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Without endorsing President Joe Biden, the editorial board of the St. Louis Post Dispatch warned Republican voters — particularly so-called "Reagan Republicans" — that Donald Trump should be kept as far away from the corridors of power as possible.

In an editorial published on Thursday, the board of the influential midwestern newspaper declared Reagan Republicanism "dead" — and added the former president is the culprit who killed it, with party members fingered as accomplices.

The editors wrote, "Even among the many Republicans out there who recognize Trump’s obvious unfitness for office, there will be a strong temptation to fall back on partisan muscle-memory and vote for him anyway," before adding, "Republicans and conservatives of good conscience who can’t bring themselves to vote for President Joe Biden — fine — should at least consider any alternative that doesn’t give a vote to this unstable, malicious man and his dangerous movement."

Pointing to Trump's part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, the editors cited his suggestion that he not only be given total immunity to run the country as he sees fit if re-elected, but also his hint that he would have no problem seeing his political enemies arrested or killed.

Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) criticized House Republicans for holding a hearing she said was aimed at downplaying the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

Following Thursday's opening remarks by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Plaskett explained her view of why Republicans had convened the hearing.

House Oversight and Reform Democrat Jamie Raskin (MD) is disgusted by how easily the Republican Party has embraced the cult of Donald Trump.

Speaking to The Guardian ahead of the State of the Union address Thursday, and after Super Tuesday, Raskin expressed his shock at seeing the GOP turn so quickly and easily toward Trump.

After reposting a comment from Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, in which she claimed, "A path to defeat Donald is clearly emerging," and then called on voters to "beat this lunatic," a former high-ranking White House official who served in his administration piled on by calling his former boss a "traitor."

Early Thursday morning, former Trump White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, fired off his own post on X lambasting the GOP's presidential frontrunner and predicting he would end up penniless and in jail until the end of his life.

Special counsel Jack Smith revealed in a court filing that his team conducted an interview as late as Wednesday of this week in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and two others.

In a response to U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday, Smith filed court documents detailing discovery items that had been turned over to the defense.

The Fulton County Board of Ethics has decided not to hear two complaints against District Attorney Fani Willis.

The board was expected to hear the complaints Thursday. But by Thursday morning, the board had removed the complaints against Willis from the agenda.

A Republican House member who jumped ship from Nikki Haley's suspended presidential campaign to support Donald Trump was put on the spot on CNN Thursday morning.

At issue were highly critical remarks Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) made about the former president while serving as an attack dog for the Haley campaign.

During a panel discussion on President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech slated for Thursday evening, conservative Trump critic George Conway had some tips for the current president while also suggesting the former president has an insurmountable problem that will lead to his defeat.

Speaking with MSNBC "Morning Joe" hosts Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire, Conway said the same problem that dogged Trump in his 2020 presidential run will be on full display once again as Election Day 2024 grows closer.

With Lemire remarking Biden will, "... draw contrasts with Donald Trump, whether or not he mentions him by name, but he also needs to make a positive case for the next four years. That's something Democrats say he hasn't really done. What would you recommend?" Conway agreed but took it a step further.

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"He [Biden] has to be empathetic, he's got to be himself," he began. "He, I think at the end of the day, he doesn't have to do a hard sell. He does have to get out there, he just has to be normal."

He then elaborated on this and contended that "Trump won in 2016 because Hillary [Clinton] was the issue. In 2020, Trump was the issue. 2024, Trump will lose again because he will make himself the issue; he cannot help but make himself the issue."

"What Biden needs to do is just basically say, 'That guy is crazy,'" he added. "He doesn't have to refer to him by name, he just has to say, 'The guy is nuts, let's be normal, America.' That's the theme of this campaign, I think."

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Appearing on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," with host Jonathan Lemire, former Rep. Dave Jolly (R-FL) predicted Donald Trump is headed for a fall if he is on the ballot in November facing President Joe Biden.

Reading the tea leaves from Tuesday's "Super Tuesday," primary results, the former lawmaker pointed to Trump's glaring weakness with non-MAGA voters and independent voters who gave every indication he won't be able to gain their votes.

"Give us your brief assessment simply of what these primaries showed us about Trump's strengths and, more importantly, his weaknesses," host Lemire prompted his guest.

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"I think Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble," Jolly bluntly replied.

"I mean, we look at the polls," he elaborated. "You see nationally he's up a few points over Joe Biden, we looked at the electoral map. The truth is, this coalition of soft Republicans and independents who have chosen Democrats over Republicans, they were there in '18, '20, '22. They're still there in '24."

"In '24, we actually have the motivating issues, like Dobbs and reproductive freedom that we didn't have in '16 and '20," he continued. "I think Donald Trump is in trouble. Ignore the polls for a minute. I would much rather be in Joe Biden's position today than Donald Trump's."

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