President Donald Trump has been slowly losing the key coalition of voters he built for his 2024 success, including Latino voters, particularly in Texas. It comes at a difficult time, with Trump's hand-picked Senate candidate in a politically perilous position as the Nov. 3 election nears.

The Cook Political Report revealed that, in a new survey conducted in partnership with TelevisaUnivision, Democratic candidates in Texas are leading their Republican opponents by a 2-1 margin.

This comes after Trump pushed Texas Republicans to redraw their congressional district lines to redistribute Republican voters from very safe districts to those that are closer and less secure. The problem is that Trump and the Texas GOP were going off of Trump voters in 2024. Now that those supporters are abandoning him in droves, there might be more Democratic pick-up opportunities in Texas.

Publisher Amy Walter explained in a post on X that the 2024 coalition is "in shambles. Almost 1 in 5 Trump ‘24 voters now disapprove of POTUS. Talarico leads Paxton by 33. In Rio Grande Valley, Democrats lead [the] generic [ballot] by 14." The generic ballot is when pollsters ask, regardless of the candidate, which party one supports.

The report also cautioned that Latino voters are well aware that they play a big role in the state's elections.

"Seven in ten said they think Hispanics in the state have a lot or some political influence, including 41 percent who said they have 'real political power' in Texas," the report said. "Moreover, two-thirds said they’d like candidates to conduct outreach in the Hispanic community in Spanish, and 69 percent said they believe candidates signal that they 'want to earn my vote' when they appear on Spanish-language media."

In 2024, Trump carried Latino voters by 10 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) won them by 3 percent. This year, Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is winning Hispanic voters with 63 percent of the vote. His GOP opponent only has about 30 percent of those voters. It also includes 73 percent of self-described independent voters who support Talarico.

The governor's race is only slightly better for long-time leader Greg Abbott. In 2022, he scored 40 percent with Hispanic voters. Now, his Democratic opponent Rep. Gina Hinojosa, leads with Hispanic voters, 60 percent to 33 percent.

The shift is coming as a result of Trump's mistakes in the first two years of his second term. He's lost 18 percent of his Hispanic base since 2024. While attention is focused on the Senate race, where 19 percent of Hispanic Trump voters support Talarico over Paxton, the congressional races are worse. According to the Cook numbers, 22 percent of Hispanic Trump voters don't support Republican House candidates when asked which party they'd vote for.

The right wing can't stop the changes in Texas.

Houston Chronicle journalist and columnist Chris Tomlinson reported on Thursday that Fort Worth, Texas, isn't what it once was — and those changes likely won't end with the 2026 midterm election.

Tomlinson spoke to Republican state Senate candidate Leigh Wambsganss, who once said that she wasn't merely a MAGA Republican but she was “Ultra-MAGA." Like Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), however, she began scrubbing President Donald Trump from her website. In fact, she's removing the word "Republican" too.

"The once bright red color is now dark blue," said Tomlinson.

"Wambsganss made her name as political director for Patriot Mobile, a Christian nationalist wireless provider that backed fundamentalists in school board elections," the Chronicle reported. "She was once considered a shoo-in on the party’s conservative fringe, where Fort Worth politicians have traditionally done well."

That has changed significantly. Wambsganss previously lost the seat to Democrat Taylor Rehmet in a Feb. 2026 special election.

The report said the state is experiencing one of the biggest political shifts since 1820. Demographics are changing, economics are changing and with it the social shifts and politics come with it.

Now, Wambsganss' campaign is looking a lot like Rehmet's.

"Her strategy of running away from her past begs the question: Are voters leaving the Republican Party, or is President Donald Trump’s Republican Party leaving them?

The important part to know about the Fort Worth area is that it wasn't along ago that "white men chased Black Union soldiers from a polling station in Falls County," Tomlinson recalled from a story his great-grandfather told him. His grandfather was a member of the Dallas Klan, believing that "God intended for them to rule the world." The Klan controlled both Dallas and Forth Worth.

In all of Texas' 254 counties, "Fort Worth and Tarrant County have always leaned hardest to the right," the reporter explained.

Rehmet told him, “They've lost a lot of folks in the middle. We can talk here all day about Republican-Democrat, but most people are just regular working folks. They don't have the luxury to really be super politically active. They're working two jobs. They're taking care of their kids. And those are the folks that I think of whenever I'm ready to go serve, because that's the majority of this district.”

Tony Ortiz, the publisher of the right-wing daily newspaper Current Revolt, said that a lot of this comes down to immigration and the harsh policies from the Republicans to remove anyone who may look like an immigrant, regardless of whether they are criminals, documented or not. It isn't isolated to Latinos either; he said that those in North Texas are worried about "South Asians and Muslims."

The Tarrant County diversity shift began in 2015, though whites still dominate the county's population.

“A lot of this is like a sudden realization of an entire demographic realizing that they are becoming the minority,” Ortiz said. “You blink and you’ve got all of these temples and restaurants and mosques and different driving habits and different languages, and you think, ‘Whoa, what happened?’”

“You think, ‘I need to do something,’ but you’re a little late in doing something. You should have been doing something maybe five, seven or eight years ago,” he explained.

Ortiz identifies as "brown," and accepts his Mexican American heritage.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are set to appear in the state this week, where they will celebrate all of the work they've done on "the economy," another report from the Houston Chronicle said.

Republicans are worried that their Senate candidate in Texas, State Attorney General Ken Paxton, is going to lose precious votes in his tight race against the Democratic nominee, State Rep. James Talarico — yet it's not only Talarico who worries them.

"Democratic operatives believe that some Republican voters won’t feel comfortable backing the scandal-plagued Paxton," The Bulwark's Lauren Egan reported on Wednesday. "They told me that the contentious GOP primary between Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn only deepened the fracture in the party’s base. It piqued a lot of interest when Cornyn posted a local news story to his X account in June about how Libertarian Ted Brown was courting disaffected conservative voters."

Egan then quoted a Texas-based Democratic strategist close to Talarico's campaign who said, “There are a non-insignificant number of Cornyn voters who I think are up for grabs and are uncomfortable with the idea of Ken Paxton—and maybe at this point, after all the ads, could be uncomfortable with [Talarico]. There’s a world where Ted Brown gets 3 or 4 percent of the vote in this thing.”

Egan added, "That would be a significant shift from the competitive 2018 Senate matchup between Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Ted Cruz, when the Libertarian on the ballot received 0.8 percent of the vote. O’Rourke lost that race by 2.6 percentage points."

Paxton is a controversial candidate because of his multiple scandals, which span from infidelity and abusing his office to target political enemies to allegedly accepting bribes, abusing his office to hire a wealthy friend and fighting for a disproportionately light sentence for a convicted child sex abuser.

More recently, Paxton angered fellow Republicans when he was recorded saying at a private fundraiser that he believes President Donald Trump, who helped Paxton win the nomination by endorsing him over the incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, is actually a drag on the ticket.

“Do you feel like he’s a little bit of a drag?” Paxton was asked at the event.

He replied, “So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.”

At least one Texas political power broker was furious at the statement.

“Paxton was made and invented by Donald Trump," former Texas House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry on CNN with Kasie Hunt. "He was his savior. He got him through being impeached as attorney general. He got him the nomination to be senator of Texas. Without, Trump, he's nothing. He's nothing. And this guy is so stupid. He's biting the hand that made him,” McHenry said. “… But Ken Paxton is so stupid that he's biting the hand that made him and invented him. He should say, with enormous gratitude, that he's grateful for the president making fun of the way he looks and the way he dresses, as he should, because he wouldn't be even considered for that in this stage of the election cycle [without Trump].”

The push to draw fewer Democratic districts in the state of Texas appears to have caused problems for Republicans, CNN explained on Thursday.

During a panel discussion, host Dana Bash cited three Texas districts that were redrawn to benefit Republicans, which now appear as if a Democrat could actually win.

Speaker Mike Johnson is down in South Texas to help campaign for Republicans there, Bash noted. These are districts that Trump won by 10 points or more in 2024.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Washington Bureau Chief Tia Mitchell identified it as the "limitations of trying to draw your way into a majority, but it also shows the limitations of some of Trump's policies that really play to, you know, your white MAGA base, honestly."

However, she explained, there are voters who may have supported Trump in 2024 from the Latino community and are now turned off by his mass deportations and the capture of non-criminal immigrants.

"Which is why you see those border districts or South Texas districts, in particular, being targeted, where Democrats say, hey, we think the Democrats are — the demographics are now in our favor with a lot of those Latino voters who once supported Trump now saying, 'Hey, I'm regretting that a little bit,'" said Mitchell.

Meanwhile, she added, Republicans are trying to remain loyal to Trump, even when it's politically toxic to do so.

"They are being forced to either not read the room or ignore what the room is telling them," Mitchell said. "And especially when it comes to certain voters that, again, are swingy. And yes, Trump had them on his side in 2024. But that momentum has turned significantly because of his the economy, the foreign wars and his immigration policy."

CNN senior reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere added that the data used to redraw the districts in Texas came from the 2024 election.

In those cases, Trump won the Texas 15th District by 18 points. Currently, Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R) is at just 45 percent in the district, while Democratic challenger and Latin Grammy-winning Tejano singer Bobby Pulido is sitting at 50 percent.

In the Texas 28th District, which Trump won by 10 points in 2024, Rep. Henry Cuellar's (D) newly drawn district still has him winning at 45 percent. His GOP challenger, Tano Tijerina, is at just 34 percent.

The Texas 34th District has Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D) defending his seat at 45 percent vs. the short-term former Rep. Mayra Flores (R), who won the seat in a special election before losing it in 2024. She's now trying for a rematch in the redrawn district where Trump won by 10 percent in 2024.

"That's what seems to have come back to bite them," Dovere said about redrawing the districts.

It's a concern that Indiana Republicans who opposed redistricting in their state had with the Trump administration's plan. State Sen. Spencer Deery, a Republican, voted against redistricting, agreeing that redrawing could spread Republican voters too thin.

In that case, mapmakers would redistribute Republican voters from very safe districts into districts that are closer and less secure. That can backfire if the political environment shifts toward Democrats, and that's exactly what happened in 2026. Trump voters eager to support the president in 2024 are now abandoning him in droves. It's why there might be some Democratic pick-ups in Texas, while they're less likely in Indiana's congressional districts.

President Donald Trump was warned in May that if he endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate, he'd end up having to bankroll the candidate to repair his image. Trump didn't listen, and now he's either going to have to give Paxton a lot of money or watch as he loses.

CNN's Dana Bash asked her panel about the failures of the Paxton campaign on Monday, and they all agreed that he's in a tough spot unless he can raise more money.

Paxton's fundraising is so bad that his Democratic opponent James Talarico has been on the airwaves since June, and Paxton hasn't made a peep since the primary.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx.) made it clear to the Texas Tribune last week that he tried to warn Republicans that this would happen.

“Paxton’s a poor campaigner,” he said. “He’s lazy and doesn’t raise money. And he basically is not offering a very compelling case for his election. He’s making this harder than it needs to be. But so be it — we are where we are.”

Already, Paxton has been caught taking international vacations in the middle of his campaigns. First, he jet-setted to Iceland with his girlfriend. The couple was spotted in London afterward.

He's assuming that MAGA Inc., the president's super PAC, will dump in all the money he needs to be successful in the race, but so far, Trump has held back spending any of the money from his groups.

Talarico has thus far been introducing himself to voters. That is, until Saturday, when he launched his first negative ad about Paxton, targeting his corruption.

Paxton is playing into the narrative too, taking photos of himself with voters wearing a watch worth $41,000. Bash said that after the Talarico campaign posted the comment about his watch, he was seen on the campaign trail without it.

Puck congressional correspondent Abby Livingston told CNN that she's never in her career heard both sides saying "this race is Talarico's to lose."

"There's hope that the billionaire's not just MAGA, but, like, Texas billionaires who've been on vacation are ready to start engaging and spending. But it hasn't really happened yet," she said. "But I think the most important thing to think about this is 20 years ago, when Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who I once worked for, was running in a Democratic wave, she won by 27 points as a Republican. I think this is 5 percent Talarcico talent, 5 percent environment, and 90 percent Republican self-inflicted problems."

She explained that Paxton certainly isn't the only one in this position; he's just "the most glaring one."

She called it a candidate quality issue, going along with fundraising problems and Trump's redistricting project.

"Texas Republicans knew [it] was a bad idea a year ago and went along with it anyway," Livingston continued, noting it is "causing incredible problems throughout the state. And none of this had to happen."

Trump used his 2024 election turnout as the guide for how to redraw the lines in Texas in an effort to draw more Democratic seats. As AlterNet wrote last week, the scheme is backfiring as Trump continues to lose the coalition that got him elected. Now the Texas seats are more Democratic after trying to spread Democrats into more districts. It's one of the major reasons that Indiana shut down Trump's demands to redistrict there.

An anxiety-ridden White House has dispatched Vice President JD Vance to cobble together President Donald Trump’s disintegrating coalition in South Texas on Wednesday, but analysts and New York Times reporters say the Republican tent has largely collapsed.

In a district that Trump and the Republican Texas legislature gerrymandered to be more favorable to them, Vance finds himself struggling to stump for candidates in a border region “where eroding support for President Trump has raised Democratic hopes of flipped seats in both the House and the Senate,” according to the Post.

Vance rallied for the Republican challenger to Representative Vicente Gonzalez in a race that remains tightly contested despite Trump and Republicans packing the district with what they thought was a loyal Hispanic contingent that once supported Trump.

“Hispanic voters in South Texas have soured on Mr. Trump, growing increasingly angry over the handling of the economy and immigration enforcement,” reported Times writer Patricia Mazzei. “At a White House event for Hispanic Heritage Month, Mr. Trump sought to defend his border policies, but his remarks focused only episodically on Hispanic voters.”

Times reporter and noted author Maggie Haberman pointed out that Trump’s support among Hispanic voters “has suffered in the last two years, in part over his administration’s immigration crackdown and efforts at mass deportations.”

But Trump only sporadically defended his immigration policies during a Hispanic Heritage Month event, where he “made fleeting mention of the criticism he has faced from members of his own party, including those running for office,” reported Erica Green.

“No matter what you do, it’s always tough,” said Trump. “But we have, we’ve been very strong.”

Meanwhile, the Times reports Senate Republican nominee Ken Paxton’s campaign announced that it would be spending $20 million on a new round of advertising in Texas, starting on Friday in the state’s biggest markets — Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio — and then expanding to all corners of the state.

Times reporter J. David Goodman reports that the new spending follows tens of millions already spent by groups supporting Paxton in recent weeks, as Paxton falls behind in his race against his more popular Democratic opponent.

Vance attempted to tie Paxton’s opponent to the national Democratic Party by framing the election as a choice between Paxton and opponent, James Talarico, “as an avatar for the broader Democratic Party,” reports the Times.

However, Paxton’s onerous unpopularity appears to be outshining state voters’ generations-long suspicion of Democrats. And recent gaffes from Paxton — who is already a flawed candidate with marriage infidelity issues and corruption complaints — have done nothing to help him.

Local Texas officials will vote Tuesday about whether county officials can cut polling places in a key battleground county by 30 percent.

Democracy Docket reported Tuesday that Republican officials in Tarrant County, Texas, crafted a new strategy to reduce access to the polls on Nov. 3 by cutting 92 polling locations. Early voting locations would be cut from 50 to 47.

The vote comes after local officials postponed an initial consideration of an even more sweeping proposal that faced strong public opposition. In the Aug. 4 meeting, the officials attempted to cut polling places by nearly 50 percent, despite increases in the county's population.

It would mean 316 voting locations would be cut to just 176 for a population of about 2,248,466 people, according to 2025 Census data. To put that in context, Phoenix, Arizona, has roughly 1.6 million residents and 236 vote centers across Maricopa County. Tarrant County seeks to have fewer polling places, but with 800,000 more people.

Fewer sites mean concentrated demand. If election officials do not replace the lost capacity and access, the practical effect can be that some eligible voters face greater obstacles to casting a ballot. It can make voting slower, farther away and harder to navigate. This, combined with not enough poll workers, confusing voting equipment, fewer early voting options and limited transportation support, can result in long lines and lower turnout.

After a huge backlash, officials backed away from the initial consideration, but not by much. The new plan is to reduce the number of polling places to 224. It's still fewer than Phoenix, which has 800,000 fewer people.

Democracy Docket explained that the county has a growing minority population and, over the past two years, has shifted more toward Democrats. Earlier this year, Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for a state Senate seat, surprising Texas Republicans.

Opposition has extended beyond angry voters. The Fort Worth City Council unanimously urged Tarrant County officials to preserve or even expand the number of available polling locations. State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, a Democrat running for governor, called the county “ground zero” for Texas elections this year.

“When you look at where those cuts hit the hardest, it’s the same neighborhoods that have always been targeted,” said Democratic County Commissioner Alisa Simmons. “The ones with the lowest income zip codes, the most Black and Hispanic communities in this county. The places where folks are less likely to have a car.”

During the initial meeting, Simmons called the effort a “deliberate act to reduce voter access.”

The public response was huge, gathering so many people to a normally quiet county meeting that they needed two overflow rooms. People were so upset that "O’Hare ordered law enforcement to clear the meeting room," Democracy Docket said. People were arrested, and former state Rep. Lon Burnam (D) was carried out of the room by police and detained overnight.

"The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to urge Tarrant County officials" to open more polling places, the report closed.

A new commercial is airing that features a former Texas Republican lawmaker who made it clear he would "never" vote for Attorney General Ken Paxton.

CNN reported Wednesday that former state Rep. Glenn Rogers says in a new 30-second ad from James Talarico's U.S. Senate campaign super PAC, “I’ll never trust Ken Paxton, I’ll never support Ken Paxton and the last place he should be is the United States Senate."

Rogers is far from a left-leaning Republican. He's a rancher and veterinarian from outside of Fort Worth and has long been a critic of the direction the Republican Party has taken in his state. Gov. Greg Abbott ran against Rogers in the 2024 GOP primary after Rogers refused to support school vouchers.

"The ad will run statewide on digital and streaming platforms as part of the group’s eight-figure effort in the general election," CNN reported, citing a spokesperson for the political action committee. "It comes as Democrats confront a spike in outside GOP spending in recent days, suddenly giving Paxton’s side a huge advertising advantage in the closing weeks of the tight race."

New polling numbers from Texas put the race at a tie, but Fox7 in Austin said there appears to be a growing problem for Paxton. The new survey from Texas Southern's Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center shows, "more than a quarter of those who identified themselves as moderate republicans said they plan to 'break ranks; and vote for the Democrat."

It comes as Talarico continues to draw more support from independents.

Republicans appear to be panicking, dumping buckets of cash into the Paxton race after the AG appeared to be lacking in fundraising. His former GOP opponent, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) warned that Paxton is too "lazy" to fund raise.

The Texas Tribune reported Tuesday that GOP-aligned groups have put in more than $140 million for the struggling Paxton. That total includes about $100 million from the Senate Leadership Fund’s Texas PAC, more than $19 million from Lone Star Liberty PAC and more than $16 million from MAGA Inc.

CNN noted that Talarico has invested heavily in having Republicans who know Paxton well explaining why the outgoing attorney general isn't fit to serve in higher office. The campaign rolled out "Republicans for Talarico" with endorsements from "Dan Cogdell, a Paxton lawyer in the impeachment trial, and David Maxwell, a former top Paxton staffer who testified in his impeachment trial."

Meanwhile, Republicans appear to be cutting their losses in states like North Carolina and Georgia, Politico reported Tuesday.

The generic congressional ballot is brutal, an NPR/PBS/Marist poll taken last week shows. Democrats are at 53 percent, and Republicans stand at 41 percent.

Trial lawyer Shant A. Karnikian filmed a commentary video for the "Legal AF: Civil Action" podcast where he warned that one of President Donald Trump's candidates isn't going to end well for the Republican Party.

Brandon Herrera is described by the podcast as "the gun-influencer known online as 'The AK Guy,' who's now the Republican nominee for Texas's 23rd Congressional District with Donald Trump's full endorsement."

