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Publicly, Republicans have cast Georgia as one of their top opportunities to flip a Democratic-held Senate seat. But “behind closed doors,” they’ve tempered expectations of unseating Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), citing the first-term senator’s competence and popularity,” The Washington Post reported Monday.

“I’m not feeling bullish about it,” said one GOP strategist, speaking with the Post on the condition of anonymity. “[Ossoff] has wisely avoided the temptation of going on cable news for six years and playing to the base for social media likes. I think he’s going to reap the benefits of that.”

Political analyst David Rothkopf characterized the Iran war as fundamentally different from previous conflicts due to its origins in presidential psychology — and he attacked White House insiders for allowing it to happen.

Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, Rothkopf stated, "This is so different from any other war that we have ever seen, because it is being driven by the psychosis of one individual."

Some Cubans got power back on Sunday after another nationwide blackout on Saturday—the second in less than a week and the third time the grid has collapsed this month after the Trump administration intensified the United States’ decades-long economic blockade, cutting off the island nation from Venezuelan oil.

“The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, reported that the total disconnection of the national energy system was caused by an unexpected shutdown of a generation unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camaguey province, without providing details on the specific cause of the failure,” according to The Associated Press.

Political analysts and observers brutally mocked President Donald Trump after he wrote a post on Truth Social where he seemed to admit that he is at fault for the partial shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security.

Part of DHS has been shut down for more than a month as Republicans and Democrats negotiate over a bill to cut more than $5 billion in funding from the agency and institute a series of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Democrats have been pushing for the changes since ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The partial shutdown has impacted parts of DHS like the Transportation Security Administration, which has caused security lines to grow at airports nationwide.

MAGA Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) faced a bipartisan firestorm on Sunday after he gave a "psychotic" interview on Fox News.

Graham went on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream, where he was asked about President Donald Trump's recent threat to take over Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, a major export hub for the Iranian regime. Graham told Bream that he would advise Trump to take the island and "let the [Iranian] regime die." When Bream pressed Graham about whether the operation would involve American troops on the ground, his response enraged some political analysts and observers.

A political analyst was taken aback on Sunday by a report that uncovered new details about the death of disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

On Friday, the Miami Herald reported that several bags of shredded documents were found outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where Epstein was being kept. Investigatory documents obtained by the outlet revealed that at least one inmate was involved in disposing of the documents and raised questions about the extent of the prison guards' involvement in the ordeal.

CNN data guru Harry Enten was astonished on Sunday as President Donald Trump's poll numbers continued to sink.

Enten reported on results from a new CBS News/YouGov poll, which found that 58% of Americans believe they are worse off financially during the Trump administration, compared with 38% in October 2024. Only 18% of Americans said they were better off today, according to the poll.

A political analyst warned on Sunday that President Donald Trump appears to be "sleepwalking toward a real catastrophe" in Iran after his latest threat.

On Saturday, Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran has 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz "without threat," or else the U.S. would strike Iran's largest energy facilities. The threat came about a month after the war in Iran began, which has caused energy prices to spike globally. Iran has also effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for 20% of global energy trade, to U.S. trade ships since the war began.

Political analysts were floored on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance seemed to struggle selling President Donald Trump's war in Iran during a recent public appearance.

Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes, co-hosts of "Pod Save the World," said during a new episode that Vance's recent appearance showed he is trying to "distance himself" from Trump's war, but not enough to anger the president. This stance seems to comport with Vance's rhetoric on the campaign trail, where he made it clear that he would rather take a restrained approach to foreign policy, including backing away from supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

A Nobel-winning economist shared a sobering warning on Sunday after President Donald Trump demonstrated an "incredible weakness" in the war in Iran.

On Saturday, it was reported that the Trump administration had already relaxed sanctions on Iranian oil at sea. The deal accounts for roughly 140,000,000 barrels of oil and was announced at a time when the Trump administration is attempting to address the sharp rise in energy prices since the war in Iran began in late February.

A controversial MAGA Senator cleared his first hurdle toward becoming the next Department of Homeland Security Secretary on Sunday, according to a new report.

Bloomberg reported that Senators voted 54-37 to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin's (R-OK) nomination in a procedural vote, which the outlet noted appears to signal that the former MMA fighter has enough support to be confirmed as the next DHS Secretary. The vote happened just a few days after the contentious hearing that Mullin had in the Senate Homeland Security Committee, where he was confronted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) about his previous comments supporting an attacker who injured Paul.

Leon Panetta, former Defense secretary, White House chief of staff and CIA director, hammered President Donald Trump on Sunday over his handling of the Iran war, telling The Guardian the president was “sending a message of weakness” as he continued to escalate the conflict he initiated.

Panetta specifically criticized Trump for failing to anticipate Iran’s response to U.S. aggression – namely, its move to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping channel, to U.S.-aligned vessels.

Far-right politicians across Europe who enthusiastically embraced Donald Trump following his re-election are now rapidly retreating from the relationship, with the Iran conflict and his demands for NATO intervention serving as the breaking point.

According to reporting from the Wall Street Journal's Bertrand Benoit and Max Colchester, tensions have been building over Trump's tariff policies—which were struck down by the Supreme Court in a landmark ruling—but the invasion of Iran and subsequent demands that European nations share the military burden have pushed nationalist-minded European lawmakers to openly reconsider their alignment with the American president.