2024 Elections

'This is almost comical': Kari Lake goes off on PBS host after he fact-checks her

In a Thursday night interview that AZCentral called "cantankerous, contentious and combative," Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake spent almost 30 minutes arguing with, insulting and snarling at veteran Arizona Horizons host Ted Simons.

Lake, who has reportedly fallen far behind her opponent Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), didn't do herself any favors, reported AZCentral's Laurie Roberts.

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'I just broke down': Corey Lewandowski accuser 'upset' by his return to Trump campaign

A woman who previously accused Donald Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski of making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a holiday party seven years ago is speaking out now that he's returned to the former president's orbit.

Lewandowski, who was Trump's first campaign manager, ultimately reached an agreement with prosecutors to dismiss misdemeanor battery charges in exchange for community service, a $1,000 fine, enrollment in an impulse control class and an apology to Trashelle Odom, who spoke to CBS News about the 2021 ordeal.

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Trump regaled donors with jokes about rallygoer killed by would-be assassin: leaked audio

Donald Trump mocked the widow of his supporter killed by a would-be assassin's bullet at one of his rallies, according to a leaked audio recording of him speaking to donors in Colorado.

The former president's dinner guests erupted in laughter as he quipped about the woman grieving her slain husband after he presented her with a check, according to the recording, and he suggested that some of the donors' wives would gladly trade their lives for money, reported The Guardian.

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'Scares the hell out of me': J6 expert warns of disinformation ramp-up in mid-October

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Denver Riggleman, who served as senior technical advisor to the January 6th Committee, said he believes there is a significant risk of violence during the vote count of the Nov. 5, 2024 election because supporters of Republican nominee Donald Trump are so deeply immersed in conspiracy theories.

“They still have a plan to probably use lawfare to go after some of these certain states, but violence is certainly possible,” Riggleman told Raw Story. “I would say it’s actually probable. And I think it’s because you have people that are so riled up with these conspiracy theories and this good-against-evil vendetta that Donald Trump and I think a lot of the far right and the Christian nationalist type of individuals have been pushing into sort of the MAGA communications ecosystem.

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America was the 'bad guy' in World War II: MAGA Senate candidate

Royce White, the Trump-loving Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Minnesota, said just two years ago that America was "the bad guy" in World War II.

In a post on Twitter from 2022 unearthed by Heartland Signal, White wrote that "the bad guys won in WW II" and then elaborated to say that "there were no 'good guys' in that war."

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'Political malpractice': GOP insider labels Trump's get out the vote efforts 'a Hail Mary'

The campaign of Donald Trump for a second term in the White House is getting low marks from some GOP election specialists for outsourcing get-out-the-vote efforts to amateurs armed with unproven technology in a race that is too close to call.

More than any other election that has preceded it, the 2024 presidential race could end up being won by the party that is most successful at getting out complacent voters who have been put off by politics over the past 8 years following Trump's foray into politics.

According to a report from CNN, the brain trust running the former president's campaign is attempting to cut corners and costs by using more volunteers with less supervision than in previous years and that has some GOP insiders rolling their eyes.

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As CNN's Steve Contorno and Fredreka Schouten are reporting the change in election strategy in Michigan, "marks a stark contrast to how Trump won the Grand Rapids metro area and other battlegrounds eight years ago, when voter outreach efforts were coordinated by the Republican Party and organized out of regional field offices. And it’s one that has attracted plenty of detractors among GOP strategists, who say they see little evidence of the sophisticated political apparatus the Trump campaign claims is in motion."

Dennis Lennox, a veteran Republican operative in Michigan, didn't mince words when talking to CNN, bluntly stating, "It’s political malpractice.

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Trump Bibles only ones in the world to meet new criteria for purchase by Oklahoma schools

Oklahoma is accepting bids to supply its Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles, but vendors can only find two versions that meet all the statutory requirements – and both of them happen to be endorsed by Donald Trump.

