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Minnesota gov smacks down Republican for taking credit for Biden projects he voted against

Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) took to X on Monday to boast that he had helped secure funding to repair a bridge in northern Minnesota. The problem is that it is a lie.

"I'm proud to announce that Duluth, MN and Superior, WI have received over 1 billion in federal funding to help replace the Blatnik Bridge," he wrote. "This is a HUGE win for #MN08 and I was proud to advocate for these funds!"

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'Ignorant and rude': MAGA supporter lays into Trump — but says he'll vote for him anyway

Several Republican voters in New Hampshire told CNN they have a lot of complaints about Donald Trump as a candidate — but they're backing him anyway, CNN reported.

Voter Andrew Konchek told the network Trump was "ignorant and rude," But he's supporting him because Trump "supports fishermen, you know, and obviously it’s my livelihood."

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Biden gets border win as SCOTUS smacks down Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over razor wire

Supreme Court justices handed President Joe Biden a win Monday by codifying his administration's right to remove razor wire and other barriers placed at the border by Texas state officials.

In the 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court agreed with the Biden administration's emergency request that stated Texas officials were preventing federal officials from carrying out their duties.

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Florida bill would funnel $5M of public money to Trump to pay legal fees

Florida Republicans have a new idea — create a state program that will bail out up to $5 million of former President Donald Trump's legal expenses with public money.

The legislation — first reported by Newsweek — has been proposed by Florida's Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and is being sponsored by State Sen. Ileana Garcia. It would establish a bucket of cash called the "Florida Freedom Fighters Fund."

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Trump gaffe sparks worry that media is ignoring mental decline: 'Losing his marbles'

Donald Trump’s recent rhetorical fumble in which he confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi has begun raising concerns about media coverage of the leading Republican presidential candidate's mental state.

New Republic editor Michael Tomasky, in a five-alarm missive condemning the coverage of Trump's startling weekend statement, asked readers to imagine what would have happened if President Joe Biden publicly confused a campaign opponent with a past speaker of the House.

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'A lethal scam': Top constitutional lawyer warns No Labels 'could end democracy'

One of the nation’s top constitutional law attorneys, University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University Laurence Tribe, blasted the dark money group No Labels on Monday, calling it a “lethal scam.”

No Labels, which insists it is not a political party while attempting to get a potential candidate on the 2024 presidential ballot, reportedly is now “openly floating” a plot to throw the November election into the U.S. House of Representatives — letting congressmembers decide the winner.

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‘No Labels is a lethal scam’ warns top constitutional law attorney

One of the nation's top constitutional law attorneys, the well-known University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, Laurence Tribe, blasted the dark money group No Labels on Monday, calling it a "lethal scam."

No Labels, which insists it is not a political party while attempting to get a potential candidate on the 2024 presidential ballot, reportedly is now "openly floating" a plot to throw the November election into the U.S. House of Representatives, which would mostly likely hand the White House back to Donald Trump.

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CNN's Paula Reid gives Elise Stefanik brutal fact-check over election interference tantrum

Rep. Elise Stefanik received a swift and brutal fact check from CNN reporter Paula Reid Monday after news broke of a delay in former President Donald Trump’s defamation trial.

Stefanik threw her social media tantrum shortly after federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, learning a juror reported COVID-like symptoms and Trump’s attorney Alina Habba had been potentially exposed to the virus, adjourned the New York City courtroom for the day.

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Trump blasts out E. Jean Carroll smears as final day of trial delayed by illness

Donald Trump blasted out a series of demeaning posts about author E. Jean Carroll on what should have been the last day of his defamation trial.

The former president posted dozens of screenshots of Carroll tweeting about sex-related topics or jokes, along with right-wing blog posts questioning her motives, character and sanity, during the time Monday morning when the trial was scheduled to resume with him on the stand.

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Phony Biden-mimicking robocalls  urge voters to skip New Hampshire primary

A robocall impersonating President Joe Biden is urging his supporters in New Hampshire not to vote in Tuesday's primary election.

The president's name doesn't actually appear on the state's ballot because election officials set the primary date ahead of Feb. 3, when South Carolina will hold the first sanctioned contest under newly implemented Democratic National Committee rules, and the robocall appears intended to undermine a campaign to write in Biden's name, reported NBC News.

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'Truly confused': ABC News' Jon Karl stunned that Trump seems 'out of it'

ABC News' Jon Karl on Monday marveled at the fact that Trump has made multiple slipups in recent days, including in a speech where he seemed to confuse GOP rival Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

"Donald Trump is truly confused about who Nikki Haley is, thinks somehow that she was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6th," Karl said during an appearance on "Good Morning America." "We've seen him confuse Joe Biden with Barack Obama, he thinks that he beat Obama. We saw at one point, he talked about how Biden was going to get us into World War II... There have been several moments on the campaign trail where he has seemed, quite frankly, out of it."

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'His mind is scrambled eggs': Morning Joe concerned by Trump's increasing mental decline

On Monday morning, MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough detailed the extensive gaffes and ramblings of Donald Trump that appear to be increasing with his every appearance and suggested there is good evidence that the former president is "addled."

As the MSNBC host noted, the Trump campaign is hoping to make President Joe Biden's age a central theme of their attacks, but the GOP has a serious Trump problem.

"You know, I spent a lot of time with Joe Biden. I can tell you, Joe Biden knows where he is. He knows what decade he's in, he sure as hell knows who he is running against — there's just really no comparison here," he exclaimed. "Yeah, you want to talk about who is addled? This is an easy one. Let's talk about who is addled. Who is addled is a guy who can't even remember that Barack Obama hasn't been president of the United States in eight years."

"Yeah, and you have to think, is this age?" co-host Mika Brzezinski offered. "It could be. But it also could just be the mountain of legal actions against this man, just crushing him and making him so stressed that he's literally confused."

"Because no one person could handle all the cases that he has against him, all the lawyers he has to deal with, all the lawyers he can't get. I mean, some of these cases can put him away in prison for the rest of his life," she added.

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"Except for the fact he is in 2016 most of the time; even in 2016, he forgets who he ran against. He talks about the landslide victory against Barack Obama," Scarborough insisted. "Jonathan Lemire, let me bring you in here because I know you've been seeing this. He talks about the landslide against Obama. He talks about Obama so much as president of the United States, that on the radio show, [Fox host] Brian Kilmeade has to interrupt him and correct him.... his mind is scrambled eggs when he gets up there and gets tired. He really thinks that he is running against Barack Obama. just like he thought Nikki Haley was speaker of the House on January 6th."

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TV's Judge Judy courts Nikki Haley fans ahead of key vote

Exeter (United States) (AFP) - Television's Judge Judy Sheindlin delivered her verdict Sunday on White House hopeful Nikki Haley ahead of New Hampshire's make-or-break US Republican primary vote -- calling her "the real deal." Haley is the last standing rival to front-runner Donald Trump in the race to secure the party's nomination to challenge President Joe Biden in November's election. But she is 15 points behind in polling, with less than two days to go until the Granite State votes, and so sprinkled some star power on the campaign as she rallied in former state capital Exeter.  "It's time ...