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… As every indicator increasingly suggests a wipeout for Republicans in the midterms, their nominees in key races continue to attempt to distance themselves from Trump, including the ones who fully embraced all things MAGA just weeks ago.
… NYT: “In Georgia, Republican strategists are privately discussing whether the Senate race has drifted beyond the party’s reach. In Kansas, JD Vance campaigned for a Senate Republican, even though a Democrat there has not been elected to the chamber since 1932. In Nebraska, a new Republican super PAC just sprang up to spend to defend a billionaire incumbent.”
… “Across the country, Trump’s political operation is suddenly investing in what once appeared to be bright-red Senate races and House districts, including several in TX that his party claimed to have safely gerrymandered only a year ago. Less than 7 weeks before the midterm elections, the political environment has deteriorated so badly for Republicans that the battlefield now extends deep into states and districts Trump carried 3 times, often by double digits.”
… “Trump’s diminished standing, as well as voter anger about high prices brought on by tariffs and the war with Iran, is causing serious problems for Republicans across the map. And economic trends appear to be going the wrong way for the party. The Fed raised interest rates on Wed, which will drive up the cost of borrowing at a time many voters are already paying high rates for mortgages, auto loans and credit card debts. Trump has said not to expect gas price relief before the midterms.”
… “A NYT/Siena poll released this week found that Democrats entered the fall with an advantage of nearly 9 percentage points over Republicans on the congressional ballot - an edge similar to 2018, the last time there was a so-called blue wave.”
… Punchbowl: “Trump’s trade wars have helped push costs higher, a fact Democrats are hammering on the campaign trail. The escalation with Canada - one of America’s biggest trading partners - shows how painful the tariffs have been for the GOP. The standoff hits hardest in border and farm states where there are a handful of key Senate races.”
A Republican senator on the ballot this year: “The WH putting a noose around all of our necks” by escalating a trade war this close to the election.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME): “I’m concerned about the fact that it hurts families, small businesses and large manufacturers in the state of Maine, and farmers.”
GOP nominee for senate in NH, John Sununu: “It doesn’t make any sense to engage in a trade war with Canada.”
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS): “We are a state that exports. That’s what we do for a living, and Canada is an important component of that.”
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS): “We don’t want to rock that boat.”
… Lots of calls from the MAGA faithful for Trump to revoke his endorsement of Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) after she posted a video filmed in front of the WH denouncing him for his immigration policy. Obviously, she is hearing it big-time from her south FL constituents, who are also not happy about Trump plundering Venezuela while refusing to push for elections in that country:
“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far. In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policy.”
“The same Hispanics who helped you get to the WH in 2024 feel betrayed today. You can be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I’m not talking about giving them amnesty. I’m talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land.”
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… Marianna Sotomayor, Capitol Hill reporter for Puck: “Rep. Salazar has been saying just this on the Hill publicly and directly, behind the scenes, to the WH. But this is a clear escalation and an indication of political shifts in Miami.”
… Miami-based MS NOW political analyst Fernand Amandi: “This ad is the best evidence that Salazar knows she’s losing her reelection bid against Elliott Rodriguez. It’s too late, Maria Elvira Salazar. Everyone knows you are lying. You voted for this, you wanted this. Spare us the phony Alligator Alcatraz tears.”
… I completely agree with Amandi. The only thing this video is going to do is cause Trump supporters, who are fuming about this video, not to show up and vote for her.
… Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) was asked about the midterms by CNN’s Manu Raju: “It’s going to be a bloodbath. Q: Speaker Johnson says the reason why you guys can go home is because you guys have done such a great job up here. Mace: No, absolutely not. We have the lowest ratings ever in history.”
… Red Lion Politics: “The vibes on the ground are the worst I’ve seen in my life. No one wants to promote candidates, no one wants to knock doors, no one wants to do shit. Attendance for any right wing event is at all time lows anywhere I go. Thank you Donald Trump for ruining it for us… and handing the country over to socialism.”
