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'Wake up!' Jasmine Crockett reveals surprising view she shares with Trump

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett agrees with former President Donald Trump that American cities and towns are being overrun by gangs — and that it needs to stop.

Crockett, a vocal Trump critic whose propensity toward alliteration saw her dub him a "vindictive vile villain," appeared on MSNBC Saturday morning to share an opinion she shares with the Republican Presidential nominee.

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'That’s how you lose': Trump refusing aides’ requests to tone down anti-immigrant attacks

Former President Donald Trump is aware his rhetoric about migrants has become increasingly toxic, yet he has decided to double down on that strategy in the final weeks of the campaign cycle, according to a new report.

Rolling Stone's Naomi Lachance and Asawin Suebsaeng reported Saturday the ex-president is rebuffing advice from his campaign team to "play it safe" as voters prepare to head to the polls on Nov. 5.

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'Different and darker': Columnist warns Republicans Trump is spiraling

Republican voters considering a vote for former President Donald Trump on policy platform grounds received a stern check from a New York Times columnist who argued their candidate is spiraling downward.

Staff writer Katherine Miller told conservatives who are put off by Trump's personality that they should consider his violent rhetoric and repeated falsehoods, among them that Haitian immigrants eat pets, rather than their preference for Republican Party policy they may not get.

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'Weak leadership': Ron DeSantis shredded on MSNBC after he proclaims 'I'm the sheriff!'

Gov. Ron DeSantis' angry rant directed at federal aid workers bringing relief to Florida in the wake of two deadly hurricanes spurred outrage on MSNBC Saturday morning.

DeSantis appeared on Fox News this week to claim the Federal Emergency Management Agency was "running amok" and undermining his leadership — an argument that infuriated MSNBC anchor Michael Steele.

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'Conjure the medieval nightmare': Experts say Harris must now terrify voters about Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris has one campaign tactic left that she needs to use against former President Donald Trump before it's too late, Maureen Dowd argued Saturday in her New York Times editorial.

The time is past for Harris to conduct sit-down interviews and reveal policy platforms reveals — and the time is here for the Democratic presidential nominee to do something else, political consultant James Carville told Dowd.

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'Disingenuous dance': Experts knock down Vance boast as Trump failure — and Obama victory

Sen. J.D. Vance's claims that his family received private health insurance because of Donald Trump is technically true — but only because the former president failed, according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post.

Vance's mother's ability to purchase private health insurance amid addiction recovery on the Affordable Care Act marketplace reflects the victory of another former president — Barack Obama — and Trump's inability to knock it down, experts told the Post Saturday.

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'An extremist movement': Experts dismiss reported Trump support among key voting bloc

Former President Donald Trump's reported success with a key voting bloc has political experts raising skeptical eyebrows, according to a new report.

The narrative that Trump has been garnering surging support among Black men under 50 doesn't hold up under closer examination of the polls, experts told Salon on Saturday.

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Harris fans claw for victory with Kamala-themed nail polishes

The race for the U.S. presidency is a nail-biter, so two Kamala Harris supporters have taken matters into their own manicured hands and launched a line of nail polishes themed around viral moments from the Democratic campaign.

"We wanted something that was playful and fun, something that was approachable" for people who are not highly engaged in politics, said Amy Rosenthal, co-founder of "Colors for Kamala."

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Last-minute legal ruling allows betting on U.S. election

Millions of dollars have poured into bets on who will win the US election after a last-minute court ruling opened up gambling on the vote, upping the stakes on a too-close-to-call race that has already put voters on edge.

Contracts for a Harris victory were trading between 48 and 50 percent in favor of the Democrat on Friday on Interactive Brokers, a firm that has taken advantage of a legal opening created earlier this month in the country's long running regulatory battle over election markets.

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Harris to release medical report confirming fitness for presidency: campaign

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris will release a medical report Saturday confirming her fitness to be president, her campaign said, aiming to put pressure on rival Donald Trump to publish his own health records.

An adviser to 59-year-old Harris's campaign said the report would conclude: "She possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency."

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Trump raged at billionaire donors at penthouse dinner — and hurled slur at Harris: report

Former President Donald Trump spent a recent dinner for billionaire Republican donors at his Trump Tower penthouse complaining they hadn't done enough to help his campaign, according to a new report.

The ex-president also called Vice President Kamala Harris "retarded," which the Special Olympics has described as "a form of hate speech," the New York Times reported Saturday.

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'Hasn’t fully closed the deal': Report reveals reasoning behind Trump campaign cockiness

Former President Donald Trump's campaign bluster, despite a tight race against Vice President Kamala Harris, reveals a subtle strategy that his opponent is already using against him, according to a new report.

Trump's campaign is purposefully hitting a victory party tone while avoiding high-profile events such as national debates that would directly position Harris, 59, against the 78-year-old Republican presidential nominee, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

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'Flat out lie': N.C. governor slaps back as Trump levels new accusations against him

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) slapped back at Donald Trump after the former president accused him without evidence of blocking hurricane relief aid in his state.

Cooper took to X Friday afternoon to publicly respond to the former president's claim that he had colluded with the White House to stop relief funds and aid workers from reaching victims of Hurricane Helene.

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