Today’s notice: Don’t read this newsletter before flying. The world’s Strongest President vs. the laws of political physics. It’s not looking good for Trump’s tariffs. Plus: Democrats are… hopeful?
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Can MAGA power through this? Donald Trump responded to Tuesday’s election results by basically doing what he’s done all year: tell Republicans they must do exactly what he says, or they are doomed.
Trump is now saying Republicans are losing the shutdown. “I think if you read the polls, the shutdown was a big factor — a negative for the Republicans,” Trump told reporters after inviting GOP members to the White House for a post-election night breakfast. Trump’s agenda: make senators bend to his Kill The Filibuster plan.
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The filibuster fight is “a test of whether [senators] care what the world looks like in just three years after he’s gone. They’ll be around, he won’t,” Republican strategist and Paul Ryan veteran Brendan Buck told us. “And you can’t go back once you walk into that cornfield.”