2024 Elections

According to Republican Party strategist Scott Jennings, for Donald Trump to be successful in his debate with Joe Biden on June 27, he needs to rein himself in, "stay over the target" — and let the president talk.

Sitting on a panel with Democratic strategist David Axelrod and CNN's John Berman, Jennings stated Trump's worst enemy too often is himself and he should let Biden take the lead — and possibly expose himself to new concerns about his age.

On Monday morning CNN contributor Bakari Sellers laughed and attempted to give credit to Black GOP strategist Joseph Pinion who was blindsided with a supercut of Donald Trump making racist comments.

Brought on initially to discuss the former president's attempt to reach out to black voters, the Republican party strategist was then presented by CNN host Sara Sidener with a collection of clips from Donald Trump speeches where he made comments that drew criticism for their racist overtones.

After the clips were completed, Sidner pressed her Republican guest, "He said a lot of different things that really were upsetting to Black folks and white folks. How do you get over that?'

"I'll just say this," Pinion parried. "We're not in an election where you're saying this is the person who's perfect on race versus just the person who is terrible on race. I think that we like to whitewash away the racial gaps of the candidates when we believe in the underlying policies of that candidate. So whether it's Joe Biden talking about racial jungles 30 years ago and Kamala Harris having to remind people that that little girl on that bus was me or whether it's Joe Biden as recently as two years ago reminiscing about the good times he used to hang out in the cafeteria with all of those avowed racists in the United States Senate."

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"Yes, there are plenty of comments that we can talk about from these presidents. There are people on the left I think that probably take more issue with the racial legacy of Donald Trump but most people, I think, are saying it is a pox on both houses," he added.

Given his chance to respond, Sellers laughed and offered, "Listen, I just listened to my good friend not actually answer your question and I thought the dodging was pretty good."

"I thought it was good, I thought your elocution was amazing," he continued while laughing. "Look, the fact is Donald Trump uses racism as political currency. To his point, this is baked into the cake of who Donald Trump is. I mean, we know Donald Trump is racist, so anytime you sit here and say, 'Look, that guy over there is racist, don't vote for him,' that's really not moving the needle."

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The co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" kicked off Monday morning by pouncing on Donald Trump screwing up the name of the White House doctor who administered the cognitive tests he has continued to claim he "aced."

During a speech in Michigan on Saturday night, the former president was attempting to make a point about President Joe Biden's cognitive decline when he brought up his own tests and called former White House doctor Ronny Jackson —now a member of the House — "Ronny Johnson."

According to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, the Trump campaign has its work cut out for it convincing the voters their candidate isn't in decline.

"Who's Ronnie Johnson?" Scarborough asked sarcastically before joking, "Person, man, woman, horse, Ronny Johnson."

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He then segued to the Trump campaign passing around "cheap fake" clips of Biden that imply the current president has dementia before stating, "I'm new at this politics thing, but I'm guessing if you're going to make fun of your opponent for being cognitively disconnected from facts and figures, it's probably good for you to not be disconnected cognitively from facts and figures as Donald Trump was this weekend."

After jokingly getting Scarborough's name wrong multiple times, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann quipped, "Glass houses, man. You don't want to be throwing stones. People live in glass houses and shouldn't be throwing stones, that's all I'll say. "

"You know, the thing is too, it's getting really more obvious, that they have, the Trump campaign understands they have a serious problem with Donald Trump on facts, on issues, on you name it," Scarborough replied. "Because they have to keep engaging in cheap fakes to make Joe Biden look bad; they've done it this weekend, the past several weeks."

"I mean, they're grasping in many different ways," co-host Mike Brzezinski contributed. "But I think that's Trump being Trump, getting names wrong and getting information wrong and I don't think he cares."

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Former President Donald Trump issued a third Father's Day Truth Social rant that excluded any serious reference to family — but had lots of hateful words for one of his many perceived foes.

Trump had his mind Sunday night on the Washington Post — which had just published a scathing investigation about its incoming editor Robert Winnett’s ties to a self-described thief.

The White House is slapping back at a Trumpworld smear campaign against President Joe Biden they say relies on "cheap" gimmicks and manipulations of the facts, according to a new report.

A White House spokesperson Sunday reportedly fumed about what the Daily Beast described as a "deceptively edited clip" of Biden appearing to wander away from a G7 summit event and another purported to show the president "freezing" on stage at a recent fundraiser.

Former President Donald Trump might have taken to Truth Social on Father's Day evening to share the value his five children add to his life. Instead, he boasted about his ratings.

Trump second social media post Sunday — the first being a widely ridiculed all-caps rant against "radical left degenerates" — saw the presumptive Republican nominee bragging about the success the Turning Point USA People's Convention on Saturday.

The Detroit pastor who hosted Donald Trump's much ridiculed church roundtable — which was promoted as a reach-out to Black voters but later shown to have a large white turnout — said people laughed in his face when he suggested they attend.

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell appeared on MSNBC Sunday night to discuss the "surprising" turnout at the evangelical 180 Church and faced a direct question about the people in the audience.

House Republicans have a horrible problem they are looking to their leader to immediately solve, according to a new report.

"We desperately need a place to smoke cigars," Rep. Tom Cole told Axios Sunday. Another Republican told the news outlet, "It's a very important issue."

MyPillow CEO and election-denier Mike Lindell told conservatives this weekend he was going to deputize them as part of "God's plan" for former President Donald Trump's Election Day victory.

Lindell addressed Trump supporters at the Turning Point USA People's Convention in Detroit on Sunday, when he delivered a plan for the former president and presumptive Republican nominee.

Former President Donald Trump's outspoken ally Steve Bannon frightened a former federal prosecutor who said he hid a "chilling" authoritarian threat in his campaign rhetoric.

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance appeared on MSNBC Sunday to discuss Bannon's promise, made at the Turning Point Action event in Detroit on Saturday, that MAGA Republicans will be "coming after" those pursuing criminal charges against Trump.

A former Trump-era official said Sunday he doubts German Chancellor Olaf Scholz “really knows what he’s talking about" after he heaped praise on President Joe Biden, according to a new report.

Elbridge Colby, Trump's onetime Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, took to X Sunday to slam the German chancellor for praising Biden at the G7 summit, Politico was first to report.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed over the weekend that boat parades were her plan to put presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over the top.

During an interview on Saturday, Real America's Voice host and convicted criminal Steve Bannon asked Greene what people in her Georgia district could do to help Trump in 2024.

An analysis by OpenSecrets revealed in March that "dark money groups are spending at record levels in their efforts to influence the outcome of the 2024 U.S. elections."

Ohio Republican Governor Mike Dewine, however, was ahead of the times.