'I'm out. And if I'M out, then I think a lot of other people are out'
Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, who made his name on Fox News before he was fired three years ago, said he is leaving the Republican Party as he diverges further from the GOP establishment. “I’m out,” he said on the Can’t Be Censored podcast. “And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people […]
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell announcement last week that has sent shockwaves across the political world, with potential implications for the MAGA movement and the GOP as a whole. The post “It’s Immoral…I’m Out” – Tucker Carlson Ditches Republican Party After 35 Years of Support (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Trump on Monday said that a 10-year prison sentence for the destruction of the newly renovated reflecting pool and grass on the National Mall will be "fully enforced," threatening the left-wing vandals defacing the national monuments in DC. President Trump undertook the project to restore the filthy green water basin, built in the 1920s, which has been marred by issues, including sinking and leaking into the swamp beneath. The post NEW: Trump says Vandals Who Left “300 Foot Long Gash” and Dumped Chemicals in Reflecting Pool will Face 10 YEARS in Prison appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans in an attempt to press their support for his floundering legislative agenda. According to Punchbowl News, the meeting comes as Trump is at “his weakest point yet,” dragged down by controversy surrounding the war with Iran, his failed policy endeavors, his historically low polling, and infighting within his own party. As Punchbowl explains, it’s not surprising that the temperamental president is angry at Senate Republicans as “they’re openly dismissing Trump’s legislative demands, expressing rare public anger over the Iran MOU, bucking his repeated calls to get rid of the filibuster and furious about his abrupt halting of the confirmation process for Jay Clayton, the nominee to be director of national intelligence.” Many also “see Trump’s fixation on the SAVE America Act as a strategic misstep that could cost them their majority by turning the MAGA base against GOP candidates and incumbents.”At the same time, says Punchbowl, “Trump’s Senate allies... riled up the MAGA base online, prompting an onslaught against Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) in particular. Trump is slated to attend Wednesday’s Senate GOP Steering lunch, which is run by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), a staunch Trump ally and one of the chief proponents of the SAVE America Act. Scott inviting Trump during this row with Thune is seen within the GOP Conference as a slight toward the South Dakota Republican.” All of this is an effort to cajole support for SAVE, but Trump is likely to face his own slights from “free agent” GOP Senators who have been beaten by primary candidates endorsed by the president, placing them in a “nothing to lose” scenario where they can vote as they please without consequences. This stalemate threatens not only Trump’s voter ID law, but the FISA Section 702 extension it has become linked to. For Democrats, attaching passage of the SAVE Act makes a FISA extension “a non-starter,” and Senate Republicans know it. According to Punchbowl, “Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, lamented that Trump was ‘tying all of these together and then also saying, “You’ve got to pass the SAVE America Act,” which we know we don’t have the votes for.’ As a result, the ongoing lapse in 702 authority could last well into July.”For many Senate Republicans, hesitancy to push for the SAVE Act comes down to simple numbers. They know they have the votes to pass a FISA extension if it's tied to SAVE, and they consider the former to be absolutely vital to national security. They therefore don’t want to imperil FISA by attaching it to legislation that will doom it automatically. But according to Punchbowl, “other Republicans worry Trump will use Republicans’ failure to pass the SAVE America Act to deflect blame if the GOP suffers big losses in the midterms or use it as a pretext to call the elections ‘rigged.’”
Pundit Tucker Carlson says he’s done with the Republican Party. “The poll numbers now tell a pretty clear story about it. I would not support the Republican Party, there’s no chance,” Carlson said during a recent appearance on the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast. “Not because I support the Democratic Party. I don’t know what I’m…
Voting rights advocacy groups warned last week that a North Carolina House bill proposing extensive changes to state election laws is “harmful” to voting rights.Representatives from Common Cause North Carolina, Democracy North Carolina, Forward Justice, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, and North Carolina Black Alliance gathered outside the state Legislative Building at the hour state lawmakers inside were expected to vote on House Bill 958Republican lawmakers who authored the bill said Tuesday that it was intended to improve the “integrity” of the election process. But Kathleen Roblez, senior voting rights counsel at Forward Justice, highlighted a provision of the bill that would prohibit state and local election board members from “encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.”“This is like saying you own a restaurant, but you cannot go online and say, ‘Please come eat dinner today.’” Roblez said. “This is saying a state or county board election member cannot say ‘Today’s election day, register to vote, voting is good.’ That’s their job. This is a First Amendment violation, plain and simple.”Roblez also expressed concerns that the bill’s proposal to require military and overseas voters to provide documentation showing their most recent North Carolina address along with their registration applications would result in fewer people voting overseas.