A report from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released June 9 shows that Republicans have been steadily gaining voter registration numbers in battleground Congressional Districts since the 2024 election, with Republicans gaining vote share in 19 of 28 swing districts.
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The June 2 gubernatorial race in California has Republican candidate Steve Hilton exceeding pre-election polls and headed to the November general election to face the top Democrat pick, former Biden Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
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With President Donald Trump’s approval rating underwater by over seventeen points and the GOP facing criticism over inflation and the Iran war in a critical midterm election, we would expect swing voters to be flocking to Democrats. Despite inflation and the Iran war creating strong headwinds for Republicans leading into November, Latino voters are fleeing from the Democratic Party, showing a twenty-point collapse since 2022 and a thirty-point collapse since 2018.
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The latest New York Times/Siena College survey of potential Democrat voters and independent voters highlights the Democrat Party’s failures and illuminates a path for conservatives to attract disenfranchised soft Democrats. Hispanic and Black Democrats and men are growing particularly weary of the party’s failures on immigration and gender ideology.
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“I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas that we have basically look that we say look this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. A no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. …”
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“Both countries agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
That was the White House’s readout of the May 13 meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, conveying at least the U.S. understanding of how the meeting shaped up on the question of the Iran war — and the all-important fate of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
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Democrats’ lead in the 2026 generic Congressional ballot dropped from 46 percent to 41 percent, to 44 percent to 41 percent, according to the latest Economist-YouGov poll taken May 1 to May 4 compared to April 24 to April 27.
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With eight Democrats plunging forward in California’s crowded gubernatorial race, Republicans have a shot at occupying the governor’s seat for the first time since 2011 when former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger departed the governor’s mansion.
Should Republicans manage to take control of the governor’s mansion, it is possible Democrat turnout in down-ticket races will be slightly depressed, opening up an opportunity for Republicans to put up a fight in at least four competitive U.S. House seats and possibly lowering Democrat turnout in other races across the state too.
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Senate Democrats, after saying they would support such a measure, balked at supporting an appropriations bill, H.R. 7147, for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that had Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) excised.
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A month into the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — thanks in no small part to separating DHS funding from the rest of the government combined with an unwillingness to address Senate filibuster rules — there have been two Islamist terror attacks on U.S. soil in Austin, Texas and New York City as the war in Iran rages on.
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While the recent conflict between the U.S. and Iran is front and center in early March and will no doubt have a massive impact on the midterm election cycle, domestic issues must continue to be addressed, and President Donald Trump is doing exactly that on healthcare policy.
As unflashy of an issue as healthcare is, it repeatedly polls in the top three to four issues for voters. In the latest Economist/YouGov survey from Feb. 27 – March 2, healthcare comes in as the third most important issue to voters, with 11 percent of Americans ranking healthcare as their number one priority. Twenty-two percent rank inflation/prices as their top priority and 14 percent rank the economy as their top priority.
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The way the public views the war with Iran is complex and rapidly evolving, but a March 3 CBS News-YouGov poll shows a full 76 percent of Americans support military action against Iran if the conflict lasts days or weeks, a huge boost of support for President Donald Trump’s choice to launch a preemptive attack.
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President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday produced a noticeable shift in viewer perceptions, with a CNN instant poll showing more speech-watchers believing his proposed policies would move the country in the right direction after the speech than before.
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Of all the revelations over the past year, the most underappreciated condition is the startling level of open, raw corruption that exists throughout the American social support systems. It appears that there is no program or state left untouched. While initial attention was brought on the Minnesota Somalian-led scams, every day brings yet another story of theft, cynicism and corruption from every corner of America.
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Republicans are a little spooked after losing a Texas Senate seat in District 9 in a special election that President Donald Trump had carried in 2024 by more than 17 points, 58 percent to Kamala Harris’ 40.6 percent, with Democrat Taylor Rehmet defeating Republican Leigh Wambsganss 57.2 percent to 42.8 percent the second-round runoff on Jan. 31.
