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2026-09-10 · Washington Examiner

JD Vance faces big primetime moment at GOP’s midterm convention as Ted Cruz waits in the wings

🔮 Vice President JD Vance will take center stage on the final night of the Republican midterm convention on Thursday, giving him another opportunity to cement his standing as the early favorite to inherit President Donald Trump’s political movement in 2028. assertive

2026-09-14 · Washington Examiner

How do the 2028 Democrats stack up on AI?

🔮 He recently introduced the Ban Artificial Intelligence Act, which, among other things, would fine and jail AI executives who knowingly pursue “superintelligence” without guardrails and put a temporary ban on developing hyper-advanced AI models without additional regulatory guardrails. assertive

2026-09-17 · Washington Examiner

White House seeks non-tariff pressure to enforce bilateral trade deals with China, others

🔮 That may sound obvious, but it’s not. assertive

2026-09-17 · Washington Examiner

Trump says US is close to establishing a new Army base in Poland

🔮 “If this happens, the location will be announced very soon. assertive

2026-09-18 · Washington Examiner

Todd Blanche rises to political stardom as top campaign surrogate

🔮 “Why else would he have taken on Donald Trump as a client?” the source said, noting that the attorney general sat ringside at the Ryan Garcia-Connor Benn fight Saturday night in Las Vegas. assertive

2026-09-18 · Washington Examiner

Trump says his son reimbursed Russian oligarch who paid for wedding festivities

🔮 “Maybe he didn’t do a background check, but I’ve given wedding parties to numerous people. assertive

2026-09-19 · Washington Examiner

Republicans fear they have little to offer voters as Congress leaves town

🔮 The White House sees the college sports proposal, a priority of the president, as a potential win that Republicans could present to voters. assertive

2026-09-21 · Washington Examiner

Trump says US ‘will be careful’ in fostering AI growth

🔮 President Donald Trump slammed critics of his artificial intelligence policies and promised to continue the industry’s growth on Monday, shutting down hopes that the federal government would step in to regulate AI. assertive

2026-09-21 · Washington Examiner

Trump drowned out by background noise in first remarks without press pool

🔮 The television pool, comprised of CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC News, additionally announced on Monday that they would refrain from covering his events until the ban is lifted, leaving the White House without the audio more sophisticated audio equipment used by the broadcast teams to capture the president’s comments near Marine One. assertive

2026-09-22 · Washington Examiner

White House brushes off another potential Iran war rebuke from Congress

🔮 The Senate is readying its latest vote on a war powers resolution in a bid to end the war in Iran that could highlight breaks between Republicans and President Donald Trump heading into the midterm elections. assertive

2026-09-22 · Washington Examiner

Trump takes swipe at CNN ahead of UN speech: ‘You shouldn’t be covering me’

🔮 The television pool, comprising CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC News, additionally announced it would refrain from covering his events until the ban is lifted, leaving the White House without access to the more sophisticated audio equipment used by the broadcast teams to capture the president’s comments. assertive

2026-09-22 · Washington Examiner

Trump ‘muddies’ GOP communism attacks with Mamdani praise

🔮 Some of President Donald Trump’s allies are worrying that his kind words for Zohran Mamdani, the socialist mayor of New York City, are undercutting the party’s midterm election-focused message attacking “communism.” assertive

2026-09-22 · Washington Examiner

Trump rejects ‘globalist’ control of artificial intelligence

🔮 President Donald Trump tripled down on his convictions regarding artificial intelligence during his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, declaring that the United States will continue racing to become the undisputed global leader in the emerging technology. assertive

2026-09-25 · Washington Examiner

Trump and Xi toast the ‘long relationship between China and America’

🔮 Still, Trump and Xi may be uniquely positioned to substantially improve the bilateral relations, as the two appear to have developed a friendship over the past 10 years. assertive

2026-09-25 · Washington Examiner

Press corps chaos spills over during Chinese state visit

🔮 “This day will be very long,” the Washington Examiner heard the White House photographer tell the Chinese delegation. assertive

2026-10-05 · Washington Examiner

Trump says Ukraine and blue states to blame for high gas prices rather than the Iran war

🔮 Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox News Monday morning that the president would make an “announcement” on the topic during a trip to Nebraska Monday evening. assertive

2026-10-07 · Washington Examiner

Is Trump’s son-in-law and top negotiator a midterm liability for Republicans?

