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‘Where you been?’ Harris rips GOP ‘hypocrites’ in fiery speech

Vice President Kamala Harris blasted GOP "hypocrites" who are banning abortion while they suddenly start claiming they want to protect women and children.

In a fiery speech focused on reproductive rights and abortion in Atlanta, the Democratic presidential nominee was met with cheers and applause as she tore into Republicans, asking them where have they been.

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Trump: Women won't even think about abortion once I'm elected again

Former President Donald Trump declared in a late Friday screed that women are sicker, poorer and more depressed than they were in 2020, and vowed that once he's re-elected they won't even be "thinking about abortion" they'll be so "happy."

The rant, posted in his signature all-caps style to his Truth Social app just before midnight, proclaimed that women are "poorer" "less healthy," "less safe on the streets," "more depressed" and "less optimistic and confident in the future" than they were when he was in the White House.

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'She knows best': Anti-Trump group tells Trump to keep his conspiracy theorist close

Political troublemakers at the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project trolled the former president again Friday, this time in an ad targeting Donald Trump's white nationalist and conspiracy-theorizing adviser Laura Loomer.

The far-right firebrand has been noticeably at the side of the former president for weeks and long-time Trump loyalists are begging him to reject her.

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Political editor-in-chief knocks DeWine for 'cognitive dissonance' in gov's new editorial

The editor-in-chief for a conservative news and opinion site took to the social media site X to jab Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine over comments he wrote in The New York Times.

DeWine and his Republican comrades in the state have faced myriad of threats after former President Donald Trump and running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH), promoted a racist conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Watch: Crowd laughs at Trump after Kamala Harris brings up his debate performance

It has been a little over a week since former President Donald Trump faced off against Vice President Kamala Harris in their first, and possibly only debate. During a Georgia rally, Harris-supporter were still laughing at Trump's widely-panned performance.

Harris brought up the mother and sisters of Amber Thurman, who died after Georgia's strict restrictions on abortion took effect, which was ushered in after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The official Georgia committee ruled that Thurman's death was preventable.

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'From 'build the wall' to 'save the Juul'': Trump's Friday vape vow draws instant mockery

Donald Trump went on a mini-posting spree on Truth Social Friday afternoon, including a false claim that he worked to help limit flavored vaping to stop kids from using it.

"I saved Flavored Vaping in 2019," Trump said, "and it greatly helped people get off smoking. I raised the age to 21, keeping it away from the 'kids.'"

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Trump throws out wild Friday afternoon campaign promise as polls show him sinking

Former President Donald Trump tossed a wild pledge at a niche bloc of voters to whom he promised easy access to candy-flavored vapors.

Trump took to Truth Social Friday afternoon in an apparent effort to blow off steam as polls from Nate Silver, the New York Times and ABC News showed Vice President Kamala Harris taking the lead in their presidential race.

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Republican chief prosecutor obliterates J.D. Vance's claims on Haitian immigrant crime

Daniel Driscoll, the Republican chief prosecutor for Clark County, which includes Springfield, Ohio, is calling out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for lying about crime statistics to create a story that the city is being overrun with violence.

Driscoll spoke to CNN's fact-checker Daniel Dale after Vance falsely claimed that "murders are up by 81 percent because of what Kamala Harris has allowed happening to this small community."

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'Off the deep end': MAGA-controlled election board ruling stuns lawmakers and experts

A MAGA-controlled board's new mandate that Georgia ballots be hand-counted stunned journalists, lawmakers, legal experts and Americans who fear "chaos" and a "legal coup" just 46 days before the presidential election.

The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 to require that county election boards hand count ballots and compare their results to electronic voting machine tallies — a move critics argued Friday was designed to deliver the state to former President Donald Trump on Nov. 5.

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'Ignore the controversy and power through': Trump wants to duck the Mark Robinson scandal

According to a report from the New York Times, aides to Donald Trump "frantically " awaited what CNN had dug up on North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson on Thursday afternoon only to have the former president suggest they ignore it once the horrific details were published.

CNN's bombshell report, which detailed postings on an adult website so obscene that there was no attempt to provide a summary of what Robinson had written, rocked the North Carolina Republican Party to such an extent that there are now worries the former president could lose North Carolina's 16 Electoral College votes to Vice President Kamala Harris.

As the Times is reporting, those same worries ran through Trump's inner circle which was blindsided by what was to come and then scrambled on how to respond.

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The report notes, "After CNN published its report, Mr. Trump’s first reaction was that he wanted nothing to do with the scandal and didn’t see why he should get involved, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. His impulse was to ignore the controversy and power through," while his staff held out hope that Robinson would step aside saving the campaign from having to make plans to maneuver the controversy going forward.

However, the controversial GOP candidate refused to take himself off the ballot, leaving the former president in the position of likely having to deal with it when he makes an appearance in North Carolina that was already scheduled.

"With Mr. Trump preparing to visit North Carolina for a rally on Saturday, he’s expected to talk about the controversy in passing, either on his Truth Social platform or once he’s in the state," the Times is reporting. "People close to him anticipate that he will deliver a version of a comment he has made about countless supporters or former aides: that he hardly knows the guy."

Noting that there will be a concerted effort by Trump's team to do damage control this weekend, the Times report adds, "In the meantime, they planned to monitor their internal polls to see if the controversy was having any effect on Mr. Trump."

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Kamala Harris ties Mark Robinson around Trump's neck in brutal new North Carolina ad

The Kamala Harris campaign tied scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson around Donald Trump's neck in a new ad airing in the key swing state.

New reporting revealed that the Republican lieutenant governor had called himself a "black NAZI," claimed "slavery is not bad," recalled spying on unwitting women showering and graphically described his sexual experiences and fantasies on an online smut forum, and the Harris campaign responded by airing an ad in the state showing all the times Trump heaped praise on his favored candidate for governor.

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Debate between columnist and polling data aggregator spills into online cursing match

Political stalwart and longtime columnist Greg Sargent on Friday got into a spat with Real Clear Politics co-founder Tom Bevan over the 2024 election polls.

In a chart Bevans uploaded to the social media site X, he provided a column showing how far off the polling numbers were in 2020 and 2016. The implication is that the polls recently, showing Vice President Kamala Harris leading, are just as far off as they were in 2020 and 2016.

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'Really bad idea': GOP scrambles to make Trump back off recent demand

Former President Donald Trump in recent weeks has demanded that Republicans in the House of Representatives take the drastic step of shutting down the federal government if they can't pass legislation that would add new restrictions to voter registration.

However, Politico reports that some of Trump's allies have been scrambling to get Trump to back off this demand, as shutting down the federal government one month before a national election is much more likely to hurt Republicans than help their chances.

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