2024 Elections

A slew of businesses across the U.S. say they're preparing to spike prices should former President Donald Trump regain the White House in 2025, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Companies that rely on foreign suppliers for baby products, auto parts and clothing — to name just a few — say the only way to survive Trump's promised tariffs on foreign imports will be to offload the cost on consumers, according to the report.

On Wednesday morning, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski cast a skeptical eye on former Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward's claim that Post owner Jeff Bezos made a mistake when he blocked the paper's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

The decision, announced last week, set off a firestorm with readers and employees of the venerable newspaper which has reportedly lost close to 250,000 subscribers and has drawn nearly universal scorn for the timing, coming just 11 days before the election.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Woodward admitted his dismay with Bezos interfering with the editorial page editors who had a Harris endorsement already written and ready to publish.

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"How disturbed are you that the editorial page wanted to endorse a candidate just like the L.A. Times editorial page was ready to endorse a candidate and their billionaire owner stepped in and nixed the idea?" co-host Joe Scarborough asked his guest.

"Well, that's what they can do," Woodward conceded. "I know Jeff Bezos, I haven't talked to him for a while, I haven't talked to him about this, but this is a super mistake."

"Let the paper operate, let the news side and the editorial side work together –– they actually should," he continued. "During Watergate, that's exactly what happened. and to just kind of say oh ... anyway. It's disturbing."

"It doesn't feel like a mistake to me, I'll take that as my words," co-host Brzezinski quickly chimed in. "I know you call it a mistake, a big mistake."

"Why?" a seemingly startled Woodward replied.

"Well, the statement that Jeff Bezos put out conflicts with the statement the Washington Post put out," she replied. "It seems to me that Jeff Bezos is bending to Trump."

"It may not be a deal for something tangible right now but he's bending to Trump," she added.

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A revelation that Donald Trump and his campaign have yet to reach out to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) for help with women voters stunned the co-hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe who agreed it should alarm the Republican Party leadership.

Appearing on Fox News on Tuesday, the runner-up to the GOP presidential nomination trashed the "bro-culture" on display at the Trump Madison Square Garden rally that has sent the former president's re-election bid into doubt.

As "Morning Joe" contributor Katty Kay put it, "The way she pushed back says this isn't a joke, people feel very sensitive about this and this matters to them."

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"Imagine if someone called your state or your hometown or your country and denigrated the way it was," she continued. "I think the point she made saying this went too far, all they needed to do was apologize and say women are not liking what they are hearing; they're not liking this hyper-masculinity. Donald Trump is re-posting things on Truth Social saying manhood is under attack. Manhood is not under attack."

"I have not met one alpha male who doesn't want to take care of his wife and daughters every way possible and wants every bit of health care available to them. I don't know of one," co-host Mika Brzezinski interjected.

That led co-host Willie Geist to contribute, "I would submit that the Republican leaders who scurry behind Donald Trump calling themselves alpha, that is a definition of beta doing whatever you're told by another guy."

He then added, "Katty is so right. Nikki Haley said Donald Trump has not called me since June –– sort of like throwing up a red flag and saying, it's actually political malpractice. It's actually insane in races in some of these states that might be decided in four digits with thousands of votes not to court Nikki Haley's voters. But his ego is such that he can't bring himself to that."

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On Wednesday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough laughed off the meltdown Donald Trump and his supporters are having over comments made by President Joe Biden that they believe labeled all of his followers as garbage.

The segment kicked off with "Morning Joe" regular Jonathan Lemire reporting on Trump and Fox News trying to make hay out of the comment which Biden asserted later was aimed solely at the Madison Square Garden rally comedian who smeared Puerto Rico and created a firestorm for the Trump campaign which has been in damage control ever since.

As Lemire explained, "The president said something and immediately tried to clarify it, Joe, but certainly a story on the right who are trying to paint this to be the next basket of deplorables."

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A laughing Scarborough replied, "Well, of course. Donald Trump says shocking things every day on Fox News and all of his apologists in the Republican Party immediately go to it and brush it off and explain it away or just completely ignore it."

"Here, they are trying to make a firestorm out of something that, again, if you look at it, you see what he said immediately afterward, which Donald Trump didn't say, and he said I was talking about the comedian and people who support that kind of talk," he elaborated.

"Joe Biden obviously doesn't believe that," the MSNBC host insisted. "I forget what state it was in but it was during a hurricane –– after a hurricane I believe –– and Joe Biden went in and he went in and talked to the crowd. Went and talked to a big Trump supporter and joked with him and put the hat on him. And again, trying to bring people together and even saying, 'Hey, I'll wear your Trump cap. We are on the same team.' That is the type of leadership you want."

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will spend Election Night at Howard University in Washington, the historically Black college where the Democrat studied 40 years ago, her spokesperson told AFP Tuesday.

November 5 will see Harris either become the first woman to win the White House, or she will be defeated by Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Conservative activist Steve Bannon was freed from prison Tuesday and his news conference was interrupted by a comedian mockingly claiming to have served time with him at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

At the news conference about his time in prison, a man identifying himself as comedian Robbie Roadsteamer stood to ask Bannon a question.

RSBN host Nikki Stanzione told her audience that former President Donald Trump was "like a prophet" for people of all faiths, including "Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim."

Before a Tuesday rally in Pennsylvania, Stanzione spoke to a man who said Jesus Christ was a "fighter" like Trump.

Election-related lawsuits are being filed thick and fast across the country — but the Republican Party's legal challenges are proving largely unsuccessful.

Politico reported Tuesday that the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals "declined to allow" a North Carolina court to hear a Republican suit asking for additional verification for 225,000 voters. According to the ruling, the case should be in federal court.

Former President Donald Trump hurled a bizarre accusation at Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday that included claims she's offering free legal services to immigrants at the southern border — but gave no corroborating evidence.

Trump on Truth Social claimed that Harris, a former prosecutor, was putting up billboards along the southern border offering free legal services to migrants, whom he referred to as "illegal alien criminals."

A supporter of Donald Trump said she feared Social Security would be degraded after being warned about Project 2025.

Ahead of a Tuesday Trump rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a woman named Chris expressed her fears to Right Side Broadcasting Network host Matt Kane.

Former President Donald Trump's description of his Madison Square Garden rally as a "love fest" stunned viewers who'd witnessed its racist jokes, misogynistic insults and the many comparisons made to another political event held in the event in 1939.

Trump spurred a new wave of outrage during his press conference at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday when he championed the love and beauty of an event that has the archbishop of San Juan demanding an apology.

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance insisted Tuesday that former President Donald Trump "doesn't demean" people who vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Vance ended a rally in Michigan by suggesting Trump was kinder to opponents than Harris.

In a rare move seven days before Election Day, the chair of the Harris campaign has released a video in an apparent effort to tamp down nervousness in the Democratic base.

Jen O'Malley Dillon told supporters, "we're on track to win a very close election," "we feel really good with what we're seeing," but "we still have a lot of work to do."