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'Way too far': Election expert claims Trump should be 'worried' about independent voters

During an appearance on CNN early Saturday morning, election expert Larry Sabato, founder of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, claimed Donald Trump may have finally doomed his chances with moderate and independent voters in the waning days before voters head to the polls on Tuesday.

Speaking with CNN host Amara Walker, Sabato was asked if Trump's comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), stating she should "face guns," was likely the last straw for the few voters who were still on the fence.

"Is he worried about losing undecided or moderate voters? Should he be?" the CNN host asked.

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"Oh, absolutely he should be," Sabato shot back. "He went way too far on Liz Cheney."

"I think it's having an impact. The Harris campaign is saying it is having an impact on the remaining undecided voters," he continued, before elaborating, "I dont know how they can track them, there are so few of them relatively speaking, but apparently they say that it's caused these undecideds to break towards Kamala Harris."

"Now we'll see when we analyze the data from a nonpartisan perspective but it couldn't help him," he added. "This is extreme rhetoric from anybody, much less a presidential candidate and surely Trump's staff encouraged him to walk some of that back, but he didn't. He doubled down, that's Donald Trump, which reminds people what the next four years are going to look like. What they are going to look like if Donald Trump is back in the White House."

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'Let's fact-check right there': CNN panelists clash in tense exchange over swing state

A Republican was on the receiving end of a fact-check Friday night from a Democrat on CNN in a tense exchange over Michigan Arab-Americans.

Nayyera Haq, a former senior director in the Obama White House, told panelists a key piece of former President Donald Trump's plans include bombing Iran.

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‘Don’t listen to her’: Lindsey Graham blasts Liz Cheney for ‘selling out conservatism’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sounded off in a feisty Fox News interview Friday night where he attacked former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and delivered a testy message to viewers: “Don’t listen to her.”

The segment Friday night began with Fox News host Sean Hannity and Graham agreeing that Donald Trump’s opponents spent the day after the former president made violent remarks about Cheney “spewing their lies."

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GOP pollster reveals two 'critical' constituents he's watching that could prove 'decisive'

Conservative pollster and focus grouper Frank Luntz revealed to CNN the two voting blocs he will be watching most critically when the votes start rolling in on Tuesday evening.

Luntz, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, said he is "uniquely afraid" that the election conspiracy theories Trump has promoted could ultimately lead to widespread civil unrest.

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Lauren Boebert's House race heats up as deep-red district inches left: report

After far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) narrowly avoided losing — by just 546 votes — in 2022 and was deluged with bad press after being ejected from the "Beetlejuice" musical for lewd behavior, she jumped congressional districts, moving from the slightly conservative 3rd Congressional District to the deep-red 4th Congressional District vacated by retiring Trump critic Rep. Ken Buck.

But her election in the new district may not be as much of a cakewalk as previously assumed, according to The New Republic.

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‘Bonfire of credibility’: GOP insider says Dem attacks on Trump will drive his vote

GOP insider Scott Jennings told a CNN panel on Friday that he's going to end up voting for former President Donald Trump — in part because he's so outraged at how Democrats have aggressively attacked Trump's comments on Liz Cheney.

Trump said at a recent campaign event that Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman who has been one of the most outspoken supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris from the right, should be staring down "nine barrels shooting at her ... when the guns are trained on her face." He has since tried to clean up his comments in the face of outrage from pundits and political opponents, denying that he was literally talking about a firing squad.

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Voters are ‘showing up!’ Harris team touts ‘enthusiasm’ and 'momentum' in final days

Vice President Kamala Harris is expressing cautious optimism in the final days of the 2024 presidential race, saying voters are “showing up,” and she is “seeing an incredible amount of enthusiasm from people of every walk of life.”

“What I’m enjoying the most about this moment is that in spite of how my opponent spends full time trying to divide the American people, what I’m seeing is people coming together under one roof who seemingly have nothing in common, and know they have everything in common,” the Democratic presidential nominee told reporters Friday afternoon (video below). “And I think that is in the best interest of the strength of our nation.”

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'Shouldn't be surprised': Maggie Haberman says Trump team scrambling after Cheney attack

Former President Donald Trump is in full backpedal mode after being caught off guard by public outrage over his remark that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) should be made to stare down "nine barrels shooting at her ... when the guns are trained on her face," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday.

Trump is trying to argue that he didn't literally mean Cheney should be executed but rather made to face the consequences of foreign wars she and her father supported.

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'Not a hoax!' Jake Tapper fires back at GOP senator declaring Trump clip 'a distortion'

A GOP senator’s characterization of a clip of Donald Trump spewing violent language about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as a “distortion” and “pre-Election Day hoax” didn’t pass muster for CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who immediately pushed back.

The tense exchange unfolded during an appearance by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on Tapper’s show “The Lead” after a clip was played of Trump suggesting former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) should experience “nine barrels shooting at her” – which the Trump ally defended as a "desperate" “pre-Election Day hoax.”

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'They may need lawyers': Jack Smith's office reportedly bracing for Trump's retribution

The 2024 election will decide the next steps of the two federal investigations into Donald Trump.

Speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper, reporter Katelyn Polantz said she'd spoken to several people about what's next from the special counsel. One person in the Justice Department said Jack Smith isn't the kind of person to "fold up the tent" if Trump is elected. He'll likely continue until faced with the promise of being fired "within two seconds."

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Ex-Bush aide Nicolle Wallace uses his own words in passionate 'public plea' for Harris

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace was once the White House communications director for George W. Bush, but over the years, her opinions have changed as she left her life in Republican politics in protest of Donald Trump.

Years later, as the 2024 election approaches, the host of "Deadline: White House" is reaching out to her former boss once more to implore him to act.

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Ex-Trump official dogpiled for defending Trump's 'nine barrels' remark toward Liz Cheney

Former Trump administration official Matt Mowers tried to defend former President Donald Trump's remarks that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), one of the most prominent conservatives to back Vice President Kamala Harris, should be put "with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her," arguing he was just criticizing Cheney for not willing to be in the infantry of foreign wars she supported.

His fellow panelists on CNN, Democratic strategist Alencia Johnson and correspondent Jamie Gangel, didn't buy his explanation.

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MSNBC host reveals what strategists believe is behind Trump campaign's lagging ground game

MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend said Friday that she's hearing from insiders that Trump's ground game (the voter contact campaign) wasn't fully funded, and as a result, it's a fraction of the effort by Kamala Harris.

Speaking with Mark McKinnon, co-host of "The Circus," even far-right activist Charlie Kirk agrees that Harris is defeating Trump on the ground.

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