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Former President Donald Trump said he didn't mind if would-be assassins "shoot through the fake news" because he was protected by bulletproof glass.

At a Sunday campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump noted that the U.S. Secret Service had installed the ballistic glass following a previous failed assassination attempt.

CBS host Margaret Brennan challenged Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) after he downplayed a racist insult comedian who criticized Puerto Rico at a campaign event with former President Donald Trump.

"In recent days, the Harris campaign has said they have seen favorable movement towards them with Latinos and with undecided voters, particularly following that New York rally we referenced there with the insult comment making remarks about Puerto Rico," Brennan explained during a Sunday interview. "You've been focused on outreach to Hispanic voters for the Trump campaign. Are you concerned that this unforced error hurt outreach?"

NBC host Kristen Welker confronted Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), a surrogate for Donald Trump, after the former president called supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris "garbage."

"Governor, let me ask you about a big story this week, the campaign continuing to deal with the fallout from the offensive comments about Puerto Rico made by a supporter of former President Trump by that comedian at that rally last weekend," Welker told Burgum in a Sunday interview. "The Puerto Rican community in Pennsylvania factors almost half a million people in that critical state, some saying they were absolutely furious about the comments, hurt that former President Trump hasn't apologized."

Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie said the Trump campaign was scrambling after a new "shock poll" showed Donald Trump losing in the red state of Iowa.

"Now, all of this comes as a new Des Moines Register poll came out last night, a shock poll showing Harris beating Trump by three points in Iowa, normally a red state," Hasnie reported Sunday. "That sent shockwaves across the political spectrum."

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning, the editor-in-chief of the The Economist explained why the venerable institution couldn't bring itself to back Donald Trump and instead cast its lot with Vice President Kamala Harris with an endorsement that caught political observers by surprise.

Speaking with the panel, Zanny Minton Beddoes summed up the Economist's position on Trump by calling him an "unacceptable risk we think he poses to America and the world."

"The audience that we had in mind when we wrote this was our many readers who are Republicans," she explained to Morning Joe regular Katty Kay. "We have Republicans and Democrat readers and we didn't want this to be a grand statement for the history books. We wanted to try to lay out to those readers that we have, who are likely to vote for Donald Trump, why we think he poses a risk."

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After explaining point by point why Trump is now completely unacceptable, Minton Beddoes said of the ex-president, "We think he'd be much more unconstrained. There is a real risk that he threatens America's institutions."

A pro-MAGA television host cut off Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) after the lawmaker claimed that "Marxists" wanted to see former President Donald Trump re-elected.

Gohmert made the remark during a Thursday afternoon interview on Real America's Voice when he was asked about President Joe Biden's comment that, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters."

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski ridiculed the Fox News network for devoting their pre-election coverage to a freak out over President Joe Biden describing MAGA fans as "garbage" in a reaction to Donald Trump's much-maligned Madison Square Garden rally.

After the president, who is not on the ballot next week, aimed a barb at a conservative comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage" at the New York City event, conservatives were quick to take offense.

Republican pollster Mitchell Brown warned Fox Business host Stuart Varney that he was seeing "troubling signs for the Trump team" because early voter turnout appeared to be high for the 2024 election.

During a Thursday interview, Brown told Varney that he believed Donald Trump would win the election if it were held today.

Fox News host Bill Hemmer interrupted left-leaning pundit Jessica Tarlov Thursday after she pointed out that former President Donald Trump threatened to protect women "whether the women like it or not."

During a panel discussion about the upcoming presidential election, Tarlov argued Vice President Kamala Harris skipped Joe Rogan's podcast because the campaign did not believe his audience was worth the time.

Former President Donald Trump insisted that he was "not Hitler" during closing arguments for his 2024 campaign.

At a Wednesday rally in North Carolina, Trump complained that he had been called names by Vice President Kamala Harris and her supporters.

CNN International host Christiane Amanpour clashed with Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after the Republican lawmaker suggested Americans did not support the right to have an abortion.

During a Wednesday interview, Crenshaw argued that many European countries did not permit abortions past 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Former Republican lawyer George Conway urged a supporter of Donald Trump to "look in the mirror" over complaints that the former president had been called a fascist.

During a Wednesday appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Conway was confronted by a Republican caller who objected to being called a fascist.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) advised Vice President Kamala Harris to label Donald Trump a "Nazi" after President Joe Biden seemed to suggest that the former president's supporters were "garbage."

During a Wednesday interview with Real America's Voice, Huckabee addressed Biden's reaction to a comedian at a recent Trump rally who suggested Puerto Rico residents were "garbage." A transcript that was later corrected by the White House seemed to say that Trump supporters were also garbage.