I'm here because we're starting the campaign to win the midterms. We've got to win the midterms. Trump told the crowd at an Iowa rally, signaling his central role in the Republican Party's midterm strategy despite not being personally on the ballot in 2026.
I think this is the whole problem is, you're making life harder for people in your district, right? Like, costs are going up and you say Congress should be in check, but you're not you haven't checked the president's power, Katz said. She continued, You haven't let him, like moderate at all. He's unchecked. And the only Republicans who ever go at him are people who are either retiring or who have lifetime appointments, Katz said.
Freedom is not arresting people without warrants. We have a system here, it's called a Constitution. And we have a party, the Republicans. Who don't seem to want to abide by the Constitution. January 6 is a prime example of that. And now they're all free, and they're in charge. You know what? Maybe it's time for Jesse I only did one term I'm owed a second, Ventura told reporters in Minnesota this week. Ventura called the Republican Party a domestic enemy of the Constitution and referred to President Donald Trump as a draft-dodging coward.
A YouGov poll published earlier this week suggests that US adults believe transphobia among the GOP is at least somewhat of a problem. 64 per cent of the 1,107 adults surveyed said that they believe transphobia is a problem among Republicans, with 44 per cent saying it is a major problem. Transphobia was the second-highest issue that respondents believed Republicans had taken too far, just behind hostility towards immigrants at 68 per cent.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a longtime Trump ally who recently split with the president, made headlines last week by announcing her plans to resign in January. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a Trump critic, told Axios he nearly resigned over the Trump administration's 28-point peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war. "I have made the decision, after conversations with my beautiful bride and my girls over the Thanksgiving holiday, to focus on my family and return home after this Congress," Nehls said in a statement.
Five days a week, thousands of fans gather online to watch Nick Fuentes hold court about the dangers of non-white immigration, feminism and organized Jewry. Usually dressed in a dark suit and tie, he lectures to his far-right followers, known as Groypers, about what he argues is the insufficient radicalism of Donald Trump's Republican party and what he describes as the perfidies of the state of Israel and its American supporters.
Since the election, criticisms have been lobbed at Corrin Rankin, who only just became chair of the California Republican Party in March; former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who led one of the main opposition campaigns; former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who only tepidly opposed Proposition 50; and the national Republican Party. The No' campaign suffered from a disadvantage that no amount of money could fix: A lack of recognizable leadership for people to rally around,
Zohran Mamdani's election was not as surprising as his primary win in June, and since then, Republicans have had time to adjust to the idea of a young, charismatic idol espousing a new and exciting message for the Democratic Party. On Tuesday and Wednesday, though, instead of responding with new policy ideas to excite their own base, they mostly responded by returning to old territory: bald, ugly Islamophobia.
When someone says, "Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports," it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while, it works - but only for a short time. But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars.
On Monday, John Catsimatidis, a businessman and top conservative donor, urged Sliwa to quit the race, saying that Republicans "cannot take a chance" on Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani winning. Catsimatidis is also the owner of the radio station 77 WABC ,where Sliwa has hosted a radio program for years. "Curtis has to realize that he should love New York more than anything else. It certainly looks like Curtis should pull out right now," Catsimatidis said on radio host Sid Rosenberg's show, per the .
LGBTQ+ Americans vote overwhelmingly Democratic - 86 percent of voters from the community chose Kamala Harris as president in 2024, according to NBC News exit polls, and just 12 percent went for Donald Trump. But there are LGBTQ+ Republicans, and for decades, the chief organization speaking for them has been the Log Cabin Republicans. Today, it has a record 80 chapters in 40 states and is an enthusiastic backer of Trump, who has a record of anti-LGBTQ+ policies and comments.
I don't think my colleagues are happy about covering up for pedophiles, but that's what's happening. And it's so sick and twisted. The reason they're doing it is because they're terrified of President Trump's political machine, not just his legislative affairs folks are reaching out from the White House to every Republican member of Congress who might think about co-sponsoring this, Massie continued, adding: They're getting calls from the political machine that Donald Trump runs.
