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Former President Donald Trump's campaign has been stripped of the key thing that actually attracted some moderate voters to it in the first place, conservative economist Oren Cass wrote in a thread on X Friday afternoon.

The big problem for him, he wrote, is that once upon a time, Trump had at least some degree of ability to reach out to workers on economic issues — but now, he's just going through the motions and only engaging with such policy in the most superficial way possible.

Speaking on Monica Crowley's podcast on Friday, former President Donald Trump went on a long rant about election integrity in the United States, which he once again claimed was rife with fraud.

During his tirade, Trump demanded that House Republicans pass the so-called "SAVE Act" that's aimed at curtailing illegal voting -- and he said the GOP should "shut down the government" if the Senate wouldn't go along.

Former President Donald Trump's stunt at Arlington National Cemetery was reprehensible, wrote Kevin Carroll, a senior counselor to John Kelly during the Trump administration, in a new analysis for The Guardian.

The Trump campaign, by some reports, tried to stage a fake memorial service for fallen troops in Afghanistan in the cemetery and then attack Vice President Kamala Harris for not attending it, only to be thwarted by the fact that such a campaign event is illegal to photograph in that portion of the cemetery, and end up quarreling with caretakers.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' act is wearing thin after he spent much of his political capital in an ultimately unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

The Florida Republican's combative persona made him a leading contender to succeed Donald Trump as the party's leader, but the former president quickly dispatched him in the GOP primaries and sent him back home, where he found a somewhat chilly reception, reported Politico.

Speaking with host José Díaz-Balart on Friday afternoon, a visibly frustrated Alexi McCammond launched into a scorching rant about Donald Trump's ever-shifting positions on abortion, calling his latest stance "crazy."

McCammond who serves as an MSNBC analyst in addition to her duties with Washington Post, told the panel that she sees no reason why anyone should take the former president at his word.

She began by praising NBC's Dasha Burns for cornering the former president about a 6-week ban in his home state of Florida which led the former president to state, “I think the six week is too short. It has to be more time. I told them that I want more weeks. I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks."

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That led the normally placid McCammond to complain, "I mean it's crazy. Kudos to Dasha for getting him on the record saying something that is as crazy as the most extreme positions he has taken on women and reproductive rights."

"I mean talk talk about a political flip-flop-flop!" she continued. "He thinks it is suddenly politically expedient to support women and our reproductive rights. He thinks it's suddenly politically expedient to say he'll protect women if he's re-elected — he'll pay for IVF treatments when his running mate is, you know, dumping on women who don't have their own biological children, when Republicans in the mold of his party have become so extreme that they are coming after birth control, Mifepristone, IVF, splitting hairs on different procedures that women and families need to take in desperate times to save lives to be able to even have a family."

The anti-Trump conservatives at Lincoln Project on Friday formally requested that the United States Department of Justice open a probe into whether former President Donald Trump illegally promised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a position in his administration in exchange for his endorsement.

The group's letter outlines how Kennedy was in contact with both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris's campaigns over the last several months in an apparent attempt to gauge whether they might offer him something in their administrations in exchange for his endorsement.

Former congressional aide to two House speakers, Brendan Buck, said that it's clear Donald Trump has realized he's losing.

Trump has spent most of the past year and a half since announcing he was running playing golf, and doing a rally once a week. It doesn't appear to have worked out for him, according to Buck.