The Big Picture Newsletter

This week, we saw many top-tier Senate candidates take to the debate stage. And it did not go well for Republicans. Abdul El-Sayed faced off against Mike Rogers and ripped him for being the “champion of big pharma.” And hoo boy. Acyn@Acyn Rogers: He says his home is Egypt El-Sayed: My home is Michigan. You live in Florida.

US President Donald Trump. Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images. MAGA Crowd Cheers as Trump Suggests California Cities Could Get Nuked by Iran At a campaign rally in Grand Island, Nebraska on Monday, Donald Trump fantasized about the destruction of Los Angeles and San Diego by Iran. When speaking about the war he launched in February, Trump said, “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe.

Last week, we learned that the Trump administration had begun sending out $500 checks to Obamacare recipients to reimburse them for so-called “user fee” overcharges. But a dive into the universe of ACA enrollees who are actually getting the checks reveals this to be just another one of Trump’s voter bribery schemes.

The Trump family syndicate is in full corrupt swing, but it remains vulnerable and can be checked just like other autocratic regimes Tiffany Trump, Lara Trump, Eric Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Photo by Chip Somodevilla / POOL / AFP via Getty Images. Another corruption story made headlines over the weekend, and the zone is officially flooded. We barely have time to absorb one hit before the next arrives. And that’s the point.

Donald Trump went on the road this week to stump for Republican candidates a month out from Election Day. And you’ll never guess where he’s campaigning: in deep red Texas, where he’s delivering the very message Democrats want him to: Headquarters@HQNewsNow Trump: We do great when I'm on the ballot. Pretend I'm running please.

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) (L) and Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) display a sign accusing former Special Counsel Jack Smith of meeting with Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.

Republicans are fretting that their gerrymander scheme may be backfiring hard LEFT: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images. CENTER: U.S. President Donald Trump. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images. RIGHT: Gov. Greg Abbott. Photo by Sam Owens/San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images.

Democrats are poised to retake the U.S. House majority in this year’s midterms. The question remaining is what their margin of victory will be. Thanks to Donald Trump’s mid-decade redistricting scheme and the Supreme Court’s Callais decision, Republicans were able to redraw themselves a cushion of three or four more seats that Democrats will have to overcome to achieve even a bare majority.

If this is the GOP’s posture going into the midterms, it won’t end well for them Photo Credit: Dan Scavino Jr./x.com Most weeks for this column, I take one big story and pull back to show the larger picture. Today I’m working in the other direction, taking a snapshot of the past week’s headlines and walking through how, taken together, they tell a single story: a Republican Party in crisis, with 35 days before the midterm elections.

Midterm polling continues to show Republicans are in real trouble in November. New generic ballot polls out this week show no let-up in a growing blue wave. And YouGov shows them up 14 😳 Trump’s approval rating keeps dropping as well. Whether it’s Nate Silver’s model… The American people are NOT happy. Is this bad? This seems bad: