
Trump sets off yet another GOP civil war, risking party's midterm strategy
CNN
Mitch McConnell doesn't say anything by accident. The Senate minority leader's every move is in the service of his long game dedicated to securing power.
So the Kentucky senator's denunciation of the Republican National Committee's view of the US Capitol insurrection as "legitimate political discourse" Tuesday should be read as more than an unusually frank rebuke of ex-President Donald Trump.
McConnell's comments were a blaring warning to his party, less than nine months before the midterm elections, that letting Trump's election fraud fantasies and January 6 misinformation dominate the campaign could cost it dearly.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest blow to Trump’s efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote and to require that all ballots be received by Election Day.

A Border Patrol agent shot two people in Portland, Oregon, during a traffic stop after authorities said they were associated with a Venezuelan gang, another incident in a string of confrontations with federal authorities that have left Americans frustrated with immigration enforcement during the Trump administration.