… NYT reporter Bayliss Wagner on the Republican nominee for senate in Iowa: “Rep. Ashley Hinson’s campaign tells me she will not attend JD Vance rally in Council Bluffs because of previously-scheduled events.”
… Former Mike Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short responded to Hinson dodging Vance: “That tells you all you need to know about how things are going in Iowa.”
… NJ Globe: “The NJ State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Assn has endorsed Democrat Rebecca Bennett in NJ’s 7th district, flipping its support from Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. in one of the nation’s closely watched House races. The NJFMBA, which represents more than 6,000 firefighters, EMTs and dispatchers, announced its endorsements at the conclusion of its 130th annual convention in Atlantic City.”
… “The firefighters union has been something of a political swing vote in the 7th district, moving back and forth between Democrats and Republicans over the last 4 election cycles. The FMBA endorsed Kean over Democrat Sue Altman in 2024. Now, the union is moving back to the Democratic column with Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot who is challenging Kean.”
… Meidas senior digital editor Acyn: “Both Mike Rogers and Ken Paxton appeared on Hannity tonight. No mention of policy or what they would do for their states if elected that I saw - just a lot of talk about Hasan Piker and drag queens.”
… Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): “In 1776, the battle cry was, ‘The British are coming.’ In 2026, the battle cry is, ‘The communists are coming.’”
… I’m not sure that strategy is working.
… Comedian Ron White to Joe Rogan: “James Talarico didn’t cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million settlement to the whistleblower for his bribery. His own party impeached him - 121 votes to 72, but the senate put him back in. He’s a criminal. He’s a piece of shit.”
… Rogan: “I don’t know enough about him. White: Republicans have been in control for 30 years. Let somebody else fucking drive the car.”
… Suddenly Rogan, who lives and works in Texas, doesn’t know anything about Paxton, who has been the AG of that state since 2014 and has been in the news constantly for this.
… Fox senior political analyst Karl Rove wrote an OpEd in the WSJ on why he is voting for the Democratic nominee against Republican Bo French in TX. He cited a post French made right after the Texas Longhorns big comeback win against Ohio State in football:
“So how did Bo French—a UT grad and Republican statewide candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry—mark this special moment? He posted a picture of screaming, joyous, celebrating burnt-orange-clad students.
Referring to students who appeared to be South Asian or Hispanic in the photo’s foreground, he declared, ‘I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.’
French’s not-so-subtle claim that UT has too many Hispanics and South Asians—he later said his issue is too many ‘foreigners’—is raw, uncut bigotry. UT admissions are based on merit, not race, and 90% of each class comes from Texas.
The GOP has a growing number of Bo Frenches—and not only in TX. Conservatism and the party it dominates have an increasing number of bigoted advocates of a ‘heritage America’ composed of white descendants of the original European settlers.
There are ‘just asking questions’ Jew-haters, misogynists who worship hypermasculinity, conspiracy nuts seeking clicks for profit, and religious bigots who won’t differentiate between Muslim terrorists and Muslim American patriots.
These people are diminishing the Republican Party, not building it. I’ll have no part of it. This Nov, I’ll vote for only the 2nd Democrat in my life - French’s opponent, Jon Rosenthal. The GOP’s stables need a cleaning. This is a good place to start.”
… Trump held a rally in NC for senate nominee Michael Whatley. In his speech, Trump employed the brilliant strategy of ripping the state of NC while threatening to continue to withhold disaster aid unless they send the former RNC Chair to the senate:
On disaster relief: “If Michael loses, I’m not sending it. No, I’m only kidding.”
… He’s not kidding. He has been withholding it.
… NC Gov. Josh Stein: “This is no way to respond to a tragic disaster, no way to run a country, no way to campaign for office. Western North Carolinians have been working their tails off for the past two years to recover from Helene. It’s time for Washington to match their grit and fund our $10 billion request.”
“NC is one of the most violent states. One of the worst in the whole nation.”
“I’m quite impressed with my intelligence. I’m a high IQ person.”
