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Mitch McConnell wants nothing to do with Joe Manchin’s compromises on voting rights

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) continued his opposition to anything in President Joe Biden's agenda, including the compromise proposed by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on the voting rights legislation, Axios reported Thursday.

McConnell infamously announced, "One hundred percent of my focus is standing up to this administration. What we have in the United States Senate is total unity from Susan Collins to Ted Cruz in opposition to what the new Biden administration is trying to do to this country."

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Putin blows up disinfo claims about Biden’s mental fitness: ‘He doesn’t let anything get by, I assure you’

U.S. conservative and Russian media alike portray President Joe Biden as doddering and mentally feeble, but Vladimir Putin says that's just not true.

The Russian president met his American counterpart Wednesday for their first summit in Geneva, and Putin knocked down speculation about Biden's fitness as a leader after a Russian senator asked if he had dementia, reported Bloomberg.

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MAGA-rioting granny now says she's 'horrified' by violence at Capitol as she pleads for leniency

A grandmother who broke into the United States Capitol building on January 6th now says she's "horrified" by the violence that took place there as she pleads for a lenient sentence.

Via NBC 4 Washington investigative reporter Scott MacFarlane, an attorney representing 49-year-old Florida resident Anna Morgan-Lloyd says that she now regrets her decision to go into the Capitol building during the riot in a letter sent to a judge.

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The View erupts as Meghan McCain rudely interrupts Whoopi Goldberg after accusing Biden of being rude

Another altercation broke out between "The View" co-hosts Thursday when Whoopi Goldberg clashed with Meghan McCain over President Joe Biden snapping at CNN reporter Kaitlin Collins in his press conference after the meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Collins had put words in Biden's mouth, which seems to be a pet peeve of Biden's. She asked Biden why he's "so confident" Putin will do what they agreed to. Biden said that he never said he was confident.

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Putin is struggling to keep control of Russia — and it gives Biden leverage: Fiona Hill

On CNN Thursday, former National Security Council official Fiona Hill outlined how Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing vulnerability at home — and how it has given President Joe Biden an opening to advance U.S. interests.

"Now in terms of taking the temperature down, let's just be realistic," said Hill, who was a major witness at the first impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump and has detailed how disastrous Trump's dealings with Putin were. "I'm only talking about some fractions of degrees here because we're in a confrontational state. But Putin himself has got to get through the next several years as well."

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Supreme Court upholds Obamacare for the third time as justices slap down red-state lawsuit

Obamacare survived for the third time at the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. It is among the final cases before the Supreme Court term ends, there are 18 cases left to be decided and just under two weeks left in the term.

The case was about whether red states had the standing to bring the lawsuit complaining about the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. Judges ruled 7 to 2 that the red states did not have standing. Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch joined in the dissent.

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Lara Trump gushes about the 'good old days' when Donald Trump was 'unprepared' as president

Lara Trump on Thursday reminisced about the "good old days" when her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, would hold impromptu press conferences even though he was "unprepared."

During an appearance on Fox News, Trump remarked on President Joe Biden's first overseas trip, where he declined to respond to shouted questions during a formal press conference.

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Trump whines American Jews 'don't love Israel enough' because they didn't vote for him

Former President Donald Trump once again cast aspersions on American Jews who didn't vote for him in either the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

Via The Forward's Jacob Kornbluh, Trump told conservative Jewish publication Ami Magazine that American Jews didn't give him enough credit for everything he did to help Israel.

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'I understand how you feel': Fox News host comforts guest who calls Joe Biden a 'dumb bastard'

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade admonished a guest on Thursday after he called President Joe Biden a "dumb bastard."

The remark came as Kilmeade was interviewing Brian Dockter, a technician who claimed to be out of work due to Biden's tax policies.

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Watching Biden meet Putin was 'the real moment' Trump realized he wasn't president anymore: NYT's Haberman

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN on Thursday that former President Donald Trump seems to be finally accepting that he's no longer president six months after leaving office.

In particular, Haberman said that Trump and his allies came to grips with this fact while watching President Joe Biden meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland this week.

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Pennsylvania's GOP primaries are setting the stage for Trump to steal the 2024 election -- here's how

Republican candidates are embracing Donald Trump's election lies in hopes of winning his endorsement.

Pennsylvania will elect a new governor and U.S. senator next year, and the twice-impeached one-term president has made clear that his crucial endorsement will require Republicans to conduct their own Arizona-style "audit" of his loss in their state, according to The Bulwark's Amanda Carpenter.

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Trump cost himself re-election by bleeding GOP support in Arizona: Bipartisan audit

A bipartisan audit of Arizona's presidential election found Donald Trump blew his shot at re-election.

As Republicans look for spurious evidence of fraud in an audit of Maricopa County's ballots, a bipartisan group conducted their own unofficial examination that found GOP voters disenchanted with the former president were key to Joe Biden's win in that county, reported KNXV-TV.

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