2024 Elections

Donald Trump is expected to take the stage in Novi, Michigan Saturday afternoon, the day after he made his MAGA fans wait for him for hours on a cold tarmac in Traverse City on Friday night.

With the election down to ten days away, the former president has attempting to pack in as many appearances as possible in the waning days in the key battleground states that hold the key to a November victory.

On Friday night, the former president left his fans waiting while he finished up an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan in Austin.

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As CBS reported, "Minutes before Trump's Michigan rally was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, his spokesman posted on the social media platform X that Trump was just leaving Texas, more than two hours away by air. Trump recorded a video from his plane urging his supporters to stay, noting it was Friday night and promising, 'We're going to have a good time tonight,'" adding, Trump eventually took the stage at the Traverse City airport, where temperatures dipped to about 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius). The crowd erupted into cheers as video screens showed Trump's plane arriving and then him walking off his plane and down the steps."

All eyes are on the presidential election 10 days from now. But how effective either candidate will be will depend on whether they have the majorities in Congress necessary to pass their policies into law.

Both chambers of Congress are almost evenly divided, and a handful of results in favor of one party or another could give Democrats or Republicans a critical edge. NBC News recently identified several down-ballot races for both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate that could prove decisive in determining which party controls either chamber of Congress.

Reacting to a Wall Street Journal report that billionaire Elon Musk has been having secret talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, conservative Reihan Salam attempted to downplay the idea that anything nefarious has been going on which led to him being rebuked on CNN.

During the discussion on CNN's Chris Wallace show, host Wallace mentioned the private Putin talks that have alarmed government officials because the Donald Trump ally is also a government defense contractor.

The nation's security seemed unconcerning to Salam, who told the host, "I honestly don't know about the content of these conversations, but what I will say is that Elon Musk is someone who has been greatly enriched by Biden-Harris policies, by the Inflation Reduction Act. "

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After pointing to Musk's increased Tesla profits, he continued, "So I think that the idea that he is doing this to enrich himself, there's a little bit of a wrinkle here. "

"Oh, come on, come on" the New York Times Lulu Garcia-Navarro interrupted.

"This is with Vladimir Putin. Elon Musk is actually involved with Ukraine and has American contracts to actually give them internet with their Starlink," she lectured Salam.

"This is not just some guy having discussions over his head," she continued. "This is someone who is integral to a lot of the things that the United States is doing. And to be having private conversations with one of the premier enemies of the United States without coordinating with [the State Department] –– I mean this is highly inappropriate."

"Do you know that he is not coordinating", the conservative panelist shot back.

"We don't know what he's doing," podcaster Kara Swisher interjected.

She then added, "This is precisely what people accuse George Soros of doing and everything else, but it is perfectly fine when Elon Musk does. Elon Musk does better in a Trump presidency."

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If he's elected to a second term, former President Donald Trump may have the most blatantly transactional administration in modern history, according to new reporting.

The New York Times recently did a deep-dive on all of the policy positions Trump has flipped on in an effort to court more campaign cash. In their investigation, the Times' Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan found several areas in which the former president bent his own views to fit the preferences of wealthy donors he was courting.

Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele went off on a brutal attack on Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos for his part in spiking a Washington Post endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, telling the owner of paper to sell it if he's afraid of Donald Trump.

Reacting to the furor of the venerable paper which broke the Watergate break-in story that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation on Aug. 8, 1974, Steele, from his perch on MSNBC's "The Weekend" bluntly stated Bezos has no idea what he is doing.

Noting the paper's "Democracy dies in darkness" now-diminished slogan, Steele ranted, "You just turned out the lights, Jeff Bezos, you just turned out the lights on the Washington Post because you were so afraid, my god, 'Donald Trump will come after my business.'"

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"Here's the deal," he continued. "If you can't handle it, sell the paper! Because why did you own it if you are going to do this with that? Same with the L.A. Times. If you can't take that heat, get out of that business because it is not a business for you."

"You cannot bring that mindset, you don't have a journalistic mindset, you don't understand what the First Amendment means to the men and women who actually do that job every day," he stated before exclaiming, "There is a reason your newsroom right now is pissed off at your dumb behind because you buckled. You put it on your masthead and then you took it down because you are afraid of Donald Trump ."

