Letlow Wins Louisiana GOP Senate Primary, DDHQ Projects

GOP is finally 'coming to understand' threat Trump poses — but may be 'too late': analysis

President Donald Trump has spent the last several weeks sparking chaos for Senate Republicans, who only now, according to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, are “coming to understand” the threat the president poses, though the realization may be “a bit too late.”Trump has aggressively pushed Senate Republicans to advance his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, despite Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s insistence that the bill lacks adequate support in the GOP caucus. Trump also derailed the Senate GOP’s entire agenda with a surprise cancellation of a Senate confirmation hearing, and caused further chaos by refusing to sign a bi-partisan bill on affordable housing.With the midterm elections just months away, Senate Republicans, Bouie argued, are starting to wake up to the threat Trump poses for their own political survival.“Trump does not identify himself with the Republican Party. He identifies himself with his own political standing. And so, if he feels he needs to do something to protect his standing that harms Republicans, he’ll do it without even thinking,” Bouie said in an episode of “The Opinions,” transcribed by The New York Times. “And Senate Republicans in particular, who did not expect to be fighting for their majority this fall, are somehow only now coming to understand that, yes, if you are in his way, he is going to make life difficult for you, even if that costs you a Senate majority. And there’s a 50/50 chance, 60/40 chance that, yeah, it costs the Republicans their Senate majority.”Amid Trump’s cratering favorability among Americans, the Senate may very well end up in Democratic Party control, an idea that analysts previously thought unthinkable. But Senate Republicans’ realization may have come too late, Bouie argued.“Politically for them, it’s just like a bit too late, right?” Bouie said. “They already spent all of 2025 tying themselves incredibly tightly to the administration under, as I read it, irrational exuberance – this idea that kind of caught hold, I think, throughout a large part of American politics that Trump’s win represented some sort of MAGA sea change in American life.”

AOC drops gem about giving election-winning NYC lefties ‘the opportunity to occupy their beliefs’

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GOP lawmakers 'accidently' expose Trump's 'political vanity project' as major flop: report

A handful of GOP lawmakers made their way to Washington, D.C. recently to attend and promote the Great American State Fair, organized by the President Donald Trump-linked group Freedom 250, but in doing so, “accidentally” exposed the event for its numerous shortcomings, The Daily Beast reported.Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), for instance, took to social media to attack his own state’s government for not participating in the fair, posting a photograph online of himself standing on the National Mall lawn. The “awkward post,” the Beast noted, depicted Baumgartner standing in front of “only a handful of people visible behind him.”Other GOP lawmakers engaged in similar “self-owns,” as the Beast described them. Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) posted a video online from the fair asking Americans to attend the event, but in a manner in which he “all but [begged] people to let his office help them get there.” The video also “came with the unfortunate visual aid of Moore standing in an almost empty park, with an empty Ferris wheel turning behind him,” the Beast’s report reads.“Contact our office if there’s any help that you need to organize things or tours or get more information,” Moore said in the video he published online. “Please, please reach out. We’d love to help out in that way.”The Great American State Fair faced challenges weeks before it opened to the public last week after artists backed out of the event en masse after learning of its connections to Trump. In the four days since opening, the fair has been plagued with power failures that stalled a Ferris wheel and melted ice cream supplies.Investigative reporter Eric Flack also revealed that the state exhibits at the fair ranged wildly in quality, with some states’ exhibits amounting to two chairs in a small, shared booth.

Trump moves to honor himself with bizarre and self-promoting park 'side project': insiders

President Donald Trump has worked over the past several months on a bizarre “side project” aimed at honoring himself at one of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic public parks, two insiders revealed to The Washington Post.As revealed by the Post in its report published on Sunday, the project would be to ensure that Lafayette Square – which sits less than 400 feet north of the White House – has exactly 47 trees in honor of Trump being the 47th president, with the trees all being maple trees, the president’s favorite.“The park has historically contained several dozen trees, although some have been taken out during renovations,” the Post’s report reads. “It’s unclear how many additional trees Trump would plant to get to 47 and whether he would remove any existing trees as part of his effort.”Trump appeared to tease the project earlier this month when on June 3, he said in the Oval Office that before July 4th, “you’ll see something that’s incredible” at Lafayette Square. According to insiders who spoke with the Post, however, “that’s not likely to happen,” the Post reported, paraphrasing the insiders’ own comments.“The park is not on target to open until at least August,” the Post’s report reads.Trump has claimed that he personally paid millions of dollars for Lafayette Square’s renovations, but has yet to provide proof. As recently as Friday, Trump was exposed for using taxpayer dollars to pay for White House renovations he had previously claimed he personally paid for.

Israel divide grows in Democratic Party after New York primaries 

The divide over Israel is only deepening in the Democratic Party after New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, helped propel three primary candidates to victory last week, unseating two incumbent Democrats in the process. The New York City primaries were unusually focused on Israel, with Mamdani-backed candidates making the issue a central…

Congo reaches World Cup knockout stage for first time with win over Uzbekistan

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Trump-backed Julia Letlow takes victory in Louisiana GOP Senate primary runoff

Trump-endorsed Louisiana Rep. Julia Letlow defeated State Treasurer John Fleming in the state's Senate Republican primary runoff Saturday -- marking the latest display of the president's primary election pull.

Trump-Endorsed U.S. Senate Candidate Win GOP Nomination in Louisiana