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Conservative host forced to apologize after he's checked on mispronouncing Kamala Harris

A conservative British network host was forced to apologize after being corrected for repeatedly mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris' name even after being told the proper pronunciation. It's something Donald Trump also does.

Martin Daubney, a former Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament who then turned to the right-wing Reclaim Party, now hosts a show on weekday afternoons about news and politics. On Friday, he invited an American former congressional candidate, Democrat Qasim Rashid, a long-time human rights lawyer.

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Republicans suggest in 'private' that they would be better off if Trump loses: GOP insider

Erick Erickson, a Georgia Republican insider, said bluntly on Friday that former President Donald Trump is in real trouble after his frantic efforts to make himself more palatable to voters who believe in reproductive rights and other key issues.

Writing on X, Erickson claimed to have had "private conversations" with fellow Republicans in which they argued that conservatives would actually be better off with Trump losing the 2024 election at this rate.

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'Fun and jokes': CNN host corners J.D. Vance on Trump's 'misogynistic' Truth Social posts

J.D. Vance Friday drew a parallel between Kamala Harris saying she would like politics to lift people up and Donald Trump's jokes at the expense of other people.

The vice president said she'd like to help bring about a culture shift that was more uplifting than politics have been since the former reality TV star entered the scene, but Vance told CNN that Americans ought to tolerate Trump's trademark insults and conspiracy theories in good humor.

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'A wonderful disaster': Critics react with glee to J.D. Vance's latest CNN interview

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Friday went on CNN to do an interview that was marred by apparent technical glitches and also multiple evasive answers on Vance's part when it comes to former President Donald Trump's views on abortion.

Critics of the Ohio senator and Republican vice-presidential nominee eagerly pounced on what they claimed was a train wreck interview.

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'Make the other side die': Michigan Trump fan makes ominous warning ahead of election

A Trump supporter in Michigan this week issued an ominous warning about what will happen should his candidate not prevail in the upcoming election.

In an interview with Politico, 62-year-old Trump supporter Richard McLeod, who in the past had been a militia member, suggested mass violence was in the offing if the election didn't go as he hoped.

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'Crossings are down': CNN panelist confronts GOP strategist on Harris' border record

CNN's Kate Bedingfield Friday morning smacked down a Republican strategist's claims that border security would be a liability for Kamala Harris.

The vice president gave her first sit-down interview since accepting the Democratic Party nomination, and she told CNN's Dana Bash that she intended to revive the border security bill that president Joe Biden helped draft with conservative Republicans but was eventually smothered by Donald Trump and his House allies.

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'Particularly risky' Trump strategy casts cloud over his electability: New York Times

As election day looms closer and closer, Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris while sinking lower and lower with the type of attacks he is deploying against his Democratic opponent which, in turn, is raising questions whether he going too far or has already reached that point.

According to a report from the New York Times, the former president is running a "particularly risky" strategy of attacks that could come back to haunt him with voters due to the growing coarseness of his rhetoric and his use of degrading memes of Harris on his Truth Social account.

As the Times reports, "Trump has found a particularly complicated and risky target for his trademark brand of transgression" that could turn off even more women voters that could complicate his re-election hopes."

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As the Times' Ken Bensinger, Karen Yourish and Michael Gold wrote, Trump's "decision to repost a string of sexually and racially charged broadsides in recent weeks suggests that he has turned up the dial when it comes to pure vulgarity and crudeness."

That report adds, "That eagerness to offend is likely to receive increased scrutiny as the election enters its final stretch. With both major parties battling for female and moderate swing-state voters, Mr. Trump could potentially alienate an undecided audience uncomfortable with his coarse rhetoric."

Of note are the terms the former president is using to go after his opponent, which have included, "wack job, "communist," “dumb as a rock," “real garbage," “a bum," and, as the Times is reporting, "employing a phrase he applies almost exclusively to women, 'nasty.'"

The report does point out that the former president is once again using his account on X, formerly known as Twitter, but has saved his most vicious attacks for his Truth Social platform where he has a more sympathetic audience.

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'Explosive path': Experts say 'expensive' Trump tax plan will add $5.8 trillion to deficit

Donald Trump's tax plan for a second potential term as president would be much more expensive than the one proposed by Vice President Kamala Harris, according to experts.

CBS Friday published an analysis of the presidential candidates' positions on taxes, finding that "the plans emerging from rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump could affect voters' paychecks in very different ways."

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CNN fact-checker isn't buying Kamala Harris' explanation of evolving stance on key issue

A CNN fact-checker isn't buying Kamala Harris' insistence at her first sit-down interview as presidential nominee that she clearly evolved her stance on fracking in 2020 after vowing to ban the practice a year prior.

While in Congress, Harris supported the Green New Deal and in 2019, said there was "no question" that she was in favor of a fracking ban. When CNN anchor Dana Bash asked if she still holds that position, Harris said no.

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Harris' CNN interview a 'good night' — but not a 'huge night': Democratic strategist

A Democratic strategist gave Kamala Harris a tepid thumbs up for her first sit-down interview as presidential nominee and said that while she accomplished what she "needed to do," she didn't "move the ball all that much forward."

During a roughly 40-minute interview with CNN anchor Dana Bash, Harris revealed her "day one" priorities, slapped away her opponent's questioning of her racial identity and addressed her change in stances on certain major issues.

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Kamala Harris needs just 4 words to slap away Trump's questioning 'is she Black?'

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris shook her head in her first sit-down interview and needed just four words to take down Republican nominee Donald Trump's widely criticized attack on her racial identity.

Speaking at a convention with the National Association of Black Journalists last month, Trump told the audience: "I did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. Is she Indian or is she Black?"

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Kamala Harris reveals in CNN interview her 'day one' priorities

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris revealed what she'll do on "day one" in the White House, should voters elect her on Nov. 5.

In her first sit-down interview as the candidate at the top of the ticket, Harris told CNN anchor Dana Bash she has a "number of things" she'd like to accomplish.

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'Quite punitive': Harris donors reportedly balk at plan to hike taxes on wealthy Americans

Donors of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris are reportedly pushing her to give up her support of a plan that would tax wealthy Americans and increase federal revenue by $5 trillion over 10 years.

Last week, the vice president quietly unveiled her proposal to increase taxes. Notably, no one earning less than $400,000 would see their taxes increase, according to The New York Times.

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