"I don't get what the hell everybody is so afraid of this guy for," he told his co-hosts. "There are more of us willing to stand in the light so it doesn't go dark and you are turning out the lights on your own newspaper"

"Go ahead. See what happens. He is still going to come after you if he wins, right?" he concluded.

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During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban was asked what appears to be moving voters away from Donald Trump and into Vice President Kamala Harris' camp in the waning days of the 2024 presidential campaign.

Cuban, who has been hitting the campaign trail to boost Harris, was specifically asked, "What are you finding to be the most persuasive closing argument?"

"Most recently, deportation," he quickly answered.

On Saturday morning, MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan expressed astonishment and anger over Donald Trump's ignorance about Nazis and Adolf Hitler which was revealed in his conversations with his former White House chief of staff.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Jordan — a former speechwriter in President George W. Bush's administration — was asked about the impact of Gen. John Kelly's admission that Trump found admirable qualities in the Nazi leader.

According to the analyst, she believes it has given an assist to Vice President Kamala Harris as she makes the case that her presidential opponent is a fascist.

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That, in turn, led her to point out that Harris seems to be getting under Trump's skin with the attacks before she turned back to Trump's lack of knowledge about the Nazis.

"I thought the Hitler comment was just, I mean, jaw-dropping, even though we have heard it several iterations of that over the years," she told the panel. "It is not new he denigrates the military and sympathizes with authoritarians and dictators. What I thought was so effective is she [Harris] used it in the CNN town hall in the way she actually said, he is a fascist, saying what she thinks, being authentic, just putting it out there."

"You know, the Trump campaign, I think it had impact," she reported. "They got up an ad immediately of the Holocaust survivor. You know Republicans, you know they are on top of it and did not waste any time getting that out."

She then exclaimed, "John Kelly has to explain to Trump, 'No, you don't want generals like Hitler. They killed millions of innocent people by sending them to the gas chambers.' Jesus Christ, why are we having this conversation?"

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — the world's wealthiest man — has come out harshly against undocumented immigrants since becoming one of former President Donald Trump's biggest donors and campaign surrogates. But a new report reveals that he launched his career in the United States without legal status.

The Washington Post is now reporting that Musk was illegally staying in the U.S. on a student visa despite dropping out of school. While Musk, who is from South Africa, emigrated to attend Stanford University, he called his department chair shortly after the fall 1995 semester began to inform him that he wouldn't be attending classes.

Should Donald Trump fail a second time to be re-elected he faces the very real possibility of jail time and massive financial penalties due to the sheer volume of criminal cases and civil lawsuits that are on hold until after the election.

That is the opinion of Syracuse University law professor Greg Germain who explained in an interview with Newsweek that the former president's only path to get out from under the federal cases he now faces is to beat Vice President Kamala Harris in less than two weeks and then push the Department of Justice to drop the cases filed against him.

As Germain stated, the multiple federal cases Trump is facing are solid and his only path to victory may be having them shut down.

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Speaking with Newsweek's Sean O'Driscoll, Germain pointed to the stolen government documents case filed by special counsel Jack Smith that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed, with her ruling currently under appeal.

"If Trump loses the election, he is in serious jeopardy in the federal criminal cases, especially the documents case if Judge Cannon's dismissal under the appointments clause is reversed, or corrected by the Justice Department, following the appeal," he explained.

The Republican-connected Badger Values PAC is spending in Wisconsin to boost Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, according to a report from the Washington Post.

The spending is a sign that some think third party presidential candidates in Wisconsin, a key battleground state, could influence the outcome of the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Three third-party candidates — Stein, Robert F. Kennedy and Cornel West — will appear on Wisconsin ballots, though Kennedy, who has been seen as a potential spoiler for Trump, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to get his name removed since he dropped out and endorsed Trump, filing his appeal after early voting started in the state.

Former Fox News and NBC News host Megyn Kelly went toe-to-toe with liberal HBO comedian Bill Maher on Friday night as she tried to insist a second Trump administration will look a lot like the first.

The debate kicked off with Maher noting to Kelly and his "Real Time" audience that America mistakenly thought Russia would stand alone when it invaded Ukraine. Instead, Russian President Vladimir Putin has become "chummy" with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as well as North Korea and Iran.