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Watch: Mike Lindell shaves mustache for DNC 'disguise' as Rudy Giuliani narrates

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell kept his promise to shave his mustache as a "disguise" to gain entry to the Democratic National Convention.

On the convention's third day, Lindell visited a Chicago-area barbershop to have his facial hair removed. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani narrated the event.

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Watch: Trump stops speech after attendee apparently falls ill

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) made news this month when he stopped a huge rally when an attendee fell ill. From the podium, he asked other rallygoers to pass bottles of water to the individuals who were bringing in medical care.

Out of concern for other rally attendees, Walz asked a staffer to pass out water to anyone in the packed crowd who might need it.

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Trump team scrambles to clean up mess after vets group calls out 'stolen valor'

Donald Trump's campaign was sent scrambling Wednesday after a group of Republican lawmakers accused Gov. Tim Walz of stolen valor then faced the same accusation from some of their fellow veterans.

Team Trump was forced to retract a letter, purporting to come from dozens of Republicans who described themselves as retired from military service, after the progressive advocacy group Vote Vets looked at their service records and debunked the claim.

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'Don't get personal': Trump rages after Michelle and Barack Obama speak at DNC

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump complained about former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama a day after the couple spoke about him at the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

During a campaign speech in North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump went off-topic while talking about President Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Mike Lindell tries to sell pillows to protesters at DNC — and it doesn't go well

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was met with hostility this week when he tried to sell his sleep products to pro-Palestinian protesters at the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

While recording an interview with his Frank Speech network amid protesters in Chicago, Lindell was heckled by demonstrators on Tuesday.

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How Democrats plan to draw rural voters away from Trump

Democrats, reinvigorated by the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris, are honing a message to woo rural voters away from Republican Donald Trump.

In a ballroom on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, campaign workers and lawmakers gathered Tuesday to hash out ideas on bridging the "rural-urban divide."

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'There's been a shift': Conservative pollster raises red flag for Trump over Harris surge

Admitting that he is trying to not get caught up in the excitement while attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, conservative pollster Frank Luntz told CNN that there is definitely a shift underway in the country towards Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaking with host Briana Keilar, the 62-year-old Luntz noted that the ascension of Harris since Biden stepped aside was the "best launch" he's ever seen.

"Frank, how is it looking? How was this race looking in those few states that she was talking about these key battleground states," the CNN host asked.

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"There's been a shift over the last four weeks and that shift is significant," he replied. "You see in the polls, you see in the focus groups, Joe Biden was definitively losing those states by a narrow margin. But she is now definitively even or up in the key states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, those are the states that absolutely matter most."

"And these last two nights, you actually can, I've been in the hall, I can see the level of intensity, the level of passion," he continued. "I don't want to go overboard because these are the people who care the most about a Democratic victory but it is palpable."

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'Massive scandal': Trump levies dubious claims against foes in Truth Social tirade

Donald Trump barraged Truth Social with questionable claims and baseless accusations against political foes in a series of posts published Wednesday in under 10 minutes.

In his initial post at 11:39 a.m. ET, Trump accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of manipulating job statistics to present a rosier picture of the U.S. economy than was truthful.

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Doctor tells MSNBC hosts why Tim Walz IVF comments are no scandal at all

Republican critics are quibbling over the fertility treatment that Tim and Gwen Walz were forced to use when they were trying to have children.

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and his wife have told the story several times about their difficulty having children and the procedures they were forced to go through. In the past, Walz has referred to it as IVF, in vitro fertilization, which has been banned in Alabama because embryos can be destroyed in the process.

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'Most egregious': Veteran advocacy group hammers Republican lawmakers for 'stolen valor'

Vote Vets, a progressive veterans advocacy group, hammered former President Donald Trump's campaign for "stolen valor" in response to a letter signed by dozens of Republicans criticizing the service record of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

After looking at the list of signatories on the letter, Vote Vets determined that "29 of the signatures come from Republicans who falsely claimed they retired from military service."

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Dems take aim at 'super-MAGA' Republican whose 'main demographic is older white men'

Democrats are looking to take down a Donald Trump loyalist as part of a nationwide effort targeting right-wing MAGA conservatives.

Welcome PAC is backing select swing-district Democrats – including Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Jared Golden (D-ME) and Mary Peltola (D-AK) – and endorsing challenger Whitney Fox against GOP incumbent Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), reported NOTUS.

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Trump-endorsed Republican Mark Robinson caught in lie about 2020 campaign spending: report

Donald Trump-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson may have lied on his 2020 campaign finance report, according to the owners of the company where he said he made the purchase.

Carolina Public Press reported Wednesday that a strange charge popped up when Robinson ran for North Carolina Lt. Governor. The report said that he spent $2,374 at Lake Outfitters for “campaign clothes and accessories" in five purchases over eight months.

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'Nasty guy': Apprentice contestant says Trump is desperately trying to pivot to seem nicer

A former contestant of Donald Trump's old show, "The Apprentice," is noticing a pivot from the ex-president as he struggles to garner attention from the media and voters.

MSNBC played a clip of Trump being asked about former President Barack Obama, who gave the keynote speech on Tuesday at the Democratic Convention.

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