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Trump-loving sheriff booted off election security duties after incendiary anti-Harris post

Portage County, Ohio Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski caused an uproar earlier this month when he posted on Facebook that his supporters should "write down" the addresses of local residents in the county who had signs supporting Vice President Kamala Harris on their lawns.

Now The Daily Beast reports that Zuchowski's department has been stripped of its election security duties after multiple residents expressed discomfort with giving him any oversight role in the upcoming presidential election.

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Doctor sounds alarm that Trump could gut health care — even if he's not elected

Former President Donald Trump may publicly be backing off past attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act, at least until he has more than the "concept of a plan" to do so — but he doesn't actually need Congress to gut America's health insurance coverage system, warned New York-based Dr. Danielle Ofri for The New York Times.

In fact, she warned, he doesn't even need to be elected president at all — his allies in industry can enlist the courts to do it for him.

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'I failed you': Prosecutors share gunman's letter outlining plan to kill Trump

An armed man allegedly spotted near where Donald Trump was golfing last week had earlier stated his intentions in a letter revealed by federal prosecutors Monday.

A witness told investigators that Ryan Wesley Routh had dropped off a box at his home months before the Sept. 15 incident. It contained ammunition, a metal pipe, building materials, tools, four phones and some letters, one of which made clear he intended to kill the former president.

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'Wilder and wilder': Analyst says one issue explains Trump's 'unassailable grip' on GOP

Why is former President Donald Trump in a neck-and-neck campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris despite a slate of scandals that include a criminal conviction, an ally's reported pro-slavery porn site commentary and an attack on the U.S. Capitol critics commonly call a coup?

To quote another former president's campaign guru, "It's the economy, stupid."

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Morning Joe and Mika demolish Trump apologists in devastating supercut video

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hit back at Donald Trump apologists who downplayed his threats to democracy.

The "Morning Joe" hosts rolled an extended supercut of video clips showing Trump promising to be a dictator on Day One of his potential second presidency, as well as other authoritarian threats he's made in recent months, in response to columnists and talk show hosts whitewashing the Republican nominee's record.

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Republicans fear Trump's demands will lead to 'galactically stupid' consequences

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded that House Republicans shut down the federal government unless they get the Democratic-held Senate and White House to sign off legislation that would make providing proof of citizenship a prerequisite for registering to vote.

However, NBC News reports that Republicans in the House don't believe that a government shutdown would be at all wise for the former president and his party.

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'Untethered' Trump is increasingly living in 'make-believe world of television': analysis

Donald Trump exists in an "imaginary world" that's far more dangerous and threatening than reality, according to a new analysis.

The former president describes "a dark, dystopian place" during rallies, interviews, social media posts and debates to attack President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, but Washington Post columnist Ashley Parker called his claims absurd and disturbing.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene miscounts when she claims '2 reasons' for wars — then lists 4

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) struggled to count Thursday after she said there were "two reasons" for wars — but then cited four.

Greene made her observation while explaining why she opposed supporting Ukraine's fight against an invasion by Russia.

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'Republicans are running away': Ex GOP governor won't publicly back Trump after scandal

A former Republican governor of North Carolina refused Monday morning to throw his support behind Donald Trump as he warned CNN's damning Mark Robinson report and another surprise factor could cost the former president the state.

Pat McCrory, who served as governor from 2013 to 2017, told anchor Kasie Hunt Monday that Trump potentially lost up to 30,000 votes when CNN broke a stunning exclusive that linked the Republican gubernatorial nominee to controversial comments left on a porn site.

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'Absolutely insane': Morning Joe bashes conservatives over latest Kamala Harris attack

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped into critics on Monday over claims that Kamala Harris hasn't revealed enough information about her policies.

The "Morning Joe" host bashed a pair of conservative columnists — Bret Stephens of the New York Times and Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal — who have complained that Harris talks too much about her background and not enough about policy specifics.

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'Furious' Trump is panicked as MAGA becomes monster he no longer controls: analyst

The MAGA movement has grown to such an extent that it’s now more powerful than Donald Trump is — and it’s become one of the former president's biggest threats, an analyst wrote in the New York Times.

The groundswell coalition that he started has evolved and developed its own issues and policies, wrote Ezra Klein. And they're not fully in line with him.

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'Comrade Kamala just lost': Trump makes wild Harris claim in midnight Truth Social spree

Former President Donald Trump took to social media early Monday morning to claim a Fox News story about previously reported information would spell doom for Vice President Kamala Harris in a key swing state.

Trump shared on Truth Social about 12:40 a.m. a Fox News report about an "unearthed" video Trump claimed would cost the Democratic presidential nominee the Keystone State.

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Robinson returns to campaign trail as staffers resign and GOP pols distance themselves

Lt. Governor Mark Robinson returns to the campaign trail Monday with the hopes of refocusing his faltering gubernatorial campaign on the issues.

The Republican nominee has spent the past four days denying a CNN report about lewd and offensive online posts, and by Sunday some top members of his campaign had resigned.

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