fall if they have any hopes of holding onto a majority.

One GOP operative too spineless to put their name to their comments told Politico that Miller’s abuse scandal is “Graham Platner on steroids”—a nod to the allegations against the now-former Maine Democratic Senate nominee, who Democrats pushed out after he was accused of rape.

“What happens when Democrats run ad after ad targeting GOP voters about Miller abusing the daughter of a pro-Trump MAGA senator?” the unnamed operative told Politico. “What does that do to GOP turnout? How does that affect our candidates at the top of the ticket who are already in tough races?”

The operative’s fears are well-founded. An internal Republican poll obtained by the media outlet NOTUS found Miller is behind his Democratic opponent, union ironworker Brian Poindexter, by five points. And that’s before millions of dollars have been dumped into this race informing voters of Miller’s alleged conduct.

It’s why Miller’s former father-in-law, who happens to be Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno, finally broke his silence about the situation on Sunday, saying that Miller needs to resign. Per Ohio law, Miller would need to drop out before 4 PM on Wednesday to be able to be replaced on the ballot.

“Out of concern for the safety of my family, I hoped to keep this matter private but Max Miller’s increasingly erratic and dangerous behavior has made that impossible,” Moreno said in a statement.

Moreno added,

As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter. If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives. I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake. I believe he should not be free to continue endangering others until he does.


Yet Miller’s reply to Moreno shows he has no plans to step aside, which would saddle Republicans with this extremely damaged nominee this fall.

“If my daughter said the same thing to me, I personally wouldn’t wait two years before holding him accountable. You know this isn’t true and the only reason you are speaking out now is to hide from your own media circus. This is all political,” Miller said in reply to Moreno’s statement.

Democrats, for their part, had already been targeting Miller for defeat even before the domestic violence allegations grew. Miller’s Democratic opponent went as far as saying Miller’s alleged conduct doesn’t just disqualify him from serving in Congress, but should put him in prison.

“These are serious allegations and deserve the full attention of law enforcement,” Poindexter said in a statement this week. “If all the allegations against Congressman Miller prove to be true, Max Miller should be in jail, not worried about retaining a seat in Congress.”

Before the latest allegations of abuse—including accusations that Miller allegedly broke the collarbone of his then-two-year-old daughter—political handicapping outlets rated the race a Likely Republican contest.

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos

Emily Moreno and Max Miller

Democrats Demand House Probe Of Max Miller Over 'Disturbing' Abuse Allegations

The leaders of the Democratic Women’s Caucus are calling for the House Ethics Committee to “thoroughly investigate” GOP Rep. Max Miller of Ohio for recent allegations of abuse.

“The recent reports of domestic violence and child abuse against Representative Max Miller are deeply disturbing and Congress can’t ignore them. Allegations of violence against women and children have to be met with the utmost seriousness,” Reps. Emilia Sykes of Ohio, Hillary Scholten of Michigan, and Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico said in the statement.

They concluded, “Every woman and child deserves to live free from fear of violence, especially within the sanctity of their own home, and we will not stop fighting until that’s the reality.”

Miller was the subject of a recent profile in Mother Jones after reporters gained access to police reports and child custody filings related to Miller.

In the course of investigating potential child abuse of Miller’s two-year-old daughter, his now-ex-wife Emily Moreno—daughter of GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio—alleged that Miller held a gun to her head, threw hot water at her, and shoved her.

A specialist investigating the child abuse allegation said that bruising near the collarbone of the child resembled a “handprint.”

Mother Jones reported that the documents in the Miller investigation included allegations of drug abuse, verbal abuse, and violent behavior against multiple women.

Despite the seriousness of these allegations, Republicans are standing by Miller and have not called for his withdrawal from his reelection race. The GOP has steadily seen the erosion of its majority in the House, and while Miller’s seat is safely Republican, a scandal like this could create an opening for Democrats.

The gun violence prevention and advocacy group Giffords has called for Miller to resign.

