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Analyst sounds alarm as Trump's latest remark shows 'animosity toward the American system'

Former President Donald Trump appeared to question the point of elections in recent remarks — and an MSNBC producer believes people should take that threat seriously.

Trump said at an event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday that because he was at "93 percent" in polls, “Why are we having an election? They didn’t have an election. Why are we having an election?”

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GA attorney general delivers massive blow to Trump backers on state election board

Donald Trump has been bragging about the presence of some MAGA election deniers on the Georgia State Election Board.

Meanwhile, some Democrats have been warning that those Trump allies could cause problems if Vice President Kamala Harris wins Georgia in the presidential election in November and they refuse to accept the election results.

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'Spit in the faces': Trump slammed for doubling down on insulting Medal of Honor veterans

Donald Trump is doubling down on his widely-criticized remarks from last week, when he declared the Presidential Medal of Freedom he awarded to Miriam Adelson, a billionaire Republican megadonor and the eighth-richest woman in the world, was “much better” than the Congressional Medal of Honor given to members of the U.S. Armed Forces for acts of valor, acts that have led recipients to the loss of their limbs, and sometimes to the loss of their lives, in service to their fellow soldiers and to their country.

Trump had described Medal of Honor recipients on Thursday as “either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.”

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George Santos pleads guilty to federal charges carrying potential jail time: report

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) pleaded guilty in a Central Islip, New York courtroom Monday, ending the two-year saga of the scandal-plagued Republican.

Santos was charged with 23 federal counts after he was caught funneling money from his campaign for his own personal purposes. CBS reported he pleaded guilty to two as part of a deal.

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‘We can sleep when we’re dead’: Tim Walz rallies Wisconsin sprint to election day

CHICAGO –– Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, made a surprise appearance at a Democratic National Convention breakfast program for the delegation from Wisconsin — one of a handful of battleground states — to encourage attendees to continue their hard campaign push to the Nov. 5 election.

Repeating a refrain from his short time on the campaign trail so far, Walz urged the Wisconsinites to sprint to Election Day to elect Vice President Kamala Harris. She is scheduled to deliver an acceptance speech as the party’s presidential nominee Thursday evening.

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Watch live: Trump gives latest speech to crowd in Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump returns to Pennsylvania Monday as the Democrats kick off their national convention in Chicago.

Trump is speaking in York in what is being advertised as an address about the economy.

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Trump taps two white male senators to rip into Kamala Harris outside Democratic convention

CHICAGO — The Donald Trump campaign kicked off its presence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with a press conference from two prominent Republican senators ripping the soon-to-be-official Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on everything from minimal media presence to a lack of business expertise.

Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) spoke to members of the media at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in downtown Chicago on Monday morning alongside Brian Hughes, senior communication adviser to the Trump campaign. They focused on what they said were “Harris’ disastrous economic policies that have led to sky-high inflation that is crushing American families,” according to a campaign press release.

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'It's not fair': Trump launches latest gripe about Kamala Harris' entry into 2024 race

As Democratic delegates gathered for the launch of their convention in Chicago Monday, and less than an hour before he was expected to speak about the economy at a Pennsylvania event, former President Donald Trump unleashed his latest attack.

Trump complained that the Democratic Party had invoked the "first ever 'Coup' in America," and that he has been forced to fight against two contenders in the presidential election instead of just one.

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Ex-Trump White House staffer shares change she says could sink his 2024 campaign

In 2020, Alyssa Farah Griffin served as White House Director of strategic communications under then-President Donald Trump.

But these days, Griffin is featured as a conservative pundit on CNN as well as "The View" and often criticizes Trump from the right. In 2022, Griffin said on "The View" that some of her pro-Trump relatives boycotted her wedding because she turned against him.

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J.D. Vance crowd boos woman for asking him about abortion

Donald Trump supporters booed a reporter Monday after she asked Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance about his position on abortion.

At an event in Philadelphia, Vance took a question from local NBC reporter Rosemary Connors.

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Conservative judge reveals why he's supporting a Democrat for the first time ever

Retired conservative jurist J. Michael Luttig has penned a statement outlining why he's supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

Luttig, who has a history of detailing the legal cases against Donald Trump, is a long-time conservative who advised former Vice President Mike Pence on Trump's plot to stop the 2020 election certification. He confesses that he has never voted for a Democrat to be president and that Harris will be his first.

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'Don't want him talking about anything': CNN reporter says Trump's campaign is cringing

Donald Trump's controversial comments about the Medal of Honor has his presidential reelection campaign team cringing, sources tell CNN.

Trump campaign reporter Kristen Holmes on Monday said the former president's recent claims that the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom is the superior award since it requires no physical risk has his team engaging in some wishful thinking.

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Alex Jones and his fans are intrigued by Putin offer of sanctuary to conservatives

Russian President Vladimir Putin has seemingly invited conservatives chafing under "neoliberal ideals" in their home countries to move to Russia, where he claimed "traditional values reign supreme," and Alex Jones suggested he might take him up on the offer.

The Russian president signed a decree offering assistance to foreigners seeking temporary residence in his country and expanding the quota approved by the nation's government and setting aside a requirement for knowing the Russian language, history and basic laws, and Jones urged his followers to consider sanctuary there.

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