Given the chance to address Donald Trump’s suspension of due process and defiance of the judiciary, Newsom—a would-be leader of the national opposition—called the case a “distraction” from the president’s tariff policies. Despite growing public outrage, he wanted to stick to prepared remarks about almond exports.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has told the BBC his fellow Democrats allowed the US-Mexico border to be "under siege" during Joe Biden's presidency.In sometimes sharp words, Kerry - who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 and a US senator from Massachusetts - said he told Biden the party had "missed" on the issue of immigration for years,

The GOP victory lap imposed huge pressure on Democrats to finally step up with an effective political strategy to take on an increasingly dominant president — and to turn his achievement into an anvil.

Mr Trump wrote that Republicans were wrong to fear that Democrats would gain from accusing them of breaking a promise not to raise taxes. He clearly saw that raising taxes on the rich would instead make sense to his MAGA masses and also strip Democrats of one of their few remaining salient attacks.