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According to a long-time Republican pollster, Republicans have a voter problem that is far and above worse than reeling back MAGA voters as Donald Trump’s influence wanes.

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, conservative Kristen Soltis Anderson warned the GOP leadership that, what she has dubbed “normie” Republicans, are fed up with where the party has gone under Trump and that “ought to be a powerful alarm bell for Republican candidates looking to win the 2026 elections.”

Senate Republicans unveiled a $72 billion spending package late Monday night, and onlookers were left stunned after discovering a $1 billion line item related to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, which he’s long claimed would be entirely funded by private donors.

“What happened to the ballroom being paid for by private funds?” asked political strategist Reed Galen, co-founder of the conservative organization The Lincoln Project, writing in a social media post on X late Monday night.

Donald Trump’s attempts to throw his weight around and influence a handful of Republican primaries is falling flat with voters and donors who are not willing to back his pushback at GOP incumbents who have forged their own paths.

According to a report from Politico’s Liz Crampton, Lisa Kashinsky and Alec Hernandez, hand-picked candidates that the president tabbed to take on rogue Republicans like Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) are not catching fire with primary voters --- a sign of the president's waning influence as he heads into the lame duck years of his second term.

President Donald Trump's latest threat to Iran left a legal expert aghast on Monday.

Glenn Kirschner, a former U.S. Attorney, discussed recent reporting on Trump's threat that Iran should be "blown off the face of the Earth" during a new episode of his podcast, "Justice Matters." Trump made the threat in a Truth Social post announcing that the U.S. would guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

MAGA radio host Megyn Kelly triggered a meltdown among MAGA fans on Monday after her appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

During the interview, Kelly claimed that Ben Shapiro was trying to evict her from the conservative movement because she had criticized him. The feud stems from a radio show Kelly did when she refused to criticize Candace Owens for her comments about Erika Kirk and the death of her husband, the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

President Donald Trump's voters stunned a political analyst on Monday after they accused the president of staging another "false flag" attack.

Nine voters who voted for Trump at least twice told The Bulwark that they believe Trump may have staged the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Some noted that the circumstances of the shooting seem implausible, given the level of security that follows the president.

The "cynical" Supreme Court just handed down the "saddest legacy" ever written, according to one lawyer.

Dave Aronberg, the former state attorney in Florida, said on a recent episode of the "Legal AF" podcast that the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais showed the court is no longer willing to be a "guardrail for democracy." The ruling invalidated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibited states from racially gerrymandering their election maps.

A red state Republican leader on Monday publicly defied President Donald Trump's calls to gerrymander his state's election map.

Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina told reporters that he is not prepared to call the state legislature into a special session to redraw the state's congressional election map, the Post and Courier reported. Several states, from Florida to Alabama and Louisiana, have begun efforts to redraw their maps following the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which held that states may gerrymander their maps for partisan purposes even if the resulting maps have racially discriminatory effects.

President Donald Trump's niece sounded off against her uncle's war in Iran in a new Substack essay on Monday.

Mary Trump, a psychologist and author, argued that Americans are just starting to pay the "cost of chaos" of her uncle's war. She noted that the economic fallout from the war is "staggering," as the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas predicts a 2.9% drop in global GDP because of the war.

Some Republicans fear President Donald Trump is "wasting time" touting his signature policy bill from last year, Politico reported on Monday — and they want him to course correct as his polls appear to have the whole party headed for a wipeout.

This comes as Trump tries again to sell his "Big Beautiful Bill" that cut taxes while eliminating over $1 trillion from Medicaid and food assistance over the next decade; a sell that becomes harder as voters are naturally less inclined to trust him.

Protests erupted at the Met Gala on Monday, which was hosted by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to reports.

The Met Gala is an annual, invite-only fundraiser that supports New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. It is often considered one of the biggest nights in fashion, and the event is regularly attended by celebrities, Hollywood folks, athletes, and entertainers.

Republicans quietly fear that a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official running for office in Ohio could cost them a coveted congressional seat, according to a new report.

The Atlantic reported on Monday that Madison Sheahan, who is running against Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) in Ohio's 9th Congressional District, has drawn the ire of Republican strategists and some voters. Some described her as a "dilettante and a carpetbagger," even though she grew up on a local farm, according to the report. They also expressed concerns that Sheahan would cost them a chance to win a seat they have described as their "white whale."