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Bulwark Congressional reporter Joe Perticone reports that Republican elected officials, GOP operatives and staffers, military officers, and chiefs of staff “seem to never learn” that handing over their loyalty to Trump meaning nothing. “Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is the latest to realize this only after the president’s knife has been embedded firmly in his back,” Perticone wrote. On Saturday, Trump followed his grudge and endorsed MAGA-aligned Louisiana state representative Julia Letlow to unseat Cassidy in the Republican primary. “Should she decide to enter this Race, Julia Letlow has my Complete and Total Endorsement,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “RUN, JULIA, RUN!!!” Perticone reports Cassidy had been telling colleagues that White House staff had assured that Trump would remain neutral in the race. Perticone added that other Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), tried to talk Trump out of endorsing Letlow and keeping his finger off the sc...

One religious scholar is warning that the 2026 midterm elections could prompt a violent response from far-right evangelical Christians. During a Monday interview with Zeteo host John Harwood, Public Religion Research Institute founder and president Robert P. Jones – who holds an M. Div from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Emory University — spoke about how President Donald Trump's MAGA movement has captured a vast bulk of Christian evangelicals. Harwood asked Jones whether MAGA Christians were excusing Trump's "brutality and cruel behavior" due to innate racism, or if they were simply people fearing becoming a demographic minority and overwhelmed by the "loss of life they were accustomed to." "Do you feel sorry for the people who are embracing what the Trump administration is doing because they're scared or what?" Harwood asked. "Well, I should just say I am those people. These are my people. Like I sai...

As President Donald Trump prepares to enter year two of his second term, many of the same voters who elected him to the White House in 2024 are now entertaining the idea of voting for Democrats in this fall's midterm elections. In a Monday segment , CNN correspondent John King reported that in Iowa – where voters will be electing a governor, a U.S. senator and all four members of its U.S. House of Representatives delegation this fall – some Trump 2024 voters have "exhaustion" with the current administration. Shanen Ebersole, who is a cattle rancher in Kellerton, Iowa, told King that she was considering voting for Democrats in the midterms, primarily due to Trump's latest fixation on claiming Greenland for the United States. "I don't agree with that in any way, shape or form," Ebersole said. When King asked if that was what she voted for, she qiickly said "no." "I think that you have to vote for the person t hat best meets your goals...

The low polling of Congress won't matter much if American voters are furious with the president, CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, explained looking at new numbers. Speaking Monday, Enten explored the low approval of Republicans, showing that support for Democratic members has increased five points at the start of 2026. He noted that it was the same trend seen before the 2018 midterm elections when President Donald Trump lost power in Congress. He explained that in midterm elections, the voters more motivated are generally the ones who win. What is different in Jan. 2026 is that Democrats are 16 points higher than Republicans on motivation . In 2018 that number was just five points up from the GOP. One problem is that Democratic congressional leadership has lower numbers than GOP members. Enten said, however, that a lot of that disapproval is coming from Democratic voters themselves, who are angry with the congressional leadership. "Here is the key nugget when ...

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