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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

Trump doesn’t have any positive issues to run on, so he has spent the midterm election campaign trying to gaslight voters about the economy, while at the same time dismissing the problems and concerns of the American people. Democrats have been non-committal on the idea of impeaching Donald Trump for a third time if they

It has been nearly ten years since Barack Obama concluded what many regard as one of the great presidencies in US history and the most successful of this century so far. When Obama was in office, Republicans blaming Obama was one of the running jokes on the internet. If a Republican lost his car keys,

Sen. Susan Collins has sold herself as a Republican moderate for decades in Maine, but during the first Senate debate between Collins and Democratic candidate Troy Jackson, Collins made herself look like a DC insider incumbent. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Please support us by becoming a subscriber. Collins tried to blame high

A whistleblower has come forward to allege that the FBI investigated peaceful anti-ICE and border patrol protesters after they were ordered to do so by Donald Trump. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Please support us by becoming a subscriber. In a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche, Sen.

Democratic Senate candidates like James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan are breaking the partisan mold of how politicians and campaigns reach voters. The Trump model, which has been adopted by politicians in both parties, is to appear almost exclusively on partisan-friendly media. The overwhelming majority of Trump’s media appearances during his second

There was a time just a few short years ago when the President Of The United States believed that they governed for all Americans, whether they supported the president or not. A president is a member of a political party, but the presidency, which is supposed to be different from the person holding the office,

When an administration lacks both competence and integrity, explanations often become admissions. Legal experts have been concerned throughout the second Trump administration that the president and his DOJ are using the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, which is designed to be an emergency appeals process where rulings don’t come with accountability or opinions, as a way

Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appears to be on borrowed time with his job. Democrats have made it clear that if they win control of the House of Representatives, they are going to impeach Hegseth. There are a wide variety of potential articles of impeachment that Hegseth could face related to the blowing

Sometimes in politics, there isn’t a direct line of causation. Unintended consequences of policy decisions are common. Presidents and Congress can think they have thought of every possible outcome, and then a law is passed and implemented, and unexpected results happen. Unintended consequences are a byproduct of governing. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion.

The lawsuit filed by Renee Good’s family is a reminder that Trump’s immunity for actions he takes as president is only criminal. The family of Renee Good is suing government officials like Stephen Miller, former officials like Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, Greg Bovino, and the agents who shot Good and were at the scene

In a presidential administration where corruption is unyielding, it’s easy for the American people to miss the forest for the trees. There are reports of Trump’s FBI Director abusing government resources, and Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services doing the same. The president has been making money on everything from crypto to taking jets