Retired teacher Michael Pogue turned up at one of Ramaswamy’s campaign events in Cincinnati at the weekend to protest his attack ad featuring the mother of his rival Amy Acton claiming that she lied about being raped by her stepfather as a child.

Pogue held up a banner that said, “Shame on you, Vivek! I taught you better.”

Rhian Lubin has the story.

As we saw earlier, Ken Paxton joined the president on stage yesterday dressed exactly like him in signature blue suit and red tie.

Meanwhile in Kansas, Roger Marshall appears to have been under the sun lamp too long.

The president’s wave of pardons erased more than $119 million in restitution owed to the victims of crime perpetuated by the white-collar criminals and political allies he absolved of wrongdoing.

The president recently spoke of his love for the South Carolina Republican senator and here he is joining in the attacks on Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with another baseless and inflammatory claim.

The president’s short-lived spokeswoman continues to make conservative media appearances insisting she nurtures no ill feelings about her five days in the White House.

Chris Wright defended the Trump administration’s economic record during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News, arguing that the president was focused on lowering energy costs – despite high gas prices being driven by the Iran war.

Jasmine Fernandez has the story.

The president was on typically idiosyncratic form last night and here are a few choice clips you might have missed from his appearances in Corpus Christi and Lubbock, covering such topics as the above mentioned plus Abdul El-Sayed, how to spell “Dumocrats” and the plot of Les Miserables.

Here’s more on the president’s suggestion that the Central American state whose president he captured and extradited in January could join the United States, a comment made as part of a brag about an oil tanker that, he said, can hold a million barrels of oil.

Over on Truth Social, the president has been taking credit for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanayhu’s performance in Tuesday’s Knesset election.

There is not yet a clear winner in the election, which is the first time Israelis have headed to the polls since the October 7 attacks.

Trump nevertheless posted a quote attributed to one Irving C Schwartz that read:

“When President Trump endorsed Bibi Netanyahu, the whole tide turned, and now, rather than a decisive defeat for a Great Prime Minister, it looks like a big come-from-behind stalemate, or even a WIN for Netanyahu. It all took place AFTER the Endorsement by President Trump, who only wants what is good for the Middle East, Israel, and the United States of America!”

Here’s more from Owen Scott.

More likely voters would vote for the Democratic candidate, 52 percent, than the Republican candidate, 41 percent, in races for the House of Representatives in their district, according to a new New York Times/Siena University poll.

Some House Republicans have secretly admitted that they will lose the majority this November, according to a Politico report published earlier this month.

“President Trump has made this election all about himself,” one GOP lawmaker said. “Now we have to survive that political storm.”