“Congress is no place for violent abusers who attack their family and hold a gun to their wife’s head. Max Miller needs to resign now—and if he refuses, the House should expel him,” the group’s Executive Director Emma Brown said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine told a local news outlet that the allegations against Miller are “troubling,” but he did not call for his resignation or expulsion.

Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos


CNN Poll: Trump Approval Sinks To Lowest Level Since January 6 Insurrection

CNN Poll: Trump Approval Sinks To Lowest Level Since January 6 Insurrection

In his two terms in office, President Donald Trump has always had one thing going for him: No matter how bad his approval got with Democrats and independents, his standing with Republicans was so strong that it prevented the bottom from falling out for him and his party.

But after Trump made the ill-fated decision to launch a war in Iran—which is now entering its sixth month and continues to take a toll on gas prices and affordability in the U.S.—it appears that even Republicans are starting to hop off the Trump train.

A new CNN/SSRS poll released Wednesday found Trump’s approval at a dismal 34 percent—tied for the low level he notched days after he fomented the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

His approval rating has been dragged down by the fact that a growing number of Republicans disapprove of the way he’s handling his job. CNN found that 78 percent of Republicans approve of the job he’s doing in office—a new low in CNN’s polling.

To put that into perspective, in late June 2024, then-President Joe Biden had a similarly low 73 percent approval rating among Democrats in a CNN poll. And we know how that next election turned out for the Democratic Party.

What’s more, among non-college-educated white voters—which has been Trump’s strongest voting bloc and helped him win in both 2016 and 2024—Trump’s approval rating is now underwater. Just 46 percent of non-college-educated white voters approve of the job he’s doing, down from 63 percent in February 2025.

Trump’s declining approval is almost certainly due to his war in Iran, which voters overwhelmingly disapprove of. Not only did it go against Trump’s promise not to start new foreign entanglements, but it has also spiked gas prices and inflation.

CNN’s poll found just 28 percent approve of his handling of the war, including just 66 percent of Republicans. An even lower 21 percent approve of his handling of gas prices, including less than half (48 percent) of Republicans.

CNN’s poll also clocked an even more concerning statistic for the Republican Party in the midterms: Just 19 percent of self-identified Republicans said they are enthusiastic about the remainder of Trump’s term. That’s a significant drop from CNN’s poll in February 2025, when 47 percent of Republicans were enthusiastic. And it gets to the heart of Republicans’ enthusiasm problem ahead of this November’s midterm elections.

With Republicans unenthused about the remainder of Trump’s term, it could keep those voters home during the midterms.

Indeed, Republican pollsters are warning about this very enthusiasm gap, saying they fear around one-fifth of GOP voters will either stay home or vote Democratic this fall—the outcome of which could lead the party to lose not only their House majority but the Senate, too.

Worse yet for Republicans is that Trump has no good way out of this war.

Iran has proven to be more resilient than Trump expected, with the country’s ability to block the Strait of Hormuz and hobble the global economy giving it leverage. And if Trump packs it in and leaves now, it would make him look like a loser who capitulated to a terroristic regime. Being labeled as a loser is perhaps Trump’s biggest fear—and why he has held onto his deranged belief that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

In sum, Trump’s war has been an abject disaster for American security and the economy—as well as for Republicans’ chances in the midterms.When the GOP loses this fall, it will be because they did not exercise their own power to block their Dear Leader for sinking the country into yet another forever war that does nothing for the American people.

'Border Czar' Homan Says ICE Killings Of Civilians Were Not Mistakes

'Border Czar' Homan Says ICE Killings Of Civilians Were Not Mistakes

President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan is shamelessly defending the latest killings carried out by immigration agents, saying that those who were killed deserved it.

Homan, who appeared angry at being asked questions about these killings, blamed people who criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the executions, saying that their rhetoric about wanting to abolish the agency somehow “emboldened” the victims to not comply with agents’ demands.

“You can attack the men and women of ICE all you want. It comes down to one simple fact: these people failed to comply with law enforcement,” Homan said Monday. “All they had to do was simply comply with law enforcement.”

