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A Republican voter in Texas claimed on Tuesday that he had stopped supporting MAGA front-runner Ken Paxton in the state's Senate primary race after President Donald Trump endorsed him.

"I made one vote, and that was for [Sen. John] Cornyn," Rodney Hall, a Republican voter, told CNN's Arlette Saenz.

President Donald Trump has spent his political career building up an image of himself as a physically powerful and intimidating man, pollster Cornell Belcher told a panel on MS NOW's "The Weeknight" — and now his mounting health problems, barely assuaged by his latest physical results, and visible signs of aging, are bringing that down.

"We've seen him sort of taking that little five-minute nap while others are talking," said anchor and former Republican chair Michael Steele, who then put up images of Trump next to football players to drive home a key point. "Last April, the White House physician claimed that Donald Trump was six three, six foot three ... and 224 pounds. So let's take a look. Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf is six feet four, 229 pounds. He has 4 percent body fat. Donald Trump claims the doctor said he has 5 percent body fat."

Long-time journalist Dan Rather warned President Donald Trump in a new Substack essay on Tuesday that the president faces a "humiliating" loss in Iran, one that would leave "irreversible damage" in its wake.

Trump has claimed on multiple occasions that the U.S. is winning the war in Iran because the country's bombing campaigns took out Iran's top political and military leaders and have decimated Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure. For instance, Trump claimed on Truth Social on April 9 that he had achieved a "real victory" in Iran because Iran "will never have a nuclear weapon."

A federal district judge under the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has received a "private reprimand" from a judicial conduct committee for allegedly carrying on an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer in chambers, and "in earshot of law clerks," according to Bloomberg Law.

The specific judge at the center of the allegations has not been publicly identified.

A physician flagged multiple warning signs in President Donald Trump's latest semi-annual physical exam on Tuesday.

Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, a former White House physician and author of "Transforming Presidential Healthcare," joined CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" to discuss the results of Trump's latest physical. Trump claimed on Truth Social that his exam went "perfectly," but Kuhlman noted several aspects that needed further attention.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has moved for a dismissal of all charges against them by the Trump administration, citing the president's recent comments as proof of vindictive prosecution and the precedent of another recent Trump case that just got thrown out.

The Trump administration argued in their Alabama-based indictment that the longtime hate group watchdog was actually funding hate groups by using paid informants and committing fraud by omitting their use of such informants from their donors, allegations the SPLC has called ridiculous.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, a Republican, proclaimed during an interview with the right-wing Christian FlashPoint show that people need "permission to hate" Islam.

"We're giving people permission to hate again," said Beckwith, a radical Christian Nationalist whose rant was captured in a report by Right Wing Watch. "And I know that sounds harsh at first, but we've seen this movement to eradicate hate in our culture, that is the worst thing we could do. You know, the Bible talks about how God hates certain things, and when we say we want to eradicate hate, think about this, we're actually saying we want to eradicate a characteristic of God."

President Donald Trump lashed out at a handful of lawmakers whom he described as "scum" on Tuesday over their efforts to take the lead on regulating prediction markets.

In a new Truth Social post, Trump called out Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for their efforts to create state laws surrounding prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. Trump claimed in the post that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, an independent agency that regulates certain financial markets that Trump hollowed out during his second term, needs to maintain regulatory control over prediction markets.