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It started with the Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers Michigan US Senate debate, where Rogers was solely interested in making the election about El-Sayed and trying to plant the idea in the minds of voters that the Democratic candidate is a terrorist. Rogers hasn’t held town halls or the sort of big events that one

Pete Hegseth was one of the main people in the administration pushing for the Iran war. Hegseth has been behind the US blowing boats killed hundreds of people in the Carribean. The Pentagon is thought of by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress as a mess, and Democrats are counting down the days until they

After traveling to Alaska and holding a rally on Tuesday night, someone thought it was a good idea to send the 80-year-old president to the nation’s epicenter of election denialism and let him swear and rant and rave conspiracy theories. Republicans in Arizona were already very worried because they have election deniers at the top

We are witnessing the end of the Trump era. It has been more than a decade since Donald Trump came onto the national political scene as a presidential candidate, and while the president’s critics have been predicting that his political sway would come to an end for years, there is now solid evidence and people

Speaker Mike Johnson has been running around the country, appointing himself Trump’s co-president and trying to convince voters that a House majority that barely shows up for work deserves two more years in power. PoliticusUSA is never influenced by any political party or corporation. We are independent thanks to your support. Please support us by

Being White House Press Secretary is not an easy job. Standing up for the first time in front of the world and taking questions from reporters has to be challenging, and anyone would probably be nervous the first time. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Please support us by becoming a subscriber. What Katie

Donald Trump is retreating from reality as the Republican Party is facing what could be a historic midterm election defeat. Even though Republicans are saying that Trump is sinking the entire party, the president seems to think that he is saving the midterms. While speaking to reporters before he left for what feels like 615th

No matter how badly the midterm election goes for Republicans, there will still be Republicans in office all over the country, but having members of a party in office is not the same as having power. What Republicans risk right now is their power. PoliiticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Please support us by

Did anyone think that red-state Kansas would be a political hotbed during the 2026 midterm election? PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Please support us by becoming a subscriber. The fact that Kansas is in play for Democrats, not just in the Senate election but also in House races and state races, is due

Abdul El-Sayed was the Democratic non-incumbent Senate candidate that Republicans wanted to run against in the general election. Republicans were flat-out giddy when El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, but things have not gone as well or as easily as Republicans expected. El-Sayed has shown himself to be a good campaigner

When Trump announced his deal with Putin to import Russian diesel that he just sanctioned other countries for importing, the president posted on Truth Social: PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. You can support us by becoming a subscriber. I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein

Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, have been making the argument that they need more time to fix what is broken in the economy. PoliticusUSA is news and opinion that bends the knee to no one. Support us by becoming a subscriber. Last month, while appearing on a podcast, Vance said: There’s a lot of

When a president is as unpopular as Donald Trump, it turns out that there are no safe spaces. During his rally in Syracuse, NY, Trump was interrupted by a protester who flipped him off with both middle fingers as she was escorted out of the venue. The rally itself was as stale as Trump and

Somebody thought sending Vice President JD Vance back to Ohio was a good idea, but listening to Vance talk in Lima, his speech was a combination of detachment from reality, lies, and, at one point, I had to make sure we were still in the year 2026 because Vance name-dropped Nancy Pelosi as part of

The debate between the candidates for Michigan’s open US Senate seat was ugly. Mike Rogers can’t run a successful Senate campaign by cozying up to Donald Trump and running on the issues. Instead, Rogers has to make the debate about Abdul El-Sayed. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. We are not influenced by any

Republicans have been struggling over what to do with Donald Trump during the midterm election. The White House eventually came up with the strategy of only sending the president to red states in the hopes of keeping him out of key races. Trump came up with the idea to use taxpayer money to create a