He concluded, “If they did, they’d be alive today.”

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Homan: "All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota -- the mistakes them claim in Minnesota, a lot of them I don't think were mistakes."

This revisionist history is truly disturbing.

First, many of the people who were killed were complying with immigration agents’ demands—or at least trying to, despite getting conflicting orders from the unqualified maniacs who have been hired to carry out Trump’s racist and cruel mass deportation efforts.

Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse who was shot and killed in Minneapolis in January, was not even engaging with agents when he was executed. And that same month, Renee Good was given conflicting orders while observing immigration raids in Minneapolis before an agent shot her in the head.

And 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was heard saying “I tried to stop” before he was shot to death in Maine last week.

Homan’s disturbing victim blaming was made even worse when he said that some of the killings in Minnesota weren’t mistakes.

“All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota—the mistakes they claim in Minnesota—a lot of them were, I don’t think, mistakes,” Homan said, stumbling over his words.

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Homan: "All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota -- the mistakes them claim in Minnesota, a lot of them I don't think were mistakes."

He then tried to blame Democrats for ICE agents refusing to wear body cameras—footage from which would likely prove that the Trump administration has been lying about these killings—even though ICE was given tens of millions of dollars to purchase the devices.

Homan’s despicable comments will likely be used against Republicans in the midterms.

GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, for example, will likely have to answer questions about whether she thinks Guerrero would still be alive today if he complied with agents or if his death was a mistake.

Ultimately, polls show that voters disapprove of ICE’s conduct, with a majority now in favor of abolishing the agency altogether.

And Homan’s latest atrocious comments are unlikely to change voters’ minds.


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Mike Lindell For Governor? Trump Picks Minnesota For Worst Endorsement EVer

Republicans were already unlikely to win Minnesota’s governor’s race this year. President Donald Trump is deeply unpopular in the state, and Democrats have a strong candidate in Sen. Amy Klobuchar. But now he has all but ensured the race will be off the board for the GOP.

On Wednesday, Trump endorsed conspiracy theorist and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell a little less than a month ahead of the Aug. 11 Republican primary.

“Mike Lindell, the ‘Pillow Man,’ and one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots, is running to be GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA, replacing one of the worst and most incompetent governors in the history of the U.S.A. Early Primary Voting has begun and, if given the chance, Mike will be SPECTACULAR!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “He truly loves Minnesota, as do I, and wants to bring it back from oblivion and embarrassment. He can do it! Nobody has sacrificed more than Mike Lindell in fighting for our country, especially when it comes to Election Integrity. He truly deserves everything he gets – He will MAKE MINNESOTA GREAT AGAIN!!! MIKE LINDELL HAS MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT – HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN.”

To state the obvious here, Trump does not love Minnesota. He spent months terrorizing residents in the state with his violent immigration crackdowns. Earlier this year, his federal immigration agents executed two American citizens brave enough to stand up against Trump’s torment.

n February, he also withheld hundreds of millions of Medicaid funding for Minnesota’s poorest residents, jeopardizing their access to medical care, all as punishment for Minnesota having a large population of Somali immigrants.

And Lindell—who has been hit with millions in legal fees, judgements, and settlements for his role in spreading Trump’s false claims of election fraud—has no shot of winning the governor’s race.

Knowing that Lindell would be an especially weak nominee, the Minnesota Republican Party endorsed a different candidate, Kendall Qualls, a former health care executive. In Minnesota, candidates often drop out of the race when they do not receive their party’s endorsement, but Lindell is declining that route and remaining in the contest.


That said, Trump’s endorsement record for gubernatorial contests this cycle has not been great. Three of his picks have lost their primaries. But Lindell has led in three of the past four public surveys of the primary, meaning Trump’s blessing could cement him as the winner.

If Lindell becomes the nominee, he could jeopardize other Republicans in the state, potentially causing some Republican voters to stay home.

Already, Democrats are targeting GOP Rep. Brad Finstad in Minnesota’s 1st District—a seat Trump won by 12 percentage points, according to The Downballot. Having Lindell at the top of the ticket could help Democrats in that effort.

