Mitch McConnell BRAIN DEAD? Trump's inner circle says so

Graham Platner, the progressive oysterman running to unseat Susan Collins, is facing a credible sexual assault allegation from a woman who says he entered her home drunk in 2021 and assaulted her. Platner released a denial video within minutes of the Politico report dropping, but the Maine Democratic Party has already called on him to drop out, and names like Hasan Piker and Ro Khanna have already floated their choice replacement.

Former Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy weighed in with a take so hypocritical it got roasted into the ground.

This was already a must-watch Senate seat, and the next 48 hours will define whether Democrats can salvage it. Maine is a pickup opportunity Democrats cannot afford to waste.

Laura Loomer — the far-right nutjob influencer who functions as Trump's loyalty enforcer inside the White House — posted Monday that a high-level source told her Mitch McConnell is "officially brain dead" and "not coming back," then followed up claiming he's in "organ failure."

McConnell, 84, was found unresponsive after a cardiac arrest on June 14. His office has refused to confirm whether he's conscious or on life support, pointing reporters to a July 2 statement insisting he's "continuing his recovery" and "working closely with his staff."

A journalist who obtained the original emergency responder recording wrote that her own sources had been saying the same thing as Loomer for days — and that she was waiting at the hospital for when staff "decide to cut him off of life support."

McConnell's office would not deny the life support claim when asked directly.

Donald Trump is sitting on a $350 million war chest and hasn't spent a dime on a Republican campaign since March, when MAGA Inc. dropped a grand total of $17,900 on a Georgia House race.

Since then, MAGA Inc. has only given $560,000 to MAGA KY, which used it to back Ed Gallrein’s challenge against Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie.

GOP operatives are melting down. "We didn't leave our most powerful missiles on the ships when we were trying to crush Iran," one Republican lobbyist told Politico. "Money is the political equivalent in politics."

Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett put it bluntly: "We've been waiting for the cavalry."

They're not getting it. Trump has openly mocked Republican efforts to address affordability concerns, actively undermined some of his own party's candidates, and only cares about using his war chest for revenge — regardless of what party the person is in.

And if Trump doesn’t spend the money on the midterms, there’s effectively nothing stopping him from keeping that money for himself.

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Trump — the guy who spent the last few months calling Democratic socialists "the biggest threat to our nation since 9/11" — just pressured Walmart into dropping beef prices and announced it on Truth Social like a Soviet commissar cutting bread rations.

"Walmart will be lowering prices, by a lot, at my Administration's request," Trump wrote, adding that "other Retailers should follow the lead of these absolute Patriots."

State-mandated price controls. For the free market guy.

This is the same president who promised to lower grocery prices on "day one" — while egg prices hit $6 a dozen in March, three months into his term. Ground beef is still averaging $6.75 a pound nationally, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. One Walmart announcement doesn't move that number.

Trump is now calling NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a "communist" while literally compelling retailers to hit price targets at the government's request.

New federal data shows 2.6 million fewer Americans have Obamacare coverage this year — the direct result of enhanced subsidies expiring in January, which caused monthly premiums to double or triple for millions of people.

Ohio and Oklahoma each lost more than 32% of their enrolled populations. Arizona, Michigan, Mississippi, and seven other states lost more than a quarter of theirs. Florida shed 443,000 people — the highest raw drop in the country.

The Trump administration tried to spin the collapse as a crackdown on "phantom" enrollments. Analysts called that a lie. Oklahoma's own insurance deputy said the real reason was simple: "It's all about affordability."

Congress had a chance to renew the subsidies last fall. Republicans killed it. Now insurers are forecast to raise rates again next year.