- Kristen Holmes and Betsy Klein @ CNN: Trump personally helped orchestrate taxpayer-funded ads promoting himself and his policies, source says
- President Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
- Tarini Parti, Marianne LeVine and Michelle Hackman @ The Wall Street Journal: Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
- White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
- Jack Crosbie @ Rolling Stone: MAGA Senator Humiliated After Attempt to Corner Jack Smith Backfires Comically
- Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he was nailing the special counsel on a conspiracy theory — but he mixed up his basketball teams.
- Samuel Benson @ Politico: Democrats are running pastors for office. Republicans are attacking their religious comments.
- Democratic Senate nominees James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas, as well as two key Iowa House nominees, are seeing their remarks on Christianity picked over by the GOP.
- Joe Perticone @ The Bulwark: An Evangelical Kingmaker Is Lost in the Age of Trump
- Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion.
- Farrah Tomazin @ The Daily Beast: ‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed
- Fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast have placed the Republican under growing scrutiny as the midterms loom.
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Ken Paxton Defends One-Day Plea Deal Offered to Child Sex Predator
- The Texas attorney general (and Republican Senate candidate) apparently thought this was a good argument.
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