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'Absurd partisan polls': Kari Lake lashes out after failing to pull ahead in Arizona

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake blamed "absurd partisan polls" after trailing in her Arizona race.

During a Sunday interview on NewsNation, host Chris Stirewalt noted that Lake had trailed Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) since the beginning of the race.

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'That was kind of a joke today': Trump busted by supporter for Thursday border wall stunt

Donald Trump's highly publicized visit to Arizona on Thursday, to tout the border wall his administration built, was called out as a fraud by one of his own supporters who has a ranch in the area.

In an interview with the Washington Post, rancher John Ladd, "a Trump supporter whose ranch extends along the border," explained the photo-op where the former president boasted about his accomplishments at stopping immigrants from crossing over into the U.S. was in front of a section of wall built under President Barack Obama's administration.

The former president has made the border crisis a central plank of his re-election bid, accusing President Joe Biden— and by extension Vice President Kamala Harris — of falling down on the job.

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The only problem, the Post is reporting is that Trump's advance people placed him in front of a portion of wall he had nothing to do with.

As Ladd explained, "Where you were, that was kind of a joke today. Had to be in front of Trump’s wall, but you went to Montezuma, and that’s Obama’s wall.”

The Post report adds, "The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the barrier next to Thursday’s campaign stop was built during the Obama administration. The Trump campaign and [ Border Patrol union leader Paul] Perez did not respond to questions about the discrepancy."

The report adds that during the photo-op, "Perez called the standing fence 'Trump wall' and the idle parts 'Kamala wall.'"

"The reality on the ground was not as straightforward as the “Build the Wall” chant that electrified his campaign eight years ago suggested. His vow to finish the wall, now formalized in the Republican Party platform, highlights the uncomfortable fact that he did not finish it in his first term, and Mexico did not pay for it, as he once promised it would," the Post is reporting.

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'Look at your own candidate': Dem slams Tomi Lahren after she accuses Tim Walz of lying

Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall challenged conservative pundit Tomi Lahren after she accused Democratic candidates of lying about their records.

During a Sunday Fox News panel discussion about Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, Lahren noted that the candidate and his wife had used intrauterine insemination — or IUI — instead of IVF treatments to start a family.

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'Don’t report that I was desperate!' Trump ridiculed for early morning Fox News rant

Donald Trump appears to be enraged by claims that Fox News hosts cut off the former president's rant over his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris' Democratic National Convention address.

Hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum abruptly cut Trump off while he repeatedly bashed Harris' Democratic nomination acceptance speech.

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Watch: Scott Jennings laughed at on CNN for claiming 'People don't want to feel joy'

It did not take long on Sunday morning for conservative CNN political commentator Scott Jennings to realize he had stepped in it when he claimed, "People don't want to feel joy" during his appearance on "State of the Union."

During the panel discussion moderated by host Jake Tapper, CNN analyst Kate Bedingfield described the just concluded Democratic National Convention as joyful, telling her fellow panelists, "She [Kamala Harris] is proving herself outside of her comfort zone. She has spent the last month since it was thrust upon her this moment where she had to rise to the occasion to take on the mantle of being the Democratic nominee, which is a huge moment and she's done it successfully."

"You've seen — you see momentum, you see people excited," she continued. "So this notion like joy isn't a strategy; joy is actually what people want. This is what they want to feel right now and they're feeling it from her. She's also laying out substantive policy proposals which she did in her nominating speech. And the idea that these two things are somehow mutually exclusive, I don't think that's true."

"The joy will continue until morale improves," conservative analyst Jennings quipped before adding, "People don't want to feel joy, they want to feel relief," which made Bedingfield laugh.

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"The economic anxiety is real and it is — and you can say inflation is down and I know that's what the Democrats are going to argue," he persisted as Bedingfield looked on incredulously.

"Not a single person who was bought a single thing in the last four years or in the last four minutes, believes that and I think you get in trouble in politics when you tell people something that does not match their lived experience," he concluded.

