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Fox News host Howard Kurtz called out Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump after she insisted that Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald Trump by "insulting people."

"If you're running for president of the United States, you better lay out a great plan for the American people and tell them how you're going to make their life better, not just continually attack the opposition," Trump told Kurtz in a Sunday interview on Fox News.

Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Cory Mills (R-FL) floated possible criminal cases against special counsel Jack Smith, Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter, Democratic fundraiser Loren Merchan, over prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump.

Merchan oversaw a criminal case where Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in New York. Smith brought charges against Trump for trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election and mishandling classified documents.

Confronted on CNN on Sunday morning, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) didn't have much to say when asked what happened to Republican party accusations that the 2024 election would be rife with fraud –– until Donald Trump won.

Speaking with host Dana Bash, the verbose Jordan continuously changed the subject after she pointed that, on election night, former president Trump was still claiming the the election was going to be stolen from him.

Olivia Troye, a former aide to Mike Pence, revealed that Donald Trump's team aims to replace policy experts with "carnies at the Iowa State Fair."

During a Sunday panel discussion on MSNBC, Troye explained how the incoming Trump administration would use a policy known as Schedule F to replace policy experts serving in government positions.

The chairman of a conservative think tank stepped in it more than once during a visit to MSNBC's "The Weekend" and found himself on the receiving end when he tried to blow off Donald Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin.

Speaking with co-hosts Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele, Michael Needham of the conservative American Compass was pressed on how President-elect Donald Trump should deal with Putin's continuing war with Ukraine.

During an interview with MSNBC's Alex Witt, NBC justice reporter Ryan Reilly claimed some of the accused Jan. 6 insurrectionists who have yet to appear in court may walk away without ever going to trial after Donald Trump is sworn in next January.

And for that, he stated, they can thank some FBI agents and officials who are sympathetic to their cause.

Appearing on MSNBC just days after Donald Trump won re-election over Vice President Kamala Harris, conservative lawyer George Conway suggested Donald Trump's biggest campaign promise will fall apart just like a similar one did after he was first elected in 2016.

Speaking with the co-hosts of "The Weekend," the Trump critic maintained that, if the former president's history with Congress is any guide, the president-elect will botch his mass deportation plans which he made central to his bid for a third shot at the presidency.

As part of the ongoing, and seemingly endless, postmortem on Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump, the co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" attempted to tackle the finger-point at voting groups for not showing up and questions over running women and people of color for office.

According to co-Host Symone Sanders Townsend, she has spent years working in Democratic politics, "when there were usually, the people at the top were men and they were all white men and then over the course of years it has changed."

The entire panel of MSNBC's "The Weekend" was left speechless before dissolving into nervous laughter after a noted expert on authoritarianism detailed how Donald Trump managed to get himself re-elected and what to expect now that voters have handed him another four years in office.

Co-host Michael Steele prompted historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat with, "I want to get your thoughts of what we can now say is the emerged, the realized form of American fascism that the American people, by some 50-plus percent decided, 'Yes, let's do that.'"

"I mean there is much to say," she began. "We are here now, you know, Donald Trump was very skilled at conditioning Americans to think that democracy and American democracy in particular was failing."

"He called America a garbage can. He spread with his allies disinformation about the economy, said that America was failing and praised foreign dictators so he could bolster his own idea of leadership, which is 'I alone can fix it,'" she elaborated.

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"And all the slogans we have seen for years from him add up to this kind of strong men model of leadership which depends on having an enemy and an internal enemy, the enemy within," she continued.

"So you can justify these kind of crackdowns on the vulnerable, these repressions," she predicted. " And so this is all very unfortunate but he did a good job of conditioning over and over. We've have had eight years of this, Americans to see democracy is inferior to something else. That something else would be strong men ruled by him."

After she concluded, there was a long pause before Steele and co-host Symone Sanders Townsend simultaneously uttered, "Hmmm," which then led to a smattering of nervous laughter before turning to guest George Conway.

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Kamala Harris was set up “to fail” by President Joe Biden's refusal to clear the way for a Democratic primary and instead pass the torch to his vice president with just over 100 days to pitch herself to the American public, one expert said Friday night on "Overtime" with "Real Time" host Bill Maher.

“When Biden refused to step aside and not run again, he was supposed to be that bridge, he backed off on that promise due to arrogance and then he drops out after a catastrophic debate performance and they set Kamala Harris up to fail,” said Sarah Isgur, a senior editor at The Dispatch and former director of the Office of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Despite the outcome of the election, the liberal comedian Bill Maher gave Democratic viewers of "Real Time" on Friday night a small note of optimism — and a dose of reality.

In his opening monologue, Maher said a "lot of people are freaking [out]" but he opened the window and the "sun was still shining, the birds were still singing."