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'Sit down and shut up': Ex-Reagan speechwriter torches MAGA GOP for bogus 'coup' claims

After President Joe Biden announced, on Sunday, July 21, that he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, it didn't take long for countless Democrats to rally around her.

Harris now has more than enough delegates for the nomination, and according to Fortune, her fundraising haul had brought in at least $100 million by Tuesday morning. The vice president is now the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, with everyone from Biden to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rallying around her presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), radio host Erick Erickson and other far-right Republicans have been claiming that replacing Biden with Harris constitutes a "coup."

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But veteran conservative columnist and former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen, in a blistering article published by The Bulwark on July 23, finds that claim highly audacious coming from supporters of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

"This is rich," the Never Trump conservative argues. "Here is indeed a candidate in this race who attempted to stage a coup, and we know who that is. Trump submitted his false electoral votes, pressured his vice president, and sent his goons to Capitol Hill because he would not accept the verdict of the voters."

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'Keep lying': Late night Trump rant about Harris quickly turns against him

Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be keeping former President Donald Trump up at night.

The convicted felon and Republican nominee blasted off a barrage of Truth Social posts after midnight Tuesday to attack President Joe Biden, Harris and the media outlet he claimed was propping up the transition from one Democratic Party candidate to the other.

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'Problem for Tesla': Dems flee automaker over Musk’s Trump endorsement

Earlier this year, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk promised he wouldn't be giving any money to either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

Musk sounded adamant, tweeting, on March 6, "Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for U.S. President."

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MSNBC's John Heilemann gives alarming reason why Trump chose J.D. Vance as running mate

Donald Trump's calculus for choosing J.D. Vance as his running mate might already be outdated, according to MSNBC's John Heilemann.

The former president has been banking on a rematch with President Joe Biden, who dropped his own re-election campaign Sunday over widespread concerns about his age. And the political analyst told "Morning Joe" that Trump might already regret doubling down on MAGA extremism as Vice President Kamala Harris emerges as the likely Democratic nominee.

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'Is Stephen Miller okay?': Dems gleeful as Trump adviser has 'meltdown' over Biden dropout

The left is giddy over the fact that Stephen Miller, the former senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump, is melting down due to President Joe Biden's decision to end his presidential campaign.

Miller appeared on Fox News on Sunday, where he went off on a rant about the Democratic votes were thrown away as the party rallies around Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Watch: Pete Buttigieg destroys J.D. Vance in 2 minutes

During an appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tore into Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio).

Buttigieg began the segment by attempting to explain why wealthy Silicon Valley tech executives (Vance previously worked in Silicon Valley) are now lining up behind the Republican ticket. The former South Bend, Indiana mayor said California's tech CEOs are typically believed "to care about climate, supposed to be pro-science and rational and libertarians," and that "normally libertarians don't like authoritarians." But he said Americans have "made it way too complicated" and the true explanation is "super simple."

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Trump now bleeding support in GOP-dominated state as more women voters gravitate to Biden

Former President Donald Trump's political hopes may be in danger in a solidly Republican state with a significant haul of Electoral College votes if current polling trends stay consistent.

Newsweek recently reported that in Florida, the election may start to shift in President Joe Biden's favor, who now enjoys a plurality of women voters' support in the Sunshine State. A FOX 13/Insider Advantage poll of 800 Floridians between July 15 and July 16 found that 47% of female respondents preferred Biden, while 44% preferred Trump.

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'Wiped out, Lenin-style': NY Times exposes what Trump did not want to talk about

The Republican National Convention was as notable for what went unspoken as the narrative that was unspooled about a former president who survived an apparent assassination attempt and criminal prosecutions in the days ahead of the event.

The RNC sought to normalize Donald Trump and skip over his extremist agenda and coup attempt, wrote New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd — and instead highlighted his supposed softer side with humanizing tales about his grandchildren and graphic accounts of his recent brush with death.

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'It’s bizarre': Doctor questions nature of injuries Trump suffered in shooting

Only two days after surviving an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump appeared on stage with a bandaged right ear during the first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Many Trump supporters attending the event later wore fake bandages as an expression of solidarity with the GOP presidential nominee.

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'You better start packing': Trump’s former ICE chief at RNC vows to deport 'millions'

As a sea of GOP delegates at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night waved pre-printed signs demanding “mass deportation now!” Tom Homan, who served as Donald Trump’s Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, promised in a second Trump administration he will deport “millions” of undocumented immigrants.

Homan, who in 2022 accepted a speaking invitation at a white supremacist conference organized by Nick Fuentes, at one point directed his remarks to the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

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No report on Trump’s health 3 days after assassination attempt

Exactly 72 hours after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, neither his campaign nor his doctors have released any relevant information about the extent of his injuries, or any update on the health of the 78-year old man who just became the Republican Party's presidential nominee.

While seeing apparent blood on his ear and dripping across his face, Americans have not been seen a medical report about the effects of the shooting that did take a supporter's life and seriously wounded two other people.

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J.D. Vance's college roommate busts him over why he flipped on Trump

During an appearance on CNN early Wednesday morning, Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) college roommate when they both attended Yale Law School called into question the GOP senator's purported belief in Donald Trump's MAGA philosophy.

Speaking with CNN host Kasie Hunt from Spain, Josh McLaurin — now a Democratic state senator in Georgia — first began by stating that he thought long and hard about releasing the now-notorious text he received from Vance where he called Trump "America's Hitler," but felt the public needed to know how the GOP senator from Ohio really thought about the man whose ticket he has now joined.

Having said that, he pointed out that Vance's conversion to becoming a MAGA warrior is suspect.

"Here's what I think," he began. "I don't buy his explanation the way that he says it. I think his instincts told him what Americans see for themselves: that Trump has a narcissistic style personality, cared about attention and fame, wants to be the showrunner who picks among people in dramatic fashion think doing an Apprentice-style VP selection process — that's Trump."

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'Melania plays the long game': Analyst warns Trump's wife's absence is 'calculated'

Former First Lady Melania Trump continues to be largely absent as her husband tries to claw his way back into the White House — and it is by design, wrote Mary Jordan for The Washington Post.

But not, as is commonly assumed, because she has lost her loyalty to a husband who was convicted of falsifying hush payments to an adult film star he slept with early in their marriage.

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