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President Donald Trump is in a huge spiral with his own supporters, CNN data analyst Harry Enten explained on Friday. Speaking to CNN anchor John Berman, Enten explained that non-college voters were a key constituency for Trump in all of his elections. That's not the case anymore. Now it appears the president is losing support. In October 2024, Trump was up with non-college voters in the MAGA…
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…
President Donald Trump does not appear to be the entertainer he once was, reports CNN’s Brian Stelter. The president’s insult-laden speech drew mostly stunned silence from the audience as he attacked a bunch of journalists at the pared-down recap of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Friday. “Trump bombed at the ... Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to…
A staunch MAGA Republican is begging Michigan voters to elect him senator by arguing that if they do not, one of President Donald Trump's billionaire allies might be investigated for allegedly illegal actions costing millions of lives. In a fundraising appeal sent on Saturday and reported by the Detroit Metro Times on Wednesday , former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) told voters that he would oppose any…
Iowa Rep. Zach Nunn and other Republicans are spreading a false claim alleging that Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott officiated a Satanic wedding. Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and state senator, launched a campaign challenging Nunn last year. Nunn is widely regarded as one of the most vulnerable House Republicans facing reelection this fall. In 2023, Trone Garriott participated in the Des…
Even as Republicans mocked Maine’s “chaotic” process to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic Senate nominee, hundreds of local activists were lining up behind Troy Jackson. Rival candidates for the nomination dropped out over the weekend as the former Maine Senate president and Platner ally seemed certain to win over the delegates selected by Maine Democrats for a statewide convention on July…
Reprinted with permission from ProPublica The rich and famous who filed into the Kennedy Center’s opera house in December were there to enjoy one of the nation’s most exclusive celebrations of the performing arts: the center’s annual honors gala. The black-tie event, hosted by President Donald Trump, prioritized tickets to people who donated more than $75,000 to the center. This year, it feted…
As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. If that old political adage bears out this year, it would be a hell of a problem for the Republican Party. Recent polling shows the state’s Senate and gubernatorial races locked in a dead heat—a shocking development for this reddening state. The Buckeye State, once a bellwether, has been drifting rapidly toward Republicans. Between 2002 and 2012, the state saw 10…
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…
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is finally questioning the dozens of reports that officials in President Donald Trump's administration are using government resources for personal reasons. According to MS NOW reporter Ken Dilanian , Grassley wants information about Kash Patel's personal use of the FBI plane and the recent decision to purchase BMW SUVs for the FBI. But those only scratch the surface of…
