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Former Trump administration official and right-wing commentator Sebastian Gorka left onlookers baffled Sunday after offering a puzzling explanation as to why President Donald Trump failed to adhere to his own timeline for ending his war against Iran.

Shortly after launching the U.S. attack on Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, Trump indicated that the campaign would finish “within two to three weeks,” Fox News reported back on April 1. With the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran now stretching into its 71st day as of Sunday, Gorka was pressed on the discrepancy during an appearance on Newsnation.

Legendary Democratic strategist James Carville is raising urgent warnings about the New Hampshire Senate race, saying it demands far more attention than it's currently receiving.

"What I'm seeing in New Hampshire right now is keeping me up at night — and it should concern y'all too," Carville wrote in a campaign memo, emphasizing he rarely writes such alerts.

Republican strategist Scott Jennings was issued a fierce rebuke Sunday after championing the GOP’s recent gerrymandering blitz, remarks that one Democratic strategist characterized as dismissive to the “surgical attack” on Black voters spearheaded by the Trump administration.

Last week, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that effectively gutted a provision of the Voting Rights Act that prohibited racially discriminatory voting policies. Republican-led states subsequently scrambled to redraw their states’ congressional district maps to benefit Republicans, and in most cases, at the expense of Black voters.

Stephen Miller's wife Katie was hit with intense criticism over the weekend after a "radical" Mother's Day comment.

Katie Miller took to social media to write, "In honor of Mother’s Day, a reminder that peak feminism is having babies. The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny." Along with that caption, she included a photo of herself with her pregnant belly left exposed.

Iowa Republicans are engaged in a destructive internal battle that threatens to hand the governorship to Democrats in a state that has voted for GOP candidates decisively in recent elections.

Five Republicans are competing for their party's nomination in the June 2 primary, but rather than uniting against Democratic state auditor Rob Sand, the top three candidates—Representative Randy Feenstra, farmer and businessman Zach Lahn, and former aide Adam Steen—are locked in a "bare-knuckle, personality-focused primary fight," according to the New York Times.

A handful of Republican women lawmakers are leading the charge in Congress to expose allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against their colleagues – allegations, one Republican House representative claimed, that “everybody” knew about but remained silent.

"It's complete bulls---," one House Republican told Axios, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Like you have all these guys sleeping with their employees, and nothing happens, and everybody knows what's going on."

Senator John Cornyn, a Republican trying to hang on to his seat in Texas, was hit with a wave of MAGA criticism after he reportedly shared a post from a group critical of the president.

According to MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, Cornyn shared an image on social media featuring a Cornyn quote in which he calls his opponent in that race, Ken Paxton, unfit for office. The problem, according to Posobiec, is that the image was from a group called "Republicans against Trump."

The average cost for a gallon of gas in the United States hit $4.56 on Saturday amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing war against Iran, and when pressed on the possibility of gas soon reaching $5, a top Trump official scrambled to dodge the question during an appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Citing a new report from Bloomberg, NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright whether Americans should prepare for “the possibility of paying $5 a gallon for gas,” a question that Wright avoided answering entirely.

It's not confirmed by Hollywood, but MAGA is already freaking out about a rumor that Elliot Page might be cast as a legendary Greek hero.

The rumor mill online has suggested actor Page, who transitioned from female to male several years ago, could potentially nab the Achilles role in an "Odyssey" film.

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) issued President Donald Trump a blistering warning Sunday over the GOP’s new gerrymandering blitz, cautioning the president that his push for Republican-led states to redraw their congressional district maps could come back to haunt them, and as soon as this November.

The conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling last week that effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a provision designed to prohibit racially discriminatory voting policies – namely, the drawing of congressional districts in such a manner as to dilute the voting power of historically marginalized groups.

A new Financial Times poll has delivered devastating news for Republicans, showing that President Donald Trump's economic policies and the Iran war are eroding voter confidence ahead of November's midterm elections.

The nationwide poll, conducted by research firm Focaldata from May 1-5, found that nearly 58 percent of registered voters "strongly" or "somewhat" disapprove of Trump's handling of inflation and the cost of living—the top issue on voters' minds heading into the midterms.