2024 Elections

'Disqualifying!' Ex-GOP lawmaker clashes with Trump lawyer over Vance's election lies

A former Republican lawmaker clashed with a former White House attorney for Donald Trump over some high-profile endorsements that have been announced in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, and their debate ended with a fiery denouncement of GOP election lies.

Barack Obama will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris next week in Pittsburgh as he kicks off a blitz of other battleground states, while Bruce Springsteen announced his endorsement of the vice president, and Elon Musk will appear with Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of his first apparent assassination attempt.

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'It's really unbelievable': 'Third grader' Trump ridiculed for latest attack on women

On Friday, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough expressed both amusement and disgust with Donald Trump's continuing personal attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris and compared the Republican nominee for president to a child.

The former president spoke with Fox News after Harris welcomed former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) at a Wisconsin rally on Thursday where Cheney made her stunning endorsement of the Democrat for president.

Before Trump jumped on Truth Social to rant about Cheney and her father, former vice president Dick Cheney, for both of them endorsing Harris, he told Fox that the two female lawmakers are "stupid."

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In a clip shown on Morning Joe, Trump complained, "Well, Liz Cheney lost for Congress, she was terrible," before later adding, "Liz Cheney is a stupid warhawk. All she wants to do is shoot missiles at people. I really think it hurts – I think frankly if Kamala – I think they really hurt each other, I think they are so bad both of them."

"Stupid," Scarborough repeated after the clip as several panelists laughed. "That's what he said...'stupid.' What did he say about Taylor Swift?"

"I hate Taylor Swift," MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire reminded Scarborough." Big capital letters: 'I hate Taylor Swift'."

"He's like a third grader out on the campaign," Scarborough replied, leading journalist Jonathan Martin to burst out laughing as Scarborough continued, "It's really unbelievable."

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'Something I never would've imagined': Trump sharing a stage with ex-enemy shocks reporter

Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will appear together for the first time since 2020, much to the surprise of a political reporter who's been covering the former president for years.

The two men will be briefed on Hurricane Helene damage in Evans and deliver remarks to reporters, although the event isn't being billed as a campaign appearance, but CNN's Alayna Treene is astonished that they will appear together for the first time since Trump attempted to pressure Kemp to overturn his election loss in the state and has attacked him for refusing.

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'Simply not accurate!' Legal expert fact-checks complaint about 'bombshell' Jan. 6 filing

A legal expert pushed back on a conservative's claims that special counsel Jack Smith was politicizing Donald Trump's election interference case by dropping new evidence weeks before voters head to the polls.

U.S. District judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed a 165-page filing that provides a narrative of Trump's efforts to undo his 2020 election loss, and she must now determine which of those actions should be considered official and thus covered by the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, and CNN panelists debated what impact the new evidence would have on November's election.

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'Fools': Trump blows up on Liz and Dick Cheney after appearance at Kamala Harris rally

Not long after former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) buried Donald Trump at Vice President Kamala Harris' rally in Ripon, Wisconsin, the former president ran to his troubled Truth Social platform to snarl at the former lawmaker and her father, former vice president Dick Cheney.

In her speech, Liz Cheney called Trump "a threat unlike any we have faced before,” before saying of Democrat Harris, "I know that she will be a president who will defend the rule of law and I know that she will be a president who can inspire all of our children and, if I might say so, especially our little girls.”

That apparently got under Trump's skin, who fired back.

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"Liz Cheney lost her Congressional Seat by the largest margin in the history of Congress for a sitting Representative. The people of Wyoming are really smart! She is a low IQ War Hawk that, as a member of the J6 Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs, ILLEGALLY DESTROYED & DELETED all documents, information, and evidence. Her father, Dick, was a leader of our ridiculous journey into the Middle East, where Trillions of Dollars were spent, millions of people were killed - and for what? NOTHING!" he wrote.

He then added, "Well, today, these two fools, because the Republican Party no longer wants them, endorsed the most Liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate, further Left than even Pocahontas or Crazy Bernie Sanders - Lyin’ Kamala Harris. What a pathetic couple that is, both suffering gravely from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Good Luck to them both!!!"

'Scores of people leave early': Interviews reveal why Trump rallygoers bow out prematurely

Donald Trump consistently draws large and enthusiastic crowds to his rallies, but Kamala Harris was right.

