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As Republicans tried to rally around President Donald Trump at the midterm convention in Dallas, MS NOW's Chris Jansing went across town to a food drive event hosted by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico — and met some longtime Republicans who are crossing the aisle.

"According to James Talarico, life under Trump means that a lot of people can't afford to put food on their table," Jansing told anchor Alicia Menendez, noting that volunteers have already donated around 20,000 pounds of groceries. "They say compare and contrast that to $25,000 that people are paying to be across town and be at the midterm convention for the Republicans."

President Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC News reporter outside Air Force One on Wednesday, calling the network "fake news" and "the worst of all," moments after being asked why Republicans in competitive races are skipping his party's convention in Dallas.

Asked why several Republicans in tight races weren't attending, Trump insisted the opposite.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro shouted down a reporter who repeatedly pressed her on the Reflecting Pool case President Donald Trump wants her to revive.

The exchange came Wednesday at a Washington news conference Pirro had called to announce a guilty plea in a $245 million cryptocurrency racketeering case, her office said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is viewed as a global "pariah," according to CNN's Harry Enten, and prediction markets show his odds of remaining prime minister after the next election sliding sharply.

The United Kingdom, France and Canada have announced plans to sanction illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, underscoring rising friction between Israel and some of its closest Western allies, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that Netanyahu's net confidence rating worldwide sits 56 points underwater.

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough lost his temper on Wednesday — screaming over one of his guests to declare he wasn't "stupid."

Scarborough was responding to new reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had advance warning of the brutal October 7 attacks, and failed to intervene.

Republicans have badly misjudged who they need to reach at their Dallas midterm convention this week, according to CNN's Harry Enten, and he warned the entire premise of the event is "ill-conceived."

The GOP scheduled the two-night event to compete directly with NFL season openers, which Enten called a baffling choice — but the bigger problem is the audience Republicans are targeting: hardcore MAGA voters who are already motivated to turn out.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) drew ridicule and condemnation from across the political spectrum after defending President Donald Trump's claim that firefighters carried him from Ground Zero after 9/11.

Cruz was speaking to CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday night, hours after Trump described his own role in the response to the 2001 attacks at a White House ceremony honoring emergency responders.

MS NOW's Jen Psaki identified a key talking point of Republicans for the midterms on Tuesday evening — and zeroed in on a candidate who blows that talking point to bits.

"The stage is now set, and the national political parties are telling us exactly how they want to frame the choice in this election," said Psaki. She played clip after clip after clip of Republicans saying the new election is "common sense versus crazy," with one saying it's "a contrast between common sense conservatives and crazy communism," and another saying, "There are a bunch of crazy people; elect the common sense people to Washington."

Conservative columnist S.E. Cupp didn't hold back when she was asked about President Donald Trump's comments on 9/11 during a ceremony Tuesday.

Trump spoke at an event honoring 9/11 first responders, where he claimed that he was pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center by rescuers. Critics immediately noted that the president's claims were fictitious, as he was miles away from the site in Trump Tower that day.

President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel are playing a "dangerous" game in their escalating war against Nevada voters, elections attorney Marc Elias said on Brian Tyler Cohen's "Democracy Watch" podcast Tuesday.

"This is a five-alarm fire," Elias told Cohen. "What we know is this: the Department of Justice has sent the Nevada Secretary of State's office seven different subpoenas concerning voters over the past three months ... there is no reason for the Department of Justice to be subpoenaing an election office in advance of an election like this. There is certainly no reason why it should be issuing multiple subpoenas."

President Donald Trump might be staking the entire midterm election on a war against "socialists," Republican strategist Marc Short said on CNN — but in terms of his love for flexing government power, he increasingly might as well be one.

Short's observation came during a discussion about the growing influence of the Democratic Socialist wing of the Democratic Party following their recent electoral victories, as well as how Trump might try to tie the rest of the party to them.

The James Talarico Senate campaign in Texas just rolled out one of its most eye-catching endorsements yet — a decorated Texas Ranger who once served as state Attorney General Ken Paxton's director of law enforcement.

The huge development, which comes as Talarico's Democratic campaign seeks to be the first to win Texas in over 30 years, was revealed in a brief political ad on Tuesday.