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Former President Donald Trump has been romping his way to victory in primary after primary and looks all but guaranteed to win the nomination for the 2024 election — but that doesn't actually mean his grip on voters is strong, argued conservative analyst Matt Lewis.

Rather, he wrote in The Daily Beast on Tuesday, it conceals a fundamental weakness of Trump's own making.

Despite being a native New Yorker who was born and raised in Queens and later studied business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's strongest support has come from white rural Americans. Trump struggles with urban and suburban voters, but his popularity among white rural voters and evangelical Christian fundamentalists has not dwindled — even as he faces four criminal indictments.

Trump has gone out of his way to feed his base's anger, declaring "I am your retribution" — a thirst for "retribution" that, according to Never Trump conservative and former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley doesn't satisfy.

Former President Donald Trump will have to pay up in his civil suit cases without relying on other people or procedural tricks to bail him out, Philip Bump for the Washington Post wrote Tuesday.

Trump was held liable for $83.3 million for defamation in the E. Jean Carroll litigation, and for more than $450 million, including interest, in the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Georgia prosecutor Adam Abbate clashed with Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for Mike Roman, after she accused him of coaching a witness.

At a hearing on Tuesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee gave Merchant a chance to question Terrence Bradley, a former divorce attorney for special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Donald Trump Jr. wants to push for support for his dad in an unlikely source, he said Tuesday.

In a post to X, the former president's son said campaigners should be out in America's Amish communities, pushing members to turn out to vote for the former president's return to the White House.

On Tuesday, the "Big Four" congressional leaders — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — met with President Joe Biden in the White House to hammer out an agreement on funding the government ahead of a looming deadline.

It ended with one Senate Republican publicly expressing his frustrations with his GOP colleagues.

When Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was confirmed as House speaker in late October, the fact that House Republicans voted unanimously in his favor came as a shock in light of the weeks of chaos that followed the ousting of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from that position.

House Republicans couldn't come together on the nominations of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) or Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), but they united for Johnson.

A lengthy report in Texas Monthly reveals that Trump supporters in Texas are itching to oust Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), despite the fact that he was first elected in 2020 as a Trump-backed MAGA candidate.

According to the report, Gonzales has now drawn several rivals in a Republican primary, all of whom are attacking him for assorted heresies related to immigration, gun safety, and LGBTQ rights.

Donald Trump's fine in the New York fraud trial was over $355 million — but it's growing by more than $100,000 in interest every day.

The Associated Press calculated Trump's fines, with its estimation being that the ex-president was required to pay $87,502 in interest per day until Feb. 23, which totaled about $612,514. The interest rate is set at 9 percent.

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says President Joe Biden must issue executive orders to address the southern border, just days after scoffing at claims the President was considering using his executive authority, calling those orders "election year gimmicks."

Republicans, with the assistance of – and some say, at the direction of – Donald Trump derailed a bipartisan border bill several weeks ago.

Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court could arrive at a decision as to whether Donald Trump's claim of absolute immunity is legitimate. And according to a University of Texas law professor, the Court could take the "very rare" step of releasing a ruling on the matter without waiting for a dissenting opinion.

As Newsweek points out, some have speculated that SCOTUS will uphold a previous U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that rejected Trump's claims of immunity. Professor Steve Vladeck thinks that if the Court decides Trump is not immune, it could release that decision even if a dissenting opinion isn't written yet.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) attacked the city of New York for supposedly being crime-ridden on Tuesday, only to receive a brutal fact check from a reporter in his home state.

In a post on his Twitter account, Tuberville mocked President Joe Biden for traveling to New York this week to appear on Seth Meyers' show on NBC.

Michigan will hold its primary election Tuesday as its state Republican Party remains in turmoil — and the situation could become a lot messier.

President Joe Biden faces a protest vote on the Democratic side regarding his policies in Israel and Gaza, but chaos is brewing over the selection of 16 of the state's 55 Republican National Convention delegates in the primary contest, which will be followed Saturday with the selection of 39 more at a state party convention, wrote MSNBC columnist Steve Benen.