“If the Republicans win the House and Senate, I will issue the Trump dividend—every adult in America will get $5000 and you’ll get it. We can do it and the Democrats can’t because they don’t do the tariffs.”
“We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes. We’re taking out million and millions of barrels of oil. When they see ‘to the victor belongs the spoils,’ that’s one of the greatest cases anyone has ever seen in history.”
On spiking gas prices: “It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done. Frankly, even if it was a lot more. But it’s going to come tumbling down like a rocket ship in reverse.”
On Iran: “That war is going to end very soon. You watch. Trump was right about everything. They want to make a deal so badly. They called. We could have a deal anytime we want.”
“We’re carrying the European nations. All we have to do is say, ‘you know what? We’re not trading with you anymore.’ We don’t need anything we have.’ We have cars. We have lumber. We have food. We have everything.”
“If we stopped trading with every country that we have a deficit with - which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do - we would make at least $1.5 trillion a year.”
… Trump on the tarmac heading to the rally:
Q - “Why is it so important for you to have your name on the Kennedy Center? Trump: “For me to go and fix it and subsidize it, I think the Trump Admin should have recognition. If we don’t do that, it’s going to close and get ripped down.”
… That statement was hit with a fact-check Community Note on X: “Congress recently allocated $257 million for Kennedy Center renovations. However, the funds have not been used yet. The project is halted as Trump is withholding the money amid a legal battle to add his name to the building.”
On Canada becoming the first associate member of the EU: “Canada has been a terrible trade partner. If they do that I would consider it a hostile act and I would put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe. If Europe does that, we’ll put heavy tariffs on them.”
Q: “Do you acknowledge that the Fed is raising rates to bring down prices because of the war in Iran? Trump: No, they’re doing it to make Trump do as bad as possible.”
… Every Trump nominee to the Fed voted to raise rates.
… WH trade advisor Peter Navarro trashed Trump’s new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh on Steve Bannon’s podcast while standing in front of the WH: “I’m not a Warsh guy. I see him not as MAGA. I see him as Make Recessions Great Again, or Make Stagflation Great Again. He’s selling us out. I fear it’s political. They made a monumental mistake, and it’s gonna come back to haunt us.”
… On his return flight aboard AF1, Trump was captured by Getty photographer Brendan Smialkowski looking at a placard that read, “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED”.
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… Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) to Meidas reporter Scott Macfarlane on Trump’s temper tantrum at recent Kennedy Center board meeting:
“It was very unprofessional for him to engage in name-calling. Q: What kind of names? Beatty: ‘Dumb. Garbage. Incompetent.’ It was unbelievable that this was happening while we were sitting in an official Kennedy Center board meeting.
As John Lewis would say, ‘See something, do something. Hear something, say something.’ So I decided to defend myself to let him know that I wasn’t going to sit there and let him say that without a response. So when he said to me, ‘I think you’re incompetent,’ I said to him, ‘I KNOW you’re incompetent.’”
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… Harry Enten: “Who hates Pete Hegseth? Basically everyone. No wonder the Speaker sent everybody home. He’s nearly 3 times as unpopular now in his net approval rating from when he first took office. No wonder Speaker Johnson didn’t want his members to vote against the American people on Hegseth.”
… He’s talking about the resolution to impeach Hegseth.
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On Uncovered yesterday we talked about Trump’s meltdown after the Fed raised rates, Junior’s Russian wedding, gas/diesel prices spiking, Kash’s testimony about bestiality, AI and data center regulation, trade, Canada and the EU, Bessent getting grilled in the House, 60 Minutes and selling pardons, Roger Marshall in trouble in KS, and lots more! If you missed the show it is here.
If you missed the last Bulletin, that is here. Thank you to everyone who reads, shares and subscribes to my work and all the other contributors at Meidas.
… CNN: “Speaker Mike Johnson announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their 7-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth. The next time House lawmakers are expected back in Washington will be after the Nov. elections.”
