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Just 50 people have funneled $1.5B into 2024 campaigns: report

A new analysis from The Washington Post reveals that just 50 megadonors are responsible for $1.5 billion in campaign cash for the 2024 presidential cycle.

Overall, this group of billionaires skews toward former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party — although there are Democratic megadonors in the mix as well.

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'Useful tool': Deep dive report sounds alarm on Trump loyalist

Donald Trump intends to stock the federal government with loyalists if re-elected to another term and, according to a report Monday, one likely candidate stands out for his allegiance to the former president.

Kash Patel joined the first Trump administration in 2019 with little government experience but swiftly rose through the ranks all the way to chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense just after the 2020 election. The author of a new deep dive into his career told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Patel posed a real danger if the former president returned to the White House.

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'Laugh-out-loud funny': Experts guffaw as Times op-ed asserts Trump can win 'on character'

A New York Times headline has political pundits rolling in the proverbial aisles with an assertion about Donald Trump's best bet on winning in 2024.

Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative National Review, argued in a Times op-ed that Trump should ignore the advice of many Republicans and bombard Vice President Kamala Harris with accusations of weakness.

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'Hypocrisy': Analyst hits out at Democrats for playing up Trump's 'felon' label

Since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, she and her allies have framed the race as "the prosecutor vs. the felon" — drawing on former President Donald Trump's 34-count felony conviction in Manhattan for falsifying business records over a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal a scheme to interfere in the 2016 election.

Several speakers at the Democratic National Convention said similar, with President Joe Biden saying, "Crime will keep coming down when we put a prosecutor in the Oval Office instead of a convicted felon."

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GOP trawls back to 2006 in hunt for 'small inaccuracies' in Tim Walz's resume: NY Times

Right-wing activists have gone all the way back to 2006 to uncover a purported example of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, running mate to Vice President Kamala Harris, making false claims about his background, reported The New York Times on Monday.

Specifically, "The right-leaning Minnesota outlet Alpha News and the conservative publication The Washington Free Beacon resurfaced reports from 2006 that, while Mr. Walz was running for Congress that year, his website inaccurately stated that he had been named 'Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce.'"

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'The clock is ticking': Conservative calls on ex-Trump officials to endorse Harris

A conservative commentator on Monday called out Donald Trump's former officials who have expressed grave concerns about his fitness to serve as president but have not stepped forward to endorse Kamala Harris.

Several Republicans, including former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan and former congressman Adam Kinzinger, spoke at the Democratic National Convention. But The Bulwark's Tim Miller questioned why they weren't joined by higher-ranking former Trump officials.

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'I'm actually afraid': Former Trump voter left deeply worried by 'unstable' rally speeches

Former President Donald Trump has often used campaign rallies as a way to fire up his supporters during election season.

However, The Guardian reported Monday that the former president's events don't seem to be having the same impact that they once did — and in some cases are even sowing doubts among one-time supporters.

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Supreme Court's 'conservative veto' is putting Biden's legacy in peril: report

The Supreme Court's latest term has kicked off a free-for-all that lets right-wing judges and attorneys challenge just about any federal policy they want, reported Politico on Monday — including much of President Joe Biden's agenda to protect workers and consumers.

The right-wing majority did this in a trio of rulings, the report stated: one that overturns a longstanding doctrine that judges defer to the expertise of agency policymakers; one that effectively eliminates the statute of limitations to challenge federal regulations; and one that requires far more regulatory enforcement actions be subject to a jury trial rather than an administrative hearing.

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'Perverted closeness': Steele Dossier source regrets distraction of sordid Trump rumor

The Russian émigré who acquainted the world with the salacious rumor of Donald Trump's unverified encounter with full-bladdered sex workers says Americans missed a darker figure lurking behind the former president.

Igor Danchenko, the primary source behind the notorious Steele Dossier, remains deeply concerned about the significance of Trump's "pee tape" story and what it means for his potential reelection, Rolling Stone reported Monday.

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'Embarrassing': Harris team taunts Trump over latest debate drama

Kamala Harris' campaign taunted Donald Trump and his "handlers" in a dispute over the rules for their upcoming presidential debate.

The former president has suggested he might not take part in the Sept. 10 debate because he doesn't believe ABC News would be an impartial host, and his team would like for the microphones to be muted except for when it's a candidate's turn to speak – a condition that the Harris team rejects, reported CNN.

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'Nightmare': Expert warns GOP donors Trump is sending their cash into a 'black hole'

Juleanna Glover, the CEO of corporate consultancy Ridgely Walsh, recently took a look at former President Donald Trump's campaign spending reports and delivered a stark warning to anyone who has forked over significant sums to his reelection bid.

Writing in the New York Times, Glover makes the case that giving money to Trump is a highly risky investment, given where donors' money has been going.

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USC criticized for event featuring Proud Boys founder and far-right commentators

COLUMBIA — A social media message circulating among University of South Carolina alumni is criticizing the state’s largest university system for allowing a student event featuring a pair of controversial far-right political provocateurs, including the founder of the Proud Boys.

In response, a college spokesman said allowing the event is a matter of free speech.

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'Deeply personal': National Review editor urges Trump to ignore advice of many Republicans

The Editor-in-Chief of a conservative news site penned a New York Times column Monday aimed at convincing Donald Trump of the path he should take to secure victory.

And it's the opposite advice to that offered by many other Republicans.

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