'Panicked' Trump cold-calling state allies as his coalition falls apart: Analyst
By Matthew Chapman
Published June 9, 2026 5:50 PM ET
President Donald Trump's repeated, desperate demands for various state legislatures in Republican-controlled states to roll back voting rights and rig congressional maps are a clear sign he knows his coalition is falling apart ahead of November, former Democratic New York state Sen. Daniel Squadron told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House."
This comes after Trump was ruthlessly booed as he attended the Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on Monday — an event that led ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who has flirted with the idea of a political career, to slam Trump for disrupting local New York businesses, demanding to know "How much money did they make? We know you've made a lot of money."
That sort of anger, Wallace noted, is "tension inside the family," as Smith is a voice big with at least some of the people who got Trump elected — prompting Squadron to agree.
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