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Karl Rove warns of 'the worst dumpster fire in history' if GOP nominates Trump

Former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove warned in a new op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that Republicans will be in for a nightmare if they nominate Trump for a third time in 2024.

"As Democrats savor their victories in Tuesday’s Ohio abortion referendum, Kentucky governor’s race and Virginia and New Jersey legislative contests, they might be tempted to ignore the implications of a Nov. 3 New York Times/Siena College poll that shows Donald Trump beating Joe Biden in five of six 2024 battleground states. Mr. Trump lost all six in 2020," wrote Rove.

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Brutal analysis highlights media failures on Trump's threat to democracy

The U.S. media has failed to communicate the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy, a leading media critic concludes.

A recent poll shows the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted former president easily winning the 2024 election over President Joe Biden in several key states that will likely determine the race, and media critic Margaret Sullivan wrote a new column for The Guardian explaining how journalists have failed to present the facts against Trump.

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Mark Meadows will singlehandedly convict Trump in D.C. Jan. 6 case: Chris Christie

Chris Christie explained why Mark Meadows could singlehandedly get Donald Trump convicted of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The former White House chief of staff has been granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith in the District of Columbia case, and Christie told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Meadows would be a compelling witness who could ultimately land Trump in prison and wipe him from the 2024 ballot.

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New Jack Smith filing shows he's ready to hammer Trump for inciting Jan. 6 riot

Although special counsel Jack Smith did not charge former President Donald Trump directly with inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the United States Capitol, a new court filing shows that the special counsel's team is preparing to use the riot as a central part of its case that Trump corruptly tried to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election.

As reported by Politico, the new filing written by senior assistant special counsel Molly Gaston argues that Trump's incitement of the mob was part of a last-ditch effort to intimidate members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify President Joe Biden's victory.

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James Comer may have conflicts of interest involving his own brother: report

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) has been investigating the allegedly "shady business practices" of President Joe Biden and his family, but he's engaged in similar practices with his own relatives.

The Kentucky Republican subpoenaed the president's brother James Biden and son Hunter Biden, and will no doubt ask about two personal loan payments between the siblings in 2017 and 2018 – when Joe Biden was neither in office or a candidate – but The Daily Beast reported that Comer may have conflicts of interest involving his brother.

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'Our brand is shot': Ex-Trump aide says GOP is having an 'incredibly hard time'

The Republican party is in trouble, according to a former Trump administration official.

Appearing on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Wednesday, the former president's ex-aide Alyssa Farah Griffin commented on the recent election results in which Republican candidates suffered more losses than many expected they would. Griffin, a former communications official in Trump's administration who renounced him following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, is also a co-host of "The View."

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President Joe Biden coming to Illinois, saying UAW agreement validates economic strategy

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Belvidere in Northern Illinois on Thursday, celebrating the United Auto Workers’ contract agreement with Stellantis that includes the company’s vow to invest millions of dollars and reopen its manufacturing plant in the northern Illinois town for electric vehicles and creating an EV battery assembly.

Underscoring the strike-ending UAW agreement, Biden’s visit is an effort to show his post-COVID economic strategy dubbed “Bidenomics” is working.

Can abortion rights buoy Biden's 2024 hopes?

Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden celebrated victory Wednesday after a series of votes centered on abortion rights -- but the big question now is whether the issue can help the Democrat overcome likely opponent Donald Trump in 2024. The wins for Democrats and abortion-rights campaigners in Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia on Tuesday were a boost for 80-year-old Biden after dismal recent polling numbers showed him trailing hard-right Republican Trump, 77, in next year's race. Stung by critical media coverage and growing doubts in the Democratic Party about his candidacy, Biden himself pointe...

GOP lawmaker asks for leniency for Jan. 6 rioter who attacked cops with pepper spray

A Republican lawmaker pleaded leniency this week for a Jan. 6 rioter who admits to arming himself with a crowbar, attacking police with pepper spray, and threatening to assault U.S. elected officials, court records show.

U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) wrote a letter of support for Ryan Nichols, the insurrectionist who pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers in a Washington D.C. federal court, records show.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend begs man in rat suit not to vote for Joe Biden

RSBN host Brian Glenn, who is dating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), pleaded with a man in a rat suit not to vote for President Joe Biden.

While waiting with people attending a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday, Glenn confronted a Trump protester in a rat suit.

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U.S. abortion policies loom over Republican debate in Miami

Republican presidential candidates will meet in debate on Wednesday -- again snubbed by clear frontrunner Donald Trump -- as the party's increasingly hardline position on abortion faces scrutiny after disappointing state elections results a day earlier.

The ex-president will skip the Miami event and instead hold a rally 11 miles (18 kilometers) away, maintaining his strategy of refusing to debate challengers.

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Ex-governor questions Trump's brain: 'That elevator's not going to the top floor anymore'

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe got into a debate with MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday as the two sparred over the 2023 election results and what it says about the future of the Democratic Party and Joe Biden.

Mitchell tried to argue that Tuesday's election that benefitted Democrats was still bad for President Joe Biden because he's still old. She said that the abortion issue might be unpopular for Donald Trump but that he can simply change his position as he's done so many times on so many issues.

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'Nothing's going to get fixed': Right-winger despairs as Trump crushes GOP election hopes

Conservative Erick Erickson found himself in a seeming state of despair on Wednesday after watching the Republican Party suffer a new round of stinging defeats in off-year elections, which are coming despite the fact that President Joe Biden suffers from continuously dismal approval ratings.

Writing on Twitter, Erickson pinned the party's biggest problem as its total reliance on Trump as its political champion despite the fact that the GOP lost the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election, while also suffering from a massively disappointing 2022 midterm election that saw Republicans retake the House of Representatives by a very slim margin.

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