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George Conway explains ad blitz highlighting 'sick and dangerous' Trump's sex abuse claims

Conservative lawyer George Conway told an MSNBC host Friday that a new political ad campaign that hit the airwaves this week was needed “to really bring home to people” that former President Donald Trump is “a very, very sick and dangerous man.”

“He is a psychopath, and he's a narcissistic sociopath or psychopath, he really is,” Conway said when asked to describe why he named his political action committee that produced the ads The Anti-Psychopath PAC. “He represents sort of the worst of the human spirit or dispirit if you will. He is mentally ill, he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder and suffers from antisocial personality disorder.”

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'They are leaving': Harris taunts Trump with video of people leaving his rally as he rants

Vice President Kamala Harris had a snappy retort to former President Donald Trump's rambling rant on his ability to draw and keep a crowd.

Minutes after Trump declared during a Walker, Michigan, campaign event that "nobody ever leaves" his rallies, Harris' campaign took to X with a rebuttal.

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'He’ll be wrong again': Ultra-accurate 'keys' historian spars with prominent pollster

A historian who uses 13-so-called "keys" to accurately predict presidential elections slammed prominent statistician Nate Silver on Friday as the duo's rivalry spilled onto X for bemused onlookers to see.

Historian Allan Lichtman, a distinguished history professor at American University, uses 13 true-false questions to determine who will win the presidency. A candidate receives a "key" if a question is true.

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Iranian hackers pretended to be Ginni Thomas as they targeted Trump campaign: report

Iranian hackers who tried to infiltrate former President Donald Trump's campaign pretended to be Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni, according to a new report.

Three hackers with links to the Iranian government impersonated the conservative activist when they targeted people close to the Republican presidential nominee, according to CNN's report based on court documents and law enforcement sources.

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GOP Senate candidate doubles down on claims Diddy sex trafficking charges a 'distraction'

Minnesota Republican Senate Candidate Royce White continued to insist Friday that sex trafficking charges against rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs are “a distraction” for Black people in a social media post less than 24 hours after he sounded off on the social media site about the same topic.

“Yes... A distraction...You people are so obsessed with sexual politics, you drop the ball on every other policy,” the 33-year-old ex-NBA player wrote Friday on X. “The US Dollar has lost 25% of its purchasing power over the last 4 years and you want eyes fixed on P Diddy's sexploits?”

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'Dude faked a family': GOP candidate ridiculed for campaign photos featuring non-relatives

Republican Derrick Anderson looked like the perfect family man in a campaign photo flanked by a loving wife and three smiling daughters — there was just one problem, as New York Times reporting revealed Friday and a baffled lawmaker summarized.

"Dude faked a family," jabbed former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). "Wtf is wrong with these candidates i mean just wut."

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Jim Jordan accuses DHS secretary of ‘stonewalling Ohio election integrity’

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan called out Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for refusing to respond to requests from Ohio’s top election official for federal citizenship verification records that he said are necessary for the swing state to have a “secure voting process.”

The House Judiciary GOP posted on X that Jordan demanded information from the DHS secretary and accused Mayorkas of "stonewalling Ohio Election Integrity."

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‘I threw the microphone down’: Meteorologist rescues screaming woman from flooded car

A Fox Weather meteorologist covering Hurricane Helene was hailed as a hero Friday after he broke away from a live report and waded into flooded waters in Atlanta to rescue a woman shouting from her submerged car for help.

“She’s screaming right now,” meteorologist Bob Van Dillen said while giving a live report early Friday, with the unfolding situation visible behind him.

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'These stupid people': Crowd-obsessed Trump throws staffers under the bus

Former President Donald Trump threw his campaign staff under the bus amid a rambling rant that touched on airplane delays, "little" Hurricane Helene, the importance of wealthy people and the size of his crowds.

Trump delivered an hour-long speech during a campaign rally in Walker, Michigan, Friday afternoon during which he argued — despite taunts from Vice President Kamala Harris and multiple videos and reports from outside his campaign events — that no one ever left early.

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'Pretty cheap stuff': Expert hammers Trump Watch in scathing analysis

A luxury watch expert tried to take former President Donald Trump's new line of timepieces seriously — and almost immediately failed.

Oisín O Malley, UX designer and a prominent watch reviewer on YouTube, took Trump's newly announced $100,000 Tourbillon gold watch to figurative pieces in a 15-minute review in which he repeatedly broke out laughing.

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You can build your own $500 'Trump Watch' for just $60: estimate

The Bulwark's Jonathan Last took a closer look at the purported luxury watches that former President Donald Trump is hawking to his supporters and has concluded that the entire venture is "a scam."

Last begins by looking at the "cheaper" $500 Trump watch and concludes that its price should be much, much lower.

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'Illegal activity:' Trump threatens Google over 'bad stories' about him

Former President Donald Trump threatened to prosecute Google because a conservative think tank didn't like the results of two search queries made on a single day.

Trump complained of "ILLEGAL ACTIVITY" on Truth Social Friday afternoon. His source appears to be a Fox News report complaining the search engine buried its content.

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Democrats sound 'alarm bell' as Kamala Harris lags behind Biden with voter blocs

Two national Democratic groups are warning that some voters in key swing states are not as supportive of Kamala Harris as they were of Joe Biden four years ago.

The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA and the progressive advocacy organization ProgressNow issued a memo this week showing that Black, Latin and younger voters were less supportive of Harris than they had been in 2020, and the organizations showed that just 15 percent of digital communications for Harris had targeted voters of color in those states, reported The Bulwark.

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