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'Trump’s presidency is effectively over': New polling spells disaster for Trump in 2026

New polling data on swing states shows that a plurality of voters now favor President Donald Trump being impeached, a figure that one journalist suspects will reach an outright majority ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

“If Democrats win 20-40 seats, while only needing to flip three to take the majority, Trump’s presidency is effectively over,” wrote journalist Jason Easley, co-owner and editor of PoliticusUSA, a left-leaning news website, in an analysis published Thursday.

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MAGA superintendent flees Fox interview as he's grilled on resignation

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters fled Fox studios as a reporter tried to question him about his decision to resign.

Anchor Wendy Suares said KOKH allowed Walters to use its studios to do an interview with Fox News on Thursday. In the interview, the education official announced he was leaving the government to lead a conservative educators group.

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DHS official heading predator crackdown was accused of sexual assault: report

A Department of Homeland Security official and spokesperson for the Trump administration's campaign to arrest "predators" and "restore law and order" was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage classmate in the past.

Micah Bock, DHS deputy assistant secretary, releases weekly videos praising and promoting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump for their efforts to hunt down “predators [who] threaten American streets," The Daily Beast reports.

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Questions raised about billions of missing tax dollars as Trump kills programs: report

Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are asking questions about what Donald Trump's administration is doing with tax dollars that are being withheld or diverted from programs he doesn't like.

As part of the president's remaking of the government since he was sworn into office, he has taken it upon himself to not only cancel hundreds of billions in program funding promised by Congress, but also claw back dollars that had already been disbursed but not yet spent.

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Trump nominee deletes 5K social posts praising violence and demanding liberal's execution

President Donald Trump's nominee to be assistant secretary of state for international organizations reportedly deleted thousands of inflammatory posts that praised Jan. 6 rioters and called for the execution of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.

In a report on Thursday, CNN said that Jeremy Carl's posts were uncovered even though he deleted them from X and asked for them to be removed from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

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'Confusion and alarm' at Pentagon as Hegseth summons top brass to impromptu meeting

An unusual directive demanding all U.S. generals and admirals report to Washington, D.C. for a meeting is raising alarm, according to a report.

The order, which comes from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, "applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers."

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'I was not paid': MAGA host derailed by former 'antifa activist' who turned conservative

Conservative activist Gabriel Nadales, a former antifa associate, admitted that he was not paid while working with the anti-fascist movement despite President Donald Trump's suggestion that a network of left-leaning groups provided funding.

During a Thursday interview on Real America's Voice, Nadales threw cold water on the president's claim that antifa was a terrorist "organization."

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'Two-faced guy': Trump official creates 'real worry' as credibility plunges to record lows

President Donald Trump's most popular cabinet official has been plummeting in public approval as he takes aim at a broadly accepted policy.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will conduct a new review of abortion pills, the latest move taking aim at health care matters that has included vaccine mandates and Tylenol use by pregnant women that Americans had come to take for granted as uncontroversial.

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'Super volatile': Young Trump voters deliver damning report card on first eight months

With polling showing support for Donald Trump in freefall, young Trump voters were pressed by the New York Times to give the embattled president a report card after eight months on the job.

While not condemnatory, they were far from glowing. The Times held a focus group with 11 young adults between the ages of 28 and 33, focusing on the direction of the country under Trump. He was described as being “reckless” by one participant, while another, identified as a Republican from Georgia, stating, “The way that he’s been handling things recently, dictatorship.”

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'Never seen it so bad': DOGE cuts have Social Security workers needing to be 'medicated'

While news about the Department of Government Efficiency has disappeared from the headlines, as the White House deals with the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal and a looming government shutdown, the damage the Elon Musk-inspired agency did is not getting better.

According to a new report from the New York Times, the damage done to the Social Security Administration is extensive and deep, with offices woefully understaffed, calls going unanswered and remaining employees barely hanging on.

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'Palm Beach in the '90s was a different time': Trump's odd reason to move on from Epstein

President Donald Trump doesn't understand the intense public interest in his former associate Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes, and he's furious that his administration officials and outside allies have been unable to make the issue go away.

The issue exploded back into the public consciousness in July after the Department of Justice and FBI announced no further evidence about the case would be released despite Trump's campaign promises to expose others involved in the sex trafficking network.

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CNN hits back at conservative's left-wing rhetoric gripes with damning Trump supercut

CNN hit back at a conservative guest Wednesday as it met his accusations that left-wing rhetoric was sparking violent incidents with a brutal supercut of President Donald Trump's most incendiary attacks.

During a heated debate on CNN NewsNight, guest Ben Ferguson specifically referenced the assassination of Charlie Kirk and attacks on ICE facilities. Ferguson criticized Democratic leaders like Gavin Newsom for describing ICE agents as "authoritarian" and potentially inciting further violence.

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'What's wrong with these people?' Vance leveled on MSNBC for 'grossly irresponsible' rant

Inflammatory comments Vice President J.D. Vance made within hours after a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility were raked over the coals by an MSNBC panel Thursday.

Adding on to a post on X where Vance started pointing fingers almost immediately after the shooting — as investigators had just begun their work — the vice president made an appearance in Charlotte, North Carolina where he accused Democrats of inciting the incident that left one detainee dead and several more injured.

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