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Republicans now 'sincerely worried' about Senate seat in a state Trump won by 13 points

Iowa was supposed to be safe Republican ground, but a closely watched Iowa political analyst said Monday the GOP is worried about holding a Senate seat in a state President Donald Trump carried by 13 points just two years ago.

Appearing on Democratic strategist Joe Trippi's "On the Ground" podcast, Laura Belin, who runs the progressive Iowa site Bleeding Heartland, said the open contest to replace retiring Sen. Joni Ernst has become a real fight.

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'Shocks even me': Trump Jr. bemoans theories as he's with Erika Kirk at murder hearing

Donald Trump Jr. fired back at online conspiracists after they spun his appearance at the Charlie Kirk murder court hearing into a sinister theory.

Trump Jr. was seated in the gallery Monday at the 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, where prosecutors opened a five-day preliminary hearing — a proceeding to determine if there is enough evidence to put 23-year-old Tyler James Robinson on trial for the September 2025 assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

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One July 4 detail marked the beginning of the end for Trump: ex-GOP operative

President Donald Trump's turn as master of ceremonies for America's 250th birthday drew a scathing review from Steve Schmidt, and the veteran political operative claimed it foreshadows the president's downfall.

In a Monday episode of his show "The Warning," Schmidt, a former Republican strategist who co-founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, tore into the president's handling of the July 4 festivities. He mocked the scale of the fireworks as "overkill," derided Trump's Independence Day address, and argued that New York City, with its tall ship parade up the Hudson, "saved the celebration" while Trump's Washington spectacle faltered.

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'Pretty big tell': Analysts say scandal-embattled Maine candidate telegraphing next move

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign was shaken to its core on Monday following allegations he sexually assaulted a woman, throwing his challenge to Republican Sen. Susan Collins into grave doubt.

Platner took to X on Monday to deny the allegations — but political observers noticed his careful wording, which appeared calculated to lay the potential groundwork for him to drop out before the legal deadline to do so.

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Five 'under the radar' Supreme Court rulings that could be undone: column

A future Congress could undo some of the Supreme Court's most consequential rulings from this term, a new Slate opinion piece argues, naming five federal laws an analyst says lawmakers should move to restore.

Writing Monday for the outlet's "Opinionpalooza" series, columnist Alexis Romero contends the justices spent the term narrowing, rewriting, and gutting federal statutes while claiming to defer to lawmakers. Romero names five laws that most need "saving," insisting Congress has the power to override the court's statutory rulings.

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Critics mock Trump over bizarre DC crime rant: 'Literally felt a pang of embarrassment'

The internet was mocking President Donald Trump Monday after he gave a rambling speech at the White House that touched on crime in Washington, D.C. and architecture — among other topics.

Trump spoke at the Rose Garden Club Lunch, where he had just rung the opening bell and marked the first day of trading for Trump Accounts. He started talking about what crime was like in the nation's capital before he returned to the White House and shared a conversation he had with King Charles about William the Conqueror.

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Maine Democrat in marquee race accused of sexual assault

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has been accused of sexual assault, according to Politico on Monday.

The accuser, "a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks." A man Racicot dated corroborated the incident, as well as "emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office."

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Rubio threatens to accost Belgium at NATO summit in Trump soccer scandal escalation

Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to escalate the controversy over President Donald Trump's intervention in a U.S, soccer player's suspension by using an upcoming NATO summit to focus on it.

While meeting with Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Perez Mackenna on Monday, Rubio was asked about Belgium's appeal of FIFA's decision to reverse U.S. player Folarin Balogun's suspension ahead of the World Cup match with Belgium.

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MAGA melts down as Bruce Springsteen torches Trump in new interview: 'He is a coward'

MAGA loyalists were furious Monday after music legend Bruce Springsteen said he was a true "patriot" and called out President Donald Trump.

In a PBS special called "Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song," the musician talked about fighting for a better America and encouraging others to do the same, Variety reported. Springsteen has been critical of Trump and his administration — and the president has lashed out against the artist, calling him a "bad, and very boring singer."

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Trump 'preference' for 'white people' costs him in blistering court ruling

A federal judge blocked part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, citing the president's own "preference" for white immigrants.

U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley of the Southern District of Ohio issued the ruling Monday, blocking three U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policies that had frozen green card and work permit applications for people from seven countries.

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Republican senator scoffs at House GOP's 'super cute' bullying threat

The war between House Republicans and their counterparts in the Senate over passing Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act shows no sign of ending as the House leadership has attempted to do the president’s bidding, resorting to threats.

According to MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell, one Republican senator whose vote would be needed was curt and dismissive of the idea that embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) thinks he will come out on top when the votes simply aren’t there.

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Top daytime talk show folds to Trump admin intimidation and ‘changes’ programing: report

Inside sources revealed to Semafor that “The View,” the top-rated daytime talk show on television, succumbed to pressure from the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and “changed [its] programing,” the outlet reported Sunday night.

Back in February, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that his agency was investigating the program for potential violations of a 1934 rule that mandates certain media stations provide equal time to political candidates. As noted by Semafor, “since then, the ABC talk show hasn’t featured a single political candidate running in a competitive midterm race.”

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