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'Oh stop!' GOP's Byron Donalds gets testy when CNN anchor corners him on union remarks

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) tried to spin away Donald Trump's cheerleading for Elon Musk firing striking workers, but CNN's Kate Bolduan wasn't having it.

The United Auto Workers union filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the Republican presidential nominee and the Tesla CEO after Trump praised Musk as "the greatest cutter" because he had fired or threatened to fire workers who went on strike, and Donalds insisted they were discussing the tech mogul's takeover of Twitter.

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'Insult comic' Trump incapable of running on policies – only 'abuse': conservative

Conservative pundit David Frum wished Donald Trump's campaign the best of luck in keeping him quiet the rest of the way.

The 2024 campaign has been turned upside down by the ascendance of Kamala Harris as the likely Democratic nominee, and the former president has been lashing out with bizarre statements as his campaign struggles to slow the vice president's momentum, which Frum said would turn even more voters against him.

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'Red flag': Georgia election official may have broken law with request to Trump ally

A Republican member of the Georgia State Election Board revealed that he floated himself for a political appointment in a potential second Donald Trump administration, but he's backing away from that claim now.

Rick Jeffares told The Guardian that he proposed himself to former Trump aide Brian Jack as a candidate for regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency, but he told the Atlanta Journal Constitution a day after that report ran that he'd turned down the same job during the ex-president's first term and mentioned to friends that he would consider it now."

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'It's just madness': MSNBC's Scarborough hammers reporters for ignoring Trump's decline

After MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski read off a "laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims" made by Donald Trump and compiled by the Washington Post, her "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough dropped the hammer on the nation's media for refusing to seriously report on the former president's decline.

After his co-host concluded, he began, "Yesterday, Jonathan Chait wrote a column in New York Magazine and talked about the real media bias, and it's not on the left against the right, against Donald Trump. That in fact it is the mainstream media desperate to just keep — keep this narrative going that this is an election just like any other, that, you know, acting like it's [Bill] Clinton versus [Bob] Dole in 1996, ignoring those extraordinarily bizarre claims that would be disqualifying."

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'Rife with inaccuracies': Judge Merchan rejects Trump's new bid to force recusal from case

Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the hush-money trial that resulted in 34 felony convictions against former President Donald Trump, slapped down yet another effort by Trump's lawyers to get Merchan to recuse himself from the case.

In a ruling flagged by MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, Merchan dismissed claims made by Trump's lawyers that he should have to recuse because of work that his daughter once did for Vice President Kamala Harris, who has since taken President Joe Biden's place as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

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'Fake prayers': Trump ally Laura Loomer lashes out at pro-Kamala Harris evangelicals

Controversial Trump ally Laura Loomer is decidedly unhappy with a group of evangelical Christians who are backing Vice President Kamala Harris.

The newly formed Evangelicals for Harris organization on Tuesday evening earned Loomer's ire when it said that its members would be praying for her.

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'Lot of racism here': CNN panelists aghast at Trump campaign's latest 'attack' on migrants

Donald Trump's campaign shared an allegedly racist meme on social media suggesting that Kamala Harris would flood American neighborhoods with migrants.

The Trump War Room, which is the campaign's official X account, posted side-by-side photos of a tidy suburban neighborhood with an American flag hanging from the front porch of one home and no people in the frame contrasted with a 2023 Getty photo showing a throng of recently arrived migrants sitting outside a New York City hotel that now serves as an immigration intake center.

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'Will change everything': Expert predicts what will make Trump 'go bananas in public' next

During an MSNBC "Morning Joe" panel on traditionally conservative states suddenly coming into play on November's election, commentator Mike Barnicle noted the startling "sea change" that occurred when Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket and predicted another is in the offing.

Speaking with the hosts, Barnicle explained he sees Donald Trump poised to meltdown even further if he has a bad debate performance next month which, in turn, will cripple his re-election hopes even more.

"The sea change in American politics over just the past few weeks has been astounding," he began. "President Biden was supposed to be on the ballot three or four weeks ago, and all the numbers in every state were going the wrong way. Now it's completely flip-flopped, including North Carolina, which is now in contention."

