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Data analyst G. Elliot Morris fears the GOP may be a dead-party-walking as they head into the mid-terms — and polling analytics are setting the GOP up for terrible disappointment. “The polls are [possibly] understating support For Democrats, not Republicans, as you might have heard,” said Morris, speaking on the data generating process with The Downballot Podcast host David Nir . “If you pay any attention to politics and the polls over the past couple of cycles, then you will probably be triggered by large apparent misfires in public opinion surveys in the direction of the Democrats over the last four election cycles, basically every cycle since 2016, except for the midterms,” said Morris, referencing President Donald Trump’s unexpected wins in 2024 and 2016. However, “once you look under the hood,” said Morris, it appears pollsters are accidentally creating the potential for bias in the other direction and setting Republicans up for even more disappointment than they’re already expe...
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GOP governor demands Trump 'man up and accept' he lost

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Former Kansas governor Bill Graves is a Republican with a growing hostile attitude toward President Donald Trump and the Republicans who unfailingly enable him. “The Republican Party to me today feels like sort of a bad frat party,” said Graves on the Thursday night edition of Erin Burnett Out Front . “Everybody sort of just full of this joy and enthusiasm about how great things are going. And they're not really grasping the struggles that are going on every day for everyday Americans.” “I don't recognize this Republican Party,” Graves insisted. “I'm still a Republican, and I intend to stay one. But I'm hoping the Republican Party trends back more towards me than further away from me.” Graves said he lamented the “corruption and ineptitude” coming from the White House, and he said the party was failing the balance of power system that made the U.S. a functional democracy for so long. “I've got a tremendous respect for the balance of powers in our in our nation. And...
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Chip Roy flails on CNN after Jake tapper drops Melania reality check

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Rep. Chip Roy of Texas unleashed a masterclass of denial while speaking with CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Thursday night . The act kicked off after Tapper confronted Roy with footage of First Lady Melania Trump hosting an ‘opulent’ White House dinner scene complete with expensive dinnerware as Americans struggle under an affordability crisis created by Trump’s own policies. “Can you explain the worldview of the president and first lady when they — when she puts up that state dinner video?” asked Tapper. “It’s very fancy. But it's giving kind of like Nancy Reagan, White House china vibes, and then President [Donald] Trump talking about how there is no affordability crisis.” “I'm never going to try to explain what someone else is thinking about on any particular issue,” said Roy, immediately surrendering the argument. “But what I can tell you is what the people of Texas are telling me and people across the country. … [P]eople are concerned, of course, about affordability, and the...
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Another Kennedy Center: Trump's next renaming target begs court for help

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President Donald Trump is famously targeting the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by demanding that it be renamed to mention him, despite courts repeatedly ruling that he cannot legally do this without congressional authorization. Yet even as he targets America's premiere cultural center, the president also has another legendary institution in his sights — the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Also like the Kennedy Center, USIP is applying for legal relief. "NOT JUST THE KENNEDY CENTER: U.S. Institute of Peace asks for emergency relief to bar any 'plans to carve President Trump’s name into the facade of the iconic USIP headquarters building,'" Politico's Kyle Cheney posted on X on Thursday . He included a screenshot of a legal filing by USIP in which they appealed to the courts to "prevent Appellants or those acting on their behalf from carrying out plans to carve President Trump's name into the façade of the iconic USIP headquarters bui...
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Trump’s going to hate his 'new normal': military veteran

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President Donald Trump has suffered a string of defeat in the last few weeks, but veteran, activist and “Independent Americans Podcast” host Paul Rieckhoff, told CNN Wednesday that he should get accustomed to that losing sensation in the weeks leading into November and the remaining two years of his term. The Supreme Court recently told Trump where to put his attempt to constrict mail in voting , Congress has passed a Russian sanctions bill against a nation led by what Trump considered a friend . And on Wednesday his own appointed Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh voted to raise interest rates despite Trump engaging a year-long war with the former fed chair over the same threat. To top all that off, the underpowered nation of Iran is beating Trump to a pulp on his economy by launching savvy military attacks that have ballooned global oil prices — assuring that an angry host of voters will be heading to polls in November to punish the party in power, and Trump. CNN anchor Erin Burnet...
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Trump-a-Palooza speech lost to an interview he allegedly tried to censor

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President Donald Trump tried to cancel talk show host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel last year, in an effort that boomeranged so badly on him that it helped Kimmel's ratings and even rallied some conservatives against him . Now a political scientist is observing that Trump, apparently learning nothing, may have drawn attention to Kimmel's recent interview with Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico — and, in the process, helped that interview outperform Trump's own midterms convention. "This is a profile in boomeranging," Jason Johnson, an associate professor of communication and journalism at Morgan State University, told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Wednesday. "The effort to censor the interview we have Kimmel here has actually enhanced it only because they chose to fight. By putting it on YouTube, that puts it out to the world and, oh my gosh, we are way over the normal audience. And the intrigue — I mean, I'll tell folks, they titled it the intervie...
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'Like a desperate boyfriend': CNN's Jake Tapper has bad news for the GOP

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper reports Republican policies have raised health care subsidies for Obamacare and escalated the trade war . Add to that the Iran war driving fertilizer prices and diesel prices to historic levels, and you can see why Republican Senate hopeful Ashley Hinson of Iowa is proposing to “reach across the aisle” to Democrats if elected. “I'm Ashley Hinson, and I approve this message because working across the aisle isn't always easy, but it's how you get results,” said Hinson in her new ad. But Tapper said Vice President JD Vance has a different kind of message as the U.SA. economy drags down the GOP with 48 days to go until the midterms. “Don't give power to the people who caused the problems that we're fixing,” Vance told a recent audience. “Give us another chance or give us another couple of years to continue to work on the amazing things that we've been doing for the past two years.” “Well, there's a bumper sticker for you: Give us anothe...
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