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As President Donald Trump continues to bleed Republican support, a report in The New Republic posits that his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal may prove to be too much for even his staunchest supporters.

Senior editor Alex Shephard wrote in an article titled "Everybody Hates Trump Now" that Trump's talent for collecting voters in the first place has never been about attracting them to his own groundbreaking ideas; rather, Trump identified where voters were on particular issues, then said "what other political leaders are too afraid to say."

"His rapid rise within the Republican Party came from simply recognizing that the party’s voters were significantly further to the right on immigration than most of the party’s presidential candidates," Shephard wrote. "Trump parroted back to voters what they were already saying about undocumented immigrants, and he rapidly rose in the polls."...

President Donald Trump's proven method for getting out of a scandal he claims is a "hoax" or a "witch hunt" is falling flat this time around mostly because of his own doing, according to The New Republic.

Writer Matt Ford posited that Trump is "struggling to an unusual degree" as he's unable to shake his association with sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein because of his very own executive orders.

"It is striking how poorly his usual playbook will work for the Epstein files debacle," Ford wrote, adding that Trump "cannot credibly claim that he is the victim of some kind of 'witch hunt,' even though he is trying to do so."...

Independent voters helped propel Donald Trump to his second term in office because they viewed Kamala Harris and the Democrats "as the real threats to democracy," The Brookings Institution reported. But as America nears 100 days since Trump took office, new polling revealed that the same bloc soured on Trump due to at least one of his major mandates.

Greg Sargent with The New Republic cited CNN analyst Harry Enten who examined aggregated polling showing Trump to be "underwater" with Independents "by 22 points, the worst ever in presidential polling." Sargent postulated that the abysmal number may be due to "genuine backlash to Trump’s ethno-nationalist authoritarianism."

Sargent also cited a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showing Trump "slipping underwater on immigration, which has been his best issue." The poll reported that 53% of Americans disapprove of his handling of the issue. Among Independents, however, the disapproval number jumped to 56%....

Democrats are being urged to follow Donald Trump's lead when it comes to communicating with red state voters, according to Thomas Schaller, a political science professor and guest on "The Daily Blast" podcast from The New Republic.

Schaller discussed his book, "White Rural Rage," with host Greg Sargent on Monday.

Sargent asked how Democrats can "go into red America, into some of these swingy House districts, some of these red states, some of these red House districts, which I think are going to be in play in 2026, and...win over two, three, four points among those demographics? How do they talk about the tariffs? How do they talk about Trump? What do they say?"...

In the wake of several plane crashes and near-misses, the man now famed for slashing the federal workforce is now trying to make it larger in the most "inane" way possible, according to a piece in The New Republic.

On Thursday, Elon Musk put out the call for retired air traffic controllers to rejoin the labor pool.

"There is a shortage of top notch air traffic controllers," Musk posted to X. "If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so."...