- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: GOP’s Cassidy didn’t have to back Blanche’s nomination. He made the wrong call anyway.
The White House and Republican leaders had no leverage over the Louisiana senator. It apparently didn’t matter.
- Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: MAGA Representative Loses Primary After Republicans Redistricted Him
Tennessee Republicans redistricted to help Donald Trump, and now it has cost Representative Andy Ogles his seat.
- Mike Rothschild @ Talking Points Memo: Why Republicans Just Can’t Quit 2020
With a potential midterm wipeout just three months away, Republicans have been recycling past conspiracy theories to an epic extent, mining the greatest hits of a decade of paranoid plots both to please the president and to invoke memories of the “good old days.”
- Annabella Rosciglione @ The Daily Beast: MAGA Gov Candidate Busted Living in Luxury Out of State
The Trump-endorsed candidate in the toss-up Iowa governor’s race now faces carpetbagging accusations.
- Yvonne Wingett Sanchez @ The Atlantic: MAGA’s Most Famous Prisoner Is Free
Newly out of prison, Tina Peters is back to trying to prove election fraud.
- John Fea: What I learned from the Douthat-Metaxas debate on Trump
Metaxas seems genuinely to believe that Trump embodies some form of Christian virtue — truth-telling, courage, loyalty — even as, sentence by sentence during this debate, he described a man who lies about the border, demands submission as the price of forgiveness, surrounds himself with public flattery, and treats the pro-life movement he claims to champion as expendable the moment it becomes inconvenient.