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There Is One Political Leader Who Supports Platner (And Of Course It's Trump)

There Is One Political Leader Who Supports Platner (And Of Course It's Trump)

President Donald Trump is using the fallout from Graham Platner’s failed Senate campaign in Maine to remind everyone that when it comes to sexual assault, he comes down on the side of assaulting women.

Platner, a Democrat, announced on Wednesday night that he would end his campaign after he was publicly accused of rape earlier this week. He denies the allegation.

When Trump was asked about the case on Air Force One, he replied, “It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods. He’s in a bind.”

Trump is a documented misogynist.

In May 2023, Trump was found liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996 and for defaming her when she came forward with her allegations. A jury awarded Carroll $5 million in the case, and Trump has filed a series of legal motions to avoid paying his obligation.

Trump has bragged about sexually assaulting women. On the infamous “Access Hollywood” recording that came out ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Trump said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy.”

Over the years, at least 18 women have accused Trump of sexual assault or misconduct. For example, former model Amy Dorris said Trump groped her and forcibly kissed her in 1997, Kristin Anderson said Trump put his hand up her skirt in the 1990s, and Karena Virginia said Trump groped her breast in 1998.

Trump has also championed men accused of sexual assault or inappropriate sexual behavior.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was accused of sexual assault in 2017 while attending a conference of the California Federation of Republican Women in Monterey, California. Trump nominated former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, despite his alleged involvement in possible sex trafficking. (Gaetz later withdrew his nomination.)

Trump’s comments show that when it comes to sexual assault, he is willing to cross party lines if it means going against women and coming out (again) in favor of misogyny.

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If Platner Drops Out Of Maine Senate Race, Which Democrat Will Replace Him?

If Platner Drops Out Of Maine Senate Race, Which Democrat Will Replace Him?

The writing is on the wall for Graham Platner, who after being credibly accused of rape by a former girlfriend and multiple other red flags is now facing calls to drop out of the Maine Senate race by Democrats on all sides of the ideological spectrum.

Platner has yet to announce whether he’ll drop out, but it is clearly untenable for him to continue as national Democrats are pulling the plug on funding his race and even his own base of supporters is abandoning ship.

If Platner drops out by 5 PM on July 13, Democrats will be able to replace him on the ballot with a candidate of their choosing. And that puts the Maine Democratic Party in the unenviable position of choosing from a large list of possible contenders.

Here are the potential Platner replacements:

Troy Jackson

Jackson just ran for governor in the Pine Tree State, coming in third in the primary. Like Platner, Jackson touts his working-class, populist bonafides, making him seem like an obvious choice to replace Platner.

Jackson wants to be chosen, filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission in the case he is the candidate.

But Jackson had closely aligned himself with Platner, defending him after past scandals had dropped. And Republican Sen. Susan Collins could use that as a weapon in a general election matchup.

“The Democratic nominee, if there is a new one, has to be someone who is independent minded from Platner, otherwise they will be viewed by voters as a protege. Any connections to Platner will doom that person’s campaign from the very beginning,” Maine state Sen. Joe Baldacci wrote in a post on X, adding that he has no interest in being the nominee himself, only “Democrats retaking the majority in the US Senate.”

Nirav Shah

Shah, an epidemiologist who helped Maine handle its COVID-19 response, came in second in Maine’s gubernatorial primary a few weeks ago, meaning he had strong support from Maine Democratic voters.

Shah said he wants to be considered as a replacement, and added that interested candidates should be required to agree to a debate and town halls to show what kind of support they would have.

Dan Kleban

The co-founder of Maine Beer Company, Kleban was running for the Senate seat in 2025, but suspended his campaign shortly after Gov. Janet Mills announced her candidacy

Kleban endorsed Mills over Platner, touting Mills’ experience.

Since dropping out of the race, Kleban had avoided the Platner drama and was instead focused on attacking Collins for her record. He also has a progressive message, focused on taxing the rich.

