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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) took to Newsmax Tuesday to downplay the implications of recent polling that shows a congressional race in a GOP stronghold to be much closer than what past election data would suggest.

A special election is being held Tuesday in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, scheduled after the resignation of its previous representative Mark Green, a Republican who left in July after securing a job in the private sector.

Should a serious inquiry be conducted by Congress into the reported killing of two survivors left clinging to a vessel after a kinetic strike on an alleged drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be prepared to face military officials who will go in prepared to defend themselves.

Late Monday, the Wall Street Journal editorial page editors suggested, “If Mr. Hegseth is right, then the factual record will support him. There are layers of bureaucracy between the Secretary of Defense and the business end of a missile. You can bet senior military officers bought insurance on their own careers by recording the advice they gave and the directions they received.”

Comments made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a highly-publicized — and criticized — gathering at Quantico at the end of September may come back to haunt him as lawmakers announce hearings into possible war crimes by Donald Trump’s appointee to head up the Pentagon.

During Hegseth’s appearance, that was notable about his complaining about “fat” military personnel, he also made it clear he did not feel soldiers should be constrained from doing their jobs as he saw them.

Any hope Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might have that Navy Admiral Frank Bradley will absorb all the blame for what is being called a “war crime” was disabused by an MS NOW panel on Tuesday morning.

Reacting to both Hegseth and the White House singling out the admiral for having the final say on the attack that killed two alleged "narcoterrorists" who were hanging onto a burning vessel in the Caribbean in September, the “Morning Joe” co-hosts claimed the embattled Pentagon chief is facing a reckoning.

A prominent political strategist claimed during a podcast interview on Monday that President Donald Trump's second term is effectively over after Democrats picked up wins in key state races, which he said was the result of Trump revealing a "stunning" vulnerability.

For the last several years, Trump has appeared to be an unshakable political force. He survived two impeachments during his first term and has faced almost no sustained opposition to his agenda during his second term. However, experts have argued that cracks are appearing in Trump's base because of his strikes against alleged drug dealers and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

A progressive analyst ripped FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday after a 115-page report outlining several "red flags" at his agency was released.

Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen said in a new YouTube video on Monday night that Patel's FBI appears to be run more like a content creation studio than a premier law enforcement agency. He cited a report that was first reported on by The New York Post that described the FBI as a "rudderless ship."

A House Republican aligned with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement made a shocking claim about immigration during an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is leaving Congress in pursuit of South Carolina's governor's office, said during the interview that she wants all immigrants to be removed from the country, including those who are fleeing war-torn countries. The congresswoman's rhetoric illustrates the heated debate surrounding immigration that has emerged following the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., last week, where a 29-year-old immigrant is believed to be the culprit.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a "chilling" message to all the generals working beneath him in his response to the exploding scandal over the killing of unarmed shipwreck survivors, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday's edition of "OutFront."

The killings, first reported last week, have been widely condemned by experts as war crimes. Hegseth's response has been twofold: to categorically stand by the order, but also to claim that it wasn't even his order in the first place.

A former Department of Justice pardon attorney slammed President Donald Trump on Monday for freeing a billion-dollar Ponzi schemer from federal prison just before Thanksgiving.

The White House confirmed on Monday that Trump commuted the sentence of David Gentile, the former CEO of GPB Capital, who was convicted in May of wire and bank fraud charges, according to a report by CNN. Gentile was just 12 days into his seven-year sentence when Trump commuted it.

The Senate's top Democrat scorched Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an interview on CNN on Monday evening after the secretary attempted to obfuscate his involvement in the Trump administration's strikes on alleged drug boats in international waters.

Recent reporting from The Washington Post revealed that Hegseth told officials to "kill them all" when asked what should be done to people who have survived the strikes. Hegseth has said the report has "no validity," but several lawmakers have criticized Hegseth's response.

Fox News host Dana Perino flagged a warning sign for Republicans in upcoming elections on Monday during the network's show, "The Five."

The panel discussed the Democratic Party's chances of flipping Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in an upcoming election, a seat that is deep in Trump country. Perino, a former press secretary during George W. Bush's administration, warned that Democrats could over-perform in the district, which would continue to feed the party's momentum going into the 2026 midterm.

President Donald Trump's strikes on suspected drug trafficking vessels, apart from being illegal, appear to have been executed with no proper planning, retired Rear Adm. William Baumgartner told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House."

This comes after explosive reporting that military officials fired on survivors of at least one strike, an act considered a war crime under both U.S. and international law, which has sent the White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth scrambling to alternatively justify and point fingers for the action.