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Former Republican Party presidential candidate and ambassador Jon Huntsman swiped at Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) after watching his performance in the Republican debates on Wednesday.

The Deseret News watched the debate with Huntsman and his wife, who made their own little side comments as the debate unfolded.

Another government funding bill from Republicans was pulled on Thursday morning after many leaders refused to back several pieces of the bill, including one aimed at overturning a law that barred companies from discriminating against employees who use birth control.

The birth control plank was just one of dozens of amendments that were added to the bill from Republican lawmakers, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pledged to pass the budget by the Nov. 17 shutdown deadline.

UPDATE: The House GOP leadership has now pulled the bill. It is the second bill that the Republicans have withdrawn this week due to a lack of support.

Republicans are looking for an opportunity to use absences in the House by Democrats to pass a budget bill, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman posted on social media Thursday. There are currently four Republicans out and 12 Democrats.

Local residents are trying to recall an Oklahoma city commissioner believed to have marched with white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the infamous "Unite the Right" rally.

Enid city commissioner Judd Blevins helped plan and took part in the 2017 march, according to the Enid Social Justice Committee, and has spread hate propaganda across the state and tried to recruit members to a neo-Nazi group, reported KOKI-TV.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) left a House Judiciary Committee hearing with special counsel David Weiss and claimed that no one should believe any "misleading reports" from his Republican colleagues about what unfolded.

Weiss was being questioned behind closed doors about his ongoing investigation into President Joe Biden's son Hunter, whom Republicans have targeted since the 2020 election.

Rudy Giuliani's financial troubles persist and new reporting claims that the former "America's Mayor" might have his Palm Beach condo foreclosed on due to unpaid taxes.

The Palm Beach Post reports that the failure to pay property taxes could result in Giuliani losing his beach-side home. Giuliani owes more than $84,000, the report explained, and a firm has already purchased the tax sale certificates to proceed with foreclosure in the spring of 2024.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow highlighted some significant poll results that spell big warning signs for Republicans on her Monday night show.

This comes despite a recent poll from The New York Times and Siena College that appeared to show former President Donald Trump surging over President Joe Biden in a handful of key battleground states. While Trump may have good numbers now, progressive policies are far more successful.

Former President Donald Trump had a bad day on the witness stand at his civil fraud trial in New York, snapping at state attorneys and offering contradictory stories about his company's dubious property valuations in a case that could cost him his entire New York business. Ultimately, he helped prove part of the AG's case.

All of this cuts straight to the former president's psyche, argued biographer David Cay Johnston on MSNBC Monday.

Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen found a document among his papers at home from his ex-client, showing how he recycles rhetoric and attacks, thinking that they'll be successful.

Holding up a stack of papers, Cohen showed a note written in what seemed like Trump's handwriting, but Raw Story has not independently verified the note.