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President Donald Trump's speech didn't get live coverage on CNN Wednesday night.

The network abruptly cut away as the president continued to ramble from topic to topic, then turned to its analysts to cover the event on its own terms.

The Trump administration's Justice Department Civil Rights Division caught Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson off guard with a letter announcing she was under investigation for breaking federal voting laws.

Henderson, a conservative Republican, took to social media in response to the letter to say, "'As you are aware, you are currently under investigation...' Um, no, I was not aware, but I guess I am now. It would be nice if the good folks at the DOJ would focus on actual problems instead of baselessly harassing election officials."

Attorney General Todd Blanche offered a full-blown political screed at the Dallas GOP convention on Wednesday night — punctuating his speech with a threat of continued legal crackdowns.

Throughout his speech, Blanche defended some of the Trump administration's most controversial moves, like its deportation of immigrants and its attempts to squash dissent. He also called out "evil men and women" that the Trump administration was prepared to go after, like drug dealers and sex traffickers.

A Wisconsin Republican running for Congress just publicly trashed his own party's gubernatorial nominee for skipping a national GOP convention in Texas, exposing fresh cracks in the state party as it heads into a tense midterm cycle.

Tiffany, who's running for Wisconsin governor, is staying home from the gathering instead of a full slate of in-state campaign stops. But 26-year-old Michael Alfonso, seeking to fill Tiffany's vacated congressional seat, didn't hold back when a voter pressed him on it at a Dallas convention event, the Milwaukee Courier reported on Wednesday.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attack on his Democratic Senate rival James Talarico drew swift ridicule Wednesday after Paxton claimed Democrats wanted to "transition your kids."

Speaking at President Donald Trump's Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Paxton again accused Talarico of claiming there were "six genders" before declaring, "This guy is really obsessed with transitions. He wants to transition your kids."

Republicans may have inadvertently revealed just how worried they are about the midterms by bringing their unusual convention to deep-red Texas, according to progressive podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen.

Cohen joined “Pod Save America” co-host Tommy Vietor Wednesday to dissect the two-day Republican gathering in Dallas, where President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak on both nights despite his weak approval ratings.

Nearly 40 current and former election officials from ten states, many of them Republicans, are urging the Supreme Court to block President Trump's new mail-ballot rule before it derails the November midterms, warning the system simply can't be built in time without wrecking the election itself.

The bipartisan group, which includes Republican secretaries of state from Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota, Georgia, New Hampshire and Kansas, filed a brief taking no position on whether the rule is legal or good policy. Instead, they argue the timeline alone makes disaster all but guaranteed, regardless of who's right on the merits.

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is reportedly preparing to praise President Donald Trump in a video for the Republican Party’s midterm convention Wednesday night.

Fetterman will appear while introducing Republican Sen. Dave McCormick, his fellow Pennsylvania senator, according to an exclusive Axios report. He is expected to credit Trump and McCormick with helping the nation’s steel industry.