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Wisconsin Republican claims campaign ad defamed him — and sues TV stations

Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde has filed a lawsuit against several local television stations for running an ad from a Democratic political action committee. He's sued all of them except one, the Fox outlet.

Hovde is irate over an ad from WinSenate PAC, which he claims defamed him, WTAQ-WLUK reported Tuesday.

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'Voters are shifting': Goldman Sachs sees momentum building for Kamala Harris

Analysts at Goldman Sachs believe that "voters are shifting" as the final months of the campaign approach and Democrats prepare to host their presidential convention in Chicago — with the tide turning in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to Fortune, Harris "is up by about three percentage points nationally since she became the presumed Democratic nominee after President Biden ended his reelection bid last month. Her margins have also improved in key swing states, including Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral votes, where Trump has just a 0.2 percentage point lead over Harris, according to the Goldman analysts. The vice president needs at least 270 electoral votes to win the election."

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Trump convinced no one — particularly women — during Elon interview: Ex-Nevada GOP chair

Former Nevada Republican Party chair Amy Tarkanian does not think Donald Trump's Monday interview with X owner Elon Musk won any new voters.

Speaking to International CNBC, Tarkanian explained that Trump's comments were nothing more than the same grievances over and over again.

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Judge with Tesla stock recuses from Elon Musk’s X lawsuit

A judge who owns stock in Tesla has recused himself from a lawsuit involving Elon Musk's social media site X, court documents show.

As an NPR report recently revealed, U.S. Federal Court Judge Reed O’Connor has been overseeing a number of lawsuits involving Musk and ruling in his favor.

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'He's still lying!' Ex-GOP operative clashes with Fox's Tomi Lahren over Jan. 6 whitewash

Former Republican operative Tim Miller this week clashed with Fox News' Tomi Lahren about former President Donald Trump's pro-police bonafides given his role in inciting a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building.

After Lahren criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for past critical statements she's made about police practices in the United States, Miller brought up all of the police who got injured after Trump sent a mob of supporters to the United States Capitol building and then sat for three hours as they beat police, looted the building, and sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives.

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Kamala Harris' 'generic Democrat' campaign is smart strategy: polling expert

New York Times polling expert Nate Cohn this week talked about Vice President Kamala Harris's rise in swing-state polls and he credited her newfound strength among voters to running what he described as a "generic" campaign.

In an interview with the Times' "The Daily" podcast, Cohn analyzed Harris' campaign speeches and found that she is not saying anything different than what you'd expect to hear from other Democratic candidates: A focus on abortion rights, building an economy through the middle class, and universal paid family leave.

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Trump set to 'absolutely decimate' Truth Social investors with return to X: analyst

Donald Trump's appearance on X Monday night should deeply concern a surprising group of people, a Slate analyst argues — his shareholders.

Alex Kirshner Tuesday rang the alarm bell over Trump's return to X after he made his first post on the platform in a year, and then appeared for a livestream with Elon Musk on Monday. It's just a month before a six-month lockup policy on his Trump Media shares expires.

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Energy firm at center of GOP bribery scandal pays $20M to avoid prosecution: report

An infamous energy company at the heart of a bribery scandal that shook the Ohio Republican Party will pay $20 million in a deal to avoid criminal charges, reported the Akron Beacon Journal.

A business filing obtained by the paper shows that FirstEnergy will pay $19.5 million to the Ohio Attorney General's office, and allocate an additional $500,000 for an independent consultant to review the company's practices.

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Here's a tell that it's time for the Trump campaign to 'start worrying': reporter

Former President Donald Trump and his campaign last month believed that they were cruising to victory against President Joe Biden.

Since Biden dropped out of the race, however, Vice President Kamala Harris has erased Trump's lead, and campaign reporter Jake LaHut believes that the former president is offering a telltale sign that his campaign is in real trouble.

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Judge Chutkan faces call to seize Trump's passport after threat to flee to Venezuela

George Washington Law Professor Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor, called on U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to seize Donald Trump's passport after he suggested that he might flee to Venezuela.

In a conversation with Elon Musk on Monday, Trump hinted that he would move to Venezuela if he lost the 2024 presidential election.

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MAGA cop claims government cut vital tool from department over conspiracy investigation

A right-wing police chief flipped out when a TV reporter questioned him about a possibly illegal child sex sting operation involving right-wing conspiracy theorists.

Millersville police chief Bryan Morris told far-right podcaster Tom Renz that his department had been denied access to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network run by the U.S. Department of Treasury as it looks into complaints that he and other conspiracy-minded officers allowed self-described "prayer warriors" to pose as minors online to entrap would-be predators, reported WTVF-TV.

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Harris campaign budges on second debate — with one condition

Campaign officials for Kamala Harris may consider a second debate with Donald Trump in Michigan on one condition.

The former president announced last weekend that he planned to debate the vice president Sept. 25 in Grand Rapids in an event moderated by NBC News anchor Lester Holt. While the Harris campaign signaled it was open to that, it reiterated it had reached no such deal with the GOP nominee or the network, reported MLive.

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George Conway launches trolling campaign to bombard Trump with mental illness descriptions

Conservative lawyer and Donald Trump foe George Conway has started an online campaign designed to rile up the former president now he's returned to the social media site X.

Trump gave a wide-ranging interview with the platform's owner Elon Musk on Monday night, during which he was ridiculed for slurring his words and steamrolling the discussion.

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