… “House GOP lawmakers were already eager to get out of town. They’d been in a dour mood, faced with growing political pressure to act on contentious issues like artificial intelligence and tariffs, all while anxiety rises over their ability to hold the chamber in the midterms.”
… “Then came a new headache: One of their fellow Republicans, Rep. Thomas Massie, announced he would be forcing an unprecedented vote to impeach Hegseth over his handling of the US war with Iran. Because his resolution carries special procedural powers, it started a legislative clock that required GOP leaders to put it on
the floor in the coming days.”
… But now, Republicans have found a way to stall that vote by leaving early and postponing it until November. Johnson attacked Massie for his surprise push: “It is a publicity stunt by someone who wants attention. It will immediately be tabled of course. But we probably won’t do that today, we will do it when we come back. We should not be playing games with national security.”
… Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA): “Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote.”
… Johnson was asked why he sent everyone home again for the next two months: Q - “You’ve said that this Congress is the most productive in history, but the House today is leaving two weeks early? Johnson: I said it’s ONE of the most productive in history.”
… This is what Johnson said the day before: “It’s been the most productive Congress in 80 years.”
… Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA): “The National Park Service hired a company to start working on the historic public golf course at East Potomac Park without any announcement, without a word to any of us, without a single public hearing.
… “This is not just any old golf course. This is a beloved public space with huge historic significance. Trump is systematically moving to take this historic, publicly accessible resource and turn it into another gilded private golf club for the mega-rich.”
… CNN pollster Harry Enten: “Trump is breaking records. Yesterday the Marquette Law School poll came out, and take a look - Trump’s worst net approval rating on inflation. Minus 61 points! That is the worst Trump has ever polled on inflation, and not only that, it’s the worst any president EVER has polled on inflation. Worse than Jimmy Carter! Worse than Biden! Literally the worst of all time!”
… CNBC: “Consumers are facing a double-whammy of jumping oil prices and Treasury yields amid the US war with Iran that is leaving them increasingly cash-strapped. Crude prices reaccelerated in recent weeks as fighting between the US and Iran has ramped back up, a development that will lead to higher prices at the pump.”
… “On top of that, the 10-year Treasury yield jumped this week to its highest in 19 years, threatening to intensify affordability challenges for consumers as borrowing costs rise for items like homes and cars. The total bill per household since the US-Iran conflict began is around $1,760, according to an analysis from Moody’s Analytics.”
… Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s: “Consumers are under a lot of financial pressure.” Zandi said $930 of that total bill for households comes from higher costs for energy, a category that includes pressures from rising prices on items like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Cumulatively, Moody’s found that US consumers have spent more than $121 billion extra on energy since the war began.”
… Financial Times: “America’s mega-donors are overwhelmingly backing Trump’s Republicans in this year’s race for Congress, as billionaires from Silicon Valley to Wall Street bankroll the party’s midterm push. 16 of the country’s 20 largest donors have ploughed money into the Republican campaign.”
… “George Soros is the standout Democratic backer. Other mega-donors have funnelled cash to candidates pushing deregulation of cryptocurrency and gambling or to promote AI. The findings reveal another US election drawing colossal sums to shape the outcome - and also show how the wealthiest donors are tilting Republican, even as the party trails Democrats in the polls.”
… Daily Mail: “Trump directly ordered the cover-up of the govt’s Epstein files, ex-Fox host Tucker Carlson claimed in a stunning interview. Carlson told Vanity Fair that he warned the president about the political ramifications of withholding the files in the summer of 2025 when Trump was facing overwhelming scrutiny for his admin’s handling of the late pedophile’s files.”
… Carlson: “My position from the beginning with Trump, I said it to Trump, was, ‘I don’t understand why you would ever keep any of this stuff secret.’ And I got like a bunch of different answers. I said, ‘You shouldn’t need to cover for Epstein.’ In the end, it came from Trump directly.”
… “The order to cover it up came from Trump. I asked him why. And he gave me this long, very emotional explanation that this was all a plot against him, like Russiagate.”
