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U.S. Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said Thursday that his fellow Ohio lawmaker — 2024 GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance — has stopped spreading the lie that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are stealing and eating residents' cats and dogs. He has not.

"Should Trump and Vance stop lying about these migrants eating people's pets?" CNN's Jake Tapper asked.

A Republican strategist and North Carolina native warned of the potential up-ballot fallout following a bombshell CNN report that surfaced damning comments made by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson — and begged his party to "stop voting for cartoon candidates."

GOP insider Doug Heye joined CNN anchor Anderson Cooper to weigh in on the fallout after CNN reported Thursday that Robinson made comments on a pornographic website, including an anecdote of spying on a women's locker room and the statement "I'm a black NAZI." The comments were made on the site Nude Africa years before the Trump-endorsed candidate entered the public realm.

Vice President Kamala Harris was to hold a campaign rally Thursday night in a key battleground state with prominent talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

The rally, dubbed "Unite for America 2024," will have the women on stage in front of local voters. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was expected to attend, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Former President Donald Trump is losing his mental acuity, "Art of the Deal" co-author Tony Schwartz told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday.

This is more apparent than ever after he was crushed in the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Schwartz argued.

A panel of longtime political commentators agreed that Donald Trump may have always been a little "crazy" or nutty in a laughable way, but they're now concerned he's "dribbling the apple sauce" — meaning they believe he is showing signs of a cognitive decline.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, former MSNBC host Donny Deutsch began by describing Trump as a laughable kind of disturbed.

There's an ugly racial component to the way Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) went after Vice President Kamala Harris this week, a political analyst told an MSNBC host Thursday.

Sanders followed the lead of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) in attacking Harris for not having any biological children, saying that she does not have that influence to "humble" her as a person — even though she has spent years raising stepchildren.

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson appeared Thursday afternoon on CNN to again deny reporting that he expressed appreciation for slavery and transgender pornography on a pornographic site — claiming it was the work of artificial intelligence.

Robinson gave an interview to the KFile reporter who revealed comments — including an anecdote of spying on a women's locker room and the statement "I'm a black NAZI"— made on the site Nude Africa years before the Trump-endorsed candidate entered the public realm.

Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele was taken aback by the latest scandal involving North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), who is running for governor.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace confessed that she couldn't read the full report out loud out of embarrassment. However, she shared some of the details in a CNN report that Robinson frequently viewed adult videos involving transgender people. He was also reportedly active on an adult message board where he made many inflammatory comments about supporting Ku Klux Klan ideology, particularly as it pertains to Martin Luther King, Jr.

North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson is lashing out at a still-unpublished CNN report that is so scandalous that it has resulted in some of his fellow North Carolina Republicans urging him to get out of the race.

In a video released on Thursday afternoon, Robinson denied the as-yet-unreleased allegations and told his supporters that he was the victim of a smear campaign.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) managed to corner Mark Krikorian, the longtime director of the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and an adviser to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, during a congressional hearing — where he forced Krikorian to admit that he thinks Haiti would have been better off socioeconomically if slavery had continued for a few more decades.

Haiti, which is famous for being founded in one of history's only successful mass slave revolts against French colonists, has become a heated topic as former President Donald Trump and his associates have spread a racist, viral internet hoax that Haitian migrants working in Springfield, Ohio have been abducting and eating people's cats and dogs.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) rubbed salt in Rep. James Comer's wounds on Thursday when he recounted his failed efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing that was intended to highlight "failures and incompetencies" of the Biden administration, Moskowitz delivered a lengthy list of all the mistakes he said Comer made during his impeachment probe of the president.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) lashed out at Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) after he brought up a lackluster investigation into President Joe Biden.

At a hearing on Thursday, Moskowitz began by tying former President Donald Trump to Project 2025, a conservative plan that would abolish the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) unexpectedly interrupted a hearing Thursday to insist that former President Donald Trump was "telling the truth" when he said he did not endorse Project 2025, a controversial conservative plan to reshape the federal government.

"I would like to enter for the record a Fox News interview by Brett Baier with Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts," Greene said, speaking out of turn. "Kevin Roberts stated for the record he also published Project 2025, that Mr. Trump is telling the truth, confirming on Fox that Trump never collaborated on Project 2025 and never endorsed it, nor has Heritage Foundation endorsed Trump for president."