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Democrats have been triumphing and overperforming in special elections around the country, including in places they have no business being competitive — and it partly speaks to how badly Republicans are letting themselves be outplayed, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said on Wednesday's edition of MS NOW's "The Weeknight."

"The race to fill former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat in Georgia is headed to a runoff," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "Shawn Harris, a Democrat and retired U.S. Army officer, and Clayton Fuller, a Trump-backed Republican, will face off on April 7th after edging out the competition in Tuesday's crowded primary. And in New Hampshire, there was a stunning upset last night, Democrat Bobbi Boudman flipped a Republican-held state house seat in a district — get this — that Trump won by 9 points back in 2024."

President Donald Trump's sudden announcement that the U.S. would unload some of its Strategic Petroleum Reserves to ease the market pressure resulting from the war in Iran caught some allies off guard, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Trump's announcement that it planned to undertake the largest-ever oil market intervention left some allies "stunned." The announcement was made at a time when global oil prices had soared following the coordinated strikes by the U.S. and Israel in Iran.

A new report from the far-right Daily Wire purports to reveal a stunning web of self-dealing among current and former Trump administration officials, surrounding the firm that cut a $200 million ad for the Department of Homeland Security.

That ad, which prominently featured former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, ultimately contributed to Noem's firing, as she told Congress it was all done with Trump's approval, which reportedly enraged the president.

President Donald Trump has put some of his state GOP allies in a tough spot as he seeks to overhaul the leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, a new report reveals.

Last week, Trump announced that he was removing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and replacing her with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), effective March 31. The move was announced after two days of disastrous Congressional hearings for Noem, where she claimed that Trump approved a more than $220 million contract to advertise Noem and the work DHS had done on immigration.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) ruffled feathers in his own party last month when he became the only Democratic senator who appeared to back President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act, a bill that would impose draconian new restrictions on the right to vote.

In an interview with CBS's Major Garrett released on Wednesday, however, he appeared to walk back that approval.

The Trump administration's latest "cruel" plea to the Supreme Court sparked outrage among political analysts and observers on Wednesday.

The administration filed an application to stay a lower court's order prohibiting it from ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Haitian immigrants. In the application, the administration argued that the lower courts were relying on a "far-fetched and far-reaching equal-protection claim" for immigrants who receive TPS and conceded that the claim could "invalidate virtually every immigration policy of the current administration."

A Republican candidate whom President Donald Trump endorsed for the heavily Republican 5th Congressional District of Louisiana has a problematic past, reported The Atlantic on Wednesday evening.

At the start of February, Trump posted he is giving his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Blake Miguez for that race, which prompted Miguez to shoot a video of himself from the White House, touting his close relationship with the president.

A federal grand jury has indicted the chairman of the Nye County, Nevada, Republican Party for allegedly defrauding the government of roughly $500,000 in COVID-19 relief funds, according to a new report.

Nye County Republican Party chairman Leo Blundo is facing charges of wire fraud and money laundering connected to the several loans and grants he received from the federal government, local news station 8NewsNow reported. The money was supposed to go to Blundo's restaurant, Carmelo’s Bistro, but instead was funnelled into several investment and cryptocurrency accounts, according to the report.

A federal judge ripped into the Trump administration on Wednesday over its actions to suppress protests by National Park Service employees.

Federal Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan from the District of Columbia wrote in a new order that the Trump administration's decision to announce a new ban on flags at Yosemite, including at El Capitan, a world-famous rock climbing spot in the park, "appears to implicate fundamental First Amendment issues that bear on the free speech rights of park rangers and federal employees across our country."

Iraq war veteran and political commentator Paul Reickhoff tore into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House," over his emergence as one of the most strident voices cheerleading a wider war in Iran — and said that Graham's hunger for more war is threatening to send what's left of President Donald Trump's administration careening off track.

"What's interesting to me, Paul ... is, so Trump beats Lindsey Graham in the 2015 Republican primary and sort of sides with the isolationism, which Trump sees before the Republican his opponents in the primary do," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "And now he's siding with Lindsey Graham on foreign policy. Let me show you the hot war of words between Lindsey Graham and Megyn Kelly."

Corey Lewandowski, the powerful aide at the center of a Homeland Security scandal embroiling Kristi Noem, believes he can operate without consequences because President Donald Trump will pardon him, according to a new report.

"I'm not worried. I do whatever the f--- I want. DJT will pardon me," Lewandowski told insiders last year, according to multiple New York Post sources familiar with his remarks.

President Donald Trump was roundly mocked on Wednesday after he made an inadvertent admission during a speech in Kentucky.

Trump spoke at Verst Logistics in northern Kentucky, a company that the president has claimed is investing $10 million into its domestic manufacturing capacity. During his speech, Trump made a claim that raised the eyebrows of several political analysts and observers.