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Tim Scott 2024 announcement goes off the rails as microphone cuts out during big moment

A 2024 presidential announcement by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) went off the rails on Monday when his microphones stopped working.

At a campaign event in South Carolina, Scott was set to announce his presidential campaign when the sound cut out.

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Ted Nugent defends subway choking: 'I'm like Martin Luther King Jr. with a Glock'

Conservative rocker Ted Nugent defended the subway killing of Jordan Neely and called the man who choked him a hero.

On his Friday Spirit Campfire program, Nugent spoke about Daniel Penny's killing of Neely. Penny is facing a second-degree manslaughter charge over the death.

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'Nothing is off the table': Jim Jordan threatens Hillary Clinton probe in Fox News meltdown

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, threatened to investigate Bill and Hillary Clinton.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked an animated Jordan if he would consider opening an investigation into the Clintons.

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'The numbers are the numbers': Chuck Todd thumps GOP rep. over damage from Trump tax cuts

NBC host Chuck Todd pushed back on Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) after the Florida Republicans tried to minimize the damage done to the federal government's coffers by President Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.

"We can't litigate the tax cuts because of what happened with COVID," Todd told Donalds during a Sunday interview. "We don't know how much this ate into everything, but it certainly looks like there were going to be fewer revenues coming into the government."

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Fox News panelist trashes DeSantis: 'The Pillsbury Doughboy has more personality'

John Burnett, a former New York County GOP official, told Fox News that the Pillsbury Doughboy "has more personality" than Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

During a discussion with a panel of Republican and Democratic voters on Sunday, Burnett was asked about his pick for the 2024 presidential election.

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'So cool to watch her twist!': Donald Trump attacks ex-adviser and other women in multiple posts

Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks of former White House adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin on Saturday night, lashing out at her, CNN, and women he perceives as enemies in multiple posts on his Truth Social platform.

Trump earlier on Saturday said that Griffin, who told the media that the former president's allegedly inappropriate behavior toward young women staffers was an "open secret" in his administration, was a "loser" when she worked for him and that she's a loser "now." Hours later, Trump mentioned her again, citing unnamed sources in saying that people want Griffin "OUT" of her position as a co-host on "The View."

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Ted Cruz’s attempt to joke about going to Cancun during power outages doesn’t land well

Sen. Ted Cruz in an apparent attempt at humor posted a photo alluding to his 2021 trip to Cancun while many in his state were without power during a historic series of storms, and it didn’t land well.

The Republican senator from Texas tweeted a photo of himself standing in front of the Cancun Bar and Grill in Midland.

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Wisconsin school district moves to fire teacher who spoke out against ‘Rainbowland’ ban

A first-grade teacher who spoke out against a Wisconsin school district’s decision to ban “Rainbowland” by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton from a spring concert is facing termination, USA Today reports.

Melissa Tempel told the outlet that James Sebert, who serves as Superintendent of Schools in the School District of Waukesha, notified her on Monday that she’d been recommended for termination.

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Georgia GOP chairman 'should be worried' about charges in election probe: legal analyst

Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer is one of the highest risk individuals for being indicted in Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis' investigation into election interference in that state, said legal analyst Lisa Rubin on MSNBC on Friday.

This comes as Shafer tries to justify his actions in standing as one of the fake Trump electors in a scheme to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the voters' choice in the state — a move he asserts he was advised to do by former President Donald Trump's legal team.

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Nebraska legislature clears balconies amid protests over abortion measure: report

Security cleared the balconies of the Nebraska Legislature on Friday amid protests over a controversial measure targeting abortions and gender-affirming care for children, ABC News’ Omaha affiliate KETV reports.

Crowds packed the Nebraska chamber to protest LB574, causing disruptions that delayed debate on the measure that passed later in the day. The so-called Let Them Grow Act bans abortion at 12 weeks and gender-affirming care for minors. The measure was a compromise after the bill’s authors first sought a six-week ban.

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California driver’s racist rant captured on video prompts CHP probe

Authorities are investigating the report of a driver captured on video going on a racist rant on a California freeway, The Daily Beast reports.
The driver of a white Jeep Wrangler, who appears to be a white man and who was seen wearing a white shirt and sunglasses with silver frames, is shown on the video hurling expletives and using the N-word at least eight times in the direction of a video on his left, and at one point is seen swerving in the direction of the vehicle recording him. He eventually collides with a retaining wall to his right.

The incident occurred Wednesday on Interstate 880 near Oakland’s Columbia Gardens neighborhood, according to the California Highway Patrol.

IN OTHER NEWS: Joe Biden nixes 14th Amendment option to avert debt-ceiling crisis

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Georgia was epicenter of coup plot because Trump allies were 'so surprised' he lost there: analyst

As Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor Fani Willis enters the home stretch before making a decision on filing charges in the election interference case, former January 6 Select Committee investigator Timothy Heaphy broke down on MSNBC Friday why Georgia was such a crucial linchpin of the plot by allies of former President Donald Trump to nullify his election loss.

The short version: they simply couldn't believe they had lost Georgia, which had been a reliably red state for so long — and which had scores of Republican officeholders they hoped could help them.

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AOC slams McCarthy on spending: “then undo the yacht and private jet tax breaks the GOP passed”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday called on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to "undo the yacht and private jet tax breaks the GOP passed for themselves" in response to McCarthy's call to rein in spending by the government.

McCarthy, who is leading the charge by Republicans to force President Joe Biden and the White House to give up ground on certain expenditures in the highly publicized negotiations, posted on Twitter, "Washington has to spend less. It's as simple as that."

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