....“The numbers help explain the gloom,” MS NOW reports. “For the first time since 2010, voters say they trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy, 52 percent to 48 percent, according to a recent Fox News poll."
The report also details “bubbling frustration among Republican strategists working House and Senate races,” who warn Trump “and his team have been slow to focus on” the 2026 midterms. Still, two White House officials told MS NOW there’s a plan in place to “kitchen-table issues and flood battleground states with Trump and Cabinet surrogates in the coming months.”
....Trump, meanwhile, “has been consumed by the war in Iran and by the construction of a $400 million White House ballroom that has become an unlikely political liability — a gilded symbol, his critics argue, of a president more focused on monuments to himself than on voters squeezed by more everyday concerns,” the report notes.
According to the report, the President’s antics — including his “inflammatory Easter morning social media posts, his attacks on the pope and his habit of naming things after himself” — have also “made life harder for Republican incumbents.”
New Republic - Every few months, the Trump administration says that it will make a greater effort to denaturalize American citizens. Last week, The New York Times reported that the Justice Department plans to start the process for formally denaturalizing more than 300 current U.S. citizens, which would be the largest single push for citizenship stripping in modern American history.
Any attack on the integrity of American citizenship is concerning. The administration’s denaturalization threats often provoke a strong response from the president’s opponents and critics. But it is also important to calibrate one’s level of concern by understanding what the Trump administration can and can’t do about denaturalization in the first place.
For one thing, the Trump administration cannot denaturalize a natural-born citizen—that is, someone who acquired citizenship at birth by virtue of being born on U.S. soil or by being born to a U.S. citizen. The Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause, which was enacted during Reconstruction in 1869, sought to place the scope of American citizenship beyond the limits of normal political debate for all time...
Second, there are strict legal and constitutional limits on when and how the United States can denaturalize a naturalized U.S. citizen...In the late 1930s, Congress and the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration sought to clarify when and how someone could lose their U.S. citizenship. The Nationality Act of 1940 was drafted to harmonize dozens of different provisions that had been enacted piecemeal over the preceding decades. In the new law, Congress laid out a variety of circumstances in which a U.S. citizen could be deemed to have renounced their U.S. citizenship. More
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