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Republicans are struggling in the midwestern states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to new numbers from the NBC News/Marist poll. The president's job approval also hovers in the thirties in those states. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC…

CNN's Kyung Lah speaks with residents in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, where Trump won in 2016 by a slim margin of 255 votes, to see what his supporters think of his summit with Vladimir Putin.

While talking to the Economic Club of Washington D.C. Paul Ryan bemoaned that he has not been able to drive since becoming speaker of the house. His Chevrolet Suburban, which was stored at his mother’s house, stopped working because it…

The Story: A statement by President Trump last week at a campaign rally sent fact checkers to their search engines. The President was flat wrong...

President Trump touted his trade policies at the Foxconn groundbreaking ceremony in Wisconsin, despite concerns over tariffs. The president promised 13,000 new jobs from the new Foxconn facility, but those jobs might cost more than they are worth. » Subscribe…

Watch LIVE at 2:15pm EST: President Trump joins the opening ceremony of a new manufaturing plant, owned by Foxconn, as part of his "America First" initiative to bring factory jobs back to U.S. soil. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a…

Trump is a demagogue who relies on the angry energy of his supporters. But he finds himself in an untenable position: No matter how many hot buttons he pushes, he cannot arouse the passion he needs on his own side to counter the determination and engagement of those who loathe him. So far, Trump has failed to stir his base, but he has become, unintentionally, one of the most effective organizers of progressive activism and commitment in the country’s history. Responding to the outcome of last week’s election in Wisconsin — a candidate backed by Democrats won an open state Supreme Court seat for the first time since 1995 — the normally loyal Republicans at the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page took off their gloves. A Morning Consult poll last week, for example, found that overall, 54 percent of registered voters disapproved of Trump’s performance while 41 approved. More important is the fact that 41 percent strongly disapproved of him while only 19 percent strongly approved. In the nominally nonpartisan Wisconsin judge’s race, as Michael Tomasky noted in the Daily Beast, several counties that had moved from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 swung back to Rebecca Dallet, the choice strongly endorsed by Democrats. It found an astonishing 1 in 5 Americans reporting that they had joined protests and rallies since the beginning of 2016 — and that 70 percent of them disapproved of Trump. The dilemma for Republican politicians tempted to cut and run from Trump is that doing so might only further dispirit the party’s core and diminish Trump’s already parlous popularity. For his part, Trump knows only the politics of outrage.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Vox co-founder and editor Matthew Yglesias and Politico reporter Eliana Johnson about embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and the fear of a "blue wave" in Wisconsin. Now let's talk about some of the ways President Trump is changing policy and Washington. YGLESIAS: Well, you know, I think you see on some of these issues that I think what the president is doing is using public statements to force members of his administration to start working on things that they've been trying to slow-walk. CORNISH: Eliana, for you? But this is a case where everybody around the president is telling him that it's time for Scott Pruitt to go, and the president is resisting. CORNISH: Getting out of Washington for a bit, there was an election in Wisconsin this week where the Democratic-backed candidate won a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court. But the results garnered a high-profile response in this case from Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker. YGLESIAS: I mean, you know, this is yet another race in a swing state this time where you see, you know, Democrats just doing really well in down-ballot races. And feelings about the president have driven a lot more interest among Democrats in these kinds of races that were falling below the radar. CORNISH: Eliana Johnson is national political reporter for Politico, Matt Yglesias of Vox.

Tommy Thompson and former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala, a Democrat, both say Wisconsin Republicans are in for trouble come November. Thompson went so far as calling Trump "a bully." She is running for Congress in the Miami, Florida area. "Governor Thompson and I worked together in an era in which it didn't matter whether you were a Republican or a Democrat," Shalala said. Democrats have good ideas. Republicans have good ideas. Republicans have good ideas. Thompson won the gubernatorial election in 1994 with 67 percent of the vote by appealing to Democrats and independents as well as Republicans. Thompson said. "There clearly is unhappiness with the current leadership and it's being reflected across the country in local elections as much as it is in national election," she said.

Today in 5 Lines President Trump continued his tirade against Amazon, tweeting that the company is costing taxpayers “many billions of dollars” through subsidized rates at the U.S. Post Office. During a meeting with the heads of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Trump claimed “nobody has been tougher on Russia” than he has, and said he planned to have the military guard the U.S.-Mexico border until a wall is built and security is tightened. Seventeen states and seven cities are suing the Census Bureau and Commerce Department in an attempt to remove a new citizenship question from the 2020 Census questionnaire. San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said at least four people have been transferred to the hospital with gunshot-related injuries after a shooting at YouTube’s headquarters. The two candidates are Rebecca Dallet, a center-left former prosecutor and circuit court judge, and Michael Screnock, a lawyer and former conservative activist. The race has received national attention as another test of the nation’s mood heading into the midterms. If Dallet wins, it would change the ideological balance of the state’s Supreme Court to four conservatives and three liberals. : Special Counsel Robert Mueller has so far been silent about the hacking of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta—and that’s notable. : Fifty years after the Holy Week Uprising following King’s assassination, American cities remain segregated, and extreme poverty is rising. (David French, National Review) Did Fake News Actually Sway Voters to Vote Against Clinton?