🔮 The White House routinely discounts those critiques, but recent reporting on deals linked to Kushner has some GOP figures questioning whether MAGA’s typical hand-waving regarding the Trump family’s business empire will work this cycle. assertive

2026-10-10 · Washington Examiner

Why experts aren’t sold on Democrats’ polling advantage

🔮 Heading into the weekend, polls showed Democrats holding an advantage of more than 8 points over Republicans on generic House ballots, leading most analysts to believe that the chamber will flip majorities in November. mixed

2026-10-12 · Washington Examiner

Trump says GOP opponents of diesel deal ‘can’t be serious’

🔮 Last week, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an agreement that would see Russia export nearly 5 million tons of diesel to the United States, including 300,000 tons in the immediate future. mixed

2026-10-14 · Washington Examiner

Trump heads to the Last Frontier to stump for ‘the real Dan Sullivan’

🔮 President Donald Trump held a rally for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and other down-ballot Republicans in Wasilla, Alaska, Tuesday night, the first stop on a three-leg western campaign tour that will also take the president to Arizona and Montana. assertive

2026-10-14 · Washington Examiner

Trump and Lutnick say Taiwan will purchase 30% of natural gas produced by Alaska pipeline project

🔮 Trump specifically noted that Sullivan has been working with the White House to drive foreign investments into the Alaska liquified natural gas pipeline “and all the other projects that will come with it.” assertive

2026-10-20 · Washington Examiner

Trump says he hasn’t spoken to Vance about a 2028 endorsement

🔮 President Donald Trump would not say if he will endorse Vice President JD Vance for the presidency in 2028, telling reporters Tuesday that the two men have never discussed the topic. assertive

2026-10-23 · Washington Examiner

Melania Trump says she’s secured ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in Oleshky

🔮 The limited break in fighting will begin Thursday, according to the White House, and will be limited to the region of Olenshky in southern Ukraine. mixed

2026-10-26 · Washington Examiner

Trump offers $1 million reward for tips resulting in voter fraud convictions

🔮 President Donald Trump said Monday that the administration will pay out $1 million to tipsters who report cases of voter fraud that result in convictions, just one week before the polls close in the 2026 midterm elections. assertive

2026-10-29 · Washington Examiner

The four spoiler candidates who could determine Senate control in the 2026 midterm elections

🔮 Control of the U.S. Senate may be decided in 2026 by a handful of candidates who genuinely have no hope of winning their own races. mixed

2026-10-29 · Washington Examiner

Trump and Vance offer glimpse of MAGA’s future on midterm campaign trail

🔮 Vance, meanwhile, is developing a style built around economic populism, cultural conservatism, and his working-class roots, offering an early glimpse of how he might seek to carry Trump’s political movement into the 2028 presidential election. mixed

2026-10-31 · Washington Examiner

Will election security ballot measures throw Republicans a turnout lifeline in 2026?

🔮 Republicans may see a slight 2026 turnout boost not from candidates or President Donald Trump’s breakneck campaign schedule, but from specific statewide measures that will appear on ballots come Election Day. mixed

2026-11-03 · Washington Examiner

Trump pans reactions to Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool midterm closeout speech

🔮 “This was done at a News Conference, and even the Media was aghast that Lieu would have lied like that. assertive

2026-11-03 · Washington Examiner

White House ‘projecting optimism’ as polls close, but Trump aides sweat it out behind closed doors

🔮 Recommended Stories Democrats are widely projected to pick up seats in the House but still need to flip at least four seats and defend their existing holdings to take the majority in the upper chamber. assertive

2026-11-04 · Washington Examiner

Trumpworld searches for scapegoats after blue wave wipeout

🔮 Republicans were so punch-drunk Tuesday night that they couldn’t even get off the mat to agree on who to blame for their electoral bloodbath. assertive

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