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Facing a tough election fight in a state battered by President Donald Trump's tariffs and the Iran war, Iowa's Republican nominee for governor is giving his own party a migraine.

According to Politico's Ellie Borst, Republican Zach Lahn has built his gubernatorial campaign around an issue once considered untouchable in GOP politics: taking on the fertilizer, pesticide and farm-chemical industries he blames for contaminating Iowa's drinking water and driving up the state's cancer rates.

Multiple White House insiders have named the same Trump Cabinet member they believe will become the administration's first “midterm political casualty" and predicted the official will be fired before Thanksgiving, former Obama campaign aide Christopher Hale claimed Sunday night.

“Everyone I talk to in and around the Trump White House says [Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth will be the first midterm political casualty and will be fired before Thanksgiving,” Hale wrote in a statement shared on social media.

President Donald Trump is doing what few politicians would attempt in a hostile midterm environment – making himself impossible to avoid.

Next week he will headline two full nights of the Republican Party's Dallas convention, even as his approval ratings sit at historic lows and Republican House candidates outpace him by six points in national polling. Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported that his super PAC, MAGA Inc., is preparing ads starring the 80-year-old president and highlighting his record for use in competitive congressional races.

House Republicans have returned to Capitol Hill from their summer break on Monday, and they already want to go home.

According to Politico, GOP lawmakers are gripped by extreme anxiety over November's midterms, openly admitting they need to be back home in their districts doing everything they can to hold onto their seats.

President Donald Trump lit up Truth Social late Sunday with an AI-generated video and boast that showed Iran's most important oil hub obliterated — and critics wasted no time torching him for it.

"Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!" Trump captioned the clip, which showed an airman gazing out an aircraft window as an oil terminal erupted in flames behind him. He followed it with a second AI video of missiles pounding a coastal oilfield — then, moments later, posted a clip of himself golfing.

President Donald Trump's strange interview with Fox News host Trey Gowdy on Sunday night bewildered the president's critics.

Trump appeared on "Sunday Night in America" with Gowdy, where the two men discussed topics ranging from Trump's dream golf foursome to his management of the economy and foreign affairs. During the interview, critics noted that Trump was spouting statements so strange that they wondered what was really going through the president's mind as he spoke.

A MAGA influencer left his critics nauseated after a Fox News hit resurfaced on social media.

Cam Higby, a producer at the MAGA-aligned Prager University, appeared on Fox News to discuss Israel's ongoing war in Gaza and how pro-Palestinian voices are using social media to advance their cause. During the segment, Higby became visibly ill and nearly vomited, causing the host to cut to another panelist.

A Democratic analyst floated a disturbing new theory on Sunday about why President Donald Trump's youngest son seemingly can't ignore the legal plight of two MAGA influencers.

Andrew and Tristan Tate, MAGA influencers who have been arrested on sex trafficking charges, have repeatedly mentioned Barron Trump by name while speaking with the media. In turn, a flattering story about the youngest Trump appeared in the New York Post recently about the "reclusive" lifestyle he's taken on during his father's second administration.

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Sunday after The Washington Post uncovered a MAGA influence operation being conducted inside the Pentagon.

The Post reported, citing people familiar with the operation, that the Pentagon hired several MAGA influencers as employees to amplify Pete Hegseth's viewpoints and to "attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration." Two of the hires mentioned in the report are Rob Maness, a retired Air Force colonel with more than 135,000 followers on X, and Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel with nearly 620,000 followers on X.

President Donald Trump raged at what he described as a "highly conflicted judge" on Sunday over his pet Kennedy Center project.

"Kennedy Center is an old and decrepit building that is badly in need of a major construction and public relations fix before it can attain greatness and prestige, perhaps far greater than ever before," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "It has been losing a fortune for many years, and will continue to do so if the highly conflicted judge on the case doesn’t allow us to do what has to be done!"

CNN data guru Harry Enten was astounded on Sunday after new data revealed just how little Americans think of President Donald Trump's latest stunt.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario Lake America as part of his ongoing trade spat with America's northern neighbor. Enten did a little digging into Google's search data and said during Sunday's broadcast of "CNN Newsroom" that the data painted a revealing picture of how Americans are thinking about the move.

There's an "interesting sign" emerging after the U.S. conducted a new round of strikes against Iran on Sunday that risks spurring America's enemies to act, according to one analyst.

The U.S. launched a series of strikes against two sites on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz where Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps members were staging rocket launchers to attack merchant ships, according to reports. The strikes came just days after President Donald Trump called Iran a "failing nation" in a post on Truth Social.