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During a report from MS NOW on the problems Republicans are facing in normally red Ohio due to the economic woes brought on by Donald Trump, MS NOW’s Will McDuffie found voters who are skeptical of GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and predicted his path to office could become even more problematic.

McDuffie, who has been doing man-on-the-street interviews with disgruntled Ohio voters, some of whom have claimed they have had to go back to work involuntarily because the cost of living has gone through the roof, with one Trump voter claiming, “I’m on disability, and they yell at me for going to work, but I don’t have a choice. It’s either I go to work, or we don’t eat.”

Xicha Brewing owner Maggie Antunez was confused as to why her business was receiving so many negative social media messages about an event scheduled Tuesday evening at her business’s North Salem location.

The only reservation scheduled was for an individual who claimed their reservation wasn’t politically related, she said. Meanwhile, Rep. Ed Diehl, a Scio Republican vying for his party’s gubernatorial nomination in the primary, was advertising a separate Cinco de Mayo-themed campaign event at the brewery alongside Dan Farrington, a Republican running to represent Oregon’s 17th House District.

Fox News London correspondent Alex Hogan was repositioned to Portsmouth, Virginia, just in time to cover an FBI raid on a Democratic politician who led redistricting efforts that could help her party take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin noted that Hogan was on the scene "where the FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat and close ally of VA Governor Spanberger."

A comprehensive study released on Wednesday has revealed that the popular social media app TikTok may have helped tilt the 2024 election in President Donald Trump’s favor, The Guardian reported.

“In an environment where margins are thin, systematic differences in the kind of political information recommended to tens of millions of young voters are worth taking seriously,” said Yasir Zaki, a professor of computer science at New York University’s campus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), speaking with The Guardian.

Federal agents have raided the office of a Virginia Democratic legislator who was instrumental to her party possibly picking up four additional congressional seats.

The FBI served multiple search warrants at the office of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth as part of what sources described as a major corruption investigation, and MS NOW's Carol Leonnig reported that former interim U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan had made an investigation of the 82-year-old lawmaker a top priority.

House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) was peppered with questions about why he let a member of President Donald Trump's cabinet give a deposition on Jeffrey Epstein without video recording it, while refusing the same opportunity to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

On Wednesday, Comer spoke to reporters at the Capitol minutes before beginning the deposition with Lutnick.

A GOP-backed bill that would criminalize blowing whistles to alert people to immigration agents, a tactic embraced by activists in Minnesota earlier this year, was rejected on Tuesday. But that failure is likely to be temporary, and the measure may still land on the governor’s desk.

The proposal would create a new state crime called “unlawful alerting,” and punish it with a class 1 misdemeanor, which carries with it a six-month jail sentence. Someone would be guilty of “unlawful alerting” if they communicate with another person about an impending arrest, including via verbal warnings, gestures, electronic communications or sounds like bells or whistles.

Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) astonished critics with his over-the-top praise of President Donald Trump in the wake of Tuesday's primary elections.

The 79-year-old president extracted his revenge when at least five incumbent GOP state legislators lost against Trump-backed candidates in Indiana after they failed to pass a mid-decade redistricting push on his orders, and Emmer gassed up his political clout during an effusive appearance on Fox Business.