“It’s important now, as always, to remember that if your vote wasn’t so important, they wouldn’t be working so hard to take it away from you,” Roblez said.The bill would also require overseas and military voters to submit photo identification with their ballots, codifying a state Supreme Court decision in Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin’s unsuccessful attempt to throw out ballots in his 2024 race for a Supreme Court seat.The influence of the Supreme Court decision in Griffin’s case appears in the bill a second time in the bill’s move to make overseas voters who have never lived in North Carolina but vote in the state because their parents last lived here ineligible to vote in state or local elections. These voters are referred to as “never residents” in Griffin’s lawsuit.Other key changes of H958 include:Allowing state Auditor Dave Boliek, a Republican, to select counties for post-election audits instead of counties being randomly selected. Extending the deadline from three to five business days for voters who cast provisional ballots because they did not show their ID, or who have mistakes or omissions on their absentee ballot envelopes to show their ID or correct the mistakes. Gives county election boards two additional business days to announce absentee ballot counts, extending the deadline from Friday after an election to Tuesday.North Carolina Black Alliance Executive Director Marcus Bass said the bill’s provisions, taken together, will disproportionately affect younger, poorer and minority voters.“We are here to make sure that the individuals behind us don’t just operate in the cover of darkness or in the confines of this concrete building,” Bass said, “but that their actions are met by voters in the district, by individuals that they’re elected to serve, and by the citizens who deserve free and fair elections.”The state House Elections Committee approved the bill Tuesday along party lines. Republican bill sponsors had planned to fast-track it through another committee and onto the state House floor as quickly as possible. However, they delayed the bill after dozens of protesters crowded into legislative meeting rooms and hallways Tuesday. It did not resurface for debate Wednesday. House leaders say they’re continuing to work on it.During Wednesday’s press conference, advocates also expressed concerns over the rollback of early voting sites in various counties, including a decision last week in Wake County to relocate a site from NC State University’s student center to a building at the edge of campus, as well as a decision by Granville County election officials to relocate two early voting sites out of Oxford and Creedmoor, where the majority of the county’s Democrats live, into rural areas of the county that are more heavily Republican.“It is targeted to Black voters, but the fringes are also cutting a wider gap in democracy than I think that they’re anticipating,” Bass said. “Everybody should be upset about what’s happening.”
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Political analysts have joked for the last few weeks that members of the Republican Party who have lost their primaries but still have until the end of the year to govern have become part of the informal "YOLO Caucus," meaning "you only live once." According to an exclusive Semafor interview with outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), he has started flexing his voting power to get what he wants before leaving. In one incident, Cornyn extorted the White House out of funds that his state had been owed for over a year. In 2025, Congress allocated more than $10 billion in funds for border security, but until Cornyn acted, Texas hadn't seen a dime of it. “Basically, I told Senator Barrasso and Senator [John] Thune: ‘There’s a price for my vote, and it is to get the administration to release the money,’” Cornyn said in his interview with Semafor. White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russel Vought quickly called, promising "we’ll put a notice of funding."Cornyn, who has been a loyal supporter of Trump's initiatives, voting with him 99.2 percent of the time, but Trump never returned the loyalty, endorsing Cornyn's scandal-plagued opponent, Ken Paxton. “That’s one example I think of what you can do when you have some cards to play," said Cornyn of his newly discovered powers.Cornyn is also ready to be a thorn in Trump's side over his appointment of Todd Blanche for the attorney general spot. He said he's not a solid supporter, but he's willing to "listen." The four-term senator also isn't going to help his opponent. Instead, he's opting to help his friends and allies in tough races in Maine, Michigan and New Hampshire. “The president picked Paxton, and he’s got $350 million dollars. I think he can spend his money,” Cornyn said of Texas and Trump. “I’m going to try to help in other places.”Cornyn isn't the first Senator to the mock caucus. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) lost his primary in May after a Trump-supported Republican ousted him. The founder could easily be considered Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who announced he was retiring after a number of public battles with Trump. He has become less fearful of the president's wrath in the past several months. Cassidy told Semafor that he and Cornyn were "like-minded in the sense that we’re both not returning, and that gives a certain focus. And he’s conveyed he’s got no illusions about the president."That said, he added, they're not scheming "in a smoke-filled room."Cornyn frequently spoke to the president while serving as the Majority Whip, but doing so wasn't “particularly useful,” he said. Trump "can and will change his mind depending on the next person he talks to on the phone. The president seems to revel in chaos, which is so different from any other leader that I’ve ever seen. I don’t know about you, but I like to minimize the chaos in my life. He just seems to revel in it. We’ve seen even recent evidence of it on the DNI."Cornyn went on to mock colleague Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who thinks “somehow we’re going to beat the opponents into submission." By opponents, he means the Democrats. The Texas lawmaker explained to the younger Lee, “I’ve worked here a long time. It doesn’t work that way."The GOP lawmaker promises he's not a member of the "YOLO caucus"; rather, “I am free to disagree." Before was another matter. Other than helping fund GOP candidates outside of Texas, he's thinking about possible contenders for the 2028 presidential election. While Cornyn is trying to decide between Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he joked he didn't want to "jinx either one of them." “But don’t tell Ted Cruz that, because Ted wants to be the next president," he added. Cruz ran for president in 2016, during which he was outspoken in his opposition to Trump.