… Kobeissi Letter: “US diesel prices officially rise to a new record of $6.40/gallon, now up over +88% in 9 months. Truck drivers are now paying $3.00 more per gallon for diesel than they were in Jan in the midst of peak demand season. The average gas price in the US is now up to $4.44/gallon, 13% away from a new record high. Market expectations for additional rate hikes are rising.”
… NYT: “As Iran and its allies tightened their grip on shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia scrambled this week to reroute millions of barrels of oil after being forced to close a critical pipeline damaged in an attack. The shutdown of the East-West pipeline risks keeping 4% of the world’s oil supply from reaching international markets and driving energy prices even higher.”
… “Saudi Arabia said it had temporarily shut the pipeline after it was struck by an Iran-backed militia. The pipeline, a 750-mile network that transports crude across Saudi Arabia to ports on the Red Sea, had been the kingdom’s primary way of exporting oil since the war in Iran began in Feb.”
… “On Wed, Saudi Arabia and the Houthi militia in Yemen exchanged fresh claims of attacks on one another. In what would be a sharp escalation in their fighting, the Houthis said they had downed a Saudi fighter jet, as Saudi Arabia said the Houthis fired a drone near the Muslim holy city of Mecca.”
… WaPo: “The effects of the US-led war on Iran are about to intensify in the form of huge jumps in the prices of gasoline and diesel, analysts predict. And despite the Trump admin’s assurances, a new and potentially even more economically damaging phase of the war may be about to begin.”
… “Damage inflicted on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline last week, along with continuing strikes on oil infrastructure threaten to elevate what had been a shipping crisis into a broader disruption of oil. Because of the shortage of crude oil and the damage the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have inflicted on refineries that turn it into diesel and gas, market analysts are warning that fresh price shocks are about to hit motorists.”
… Tom Kloza, chief energy adviser for Gulf Oil, predicted that the US is going to “see staggering increases at the pump for both gasoline and diesel. Fuel margins have yet to catch up with previous wholesale hikes. Watch for huge increases in Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain states in particular.”
… Gas market analyst Patrick De Haan: “Buckle up. Gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours, hardest in parts of the nation’s interior.”
… Iranian Parliament Speaker MB Ghalibaf posted: “Straits Taylor Rule:
- i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*) + α(SOH−SOH*) + β(BEM−BEM*), α,β > 0
… “Let’s see if a hike could open SOH or produce a single barrel :) You can’t 25bp a chokepoint and r* isn’t neutral. It’s SOH risk premium, and We set it. Stay unanchored!”
… European geopolitical analyst Arnaud Bertrand:
“You can say what you want about Iran but they’re definitely pretty unique in their communication: never seen a country threaten another with a math equation before.
For those who didn’t get it: there is a famous monetary policy formula used by the Fed called the “Taylor rule” that says a central bank’s policy rate (i) should equal the neutral real rate (r*) plus target inflation (π*), plus 1.5 times the inflation gap and 0.5 times the output gap (the “i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*)” part of Ghalibaf’s formula).
Ghalibaf adds α(SOH−SOH*) and β(BEM−BEM*): SOH referring to the Strait Of Hormuz and BEM to Bab El-Mandeb. Both have positive coefficient, meaning the more those chokepoints are choked, the higher the rate the Fed would have to set to fight the resulting inflation.
In a nutshell this is Ghalibaf trolling the Fed, telling them that Iran is - in a very real way - setting American monetary policy.”
… Iran Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, meeting with his counterpart in China: “Successful consultations in China with our partners. Iran values strategic partnership we have built over time. Today’s decisions will decide future strategic balance in the region, with immeasurable knock-on effects.”
… WSJ: “While Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) was publicly defending Trump’s tariffs, she was privately seeking exemptions for 4 companies operating in Alabama that could be hurt by tariffs, according to emails between her staff and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.”
… Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA): “The National Park Service hired a company to start working on the historic public golf course at East Potomac Park without any announcement, without a word to any of us, without a single public hearing.
