“Spray and pray” Trump’s chaos strategy from Cuba to Iran to Ukraine
Trump just pulled another 180 on Zelensky while Putin pumps the pedal down on Ukrainian civilians. Elon Musk throttled Starlink mid-war and a Republican senator used the words “mass murder.” Meanwhile Dan Osborn is running in Nebraska refusing to caucus with anyone and Seth Bodnar is making real traction in Montana. This is the chaos Paul Rieckhoff is calling “spray and pray” — and it’s the whole ballgame heading into the midterms.
Paul Rieckhoff hits the news circuit for a rapid-fire breakdown of a week where the wheels came off the Trump foreign policy machine. Elon…
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