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Newly unearthed texts reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene's failed attempt to recruit Kelly Loeffler on Jan. 6 plan

Newly unearthed text messages show that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried and ultimately failed to recruit then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in her plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election on January 6th, 2021.

As the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, Greene reached out to Loeffler on December 2nd, 2020 to gage her willingness to help with a plan to throw out certified election results on January 6th.

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'I hold you personally responsible': Raffensperger's wife unleashed on Kelly Loeffler in leaked trove of text messages

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has obtained 59-pages of text messages from the iPhone of former GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler.

The newspaper noted messages reportedly sent by Tricia Raffensperger after Loeffler called for her husband, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to resign on Nov. 9, 2020.

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Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. nails Kari Lake for claim her dad would be full MAGA

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake claimed on Tuesday that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had not been assassinated by racists he would have been supportive of Donald Trump and the far-right movement.

“I’m a true believer that if MLK, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, if JFK were alive today, if our founding fathers were alive today, they would be America First Republicans,” Lake promised. “I really believe that.”

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'This is what communist regimes do!' Marjorie Taylor Greene fumes over recommended sentence for Steve Bannon

On Wednesday, far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to Twitter to complain about the sentence federal prosecutors are seeking against longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon.

"The DOJ wants Steve Bannon to serve 6 mo in jail & pay $200,000 in fines because he used his First Amendment right of freedom of speech on his show to defend himself publicly and they are offended by his speech," wrote Greene. "This is what communist regimes do, not guardians of 'democracy.'"

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'Campaigning with dumpster fires': CNN panel roasts GOP's refusal to disavow 'crackpot' candidates

A CNN panel on Wednesday roasted the Republican Party for embracing candidates who once would have been considered fringe, but who are now directly in the party's mainstream.

While discussing the GOP's embrace of candidate Herschel Walker despite allegations from his own son that he repeatedly threatened to murder his own family, panelist Gloria Borger said the party's entire ethos was about seizing power.

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'Nobody's tougher': Listen to Trump brag to Woodward about overcoming his impeachment challenges

On Tuesday evening, CNN aired “never been heard before” audio of legendary journalist Bob Woodward interviewing Donald Trump.

CNN gained exclusive access ahead of Woodward releasing his forthcoming audiobook “The Trump Tapes" which "contains the 20 interviews Woodward conducted with Trump from 2016 through 2020."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene visits Union Army monument — which she says honors ‘Confederate soldiers’

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday appeared to publicly struggle with her state's history during the Civil War.

"Tonight, I stopped at the Wilder Monument in Chickamauga, GA, which honors the Confederate soldiers of the Wilder Brigade," Greene posted to Truth Social. "I will always defend our nation’s history!"

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'I will continue to defend him': Marjorie Taylor Greene's texts prove her efforts to help overturn the 2020 election

When Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia debated Marcus Flowers, her Democratic challenger in the 2022 midterms, on October 16, he lambasted her for encouraging the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6th. Greene angrily responded that it was unfair to blame her for that attack in any way.

Watch the clip from the debate below:

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Herschel Walker denies making abortion comments – but it’s on video

It's been less than a week since Herschel Walker held up an honorary badge and claimed he was an official police officer and had the power to arrest people. This week, he's claiming that he never said some of the things he stated on video.

In a CNN fact-check, Daniel Dale said that this is also the second time in the campaign that Walker is claiming he never said something he was filmed saying.

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Republicans are trying to usher in another global financial crisis: columnist

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has announced some of the policies that he and the GOP members intend to usher in if they take over Congress in November.

Writing for the Washington Post, Catherine Rampell cited polls saying that most expected voters trust Republicans when it comes to economic issues over Democrats.

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Florida father and teen son opened fire on random woman they thought was a burglar: police

A Florida man and his teen son were arrested and charged with attempted murder after they shot at a neighbor they mistook for a burglar this Saturday, NBC News reports.

The incident occured after their neighbor arrived at their front door with a medicine delivery for the Coloncostas that was mistakenly delivered to his home.

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Trump posts ominous message about ridding America of the 'cancer' of 'the danger from within'

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted an ominous message on his Truth Social platform in which he declared that the "cancer" coming from "the danger within" the United States was a much bigger problem than any external threat.

The Truth Social post came in reaction to a meme posted by one of the twice-impeached former president's supporters that accused Democrats of being "totally heinous international terrorists."

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'Where's the beef?' Special master knocks Trump's lack of evidence on document claims

Judge Raymond Dearie, serving as special master in a document dispute, admonished attorneys for former President Donald Trump and attorneys for the government on Tuesday.

During a status call about documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Dearie seemed to have little patience for either side.

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