2024 Elections

Donald Trump spent the past two days attempting to present his economic plan, but according to one long-time conservative, his trade plan is nothing more than a tax hike.

Speaking to a group in Henderson, Nevada, at the end of last month, vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance said: “We believe that a million cheap knockoff toasters aren’t worth the price of a single American manufacturing job. We believe in rebuilding American factories and rebuilding the American dream.”

The Republican Party can no longer ignore that former President Donald Trump, Republican nominee and convicted felon, appears to be losing the thread, a conservative analyst argued Friday.

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin condemned political coverage of the controversial candidate and demanded a new narrative similar to that faced earlier this summer by President Joe Biden.

Olivia Troye, a former homeland security adviser in the Trump White House, warned on Friday that the plans outlined in a secret recording by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought would likely come to pass should former President Donald Trump win another term.

Reacting to the recording of Vought — in which he talked about stripping away government agencies' independence and putting them more directly under control of the president — Troye wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that American voters should take what he says very seriously.

Kamala Harris continues to gain momentum in her sprint to the White House, and one veteran Republican pollster says Donald Trump is running out of time to turn things around.

The former president made two public appearances Thursday at his golf resort in New Jersey, where he offended military veterans with remarks about the Medal of Honor and asserted that he was "entitled" to insult vice president Kamala Harris, and GOP pollster Frank Luntz said the Trump campaign must stop him from turning off more voters with that sort of talk.

On Friday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" ripped into Donald Trump for yet another attack on America's military veterans, with criticism ranging from "shocking" to "warped."

Late Thursday Trump told a crowd at his Bedminster Golf Resort that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is more worthy of admiration than the Congressional Medal of Honor traditionally given to war heroes.

He then set off a wave of outrage by saying of the Medal of Honor recipients, "They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead."

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After showing the clip on Friday morning, co-host Joe Scarborough prompted Willie Geist with, "He has a long history, Willie, of disparaging American veterans and service members."

"He does," Geist conceded. "I mean, you said it right. This is shocking but not surprising because of the pattern. This is not a one-off, this is the way he thinks about people who serve the country in uniform. In 2015, Trump mocked, of course, the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) for having been a prisoner of war. Remember he said, quote, 'I like people who weren't captured.'"

"Yeah, there's something really warped inside of him, there really is," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson added. "Just something — I guess the word weird is overused, but all that we just played is weird."

"And it is just appalling that he would speak of America's heroes that way," he continued. "I mean, the heroes, many who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country, and he simply does not get it. He doesn't understand. There's a connection there that's not being made, and, you know, you saw it where for years he was president and, boy, if he ever became president again, I would really worry about this country because of that emptiness, that lack inside of him, that lack of empathy, that lack of patriotism. It's just not there. It's not there."

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