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'Have it used against you': Fox News pundit faces Republican backlash over Walz family jab

A Fox News contributor Friday received a stern warning from an influential Republican commentator who said his attack on a neurodivergent teenager's family should be retracted or used against him.

Fox News contributor Joe Concha expressed disdain — in a since-deleted tweet — that Gov. Tim Walz tugged his neurodivergent son Gus' hand as they mounted the stage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week.

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'Pure bullying': Pro-Trump election officials may pour even more chaos into Georgia vote

Right-wing election officials in Georgia have passed a series of significant changes to counting ballots in this November's elections, and they may not be finished.

The five-member state election board has adopted rules that would allow local election boards to conduct a nebulously defined "reasonable inquiry" into the voting results and allow any individual board member to "examine" all the documentation created during the election before certifying the vote, which experts say violates state law, reported The Guardian.

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'He's scared': Trump ridiculed after claiming he will be 'great for reproductive rights'

Former President Donald Trump raised immediate hackles on Friday when he pledged that his administration would be a champion for women's reproductive freedoms.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed that "My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights."

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Right-wing radio host pulled off the air after attacks on Tim Walz’s son

I Heart Radio host Jay Weber was pulled off the air after his attack on Gov. Tim Walz's (D-MN) neurodivergent son, his website revealed on Friday. Ben Yount was filling in, the site says.

Critics pressured I Heart Radio to fire Weber after he made fun of the youngster's emotional response to his father's shoutout on the Democratic Convention stage on Wednesday night.

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GOP operative schooled live on CNN over 'inaccurate' attack on Kamala Harris

A Republican operative was on the receiving end of a detailed rebuttal on CNN Friday after he launched into a rant aimed at Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

Appearing on CNN with host Jim Acosta and regular commentator, Democratic Party strategist Maria Cardona, Lance Trover, who served as a spokesperson for Republican Gov. Doug Burgum's short presidential campaign, criticized Harris of continued failures at the southern border while acting as President Joe Biden's "Border Czar" — a title she has never held but which has nonetheless become a far-right talking point

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'We're losing!' Ex-Fox News host goes on 'epic rant' about state of election after DNC

Former Fox News and Newsmax host Eric Bolling on Friday had a full-blown freak out about the state of the 2024 presidential race.

In a video flagged by former federal and state prosecutor Ron Filipkowski, Bolling offered a candid opinion of the current election, which he warned was slipping from former President Donald Trump's grasp. Filipkowski referred to the statement as an "epic rant."

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'Begging for help in Georgia': Pundits laugh at Trump's 'hat-in-hand' praise of Brian Kemp

Donald Trump's swift backtrack from blatant attacks on Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp spurred hilarity among political pundits who called it an act of desperation Friday.

Trump's social media blasts praising Kemp — whom he slammed as a "disloyal" Republican and poor governor during an Atlanta rally earlier this month — suggested the former president held deeper concerns about his ability to claim the swing state he lost in 2020, analysts said.

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Alabama Democrats close to missing deadline to put Kamala Harris on ballot: report

Alabama Democrats appear to be asleep at the wheel and could miss a crucial deadline to put their party nominee on the ballot, according to a report.

Kamala Harris is highly unlikely to beat Donald Trump in the deep-red state's presidential election but, as the saying goes, you've got to be in it to win it – and as of now she's not on the ticket, reported AL.com columnist Kyle Whitmire.

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CNN's Jim Acosta hits back as Republican tries to dismiss Michael Cohen's effect on Trump

Lance Trover, the former spokesperson for Gov. Doug Burgum's (R-ND) presidential campaign, tried to make the case Friday that former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was inconsequential.

CNN anchor Jim Acosta wasn't buying it.

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'Is that all you've got?' Trump mocked on MSNBC over his 'Where's Hunter?' freakout

On Friday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" reacted with hoots of laughter over reporting on Donald Trump's frenzy of posting on Truth Social during Vice President Kamala Harris' nomination acceptance speech late Thursday night.

In particular, a Trump post that asked, "WHERE’S HUNTER?" just before he complained, "[Tim] Walz was an ASSISTANT Coach, not a COACH," drew laughter.

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'There was a meltdown': Ex-GOP insider says Trump panicking as Harris captures key group

Vice President Kamala Harris' acceptance speech of the Democratic Party's presidential nomination Thursday beat MAGA to the political punch and captured a key voting bloc in the process, according to a former Republican spokesperson.

Tara Setmayer, Seneca Project co-founder and former GOP communications director, argued during a CNN Friday morning that Harris positioned herself as a potential commander-in-chief before former President Donald Trump could define her as a threat.

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Trump 'disoriented' because 'nothing seems to be working' to slow Harris: analysis

Vice President Kamala Harris has put Donald Trump in a box, and the former president so far has been unable to escape, according to an analysis.

Trump has been pulling out one trick after another from his playbook that had previously knocked his opponents off balance and kept the spotlight on himself, but the Washington Post's Dan Balz said Harris has cruised past those snares and forced her GOP rival to play catch-up.

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'Panic move': GOP swing state mailer tries to stop Trump's bleeding from Project 2025

If there is any question about whether the Heritage Foundation's controversial Project 2025 is having an impact on the 2024 presidential race, a recent mailer from the Michigan Republican Party suggests that it very much is.

Huffington Post journalist and Michigan resident Jonathan Cohn on Twitter flagged a mailer he received from the Michigan GOP that tries to distance former President Donald Trump from Project 2025, an initiative that aims to radically expand presidential powers by stripping away independence from government agencies and putting them under the direct control of the Oval Office.

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