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Kari Lake chooses HQ of ultra-rich lifestyle magazine to host Senate campaign launch

Kari Lake isn't in the 1 percent, but she's about to be in the 1 percent's magazine headquarters.

The Arizona Republic reported Tuesday that the magazine where she's expected to make her big announcement that she's running for Senate describes its readership as “the wealthiest demographic in the world,” reaching "only the one percent of the world’s population who control more than fifty percent of the world’s wealth."

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Republican quits race for president with one request: 'Don't repeat 2016'

Will Hurd, the former Texas congressman who was running for president in 2024 is bowing out of the race and backing former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

“Unfortunately, it has become clear to me and my team that the time has come to suspend our campaign,” Hurd wrote in a statement.

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Trump needles DeSantis over accusation he's wearing platform heels

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Monday to accuse Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of wearing platform heels to mask how short he is.

"Tell me he's not wearing hidden heels," said the meme he shared, showing DeSantis on "Real Time with Bill Maher," dressed in boots coupled with an outline of where his feet supposedly really are.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr launches independent bid for White House

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr said Monday he was quitting the race for the Democratic US presidential nomination to run as an independent -- a move that could shake up a tight election by siphoning votes from the main candidates.  A rematch between President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump is by far the most likely scenario in 2024, and a third-party hopeful taking even a few votes from Biden in swing states could spell disaster for the Democrat. Many analysts however believe that Kennedy, a long-time anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and a darling of the ri...

'I need my speech': RFK Jr. flubs roll-out of his independent presidential run

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential run got off to a rocky start on Monday after he took the stage without a speech.

After being introduced by his wife, Cheryl Hines, Kennedy was expected to announce that he was leaving the Democratic Party to pursue an independent presidential bid.

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DeSantis will appear on Morning Joe amid another comeback attempt

Ron DeSantis will appear on MSNBC Tuesday to answer questions from one of his critics, Politico reported.

According to the news, DeSantis, who has slowly watched his poll numbers sink, is reaching out to the network former President Donald Trump calls MS-DNC, alleging it's a pro-Democratic network.

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Executing Gen. Milley has now become part of the Republican Party line: authoritarianism expert

Appearing on "Meet the Press," Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said that Donald Trump's recent claim that Gen. Mark Milley should be executed for treason was irresponsible.

However, Haley indicated to NBC News that she doesn't see Trump's demands of execution as a disqualifying comment for his own presidency. Haley is running against Trump for the 2024 nomination, though some analysts have suggested she is actually running to be his vice president.

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‘Teachers will be punished’: Fox News host busts Ron DeSantis for denying Florida book bans

Fox News host Shannon Bream pushed back on Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis after he claimed that his state had not banned books in schools.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream told the Florida governor she had recently spoken to a group of women about the targeting of LGBT students by his policies.

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'Doesn't look presidential': Trump admits Melania doesn't like his movements on stage

Donald Trump at an Iowa rally on Saturday confessed that his wife, Melania Trump, has criticized his movements on stage as not looking "presidential."

The former president was telling one of his regular stories about a weightlifter woman who failed to break a record when competing against a transitioned woman.

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'He'd go down': Donald Trump says he could beat up Biden at Iowa rally

Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa on Saturday claimed that President Joe Biden would "go down" if the two were to physically fight.

Trump, who has been criticized for increasingly violent rhetoric as his legal cases have put more pressure on him, began discussing photos of Biden on the beach.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's posts show she's desperate to be Trump's VP: columnist

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been consistently advocating for Donald Trump being speaker of the House, even after the former president endorsed another candidate, and one columnist says it's because she really wants to be his vice presidential running mate.

Greene, who was recently rebuffed by a liberal anti-war group for "opportunistically" approaching its volunteers for a photo, has posted more than once about wanting Trump to be speaker. She has even said every day in the House would be like a MAGA rally, if that were to actually happen.

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'Not fit for the job': John Bolton has strong words for Trump after secret-sharing report

Former President Donald Trump's one-time National Security Adviser John Bolton shredded the former president over the latest report about his disclosure of highly classified national defense information, in an interview on CNN Friday.

In addition to Trump's boxes of classified documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago, he is newly accused of having shared nuclear submarine secrets with an Australian billionaire who attended Trump's country club.

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Chris Christie earned more from ABC News than he would as president: new documents

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's gig with ABC News paid him more than what he'd earn as president of the United States, according to a new federal financial filing.

Christie — now running as a long-shot Republican presidential candidate — reported earning $475,000 in salary as a senior legal and political commentator for ABC News, a job he quit just before announcing his candidacy in May. The commander in chief earns a $400,000 annual salary.

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