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Kari Lake suffers fresh blow as key group makes surprise endorsement of her Dem rival

The Arizona Police Association typically supports Republican candidates for elected office, but as the 2024 election approaches they have endorsed a Democrat for the U.S. Senate race.

The "largest police/public safety association in the state, representing thousands of active law enforcement officers, proudly announces its endorsement of Representative Ruben Gallego to represent Arizona in the United States Senate," the group said in a press release Monday.

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Arizona Republicans sue after Dem governor opens more voting locations

In 2023, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed two executive orders ahead of the 2024 election: One that allowed state government facilities to serve as voter registration sites, and the second made those same government facilities locations where individuals could vote in November.

But as the 2024 election approaches, the Arizona state Republican Party is suing, the voting rights group Democracy Docket reported Monday.

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Colorado County Clerk sounds the alarm on GOP officials' efforts to slow election results

A new report is sounding the alarm about Republican election officials in Colorado who will likely protest the 2024 election results.

Colorado's election certification system is run by local canvassing boards that feature one Democratic appointee and one Republican, along with an elected elections official, USA Today reported. In the past few elections where the GOP appointee has protested certification, the Democrat and the elected official have outvoted the Republican.

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'These guys can’t shoot straight': Ex-Obama aide mocks Trump advisers over debate

Donald Trump and his campaign advisers were mocked by a former Barack Obama aide Monday as the drama surrounding presidential debates flared.

Trump had agreed to President Joe Biden's request that debate microphones be muted when the debaters are asked direct questions, but now-presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants that rule changed — and for open mics to be open throughout.

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Republican senator promotes seemingly-debunked scandal over Tim Walz and his dog Scout

Donald Trump's supporters have created a new scandal around Gov. Time Walz (D-MN) — this time involving his dog.

On Monday, several Republicans highlighted a photo from X with a post in which the governor mentions his pet Scout. The animal in the picture, the Maga crowd claimed, is not Scout.

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Georgia governor seeks legal advice on removing Trump-backed Board of Election members

Georgia's governor is seeking legal guidance on whether he can boot three members of the state's Board of Elections who were praised by Donald Trump just months ago.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) is requesting guidance from the state's attorney general on whether he "has the authority to remove members of the State Election Board."

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Kamala Harris’ campaign is basically 2008 Barack Obama — but with dirty jokes: reporter

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign against Donald Trump echoes Barack Obama's 2008 effort — but with a key difference, Washington Bureau chief Benjy Sarlin said in a Semafor column Friday.

According to Sarlin, the two candidates might have a lot of differences, but they're both painting themselves in a "post-partisan" era. As Obama said in 2008, it was to “cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past” and move beyond the psychodramas of the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton eras.

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Lady Gaga's father and restaurant owner gushes over Trump's 'no tax on tips' plan

Lady Gaga might be firmly behind a progressive candidate, but her father took to Fox News to fawn over Donald Trump's "No Tax on Tips" proposal.

Among Trump's promises is that tips should not be taxed, a proposal that Vice President Kamala Harris has also pitched.

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'Almost killed my wife': Texas man reads Trump the riot act on reproductive rights

For the last several months, former President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that an overwhelming majority of legal scholars wanted to see the overturning of Roe v. Wade so that the issue of abortion rights could be returned to the states.

When heartbreaking stories began to spread about those suffering as a result of the elimination of Roe, Trump tried to deflect blame for the decision and . A CNN fact-check called the claim "wildly inaccurate."

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Kamala Harris fighting for 'the end of the Trump era': columnist

While Trumpism might be here to stay, Donald Trump himself might be finally done if he loses in November.

Washington Post columnist Philip Bump penned the potential future in a Friday piece that the end might be on the horizon.

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Right-wing radio host pulled off the air after attacks on Tim Walz’s son

I Heart Radio host Jay Weber was pulled off the air after his attack on Gov. Tim Walz's (D-MN) neurodivergent son, his website revealed on Friday. Ben Yount was filling in, the site says.

Critics pressured I Heart Radio to fire Weber after he made fun of the youngster's emotional response to his father's shoutout on the Democratic Convention stage on Wednesday night.

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CNN's Jim Acosta hits back as Republican tries to dismiss Michael Cohen's effect on Trump

Lance Trover, the former spokesperson for Gov. Doug Burgum's (R-ND) presidential campaign, tried to make the case Friday that former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was inconsequential.

CNN anchor Jim Acosta wasn't buying it.

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J.D. Vance swears he smoothed over everything with Georgia governor: report

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Donald Trump have smoothed things over, according to Trump's running mate J.D. Vance

Kemp, a GOP loyalist, was among those lawmakers who got an angry phone call after the 2020 election demanding that he "find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state."

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