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It’s not clear that even a groundswell of black opposition to the Court would be enough to make up for the seats that GOP legislatures have redrawn to their favor since the Callais decision. But there's some reason for Dems to hope:

"'I could scoop you both!' Engels purportedly declared to the deputies, a boast they took to mean that he could body-slam them. Having met Engels myself, I doubt the diminutive Gen Z’er could body-slam one police officer."

Q: "Do you regret endorsing Randy Feenstra?" Trump: "The man running against him was all Trump…If I been given the proper information, which I don't think I was, I probably would have endorsed the other person or not endorsed at all, but I would have endorsed the other person."

Q: "On Iran, confident are you that there will be a signing this weekend?" Trump: "It'll be soon, maybe this weekend." Q: "Has the Supreme Leader approved this deal?" Trump: "I understand the answer is yes."

Trump on Ilhan Omar: “She comes from Somalia…all they have is people that run around shooting each other, and then she comes and tells us how to run our country. I don't like it…She shouldn't be protected. She honestly should be thrown out of the country. She's corrupt."

Trump: "The whole voting system is corrupt in Minnesota. I won Minnesota three times, easily. I won almost every county, but they didn't give it to me. It's a corrupt system, very corrupt state."

The SpaceX IPO "will be a significant moment in both American history and the history of economics. Perhaps it will be a high-water mark, or a turning point. Or maybe it will be a milepost on the path we’re on toward..." Read the whole thing:

Q: "What makes you believe [Iran is] sincere this time in wanting to pursue diplomacy?" Trump: "We were hitting them very hard for the last three days. We're going to hit them even harder tonight…We won this war, militarily, very early on…They're gonna make a deal."

Q: "You have said before that Iran and the U.S. were close to a deal. It has not happened yet. Why are you so convinced that this time is different?" Trump: "Because they're taken a pounding…and they want to make the deal a lot more than I do."

Mike Johnson admits that Republicans are "planning to flatten their palms against the hottest stove in politics," and he did it before the election. On the unpopularity of cutting Social Security and more in today's Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: