California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told Politico that the Republican Party is headed for the “waste bin of history.”

He noted that California Republicans were once a major force in his state, but have seen their power evaporate over the last two decades.

Said Newsom: “America in 2019 is California in the 1990s. The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.”

“Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, privately battled with the chairman of the NRCC Monday night, where she raised concerns from members about the direction of the party’s campaign arm as they try to win back the chamber,” Politico reports.

“Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota used a members’ only leadership meeting Monday night to press lawmakers about their party dues and contributions to the party committee. At one point, he questioned whether Cheney would continue to contribute campaign cash to the NRCC.”

Playbook: “The No. 3 House Republican going after the chairman of the NRCC in such sharp terms is certainly unusual. Cheney is questioning Emmer’s stewardship of the organization 17 months before the election, and Emmer is wondering if he could count on Cheney to continue to dole out money.”

David Brooks: “For much of the 20th century, young and old people voted pretty similarly. The defining gaps in our recent politics have been the gender gap (women preferring Democrats) and the education gap. But now the generation gap is back, with a vengeance.”

“This is most immediately evident in the way Democrats are sorting themselves in their early primary preferences. A Democratic voter’s race, sex or education level doesn’t predict which candidate he or she is leaning toward, but age does.”

“The generation gap is even more powerful when it comes to Republicans. To put it bluntly, young adults hate them.”

The Hill: “Republican candidates and campaign committees have spent more than $4 million at hotel, golf and vineyard properties that bear President Trump’s name since he was inaugurated in 2017.”

Washington Post: “Banning rape victims from getting abortions is a step too far for Republican Party leaders, who have publicly cringed at Alabama’s sweeping new law criminalizing abortion in nearly every case.”

“President Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-KY) and Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel have all said over the past week they support long-standing exemptions from abortion restrictions: if a woman’s pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, or if the woman’s life is at risk. The Alabama law contains only the third exemption.”

“Their statements — coming as state-level Republicans advance stricter abortion regulations — lay bare an underlying rift within the party and among antiabortion activists over whether certain circumstances make it okay to end a pregnancy.”

“The national Republican Party has accepted nearly $400,000 in donations from disgraced ex-casino mogul Steve Wynn — a move that comes just over a year after he was accused of sexually harassing or assaulting employees over a decade-long period,” Politico reports.

“Wynn gave $248,500 to the Republican National Committee and $150,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in April… The donations are set to be disclosed publicly later this month.”

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel “said that she personally opposes provisions in the new Alabama law that outlaws virtually all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest, but defended the range of views on abortion within her party,” the Washington Post reports.

Said McDaniel: “Personally, I would have the exceptions. That’s my personal belief. But we are a party that is a broad tent. If you agree with us 80 percent of the time, I want you to be a Republican. We don’t have a litmus test as to whether you can belong to our party.”

Wisconsin’s Republican Party “fell so far behind financially in recent months that it missed payments to insurers and racked up nearly $600 a month in interest on a maxed-out credit card,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

“The review, commissioned by Sen. Ron Johnson and other top Wisconsin Republicans in the wake of statewide losses in 2018, also showed the party was ‘recklessly reliant’ on consultants, some of whom made more than $500,000 doing routine work for the party.”

Max Boot: “You can debate when the conservative movement became a racket — I nominate 1996, the year Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created Fox News Channel to monetize right-wing outrage — but there is no doubt it has long since passed that point. If you have any doubt, look at the recent revelations about the National Rifle Association, probably the single most powerful conservative lobbying group in America.”

A new Pew Research survey finds that 47% of white Republicans say it would bother them “some” or “a lot” to “hear people speak a language other than English in a public place.”

Just 18% of white Democrats said they would be similarly bothered.

Joe Lockhart: “For Democrats, leaving Donald Trump in office is not only good politics — it is the best chance for fundamental realignment of American politics in more than a generation. Mr. Trump is three years into destroying what we know as the Republican Party. Another two years just might finish it off. Trumpism has become Republicanism, and that spells electoral doom for the party.”

“Mr. Trump has abandoned most of the core principles that have defined Republicans for the past century. Free trade abandoned for protectionism. Challenging our adversaries and promoting democracy replaced by coddling Russia and cozying up to dictators near and far. Fiscal conservatism replaced by reckless spending and exploding deficits.”

“What’s left of the party is a rigid adherence to tax cuts, a social agenda that repels most younger Americans and rampant xenophobia and race-based politics that regularly interfere with the basic functioning of the federal government.””

Max Boot: “Having declared the Republican Party to be morally bankrupt last month — after 90 percent of GOP lawmakers voted to approve President Trump’s unconstitutional state of emergency — I am not remotely surprised by the party’s dishonorable and dishonest reaction to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.”

“But I am nevertheless dismayed and disgusted that a once-great party — to which I belonged for most of my life — could become a handmaiden to foreign attacks on the United States and blatant lawbreaking by the president.”