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Florida in play? Trump campaign just bought thousands in ad time in ‘deep-red’ state

Could Florida go blue? Democrats have been saying yes since at least April, when the Biden campaign declared the state "winnable" after launching Latinos con Biden-Harris in South Florida and running TV ads aimed at the Hispanic community one month earlier. Strategists chimed in, in agreement, after two major ballot initiatives were approved for the November election: abortion and marijuana.

With Vice President Kamala Harris now at the top of the ticket, a recent Florida Atlantic University poll has her within the margin of error.

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'Just set money on fire': Analysts say Trump bought Florida ads so he can watch self on TV

Donald Trump's newly reported campaign adbuy in Florida has analysts arguing he wanted to kick back at Mar-a-Lago and just watch himself on TV.

Eyebrows arched Monday after Medium Buying, a political ad firm whose clients include Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), reported the Trump campaign will begin placing 15-second ads on cable news channels in West Palm Beach on Tuesday.

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'These guys can’t shoot straight': Ex-Obama aide mocks Trump advisers over debate

Donald Trump and his campaign advisers were mocked by a former Barack Obama aide Monday as the drama surrounding presidential debates flared.

Trump had agreed to President Joe Biden's request that debate microphones be muted when the debaters are asked direct questions, but now-presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants that rule changed — and for open mics to be open throughout.

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'Bomb the drugs': Trump's ex-security adviser shares tales of White House dysfunction

Donald Trump's former national security adviser H.R. McMaster shared new details about the chaos and dysfunction that he said marked the ex-president's first term in office.

The retired U.S. Army lieutenant general is publishing a new book, “At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House,” focusing on the former president's service as commander in chief and his own tenure as national security adviser, reported CNN.

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Trump questions Kamala Harris' intelligence in new complaint over debate rules

Donald Trump questioned the intelligence of Kamala Harris Monday after her campaign team insisted on keeping microphones on throughout their upcoming debate.

The Harris campaign has notified ABC News and other networks that the vice president prefers that microphones should remain live throughout the Sept. 10 debate, while Trump's team has expressed a preference to mute them until the candidate is asked a direct question — the set up that was agreed upon during his last debate with President Joe Biden.

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Harris camp calls Trump’s bluff on debate

As Donald Trump attacks ABC News and suggests he may pull out of the scheduled presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Harris campaign is calling his bluff on the one major remaining sticking point: debate rules.

The Harris campaign wants the microphones for both candidates to stay on during the September 10 debate, but Trump's advisors have been refusing, saying they want the same rules as the fateful CNN debate that led to President Joe Biden scrapping his re-election bid.

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'They're betting you won't': Ann Coulter crudely begs Donald Trump to 'shut up'

Donald Trump earned Ann Coulter's scorn Monday with a surprising answer to a campaign reporter's question.

Coulter appeared infuriated that Trump told NBC News reporter Jake Traylor that he'd rather keep mics on when he debates Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 10, despite his campaign's own resistance to the demand made by her team.

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Georgia governor seeks legal advice on removing Trump-backed Board of Election members

Georgia's governor is seeking legal guidance on whether he can boot three members of the state's Board of Elections who were praised by Donald Trump just months ago.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) is requesting guidance from the state's attorney general on whether he "has the authority to remove members of the State Election Board."

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'End in disaster': Conspiracy theory expert warns Trump is courting disaster with RFK Jr.

Conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week gave his support to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

However, conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild believes that the former president should be careful what he wishes for.

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'Useful tool': Deep dive report sounds alarm on Trump loyalist

Donald Trump intends to stock the federal government with loyalists if re-elected to another term and, according to a report Monday, one likely candidate stands out for his allegiance to the former president.

Kash Patel joined the first Trump administration in 2019 with little government experience but swiftly rose through the ranks all the way to chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense just after the 2020 election. The author of a new deep dive into his career told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Patel posed a real danger if the former president returned to the White House.

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'Laugh-out-loud funny': Experts guffaw as Times op-ed asserts Trump can win 'on character'

A New York Times headline has political pundits rolling in the proverbial aisles with an assertion about Donald Trump's best bet on winning in 2024.

Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative National Review, argued in a Times op-ed that Trump should ignore the advice of many Republicans and bombard Vice President Kamala Harris with accusations of weakness.

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'Hypocrisy': Analyst hits out at Democrats for playing up Trump's 'felon' label

Since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, she and her allies have framed the race as "the prosecutor vs. the felon" — drawing on former President Donald Trump's 34-count felony conviction in Manhattan for falsifying business records over a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal a scheme to interfere in the 2016 election.

Several speakers at the Democratic National Convention said similar, with President Joe Biden saying, "Crime will keep coming down when we put a prosecutor in the Oval Office instead of a convicted felon."

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'The clock is ticking': Conservative calls on ex-Trump officials to endorse Harris

A conservative commentator on Monday called out Donald Trump's former officials who have expressed grave concerns about his fitness to serve as president but have not stepped forward to endorse Kamala Harris.

Several Republicans, including former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan and former congressman Adam Kinzinger, spoke at the Democratic National Convention. But The Bulwark's Tim Miller questioned why they weren't joined by higher-ranking former Trump officials.

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