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Taylor Swift launched counterattack against Trump's 'war on women': Analyst

Billionaire megastar Taylor Swift's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday evening is a significant development beyond a typical celebrity endorsement, former White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield argued on CNN Wednesday — it represents a cultural pushback against former President Donald Trump's mistreatment of women.

Swift's endorsement, posted to Instagram, explicitly spoke out against Trump's promotion of fake AI imagery appearing to show her endorsing him — and signed her post "from a childless cat lady," referencing Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance's repeated attacks on childless women.

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Marco Rubio explains Trump's bizarre stories aren't anything new — so people won't care

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is firmly behind former President Donald Trump, and he's dismissing any comments from the Tuesday night debate as nothing new.

"I don't think voters last night heard anything they hadn't seen before," Rubio said.

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Trump running mate J.D. Vance: Americans won't be influenced by a 'billionaire celebrity'

Sen. J.D. Vance knows Americans can't be influenced by a billionaire celebrity with little interest in the day-to-day problems they face.

Vance (R-OH) made a bold claim about billionaires to Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Wednesday afternoon. But he wasn't denouncing former President Donald Trump, a former reality television worth about $3.8 billion, but rather singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who on Tuesday night threw her support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

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'She emasculated him': Ex-senior Republican says Harris left Trump 'embarrassed'

Following former President Donald Trump's widely panned performance in Tuesday night's debate in Philadelphia, a former California Republican Party official bluntly assessed how Vice President Kamala Harris cleaned his clock in a new analysis for his "Great Transformation" Substack.

Mike Madrid, co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project and who has long been bullish on Harris' chances, said that feeling was only validated further when she swung at Trump from the podium.

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'Hell to pay': Tommy Tuberville threatens Dems with another Jan. 6 riot

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) threatened that there would be another Jan. 6 riot if Democrats did not pass a Republican-backed bill that would make it harder to vote.

At a Wednesday news conference, Tuberville urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to schedule a vote on the "Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act" or "SAVE Act." The bill would require a birth certificate or passport in order to vote, even though it is already unlawful for noncitizens to participate in federal elections.

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'You know that's not how it happens': Annoyed CNN anchor cuts off Republican mid-rant

A Republican lawmaker who tried to dismiss former President Donald Trump's questionable responses at the debate was repeatedly cut off and checked by a CNN anchor who said he purposefully misrepresented the facts.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) grew increasingly testy as he fielded questions from Brianna Keilar that he tried to dismiss as mere hypotheticals — but which the CNN host insisted American voters had a right to know.

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'Way too much time on the defensive': GOP strategist baffled by Trump debate plan

Donald Trump's debate performance is leaving some Republicans concerned about the hit his campaign may take.

Candidates generally prepare before the debate, but Trump has been telling the press he's spent his whole life preparing for the moment. One Republican said that it was clear he had crafted some answers on issues to be clearer and even one zinger. The problem is that they didn't land.

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'This needs to be noticed': Former GOP strategist flags alarming Trump debate comment

A former Republican political strategist Wednesday urged an investigation into a less-reported remark former President Donald Trump made during a tumultuous debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trygve Olson, a senior adviser for the never-Trump conservative group Lincoln Project, raised concerns after Trump told Americans Tuesday night that he'd seen a controversial figure since leaving the White House: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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'We also don’t eat cats and dogs': Trump taunted for debate fumble by unexpected jokester

Donald Trump's debate performance Tuesday night against Vice President Kamala Harris earned him a taunting insult from an unexpected source — the city of Berlin.

Germany's foreign ministry Wednesday morning took a jab at the former president and Republican nominee after he claimed Berlin regretted its renewable energy infrastructure.

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'That's insane!' Dem Rep. Jasmine Crockett nails Trump's 'crazy fantasies' at debate

Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX) trashed former President Donald Trump's debate performance on Tuesday night for being filled with a slew of falsehoods.

MSNBC played a clip of Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) after the debate in the spin room, where even he seemed confused about the false claims Trump promoted about pets being kidnapped and eaten by immigrants.

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GOP official on CNN scrambles to justify Trump-inspired threats against election workers

Ohio's secretary of state Frank LaRose downplayed threats against election officials from Donald Trump supporters who believe his lies about alleged fraud.

The former president insisted once again, this time during Tuesday night's debate, that he did not lose the 2020 election, and CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked the Republican secretary of state about the corrosive effects those false claims have on voter confidence and public safety.

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'He talked about eating pets!' Sparks fly at House hearing over 'Trump's Project 2025'

A usually tame House Committee meeting became heated Wednesday after a Democrat tried to enter the conservative plan known as Project 2025 into the official record — and tied it to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

During a hearing before the House Committee on Natural Resources, two Republicans objected when Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) tried introducing "Trump's Project 2025."

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'Mask started to slip': Ex-Trump aide thinks MAGA sees through ex-president after debate

"The View" began the discussion about Tuesday night's debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump by celebrating the former's successes.

At the top of the show, Whoopi Goldberg gave a remembrance of the Sept. 11 attacks but then pivoted.

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