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Montana's deep-red politics faces fresh challenge — from notorious Oath Keeper's son
In the Lincoln County High School auditorium in Eureka on Wednesday, Montana State Rep. Neil Duram and Dakota Adams introduced themselves to a small audience ahead of a candidate forum led by the school’s civics class. Duram, the Republican incumbent, talked about his career in law enforcement and his work during the last three legislative sessions. Adams, his Democratic challenger, introduced himself as a construction worker and rural firefighter, and the oldest of six children whose family moved to Trego — a town of 500 in Lincoln County — “to survive the apocalypse. That did not happen, whi...
'Megalomaniac' Trump’s 'warped and narcissistic world' slammed by WaPo columnist
Donald Trump’s appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago this week where he told a crowd “a peaceful transfer of power” occurred in 2021 provoked a Washington Post columnist to ponder: is the former president “deceptive or delusional?” The truth, Colbert King wrote in a column published Friday in the Post, is that the insurrection that paralyzed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 “was anything but that.” “The assault on Congress was the most seditious attack on the American democratic process in history, and Trump was the cause of it all,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist wrote. Want more breakin...
'Hiding in plain sight?' Legal expert reveals hunch after Jack Smith's massive filing
A deep dive into special counsel Jack Smith’s massive legal filing that exposed new evidence in Donald Trump's election subversion case reveals the legal strategy behind the prosecution of the former president and the possibility of a key government witness – former Vice President Mike Pence. MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin noted in an analysis published Friday that while the exhibits to Smith’s immunity brief remain under wraps, “snippets of witness statements give clues about his litigation strategy if the federal election interference case survives.” Alternating between playing it safe...
'Could not help himself': Strategist says Trump 'whiffed' on a major opportunity
Former President Donald Trump "whiffed" and made a tactical error that could cost him, a Democratic strategist noted on CNN on Friday night. Chuck Rocha, founder of Nuestro PAC, told panelists on "NewsNight" that Trump rebuffed an opportunity to make amends with voters of former primary foe Nikki Haley, whom he defeated following a bitter rivalry. Trump emphasized during a "Fox and Friends" interview that he soundly defeated the former South Carolina governor the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration. When asked whether he feels Haley can help him defea...
Musk-backed PAC canvassers may have falsified doorknocking figures in key states: report
The Elon Musk-funded political action committee set up by the billionaire entrepreneur to help Donald Trump return to the White House is scrambling to meet door knocking targets as it looks into allegations that some canvassers falsified the number of voters they claimed to have contacted. According to an exclusive report in Reuters, the troubles with the group, America PAC, emerged in battleground states including Wisconsin and Nevada in the final sprint to enlist voters behind the Republican presidential nominee with just weeks to go before the Nov. 5 election. Citing sources involved in the...
'Deeply troubled': Veterans group slams MAGA ex-SEAL after 'bombshell' reports
A progressive political group focused on veterans' issues is calling out a former Navy SEAL officer following what the organization called "bombshell" reports that found he may have "misrepresented" aspects of his military service to try to win an election. Tim Sheehy is a former Navy SEAL officer who served from 2008 to 2014 and was deployed to conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned the Bronze Star with Valor and the Purple Heart. Now, he's trying to unseat the Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester in a closely watched Montana race. On Friday, two people who had close interactions w...
'I'll sue!' Trump sounds off after audio issues derail swing state rally
Donald Trump sounded off Friday night at his Detroit rally after audio issues caused the former president to stop speaking mid-sentence and pace around the stage – before telling rally-goers that he would sue the equipment contractor if it went out again. "So now what happens is I won't pay the bill for this stupid company that rented us this crap,” Trump said when the audio was later restored. “I won't pay the bill and then we'll have a story that Trump didn't pay a bill to a contractor. No, when they do that kind of a job, don't pay the bill. That’s terrible. They also had a little problem w...
Trump’s latest ask of Fox News is ‘arguably against the law’: media analyst
Donald Trump’s idea of demanding Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch stop the network from airing “negative commercials” about him for the remainder of the election could be against the law, a CNN media analyst said Friday, adding that the former president’s comments show he is clearly bothered by the attack ads. “Here’s the interesting thing: Trump asking Fox to ban anti-Trump ads is arguably against the law,” CNN media analyst Brian Stelter told anchor Wolf Blitzer on Friday night. “Fox operates local TV stations across the country that are subject to FCC oversight. The FCC has rules in place th...
'Unstable, disordered, and morally repulsive': Expert shreds Trump's final campaign weeks
Former President Donald Trump has proved more strongly than ever his unfitness to return to the nation's highest office, conservative former Naval War College professor and The Atlantic contributor Tom Nichols wrote in an analysis Friday. "Trump, of course, tops the leaderboard for gobsmacking moments, and this week, his comments ran the gamut from vile to hilarious to head-scratching. Even so, nothing could match his description of the January 6 insurrection — one of the darkest moments in American political history — as 'a day of love,'" wrote Nichols. This moment came when he was trying to ...
Japanese American groups slam Trump's 'flat-out offensive' internment camp analogy
A Japanese civil rights group blasted former President Donald Trump on Friday calling his statement "flat-out offensive" comparing Jan. 6 defendants to World War II internment camps. Trump's comment came during an interview Friday with MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino, in which he said, "Nobody's ever been treated like this," referring to people charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. “Nobody’s ever — maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly. But you know, they were held too," he said. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. Following the J...
