Author: Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner
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Trump keeps promise to be ‘deregulator-in-chief’
President Donald Trump has made history again, this time for something he didn’t do: fill the swamp with new regulations. In keeping his campaign promise to kill 10 Biden-Obama era federal regulations for every new one his administration proposed, the president’s team offered up the fewest rules since record-keeping began in the 1970s. And in…
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Ocasio-Cortez has a ‘real shot’ at the presidency by following Trump 2024 model
The speculation that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will run for president in 2028 and maybe even win is starting to be a thing. When a poll this week showed her edging out Vice President JD Vance 51%-49%, she brushed it aside with one word on X: “Bloop.” She later added that she would “stomp” Vance.…
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Trump on thin ice with breadwinners and MAGA over lackluster economy
With just hours before he hosts a rare prime-time address to brag on his first year achievements, new polling shows that America’s breadwinners are losing confidence in President Donald Trump‘s economy — including his MAGA base. Facing stubbornly elevated retail prices, high mortgage rates, rising unemployment, and shocking winter energy bills, a new Zogby Poll…
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Trump shifts on economy to ‘We feel your pain’
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Facing criticism from Main Street voters about inflated grocery prices, President Donald Trump and his team are adopting an aggressive strategy of sympathizing with the economic pain Americans feel and explaining their plan to fix it. “We are very aware of the pain,” Peter Navarro, the Trump economist and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing,…
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Voters want Trump focused on domestic, not foreign issues
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The White House, embroiled in a heated debate over the president’s plan to invite hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers into the United States, is being pressured by voters to focus more on domestic issues and less on foreign policy. In two new independent polls, majorities of likely voters and supporters of President Donald Trump…
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Scandals shelved, Trump approval up, MAGA revived: White House Report Card
This was a comeback week of sorts for President Donald Trump. He showed in his trip to the United Kingdom that it’s better — and more important — being president than king. The Federal Reserve finally listened and cut rates. And his top late-night critic, Jimmy Kimmel, got himself suspended for crossing a line of…
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Kirk’s is a ‘MAGA state funeral’ not about unity but ‘victory’: Steve Bannon
Sunday’s stadium-sized funeral for popular conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk is expected to be a reaffirmation of the Make America Great Again movement started by President Donald Trump and not a national unity event to reach out to critics, according to some close to Kirk’s group. Turning Point USA is expected to fill State Farm…
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Kirk slaying a ‘wake-up’ call pushing MAGA back to Trump
President Donald Trump is experiencing a sudden boost in support, especially from conservative independents who felt the White House was bungling key issues such as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Behind his approval rating uptick isn’t a sense that the White House is doing a better job, but the assassination of popular conservative activist Charlie Kirk…
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Incredible Reagan campaign relic for sale: $235,000
President Ronald Reagan’s handwritten 1980 debate notes, featuring two of the most iconic campaign slogans ever, are going up for sale today, the first time the world has seen the lines of his closing knock-out punch of President Jimmy Carter. The Pennsylvania-based Raab Collection, a dealer in historical documents and artifacts, told Washington Secrets that…
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Nearly 9 in 10 expect more political violence, blame hot rhetoric
Most Americans are bracing for even more political violence following an alleged leftist’s assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week in Utah. In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Washington Secrets on Wednesday, 85% of likely voters believe that “there will be more political violence in the next few months.” Nearly half —…