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'He was right!' Harris team throws Trump's resurfaced debate 'courage' clip back at him

A 2011 clip surfaced Thursday by CNN shows Donald Trump denigrating debate dodging candidates, and both presidential campaigns issued dueling responses — with Kamala Harris' team jabbing the former president using his own words for refusing to agree to a second debate.

CNN's KFile uncovered a Dec. 9, 2011, interview between Trump and Don Imus, a former host on Fox Business, in which Trump attacked some candidates for not having the "courage" to debate.

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Maggie Haberman highlights 'irony' Trump faces at Al Smith comedy dinner

Donald Trump’s appearance at the Al Smith dinner Thursday night will come with an ironic twist, according to a prominent New York Times reporter who has covered the former president extensively for years.

Maggie Haberman, a CNN political analyst and reporter at the Times, said Trump would seize the opportunity “to make all kinds of jokes at the expense of some of the people sitting in the room with him” while in New York for the dinner that raises money for charity.

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'Counterproductive': Trump advisor admits 'off message' speeches could cost him election

Former President Donald Trump isn't doing himself any favors with his increasingly confused and rambling stump speeches in the final stretch of the campaign.

That's according to Trump advisor and CNN commentator David Urban, who told the New York Times that the ex-president may be actually helping to motivate Vice President Kamala Harris' supporters to come out in greater numbers. This could pose an especially significant problem in major battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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Watch: Trump takes comedy stage at Catholic charity dinner in NYC

Former President Donald Trump is taking the stage again Thursday night — this time for comedy.

Trump plans to speak at the annual Al Smith charity dinner beginning at 7:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend in person, according to The Associated Press, but will appear on a recorded video.

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'Very disrespectful!' Trump rages over Harris not attending Al Smith comedy dinner

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Vice President Kamala Harris on his Truth Social platform, accusing her of insulting Catholic voters.

"Just found out that Lyin’ Kamala is doing a video message tonight instead of being at the Al Smith Dinner," wrote Trump. "She shouldn’t be allowed to do a video message. Kamala should be there like almost every other Presidential Candidate in their History, except Walter Mondale, who lost 49-1."

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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace highlights 'disastrous week' for Trump

At the top of her Thursday episode of "Deadline: White House," host Nicolle Wallace highlighted the Latino town hall hosted by Univision on Wednesday night, which featured largely undecided voters.

It was just another of Trump's bad appearances, Wallace pointed out.

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'He's not so great': Ex-Trump adviser admits off-script rants give him election fears

Former President Donald Trump isn't doing himself any favors with his increasingly confused and rambling stump speeches in the final stretch of the campaign.

That's according to former Trump adviser and CNN commentator David Urban, who told the New York Times that the ex-president may be actually helping to motivate Vice President Kamala Harris' supporters to come out in greater numbers.

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'Stop it!' CNN hosts guffaw as they hear link between Trump watch and Viagra-laced honey

CNN hosts broke out in guffaws Friday as a reporter described how his search to find a “Swiss-made” watch linked to Donald Trump led him to the maker of a honey which is laced with Viagra.

The network's Steve Contorno described how the search for the watch that Trump’s campaign is hawking for up to $100,000 didn’t take him to Switzerland, but instead to a Wyoming shopping mall — and a company called TheBestWatchesOnEarth LLC.

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Worker whose questioning of Trump went viral now says he's 'not going to vote for him'

Donald Trump took part in a town hall on Wednesday with Univision as part of his campaign’s effort to reach Latino voters. The crowd was made up of undecided registered voters, some of whom didn't speak English.

Among them was Ramiro González, a 56-year-old construction worker who lives in Tampa, Florida, and who asked Trump a question about the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol building.

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Progressive activists inadvertently gave Trump his best ad against Harris: columnist

New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait is making the case that left-wing activists may have harmed Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign by pushing her and other candidates to take unpopular positions on transgender rights.

One of Donald Trump's favorite campaign ads is currently bombarding sporting events and is claiming that Kamala Harris wants to give away free gender-transition surgery for prisoners and immigration detainees.

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'He's a hack': Fox's Bret Baier pummeled by former colleagues after Harris interview

Add some former Fox News colleagues of embattled host Bret Baier to the list of people who weren't impressed by how he conducted himself during his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

With various political observers calling his hectoring of Donald Trump's presidential opponent "embarrassing," "insufferable" and "obnoxious," media analyst Justin Baragona reported that two former Fox News producers joined the pile-on.

On X, Baragonna of Zeteo News wrote he was the recipient of texts after the contentious interview drew to a close on Wednesday night.

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He wrote, "A former Fox producer just sent me this reaction: 'Baier showed, again, he's not a 'straight news" anchor. He's a hack who's no different than Hannity or Watters. He bowed to the pressure from his MAGA fans because he doesn't care as long as they don't change the channel.'"

Moments later he added, "Another ex-Fox News producer also texted me that it's 'so interesting to see Bret Baier for who he really is now that I'm on the outside looking in, adding that Baier is 'just so completely in the tank it's hard to believe anyone sees him as a real journalist.'"

Mitch McConnell throws other Republicans under bus in attempt to excuse attacks on Trump

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responded to reports on withering criticism he leveled at Donald Trump which was revealed Thursday in a forthcoming biography.

Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press, wrote in his new book, "The Price of Power," that McConnell had called the former president “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist.”

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Judge slams Rudy Giuliani for 'imagined' evidence of political prosecution in Arizona

An Arizona judge chastised former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for alleging without evidence that he was being prosecuted for political reasons.

In a two-page ruling Thursday, Maricopa County Superior Court Bruce Cohen responded to Giuliani's request for information about grand jurors who indicted him for an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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