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Bill Clinton mocks Trump at rally: Don't worry, I won't be 'swaying back and forth'

Former President Bill Clinton knocked Donald Trump's age while speaking in North Carolina on Friday.

"I don't have any more elections I'll be involved in, and I'm too old to gild the lily," Clinton told a crowd in Durham about his knack for helping Democrats get elected.

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Columnist reveals top ‘predictable’ questions Harris ‘can’t’ answer’

Kamala Harris’ interview on Fox News this week highlighted the vice president’s struggle to devise “politically palatable” answers to questions a Washington Post op-ed suggests – while predictable – are “harder than they seem.”

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in an opinion piece Thursday that Harris appeared evasive when questioned by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on the issues of “immigration, how she would govern differently from President Joe Biden, and her perceptions of Biden’s fitness over time.”

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'We'll be following up': MTG revives voting machine election conspiracy theory

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revived a conspiracy theory on Friday of shenanigans involving Dominion Voting Systems machines.

According to Greene, someone "posted up from Whitfield County ... and when he went to vote, and we have the Dominion machines, and you go through and you mark president, you mark, you know, for Congress, that would be me. They mark Donald Trump, and they marked who they were voting for the rest of the way down their ballot on the machine."

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Ex-Navy SEAL casts new doubt on MAGA Senate candidate's war wound story

A MAGA Senate candidate's story of being shot during a firefight in Afghanistan — already facing swirling questions after reports that he told police he shot himself in the arm at Glacier National Park — is again facing scrutiny as two people reportedly came forward and disputed his account.

Tim Sheehy is a former Navy SEAL officer who served from 2008 to 2014 and was deployed to conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned the Bronze Star with Valor and the Purple Heart. Now, he's trying to unseat the Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester in a closely watched Montana race.

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Revealed: Trump's tariffs will hit his own businesses — and force him to mark up his merch

Former President Donald Trump's tariff proposal would deliver a punch to the gut to Trump's businesses — and cause MAGA supporters to pay dramatically more for branded merchandise he sells, Newsweek reported Friday.

Trump's signature policy proposal for his 2024 campaign is to replace much of the existing federal tax structure with a broad-based tariff on nearly all goods and services — something that economists have warned would cripple the economy and send prices skyrocketing. Fox News hosts have even questioned him on the plan.

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New Jack Smith documents reveal millions spent on Jan. 6 rally

New documents unsealed in Donald Trump's criminal Jan. 6 case disclosed $3 million spent to get people to the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol building.

Among the nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of evidence for charges against Trump related to an attempt to steal the 2020 election were documents relating to a budget and trip plan for the day.

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'Most troubling': This Mitch McConnell comment left CNN's Chris Wallace shocked

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made his feelings about former President Donald Trump known to journalist Michael Tackett in his upcoming biography — but one comment was particularly notable for CNN host Chris Wallace.

McConnell described Trump as "despicable" and a "narcissist" and reminded him that other Republicans have said even worse. Still, the Kentucky senator insisted that he and Trump are now "on the same team" heading into the 2024 election, and that his support of the ex-president was unwavering.

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'She grimaced': Investigation finds many 'undecided' voters made choice — but are ashamed

A tour of Michigan convinced a New York Times reporter that voters calling themselves "undecided" actually know exactly how they're going to vote — but are "reluctant to admit" it.

Megan K. Stack traveled through closely divided towns in the battleground state of Michigan, where polls suggest former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck, and talked to many such voters.

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'Seems like someone is worried': Trump's latest schedule change has analysts puzzled

Atlanta Journal-Constitution writer Greg Bluestein reported Friday that Donald Trump's campaign had canceled his keynote address to the National Rifle Association in Georgia for a roundtable with Latino voters in Florida.

Critics filled his mentions with comments guessing that it was Trump's attempt to "clean up" from the town hall Trump did with Univision this week. One person even posted a screen capture of one of the men who asked Trump a question but didn't appear pleased with the answer.

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'Come on!' Kamala Harris taunts 'exhausted' Trump over mass interview cancelations

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday taunted former President Donald Trump for canceling multiple planned interviews over the last month.

While campaigning in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Harris used the interview cancellations to drive home a point about Trump's mental fitness for the job of the presidency.

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'Farewell tour-vibe': Analyst sees Trump neglecting campaign to make cash for himself

Former President Donald Trump is too busy selling sneakers and other merchandise to focus on actually staffing his campaign properly, Philip Bump argued for The Washington Post on Friday.

The former president is famous for selling campaign supporters bizarre items, including Bibles and $299 sneakers depicting his face after an assassination attempt.

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Fox News hosts squirm with 'discomfort' as Trump shares on-air gripe: CNN's Chris Wallace

CNN's Chris Wallace said on Friday that some of his former colleagues on Fox News appeared visibly uncomfortable when Donald Trump ranted to them about the network airing negative ads about his campaign.

While discussing questions about the 78-year-old Trump's mental acuity, Wallace argued that some of the president's recent ramblings have been cause for concern, including the ones he delivered on Friday's edition of "Fox & Friends."

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'This sucker is baked': Bush adviser explains why he's certain Harris has already won

A core adviser to George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain made an election prediction Friday which he said was almost certain: “This sucker is baked.”

Mark McKinnon, who served as the chief media adviser for both Republicans, shared his conclusion in Vanity Fair.

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