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Longtime MS NOW anchor Rachael Maddow said President Donald Trump is not the president he was in his last administration, after the onslaught of age and illness. “I think that he is I know this I don't say this in a way that's meant to be cheap, but I feel like he's devolved in his own ability to communicate,” Maddow told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace . “The Islamic Republic of Japan doesn't do it for you,” Wallace quipped. “It's shockingly bad,” Maddow continued. “But I mean, not only can he not find the words that are supposed to go together to make the nouns, he can't form a political concept. Just as an example, this housing bill, right? Republicans want one concrete policy-related thing to run on that's not taking away everybody's health insurance , right? They want something else to run on and they've got it and they get it together. And Trump realizes, ‘wait a second, that's not about me.’ And so therefore, he has to get rid of it.” “Even ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that any election he loses is stolen and talked about rigging the 2026 midterms so he does not lose control of either chamber of Congress. Yet a new comprehensive study reveals that Trump may have already erected long-term barriers to American democracy by playing upon a common emotion tying conservative voters together. “ A recent study in the journal Party Politics analyzed data from the 2024 American National Election Study involving more than 4,200 participants and discovered a major motivating factor uniting conservatives to vote appears to be distrust, while liberals vote the same regardless of trust issues. PsyPost reporter Eric W. Dolan elaborated on exactly what these findings reveal. “Political scientists Erin B. Fitz and Kyle L. Saunders from Colorado State University conducted the new research to better understand the relationship between election trust and political behavior,” Dolan wrote. “Their work focuses specifically o...

MS NOW reporter Mychaal Schnell says House Speaker Mike Johnson has ended one Republican revolt, but is now facing the prospect of another. “As House conservatives lifted their weekslong floor blockade on Tuesday — allowing GOP leaders to resume moving big-ticket legislation — Republicans were already bracing for another fight over a third reconciliation package,” reports Schnell. Johnson may have persuaded conservative holdouts to abandon their demand that the Senate pass the SAVE America Act before the House move any partisan legislation forward but solving that problem is already creating a new one. “Republicans are now trying to advance a reconciliation package — one designed to fund the Iran war — with a version of the SAVE America Act attached to it, exposing new divisions in the House GOP and setting up a potential standoff with the Senate,” said Schnell. Adding to the problems is the timeline , Schnell said. GOP leaders and the White House are hoping to move the package throu...

While the office of former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insists he is merely recovering from a fall at a hospital, conspiracy theories continue abound that the continuously-absent Kentuckian seen carried away on a stretcher is actually in a much worse state. “Cornyn says ‘we need some transparency’ from McConnell,” reported NBC News congressional correspondent Brennan Leach, referring to an interview with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). “Says he wishes McConnell had updated about his health ‘earlier.’ ‘I think it would have resolved a lot of questions.’” Cornyn also said he wants to see toxicology reports on the unexpected death of a different Republican lawmaker, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. “Given where he was and the sorts of things he was advocating for, I think we just ought to resolve all those questions by seeing what the toxicology reports show," Cornyn said about Graham. Earlier on Monday, Cornyn told NOTUS reporter Igor Bobic that he believes Trump'...

President Donald Trump is reportedly planning on delivering a speech in the near future amplifying his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him — and social media users on X are raising the alarm. “Things are about to get very, very, very bad,” posted podcaster Chris Mowrey . Similarly Shannon Watts , the New York Times bestselling author of “Fired Up,” wrote that this means there will be “a Civil War instead of midterm elections.” Journalist Pedro L. Gonzalez struck an ominous note by pointing out that Trump also plans on declaring Georgia’s two senators, Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, to be illegitimate. “If this is true it just shows that Trump is becoming more and more authoritarian, but the stupid kind of authoritarian who can’t even mask regime lies in a convincing way and so it’s obvious to everyone that he is terrified of his opponents (Ossof [sic] is a viable presidential candidate for Dems, one with more appeal than Vance) and also the ...

A Republican senator who President Donald Trump recently threw under the bus is now throwing a top Trump official’s words back in his face — and over an issue that economically impacts every American. “I recall Secretary Rubio saying that would not be proper for any country. Am I wrong?” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told NOTUS journalist Igor Bobic regarding Trump saying the United States will toll the Strait of Hormuz. Ever since Trump invaded Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has been hotly contested, with Iran’s throttling of the key waterway raising prices on essential products like oil and fertilizer for ordinary Americans. Cornyn was referring to how Trump recently announced that the United States will be the new so-called “guardian of the Hormuz Strait” and as such start collecting a 20 percent toll on ships that transit across the globally-utilized shipping route. “The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account. “We are r...