Jordan Wood

Wood, a former congressional staffer who came in third in the Democratic primary for Maine’s open Second Congressional District, also threw his hat in the ring of Democrats hoping to replace Platner on the ballot.

“To beat Susan Collins, we need a candidate who can provide a true contrast and run an unapologetically progressive campaign: Passing Medicare for All. Stopping ICE terrorizing our streets. Standing up to Donald Trump’s abuse of power,” Wood said in a post on X. “I am continuing conversations with voters across Maine if I should enter an open Senate race. If my fellow Maine Democrats decide through an open and democratic process that I am the best candidate to defeat Susan Collins, I would be humbled by your trust.”

Wood, who is gay, had called on Platner to suspend his campaign all the way back in October 2025, after anti-gay Reddit posts Platner had made surfaced.

“I believe deeply in second chances,” Wood said at the time. “But what I saw was someone who doesn’t understand what’s wrong with these statements—how offensive and threatening they are, not just to LGBTQ people, but to people of color and women.”

Shenna Bellows

Bellows, who serves as Maine’s secretary of state, also ran for governor this cycle but lost the Democratic primary, coming in fourth out of five candidates.

The big knock against Bellows is that she ran against Collins once before and lost—miserably.

To be sure, it was in 2014, which was a lifetime ago in politics and was a bad year for Democrats. But losing to Collins by nearly 40 points is not a great resume booster.

Patrick Dempsey

A poll conducted over the weekend tested the favorable numbers of the very attractive actor who earned the nickname “McDreamy” for his long-running role on the TV medical drama Gray’s Anatomy.

Dempsey, who was born and raised in Maine, hasn’t said he is looking to run. But clearly someone out there was pushing that trial balloon.

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Did Ailing Trump Secretly Obtain Powerful Obesity Drug Under 'Compassionate Use'?

Did Ailing Trump Secretly Obtain Powerful Obesity Drug Under 'Compassionate Use'?

The health-focused news outlet STAT on Tuesday published a bombshell report that suggests President Donald Trump may have used his position of power to obtain a powerful new obesity drug not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

According to the report, the FDA in April allowed one 79-year-old man to obtain Eli Lilly’s retatrutide, an experimental weight-loss drug, through a “compassionate use” waiver. That kind of waiver, according to the FDA, allows for a “patient with a serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition to gain access to an investigational medical product (drug, biologic, or medical device) for treatment outside of clinical trials when no comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy options are available.”

Given the age of the applicant matches Trump’s in April, as well as the fact that he sought a compassionate use waiver before for an experimental treatment when he was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic, STAT reached out to the White House to ask if the man who got retatrutide is Trump.

Initially, the White House did not deny that Trump was the applicant. A spokesperson instead directed STAT to the Department of Health and Human Services, which also didn’t deny that Trump was the recipient of the waiver.

Only after STAT’s article was published did White House spokesperson Kush Desai take to X to say that “this application was not for the President.”

But for a White House that relishes denying reports, why didn’t it speak up when the reporter says she asked Desai, HHS, and the FDA “multiple times” and that “[n]o one answered my question directly”?

If the person who got the compassionate use waiver for retatrutide were indeed Trump, it would mean the administration is lying to the public about his serious health conditions.

According to the application, the 79-year-old man who sought the waiver had “refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension,” per STAT. The outlet also reports that the man took tirzepatide—an FDA-approved weight-loss drug—for a year but did not see much weight loss.

None of those conditions, nor the tirzepatide, are listed on Trump’s latest public medical report. According to that report, Trump is 238 pounds—one pound below being classified as obese for his claimed 6’3″ height.

Trump’s medical report also does not list sleep apnea, nor does it list pulmonary hypertension—a serious form of high blood pressure that, according to the Mayo Clinic, can be “life-threatening.”

The Mayo Clinic says the condition makes the heart “work harder to pump blood through the lungs. The extra effort eventually causes the heart muscle to become weak and fail.”

