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Trump family member flags 'the best example so far' of ex-president's 'cognitive decline'

Donald Trump's own family member says the former president is no longer "tethered to reality," and says it's "getting worse."

Psychologist Mary Trump, the niece of the ex-president Trump, stated on Thursday night that she doesn't understand how people don't see how he's declined.

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North Carolina woman running 'can't win' state senate campaign against gerrymandering

A North Carolina woman is running a self-described "built to lose" campaign for a state senate seat in a bid to draw attention to anti-democratic partisan gerrymandering.

Kate Barr, a 42-year-old mother of two, is a Democrat running for North Carolina's 37th Senate District, a seat she says she cannot win because it "is so gerrymandered that I don't stand a chance."

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Big Oil dishes out record $54.2 million to boost GOP candidates: analysis

The investigative outlet Sludge reported Thursday that the fossil fuel industry has pumped a record sum this election cycle into a pair of super PACs dedicated to securing GOP control of the House and retaking the narrowly Democratic Senate next month.

Citing Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings made public earlier this week, Sludge noted that oil and gas giants such as Chevron and ConocoPhillips as well as the American Petroleum Institute—the industry's largest lobbying group—donated more than $20 million total to the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) and the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) in the third quarter of 2024.

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Ex-GOP rival may launch 11th-hour stump for Trump effort amid ‘yawning gender gap’

Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) – a one-time bitter political rival of Donald Trump – could soon join the former president at a last-minute campaign event with just weeks to go before Election Day.

A former U.N. ambassador under the Trump administration who sought the Republican nomination this year, Haley is said to be in talks to appear alongside the ex-president to win over disaffected Republicans, according to The Bulwark, which cited sources familiar with the discussions.

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Councilwoman jabs Josh Hawley: 'Move your bus' — it's illegally taking up 6 parking spaces

St. Louis Councilwoman Lisa Clancy posted photos of Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) campaign bus taking up six spaces as it parked horizontally across the parking lot filled with cars.

"Hey Senator Hawley, I know you’re not around very often, but normally out-of-state travelers don’t just leave their bus illegally parked in six spaces when they head back home to wherever. The county asks you come back to MO to move your bus," Clancy posted on X Thursday.

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Worker whose questioning of Trump went viral now says he's 'not going to vote for him'

Donald Trump took part in a town hall on Wednesday with Univision as part of his campaign’s effort to reach Latino voters. The crowd was made up of undecided registered voters, some of whom didn't speak English.

Among them was Ramiro González, a 56-year-old construction worker who lives in Tampa, Florida, and who asked Trump a question about the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol building.

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'He's a hack': Fox's Bret Baier pummeled by former colleagues after Harris interview

Add some former Fox News colleagues of embattled host Bret Baier to the list of people who weren't impressed by how he conducted himself during his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

With various political observers calling his hectoring of Donald Trump's presidential opponent "embarrassing," "insufferable" and "obnoxious," media analyst Justin Baragona reported that two former Fox News producers joined the pile-on.

On X, Baragonna of Zeteo News wrote he was the recipient of texts after the contentious interview drew to a close on Wednesday night.

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He wrote, "A former Fox producer just sent me this reaction: 'Baier showed, again, he's not a 'straight news" anchor. He's a hack who's no different than Hannity or Watters. He bowed to the pressure from his MAGA fans because he doesn't care as long as they don't change the channel.'"

Moments later he added, "Another ex-Fox News producer also texted me that it's 'so interesting to see Bret Baier for who he really is now that I'm on the outside looking in, adding that Baier is 'just so completely in the tank it's hard to believe anyone sees him as a real journalist.'"

Judge slams Rudy Giuliani for 'imagined' evidence of political prosecution in Arizona

An Arizona judge chastised former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for alleging without evidence that he was being prosecuted for political reasons.

In a two-page ruling Thursday, Maricopa County Superior Court Bruce Cohen responded to Giuliani's request for information about grand jurors who indicted him for an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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Trump, Harris back on friendly ground after tough interrogations

Kamala Harris headed to the swing state of Wisconsin on Thursday while Donald Trump took to the airwaves, a day after the US presidential election rivals faced unusually hostile television audiences in a bid to break through in a tied race.

The candidates are racing toward the Election Day finish line with the Democratic vice president narrowly leading her Republican rival nationally and in several crucial swing states, although most polls are within the margin of error.

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'The hard way': Trump makes direct threat to CBS News over interview he calls 'sordid'

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, outraged over claims he's circulated that CBS News doctored a clip of a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris, hurled threats at the national news network Thursday and said he was willing extract evidence from them "the hard way."

Trump — convicted of falsifying business records to cover up money in a tabloid's catch-and-kill scheme to bury salacious stories ahead of the 2016 presidential election — expressed his frustration at CBS News on Truth Social.

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'Disappointing’: State senate candidate alarmed about  potentially racist GOP mailers

When New Hampshire State Senate candidate Ben Ming’s daughter showed him a political mailer her friend received that misspelled her dad’s name as “Bing,” the current state representative chalked it up to a potential “silly mistake.”

Then came another mailer with “a picture of me with a yellowish tint on it, and being Asian American, that, to me, is pretty obvious,” Ming said.

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'The man never learns': Expert explains why Trump is panicked by Stormy Daniels — again

Reacting to reports that Donald Trump is allegedly trying to buy the silence of adult film star Stormy Daniels again, former SDNY prosecutor Kristy Greenberg claimed the former president may have very good reasons to be alarmed.

With the election less than three weeks away, NBC is reporting that Trump's legal team reached out Trump's one-time paramour during the summer and offered a deal if she stayed out of the headlines before voters go to the polls.

Daniels is currently on the hook for a substantial payout to Trump after being ordered to pay his legal fees after losing a defamation case and, as NBC News is reporting, Trump's legal team wrote to her lawyer and offered, "...we can agree to settle these matters for $620,000, provided that your client agrees in writing to make no public or private statements related to any alleged past interactions with President Trump, or defamatory or disparaging statements about him, his businesses and/or any affiliates or his suitability as a candidate for President.”

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Speaking with MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, Greenberg laughed and explained, "It's déjà vu all over again –– the man never learns."

"So what I think may actually be going on here, there was a really interesting filing during the course of this trial, where essentially the prosecutor said, yes, that Stormy Daniels testimony was cringe, there was a lot of detail there, but we didn't even get to the most embarrassing stuff. We were restrained when we put her on the stand."

"And so there's a filing, a report under seal, that has all that embarrassing detail, and I guess that is maybe what Donald Trump does not want Stormy Daniels to talk about," she suggested.

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