Wednesday Headlines： May 6, 2026
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Summary
Trump destroys the rhino quorum in Indiana, CNN founder and liberal billionaire Ted Turner passes away at 87, Virginia Democrats lose a narrow victory that could now turn into a black eye for the party, and President Trump seeks Supreme Court protection from a $7 million defamation case.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, May 6th.
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Happy Wednesday, folks. It was a rhino, bloodbath, beatdown, whatever the heck you want to call it, in Indiana last night.
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Several rhinos in the great state of Indiana and the state senators losing their primaries.
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In December, President Trump unleashed on the spine of St. Indiana Republicans,
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which has torpedoed a slam-dunk redistricting bill that would have handed the GOB a crushing 9-0
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on congressional stronghold seats in the Hoyser State.
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Now, the Indiana State Senate suddenly killed the proposal
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that would have locked in those nine to zero races for the Republicans.
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Now, the stunning part about it all is Republicans hold 40 of the 50 chamber seats.
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The bill failed after more than half of the state Senate Republicans voted against it,
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effectively doing the Democrats' work for them.
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But those 21 Republicans had to answer when it came time to going to the ballots.
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Now, back in December, President Trump vowed that he was going to primary those rhinos who defied the party.
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Take a listen to President Trump back in December.
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It's funny because I won Indiana all three times by a landslide, and I wasn't working on it very hard.
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It would have been nice. I think we would have picked up two seats if we did that.
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but I wasn't very much involved, but there's a man named Bray as a, I guess, head of the Senate.
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And, I mean, I'm sure that whenever his primary is, it's, I think, in two years,
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but I'm sure he'll go down. I'll certainly support anybody that wants to go against him.
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And just as President Trump usually does, 99% of the time, he kept his word,
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and he primaried each and every single one of them,
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absolutely demolishing the rhino quorum that they had over there.
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Virginia Democrats, who won a narrow victory that could now turn into a black eye for the party,
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not looking good for the Democrats over in Virginia,
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who on April 21st voted on a referendum despite serious judicial scrutiny,
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which was the redistricting that was illegal that's now poised to head to the Supreme Court
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which is almost guaranteed I would say and some legal analysts are saying to be struck down after
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what we just saw at Louisiana which will now be expedited to move forward with their redistricting
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plan so not looking good for them earlier today it was announced that CNN founder and liberal
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billionaire ted turner passed away ted was 87 years old statement released by his family
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congresswoman nancy mace naming six lawmakers in a bombshell tweet on congressional sex scandal
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slush funds nancy mace subpoenaed some documents uncovering 338 000 from congressional sexual
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harassment slush fund cases nine members named were in records before 2004 which of course
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were destroyed for post-list of the members in their settlements 2007 rodney alexander 15 000
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2009 the office of carolyn maloney two cases resulting in one settlement 8 000 in 2010 three
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cases eric massa 85 000 20 000 another 10 000 2010 john connors the first 50 000 2014 blake
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father-old, $84,000. Once again, in 2014, John Connors, another lump sum, $27,000. And most
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recently, in 2017, Patrick Meehan, two cases building one settlement, which is a severance
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pay of just under $40,000. We thank Nancy Mace for exposing this, and we need more people in
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Congress to expose this corruption of sexual harassment slush funds in the hallways of
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Congress. President Trump's lawyers are requesting a stay of the 83 million dollar judgment in the
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E.G. and Carroll defamation case while he seeks Supreme Court review on the grounds of presidential
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immunity. This is a late filing that was done last night. The Trump request for a stay is unopposed
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by Carroll's legal team if Trump increases the bond for roughly seven million dollars to cover
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post-judgment interest on the original judgment that has been under appeal. Now it's time for
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the supreme court to rule in favor of truth justice and the american way ladies and gentlemen
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please be sure to join us each and every night 6 p.m each time for the great american show rumble
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great american show midday update we'll see you later folks