Month: August 2024

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Walz makes Harris ticket debut with pointed attack on Trump  The Hillsource

Actor and musician Jack Black said his comedy rock duo, Tenacious D, “will be back” after canceling the remaining shows on tour last month, after his partner made an off-color joke poking fun at the assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life. “We need to take a break. Everybody needs a break sometime,” Black in…
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Ex-Trump attorney who pleaded guilty in GA cooperating in AZ fake electors case  Yahoo! Voicessource

Incumbent Andrew Bailey defeats Will Scharf in Republican primary for Missouri attorney general  Fox Newssource

U.S. Charges Man With Ties to Iran With Plot to Assassinate Trump, Other Politicians  The Wall Street Journalsource

Poll: Harris jumps to a small national lead over Trump  NPRsource

JD Vance makes first stop in Philadelphia as Donald Trump’s running mate  WPVI-TVsource

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly suggested Tuesday that Vice President Harris’s presidential run with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) will appeal to more voters than President Biden would have if he remained in the race. “Democrats made a fairly sophisticated political decision, because they knew that Biden was not going to be able to…
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Jenna Ellis, Former Trump Lawyer, Will Cooperate in Arizona Election Fraud Case  The New York Timessource

Apparently, the Federal Reserve is convinced that its long battle against inflation is coming to an end — that its inflation goal of 2 percent will soon be achieved, perhaps even next year.  Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced last week that the Open Market Committee is holding the line on interest rates, but he also signaled that…
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Republicans Think Trump Is Having a “Nervous Breakdown” Over Kamala Harris  Vanity Fairsource

Elon Musk will interview Trump on Monday night, Republican presidential nominee says  CNBCsource

Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis to cooperate in Arizona fake electors case  NBC Newssource

The ‘Trump trade’ is fading  Yahoo Financesource

Trump’s Campaign Attacks Tim Walz for Allowing “Convicted Felons to Vote”  Vanity Fairsource

Former President Trump’s campaign and supporters are going after Vice President Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), dubbing him “Tampon Tim,” for signing a bill last year requiring schools to provide free menstrual products in all public school bathrooms. The Minnesota law, which went into effect on Jan. 1, mandates menstrual products —…
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Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele described the matchup between vice presidential candidates Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as a contrast between “Hillbilly Elegy” and a “real hillbilly.” “I think you got the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ against the real hillbilly. That’s going to be Yale versus the guy who actually spent…
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Following President Biden’s dramatic exit from the presidential race, Kamala Harris has not only seized the presidential baton but taken command of the 2024 campaign. Beginning with her first appearance at Biden’s Wilmington, Del., headquarters, Harris went on the attack. Recapping her career, the vice president described prosecuting “predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters…
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A Republican activist who signed a document falsely claiming that former President Trump won the 2020 presidential election in Arizona has pleaded guilty, marking the first conviction in the state’s case against so-called “fake electors.” Loraine Pellegrino, former president of the group Ahwatukee Republican Women, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false document,…
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Trump says GA Election Board members are ‘pit bulls’ for ‘victory,’ but is that their job?  USA TODAYsource

The actor publicly distanced himself from Tenacious D and canceled their tour following bandmate Kyle Gass’ controversial comment onstage in Australia.

Jenna Ellis Cooperating With Arizona DA Is a ‘Big Deal’—Attorney  Newsweeksource

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that Democrats have learned to put aside the “insanity” of former President Trump, after he shared a post Tuesday positing that President Biden could show up at the Democratic convention to demand the nomination. Biden, 81, under pressure from Democrats after a disastrous debate against Trump dropped out of…
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Former President Donald Trump coming to Colorado this weekend, per multiple reports  KKTVsource