"So a Republican strategist says people do not want to feel joy," a laughing Bedingfield repeated before adding, "That's quite a message."

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Fox News host says Ann Coulter 'should be in prison' for mocking Tim Walz's crying son

Fox News host Howard Kurtz suggested conservative author Ann Coulter "should be in prison" after she mocked the son of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for crying during his father's acceptance speech.

A day after Walz accepted the Democratic nomination to run for vice president, Coulter called Gus Walz "weird" for his emotional outburst at the Democratic convention.

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Maria Bartiromo and Byron Donalds think Obama's controlling country through 'earpiece'

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) argued that former President Barack Obama was controlling Democratic officials through an earpiece.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Bartiromo wondered who was "running the country while Kamala Harris is out campaigning."

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Lindsey Graham confronted on CNN with video of Trump saying 'I 'don't care what he says'

In the midst of a wide-ranging interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham, CNN "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper blindsided the South Carolina Republican with a clip of Donald Trump telling a CBS reporter he doesn't listen to Graham's advice.

Brought on to talk about the current presidential campaign pitting Trump against Vice President Kamala Harris, host Tapper first pointed out that Graham has lightly criticized the former president for centering his campaign on personal attacks on Harris instead of addressing policy differences.

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Pastor says Harris could get 'the highest level of evangelical support since Carter'

Donald Trump has long been backed by evangelical Christian voters, and as of May, the Associated Press reported that the ex-president's "support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians."

In an op-ed published by MSNBC Sunday, Minneapolis pastor Doug Pagitt — who also heads the nonprofit organization Vote Common Good — explains how Vice President Kamala Harris can win the evangelical vote this time around – and why it's possible.

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Ex-Bush strategist warns against top GOP pollster’s data: 'Wrong in nearly every election'

Former President George W. Bush chief strategist Matthew Dowd issued Americans a warning against any election 2024 data presented by longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz after the ex-Fox News contributor predicted that Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. can help win the White House for Donald Trump.

Dowd on Saturday night wrote in a post published to X: "Please, please ignore anything Frank Luntz says... no matter if it is good or bad. He is a grifter who makes up most of his data. and has been wrong in nearly every election."

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J.D. Vance blames childless cat ladies for being offended: 'People took it the wrong way'

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance suggested "childless cat ladies" were to blame for being offended after he attacked them in a recent interview.

In an interview with NBC that aired on Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked Vance if he regretted lashing out at "childless cat ladies" in an interview with Fox News.

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'You know that's not true': Cory Booker fires back at CNN's Tapper over Harris complaint

On Sunday morning Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called out CNN host Jake Tapper for ridiculing Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats for saying the country would start a new chapter if she becomes president in November.

On CNN's "State of the Union," the host pointed to comments made at the convention and pointed to former president Barack Obama stating," America is ready for a new chapter" as he endorsed Harris

"I mean, she's the incumbent vice president," Tapper remarked. "Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. How can Democrats talk about a new chapter, turning the page, you guys are the ones writing the book?"

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"Well, you know that that's not true, Jake, because you know politics like I do," Booker shot back. "Right now, we see the MAGA Republicans in Congress killing all kinds of pragmatic policies that we need to get done on the most contentious issues."

"We had a bipartisan deal settled on by Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a right-wing Republican and Sen. Chris Murphy, a blue state Democrat and what killed that deal, what killed that pragmatic progress wasn't the sensible Republicans, but really people who were kowtowing to Donald Trump. His influence is egregious and incredible."

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Trump's Corey Lewandowski: RFK Jr. 'feels very hurt' but endorsement was a 'success'

Trump 2024 campaign advisor Corey Lewandowski said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was an "amazing success" even though the former Democrat "feels very hurt" about the process.

Lewandowski was asked about Kennedy's endorsement during a Sunday interview on Fox & Friends.

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