Iowa conservative Steve Deace says Republicans face a brutal election environment, but his proposed cure is even more Trump, despite worsening polls, economic frustration, and evidence that the president himself may be the party’s biggest liability.
With fewer than six weeks before Election Day, polling shows Ken Paxton losing to James Talarico as Trump voters call the Republican nominee corrupt and GOP spending fails to erase Talarico’s early attacks.
The administration is pushing the Supreme Court to preserve third country deportations while using procedural word games to evade lower court orders, extending a campaign defined by cruelty toward detained immigrants.
A possible $2 billion to $3 billion settlement is drawing nearly 1,000 property owners, including hundreds of LLCs tied to major investors, even as Starwood linked properties previously collected more than $10 million in federal disaster relief in Florida.
The administration is withholding a potentially damning surveillance opinion while pushing Congress toward a clean Section 702 reauthorization using a November deadline that privacy advocates say does not reflect when lawmakers must actually act.
Paramount’s conservative owners may seek an investment from Elon Musk, potentially giving the Republican donor influence over CNN, major film and television production, and an expanding media empire already accused of pushing CBS News sharply rightward.
With Democrats gaining and Trump’s approval rating at negative 22%, Republicans are scrambling over the Iran war, gas prices, grim internal polling, and culture war attacks that are failing to address voters’ economic concerns.
Trump demanded to know why CNN was covering him at the United Nations, apparently missing that the independent body controls its own credentials and is not required to enforce his White House restrictions.