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‘These folks know me’: Tim Walz clears up ‘friends with school shooters’ blunder

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) on Wednesday said he needed to “be more specific” during the first and only vice presidential debate when an awkward word jumble resulted in him unintentionally saying he’s “become friends with school shooters.”

“I was talking about meeting people where there are school shooters, and I need to be more specific on that,” he told an NBC News reporter during a press gaggle in Pennsylvania less than 24 hours after debating Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) in New York City. “But I am passionate about this.”

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'Unconstitutional!' Trump pitches Truth Social fit after Jack Smith's latest filing

Former President Donald Trump reacted to special counsel Jack Smith's massive new filing in the federal election conspiracy case with a long-winded rant on Truth Social, accusing him of a plot to interfere in the presidential election.

"The release of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 brief immediately following Tim Walz’s disastrous Debate performance, and 33 days before the Most Important Election in the History of our Country, is another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION," wrote Trump. "Deranged Jack Smith, the hand picked Prosecutor of the Harris-Biden DOJ, and Washington, D.C. based Radical Left Democrats, are HELL BENT on continuing to Weaponize the Justice Department in an attempt to cling to power."

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Jack Smith is using one key word to bolster case against Trump: former prosecutor

A former federal prosecutor said Wednesday that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to drive a critical one-word distinction in a sweeping new filing to federal Judge Tanya Chutkan in his bid to keep the election conspiracy indictment alive against former President Donald Trump.

The key point, Elie Honig explained to CNN's Jake Tapper, is that Smith wants to impress upon the judge he is compliant with the Supreme Court's recent, controversial ruling giving the former president a presumption of immunity for official acts — by outlining how the acts under indictment are private.

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Legal expert gasps at previously unknown detail in unsealed election interference filing

New bombshell evidence unsealed Wednesday in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case aroused gasps on MSNBC from a legal analyst stunned by the former president’s cavalier “so what” response to reports that his vice president was facing direct danger on Jan. 6.

“I don’t usually gasp at things,” said MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin during an appearance with host Nicole Wallace on Wednesday on her show “Deadline: White House," but added, “We are learning facts that weren’t previously known to us.”

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'Make them riot': Politico pulls 6 key details from Jack Smith's massive Trump filing

Special counsel Jack Smith's massive new filing with new evidence against former President Donald Trump contains at least six telling revelations, according to a breaking analysis.

Politico legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney shared on X Wednesday afternoon his immediate takeaways on the 165-page document Smith filed moments earlier in Washington D.C. federal court.

In the filing, Smith asserts his case against the former president within the context of the Supreme Court ruling that Trump enjoyed partial presidential immunity in the lead-up to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Vance's 'excellent' debate reviews could 'enrage' an upstaged Trump: conservative

Critics and polling are mixed on exactly who the winner of the vice presidential debate was — but one thing is for certain: Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) did better against Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) than former President Donald Trump did in his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris several weeks previously.

That means, according to The New York Times roundup of opinion columnists' takes on the debate, that even some people who believe Vance walked away the winner of the debate, like former GOP strategist Peter Wehner, consider it something of a Pyrrhic victory — because Trump is sure to be furious at how his running mate appears to be positioning himself as a better leader than he is.

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'You’ll never solve the problem': Experts say Vance confused about housing market

Economists are pushing back on claims from Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) that immigrants could make housing less affordable.

Former President Donald Trump's running mate positioned his ticket's anti-migrant posture at the vice presidential debate as a policy to protect the cost of living for the middle class, saying migrants threatened housing affordability.

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'Judges are horrified': Powerful judge warns elections are under attack in her swing state

A North Carolina Supreme Court judge who spoke out against her state's decision to suspend early voting and allow Robert F. Kennedy to disregard election deadlines warns elections are under attack from Republicans in her state.

Justice Allison Riggs, one of two Democrats on the seven-person court, told Slate on Wednesday she rejected the panel's decision to allow Kennedy to remove his name from the key swing state's ballot — and the Republican legislature's decision to nix crucial election funding.

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'Funny': J.D. Vance reveals Trump consulted Mar-a-Lago gardener before VP pick

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) revealed Wednesday that former President Donald Trump had spoken with a gardener at Mar-a-Lago to help him decide on a vice presidential running mate.

Vance made the admission during a Michigan rally after he was asked how he would handle disagreements with Trump.

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Jack Smith hits back as massive new filing unsealed in Trump's election interference case

A massive filing that reportedly contains new evidence against former President Donald Trump just became public, court records show.

Special counsel Jack Smith's 165-page document details the state of his federal election interference case against the Republican presidential nominee after the Supreme Court changed the game and ruled Trump enjoyed partial presidential immunity in the case.

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Fox News cuts away from J.D. Vance rally after he refuses to say Trump lost in 2020

Fox News abruptly ended its broadcast of Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) rally in Michigan after he refused to admit that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.

At a Wednesday rally in Auburn Hills, Vance was asked why he dodged a question about the 2020 election at Tuesday night's vice presidential debate.

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Georgia Republicans tempt fate with new attacks on lawsuit-happy Dominion: report

Republicans in Georgia are once again launching attacks against Dominion Voting Systems — despite the fact that the company has successfully sued media entities such as Fox News for hundreds of millions of dollars.

CNN reported Wednesday that "Republican Party officials and Donald Trump allies are trying to preemptively sow doubt about the viability of Dominion systems used across the key swing state, arguing in court that the machines should not be used because they are not safe or secure."

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'Need a Haitian hunting license': Shocking threats made to Springfield officials revealed

In Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue — a conservative Republican — has been pushing back against the baseless conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants have been kidnapping people's pets and eating them.

But despite the debunking from Rue, as well as Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Haitians in Springfield have feared for their safety. And city officials have been the target of bomb threats.

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