President Donald Trump will travel to Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, February 27, 2026, to deliver an energy- and economy-focused speech just days before the state's Republican Senate primary, with none of the three leading candidates invited to join him as of now, according to a scoop reported by Jake Traylor on X between 10:15 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. UTC on February 23. GOP Rep. Nancy Mace criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson's recent call for investigations into Rep. Tony Gonzales to play out, stating "That's the answer for everything in this place. That's why everybody gets away with everything here," as told to Ellis Kim and reported by Manu Raju on X during the reporting window. Mace, who has demanded Gonzales resign over sexually explicit texts sent to a former staffer, joins Reps. Lauren Boebert, Anna Paulina Luna, and Brandon Gill in calling for his immediate resignation ahead of the March 3 primary, per Maggie Haberman's X post citing NBC News. An Echelon Insights poll of 464 likely voters conducted February 19-23 shows Gavin Newsom at 24% and Kamala Harris at 18% leading the 2028 Democratic presidential primary field, with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 9% and Pete Buttigieg at 8%, followed by single-digit support for others and 15% unsure, as shared by PollTracker2024 and IAPolls2022 on X in the past hour. Rep. Randy Fine plans to bring his father and his father's seeing-eye dog Sadie, wearing a “Don’t tread on me” t-shirt, as his guest to President Trump’s State of the Union address amid backlash over Fine's earlier X post on Muslims and dogs, according to a Fox News report cited by Liz Elkind on X during the window. Gavin Newsom’s communications team told reporter Susan Crabtree to “fuck off” when asked for paperwork on his dyslexia diagnosis, as exclusively reported by Crabtree on X in the reporting window.
