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'Alarming': Analyst singles out why J.D. Vance is 'more dangerous' than Trump

Reacting to reports out of Donald Trump's own inner circle admitting that he is "exhausted" by his third bid for the Oval Office, which has led to a flurry of appearance cancellations, a Boston Globe columnist suggested that is why the GOP is trying to lay in a stock of Trump-like candidates like Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) which she called a worrisome turn of events.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr suggested that Vance in particular poses a greater threat than his running mate at the top of the ticket.

As she explained, "For the Republicans, clearly, he [Trump] has been the leader of that party now for almost a decade so they don't really have anywhere to go. You see them trying to back-up the bench with more Trumpian people like J.D. Vance, so perhaps there is a comfort level where if Donald Trump fails, well at least they have J.D. Vance waiting right there in the wings."

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"And that is okay for them and I think it should be alarming for a lot of other people," she added. "Because in many ways I can tell you he is more dangerous than Donald Trump."

"Because he actually has an ideology," co-host Alicia Menendez interjected.

"Absolutely," Atkins Stohr agreed. "He has the mental acuity and the vigor to actually carry it out."

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Watch: Joe Scarborough and Bill Maher pounce on MAGA fans getting played by Putin

In the non-broadcast portion of Bill Maher's "Real Time" on HBO posted to YouTube, the host and guests Joe Scarborough and Mark Cuban called out Donald Trump's MAGA supporters who have been – and continue to be – ripe targets for Russian President Vladimir Putin's propaganda.

As Cuban pointed out, fans of Trump are pinning their election hopes on a wave of betting on the former president winning re-election based upon a flood of bets on Polymarket before noting that the only people who can make wagers on that site are foreigners. He then joked that Putin was likely using it to beef up support for Trump.

That led Scarborough and Maher to single out supporters of Trump who believe accusations of Russian collusion in the 2016 election was a hoax –– with both adding that it wasn't.

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In the "Overtime" segment, Maher told his guests, "They influence our elections in many ways... I think the biggest hoax going is the idea that the Russian collusion was a hoax."

"It's not a hoax there was collusion," he added. "Just because [special counsel] Bob Mueller was bad at proving it –– there was definitely collusion!"

"That's one of the more maddening things, " Scarborough interjected. "I still read the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the op-eds and it is sort of my go-to in the morning. And it is maddening to see people on there talking about a Russian hoax. And you just want to say: read the Mueller report."

"Read everything that has happened and ask yourself why time and time again Donald Trump is doing things that make no sense," he added. "Why did he say in Helsinki in 2018 regarding Russia, I trust Vladimir Putin more than my intel agencies?"

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'He's out of control!' MSNBC's Scarborough unloads on Trump to HBO's Bill Maher

A co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" unloaded on former President Donald Trump and his defenders on HBO's "Real Time" with host Bill Maher.

Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Florida congressman who ditched the party in 2017 and has become an outspoken critic of Trump, delivered a vicious takedown of those who say Trump wouldn't follow through on his authoritarian rhetoric.

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'Could not help himself': Strategist says Trump 'whiffed' on a major opportunity

Former President Donald Trump "whiffed" and made a tactical error that could cost him, a Democratic strategist noted on CNN on Friday night.

Chuck Rocha, founder of Nuestro PAC, told panelists on "NewsNight" that Trump rebuffed an opportunity to make amends with voters of former primary foe Nikki Haley, whom he defeated following a bitter rivalry.

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'They got addicted': Analyst says Trump and Musk chasing 'likes' is fueling misinformation

Former President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk are "addicted" to chasing adulation on social media, CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan told Anderson Cooper on Friday evening — and the extent to which that obsession is driving misinformation and potentially influencing voters should not be overlooked.

This comes as Musk, who owns Tesla Motors, SpaceX and X, has essentially taken over voter outreach campaign operations from the Trump campaign, in ways that are plagued with glitches and may not be entirely legal.

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Obama rips into Trump in Arizona: His idea of 'freedom' is 'getting away with stuff'

Former President Barack Obama rallied a crowd on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris along with Senate candidate Ruben Gallego in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday, detailing what he sees as Donald Trump's selfish vision for America.

"One of those values that Ruben shares and is talked a lot about in the campaign is freedom," said Obama. "So I want to talk a little about that. I do not think we've ever had an election with candidates who understand freedom so differently."

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'I'll sue!' Trump sounds off after audio issues derail swing state rally

Donald Trump sounded off Friday night at his Detroit rally after audio issues caused the former president to stop speaking mid-sentence and pace around the stage – before telling rally-goers that he would sue the equipment contractor if it went out again.

"So now what happens is I won't pay the bill for this stupid company that rented us this crap,” Trump said when the audio was later restored. “I won't pay the bill and then we'll have a story that Trump didn't pay a bill to a contractor. No, when they do that kind of a job, don't pay the bill. That’s terrible. They also had a little problem with energy coming in the building."

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Trump’s latest ask of Fox News is ‘arguably against the law’: media analyst

Donald Trump’s idea of demanding Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch stop the network from airing “negative commercials” about him for the remainder of the election could be against the law, a CNN media analyst said Friday, adding that the former president’s comments show he is clearly bothered by the attack ads.

“Here’s the interesting thing: Trump asking Fox to ban anti-Trump ads is arguably against the law,” CNN media analyst Brian Stelter told anchor Wolf Blitzer on Friday night. “Fox operates local TV stations across the country that are subject to FCC oversight. The FCC has rules in place that require stations to be fair about airing political ads. For example, they can’t just run a Republican’s ads and not run a Democrat’s ads.”

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‘Wasn’t born smart’: Trump attacks Harris’ intelligence — as he gets basic facts wrong

Donald Trump is attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’s intelligence again, making false claims and getting some basic facts wrong while doing so.

Last week The New York Times reported Trump had called Vice President Harris “retarded.”

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Trump: ‘People from Fox’ helped with comedy dinner speech and I'm meeting with Murdoch

With less than three weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump is curtailing his schedule, canceling interviews with major mainstream media outlets while sitting down for “safe space” chats with Fox News and a former Fox News host.

In his “Fox & Friends” tête-à-tête Friday morning, Trump claimed that “a couple of people from Fox” helped write the speech he gave at the annual, elite Al Smith Dinner Thursday night.

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Bill Clinton mocks Trump at rally: Don't worry, I won't be 'swaying back and forth'

Former President Bill Clinton knocked Donald Trump's age while speaking in North Carolina on Friday.

"I don't have any more elections I'll be involved in, and I'm too old to gild the lily," Clinton told a crowd in Durham about his knack for helping Democrats get elected.

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'We'll be following up': MTG revives voting machine election conspiracy theory

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revived a conspiracy theory on Friday of shenanigans involving Dominion Voting Systems machines.

According to Greene, someone "posted up from Whitfield County ... and when he went to vote, and we have the Dominion machines, and you go through and you mark president, you mark, you know, for Congress, that would be me. They mark Donald Trump, and they marked who they were voting for the rest of the way down their ballot on the machine."

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'Come on!' Kamala Harris taunts 'exhausted' Trump over mass interview cancelations

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday taunted former President Donald Trump for canceling multiple planned interviews over the last month.

While campaigning in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Harris used the interview cancellations to drive home a point about Trump's mental fitness for the job of the presidency.

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