"Scores of people leave early," reported the Washington Post, and while most rallygoers do stay to the end, enduring his rambling diatribes about past elections, his legal woes and various grievances, there's a clear trend at his campaign events.

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Survey finds majority of swing state Republicans reject Trump tariff proposal

Throughout election season, jobs and the economy have been a central issue for both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, each presidential candidate has floated their own proposals for protecting and building up American manufacturing.

While Harris has proposed closing tax loopholes for some large corporations and providing government support for specific areas of the manufacturing sector like clean energy and semiconductors, Trump has pointed to tariffs as a key component of his trade policy, proposing a 10% or 20% tariff on all imported goods and a 60% tariff on goods imported from China.

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More than AI misinformation, US voters worry about lying politicians

As a bitterly contested US election campaign enters its final stretch, misinformation researchers have raised the alarm over threats posed by AI and foreign influence -- but voters appear more concerned about falsehoods from a more familiar source: politicians.

The United States is battling a firehose of misinformation before the November 5 vote -- from fake "news" sites that researchers say were created by Russian and Iranian actors, to manipulated images generated by artificial intelligence tools that have blurred the boundaries between reality and fiction.

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Swing state voters weigh in on key issues for them in U.S. election

The U.S. presidential election set for November 5 is likely to be determined by voters in a handful of swing states across the country, from Pennsylvania to Georgia, Arizona to Michigan.

Will voters pick Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump? And why do they support each one?

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'We may in 32 days have a dictator': New warning about Trump from presidential historian

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Way Too Early" on Friday morning, noted presidential historian Michael Beschloss used recent claims by Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH) to predict a very real threat that America is on the precipice of electing a dictator.

Speaking with host Jonathan Lemire, the two discussed recent reporting that multiple people within the former president's inner circle have no qualms about assisting him in arresting his critics – and that should alarm voters.

"The New York Times had some terrific reporting this week about Trump's threats to prosecute, to jail his political opponents, suggesting the DOJ did work on his behalf to limited success in his first term, but now he'd be able to stock his administration with loyalists who would carry it out further and emboldened by the Supreme Court ruling, his executive power has only grown," Lemire commented. "How worried are you that, were he to win, he'd take this to a very un-American place?"

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"Extremely worried," the historian immediately replied. "This is something we've never seen before in American history. Major party nominees saying, 'Elect me, and I'm going to use the DOJ, the Defense Department, against my domestic enemies, jail people."

"What we've had for over two centuries of a presidency, operating more or less within the boundaries of the law," he added. "Now, with the help of the Supreme Court saying a president is immune from prosecution, we may, in 32 days, have a dictator."

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In a key AZ legislative race, the GOP candidate joked about feeding dogs to Haitians

A GOP candidate whose state Senate race could determine which party controls the legislature embraced a racist lie demonizing a group of legal immigrants, telling a room of gay Republicans last month that Pima County’s stray dogs would be fed to Haitian people if Democrats win elections.

Vince Leach made the comment at a Log Cabin Republican meeting in Pima County on Sept. 22. The former state senator, who defeated Sen. Justine Wadsack in the July GOP primary, made the comment in the midst of a back-and-forth between Republican legislative candidates and the crowd.

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Obama to campaign for Harris in Pittsburgh next week, kicking off battleground state blitz

Former President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris next week, kicking off a blitz of the battleground states in the Pittsburgh area on Thursday, a senior campaign official confirmed.

The two have been friends for more than 20 years. Harris was an early supporter of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, at a time when much of the Democratic Party had coalesced behind Hillary Clinton, who was making her first run for the Oval Office. Harris traveled to Iowa to knock on doors ahead of the caucuses, which Obama won. Then-President Obama later endorsed Harris in her bid for U.S. Senate in 2016, a race she won easily.

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Stephen Miller group sues to get the names of 218K improperly registered Arizona voters

A conservative group run by one of former President Donald Trump’s top legal aides is suing Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes for withholding the names of the 218,000 voters who have been improperly registered to vote because of a glitch in the state’s driver’s license database.

The decades-long glitch, which was first discovered last month, resulted in some Arizonans who had gotten a driver’s license before 1996 being inaccurately labeled as having provided proof of citizenship, which is a requirement to register to vote in the Grand Canyon State.

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