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'Dangerous for rural America': Former Bush official endorses Harris on Fox News

A top official in former President George W. Bush's administration announced her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News Wednesday.

Ann Veneman, the first female Department of Agriculture secretary, told the conservative network she will join a mounting number of Republicans who will not cast a ballot for former President Donald Trump, according to the report.

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'Are they all lying?' GOP pollster shreds the 'dead-eyed Trump sycophants' defending him

Former President Donald Trump's allies were subjected to a stern and public rebuke from a Republican news analyst who argued their defense of his reported praise for powerful Nazis was sycophantic at best, dangerous at worst.

The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell took to X on Wednesday to issue a rebuke to Trumpworld supporters dismissing former chief of staff John Kelly's on-the-record comment that the former president's demanded he act more like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's generals.

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Georgia audit finds only 20 noncitizens out of 8.2 million registered voters

An internal audit of the Georgia voter rolls uncovered that the number of noncitizens voting in the state is minimal.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the audit from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who also said that the registrations were canceled and any possible illegal activity was referred to law enforcement.

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'It would be great': Fox News host praises Trump's desire to have Hitler's generals

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade defended Donald Trump after reports said the former president had wished he had Adolf Hitler's generals.

A Wednesday morning Fox News panel discussed reporting from The Atlantic that quoted Trump wishing for Nazi generals.

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'That's demonstrably false': CNN host shuts down Trump ambassador on ex-president's record

CNN host John Berman fact-checked Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) in real-time Wednesday morning when faced with questions about Gen. John Kelly and his comments about Donald Trump.

Hagerty, who previously served as an ambassador in the Trump administration, said that he never witnessed anything like what Kelly described.

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'That wasn't a Democrat': Trump ally corrected on CNN as he complains about Trump attacks

An ally's attempt to defend Donald Trump after his onetime chief of staff alleged startling praise for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's generals was repeatedly shut down on CNN Wednesday morning.

Trump's former strategic communications director Marc Lotter faced off against The Grio senior vice president Natasha Alford in a dark debate about John Kelly's recent report to the Atlantic that the former president requested he be more like "Hitler’s generals."

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'Repeat loser' Trump should not scare Democrats: famed strategist James Carville

Democratic political operative James Carville is trying to calm jittery Democratic nerves ahead of next month's presidential election.

Writing in the New York Times, Carville makes the case that Vice President Kamala Harris will prevail in the 2024 presidential election even though polls currently show the race to be a dead heat.

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'I hope you’re dismembered': Report reveals why journalists fear covering Trump's events

The specter of a second Trump administration has newsroom executives frightened for secret sources and on-the-ground reporters hoping they don't get killed, according to a new report.

NPR reported Wednesday that former President Donald Trump's threats to jail journalists and control national news outlets has already made work more dangerous for journalists, as detailed a disturbing study replete with alarming anecdotes.

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CNN busts Trump campaign manager for deleting posts critical of ex-president's Jan. 6 lies

CNN is reporting that Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita has deleted posts that he promoted on his Twitter account that condemned the MAGA assault on the United States Capitol building.

According to CNN, LaCivita on January 6th, 2021 promoted a post from former President George W. Bush condemning the attack and also slamming Trump's lies that inspired his supporters to carry it out.

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'Says something very ugly about them': Journalist warns not to laugh off Trump threat

The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday to smack down mockery she received earlier this week from the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

During the interview, host Joe Scarborough noted the irony of the WSJ editors ridiculing Applebaum for comparing former President Donald Trump's rhetoric to Adolf Hitler's in the same week that former Trump chief of staff John Kelly publicly came out and said that Trump met the definition of a fascist.

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'Totally sketchy': Trump insiders ring alarm bell about top transition official

Members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle warn the Wall Street CEO leading his transition team could be readying the White House to become his personal ATM, according to a new report

Trump loyalists told Politico Wednesday they're afraid Howard Lutnick is letting his business interests bleed into official duties by inserting loyalists into the second administration he's planning for the former president.

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'That's a real problem!' Experts expose 'potentially serious' issue with polling data

Donald Trump's recent momentum shift could in fact be an illusion, according to some experts.

Trump has recently overtaken Vice President Kamala Harris in certain states' polling averages, but the data also include a huge number of GOP-leaning polls that could potentially tip the scales.

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'Deal with the devil': Trump's 'disturbing' plans said to threaten day-to-day life

Former President Donald Trump presents an unprecedented threat to American civil liberty that could usher in an era of racial violence and political tyranny should he reclaim the White House in 2025, a new analysis of political research shows.

New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall issued Wednesday an extensive but dire warning to the American people in which he begged voters not to make what one expert described to him as a "deal with the devil."

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