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A Republican strategist twice clashed with a supporter of Kamala Harris in the opening minutes of CNN's "NewsNight" on Tuesday night, with the two trading barbs over the latter's interruption.

The exchange happened during a discussion on Vice President Kamala Harris' closing argument speech and came between Scott Jennings, a senior CNN political commentator who served as special assistant to former President George W. Bush, and Leigh McGowan, a social media influencer who uses the handle PoliticsGirl.

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that if he had been reelected in 2020, the United States “would’ve taken over western Europe,” a remarkable suggestion that did not prompt a follow-up question from a Fox News interviewer.

The moment came Tuesday night during Trump’s final interview as a presidential candidate with Fox News host Sean Hannity just after his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, delivered her campaign’s closing arguments in Washington D.C.

Fox News and Donald Trump fans on X pounced Tuesday on Joe Biden’s response to racist remarks about Puerto Rico that emerged from Trump’s New York City rally – a presidential reaction that also lit up MAGA world on social media.

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,’" Biden said Tuesday night. “Well, let me tell you something…the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters."

Former President Donald Trump appeared Tuesday night on Fox News with host Sean Hannity and denied responsibility for a comedian's racist attack on Puerto Rico at his rally in Madison Square Garden over the weekend.

"What they've done is taken somebody that has nothing to do with the party, nothing to do with us, said something and they're trying to make a big deal," said Trump. "But I don't know who it is, I don't even know who put him in. And I can't imagine it's a big deal."

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow lavished praise on Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign speech at the Ellipse, which she delivered Tuesday night to an estimated 75,000 people.

The rally — held at the site of former President Donald Trump's famous "Stop the Steal" rally just before the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a clear attempt to turn the page on the former president's tenure — but also, said Maddow, to show just what kind of a president Harris can be in her own right.

A Republican strategist with a background in political event planning wasn’t impressed by the optics of Kamala Harris’ speech Tuesday night at the Ellipse in Washington D.C.

“I plan political events for a living, and I think this was political malpractice to put her in front of this White House,” Brad Todd, a GOP strategist and media consultant, said on CNN moments after Harris’ concluded her speech, billed as her campaign’s closing argument.

"Upstanding citizens" found hundreds of ballots on the side of a road and turned them in — undamaged and untampered with — in Florida's most populous county.

Containers filled with ballots of Miami-Dade County voters fell out of a county truck when a worker "forgot to lock the back" of the vehicle, Christina White, the county’s elections supervisor, told the Miami Herald on Tuesday morning. The worker drove off and a sealed bin and sealed bag fell out, she said.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley took to Fox News on Tuesday to sound off on how she thinks Donald Trump’s campaign should see itself through the final days of the 2024 campaign — a message that started with an endorsement but which Kamala Harris fans said ended critically of the former president.

Haley began with a criticism of the Joe Biden administration and a commendation of Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris called for America to rise above the division and partisan hatred it has seen since former President Donald Trump took office at her rally at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.

Harris, who has earned the endorsement of a growing list of moderate Republicans united with Democrats against Trump's MAGA movement, said that people will always debate policy — but that the country must return to a place where people can accept each other's opponents are good people who mean well for America.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) on Tuesday suggested that comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's offensive and racist remark about Puerto Rico during Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally Sunday was nothing more than an "unforced error."

CNN's Jake Tapper rolled a clip of the former president at his Mar-a-Lago estate today, completely disregarding the fact that Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico "a floating island of garbage."

Tech billionaire Jeff Bezos intervened to quash the editorial side of The Washington Post, which he owns, from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. Facing criticism, he doubled down in a public statement defending his decision to muzzle the editorial room, claiming that newspaper endorsements are outdated and fuel media distrust.

But all of this signifies something bleaker, wrote Franklin Foer for The Atlantic: It shows the powerful elements of society defending American values in the face of Trump in 2020 are simply laying down for him this time.

A New York Times reporter on Tuesday pushed back on a longtime GOP insider’s view on how Donald Trump is navigating the scandal unfolding after the damaging remarks that came out of the former president’s New York City rally.

The moment came Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” when Scott Jennings, a Republican Party strategist and CNN conservative commentator, suggested that a statement addressing the rally was enough to distance Trump from the controversial remarks.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris seems to be out-Trumping Donald Trump, a former Republican lawmaker said Tuesday.

Tens of thousands of Harris supporters came out to hear her Tuesday night address at the Ellipse, the exact spot where the former president famously held his "Stop the Steal" rally before supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.