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MAGA melts down after Kacey Musgraves pauses her concert with a plea: 'Deport her too'

Fans of President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement went berserk on Sunday after country music star Kacey Musgraves called on her fans to donate to an organization that helps children whose parents have been deported.

Musgraves stopped her show in Chicago on Saturday night to make the plea to her audience, Fox News reported.

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Trump's 'cheerleader' has a new White House role — and it exposes his biggest weakness

President Donald Trump's top "cheerleader" in the White House has recently gotten a new role, and it exposed her boss's biggest weakness, according to a new column.

Natalie Harp, who has earned monikers ranging from Trump's "human printer" to his "human binkie," has seemingly become the bodyguard of Trump's "fragile ego," Renée Graham, a columnist at The Boston Globe, argued in a new op-ed. That job apparently involves providing Trump with the information he wants to hear, rather than information about reality, she argued.

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'Idiotic' MAGA Republican measles excuse immediately blows up in his face: 'Awful human'

MAGA gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds of Florida sparked an internet firestorm on Sunday after he made a wild claim about the ongoing measles outbreak.

Donalds joined CBS News's Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, where he was asked about Florida falling below the herd immunity rate for measles. But Donalds' attempt to explain the trend outraged several commentators online.

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'Does he care?' GOP tears its hair out as Trump vows random stump speech

Republican strategists in the nation's most competitive Senate and House races are quietly fuming this week as President Donald Trump prepares to headline a campaign rally in a state that poses no threat to GOP control of Congress.

Trump is set to appear Friday in Myrtle Beach to stump for Sen. Darline Graham in deep-red South Carolina, marking a rare, full-throated return to the campaign trail, in a move stands in sharp contrast to the president's approach in states where Republican control of Congress could actually hinge on the outcome, reported Politico.

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Dan Rather torches Trump's latest 'grift' as 'king of debt' boast backfires

Legendary journalist Dan Rather threw President Donald Trump's words back in his face in a new Substack essay.

On Tuesday, the U.S. national debt surpassed $40 trillion, a level that has alarmed economists. Rather argued in a new article for his Substack, "Steady," that Trump once promised to eliminate the national debt during his first term. However, that appears to be just another unfulfilled promise.

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Scott Bessent's jobs logic exposes glaring hole at the heart of MAGA: analyst

The Trump administration got a tongue-lashing on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" Thursday, following Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's boast that low job numbers are okay because immigrants are being deported to balance it out.

Not only is this not how the economy works, noted anchor Alicia Menendez to former GOP strategist Tim Miller, but it also reveals a glaring contradiction at the heart of MAGA ideology.

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Warning signs flash as 'eye-popping' economic figures spell doom for GOP voters: analyst

A panel of experts on CNN blasted through the ramifications of the U.S. national debt hitting the $40 trillion mark.

More than a decade ago, President Donald Trump promised he could eliminate the national debt, and instead introduced a series of tax cuts that accelerated its growth.

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Forecaster's shocking shift in red state races 'should scare Republicans': expert

In an ominous sign for the GOP this fall, the Cook Political Report shifted four statewide races in Republican-controlled states in Democrats' favor.

The storied election forecasting firm shifted the Texas and Iowa U.S. Senate races from Lean Republican to Toss Up, giving Democratic challengers James Talarico and Josh Turek a coin-flip chance to beat Republicans Ken Paxton and Ashley Hinson.

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Darline Graham fumbles again over $500K donation from politically toxic group

Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) has given her runoff opponent more attack fodder after a voter question-and-answer appearance.

The sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was appointed to his seat after he passed away suddenly, is currently reeling from a debate performance where she appeared out of her depth on a simple national security question.

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Trump's new 'swamp' monster image makes an excited CNN analyst jump out of his shoes

Americans think their president's name should be Donald Swamp Monster.

That's the newest report from CNN data guru Harry Enten on Trump's latest poll numbers — and Americans' mounting frustration with what they characterize as flagrant corruption.

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Grenade-lobbing Dem beats pearl-clutching GOP at Trump's game as he slams 'binkie': expert

A Georgia Democrat's snarky quips about President Donald Trump's human "binkie" Natalie Harp are providing Democrats a blueprint to potentially reclaim the House, the Senate, and even the White House, CNN political analysts argued Thursday.

Sen. Jon Ossoff's reference to Trump's high-profile aide — "he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace" — represented a powerful political tactic: beating Trump at his own game, analysts argued.

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Trump's 'turbocharging turnout' strategy doomed to destruct as MAGA 'sours': analysis

President Donald Trump's lone strategy for pumping up voter turnout is doomed, according to a new analysis.

Trump has lost his ability to control the MAGA rage he has used in past elections to get his supporters out voting for Republicans — because that rage has turned on him, MS NOW political analyst Zeeshan Aleem argued Thursday.

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GOP's 'island of misfit toys' bludgeoned by string of devastating 'butt-whoopings'

The once highly influential Freedom Caucus, which once dictated the direction of the GOP-controlled House, has become a shell of itself after mounting primary losses.

According to a report from Politico, brutal losses in conservative Wyoming were just the latest sign that the Freedom Caucus is nothing more than an "island of misfit toys" nobody wants, as GOP strategist Matthew Bartlett quipped.

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