
Jan. 6 committee is on collision course with Trump and the midterms
CNN
It's not just about the 2020 election anymore.
The unhealed wound in American politics first opened by Donald Trump -- a President who mounted a coup attempt after he was rejected by voters -- is already tainting the 2022 and 2024 elections.
A rush of fresh evidence and the House January 6 committee's expanding ambition to hold the ex-President to account over the Capitol Insurrection mean its probe, and new hearings in September, will crash headlong into midterm election season.

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











