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Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) hinted that death threats may be behind his early resignation decision, WLUK reports. Said Gallagher: “This is more just me wanting to prioritize being with my family. I signed up for the death threats and the late-night swatting, but they did not. And for a young family, I would say this job is really hard.”

Rick Wilson: “This week has been a howling vortex of suck for the MAGA movement and Donald Trump. Imagine a black hole in the profound interstellar vacuum in the cold emptiness of space, drawing all matter and energy into its brutal singularity, an ineluctable and final journey into nothingness.” “That’s the GOP this week.

“There is no other way to describe it, it is surrender, it is disappointing. I won’t support it.” — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), quoted by CNN, on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) bringing up a Ukraine aid package.

Financial Times: “In another troubling sign for Republican fundraising efforts, Trump has 270,000 fewer unique donors than he did at the same stage of his 2020 White House run. His campaign and affiliated political action committees got money from 900,000 donors from July 2023 to the end of the first quarter of 2024, down from 1.17 million four years earlier.” “This shrinking donor base leaves questions about how Trump will sustain the costs of his legal battles on top of what is expected to be the most expensive presidential race in US history.

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