Today’s notice: 101 days of lessons, for Republicans and Democrats. Politicizing science? Cutting money for some schools. And maybe giving a lot of it to others.
Operating Chaotically
Letting Donald Trump be Trump has been the key to GOP relevance for so long now that it can be easy to forget how hard a thing to do that can actually be for the politicians, operators, conservative activists and partisan allies who have to each and every day.
To wit, here’s just one nugget from a new dive into the state of Trump 2.0 from NOTUS’ Jasmine Wright.
Trump recently hosted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at Mar-a-Lago, two sources told Jasmine, potentially inserting the president into a contentious GOP primary for Sen. John Cornyn’s seat. Paxton beating Cornyn to be the party’s 2026 nominee is one of the scenarios Democrats are hoping for as they try to find silver linings in their cloudy Senate map, as NOTUS has reported. Senate GOP leadership, including the leader of the campaign arm, is sticking with Cornyn.