… “This is not just any old golf course. This is a beloved public space with huge historic significance. Trump is systematically moving to take this historic, publicly accessible resource and turn it into another gilded private golf club for the mega-rich.”
… Salon: “Mitch McConnell is back - but is he really? After 3 months of total absence from the public eye, that’s the question many are asking. Yet some people still aren’t convinced he’s really back, or at least not in any meaningful sense. A 10-second video of the press yelling at McConnell to speak or give a thumbs up - with seemingly zero response from the senator - has gone viral.”
… Even Trump acolyte Laura Loomer shared it, saying “Mitch is brain dead. You can’t look at his face and say he’s not a vegetable. He’s not even responding to cognition tests. It’s like wheeling a corpse around. Worse than what the Democrats did with Joe Biden to be honest. He looks incapacitated.”
… NYT: “In what would be a seismic shift, the Trump admin is quietly moving to strip a core protection of the Endangered Species Act, according to an internal memo. Under a new interpretation of the law’s language outlined in the memo, the accidental killing or injury of an animal would no longer be considered illegal; only actions specifically intending to target an animal would.”
… “The change would be transformative because, in the US, the killing of endangered animals almost always happens incidentally, in the course of economic activity. Until now, industries and individuals could be held accountable for those foreseeable deaths and, as a result, they have been incentivized to avoid them.”
… Harvand Law professor Andrew Mergen: “This is really an assault on the act like we’ve never seen before. What the admin is proposing to do is take all of the force out of what we have all understood the act to mean: Don’t kill endangered species. What they seem to be saying in this document is, it doesn’t matter if you killed an endangered species if you didn’t mean to.”
… Finally, we end on a positive note. MAGA celebrity, former world champion kickboxer, and indicted sex trafficker and rapist Andrew Tate has an update from his extradition detention facility:
“My situation is deteriorating. Despite spending 61 days in the SHU, the punitive unit for inmates who attack other prisoners and guards, I have once again had my conditions downgraded. Since the time I have come into this jail I have been forced to endure punitive housing.
During my time here, I have watched men come and go, men who have stabbed other inmates. These men are only forced to stay in these cells for 7 days until rereleased to general population. I have been here for 61 days and counting.”
… I’m sure things will turn around for him.
“Today, I was informed that I was finally changing cells. However, I was moved to another cell inside the same SHU unit in far worse condition than my past one.”
… Maybe not.
I no longer have hot water of any kind. I no longer have air conditioning of any kind. I have a serious roach infestation, with 10/15 visible roaches on the ceiling and walls at any one time no matter how many I kill. I have stone-cold water and filth. That’s it. NOTHING else.
“My last cell was already the minimum which could be attributed to me inside of this prison, they’ve found a WORSE cell and forced me to move. There is absolutely no reason for this to be happening. I understand FDC Miami has received thousands of complaints due to the conditions they house inmates in.
I understand that after large-scale protests, ICE detainees are no longer held in the SHU unit because of the damage done to their physical and mental health. So illegals are too good for these rooms, but I’m in one. I, an American citizen, here legally, with zero criminal record globally and no accusations of crime in the US, am held in the SHU unit.
This is a cruel and unusual punishment. This violates civil rights. This is being done to me on purpose.”
… I’m crying real tears. Of joy.
“I have done nothing but show respect to every single guard. I have been kind to everyone. I have sat in the SHU for 61 days, longer than anyone currently in custody, sitting in the dark and filth focused on my breathing. I have endured.
Yet they do not respect me for this, in fact the senior staff sees me as a fool for being patient and respectful. As prisoners who flood cells and attack guards get moved to better conditions and I am ignored.
I have repeatedly requested the attention of senior staff regarding my conditions who are now refusing to talk to me. Last time their attention was requested he apparently replied “fuck that guy.”
Why? I’ve only been nice to him. I called him sir. I smile and nod my head. I’ve done nothing to this man which could be considered negative by the furthest stretch of any imagination.”
