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'Not a test run': Morning Joe warns Trump fans are 'begging for a dictator'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamed small-government conservatives for getting "swept up" in Donald Trump's authoritarian ambitions.

The former president has long praised dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, and the "Morning Joe" host highlighted his explicit threats to act like one if he's re-elected after apparently locking down the Republican presidential nomination.

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'Republicans made a huge mistake': Analyst says even far-right isn't calling Biden old now

President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union Address Thursday amid claims by Republicans that he was too old, had dementia, and couldn't handle the burden of the job.

The mistake the Republicans made, said MSNBC's John Heilemann, is that they set the bar so low that anyone could clear it. Instead, Biden crushed it to such a degree that Republicans now claim he's "too angry" or even that he's on drugs to give him energy.

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'Trump is beholden to someone': Here's who's behind company footing E. Jean Carroll bond

Many people are now asking about Evan G. Greenberg, the CEO of the Chubb Group, which has a subsidiary that fronted the cash given to Donald Trump for his bond in New York for the E. Jean Carroll settlement.

Even if Trump intends to appeal the settlement ruled on by the jury, he must put the cash up as a bond to the court. Greenberg is the one who made it happen.

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Ex-Trump aide says GOP women disgusted that Katie Britt was put in the kitchen

Co-hosts of "The View" were put off by Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address.

While the women cracked jokes about the knives behind Britt giving off "Chucky" vibes, what former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin is hearing is that GOP women are furious.

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Johnson still speaker as GOP knows removing him would be 'embarrassing': ex-congressman

Max Rose, a former Democratic congressman from New York, responded to comments about Speaker Mike Johnson's bizarre facial expressions during President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address — and reminded viewers that Johnson wasn't the GOP's first choice for the job.

A New York Times review commented that Johnson, whose myriad of expressions while Biden spoke were mocked online, had one of the "worst poker faces in American politics."

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Biden will 'bury Trump in ads' after SOTU triggers record fundraising haul

President Joe Biden's campaign raked in donations during his State of the Union address, and that opened up a comfortable advantage over his Republican rival.

The president's campaign raised $1 million on Thursday before the speech even began, and they reported record hauls while he delivered his widely praised address.

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'Game, set, match': Morning Joe panel blown away by Biden's 'tour de force' SOTU speech

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were blown away by President Joe Biden's performance during the State of the Union address.

The president repeatedly called out Donald Trump without ever saying his name and attacked Republican policies, drawing eye rolls and head shakes from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) seated behind him, and GOP lawmakers repeatedly shouted objections – but panelists said Biden was unfazed and confident.

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Ted Cruz hounded over role in Jan. 6 by challenger seeking to boot him from Senate

Sen. Ted Cruz is getting put on the spot by Democratic challenger Colin Allred who accuses him of helping to foment the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Democratic congressman won his party's nomination to unseat Cruz, and Allred intends to highlight the Texas Republican's role in Donald Trump's unconstitutional plot to remain in office despite his 2020 election loss, reported The New Republic.

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'Marjorie Taylor Greene makes Sarah Palin look like Eleanor Roosevelt': The View

Ahead of the State of the Union address, the co-hosts of "The View" complained about the demise of civility and decorum in Congress.

They attributed the beginning of the end to Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who shouted "you lie!" at then-President Barack Obama in 2009. The move was so unacceptable to lawmakers that an overwhelming majority of Congress voted to chastise him for it.

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'Shameless and bizarre': Morning Joe panel buries McConnell for endorsing Trump

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced he would support Donald Trump for president after blaming him for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were appalled.

The Kentucky Republican, who announced last week he would step down as Senate Republican leader after November's election, has not spoken to Trump since the insurrection, although he helped shield the former president from conviction in his Senate impeachment trial.

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Trump is running again to prove he isn't a loser: former aide

Sarah Matthews, a one-time aide to Donald Trump, believes the former president's 2024 campaign is nothing more than a desperate attempt to save face.

While many critics argue Trump hopes to eliminate criminal court troubles, Matthews said during an interview with Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC Wednesday she thinks his reasons are more psychological than logical.

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Ex-Trump aide says Republicans are lying to their own voters

Speaking to veteran ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl, "The View's" hosts addressed several questions they had about the state of the 2024 presidential campaign — and what they'd watched unfold over the past several months.

Among the most outspoken was former Donald Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, who has since denounced the former president and pledged to work to defeat him.

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MAGA candidate says only English speakers should be allowed to vote

A right-wing Republican congressional candidate is calling to restrict voting just to English speakers.

Anthony Hudson, who's running a toss-up race for an open U.S. House seat, posted a video online expressing his opposition to translating voter ballots into other languages, a service that's enshrined in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, reported Heartland Signal.

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