Musical Chairs on the MAGA Titanic
A Bulwark piece argues that Donald Trump's sudden midterm implosion has turned the fight over the Republican Party's future into an immediate contest, with Mike Pence launching a Reaganite revival through a Wall Street Journal op-ed declaring the election "a reckoning" and the New Right answering with American Ascent, a candidate-recruitment group backed by $12 million from Tom Klingenstein. Andrew Egger's article also reports Nvidia's board investigated Jensen Huang over an affair with an alleged Chinese spy before announcing his immediate exit, Vivek Ramaswamy's dormant X account after his Ohio loss, and Cindy Hyde-Smith's concession to Scott Colom, Mississippi's first Black senator in more than 140 years.
