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'Falling down on the job': Trump insiders are furious over swing state campaign efforts

Frustrated insiders are warning former President Donald Trump not to trust his "embarrassing" campaign leadership in vital swing states with razor-thin margins, according to a new report.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's super PAC and a controversial Trump ally's minions are inspiring grumbles in the Republican presidential nominee's inner circle over get-out-the-vote operations in battleground states, Rolling Stone reported Wednesday.

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'You never heard of Ivanka, right?' Trump name drops daughter as he details childcare plan

Former President Donald Trump responded to a question about lowering childcare costs by pointing to his daughter, Ivanka, and his plan to place tariffs on foreign imports.

During a Fox News town hall with an all-female audience in Pennsylvania, Trump was asked how he would lower child care costs if re-elected.

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With $75M gift, Musk joins right-wing billionaires bankrolling Trump campaign

Prominent members of the United States' billionaire class have shelled out massive sums in the final stretch of the 2024 campaign to elect one of their own, Republican nominee Donald Trump, to the White House, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk donating nearly $75 million in recent months to a super PAC supporting the former president's bid for a second term.

According to federal filings made public Tuesday, at least six other billionaires joined Musk in donating to pro-Trump super PACs in the third quarter of 2024: Miriam Adelson, the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson; businessman Richard Uihlein, the heir to a brewing fortune; David Millstone, co-CEO of Standard Industries; Diane Hendricks, co-founder of ABC Supply; Kelcy Warren, the chair of Energy Transfer Partners; and financier Ike Perlmutter.

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CNN turns fact-check against Kamala Harris' Project 2025 claims

A CNN fact checker turned his attention to Kamala Harris Wednesday, shooting down frequent attacks the Democratic candidate has aimed at Project 2025.

Host Jim Acosta played a clip of Harris making a claim about the blueprint for Trump’s next administration, before calling on fact-checker Daniel Dale to shoot it down.

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'False evidence': Jack Smith slaps back at 'half-hearted' dismissal demand

Special counsel Jack Smith slapped back Wednesday at yet another demand from former President Donald Trump to dismiss his federal election interference case, court records show.

Smith filed in Washington D.C. federal court a response to Trump's recent motion to dismiss charges that he corruptly attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, won by President Joe Biden, in the lead-up to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Trump's new speeches have fellow Republicans 'throwing their desks out the window': expert

A CNN panel on Wednesday suggested that former President Donald Trump is throwing down-ballot Republicans off kilter with his latest rants about Democrats being "the enemy within" the country.

While discussing the state of the race, Democratic strategist Jim Messina suggested that Trump is causing heartburn for his fellow Republicans by not only ranting about "the enemy within" but also falsely claiming that there was a "peaceful transfer of power" after he lost the 2020 presidential election, when in reality the post-election period was marred by a deadly riot that he incited at the United States Capitol building.

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Trump acquaintance asks why ex-president's aides let him 'humiliate family' at town hall

MSNBC host Al Sharpton expressed a small amount of sympathy for Donald Trump on Wednesday morning, wondering why the former president's campaign staff didn't hustle him offstage at a Pennsylvania town hall when he stopped answering questions and danced instead for 39 minutes.

During an appearance on "Morning Joe" to discuss Trump's much-derided "dance party" at his Oaks, Pennsylvania, rally on Monday, Sharpton suggested Trump's team did their man no favors at a time when his cognitive abilities are under intense scrutiny.

After praising how Vice President Kamala Harris is comporting herself on the campaign trail, Sharpton expressed surprise that Trump's people let him remain standing on the stage swaying to the music and occasionally pumping his fists for almost forty minutes while his fans stood waiting.

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"I think they are fooling themselves if they think the momentum is the other way," he said of election prognosticators. "If you want to see somebody [Harris] that can answer questions and has a track record and opposed to somebody that just plays tracks that can't even dance to the tracks, then that's your choice."

"I mean, Donald Trump was embarrassing the other night to anybody that supports him," he added. "If I was there, I would have walked him off the stage if I was a supporter. How long do you let grandpa stand there and humiliate the family?"

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CNN segment spins into chaos after Black conservative quotes Malcolm X to boost Trump

CNN's Sarah Sidner clashed with a Black conservative who framed the election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in racially reductive terms.

Shelley Wynter, a self-described traditionalist who hosts a talk show on Atlanta's WSBB-FM, made reference to Malcolm X's famous 1963 speech, “The Race Problem in America," in which he traced the differences between two kinds of slaves – the "house Negro and the field Negro" – which set off a chaotic clash with Sidner and guest Michael Blake, a former White House aide to Barack Obama.

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MAGA host says friends are 'moving to foreign countries' if Kamala Harris beats Trump

Pro-MAGA TV host Gina Loudon revealed that her friends are "moving to a foreign country" if Vice President Kamala Harris wins her bid for the White House.

Loudon made the admission during a Wednesday broadcast on Real America's Voice.

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'Loopy and reckless': Open letter urges GOP not to repeat 'unmitigated disaster' of past

An open letter in the Washington Post is urging Republicans to think of their own future — even if the country’s welfare fails to sway their actions.

Writer Matt Bai spelled out the effect the Jan. 6 insurrection and the 2020 election denial has had on the GOP and individual legislators' own jobs.

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'No longer amateurs': Legal expert says one tricky law could stop Trump coup

One complicated congressional law could stand between the White House and a former president Donald Trump armed with legal wiles rather than Electoral College votes, according to a new analysis.

Georgetown University Law Center professor Neal Katyal argued Wednesday in a New York Times editorial that the nation should brace itself for a sprawling legal battle should Trump lose the presidential election to Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

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CNN host mocks Trump's 'I know you are but what am I' economic arguments

Donald Trump faced tough questions about his economic proposals, and CNN's John Berman noticed something familiar about his arguments.

The former president bristled at Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief John Micklethwait's repeated fact-checks and blustered through answers when pressed for specifics, and CNN business correspondent Matt Egan doesn't think he did much to reassure nervous economists.

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Evangelicals buried by Christian columnist for latching on to Trump's 'freak show'

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner, who writes about politics from a conservative Christian perspective, hammered Donald Trump's evangelical supporters for tossing aside their principles to back his third presidential bid.

Asked by the "Morning Joe" co-hosts to talk about his most recent column, "This Election is Different," where he fretted about the declining "decency" of voters, the columnist took aim at Christians who have embraced Trump's MAGA ethos.

Wehner, a former speechwriter for three different Republican presidents, was asked by co-host Joe Scarborough, "They are voting for a man who said, 'I don't need god to forgive me.' So how do they say, I'm voting for my Christian values, I'm going to vote for a man who every day undermines everything that Jesus said and says that he doesn't need god's forgiveness?"

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"You know, it's a psychological trick that they're playing, they've justified it by turning this race into an existential crisis that the Democrats and progressives are against Americans," he explained.

"So Trump is the only thing that stands between them and catastrophe, but of course, it's the opposite thing," he elaborated. "And I do think what you're getting, the point you're making, Joe, is exactly right. It's been a catastrophic damage that's been done to the Christian witness, because this is a moral freak show."

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