Among the symptoms of pulmonary hypertension are “fatigue” and “swelling in the ankles, legs and belly area.” And we’ll just point out that Trump is on camera falling asleep at events and has swollen ankles.

Of course, there is one sign that the person who received the compassionate use waiver is not Trump: He does not appear to have lost weight.

Trump, for his part, has spoken about weight-loss drugs before. In May, he talked about a friend of his who was on the “fat drug.”

“He’s a very highly neurotic, very fat—sort of a fat slob, I would call him,” Trump said at a news conference. “But he’s a brilliant man. We know many of those people.”

Trump didn’t stop there.

“He’s begging me not to release his name, because he’s a well-known person. And I just destroyed his reputation in terms of his physicality,” Trump continued. “And he just doesn’t want—and I said, ‘You know, you had a big impact on medicine because you got to me better than any normal person could have,’ you know?”

Might that “fat slob” of a friend be John Barron?

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Poll: Trump Approval Plummets To New Low As Republicans Start Defecting

Poll: Trump Approval Plummets To New Low As Republicans Start Defecting

President Donald Trump’s approval rating is nearing doomsday levels for the GOP, with the pollster American Research Group on Monday releasing a survey showing just 30 percent of Americans approve of the job he’s doing in office.

It’s difficult to put into words just how bad things have to get in this polarized political climate for a president to reach 30 percent approval. To get that low it means you’re losing ground not just with the opposing party and independents but also with your own party.

Chart by Andrew Mangan with data from American Research GroupCreated with Datawrapper

And that’s what’s happening for Trump, whose approval is sliding with Republicans, who typically blindly support whatever he does but are frustrated with the war in Iran and its negative impact on gas and other prices.

American Research Group’s poll found Trump’s approval among Republicans has fallen to 67 percent — a 12-percentage-point drop from the pollster’s June 2025 survey.

Once you start losing support from your base, it’s a massive problem for members of your party, especially in a midterm election year like 2026 when the only way to voice disapproval in Trump is to punish Republicans in office.

If the GOP voting base is not motivated to vote, this midterm election will turn from bad to catastrophic, with Republican elected officials and candidates alike falling even in areas Trump carried in 2024.

Indeed, nonpartisan political handicappers are starting to move races in otherwise safe Republican territory into the competitive column, as Trump’s approval is dragging down the GOP.

“Despite recent Republican wins on redistricting, Democrats remain in a strong position to regain control of the House, with the battlefield continuing to shift in their favor as the political environment further deteriorates for the GOP,” Erin Covey, a House editor at the Cook Political Report, wrote Friday in a post explaining why her outlet shifted seven race ratings toward Democrats.

There are also a number of tangible signs that Republicans are not motivated and could cost the GOP this fall.

A Washington Post analysis published Monday found Democrats are vastly outvoting Republicans in primaries across the country, even in areas where Democrats don’t have competitive races on their ballots.

According to the analysis, people have thus far cast 12.6 million ballots in Democratic House primaries, while only 8.6 million votes have been cast in Republican House primaries—a statistic experts say is a sign of Democratic enthusiasm.

Even worse for Republicans is that more Democrats turned out in a number of House primaries in seats the GOP corruptly gerrymandered to try to rig the midterms in their favor. For example, Democrats outvoted Republicans in the primaries in three of the five seats the GOP redrew in Texas at the behest of Trump himself, The Washington Post found.

“Something would really fundamentally have to change in a way that would favor the Republicans to change the dynamics that we’re seeing right now,” Michael McDonald, political science professor at the University of Florida and an expert on voter turnout, told the Post.

It’s difficult to see how things could fundamentally change to benefit Republicans given that Trump cannot get out of his own way.

Look at the news from just this week. It’s focused on the boondoggle of a “renovation” Trump attempted at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, in Washington, D.C. Barely a week after the pool was refilled, it’s plagued with algae, and the new coat of “American flag blue” paint is peeling away. Rather than admit failure, Trump is having people arrested as he ridiculously blames “vandals” for his own personal failure.

November is quickly approaching, and it’s not going to be pretty for Trump and the GOP.

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