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'Practical Republicans' in Arizona sank Kari Lake because 'they want government to work': expert

A new report from the Arizona Republic sheds more light on the coalition of voters who sank Trump-backed Kari Lake's hope of becoming Arizona's next governor.

Essentially, the newspaper found that a significant number of Republican voters in the state crossed over to back Democrat Katie Hobbs in this year's elections, and they also helped put nails in the coffins of fellow MAGA candidates Blake Masters and Mark Finchem.

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Democratic operatives team up to defend Biden from ‘bogus’ House GOP investigations

Democrats are putting together a network of outside groups to respond to looming investigations of President Joe Biden, his family and his administration by the incoming House Republican majority.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan, who is likely to become chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have already promised investigations of Biden and various cabinet agencies, including the Justice Department, to "frame" the 2024 election campaign, and Democratic groups are preparing to fight back, reported NBC News.

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Getting Mike Pence to talk would be an 'extraordinary turn' in DOJ probe of Trump: Maggie Haberman

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said on Thursday that it's entirely possible that former Vice President Mike Pence could cooperate with a Department of Justice investigation into former President Donald Trump's efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

While appearing on CNN, Haberman broke down why Pence might be willing to cooperate with the DOJ in a way he would not be willing to cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots.

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Here's how Mike Pence may have blown up his executive privilege defense

According to The New York Times, the Justice Department is now moving to question former Vice President Mike Pence as part of the criminal investigation into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — a move that a week after Pence, who was the subject of a pressure campaign by Trump allies to throw out electoral votes in states carried by Joe Biden, flatly refused to cooperate with House investigators in their own parallel investigation.

One of Pence's — or Trump's only potential defenses against him testifying to federal investigators is to claim executive privilege over the conversations he had in the White House. But, as former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said on Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," there's a key problem with that: he already wrote a book discussing at least some of the information.

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'The Supreme Court has lost its honor': Donald Trump rants after SCOTUS rules he must hand over his tax returns

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the imminent handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Trump was the first president in 40 years not to release his taxes after announcing his first presidential run. The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has been seeking access to Mr. Trump's taxes since 2019.

Tuesday's ruling allows a lower court's order to stand, authorizing the documents to be handed over to the committee.

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Fox News now complaining Biden White House is 'too pro-Christmas'

Over the years, many critics of Fox News and its sister channel Fox Business have mocked the right-wing cable media outlets for claiming that liberals and progressives are carrying out a "War On Christmas." It's a claim that's difficult to back up, as Christmas music, Christmas celebrations and Christmas decorations become ubiquitous in a long list of major U.S. cities that are overwhelmingly Democratic — from Boston and Philadelphia to Seattle to Chicago. Nonetheless, many Fox News and Fox Business hosts have insisted, year after year, that there is a movement among liberals, progressives and Democrats to attack Christmas.

But in 2022, ironically, Fox News is, according to Media Matters' Matt Gertz, attacking centrist Democratic President Joe Biden for being "too pro-Christmas."

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Justice Dept seeks to question Pence in Capitol attack probe

Former vice president Mike Pence is reportedly considering a Justice Department request to testify in its January 6 probe

Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department is seeking to question former vice president Mike Pence about Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, media reports said Wednesday.

The New York Times and other outlets said that Pence was considering the request to appear as a witness in the department's criminal investigation into the actions of the former president.

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Morning Joe panelists mock Kevin McCarthy's flailing efforts to gain power: 'No one accused him of being smart'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went off on House minority leader Kevin McCarthy for "overselling" his threats to investigate various members of President Joe Biden's administration.

The California Republican has vowed to open a string of investigations of Biden and his family, as well as Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas -- whose resignation he demanded over a surge in undocumented migrants across the southern border -- and the "Morning Joe" host and his panelists ripped his flailing efforts to draw support from the GOP's right flank to become House speaker.

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'Shame on them!' Trump rails against Supreme Court over taxes ruling

Former President Donald Trump this week lashed out at the United States Supreme Court after it refused to intervene to block congressional access to his tax returns.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, the former president complained not only about the ruling on his taxes, but also about the court's refusal to hear a lawsuit aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 election.

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'I’ll drop everything': Mike Lindell is this desperate to get back on Twitter

More than two years after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is still spreading conspiracy theories and wants back on Twitter to do so.

Since Twitter was purchased by billionaire Elon Musk, the service has reinstated a number of far-right accounts that had been suspended, including Trump, the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, and Kanye West, who legally changed his name to Ye.

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Eric Trump follows his dad with attack on special counsel’s wife

MAGA Republicans are heightening their attacks on special counsel Jack Smith by going after his family.

On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump went after Smith's family on his Truth Social website.

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Top House Republican McCarthy threatens impeachment of Homeland Security chief

By Gram Slattery and Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, on Tuesday called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to step down, warning that the House may try to impeach him when Republicans take the majority next year.

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Trump wages war against family of special counsel

Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the family of the special counsel appointed to investigate the government documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago, attempted insurrection, and obstruction of Justice.

"This is just a small amount of information from the wife of the hard-line radical left special counsel (prosecutor), an acolyte of Eric Holder and Barack Hussein Obama," Trump posted on his Truth Social website.

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