That’s quite a drop off of support for the Republicans amid the curious nature of Texas’ special election system which runs akin to a jungle primary where multiple candidates from each party can run in the special election, and if no one gets above 50 percent, it goes to a runoff. Why not just do a primary prior to the Election Day?
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While President Trump’s approval rating remains underwater due largely to negative sentiment about the speed of the economic recovery, there are signs the president’s approval could bounce back, and one new poll shows his approval rating moving into the positive.
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President Donald Trump has completely secured the southern border, with just 108,361 border encounters since he took office on January 20, the latest data through November from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows.
That compares to more than 10 million such border encounters the entire time former President Joe Biden was in office from 2021 to 2024, averaging more than 2.5 million a year.
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In the early 2000’s Democrat political “scientists” predicted that demographic destiny, or the reshaping of the voter population through second and third-world immigration, would eventually erase the Republican Party.
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President Donald Trump’s overall approval rating took a hit this month, but one area where the President’s efforts have paid off already is his massive turnaround of the illegal immigration crisis. With illegal border encounters at their lowest number since the 1970’s according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data Americans have a lot to celebrate, and President Trump to thank for a significantly more secure country.
President Trump’s refusal to accept a porous border open border and move to deport illegal criminals is his most popular policy to voters. In the latest Cygnal survey from Nov. 5-6, voters strongly credit Trump for his work to quell the illegal immigrant crisis, support deportation, and say immigration is being resolved but needs more work to be completely solved.
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“It’s tough to do a lot of specific things but… you’re going to see some substantial announcements over the next couple of days in terms of things we don’t grow here in the United States: coffee being one of them, bananas, other fruits, things like that, so, that will bring the prices down very quickly…”
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As Congressional Democrats’ “shutdown” of the federal government enters its fourth week, the question on most people’s mind is simple: what does the “end game” look like, what are the realistic outcomes? It is crystal clear that a view of “success” in this battle is vastly different for each side. There is no obvious center position or compromise.
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Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are approaching a point of no return with their ill-advised government shutdown in a desperate bid to indefinitely continue expanded tax credits for 24 million Obamacare exchange recipients and to put illegal aliens back on government health care rolls.
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The Democratic Party is in crisis as Congressional Democrats struggle to establish credibility on the illegal immigration crisis, unchecked crime and political violence, and the contentious government shutdown in which Democrats are demanding a permanent expansion of Obamacare and the of repeal sections of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that keep taxpayers from subsidizing Medicare for illegals. Conservative priorities like rooting out government waste, tackling rising crime, and securing the border are receiving a wave of support from the American people, and two-thirds of Americans identity as either conservative or moderate, while just 28 percent say they are liberal today.
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While prominent Democrats have become crime-apologists — arguing for defunding the police, allying with disruptive protestors, releasing criminals into American cities, and attempting to block President Trump’s deportations of illegals — Americans agree with the President’s characterization of major cities as “overtaken by violent gangs and criminals”. This is particularly true of Americans living in high-crime regions themselves, with a plurality of urban voters agreeing with the president’s characterization of major cities like Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Chicago as being overtaken by violence and criminal behavior.
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If you listen to the left, over half the country voted for President Donald Trump due to ‘misinformation’ — the left’s favorite term for dodging the mainstream news — or bigotry. Modern Democrats vilified Trump voters when President Trump won the popular vote, aghast that voters elected a president to secure the border, deport illegal aliens, tackle rising crime, and renegotiate trade deals in our favor.
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“When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group… What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.”
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A comprehensive New York Times report is sounding the alarm bells for Democrats ahead of important gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the 2026 midterm elections next year.
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One provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act expanded the use of Pell Grants for trade schools with short term certificates — between 150 and 599 clock hours at a minimum of eight weeks — that could help pay for trade school certifications for about 100,000 students every year, a big boost for trades where, like other sectors of the economy, there are growing labor shortages amid the Baby Boomer retirement wave where about 900,000 seniors are leaving the labor force every year and climbing.
