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A single camera shot from President Donald Trump's latest rally sparked a wave of online ridicule, with critics zeroing in on one detail.

The footage, shared Tuesday by MeidasTouch digital editor Acyn Torabi, panned across the venue from Trump's rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, showing a modest space that critics compared to a high school gym, a preschool graduation and a pole barn.

Trump also scheduled a Lubbock rally the same day, as Republicans use the final week before the midterms to shore up competitive South Texas House races, including Republican Eric Flores' challenge to Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez....

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called it “a little silly” to ask whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if Republicans lose the House next week.

Johnson made the remark Tuesday in Orangeburg, New York, a week before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

“I wanna ask you, do you commit to having a peaceful transfer of power come January regardless of what the results are?” MS NOW reporter Mychael Schnell asked....

A legal expert argued a newly surfaced court document points to an unexpected player in President Donald Trump's push to shutter the Kennedy Center.

Legal AF's Michael Popok said on Tuesday's episode of "The Intersection" that presidential aide Natalie Harp has been trading messages with Kennedy Center management about the institution's fate, according to a privilege log the Trump administration is using to keep those exchanges hidden.

"Does Natalie Harp have a bigger role in the White House than we first suspected?" Popok asked. "It appears from a new filing in the Kennedy Center litigation that Natalie Harp is communicating with people at the Kennedy Center about the destruction of the Kennedy Center. And of course, Trump doesn't like that, so he's hiding it from public view."...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is raising concerns about President Donald Trump’s state of mind if Republicans lose next week’s midterms, warning that the president could resort to “pretty extreme measures.”

TMZ’s Jacob Wasserman caught up with Kelly in New York City on Tuesday and asked, as TMZ put it, what “crazy ideas” Trump might have “when backed into a corner by a Democrat-controlled Congress.”

Kelly said Trump has shown over the years that when he’s stressed, he will “take some pretty extreme measures.”...

Vice President JD Vance lashed out at reporters Tuesday, telling them to “do your job” and cutting off a question as he accused Democrats of “electoral fraud” in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.

Speaking on the tarmac before flying to a Michigan rally, Vance was asked whether Alaska voters can simply read the word “incumbent” on their ballots to tell the two candidates named Dan Sullivan apart.

“I think the question presumes quite a bit,” Vance replied in the exchange, which aired on CNN. “When you put a person on the ballot explicitly to try to confuse voters, I think that’s the definition of electoral fraud.”...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a top ally of President Donald Trump, is embroiled in an “unprecedented confrontation” with Israel’s top military commander over an undisclosed military operation that officials feared could ignite a clash with Iran just days before elections in which he trails his chief rival, Channel 12’s Yaron Avraham reported.

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir feared the political leadership could steer Israel into a “miscalculation” with Iran on the eve of Tuesday’s elections, according to the report. Zamir refused to act until there was a thorough discussion of the order and the political leadership put its legal authorization in writing. Avraham noted that his report had been cleared by Israel’s military censor.

Citing sources familiar with the details, Avraham reported that Zamir stood largely alone. The heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet reportedly backed carrying out the operation before the vote....

Michigan Republican Mike Rogers appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday was panned on MS NOW Monday morning for being a waste of time because he just sucked up to Donald Trump.

It was so bad that “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough refused to share any clips from it and said he would have pulled the plug immediately after it began if it had been on his show.

Speaking with host Kristen Welker, Rogers, who is facing Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed for a seat in the Senate representing Michigan, ducked questions about Donald Trump — specifically his tariffs — while also attacking “you guys on the national press,” calling a question about whether he considers himself “MAGA” as “disgusting.”...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department asked a judge for a delay that would keep the warrant for the unusual raid on the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) secret through the midterm elections.

Lawyers in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office asked Chief Judge James Boasberg in a motion filed Wednesday to push back the deadlines for answering three requests to unseal the warrant records.

Neither of the two timelines the government proposed would release the records before the election on Nov. 3....

A key moment has a former Trump White House insider thinking a damning new report on Jeffrey Epstein probably holds up.

Sarah Matthews, a deputy White House press secretary in Trump's first administration, said on Tuesday's episode of "The Bulwark Daily" that first lady Melania Trump's "weird random press conference" earlier this year is the "most convincing piece of evidence" that the House Judiciary Committee Democrats' report is "probably accurate."

Host Tim Miller, a former Republican strategist, opened the show by reading from the report's executive summary, which states that "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women during the mid to late 1990s."...