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WATCH: Republican supporter celebrates election win with racial slur against losing candidate

A social media video showed a Republican supporter celebrating an election win with a racial slur against a New York councilman who lost his race.

GOP candidates were delivering Election Night victory speeches in the video after sweeping the Yorktown town board race, including the defeat of longtime councilman Vishnu Patel, when a partygoer uses the slurs, reported TAP into Yorktown.

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MSNBC host fact-checks Georgia Republican Brad Raffensperger to his face

MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin confronted Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger (R), who is desperately trying to dig himself out of the political hole after he refused to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump.

Raffensberger, who has been promoting his book on cable news for the past several weeks, attempted to blame "both sides" for lies about the election, citing former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who launched several lawsuits after questionable issues in the 2018 elections.

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MSNBC hosts mock conservatives' latest war against fictional character Big Bird

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan and Ayman Mohyeldin attacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for going nuts over a fictional character getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

"Sesame Street" participated in a children's Q&A with host Erin Hill over the weekend and it triggered Cruz, who has come out against vaccine mandates. Many Republicans, in fact, have opposed vaccine mandates, but Big Bird, who is described as a "six-year-old walking, talking yellow bird with long orange legs, standing 8 feet 2 inches," wasn't advocating vaccine mandates. He was helping children understand that shots can be scary.

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Fox News commentator claims Travis Scott is responsible for concert violence — but doesn't mention Trump rally violence

Fox News commentator and Washington Times editor Charlie Hurt made the case on the network Sunday that musician Travis Scott is responsible for those who were trampled at his concert Saturday night. It's a unique claim because it's one frequently made by liberals alleging that Donald Trump is responsible for the violence at his campaign rallies.

"But in fact, if this guy, Travis Scott, who has a record of trying to encourage his fans to rush the stage — if in fact — and all the videotape will be gone through. All the footage of people, you know, Instagramming and doing stuff off of their phones, it's all going to be looked through. If, in fact, he did that again, he should be locked up. And he should be sued for millions of dollars. He should be sued out of existence if he did this. This concept that there aren't consequences for the things you do and the things you say, especially in a crowded, boisterous, environment like this, it's, uh, it's really shocking beyond words."

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Kevin McCarthy alleges the 5,000 Taliban prisoners Trump released might come over the US border

Addressing questions by the press in his weekly press briefing, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) alleged that the release of prisoners by former President Donald Trump was putting the United States in danger.

In a rant about President Joe Biden McCarthy complained that "two people on the terrorist watch list from Yemen" came into the United States "illegally from Mexico to California on different days."

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Trump staffer fears what he'll do if reelected in 2024 — including using the military for politics: new doc

CNN's Jake Tapper will air a special report Friday evening interviewing many of President Donald Trump's former staffers who turned against him after the Jan. 6. One clip, however, reveals the startling reason that the former president could be even more dangerous if he's elected again in 2024.

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah told Tapper that she's concerned he could impose some form of autocracy.

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'Face of the fascist insurgency': Morning Joe torches Trump-loving 'fruit loop' Kari Lake

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough torched Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake as a "fascist" and "fruit loop" on Friday morning for insisting she would not have certified President Joe Biden's election win over nonexistent claims of fraud.

Lake, a former local news anchor who's become the GOP frontrunner, has drawn the endorsement of Donald Trump and conspiracy-mongering MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for pushing baseless claims of fraud, but the "Morning Joe" host declared her manifestly unfit to serve as governor.

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A pastor was acquitted of sexual assault charges – then he got nabbed by an underage prostitution sting

A Virginia Beach pastor was charged in an underage sex trafficking sting after he was previously acquitted of sexual assault charges.

Pastor John Blanchard was arrested late last month after allegedly trying to arrange a sexual encounter with someone he thought was underage, in a two-day sting that also busted 16 other individuals, reported WVEC-TV. A woman who previously accused Blanchard of assaulting her when she volunteered to work on his Rock Church website is now speaking out.

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Morning Joe co-hosts mock ‘eerie silence’ from Republicans about election security after they pick up wins

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist noticed Republicans suddenly dropped their concerns over election security after racking up wins this year.

Republicans are celebrating Glenn Youngkin's victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race, which is seen as a bellwether for next year's midterm election, and in special elections for congressional seats, but the "Morning Joe" co-hosts wondered why they seemed to trust these results more than they did Donald Trump's loss one year ago.

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GOP’s Elise Stefanik gets a fact-check after using domestic terrorism hearing to lash out at Merrick Garland

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grilled assistant FBI director Timothy Langan on a Justice Department memo that Republicans claim unfairly targets parents, and she got a fact check.

The New York Republican asked Langan to denounce the memo signed by attorney general Merrick Garland, who faced numerous questions from GOP lawmakers in a hearing last month, but the assistant director explained that law enforcement was only interested in threats against school officials and not punishing parents for holding conservative viewpoints.

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Trump claims Youngkin win is proof of election fraud in lengthy radio rant

Donald Trump has already been claiming credit for Glenn Youngkin's election win in Virginia, and now he's saying that proves his own loss was due to fraud.

The twice-impeached one-term president spoke Wednesday morning with right-wing radio host John Fredericks, and he devolved into a lengthy and baseless rant about election fraud.

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'Very bad night for Donald Trump': MSNBC's Morning Joe says Virginia election shows GOP how to move on from ex-president

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough declared the election wins of two Republican candidates a "very bad night for Donald Trump."

The twice-impeached one-term president claimed credit for Glenn Youngkin's win in Virginia, after his Democratic opponent made Trump a prominent campaign issue, but the "Morning Joe" host said the numbers just don't back that up.

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe bursts into laughter as GOP’s private loathing for Trump slips into view

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Donald Trump for getting locked out of Glenn Youngkin's campaign in the final days of the Virginia gubernatorial race.

Youngkin did not take part in a last-minute campaign call Monday night with Trump, who Democrat Terry McAuliffe has mentioned more than his GOP rival during the tightly contested race, and the "Morning Joe" host said that illustrates the private loathing Republicans feel for the twice-impeached one-term president they publicly fear.

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