'Chart felony': Experts shred Trump's new bogus economic brag
Experts and pundits aren't buying former President Donald Trump's proof that he "crushes" Kamala Harris when it comes to creating manufacturing jobs. The vice president has torn into Trump as "one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs in history" in her campaign statements. The Trump campaign hit back with an ad that purports to compare the record of the Trump administration with the Biden-Harris administration on manufacturing. The online ad, titled "Trump CRUSHES Kamala on manufacturing job creation," shows a graph that says "MANUFACTURING JOBS CREATED IN FIRST 38 MONTHS IN OFFICE," as...
MAGA 'manipulation’ sends Trump odds skyrocketing on betting markets: report
Experts are skeptical that a betting market being pushed by MAGA supporters of Donald Trump as proof that the former president is a sure bet to reclaim the White House is not the ace in the hole it’s proclaiming to be. According to a Daily Beast report, experts are warning that the Elon Musk-supported Polymarket, which the publication notes is funded by Musk’s close friend and GOP mega-donor Peter Thiel, is being "manipulated by multi-million dollar wagers to make him appear certain of victory.” “In fact a whopping $30 million – enough to significantly increase the likelihood Polymarket tells ...
Harris team targets young men with bold new ads on sports and gambling platforms
Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign is doing everything it can to reach young male voters in the final weeks — and they have hit on a novel strategy. According to Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove, the campaign has taken out ads on Yahoo Sports and the sports betting app DraftKings, showing pictures of Harris and running mate Tim Walz in the style of a lineup. "STACK HARRIS/WALZ" the ads said, calling the pick "the strongest line up." One ad highlighted as "stats" the campaign promises of the ticket, including, "Will cut taxes for 100 million middle-class families" and "Will take on co...
House intel Republican calls it 'red line' amid report of North Korean troops in Russia
International media reported that North Korea sent troops to Russia to help them fight their continued invasion of Ukraine. While complaining about not getting a White House briefing, Ohio Rep. Mike Turner, the House Republican Intelligence Committee chairman, called the move a "red line." The GOP lawmaker cited a CNN report Friday that 12,000 soldiers were sent to Ukraine. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. Read also: Russian propaganda makes Republicans weird "Public reports from Ukraine and South Korean intelligence agencies detail possible movem...
Ex-Trump press secretary tells Dems to retire Trump claim to ‘dustbin of history’
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany vehemently defended Donald Trump from an Obama-era official's claim that the former president has “demonized brown and Black people” – which she characterized as a tired campaign playbook that isn’t working. The moment came Friday on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” during a discussion about Vice President Kamala Harris skipping the Al Smith charity dinner the night before. Patrick Murphy, an Obama-appointed former under secretary of the Army, told the show’s hosts that Trump has for years “demonized brown and Black people.” “He’s the one that separat...
Analyst reveals 'final and most effective critique' against Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris has found her closing message in the last few weeks of the campaign, former conservative turned anti-GOP columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote for The Washington Post — and it is the "final and most effective critique" of former President Donald Trump. Specifically, she is highlighting how Trump, and indeed his whole campaign, appears to be falling apart at the seams. "She put it this way in an interview with Roland Martin: 'His staff won’t let him do a ‘60 Minutes’ interview. ... Everyone has done it except Donald Trump. He will not debate me again. I put out my medical ...
Bill Clinton mocks Trump at rally: Don't worry, I won't be 'swaying back and forth'
Former President Bill Clinton knocked Donald Trump's age while speaking in North Carolina on Friday. "I don't have any more elections I'll be involved in, and I'm too old to gild the lily," Clinton told a crowd in Durham about his knack for helping Democrats get elected. "Heck, I'm only two months younger than Donald Trump," Clinton continued as the audience roared with laughter and applause. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. Clinton was born in August 1946 and Trump was born in June of that year. Read also: How Harris is outmanning Trump "Look, go...
Columnist reveals top ‘predictable’ questions Harris ‘can’t’ answer’
Kamala Harris’ interview on Fox News this week highlighted the vice president’s struggle to devise “politically palatable” answers to questions a Washington Post op-ed suggests – while predictable – are “harder than they seem.” Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in an opinion piece Thursday that Harris appeared evasive when questioned by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on the issues of “immigration, how she would govern differently from President Joe Biden, and her perceptions of Biden’s fitness over time.” “She hasn’t offered explanations for her many flip-flops on the issues, either,” Ponnuru, a contributing c...
'We'll be following up': MTG revives voting machine election conspiracy theory
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revived a conspiracy theory on Friday of shenanigans involving Dominion Voting Systems machines. According to Greene, someone "posted up from Whitfield County ... and when he went to vote, and we have the Dominion machines, and you go through and you mark president, you mark, you know, for Congress, that would be me. They mark Donald Trump, and they marked who they were voting for the rest of the way down their ballot on the machine." The voter then printed their ballot, Greene described. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Ra...
Ex-Navy SEAL casts new doubt on MAGA Senate candidate's war wound story
A MAGA Senate candidate's story of being shot during a firefight in Afghanistan — already facing swirling questions after reports that he told police he shot himself in the arm at Glacier National Park — is again facing scrutiny as two people reportedly came forward and disputed his account. Tim Sheehy is a former Navy SEAL officer who served from 2008 to 2014 and was deployed to conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. He earned the Bronze Star with Valor and the Purple Heart. Now, he's trying to unseat the Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester in a closely watched Montana race. Two people who ...
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