The black-and-white video has a menacing-looking Trump walking alone toward the camera as disembodied audio plays of him declaring, “This is the final battle.”

He launches into a familiar tirade about communists, Marxists, and fascists, says we will “throw off the sick political class that hates our country,” and “rout the fake news media… liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

The bellicose imagery is repurposed from an online ad that ran during his 2024 campaign, when he was fighting like hell to get back into the White House. With this new version, however, taxpayers picked up the tab—which CNN reported cost at least $2.5 million.

We don’t have to guess what the president means about his “final battle.” And no, it’s not with the cankles. He has told us in so many words and actions that the future of the Republican Party is at stake in the midterms, and there will never be another Republican president elected if mail-in voting isn’t banned and the SAVE Act isn’t passed.

The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has bowed to Trump again with its decision to allow states to access Social Security numbers and data compiled by Elon Musk’s DOGE bros to screen for illegal voting. This could push governors of red states to decline to certify election results if “voter fraud” is........

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