Herrera has a "self-documented history of promoting Nazi imagery, owning a personal copy of Mein Kampf, and joking about the Holocaust, goose-stepping and marching songs," the lawyers explained.

Previously, Republicans were against Herrera because of his extremist views. In fact, at one point, Trump's lawyers sent Herrera a cease-and-desist demand to stop using Trump's image on his campaign mailers.

But now he's about to join the U.S. House of Representatives from a conservative district where he can spend the next two years being part of the GOP caucus.

Karnikian said that what has changed is that Trump now supports Herrera in the absence of any other Republican to support.

Lawyer Brian Kabateck recalled some of the more obscure factoids about Herrera, such as his jokes about veteran suicides and chatting about his own fantasies of shooting himself so he can be called an "honorary veteran."

"Trump's referred to him as an 'America First Patriot, MAGA Warrior' in Texas. So, this is a fine, fine man for the Trump administration to be supporting," Kabateck said. "I mean, this just shows you how desperate the Republicans are."

The hosts also pointed to about $2.7 million being funneled to Herrera "through an entity called Texas Strategy Group. So this guy is getting a ton of money. I mean, he's getting a lot of money from pro-Republican, pro-MAGA organizations."

"Isn't that ironic? Just no morals, no moral compass, flip-flopping anytime it's convenient for him," agreed Karnikian. "Trump himself demanded that this guy stop using Trump's endorsement because Trump had never endorsed him previously. But now that they're out of a candidate over there, Trump has to endorse him, and everybody needs to fall in line. I mean, what an absurd world the Republicans live in, where they have to support some guy like this."

Kabateck mentioned that he has a Democratic opponent, Katy Padilla Stout, whom the men said was running a "traditional Democratic campaign" on issues like child welfare and education. There aren't a lot of polls being done for the district, but the ones that have been done show that the candidates are "neck-and-neck."

A number of lawmakers and aspiring lawmakers in both parties have resigned in disgrace recently, from Maine’s former Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner to Texas’ former Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales. As a result of the latter’s resignation, Texas Republicans are now rallying behind YouTuber Brandon Herrera as his successor — but his history of offensive jokes is making that difficult to do.

“A self-described gun-rights absolutist and YouTuber known for his inflammatory humor, Mr. Herrera, 30, was initially opposed this year by both Mr. Johnson and President Trump as he challenged the district’s Republican incumbent, Tony Gonzales, for a second straight time,” reported The New York Times' Bayliss Wagner on Sunday. “Mr. Gonzales and his allies spent millions painting Mr. Herrera as extreme, highlighting old videos in which he made wildly offensive jokes like saying that a Nazi-era submachine gun was ‘the original ghetto blaster’ and ‘Hitler’s street sweeper.’”

He added, “But after a sexual misconduct scandal forced Mr. Gonzales out of the race and then out of Congress this year, top Republicans quickly closed ranks around Mr. Herrera.”

Wagner added that there is a controversial July 2022 video of Herrera in which he “used crude language to insult Shannon Watts, who founded the gun-control group Moms Demand Action after the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012.” His upcoming opponent in the congressional election, Democrat Katy Padilla Stout, described Herrera as a result of those remarks as “not the type of person you want making decisions for you and your children.”

Padilla Stout “has also pointed to a video of Mr. Herrera highlighting his ownership of a 1939 English edition of ‘Mein Kampf,’ and has circulated clips of him joking about Nazi atrocities against Jews,” Wagner wrote. “In the interview, Mr. Herrera vehemently denied that he was antisemitic, and said he owned an annotated copy of ‘Mein Kampf’ as part of a historical book collection.”

The journalist further reported, “Yehuda Remer, a Second Amendment activist who has known Mr. Herrera for a decade and is Orthodox Jewish, said the idea that Mr. Herrera was a Nazi was preposterous. ‘If Brandon was actually antisemitic, he wouldn’t have helped me along my journey, and continued to help me,’ Mr. Remer said.”

As far back as 2024, Herrera was a controversial figure. He infamously joked at that time that Trump’s then-17-year-old son Barron was in real life “like nine feet tall” and, imitating Barron Trump’s voice, mocked him for supposedly saying things like “daddy is coming, daddy is angry."