Liberation Day? Pshaw. President Trump may be gloating about imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries abroad, but he is beginning to face blowback at home for his strange farrago of policies that are upending the federal government and threatening to plunge America into a self-induced recession.
First Senator Cory Booker raised the flagging spirits of Democrats by holding a 25-hour speech denouncing all things Trump, thereby setting a record for the longest floor speech in Senate history. Next, in two key special congressional races in Florida, Democrats did not win but narrowed the gap sufficiently in red districts to cause palpitations among Republican politicians heading into the midterm elections in 2026.
Finally, in Wisconsin, where tech tycoon Elon Musk spent $25 million (£19 million) to try and secure an election for the GOP for the state supreme court, the liberal candidate, Susan Crawford, handily defeated her opponent, former Republican attorney general Brad Schimel.
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