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Steve Bannon told associates that Donald Trump intended to declare victory on Election Night, regardless of the vote results.

The former White House adviser said on Oct. 31, 2020, that Trump planned to claim he had won and then blame any shift in mail-in voting totals toward Joe Biden on fraud -- which is exactly what the former president did, reported Mother Jones.

The House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol played a highlight reel showing how Donald Trump's Dec. 19 tweet was critical to motivating far-right media personalities to focus their attention on stopping the certification of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden.

"Not long after Sydney Powell, Mike Flynn and Rudy Giuliani left the White House in the early hours of the morning, President Trump turned away from both his outside advisors' outlandish and unworkable schemes and his White House counsel's advice to swallow hard and accept the reality of the loss," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said. "Instead, Donald Trump issued a tweet that would galvanize his followers and unleash a political firestorm and change the course of our history as a country."

A culturally insensitive comment by US First Lady Jill Biden which spread like wildfire across social media prompted a White House apology Tuesday and outrage from a group which insisted Hispanics "are not tacos."

During a speech Monday in Texas, Biden hailed the state's diversity as being "as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio."

A month after he snubbed Joe Biden's Americas summit, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sat down with his US counterpart Tuesday at the White House, amid rising tensions over migration.

Biden underscored the need to address "migration as a shared hemispheric challenge" in remarks ahead of the meeting, describing long-time ally and neighbor Mexico as an "equal partner."

The Jan. 6 committee showed video testimony by participants in a meeting described as "the craziest" of Donald Trump's presidency.

Right-wing attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, along with former national security adviser Mike Flynn, pressed the former president to seize voting machines and appoint Powell as special counsel to investigate baseless claims of voter fraud, but White House counsel Pat Cipollone and other advisers told them the claims were unfounded and their scheme unlawful.

“I don’t want the choice of having to look at (Trump) again. And if it comes, I’ll be hard pressed,” he told the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-owned news outlet. “I don’t know what I’ll do. But I’m not inclined to support him.”

Bowers, a member of the LDS Church, went on to say that Trump bears no resemblance to the party that he has been a part of his entire adult life.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol on Tuesday presented evidence that former President Donald Trump knew that he legitimately lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.

The main focus of the hearing came from testimony provided by former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) revealed that it was clear White House lawyers, known as "team normal," worked for hours to systematically debunk Trump's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

The former constitutional law professor on the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol detailed a White House meeting that he said was a key moment in Donald Trump's unsuccessful coup during Tuesday's televised hearings.

"Four days after the electors met across the country and made Joe Biden the president-elect, Donald Trump was still trying to find a way to hang onto the presidency," Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-MD) said.

A new poll released just hours before the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack hearing finds that nearly six in ten registered voters say then-President Donald Trump "misled" them about the results of the 2020 election, and that same number, 59%, say the former president is to blame for the January 6 attack.

Two out of three (67%) also say Trump attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Almost as many, (65%) say Trump claimed that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent without evidence.

The House committee probing the 2021 assault on the US Capitol will examine connections between associates of former president Donald Trump and far right-wing extremist groups at its seventh hearing on Tuesday.

"We are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying -- in government circles -- to overturn the election," said Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren.

In a statement issued early Tuesday morning, Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen accused the former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows of turning over information on his advocacy group and his fellow founders to former Attorney General Bill Barr and questioned the reasons why.

According to Galen, "It’s hard to describe the feeling of knowing the most powerful people in the country are preparing to attack you for your political views. Knowing the tremendous power of the White House and the Department of Justice would give any American pause."

On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the same pollster who yesterday showed about 3 in 4 Democrats were interested in nominating a replacement for President Joe Biden also found poor signs for former President Donald Trump among GOP voters.

While Trump is still considerably ahead of any other GOP challenger, according to the poll, he now only commands a plurality of the party, with just below 50 percent — and particularly poor numbers among younger and college-educated Republicans.