• Exclusive: Emails Reveal Speaker Johnson’s Top Adviser’s Never Trump Conniption Over GOP Group’s Trump Endorsement

    House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Director of House Operations Hannah Fraher had a Never Trump conniption, emails obtained by Breitbart News show.

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    Ex-Trump White House lawyer says Trump’s post violated judge’s gag order

    Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about

  • Are Democrats really poised to overcome Trump’s momentum?

    Michael Lind has written a provocative commentary, partly in response to John Judis and Ruy Texeira’s recent book, “Where Have All the Democrats Gone?” Lind would have us believe that the Democratic Party will do better in November than its naysayers suggest. Contrary to what Texiera-Judis maintain, namely that the Democrats have lost their traditional working-class base and may no longer be flourishing among racial minorities, the Dems supposedly have the wind at their back. The only reliable...

  • Trump’s New York Trial Has Officially Begun. Here’s What’s at Stake.

    Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the Read More

  • Trump’s court conduct gives Democrats a ‘Sleepy Joe’ retort

    Democrats, including President Biden’s campaign, have been eager to promote reports that former president Donald Trump has apparently fallen asleep during his hush-money trial in New York.

  • Democrats experience hope and fear as Biden nips at Trump’s heels

    President Joe Biden has narrowed the gap with former President Donald Trump, nearly tying but not overtaking the Republican in the polls. The latest RealClearPolitics polling average has Trump leading by 0.2 points, down from more than 4 at the beginning of the year. Trump led by 1 in the most recent New York Times-Siena President Joe Biden has narrowed the gap with former President Donald Trump, nearly tying but not overtaking the Republican in the polls.

  • Trump lawyer Habba calls reports he’s falling asleep in court ‘unlikely’

    Alina Habba, an attorney and spokesperson for former President Trump, said in a Tuesday interview that it was “unlikely” that Trump fell asleep in the courtroom during the first two days of jury selection for his hush money case in Manhattan, despite reports indicating otherwise. “If anything, he's probably brutally bored,” Habba told Fox News’s

  • STUDY: At Least 90% of TV News Fails to Call Trump Prosecutors ‘Democrats’

    Barring a last-minute hiccup, today a Democratic prosecutor — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — will begin his unprecedented criminal trial of former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s certain presidential nominee in November’s general election. Despite the obvious political implications of such a prosecution, a new study of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage shows at least 90% of their coverage failed to inform viewers that Bragg and the other elected Democrats going...

  • STUDY: At Least 90% of TV News Fails to Call Trump Prosecutors ‘Democrats’

    Barring a last-minute hiccup, today a Democratic prosecutor — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — will begin his unprecedented criminal trial of former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s certain presidential nominee in November’s general election. Despite the obvious political implications of such a prosecution, a new study of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage shows at least 90% of their coverage failed to inform viewers that Bragg and the other elected Democrats going...

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    Even Trump's had enough of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust Mike Johnson

    The Capitol Hill chroniclers at Punchbowl News made a proclamation Monday morning: “The winner of this Congress? Joe Biden.” It’s a remarkable statement, considering Democrats only hold the majority in the Senate. But the “burn it down caucus” in the House GOP has achieved the impossible. They have torched their own congressional majority, leaving themselves a one-seat governing majority in the House of Representatives. How? Republicans are running for the exits at an alarming clip. Rep. Ken...

  • 'Golden opportunity': James Carville calls on Democrats to disrupt Trump rallies with 'fart sounds'

    The man who led Bill Clinton into the White House said party members should keep Joe Biden in it by trolling former President Donald Trump with “fart sounds.”

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    Catch up on the day’s news: Trump jurors sworn in, Mayorkas impeachment, space trash

    👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Lots of teenagers have a smartphone, but studies suggest that social media platforms are contributing to serious problems with depression and anxiety among young people. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes that kids should have little or no access to smartphones and social media until age 16. Some states are even passing laws along those lines. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 5 things 1️⃣ Trump trial: Seven jurors were sworn in for...