The bid documents show that Bibles must be the King James version, contain both the Old and New Testaments, be bound in leather or leather-like material, and include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but vendors are suspicious of the requirements, reported The Oklahoman.

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Worried Dems fear 'meddler' Netanyahu is trying to 'swing' U.S. election for Trump: report

European officials are paying very close attention to the United States' 2024 presidential election, with many voicing support for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over GOP rival Donald Trump — as they view Harris as a major ally of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and see Trump as anti-NATO.

But not all foreign leaders are rooting for Harris.

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'We don't have to yell': Trump adviser shut down on CNN during Jan. 6 'murdered' rant

A longtime supporter and former adviser to Donald Trump was admonished "Don't do this" and to stop "yelling" when he want off on a rant about the Jan. 6 insurrection.

With the Jan. 6 riot taking center stage once again in the wake of a filing from special counsel Jack Smith accusing the former president of criminal acts, host Jim Acosta, Democratic strategist Karen Finney and conservative David Urban ended up engaging in a contentious debate that went off the rails when Urban claimed MAGA fan Ashli Babbitt was "murdered."

After Urban was told he was "moving the goalposts" to justify Trump's loss to President Joe Biden, Acosta bluntly told the conservative, "The last election was fine – he lost."

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When Finney added, "There are dangerous consequences because the president lied. People died on Jan. 6," Urban fired back.

"The only person who died on Jan. 6 was Ashli Babbitt who was murdered," he accused. "That's the only person who died, let's be straight, Karen, on Jan. 6."

When both Finney and Acosta attempted to push back, Urban shouted, "I'm not trying to minimize it," as Acosta said, "C'mon, let's not do that one."

"Jim, Jim!" the conservative guest yelled. "It's terrible, right?"

"David, David, none of that would have happened if Donald Trump had just been a man and accepted the election results in 2020," Acosta explained as Urban talked over him. "Just man up, that's it – that's the whole ballgame."

"Do you accept personal responsibility is the key in life?" Urban asked as Finney looked on in puzzlement. "When you were a kid and your mom said when you were out with your friends and you did something, you said, 'Well, Billy made me do it, mom,' she would. have said, 'I don't care what Billy did.' You know better and your mom taught you better."

"The people who broke into the Capitol, they're responsible for their activities, not Donald Trump, not my dog made me do it," he ranted as Acosta tried to reply.

"Okay," Finney interceded as she reached out for Urban's arm. "We don't have to yell, we don't have to yell."

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An infamous jacket and a birthday boy: an offbeat campaign week

Explaining an outer garment, a "family photo" that was not what it seemed and a spray tan spat: with just a month to go until election day, it was another week to remember on the US campaign trail.

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Melania Trump is out and about promoting her self-titled memoir.

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'The economy was in a tailspin!' Trump ally gets brutal reminder of life under Trump

A conservative commentator got a harsh reminder of life in the last year of Donald Trump's presidency.

Mark Lotter, the communications director for the right-wing America First Policy Institute and a former aide to vice president Mike Pence, appeared Friday morning on CNN, where he clashed with Democratic strategist Maria Cardona over the presidential election.

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'No, that's not a typo': Ex-RNC head singles out three red states where Trump's in trouble

While the majority of the focus on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has been on the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the former chair of the Republican National Committee suggested the real fight for 270 Electoral College votes is farther south where three GOP strongholds are in play for Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to ex-RNC head Michael Steele – now a co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend" – Donald Trump is at risk of losing Florida (30 electoral votes), Georgia and North Carolina (16 electoral votes each.)

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Trump claims Harris has been 'informed, legally' that she can't link him to​ Project 2025

Donald Trump claimed that his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris has been "informed, legally" that he had nothing to do with the politically poisonous Project 2025 agenda.

Nearly all voters are familiar with the right-wing blueprint for a potential Republican presidency that's being drawn up by former Trump administration officials and allies, and nearly 60 percent of registered voters feel negatively about the plan, and Trump has tried to distance himself from the policy proposals.

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