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After President Donald Trump won a sweeping victory in 2024 with the promise to reverse the damage Democrats’ disastrous open borders agenda caused to the United States, Democrats were aghast. But the message was clear — President Trump ran and won on a mandate to secure the border and restore the rule of law.
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After President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, then-President Barack Obama directed U.S. intelligence agencies to produce a new intelligence assessment of Russian activities interfering with the 2016 election that would ultimately conclude that Russia had been trying to help Trump get elected, a new memorandum from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard shows.
The January 2017 assessment differed from pre-election assessments produced by the intelligence community that “foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks on the diverse set of information technologies and infrastructures used to support the November 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
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Federal spending outlays will increase a whopping $3.38 trillion from their 2024 level of $6.87 trillion to $10.2 trillion by 2034, according to former President Joe Biden’s last budget submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The estimates are a year old, and we still await President Donald Trump’s first full budget that will adjust the baseline, hopefully taking into account the impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but it is still instructive about the dire fiscal trajectory the American people find themselves on.
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For a while, it looked like it might be one, big, beautiful mess, but now Congress has officially enacted, H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, fulfilling Republicans’ legislative agenda on tax cuts, the border and immigration enforcement that President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans campaigned on in 2024 that swept them into majorities.
The final votes were 51 to 50 in the Senate, with Vice President J.D. Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, and 218 to 214 in the House after weeks and months of preparation, drafting and debate. Now the work is done. The job is finished.
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Antitrust concerns don’t arise without good reason. More often than not, modern-day mergers between larger players in an industry can mean layoffs for workers and bad deals for consumers. It’s rare that a good deal comes along that spurs economic investment, brings back jobs to the U.S., while benefiting consumers. But that’s the case with the proposed combination of Charter and Cox Communications.
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56 percent of voters say they support deploying the National Guard to quell the anti-Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots in Los Angeles according to the latest polling taken by Harvard-Harris on June 11 and June 12.
That includes 29 percent of Democrats, 55 percent of independents and 83 percent of Republicans and comes as the No Kings rallies, the latest of which came on June 14, face increasing public rejection as protesters and rioters block traffic and attack local police, which began on June 6 in Los Angeles, Calif.
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Curbing illegal immigration, increasing border security, and deporting illegal criminals are important pillars on which President Donald Trump won the popular vote, and border security continues to be one of the president’s greatest strengths according to new public opinion data.
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“I want to see the tax cuts made permanent, but I also want to see the $5 trillion in new debt removed from the bill. At least 4 of us in the Senate feel this way.”
That was Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on X.com on June 3 outlining his and at least three other Republican senators’ opposition to the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act that will extend and expand the 2017 Trump tax cuts, including no income tax on tips and overtime, provide tax relief for seniors who collect Social Security, allocates almost $47 billion for the border wall and bars 1.4 million illegal aliens from collecting Medicaid and other public benefits.
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The U.S. Court for International Trade on Wednesday struck down President Donald Trump’s national trade emergency, the reciprocal tariffs he put into effect on April 2 and other tariffs in 2025 including those seeking foreign assist to repel the fentanyl trade, throwing the subsequent tariff negotiations with the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan, South Korea and so forth into chaos.
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Southwest border encounters once again were at record lows in April at just 12,035, according to the latest data compiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, recording record lows for the third month in a row.
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For the second consecutive month, both consumer and producer prices slowed down, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to 2.3 percent and 2.4 percent annually in April, respectively.
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In Washington, D.C. there are a few facts of life and one of them is that since its inception more than a century ago, the debt ceiling one way or another will be increased. Often that will be done on a bipartisan basis under regular order, usually requiring 60 votes in the Senate for passage, thus requiring compromises in order to get it across the finish line.
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One thing that President Donald Trump has proven since taking office is that to secure the border, all it takes is a president with the political will to do what is necessary, with encounters on the southwest border in March down to 11,017, a 94 percent decrease from 189,359 encounters in March 2024, according to data compiled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Similarly, in February there were just 11,709 such encounters.
