to get these cabinet members confirmed. And the Trump team out of Marlago has really changed tactics in the last 10 days or so.

They've gone much more on offense. They're being aggressive in like really badgering and mobilizing their minions to go after the Republican senators.

They feel like are deemed insufficiently loyal. Give us your read, give us your reporting on how that's taking place, but also whether or not you think it's effective, because we've heard sort of both.

Publicly, some Republican senators are saying, yeah, we're acknowledging the pressure.

Lisa Murkowski said so earlier, said so yesterday.

But others behind the scenes feel like, hey, this might backfire.

I think this is the difference in power for Donald Trump in 2025 compared to 2017, 2018.

A lot of this is implicit power at this point.

Donald Trump doesn't have to be the one on Fox going on and saying, I'm going to come

primary, you, Joni Ernst.

He's built over the years of grassroots coalition that has audibly made these threats.

There are individuals looking to that primary challenges.

Bill Cassidy and Louisiana already has a challenger in 2026. Bill Cassidy voted convict Donald

Trump after January 6 attack. And it's one of those you could expect that challenger to get

the endorsement of Donald Trump because Donald Trump has a history going back to 2022 on his

revenge tour, going after

and effectively ousting most of those Republican House members that voted to impeach him from office.

And so for Donald Trump, he has a part of the Republican Party that knows that they'd come to

the defense against those that are not loyal to him.

And in the case of Joni Ernst,

I was talking with somebody who was familiar with the Trump transition's view of her role in all

of this. And we don't have reporting that Donald Trump has directly sent a message to her saying,

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