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Jackson Lahmeyer, a candidate in Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District Republican primary, endorsed by President Donald Trump, is reportedly planning to withdraw from the race following a texting scandal.

NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman cited two sources confirming the candidate's withdrawal, but cautioned that he could change his mind.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to X on Wednesday with a nearly five-minute video dripping from start to finish with sarcastic praise for President Donald Trump's deal to end the war against Iran.

"I truly hope that the totally unnecessary Iran war, which is not a war, is truly over and peace is achieved," said Greene. "It's truly incredible that we beat Iran dozens of times, and nearly made peace almost 40 times. It's only cost upwards of $50 billion, probably more, part of which was spent bombing a children's school by the way, and now hundreds of billions more will be spent to build more weapons to replace all the weapons and ammunition that we used in the Iran war that's not a war."

The memorandum of understanding President Donald Trump brokered to negotiate an end to the Iran war is already being harshly panned by many on the right — and some are beginning to set up Vice President JD Vance to take the fall.

This pivot was demonstrated clearly on Fox News Wednesday, as GOP personality Ben Shapiro unloaded on the vice president.

Former GOP operative Steve Schmidt warned the Trump administration's approval of Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will economically devastate California.

In his podcast, The Warning, Schmidt suggests CEO David Ellison will relocate Paramount from California to Texas, crushing Los Angeles and the state economy altogether. Schmidt characterized the deal as a corrupt act, alleging Paramount's $16 million settlement of President Donald Trump's CBS lawsuit constitutes a bribe to secure Justice Department approval.

Republican senators reportedly ganged up on Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) at a closed-door Republican lunch Wednesday over his push to keep the Senate in session until a voter ID bill passes.

Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Kennedy (R-LA) led what one source described to Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio as a "pile-on" against the Utah Republican during the closed-door lunch meeting.

Georgia Republicans have decided to cancel a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to create more Republican seats, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump's nationwide gerrymandering agenda.

The plan was supposed to be debated at the special session that begins today, and would only have applied to elections starting in 2028. Republicans were likely planning to delete a majority-Black district in the southwest of the state, and possibly another in Atlanta.

A new Alabama lawsuit seeks to knock U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville off the November ballot for governor, using his own words against him.

The complaint, filed Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court by Brooke Lynn Dorgan and Justin Jude LeBlanc — two Alabama military veterans — invokes Alabama's quo warranto statutes, a legal mechanism used to challenge whether someone is entitled to hold public office, and names Tuberville and Alabama Secretary of State Wesley Harrison Allen as defendants.

President Donald Trump canceled Jay Clayton's Director of National Intelligence confirmation hearing via a Truth Social post Wednesday morning. But Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR) signaled Republicans will proceed regardless.

Clayton was nominated to succeed Tulsi Gabbard after bipartisan pressure forced Trump to abandon Bill Pulte, a partisan loyalist without intelligence credentials, as acting DNI. In a social media post on X, Cotton stated the hearing will continue "unless the president directs him not to appear or withdraws his nomination." He also noted, Trump's social media post lacks formal authority.