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The Republican Governor's Association has a tough choice to make in Virginia, where a strikingly weak gubernatorial candidate threatens the entire state's GOP ticket.

Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears is the GOP standard-bearer in Virginia, one of only two states holding a gubernatorial election this year, and Republicans feel like they have a better chance to win in New Jersey with Jack Ciattarelli, who lost a competitive race four years ago, reported Politico.

Vice President JD Vance has been left out of the "room where it happens," ceding his vice presidential role to posts usually considered more junior and acting as Donald Trump's social media cheerleader, a New York Times columnist wrote Wednesday.

Locked out of real power while Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller runs deportations and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought terrorizes federal workers, Vance has become Trump's "official fanboy," spending his time crafting sophisticated arguments for the administration's cruelty, wrote Jamelle Bouie.

Reacting to a rambling press conference on Tuesday by Donald Trump, the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" buried the president for going to extremes to avoid additional scrutiny over his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

After days of criticism of his Department of Justice taking heat for trying to bury the so-called Epstein files, the president is now being accused of falling back on attacks on President Barack Obama with claims the former president committed treason.

With co-host Willie Geist pointing out that the accusations being made by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — which Trump has glommed onto — having already been disproved by then-Senate Intel Chair Marco Rubio, the host observed Trump is obviously desperate.

"It's widely concluded and signed by Marco Rubio, who, let's remember, is the secretary of state under President Trump, he also has three other interim jobs, his was a bipartisan conclusion and what was happening here,' he explained. "It must be said this is, you know, President Trump trying to distract."

"We have seen for four days an effort, a flailing effort to try to turn the conversation away from the Jeffrey Epstein matter and this is what he settled on: it's 2016 all over again," he added.

Contributor Mike Barnicle added, "What we just saw a clip of is the sitting president of the United States of America talking about one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, and using the word treason. Yeah, that is so far beyond the pale."

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Late night comedy star Jimmy Kimmel fired back at Donald Trump Tuesday, hitting him with a zinger just horus after the president announced that funnyman and outspoken critic would be the latest to be fired.

"The word is, and it's a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone," Trump declared in a Truth Social post, just days after CBS spurred uproar by announcing Stephen Colbert's show had been canceled — after he hit out at a $60 million legal settlement CBS had made with him.

There's a bit of irony packed into the president's fight with the Wall Street Journal, according to one analyst.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon told Andrew Zucker on his podcast "The Golden Age" that President Donald Trump's reaction to the Wall Street Journal's bombshell report about a letter Trump allegedly sent disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday makes the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, the true winner of the affair.

The panel on CNN's "NewNight with Abby Phillip" erupted after a MAGA star attempted to downplay the significance of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Kevin O'Leary, CEO of O'Leary Ventures, claimed that the Epstein case is irrelevant to average Americans. His comments come at a time when President Donald Trump is seeking to distance himself from the Epstein saga, which has fractured his base and consumed his administration for the last couple of weeks.

One of President Donald Trump's most vocal critics in the Senate is threatening to sink one of the administration's nominations to a federal ethics watchdog agency, NBC News reported.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told NBC News producer Frank Thorp that he will vote "no" on Paul Ingrassia's nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday the agreement of a new 15 percent reciprocal tariffs trade deal with Japan, which was roundly mocked by observers for being worse than the deal the U.S. had with Japan before Trump took office. But this deal does something else he may not have intended, hedge fund manager Spencer Hakimian posted to X: privilege Japanese cars over American ones.

It's a massive reversal from Trump's repeated commitments to adopt "America first" trade policies and encourage domestic production of goods, services, and resources — and it all comes down to simple math.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee told MSNBC on Tuesday night that his Republican colleagues are at a breaking point with President Donald Trump.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) joined Jen Psaki on "The Briefing" to discuss the House GOP leadership sending lawmakers home.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board had some harsh words for President Donald Trump as he endeavors to replace the Federal Reserve chairman.

For months, Trump has relentlessly attacked Chairman Jerome Powell because Powell has refused to lower interest rates. Trump has publicly insulted Powell on numerous occasions, including calling him "stupid" and branding him with the moniker "Too Late."

The Trump administration should stop skirting around releasing all the files on the Jeffrey Epstein criminal case, former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen told the panel at MSNBC's "The Weeknight" Tuesday.

This comes as the Justice Department tries to quell the rising anger from President Donald Trump's base by announcing a plan to interview Epstein's convicted sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped groom the young girls Epstein forced into his "parties" — but that won't do anything, Eisen argued.

A Republican senator has decided not to vote for one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees, which could sink the nomination altogether, MSNBC reported.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said in a statement to MSNBC that she will vote "no" on Emil Bove's nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The statement was issued at a time when the Trump administration is seeking any political wins it can muster following the backlash it received for its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.