Rick Wilson: “This week has been a howling vortex of suck for the MAGA movement and Donald Trump. Imagine a black hole in the profound interstellar vacuum in the cold emptiness of space, drawing all matter and energy into its brutal singularity, an ineluctable and final journey into nothingness.”

“The director of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign in Wisconsin, who pushed allegations of widespread fraud that were ultimately debunked, has been hired to run the Republican Party of Wisconsin heading into the November election,” the AP reports. “Andrew Iverson will serve as executive

Washington Post: “Since dropping out as a 2024 presidential candidate last fall, Pence is again touting his brand of religious, hawkish and fiscal conservatism — pushing for changes to entitlement programs and more funding for Ukraine, among other issues. His argument, according to advisers, is

“The Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed ‘massive fraud’ in the 2020 election,” CNN reports. “It’s the latest example of how the RNC under the former president’s daughter-in-law is

Mona Charen: “It’s worth exploring how the Republican party, the party of ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,’ became the party that now credulously traffics in blatant Russian disinformation while it flirts with betraying an important ally—along with all of its principles.”