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Democrats are licking their chops for November's midterm elections, according to CNN's Harry Enten, after flipping a Republican seat in the Florida statehouse district that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election Tuesday over the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Jon Maples, and Enten broke down the results and their bearing on this year's congressional races.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) threatened to derail a funding plan for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the demand that the Trump administration obtain judicial warrants before snatching immigrants from their homes.

"I don't think that's going to happen in the House," Jordan told CNBC on Wednesday, talking about demands the Democrats have made regarding funding of the department. Lack of agreement currently means a partial shutdown, and has caused chaos at airport as TSA agents go unpaid.

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough was incredulous as one of his guests offered to defend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's handling of the Iran war.

The "Morning Joe" host mocked Hegseth for boasting "we negotiate with bombs" during an Oval Office event with President Donald Trump, and Scarborough said he doesn't understand what the 79-year-old commander in chief sees in his Pentagon chief.

A former official in President Donald Trump's first administration lost it during a panel discussion on CNN's "NewsNight" after a Democratic analyst raised Trump's threat to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places for the midterm elections.

Ken Cuccinelli, Trump's former acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, lost his cool as Democratic analyst Adam Mockler questioned his argument that Trump is just "pulling your chain" by threatening to send ICE to polling places. Cuccinelli said that it has been illegal since the Reconstruction Era for federal agents to show up at polling places with weapons.

Republicans in Congress are fretting that President Donald Trump has given them "nowhere to go" in negotiations over funding the Department of Homeland Security.

Part of DHS has been shut down for more than a month, meaning employees at the Transportation Security Administration and others have not been paid. Security lines have been growing at airports around the country, and Trump has deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to assist TSA officers who are still working.

CNN data guru Harry Enten issued a staggering prediction after Democrats flipped a state legislative seat in Florida that represents President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

Harry Enten, CNN's chief data analyst, said during an interview on "Erin Burnett OutFront" that the election is a harbinger of what's to come for Republicans in the midterms. Enten said the party that outperformed the presidential baseline in the midterms went on to win the House of Representatives in five out of the last five elections.

A Republican voter in Florida chided President Donald Trump in an interview with CNN for voting by mail in the Palm Beach County election on Tuesday.

Trump has consistently railed against mail-in voting since he was first elected in 2016. On Monday, the president called mail-in voting "mail-in cheating" during an anti-crime meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, CBS News reported.

Jeffrey Epstein's former attorney and co-executor Darren Indyke might have committed perjury in his testimony to Congress, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez on Tuesday's edition of "Deadline: White House" — but it's unclear partly because the FBI never bothered to look at him as closely as they should have.

Indyke and another Epstein associate, his accountant Richard Kahn, spoke to Congress behind closed doors, with their testimony only now becoming available. They both claimed to have had no knowledge of the deceased financier and accused sex trafficker's crimes against children — but there are holes in their story, Rubin said.

President Donald Trump was caught in the crossfire on Fox News between Jessica Tarlov and Jesse Watters on "The Five" about the war in Iran.

Tarlov claimed that Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have told the American public "completely backwards" stories about how the war is progressing and the administration's goals for ending it. For instance, Trump has claimed that victory in Iran means an "unconditional surrender" by the Iranian regime. Hegseth has claimed the goals are to destroy the country's nuclear weapons infrastructure.

President Donald Trump's autocratic tendencies are doing more than terrorizing Americans, University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez on Tuesday's edition of "Deadline: White House" — they are undermining America's future ability to grow and prosper.

Wolfers expounded on this amid reporting that Trump is going out of his way to pay companies to cancel wind energy projects — at a moment when his war with Iran is provoking an energy crisis.

Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) revealed that he was insulted by a TSA agent who didn't know he was a congressman.

On Tuesday, Harris told Real America Voice host Steve Gruber about his experience at a TSA checkpoint in Charlotte during the partial government shutdown, which was preventing agents from being paid.