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Trump supporters are continuing to lash out at Republicans who did not go along with the former president's delusions about election fraud.

"Republican delegates at the Georgia GOP State Convention voted to censure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for his role in certifying the 2020 election results where Joe Biden narrowly defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday. "Some attendees unsuccessfully attempted to amend the resolution calling on Raffensperger to resign and banning him from qualifying as a Republican candidate in any future elections."

CNN's Jim Acosta broke down the latest bizarre Trump conspiracy theories as the former president prepares to take the stage for a speech before the North Carolina Republican Party.

"In just a few hours, President Trump — former President Donald Trump, we should say — is set to take center stage at a GOP state convention. He will be physically in the state of North Carolina but mentally, in a state of denial, increasingly obsessed with his own 2020 election loss. A well-placed source tells me he has been asking if he could somehow be reinstated in the White House this year," Acosta reported. "Allies are trying to bring him back to reality, hoping he'll move the ball forward as Republicans approach the 2022 midterm elections. Good luck to them as they are dealing with a man who incited an insurrection over his bruised ego."

On Saturday, as Georgia Republicans held their state convention, GOP Gov. Brian Kemp took the stage — and was immediately greeted with a tide of furious boos from GOP activists.

Kemp ultimately managed to calm the crowd down and even get a round of applause after touting the end of COVID-19 health restrictions, but not before enduring around 30 seconds of booing so intense he couldn't even get a word in.

On Saturday, POLITICO profiled the mayoral runoff underway in Fort Worth, Texas — and why Republicans fear the consequences of potentially losing the election.

While the race is formally nonpartisan, the parties are clearly taking sides, with Republicans lining up behind Mattie Parker, the former chief of staff to outgoing GOP mayor Betsy Price, and Democrats backing former AT&T executive Democrat Deborah Peoples. Not only would Peoples be Fort Worth's first Black mayor if she wins, it would also flip one of the last large cities in America to have a Republican mayor. In fact, Fort Worth is the second-largest city controlled by a Republican mayor; only Jacksonville, Florida is larger.

On Saturday, MLive.com reported that a lawyer who represented former President Donald Trump in a 2016 election lawsuit is speaking out against a conspiracy theory advanced by the Michigan GOP to justify yet another "audit" of the votes.

"There is no legal mechanism to reverse President Joe Biden's victory. John Pirich, a retired attorney who represented Trump in a 2016 election lawsuit, said there's zero chance Trump will be reinstated. Michigan's certified results show Biden won the state by 154,000 votes, a difference of 3 percentage points," reported Malachi Barrett. "'It's just spinning a fairy tale out of an event that is over with and done with,' Pirich said."

On Saturday, writing for Business Insider, columnist Eoin Higgins analyzed the fragmenting of the GOP caucus as Republicans fail to come up with a damaging line of attack against President Joe Biden and his agenda.

"Biden, a 78-year-old moderate Democrat, has a job approval rating hovering around 60% of Americans. He's been buoyed by his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a resurgent economy, and a sense — earned or not — from voters that the new president has a firmer hand on the tiller than his chaotic predecessor," wrote Higgins. "The result is a floundering GOP as the right-wing party tries to draw a contrast with a president who isn't nearly as liberal as they try to make it seem. Lacking that contrast, Republicans are lost."

On Friday, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany lashed out at what she regarded as a personal snub by the national press after it was reported that legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz was tasked with shooting a portrait of current press secretary Jen Psaki for a magazine cover.

During her "Outnumbered" appearance on Fox News, Donald Trump's last presidential press secretary claimed, "It's just so sad that you have a fawning press corps like this, a fawning media sycophantically covering members of the Biden administration. They asked Jen Psaki yesterday about Joe Biden's cat. I mean, it's incredible the kinds of questions that they ask. We need investigative journalism. We don't need fawning coverage. It doesn't do the American people any justice."

On Saturday, writing for CNN's "The Point," Chris Cillizza speculated that former Vice President Mike Pence's remarks in New Hampshire that he will never see "eye to eye" with former President Donald Trump on the January 6th insurrection could doom his 2024 chances by antagonizing his former ally.

"Pence is, of course, right. The violent insurrection at the US Capitol, which left more than 100 police officers injured and five people dead, were a cataclysm the likes of which American democracy has rarely seen," wrote Cillizza. "And Pence, as vice president on that day, had no role other than a ceremonial one — to oversee the formal certification of the electoral vote count that showed Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election." For that, the rioters called for his blood, chanting "Hang Mike Pence" and even setting up a gallows.

"One of the gravest threats the country has ever faced"

Lincoln Project co-founder and GOP strategist turned Democrat Steve Schmidt, ahead of Donald Trump's speech this weekend to the North Carolina Republican Party issued a dire warning: America is just one election away from permanent autocratic rule from the former president and his allies.

A US judge overturned California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons Friday in a move swiftly condemned by the state's governor Gavin Newsom as gun-related homicides surge across America.

In a 94-page decision, federal Judge Roger T Benitez described California's assault weapons ban -- in place in 1989 -- as unconstitutional and defended the right of Americans to own semi-automatic rifles.

When conservative pundits Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes founded The Bulwark in late 2018 following the demise of the Weekly Standard, it quickly became a popular refuge for well-known anti-Trump voices on the right — including Mona Charen, Amanda Carpenter, Tim Miller and Kimberly Wehle. Then-President Donald Trump has since been voted out office, but Sykes — in a Bulwark column published on June 4 — laments that the Republican Party hasn't grown any less unhinged since Trump's departure from the White House.

The 66-year-old Sykes covers a lot of ground in the column, focusing heavily on Trump's claim that he will be "restored" to the White House by August and Trump allies (including MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell) who continue to promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread voter fraud. In fact, the 2020 election was quite secure, and now-President Joe Biden enjoyed a decisive victory — picking up 306 electoral votes and defeating Trump by more than 7 million in the popular vote.

Democratic Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman on Friday roasted the Pennsylvania Republican Party for pushing an Arizona-style "audit" of the 2020 election in his state.

Appearing on CNN, Fetterman took aim at Trump-loving Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who claimed that an "audit" of Pennsylvania's election is needed to determine "what went wrong."