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According to conservative political strategist and polling expert Sarah Longwell, both Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have a problem with voters who are unhappy about their choices in the upcoming presidential election.

And that is worse news for the four-time indicted former president.

Speaking with CNN host Chris Wallace, Longwell discussed voters labeled "double haters" in a New York Times/Sienna College poll that pegged their number at a whopping 19 percent of the electorate.

That huge number is where the election will be won or lost she explained.

"I want to talk to you about something I've been hearing a term in the last few days that is new to me: 'double haters,'" host Wallace prompted. "I want to put up a poll. I have to say, I like this, it fits the campaign perfectly. In a New York Times poll, 19 percent were described as double-haters because they disapprove of both Biden and Trump. And Biden is, correct, currently leading among the double-haters 45 percent to 33 percent."

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"So Sarah are the double-haters a real thing and who's going to end up winning the double-haters," he asked.

"So I conduct focus groups all the time and the double haters are absolutely a real thing," Longwell replied. "In fact, because we have this phenomenon here, where you essentially have two incumbents running against each other, the persuadable chunk of voters is different this time."

"It is people who have, they, they know both these guys and they don't like either," she continued. "And so that's why this is going to be a really negative campaign because persuadable voters — to bring them over — you're gonna have to make them hate the other guy more."

"The phrase that we hear in focus groups all the time, and if it was a drinking game we'd all be dead, is 'the first lesser of two evils' and what they mean is 'I'm basically going to make my decision on who I hate, slightly less' and Biden usually cleans up on that front because people hate Trump a little bit more," she concluded.

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On MSNBC's "The Weekend", former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele went on a blistering rant aimed at outgoing RNC head Ronna McDaniel's tumultuous tenure by pointedly stating, "I was winning elections. What did you do?"

With McDaniel walking away — only to be replaced by Donald Trump loyalists — and asking for "unity," Steele, from his perch as the co-host of MSNBC show, wasn't having it.

"The unity thing is a two-way street, he lectured. "And you don't have unity when you refer to Republicans like me as a RINO [Republican In Name Only] who's been in the party for over 50 years. You don't have unity when you disavow and break apart the very foundations of a once proud party based on the principles and ideas of Lincoln and Eisenhower and Reagan and Bush."

"So y'all need to check the unity conversation amongst yourselves first before you bring it to others because that's where the disunity is," he continued. "It's not with me. I was doing just fine until your behind showed up. I was doing just fine. We were — I was winning elections, right? What did you do?"

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"You've just been showboating. You allowed [Georgia Republican] Marjorie Taylor Greene to show up in the House and disrespect your own house and the Republican brand by wearing some dumb behind cap on her head?" he exclaimed. "Come on folks, let's be real about what it is and what it isn't, and what it isn't is the stuff that myself and a lot of others have been fighting for."

"Look, I'm at a table with people that I would love to engage on public policy about, but we are talking about your dumb stupid stuff right?" he added. "This is the reality that you put us in. So unity is a two-way street. Y'all need to work on your end of the block because it's messed up as hell. "

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Alexander Smirnov — the 43-year-old confidential FBI informant recently indicted for lying about President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter — had a long history of behavior jeopardizing his credibility long before he was criminally charged, according to several FBI officials.

Several ex-FBI employees with experience handling confidential informants recently told the Washington Post that Smirnov repeatedly violated protocol throughout his time as an FBI source by using his informant work as leverage for his personal benefit. Dmitry Fomichev, who is a tech investor, decided to loan Smirnov money because he "was representing himself as working for the FBI," and asserted that he was "a very powerful guy."

According to conservative pollster Sarah Longwell, voters are less concerned with Donald Trump's age than they are worried about his mental fitness as they look at the presidential choices in 2024.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Longwell — founder of Republican Voters Against Trump — was asked about voter worries about both Trump and President Joe Biden and she replied the public seem to hold them to two different standards.

"I wonder, in your focus groups, how the two issues or bearing out, the question of the candidates and the comparison points between the two them," co-host Alicia Menendez pressed.

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"Look, whether it is fair or not, voters don't question Trump's mental capacity, they are questioning his sanity," she replied. "They question whether he is fit enough to be commander in chief from a moral and ethical standpoint."

"Trump has big lunatic energy," she continued as the hosts laughed. "He just doesn't come off the same way that Biden does. So the concerns for voters around age do rest with President Biden."

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After US District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan denied his petition for a stay, former President Donald Trump finally posted a $91.6 million bond for his appeal of writer E. Jean Carroll's judgment on Friday.

That $91.63 million includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the State of New York tacks onto surety bonds. That money has been set aside in a court-managed account to be paid to Carroll in the event Trump loses his appeal. The ex-president's bond was guaranteed by the Federal Insurance Company — a New York-based subsidiary of the company Chubb Group LLC, which is headquartered in Switzerland. In 2018, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg served on a trade advisory committee in the Trump White House. The Washington Post reported that "it was not clear from court records what collateral Trump presented to obtain the bond from Chubb."

GOP strategist and publisher of The Bulwark Sarah Longwell appeared on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip late Friday explain what was on display following President Joe Biden's State of the Union address was a coordinated effort centered on Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL).

"The fact is, they have been hemorrhaging college-educated suburban women and you could just tell from the way that this was staged from the sitting in the kitchen, the way she was coached to use that breathy voice, because that's not how she normally talks," Longwell said. "She's a serious person. She is a good senator, a sharp person."