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'Crowd goes silent' as Trump again confuses Biden and Obama at Virginia rally

Donald Trump on Saturday once again appeared to confuse President Joe Biden and Former President Barack Obama at his rally.

Trump, who has regularly claimed that his mishaps with their names are because he is intentionally saying Obama is pulling the strings of Biden's presidency, was telling a story about Russia and other foreign parties when he made a slip that was apparently not intentional.

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J.D. Vance gets swift reminder of past Trump hate after claiming to have 'a long memory'

Republican Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), a staunch ally of Donald Trump, wasn't always a fan of the former president. And he got a reminder of that on Saturday as political onlookers posted quotes, videos, and memes to debunk his claim of having a "long memory."

Vance, who recently was ridiculed online for accidentally revealing his search results that some said implied he was searching for explicit videos involving dolphins, was again met with mockery Saturday. In this case, it was because the lawmaker sent out what many interpreted was a threat to anyone who doesn't support the ex-president.

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Trump wins party vote in 3 states, edging toward nomination

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Saturday inched ahead in his quest to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee, winning internal party elections in the states of Missouri, Michigan and Idaho, U.S. media reported.

The former president has now won every state nominating contest heading into next week's "Super Tuesday," when voters in 15 U.S. states choose their preferred candidate for each party.

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Psychologist says Trump's latest rally 'consistent with a diagnosis of dementia'

Donald J. Trump has regularly accused his political opponent, President Joe Biden, of being cognitively impaired to the point of being unfit for the office of the White House. But that might be pure projection, if you take into account what one psychologist said on Saturday.

Trump over the weekend spoke at an event in North Carolina, where he suddenly had to pause his speech when an audience member appeared to be suffering from a heart attack or similar event. After several minutes without speaking, Trump thanked the medical workers and then proceeded to talk about tariffs he would impose.

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'Venezwheregullah': Trump's most ridiculed 'short circuits' from North Carolina rally

Donald Trump had several verbal slip-ups at his rally in North Carolina on Saturday, prompting the internet to go wild.

Trump delivered remarks at a "Get Out the Vote" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he said President Joe Biden is the worst leader our nation has ever seen.

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'Did you see that?' Trump stops speaking at rally as crowd member suffers heart event

Donald Trump stopped speaking abruptly at his rally in North Carolina on Saturday, keeping silent for several minutes as someone in the crowd suffered an apparent heart emergency.

Trump was speaking confidently about ISIS when he suddenly shut up and watched a man be taken away by medical crew in the building.

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'Too dumb?' Trump ally Sidney Powell roasted by elections official for false fraud claim

Sidney Powell, a former Trump attorney who pleaded guilty in connection with attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, just got called out by an election official for spreading false claims of voter fraud associated with the upcoming contest in 2024.

Powell, often referred to as "the Kraken" because of her promise to unleash such a creature in her bid to keep Trump in power, on Friday posted what she purportedly thought was evidence of voter fraud efforts coming from Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Far-right group seeks to raise $108M to 'clean house' of swing state election officials

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) — a youth-focused group led by far-right activist Charlie Kirk — isn't just hoping to elect more Republicans to office. The group is specifically hoping to replace the public employees in charge with overseeing elections in hotly contested battleground states with MAGA acolytes.

The Guardian reported Saturday that Kirk's group, which is based in the swing state of Arizona, is aiming to raise $108 million in its campaign to "clean house" of election officials. TPUSA has already hired hundreds of employees in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin to supplant its "Chase the Vote" campaign infrastructure. Those three states' combined 37 electoral votes are notably what made the difference in President Joe Biden winning the Electoral College in 2020 by just over 42,000 total votes.

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'None of this adds up': Expert shreds Trump's contradictory statements on accountability

Former President Donald Trump's various immunity defenses make no sense taken together, said former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal on MSNBC Friday.

This comes after the Supreme Court agreed to take up a review of Trump's defense, potentially punting his January 6 case to after the election — a move that troubles Katyal, despite his professed deep admiration for the court as an institution.

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'Glass house': Conservative slams Lauren Boebert for picking fight over Biden family drama

Conservative columnist Matt Lewis tore into Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for living in a "glass house" while attacking President Joe Biden for the behavior of his son, when she herself is "a 36-year-old grandmother" with a son who "was arrested after going on an alleged crime spree."

"I’m no prude. Nor do I think parents are to blame for every wayward child. Stuff happens even in the best of families. There but for the grace of God go I. What is more, it’s not like Boebert is the first politician to endure an embarrassing family scandal. But the Boeberts are a special case for a couple reasons," wrote Lewis. Chiefly, "the day before the news broke about Tyler, Boebert tweeted: 'The Biden Crime Family will go down as the most corrupt political family in American history.'”

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Ex-Trump aide spills dirt on highly paid junior campaign staffer with lobbyist mom

She's naming names and exposing their salaries.

A former Trump campaign aide is doing some freelance oppo research to expose those she says are currently on the Trump campaign payroll but have considerable baggage.

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'His conduct gets much worse': Impeachment lawyer has a warning about Trump

Former chief impeachment lawyer Barry Berke brought up the former staff of Donald Trump on Friday, taking to the media to sound the alarm that a second term would be dangerous.

The conversation began about the Trump trials and the notion that Americans deserve to see the evidence against him before the November election. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace asked Berke whether those conversations should happen in the context of court or the presidential campaign. Berke said both, and everywhere.

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'This Congress really isn't normal': Analyst puzzled as retiring Republicans 'unretire'

Over the past several days, members of Congress who have said they plan to retire in 2024 have backtracked on their decisions — and an analyst sees something odd about that.

Most recently, Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), who said in January he was retiring at the end of his term, decided he will run for reelection after all. He said he'd been urged to reconsider by Republicans including Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and former President Donald Trump.

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