{"id":223495,"date":"2026-09-08T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/daily-briefing-will-trumpapalooza-backfire-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:34:17","slug":"daily-briefing-will-trumpapalooza-backfire-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/daily-briefing-will-trumpapalooza-backfire-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Briefing: Will &#039;Trumpapalooza&#039; backfire? &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Tuesday, Daily Briefing-ers.<br \/><em><strong><a href=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nicolefallert\/ data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Nicole Fallert<\/a><\/strong><\/em> here, <a href=\/story\/pets-animals\/dog\/2026\/09\/07\/how-old-is-your-dog-heres-how-to-calculate-it-to-human-years\/91549098007\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>calculating my age in dog years<\/a>.<br \/>President Donald Trump is <a href=\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/09\/06\/trump-midterm-election-convention-risk\/91576603007\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>putting himself center stage<\/a> in the midterms with a Dallas convention, even as his <a href=\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/09\/06\/donald-trump-approval-poll-nbc-news-steve-kornacki\/91641525007\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>low approval rating<\/a> threatens to drag down GOP candidates.<br \/>\u00a0The president and his advisers have suggested he\u2019s the only one who can bring the MAGA faithful to the polls in large enough numbers to avoid a midterm catastrophe for Republicans. That strategy will be on display over two days in Dallas beginning on Wednesday.<br \/><strong><span style=text-decoration:underline>US Open<\/span><\/strong><br \/>USA&#8217;s\u00a0Coco Gauff <a href=\/story\/sports\/tennis\/open\/2026\/09\/07\/us-open-coco-gauff-iva-jovic-fourth-round\/91652017007\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>defeated 18-year-old and fellow American Iva Jovic<\/a> 6-1, 6-4 to earn a spot in the\u00a0<a href=\/story\/sports\/tennis\/open\/2026\/09\/07\/us-open-scores-day-9-results-day-10-matchups-watch\/91642464007\/ rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=_blank data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>US Open quarterfinals<\/a>. At age 22, Gauff is the youngest American woman to make three Grand Slam quarterfinals in one year since Serena Williams in 2003.<br \/><strong><span style=text-decoration:underline>9\/11 25th Anniversary<\/span><\/strong><br \/>Susan Lukas&#8217; two children begged her on Sept. 12, 2001, not to go back to the office. But she had to. Then a major in the Air Force, she was not about to disobey orders. Twenty-five years later, Lukas believes she\u2019s paying the price. She is among thousands of current and former service members whom the Reserve Organization of America estimates are <a href=\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/09\/06\/911-pentagon-susan-lukas\/91372074007\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>suffering toxic exposure-related health consequences<\/a> from working at the Pentagon in the days following 9\/11.<br \/><small><em>Have feedback on the Daily Briefing?\u00a0Shoot\u00a0Nicole an email at\u00a0NFallert@usatoday.com<\/em><\/small>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQckFfMU05aEJMLU0xV3JpX3lBX1lSdmVrWUhxcWQtVTBmVGhzZWljUW5VejNXdGgxNWxiSk5nLXFRazVxYlJoNFpxZTFZYlp0U3ZqZnhwU2lQbVJDUXp1VG10a2RBSFNEaU5PaFVQTDlMUF9Za3ZQVzVZUFZ0eV9TMzI3UHBOd2tZLXVlRnBCNVRLal85cmdoLTFMQkFtcjk0RG9GUEZueG9lbVdHMjdMSg?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Tuesday, Daily Briefing-ers.Nicole Fallert here, calculating my age in dog years.President Donald Trump is putting himself center stage in the midterms with a Dallas convention, even as his low approval rating threatens to drag down GOP candidates.\u00a0The president and his advisers have suggested he\u2019s the only one who can bring the MAGA faithful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}