2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1450+ words) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe can be paid for with funds from the so-called “Trump Platinum Card,” which hasn’t even been launched yet. Lutnick shared this ridiculous idea with NBC News on Thursday. The Platinum Card is…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1154+ words) Republicans are reportedly leaning toward Vice President JD Vance as their pick for 2028. While attending a closed-door breakfast at the Republican midterm convention Thursday, Vance was met with cheers of “48” from the crowd of delegates from key battleground states, four…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1337+ words) President Trump says he’ll give $500 rebate checks to about 1,000,000 people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act in 30 states, claiming they were overcharged by the Biden administration. “The relief begins with refunding everyone who was overcharged and the rebates are going…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (53+ words) The New Republic The Supreme Court rejected a brazen plot by Missouri Republican officials to hold the state’s upcoming congressional elections under an illegal map on Thursday morning, ending a week-long jumble of dueling court orders that disrupted the state’s…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1132+ words) The Supreme Court has blocked a federal judge’s decision about Missouri’s voting map, further throwing the state’s election into chaos. The nation’s highest judiciary issued an order in the pending case Thursday, directing the state to rely on the original…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1481+ words) “Trump-a-palooza” is off to a disastrous start. President Donald Trump promised that the Republican Party’s midterm convention would be “sold out” Wednesday—but hours into the opening day, there were still hundreds of empty seats at the American Airlines Center…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1712+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Amanda Marcotte: Thanks for having me. Sargent: OK, so Trump unleashes all these crazy Truth Social posts in the last…...

6+ day, 20+ min ago   (1248+ words) The Republican Party’s expensive “Trump-a-palooza” is doling out some of its tickets for free—though the option doesn’t actually guarantee entry. The bizarre affair, which takes place on September 9 and 10 in Dallas, does not have a single point of entry…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (158+ words) Donald Trump’s tailspinning continues. A CNN analysis finds that Trump has a lower approval rating than any of his predecessors going into midterms in this millennium. That’s worse than Joe Biden in 2022, Barack Obama in 2014 and 2010, and even George W....

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1379+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. We’re really lucky to be talking about it all with veteran political handicapper Charlie Cook, who has a new piece…...