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Media exec ‘extremely concerned’ not enough focus on possible third-party spoiler

Media executive Tom Rogers said Friday night that Vice President Kamala Harris “has the momentum” to defeat Donald Trump in November’s “tight race,” but warned that “there is not enough focus” on the possibility that a third-party candidate could derail the race for the Democrats.

Rogers, editor-at-large of Newsweek and founder of MSNBC and CNBC, told host Stephanie Ruhle on “The 11th Hour” Friday that while he believes that the former president’s poll numbers have “a ceiling,” the only way Trump wins the presidency “is if there is somebody on the ballot who takes his opponent down below 50%.”

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'You've done nothing for 11 years!' Shouting erupts on CNN after Harris' speech

Two CNN panelists tried to talk over each other Friday night during a passionate discussion over Vice President Kamala Harris' speech at the Arizona border.

Harris delivered the speech in Douglas, Arizona, and focused on border security and illegal immigration. Despite indicating in the past that unlawful border crossing ought to be a civil offense, Harris vowed to push for harsher criminal penalties for repeat border crossers and give the Justice Department more resources to target transnational gangs. She also pledged to revive a bipartisan border security bill once torpedoed by former President Donald Trump.

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'Off the charts extraordinary': Strategist heaps praise on Harris after border speech

Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech Friday night for her first campaign trip to the border was welcomed as a homerun by a Democratic strategist who said it “is why Kamala Harris is going to win this election on November 5.”

“That thing was off the charts extraordinary,” said Fernand Amandi, a Democratic pollster and strategist. “She gave a serious speech that didn’t sound like open borders advocacy. She said ‘I’m a responsible leader. I’m going to solve this problem.'”

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Harris speech was 'tough on the border without being terrible to people': CNN commentator

Vice President Kamala Harris' "gamble" of a border speech in Arizona earned praise from a former Obama administration adviser even as the panel's Republican strategist cast doubt on the speech's effectiveness.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper noted some called Harris's speech Friday night a "gamble" that will bring attention to her and the Biden administration's record on the border.

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'They are leaving': Harris taunts Trump with video of people leaving his rally as he rants

Vice President Kamala Harris had a snappy retort to former President Donald Trump's rambling rant on his ability to draw and keep a crowd.

Minutes after Trump declared during a Walker, Michigan, campaign event that "nobody ever leaves" his rallies, Harris' campaign took to X with a rebuttal.

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'These stupid people': Crowd-obsessed Trump throws staffers under the bus

Former President Donald Trump threw his campaign staff under the bus amid a rambling rant that touched on airplane delays, "little" Hurricane Helene, the importance of wealthy people and the size of his crowds.

Trump delivered an hour-long speech during a campaign rally in Walker, Michigan, Friday afternoon during which he argued — despite taunts from Vice President Kamala Harris and multiple videos and reports from outside his campaign events — that no one ever left early.

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'Pretty cheap stuff': Expert hammers Trump Watch in scathing analysis

A luxury watch expert tried to take former President Donald Trump's new line of timepieces seriously — and almost immediately failed.

Oisín O Malley, UX designer and a prominent watch reviewer on YouTube, took Trump's newly announced $100,000 Tourbillon gold watch to figurative pieces in a 15-minute review in which he repeatedly broke out laughing.

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MAGA fan cites 'yard signs' and 'Facebook' to predict Trump election win

One of Donald Trump's fans cast doubt on polling that shows Kamala Harris narrowly edging him out.

A reporter from the right-wing Newsmax network interviewed supporters outside a rally in Warren, Michigan, where a MAGA hat-wearing fan who identified himself as Brent from Trenton cited some anecdotal data to contradict nationwide polls.

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Trump accused of pledging 'fealty' in meeting with Vladimir Putin

During an MSNBC "Morning Joe" segment on how closely the future of Ukraine is tied to the election of either Vice President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in November, co-host Joe Scarborough accused the former president of being in the pocket of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

After sharing clips of Trump disparaging Ukraine for fighting back against the Russian invasion and claiming the war "didn't need to happen," The MSNBC host took his shot at the former president by citing a secretive and controversial meeting between Trump and Putin in 2018.

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'The reporting has to be truthful': Morning Joe buries the NY Times over Harris coverage

With new polling showing Vice President Kamala Harris maintaining leads over Donald Trump in more than a handful of battleground states, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough singled out the New York Times for its NYT/Sienna polling that continually seems at odds with other polls — and is always bad for Vice President Kamala Harris.

After sharing new polling from Bloomberg News/Morning Consult that should concern Harris' opponent, Donald Trump, the "Morning Joe" host brought up the Times and its outlier polling.

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CNN host predicts what would make Trump 'step back in the ring' for another Harris debate

A lot's riding on the vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz, including the possibility of another presidential debate.

Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CNN to debate Donald Trump on Oct. 23, which the former president claims is "too late" because many voters will have already cast their ballots, but CNN's Michael Smerconish argued that he might be forced to take part if Vance flops in his Oct. 1 face-off with Walz.

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'$100,000 for that?" MSNBC's Morning Joe panel loses it over Trump's watch offer

Early Friday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed a combination of amusement, shock and disgust at Donald Trump's latest venture: selling Trump-branded "Fight, fight, fight" watches — including one for $100,000.

After sharing clips of the former president hawking the timepieces which elicited one "Oh, my gosh," comment and a "wow," co-host Wille Geist offered to laughter, "You know, it is getting very expensive to be a supporter of Donald Trump. You have to get the digital NFTs. You have to buy the sneakers. You have to buy the bible, of course — the Trump bible. Now, you have to buy a watch."

"I mean, this guy is really asking a lot of his supporters," he continued. "Did you love, too, when he called himself a 'beautiful man,' then pretended he was kidding?"

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"You know, one of those watches is $100,000," co-host Mika Brzezinski interjected. "$100,000 for that?"

"That's crazy!" Morning Joe regular Katty Kay exclaimed.

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Trump pal approves of 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'

Donald Trump's senior adviser Jason Miller says that under a second Trump presidency, "it's 'going to be up to the states' whether or not they set up regimes to monitor women’s pregnancies so they can prosecute them for getting out of state abortions."

During a Wednesday Newsmax interview, the conservative interviewer asked, "[Trump] wouldn't support monitoring pregnancies even if a state decided to do that?"

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