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'Hanging by a thread': MSNBC analyst sees signal that Trump close to firing campaign heads

Returning from Philadelphia where he covered the Tuesday night debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann suggested a Trump campaign shake-up could soon be in the works.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist, the political analyst stated that the heads of Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris La Civita could be on the chopping block after the debate disaster that even has noted GOP pollster Frank Luntz saying he sees no path for Trump to win.

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Trump's 'idiotic moment" has turned him into an international 'laughing stock': MSNBC

MSNBC panelists focused on one particular moment during this week's presidential debate that made Donald Trump an international "laughing stock."

Kamala Harris seemingly triggered the Republican nominee by observing that many of his rallygoers leave early out of "exhaustion or boredom," which set the former president on a meandering rant that featured debunked claims that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating pet cats and dogs — which mystified media outlets at home and abroad.

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'Do you do that on purpose?' C-SPAN host busts GOP lawmaker for mispronouncing 'Kamala'

C-SPAN host Greta Brawner called out Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) after he mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris' first name.

During a Thursday interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Brawner stopped Burchett while he was complaining about the Harris presidential campaign.

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Ex-Trump aide: Even MAGA 'saw with their own eyes he melted down'

A former aide to Donald Trump is seeing cracks in MAGA world.

Speaking on "The View," with special guest Chelsea Clinton, Alyssa Farah Griffin hit out at Trump's claims that he won Tuesday's debate — or that he's polling at over 80 percent approval ratings.

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'A massive tax': CNBC host corners J.D. Vance on Trump's tariff plan

CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin confronted Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance because some farmers are "worried" about former President Donald Trump's plan to impose broad tariffs on imports.

In an interview on Thursday, Sorkin questioned Vance about the tariffs "because they're across the board and they're not as targeted."

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'She's a lunatic!': GOP insiders call for 'wake up moment' as Trump embraces MAGA 'kook'

Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who has earned the rare distinction of being a MAGA supporter too extreme for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has increasingly become a member of former President Donald Trump's inner circle.

A pair of CNN panelists on Thursday sounded the alarm about the fact that Trump has embraced someone like Loomer, who is notorious for pushing conspiracy theories and racism in her social media posts that are too much for even a one-time QAnon believer like Greene to stomach.

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Trump is 'hanging himself' with his own rope as campaign spirals out of control: analyst

During an MSNBC panel discussion on Donald Trump allowing himself to be influenced by far-right characters, which had a marked influence on his Tuesday night debate performance, contributor Ed Luce suggested the former president has quickly become his own worst enemy.

Speaking with the hosts on "Morning Joe," the Financial Times columnist claimed the Trump campaign's downward spiral is purely the result of the candidate himself.

Noting that the former president recently added far-right conspiracist Laura Loomer to his travel entourage, Luce explained "This is the kind of person Donald Trump is hanging out with."

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"He's hanging out with people who tell him, 'Yes, what you said about crowd sizes is true. Yes, what you said about you having the greatest economy in world history is true. What we've been hearing about people hanging other people's pet dogs or abducting their cats, that's true.'"

"I doubt, frankly, that [Trump campaign managers] Chris LaCivita or Susie Wiles, who are professionals, worked on other campaigns, are being listened to much at all by Donald Trump," he observed. "The more we see of that, a bit like the debate the other night, the more rope he is given to hang himself, the more he will hang himself."

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'Not a conversation I thought I'd be having': CNN anchor stunned by GOP guest's admission

Another member of the George W. Bush administration has come out in support of Kamala Harris for president.

Alberto Gonzalez, who served as attorney general and White House counsel during Bush's presidency, joined former vice president Dick Cheney and publicly endorsed the Democratic nominee against Donald Trump in an op-ed published by Politico, and he joined CNN's John Berman to discuss his decision.

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'Insane': Republicans warned against blowing off Taylor Swift's Harris endorsement

During a very long "Morning Joe" panel discussion on the debate night endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris by pop superstar Taylor Swift, NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali expressed surprise Republicans are not taking it seriously.

Speaking with hosts Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire, Vitali went to so far as to say it was "insane" that Republicans aren't in a panic over a wave of new voters heading to the polls in November.

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'J.D. Vance effect': Conservative says Trump risks win by sticking with 'weirdest figures'

As part of a discussion on Tuesday night's presidential debate on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," conservative Charlie Sykes claimed that Donald Trump's campaign is collapsing because he is listening to the wrong people.

As the conversation turned to Trump closely associating with conservative gadfly Laura Loomer, who Sykes said was "not just a bigot, she is a freak," the longtime Republican pundit said she is not the only one who has persuaded the former president to follow his worst instincts.

"I mean, think about this," he began. "We're less than two months from the election and Donald Trump is associating with some of the craziest, weirdest figures on the right."

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"And in part, you know, this is kind of the J.D. Vance effect," he elaborated. "J.D. Vance and Donald Trump Jr. who have decided they want Donald Trump to be extremely online. And you saw that play out during the debate, but you're also seeing it play out, you know, throughout this campaign and all of the rallies."

"In Donald Trump's head, you have people with the most extreme and bigoted ideas, who are feeding him lines and memes and encouraging him to go places that no politician in our century and, you know, maybe for the last century and a half, have even thought to go," he added. "I think this is concerning in terms of this bubble of delusion he's created himself: this bubble of extremism and delusion that he'll carry up until the election and past the election."

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'Very generous': CNN host laughs at ex-Trump spokesman's attempt to defend 'dogs and cats'

Donald Trump's baseless comments about immigrants stealing and eating pets in Ohio have been the basis for countless mocking memes since the debate, and one of his former spokespeople attempted to place them into a reasonable context.

The Republican nominee repeated claims during Tuesday night's debate that got a neo-Nazi kicked out of a Springfield city council meeting exactly two weeks earlier about Haitian immigrants purportedly eating residents' dogs, and former White House communications director Mike Dubke told CNN that Trump had touched on an important issue with his bizarre remarks.

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'I think that he loses': Top GOP pollster delivers harsh news to Trump after debate flop

With the dust having settled from Tuesday night's first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, leading Republican Party pollster Frank Luntz late Wednesday predicted the former president is headed for defeat in November.

Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Luntz claimed Trump's performance during the debate looks to have dealt a death blow to his third run for the presidency.

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GOP insider predicts major Republican figure to endorse Kamala Harris in 2 to 4 weeks

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," GOP campaign consultant Susan Del Percio suggested Vice President Kamala Harris will be on the receiving end of additional endorsements from members of the Republican Party.

In particular, she suggested that a major endorsement could be in the works within two to four weeks that would be a major blow to Donald Trump.

Speaking with host Jonathan Lemire, Del Percio pointed out that she is well aware how precarious it is for any Republican to jump across the aisle considering the former president's rabid base, but that defections could be coming nonetheless.

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"It's not enough to say we don't support Trump, but take the next step and say, I'm voting for Harris. Looking at, perhaps, former President George Bush among them. What do you think?" host Lemire prompted his guest.

"I think former President Bush is a great example," she immediately replied. "Even though he said he won't be endorsing, I'm not so sure, come only two to four weeks, that maybe he changes his mind."

"But Republicans, I understand why some choose not to," she conceded. "As far as elected officials who can afford a security detail, that makes sense. But when you do that and you go after former president Trump, there is a security issue for your family that is very serious."

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