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Sen. Katie Britt's State of the Union response after President Joe Biden addressed Congress has moved on from being mocked for the Alabama Republican's over-the-top dramatic presentation to being ripped apart for a blatant lie at the center of her speech.

At the center of the controversy was Britt's claim that, after she took office, the GOP senator stated she traveled to Texas where she met a woman who had been a victim of sex trafficking, with Britt telling a national TV audience the woman "... had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped."

According to conservative pollster Sarah Longwell, voters are less concerned with Donald Trump's age than they are worried about his mental fitness as they look at the presidential choices in 2024.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Longwell — founder of Republican Voters Against Trump — was asked about voter worries about both Trump and President Joe Biden and she replied the public seem to hold them to two different standards.

"I wonder, in your focus groups, how the two issues are bearing out, both the question of the acuity of both of these candidates and the comparison points between the two of them" co-host Alicia Menendez pressed.

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"Look, whether it is fair or not, voters don't question Trump's mental capacity, they are questioning his sanity," she replied. "They question whether he is fit enough to be commander in chief from a moral and ethical standpoint."

"Trump has big lunatic energy," she remarked, as the hosts laughed. "He just doesn't come off the same way that Biden does. So the concerns for voters around age do rest with President Biden."

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According to conservative political strategist and polling expert Sarah Longwell, both Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have a problem with voters who are unhappy about their choices in the upcoming presidential election.

And that is worse news for the four-time indicted former president.

Speaking with CNN host Chris Wallace, Longwell discussed voters labeled "double haters" in a New York Times/Sienna College poll that pegged their number at a whopping 19 percent of the electorate.

That huge number is where the election will be won or lost she explained.

"I want to talk to you about something I've been hearing a term in the last few days that is new to me: 'double haters,'" host Wallace prompted. "I want to put up a poll. I have to say, I like this, it fits the campaign perfectly. In a New York Times poll, 19 percent were described as double-haters because they disapprove of both Biden and Trump. And Biden is, correct, currently leading among the double-haters 45 percent to 33 percent."

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"So Sarah are the double-haters a real thing and who's going to end up winning the double-haters," he asked.

"So I conduct focus groups all the time and the double haters are absolutely a real thing," Longwell replied. "In fact, because we have this phenomenon here, where you essentially have two incumbents running against each other, the persuadable chunk of voters is different this time."

"It is people who have, they, they know both these guys and they don't like either," she continued. "And so that's why this is going to be a really negative campaign because persuadable voters — to bring them over — you're gonna have to make them hate the other guy more."

"The phrase that we hear in focus groups all the time, and if it was a drinking game we'd all be dead, is 'the first lesser of two evils' and what they mean is 'I'm basically going to make my decision on who I hate, slightly less' and Biden usually cleans up on that front because people hate Trump a little bit more," she concluded.

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On MSNBC's "The Weekend," the Democratic lawmaker from Wisconsin who sat next to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during President Joe Biden's State of the Union address provided the hosts with a play-by-play on what the controversial House member was raging about to herself during the speech.

According to Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), she took the seat because she arrived late and didn't want to stand for the speech after also being advised that no one wanted to sit next to the controversial Georgia Republican.

Pressed by the hosts about the experience, she stated, "I thought I would just ignore her but I couldn't, you know? I was fact-checking her in real-time."

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Asked for examples, she replied, "I was trying to draw — bring out some empathy and to see if she had any, you know, and to recognize that, you know, instead of spending all of our time, you know, being surprised and shocked at Donald Trump having these supporters to try to listen to them."

"For example, this is a really good example," she continued. "When he [Biden] talked about Bettie May Fikes, who I have met on the march to Selma to the Edmund Pettus Bridge when he talked about her being there and voting rights and John Lewis. She said, '1965?' She was really truly surprised, I think. 'Nobody is having their — being prevented from voting.' Now, that was 1965. I said 'no girl, they tried to take my vote from me,' because I voted and used a drop box in the last election.' "

Alexander Smirnov — the 43-year-old confidential FBI informant recently indicted for lying about President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter — had a long history of behavior jeopardizing his credibility long before he was criminally charged, according to several FBI officials.

Several ex-FBI employees with experience handling confidential informants recently told the Washington Post that Smirnov repeatedly violated protocol throughout his time as an FBI source by using his informant work as leverage for his personal benefit. Dmitry Fomichev, who is a tech investor, decided to loan Smirnov money because he "was representing himself as working for the FBI," and asserted that he was "a very powerful guy."

According to conservative pollster Sarah Longwell, voters are less concerned with Donald Trump's age than they are worried about his mental fitness as they look at the presidential choices in 2024.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Longwell — founder of Republican Voters Against Trump — was asked about voter worries about both Trump and President Joe Biden and she replied the public seem to hold them to two different standards.

"I wonder, in your focus groups, how the two issues or bearing out, the question of the candidates and the comparison points between the two them," co-host Alicia Menendez pressed.

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why half of America does not care about Trump's crimes

"Look, whether it is fair or not, voters don't question Trump's mental capacity, they are questioning his sanity," she replied. "They question whether he is fit enough to be commander in chief from a moral and ethical standpoint."

"Trump has big lunatic energy," she continued as the hosts laughed. "He just doesn't come off the same way that Biden does. So the concerns for voters around age do rest with President Biden."

You can watch below or at the link.

With Gaza's humanitarian crisis growing more dire and his left flank in uproar, President Joe Biden is increasingly showing impatience with Israel's leader and making clear the United States will act on its own -- but few expect a dramatic break.

In his State of the Union address Thursday, Biden announced that the United States would build a temporary pier to bring aid into Gaza, days after the US military started airdropping food and top US officials received a key rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

GOP strategist and publisher of The Bulwark Sarah Longwell appeared on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip late Friday explain what was on display following President Joe Biden's State of the Union address was a coordinated effort centered on Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL).

"The fact is, they have been hemorrhaging college-educated suburban women and you could just tell from the way that this was staged from the sitting in the kitchen, the way she was coached to use that breathy voice, because that's not how she normally talks," Longwell said. "She's a serious person. She is a good senator, a sharp person."