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Since President Donald Trump announced his bold tariff strategy — aimed at leveling the playing field by placing reciprocal tariffs on nations that tax American-made goods and bolstering U.S. manufacturing — media pundits and “experts” have been tripping over themselves to predict economic doom.
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“We saw the successful negotiating strategy that President Trump implemented a week ago today. It has brought more than 75 countries forward to negotiate. It took great courage for him to stay the course until this moment and what we have ended up with here, as I told everyone a week ago, in this very spot, do not retaliate and you will be rewarded.”
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Commodities prices and interest rates collapsed across the board following President Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement of reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trade partners despite Congressional Democrats’ predictions that inflation would increase as a result of the tariffs.
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At a town hall question and answer with Elon Musk in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Sunday on behalf of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, the White House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed that since 2021, 5.5 million non-citizens have been given Social Security numbers.
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President Donald Trump has expanded his tariffs to include new 25 percent tariffs on all trucks and cars and automobile parts being imported into the U.S. in a March 26 proclamation, citing national security concerns with outsourced automobile production, stating, “automobiles and certain automobile parts are being imported into the United States in such quantities and under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States.”
Trump cited a February 2019 report by then-Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross that highlighted defense production interests being upheld by a strong U.S. auto industry, stating, “Many of the most important innovations and technological advancements over the past 100 years have come from the automotive sector, and the strength of this sector drives technological advancements in the defense sector. Today, the defense sector is heavily interconnected and reliant on the automotive industry for R&D to meet current and future military requirements such as vehicle electrification, autonomous driving, hydrogen fuel cell products, advanced semiconductor utilization, radar, laser and sonar ranging, global positioning system (‘GPS’) navigation, anti-lock brakes, reduction in vehicle weight (‘lightweighting’), and fuel efficiency efforts. Product development in partnership between U.S. automotive manufacturers and defense agencies results in technological advancements in military aircraft, space aircraft, unmanned aerial systems, missiles, and submarines.”
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At his recent address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, President Donald Trump noted that upon taking office he had “imposed an immediate freeze… on all foreign aid” via a January 20 executive order.
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President Donald Trump’s approach to economic growth relies on a multifaceted approach that includes reducing wasteful federal spending, placing tariffs on foreign goods, and perhaps most significantly, extending the sweeping slate of tax cuts he implemented in his first term for all Americans.
Those tax cuts, which Americans have been benefiting from for the past seven years, are set to expire unless Congress acts to extend them, and President Trump is working overtime to ensure they remain in place.
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by Robert Romono The Atlanta Federal Reserve on March 3 has again issued its GDP Now projection, finding the U.S. economy could be contracting at an inflation-adjusted, annualized 2.8 percent rate for the first quarter of 2025. That is down further from its Feb. 28 projection of negative 1.5 percent. But this was a long time coming, with red lights flashing since 2022 as inflation overheated the U.S. economy amid a slowdown of global production following Covid and trillions of dollars of monetary and fiscal stimulus. One such reliable recession measure, the spread between 10-year treasuries and 2-year treasuries, has shown inversions — the 10-year interest rate goes lower than the 2-year rate and then stays there for a period of time as investors begin hedging against risk by locking higher long term rates — in each of the last six recessions. In 1978, the 10-year, 2-year spread inverted, foretelling the 1980 recession, in 1980 predicting the 1981-1982 recession, in 1989 before the 1990-1991 recession, in 2000 before the 2001 recession, in 2006 before the 2008-2009 recession and even in 2019 before the 2020 Covid recession. It’s like clockwork. Sometimes there’s a head-fake, for example, a brief inversion in 1998 did…
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President Donald Trump in a February 21 proclamation entitled “America First Investment Policy” that seeks to assert American dominance particularly in advanced technology sectors including artificial intelligence (AI), by incentivizing investment in the U.S., restricting it from the People’s Republic China (PRC) and restricting investment by China and other foreign adversaries in the U.S.
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