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All four co-hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” were uncommonly happy on Wednesday morning after watching a clip of newly anointed Texas US Senate candidate Ken Paxton deliver his victory speech over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, calling it a gift to Democrats.

Paxton’s win over the 4-term senator was largely made possible by the endorsement of Donald Trump, and now Republicans after expending millions and millions on the primary, are now saddled with a candidate with a wealth of scandals and criminal charges in his past.

As President Donald Trump's Board of Peace – the international body established to oversee Gaza's reconstruction, with Trump as its lifelong chairman – approaches its six-month anniversary, not a single dollar has been deposited into its fund, or spent towards Gaza projects, several insiders told the Financial Times.

“Zero dollars have been deposited,” one person familiar with the matter told the Financial Times in its report Tuesday regarding the Board of Peace’s fund, despite there being $17 billion in pledges.

One of President Donald Trump's biographers shared a sobering prediction about how the second Trump administration will end during a new podcast interview on Tuesday.

Michael Wolff, a journalist who has written four books about Trump, discussed Trump's health with Joanna Coles, the Daily Beast's chief content officer, on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," the podcast they co-host. Wolff said Trump's "sense of the dramatic" makes it likely that his presidency will end suddenly and surprisingly, almost certainly in a way that gives Trump the place in history that he seems to crave.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was roundly mocked on Tuesday night after he gave his victory speech for defeating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the state's runoff election.

Paxton was declared the winner just after polls closed at 9 p.m. ET. He will move on to face Democratic Texas state lawmaker James Talarico in November, a race that some GOP pundits have suggested will be expensive because Paxton is not known for his fundraising skills.

Republican efforts to interfere in a Democratic congressional primary in Texas ended in failure on Tuesday night.

According to Decision Desk HQ and the Associated Press, Bexar County Sheriff's Deputy Johnny Garcia has defeated sex therapist Maureen Galindo in a closely-watched contest for the Democratic nomination for Texas's 35th Congressional District.

CNN election guru John King was stunned on Tuesday after the Texas Senate primary race showed how much President Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party had grown.

Scandal-plagued Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) resoundingly in the runoff elections, with CNN and the Wall Street Journal calling the race for Paxton just after polls closed at 9 p.m. ET. Paxton will face Democratic Texas state lawmaker James Talarico in the November election.

President Donald Trump's disgraced former attorney general, Pam Bondi, is coming back to the Trump administration — only this time, she's working in a very different role.

According to Axios, "Bondi, whom Trump ousted as AG last month, will be on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The panel is chaired by former White House AI adviser David Sacks and White House science adviser Michael Kratsios. It also includes more than a dozen tech executives, including Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison."

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 pair of leading humanitarian groups warned Tuesday that millions of people will soon be “at risk of an avoidable loss of healthcare coverage” as states move to implement new Medicaid work requirements, which were at the center of the reconciliation package enacted by congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump last year.

Oxfam America and Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a joint letter to top federal health officials that the work requirements—which mostly target adults in states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act—will result in a massive surge in the uninsured population if concrete steps aren’t taken to mitigate coverage losses.