Trump's Circus-Style Populism and the Spectacle of Power
The president is obsessed with the spectacle of power - and has little concern for anything else.

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The president is obsessed with the spectacle of power - and has little concern for anything else.
In an upset, Georgia Republican voters rejected President Trump's preferred nominee for the competitive open governor's race. They also picked Rep. Mike Collins to face Sen. Jon Ossoff.
Rep. Mike Collins (R) is projected to defeat former college football coach Derek Dooley in the Senate Republican runoff to take on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) in Georgia this fall, according to Decision Desk HQ. Collins’s victory is a major win for President Trump, who issued a last-minute endorsement for the staunch ally over the…
Voters have also been casting ballots in Alabama and Washington DC, where for the first time in over 10 years, the city will elect a new mayor in NovemberThe Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits, FBI investigations, and an executive order to limit voting by mail, moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials.Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discredited claims of fraud, which can intimidate election workers and voters in swing states that Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020. Continue reading...
The Senate narrowly rejected a war powers resolution on Iran as President Trump touts a framework agreement with Tehran to end the monthslong conflict.
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Voters in Washington, D.C., are at the polls Tuesday to weigh in on the race to replace retiring Mayor Muriel Bowser (D). City Councilmember Janeese Lewis George, a Democratic socialist, led in polling ahead of the Democratic primary. Former City Council member-at-large Kenyan McDuffie (D) has been trailing in second place. There are no Republicans…
Clayton is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.