Whole Hog Politics: Republicans look to New Jersey for an off-cycle upset

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : But they also believed Trump would have a winning message by 2026. ...
59% : It really is important because the media is saying the effectiveness of government operations have been adversely affected.
52% : -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis while talking to reporters dismisses Rep. Byron Donalds, whom President Trump has endorsed to succeed DeSantis.
49% : She should have no trouble being confirmed as Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, but has to cool her heels in the House until the zero-margin Republicans get reinforcements from Florida.
49% : -- Lynn Gardner, Lewisburg West Virginia Ms. Gardner, I can't speak for all of the mainstream media, but I can take responsibility for my little current in the broader flow.
48% : Trump and his admirers have won only when Dems put up a female candidate for president.
45% : Each of them is rather unusual in the MAGA-era Republican Party as far as their latitude to distance themselves from Trump. ...
39% : Even as Senate Republicans say they're relieved the House was able to advance the measure, they're also crying foul that it wouldn't make the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent and fretting about the deep cuts to Medicaid that would be required to finance it. ...
26% : An administration that has devoted its opening act largely to shredding the federal bureaucracy probably hasn't won many new admirers in a place that Trump lost by almost 6 points last year.
26% : " Moderates hit Trump on DOGE, Ukraine: The Washington Post: "Lisa Murkowski is getting some sudden backup from a handful of prominent moderate Republicans using rather strong language.
25% : The fact that these members would lead the charge in raising red flags about Trump and Musk isn't too surprising.
10% : They've used words such as 'embarrassing,' 'cruel,' 'absurd,' 'extortion' and 'trauma' while crying foul over what Trump and Elon Musk are doing to the federal government, as well as Trump's attacks on Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. ...
7% : " MAGA faithful weigh Trump agenda against potential midterm losses: The Wall Street Journal: "On Capitol Hill, some Republicans worry that President Trump's blitz of government layoffs has cut too deeply. ...

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