Transcript: Trump TV Ads Backfire as Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic
The New Republicby The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent7d ago
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 1 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
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top 61%America Has Turned on Trump. But Has It Really Said No to Fascism?
The New Republicby Brynn Tannehill7d ago
Recent polling by Strength in Numbers and Verasight paints a dismal picture for Donald Trump and the GOP as they head into the midterms.
The Bleak Future of HBO’s Lanterns
The New Republicby Phillip Maciak7d ago
Some cultural objects seem to tell the future. They may strike us as urgent or novel or strange when they first appear, but, in retrospect, we understand them to be prescient, to have seen...
Blue State Governors Are Rolling Over for Trump’s FBI
The New Republicby Daniel Boguslaw7d ago
In a survey of every Democratic governor in America, not a single state leader told The New Republic that they would move to dismantle state and local police participation in the FBI task forces...
Pennsylvania Nears 1,000 Measles Cases as RFK Jr. Remains Silent
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling8d ago
An unvaccinated resident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was confirmed to have died from measles, according to an announcement by the state Health Department Wednesday.
“No Beardos, No Weirdos”: Hegseth Goes on Bizarre Rant to Silent Crowd
The New Republicby Malcolm Ferguson8d ago
Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address Wednesday was a bizarre journey in which he rehashed or remixed his most common talking points in TED Talks fashion.
Pete Hegseth Has a Bonkers Party Favor for Soldiers at His Speech
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling8d ago
Some 600 attendees at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia Wednesday received an unexpected keepsake during the officer-reduction...
Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military
The New Republicby Malcolm Ferguson8d ago
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project...
DOJ Prepares to Investigate Nearly Every Federal Judge in Blue State
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid8d ago
Attorney General Todd Blanche is launching an investigation against almost every federal judge in Minnesota.
Trump Unveils Midterms Travel Plan That Will Surely Make Him Pass Out
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling8d ago
Donald Trump is planning to hit the campaign trail for 32 days before the midterm elections. That would put the president on the campaign trail for more than 94 percent of the time between now and...
Trump Tries to Deport Hasidic Jew Who Protested Israel
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid8d ago
The Trump administration is trying to deport a Hasidic Jew for protesting against Israel. The New York Times reports that Yehonatan Ovadia, a religious teacher in Rockland County, New York, had his...
Trump Uses Decades-Old Law to Collect Flock Data Nationwide
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid8d ago
Thanks to a 1980s anti–drug trafficking program, cities across the U.S. are being forced to turn over their license plate reader data to the Trump administration.
Yet Another Republican Senator Trashes ICE in Break From Trump
The New Republicby Malcolm Ferguson8d ago
Another Republican senator is begging the Trump administration to reduce its immigration raids. West Virginia Senator and Trump loyalist Jim Justice—mostly known for parading his massive bulldog...
Trump Promises to Hand Out More Cash, This Time to Help Data Centers
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling8d ago
The Trump administration has resorted to trying to bribe Americans to let data centers into their communities.
Trump Reprograms Government AI Chatbot to Stop Fact-Checking His Lies
The New Republicby Edith Olmsted8d ago
Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence chatbot used to tell the ugly truth about the president—but now it’s playing dumb.
New Details Show Trump Is Running the Kennedy Center Into the Ground
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling8d ago
The Kennedy Center has financially collapsed in the 19 months since Donald Trump took control. The venerated performing arts space is “in free fall,” having already bled dry most of its cash...
John Fetterman Helps GOP Block Probe Into Israeli Murders of Americans
The New Republicby Malcolm Ferguson8d ago
Embattled Senator John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote against a resolution that would require the State Department to report when Americans are murdered by Israeli settlers in the West...
Ken Paxton Caught Privately Trashing Trump in Leaked Audio
The New Republicby Edith Olmsted8d ago
In a leaked audio recording, Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton privately admitted that President Donald Trump’s disastrous midterm convention in Dallas hurt Republican...
Transcript: Trump Fury at Canada Takes Dark Turn as GOPers Sound Alarm
The New Republicby The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent8d ago
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.
Trump Personifies the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
The New Republicby Ross Rosenfeld8d ago
Fifty years ago, in his most famous work, the prolific intellectual Carlo Cipolla argued that stupid people, as a group, are “much more powerful than the mafia, or the military industrial complex.”...