YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Tim Miller: Trump spoke 'to the id' of GOP base
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller tells Joe that Donald Trump has spoken “to the id of the Republican base voter,” in his blood and soil, nationalist approach to politics. Prior to Trump, Miller explains, GOP leaders seemed to repress that instinct within the party.
NYTIMES (Ruth Igielnik) - Poll: Voters See Political Parties as More Extreme Than Their Own Candidates
In a New York Times/Siena poll of battleground states, national parties were seen as too far to the right or the left, while nominees were viewed as more moderate.
JUSTTHENEWS (Amanda Head) - America’s unpopularity contest: Why the 2026 midterms are a contest of flaws, not favorites
Race to the bottom: "Who do you dislike more" replaces "whose vision of the future do you choose" as essential polling question.
THEFEDERALIST (Brianna Lyman) - Poll: Majority Of Americans Worried About ‘Ineligible’ Voters Casting Ballots As Dems Fight Voter ID
If the new Gallup poll shows anything, it's that Senate Democrats (and a few RINOs) aren't listening to what the people actually want.
AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - Why profanity is having a f*cking moment
Politicians are increasingly abandoning scripted language and publicly cursing as profanity becomes a more common political tool. Why it matters: The shift suggests politicians are using profanity intentionally to project authenticity, signal confrontation and distance themselves from traditional Washington norms. What they're saying: "There's this dissatisfaction and anti-establishment fervor that's been present for probably at least a decade now," Nick Beauchamp, a professor at Northeastern University who studies political rhetoric, tells Axios. - "I think that part of the appeal of the strong language… is to take some of that same energy that might otherwise be directed towards radical policy, and instead directs it towards a…