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He then added, "And I would submit there's one other element to be added to this conversation. I think there's going to be another sea change after the first debate that occurs between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris."

"When a Black woman in the ring cuffs him around, which she will, I think he will go bananas in public and that will change everything," he predicted.

MSNBC host, the Rev. Al Sharpton contributed, "I agree with you. I think that the fact that this Black woman is going to be standing there equal to him is already unnerving him. For her to be able to prosecute the case when a few days later he has to go to a sentencing for his 34 felonies, I think he's at edge."

"People don't understand that not only has he naturally lost it. The man is looking at a sentencing date," he added.

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'Weak RINO': Trump fans condemn his latest political statement

Donald Trump on Tuesday evening bragged that one of his political endorsements had prevailed, resulting in outcries from MAGA fans who have rejected the individual.

Trump, fresh off his interview with the world's richest man, X's Elon Musk, took to Truth Social to remind his supporters that someone he endorsed won.

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'Hurt the Republican ticket': Conservative mom of 6 says Dems better on family policy

Even a former Heritage Foundation writer is now saying that Democrats are the better party when concerning policies that are most beneficial to parents.

In a recent op-ed for Newsweek, conservative activist Bethany Mandel — who went viral following an interview last year when she couldn't define the word "woke" after railing against it — admitted that the Democratic Party has consistently been a better ally of working-class Americans who are currently raising children. As a mother of six, the 38 year-old Mandel wrote that one major advantage Democrats have in arguing that they're better for families is their willingness to go to bat for the child tax credit.

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'Not a dog whistle but a dog howl': Experts blast latest Trump campaign ad

From claiming he doesn't know what race Vice President Kamala Harris identifies as, to nicknaming the 2024 Democratic nominee "Kamabla" — former President Donald Trump has yet to hold back on using racist tropes in an effort to intimidate his opponent.

On Tuesday, an X (formerly Twitter) account called Trump War Room — which calls itself "The Official War Room account of the 2024 Trump campaign" — posted a jab at Harris that many political experts deem outright racist.

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'Separated from reality': Trump said to be struggling to come to grips that he may lose

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," the New York Times' Peter Baker suggested Donald Trump is still having a great deal of difficulty coming to terms with the notion that he could lose in November to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Baker claims that the former president's recent actions demonstrate he is losing his grip.

Brought on by host Jonathan Lemire to discuss a warning from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that Trump will never accept losing to Harris and will create more chaos, Baker said that goes hand-in-hand with the some of Trump's latest conspiracy stories.

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With Lemire prompting him with, "It seems like he's already preparing for another big lie," Baker replied, "Yeah, he seems increasingly detached from reality and yet there may be strategy behind it. The idea he is trying to once again convince his voters that something untoward happened in order to explain a defeat and that's something, of course, he cannot accept."

"He cannot accept the idea that anybody could possibly beat him, especially, I think, Kamala Harris, and so he has to find a way to explain it," he continued. "He started this in 2020, let's remember, not after the election when his results came back in but actually in May of 2020 he began telling people any results other than his victory would be a sign of a rigged election — it would be a cheat, in other words."

"This is his pattern going back years and years and years." he elaborated. "He's never lost a contest that he acknowledged that he lost. He constantly comes up with conspiracy theories and made-up versions of reality, and what he's doing here clearly is laying the groundwork."

"It actually suggests that he's feeling the heat and he's feeling, you know, that he may not be able to pull this off in November," he warned.

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Kamala Harris must give interviews to prevail over 'corrupt, felonious rival': journalist

Kamala Harris’ campaign may be on a roll, but if she wants it to stay that way, she will need to go off script — and talk to the press, columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote for The Guardian.

“She is running for the highest office in the nation, perhaps the most powerful perch in the world, and she owes it to every US citizen to be frank and forthcoming about what kind of president she intends to be,” Sullivan writes. “To tell us – in an unscripted, open way – what she stands for.”

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