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Trump regret is unquestionably on the rise, but one pollster did not expect it to be so far-reaching that it could have handed the White House to Kamala Harris. G. Elliot Morris, the organizer behind the March 2026 monthly Strength In Numbers/ Verasight poll, discovered that one out of every eight Trump voters from 2024 has buyer’s remorse. And when asked how they would vote in a do-over, enough respondents were willing to go with Harris. “Even ‘small’ regret percentages (13 percent is not an obviously high number) can have big impacts on close elections,” said Morris, explaining that a voter who switches candidates actually swings the margin by two votes (one fewer for their side, one more for the other). Meanwhile a voter who moves to a third party or just stays home, disgusted, costs their candidate one point. “…. [T]he partisan asymmetry in the 2024 vote regret really matters for electoral strategy and narrative purposes,” said Morris. “If we do the math on a 2024 election...
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Conservative declares Trump’s two superpowers dead — and he killed them

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Former George Bush speechwriter Tim Miller said President Donald Trump has spent his last two terms basking in two very powerful superpowers that have saved him from his every mistake. But Miller told “Jim Acosta Sow” host Jim Acosta Friday that Trump has singlehandedly deep-sixed his own magic within the span of a month. “Trump's superpower through two terms has always been that if something's going bad he can just declare victory, say everything is fine and start doing something else. And his cult members, the MAGA base, will be with him. The people who don't pay attention that closely won't really notice what happened.” It doesn’t matter when Trump announces plans to invade a NATO ally and claim the island of Greenland. He just moves on to the next thing and MAGA forgives and forgets — or even normalizes it. “And so, he has been able to do that in a way that other politicians struggle with because they'd worry about their credibility,” said Miller. “Trump ...
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Federal judge dunks Trump lawyers for 'misstating the law' and 'misquotations'

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice appears to be catching his habit of playing loose with the facts. But the problem for his federal attorneys is they’re delivering their bogus info to judges who appear to take issue with it. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel wiped DOJ attorneys in a Thursday decision and schooled them on the importance of honesty in research when submitting arguments. As part of “Operation Metro Surge,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested thousands of noncitizens transported them to a holding facility, flew them across the country, and pressured them to sign self-deportation documents — all without the opportunity to speak with an attorney, said the judge. But “due process is not a game of keep-away,” said the judge. “ICE recognizes detainees’ right to access counsel in theory and written policy, but not in practice. Instead, it has placed obstacle after obstacle in front of detainees and their attorneys, blocking communication betw...
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'Has-beens, never-weres and a felon' comprise candidates in Trump country: conservative

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Conservative Dispatch CEO and editor Steve Hayes visited Bonita Springs, Florida, during campaign season and says he found the kind of political personalities you get in “Trump country.” Former U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn was one of the first personalities Heyes shined a light on trying to nab Florida’s 19 th Congressional District. In his article, titled “Meet the Has-Beens, Never-Weres, and Felon Locked in a Trumpy Primary,” he makes clear he is not impressed. “That Cawthorn is a viable candidate — indeed, given his name recognition and MAGAworld celebrity status, he’s considered a real contender—says a lot about the contest in this dark red corner of Florida’s Gulf Coast and about the state of the Republican Party in the Trump era,” said Hayes, recounting Cawthorn’s congressional service beginning “with a rousing speech to the pro-Trump mob at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,” where he praised the mob’s “willingness to fight, declared the 2020 election fraudulent, and later...
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Republican defies Trump in pivotal primary fight: 'Where were you on Epstein?'

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President Donald Trump does not have many Republican critics left in Congress — but one of the few who remains recently told The New York Times that he views his upcoming primary as a “litmus test” for his own party. “He told me that he thinks if he wins, it will embolden his colleagues to oppose Trump on policy issues they truly care about,” the Times’ Catie Edmondson told Katie Gleuck in a Wednesday interview . Edmondson was discussing her recent interview with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has been an outspoken critic of Trump for invading Iran and concealing files related to the late convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “That being said, and what I hope came through in the piece, is that Massie, and his relationship to his district, are unique. Even if he wins, I’m not sure how many of his colleagues would rush to follow his lead given how much outside money is being spent against him.” Massie is not alone among Republicans in Congress who stand up to Trump, althou...
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Former Republican fears 'complete nut jobs' in charge of the White House

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Podcaster and former reality show star Angie “Pumps” Sullivan said she grew up in a Republican home and stayed true to the faith, until around the time she discovered the immorality and low IQ of candidate and later President Donald Trump. “I grew up a Republican. I was raised by Republicans that are now MAGA,” Sullivan told Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller. “[But] … my entire life blew up and I had to reexamine how I viewed my religion, evangelical Christianity, and that spilled over into politics.” It is with the candor of personal experience, then, that Sullivan admits the Trump administration has “let complete nut jobs that are not tethered to reality into positions of power.” “Like, we have the dumbest people in the world in positions of power,” Sullivan told Miller. “When you really look at it, you go around the cabinet and you think this is the biggest collection of dip—— I have ever seen in my entire life. … It would be hard to try to even get a collection of dip—— that are d...
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​​'A lame duck and getting lamer': Trump's Iran invasion exposed as desperate power grab

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A longtime conservative writer is not quite ready to give up on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran — but even he admits that the Republican is acting like “a lame duck and getting lamer.” In a Tuesday editorial that labeled America’s 45th and 47th president as a “wild card,” Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. argued that Trump is a “lame duck and getting lamer” who, as a result, is “betting on luck” to get him a series of major policy achievements. “His war aims run athwart the Napoleonic dictum: If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna,” Jenkins explained. “Disapprove of George W. Bush but he took steps and mobilized the resources to make sure he met his stated goals in Iraq. And luck cuts both ways. Like history’s most notorious foreign-policy gamblers, Mr. Trump is unlikely to quit while ahead.” When Trump’s anti-war supporters express bafflement at his sudden warmongering, Jenkins observed that Trump was never actually an isolationist, but rather exults ...
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