Cindy Hyde-Smith

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., won her primary yesterday and will face off against Democrat Scott Colom in November.

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TRUMP HEADS TO KENTUCKY: President Donald Trump is taking his long-running fight with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to the congressman's backyard today with a visit to Hebron, Kentucky, just outside of Cincinnati, where he will deliver remarks this afternoon.

GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI ELECTIONS: Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris have advanced to a runoff in the special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, NBC News projects. In Mississippi, GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith will face off against Democrat Scott Colom in November, with NBC News projecting that both have won their respective primaries.

SUPREME COURT POLL: The percentage of voters with significant levels of confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to its lowest point since NBC News began polling on the question in 2000, according to a new NBC News poll. Just 22% of registered voters nationally said they have a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the high court.

Poll: Confidence in the Supreme Court drops to a record low

The percentage of voters with significant levels of confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to its lowest point since NBC News began polling on the question in 2000, according to the most recent survey.

The latest NBC News poll shows that 22% of registered voters nationally said they have a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the high court. Another 40% said they had “some” confidence, while 38% said they had “very little” or “no” confidence.

The previous low point for voters’ impressions of the Supreme Court came in the wake of the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, when 27% said they had a great deal or quite a bit of confidence. That number hit a high of 52% in December 2000, just before the court’s Bush v. Gore ruling that paved the way to President George W. Bush taking office, a polarizing decision that buffeted the court’s popularity.

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GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom to face off in Mississippi Senate race

GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith will face off against Democrat Scott Colom in November in Mississippi, with NBC News projecting that both have won their respective primaries yesterday.

It will be a difficult race for Colom, a district attorney. A Democrat has not won a Senate race in Mississippi since 1982 and Trump won the state by 23 points in 2024. And Ty Pinkins, who was the Democratic Senate nominee against GOP Sen. Roger Wicker in 2024, is running for Senate again, but as an independent.

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Trump-backed Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris advance to runoff in race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene

Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris advanced yesterday from a crowded field to a runoff in the special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, NBC News projects.

Fuller, a district attorney, benefited from President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the solidly GOP district in the northwest corner of the state. Harris, a retired Army brigadier general and cattle rancher, lost to Greene in the 2024 general election in the 14th District.

Neither candidate was projected to win the majority needed to avoid a runoff in the special election. With 99% of the expected vote in, Harris was at 37%, while Fuller was at 35%. But Fuller enters the April 7 runoff as the favorite in a district Trump carried by 37 percentage points in the 2024 presidential race.

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Trump takes fight to Rep. Thomas Massie’s backyard

If Rep. Thomas Massie is right, Republicans in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District are more loyal to Trumpism than to Trump — and think he is, too.

“People support Trump, but they also support what he campaigned on,” Massie said in a phone interview with NBC News on Tuesday. “When people support me, they’re supporting the things that Donald Trump campaigned on actually getting done. And when they support Donald Trump, they’re supporting the man they voted for in the last election.”

Massie’s theory will get a major test today. That’s when Trump, who has called Massie a “moron,” a “lightweight” and a “loser,” takes their long-running fight to Massie’s backyard with a visit to Hebron, Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati. Trump has endorsed Massie’s opponent, farmer and former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, and the Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA KY has spent $2.6 million on ads in the race, according to AdImpact. The total is closer to $5 million in favor of Gallrein and against Massie when other outside political groups are included.

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