Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) reminded Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that he once refused to give Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination a hearing after the Kentucky lawmaker suggested Republicans were being treated unfairly with current judicial nominations.

During a Senate floor session on Monday, McConnell said he was alarmed after hearing that two judges might not follow through with plans to retire in light of Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.

"This sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary," McConnell said. "Never, never before has a circuit judge unretired after a presidential election. It's literally unprecedented."

"These vacancies now properly belong to the next president," he insisted. "As I repeatedly warned the judiciary in other matters, if you play political games, expect political prizes."

Durbin responded by reminding McConnell that he had refused to allow former President Barack Obama to appoint Merrick Garland as a Supreme Court justice following the death of Antonin Scalia in 2016.

"I listened carefully to my colleague from Kentucky explain his concerns about the filling of four circuit court vacancies," Durbin said. "And he raises a question about whether that's fair."

"Well, I'd like to call the Senate's attention to the fact that there was a moment in time when we were shocked to learn that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had died while on a hunting trip," he continued. "And the decision was made almost instantly by the Senator from Kentucky, the same Senator who just talked about delaying and filling vacancies."

"The decision was made by him not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy."

Durbin noted that McConnell refused to give Garland a hearing "so that Donald Trump was able to fill that vacancy, and not a situation where... President Obama would have that option."

"So when I hear the Senator come to the floor from Kentucky and talk about whether there's any gamesmanship going on, I don't know," he added. "But I will tell you that we saw it at the highest possible level in filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court when Anton Scalia passed away."

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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is asking her fans to pay at least $250 for personal advice and pep talks on the Cameo platform.

In a welcome video, Boebert explained the services she was offering to paying customers.

"Hey, Cameo, it's your girl from Colorado, Lauren Boebert," she said. "Whether you or someone you know needs an America First pep talk, if you want to surprise friends or family with a message for a special day, or if you just want to know my thoughts on whatever's on your mind, Cameo is the place to connect with me."

Boebert's Cameo page said the lawmaker was willing to "mention inside jokes, share words of wisdom," or use "signature catchphrases."

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The video request form allowed customers to specify a gender, including "they/them."

Semafor reporter Kadia Goba noted that the House Ethics Committee allows members of Congress to earn up to $31,805 from outside income.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also recently joined Cameo after withdrawing as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general.

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ABC host Jonathan Karl pressed Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) after he suggested that FBI background checks for President-elect Donald Trump's nominees weren't necessary.

During a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week program, Karl noted that Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) had called for an FBI background check for defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, who faced sexual misconduct allegations.

"As you know, there haven't been FBI background checks for any of these nominees," Karl explained to Hagerty. "Do you agree with her, though, that this should happen before we get to confirmation votes?"

"I don't think the American public cares who does the background checks," Hagerty insisted. "What the American public cares about is to see the mandate that they voted in delivered upon."

"So are you saying you don't care about FBI background checks?" the surprised ABC host replied. "Should we just do away with them, that you can go ahead and not do this? It's been standard practice, as you know, for a long time, but you're saying do away with it?"

Hagerty declined to definitively say the FBI should conduct background checks.

"I've been through it myself," the senator insisted. "I've been through confirmation as well. They need to do these checks expeditiously."

"The FBI, I think the American public's got great concerns about how weaponized it's become," he added. "They need to get on with this. We'll get this done."

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Rep. Michael Guest (R-MI), chair of the House Ethics Committee, said there was no agreement on releasing a report about sexual misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general.

After a two-hour Ethics Committee meeting on Wednesday, Guest told reporters there "was not an agreement to release the report." The Republican chair would not say if the committee voted on the matter.

Guest previously suggested he opposed releasing the report because it had not been completed before Gaetz abruptly resigned from the House.

Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) said that he would force the full House to vote on a resolution to have the committee release the report.

Gaetz has denied that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl, contradicting media reports about witness statements to the committee.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said that his team is ready to "plug right in" if President-elect Donald Trump picks him to head election security for the federal government.

In a recent interview with Wired, Lindell insisted that he was continuing his crusade to secure elections despite Trump's win in 2024.

"I've been trying to get rid of these electronic voting machine companies in the United States for four years," the pillow executive explained. "That's been my whole focus. And that doesn't stop, but hopefully it gets easier."

According to Wired, Lindell has spent $40 million of his own money while trying to prove the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Cybersecurity experts have said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020.

"I haven't taken a break," Lindell insisted. "After the election, I went on my annual hunting trip with my sons and my nephew. That was two days, but I was actually working from the deer stand. I'm always working on my phone."

The election fraud crusader hoped Trump would establish a "bureau that's really focused on keeping our elections secure." And he said he would be willing to run the agency.

"Oh, absolutely, my team would plug right in," he insisted.

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The federal government already runs the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is charged with securing elections.

After the 2024 election, CISA Director Jen Easterly said there was "no evidence of any malicious activity that had a material impact on the security or integrity of our election infrastructure."

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) conspiracy theory that Jewish space lasers ignited forest fires in California.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday, Moskowitz said he agreed with the decision to dismiss an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, after she suggested that homes displaying support for President-elect Donald Trump should be avoided while providing hurricane relief.

"Disaster aid should never be declined based on support of any political candidate," Moskowitz insisted. "As the world is becoming more partisan, the world is becoming more divided. You're seeing it here in the country."

Moskowitz argued that Trump's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, should focus on the size of the Department of Homeland Security when making improvements.

"But the last two Trump [FEMA] administrators will tell you, previous administrators will tell you when they leave the job, is that Homeland has become too big," he explained. "FEMA can't make the changes you want them to make... Homeland won't let them."

"So for the people at DOGE, if Vivek [Ramaswamy] and Elon [Musk] are listening, you need to look at Homeland," he continued. "And so what I'm saying is that don't look at [FEMA] Administrator [Deanne] Criswell or this FEMA administration or in this Biden administration."

Moskowitz concluded with a warning about politicians who politicize disasters.

"It is so important that we don't allow FEMA to become politicized and that we don't allow disaster aid to become politicized," he insisted. "Laser beams do not start fires in California. We cannot guide where hurricanes go."

The Florida Democrat noted that foreign adversaries have amplified the conspiracy theories "to divide Democrats and Republicans."

"They want us fighting over disaster aid because it helps their goal," he said. "We can't participate in that. We shouldn't amplify that."

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A Republican man from Indiana told C-SPAN on Sunday that "colored people" would not have basketball if former President Abraham Lincoln had not abolished slavery.

During Sunday's episode of Washington Journal, an Indiana Republican named Rick told host Kimberly Adams that the Bible said "that man is supposed to rule the house" and a woman should "just do the cleaning."

"But anyway, on the sidebar, you know, ever since Abraham Lincoln got shot and killed, boy, chaos went to heck, went right along with the Democrats," the caller opined. "And what gets me is, Kimberly, is these colored people is always saying that Trump's so bad."

"Can't they think back in their ancestors' times when British and stuff was coming over to them?" he asked. "What I don't understand is why the colored people, the Republicans, heck, they were the ones that set them free. Democrats had them in there for slavery. I just don't understand it."

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"If it wasn't for Abraham Lincoln, them guys wouldn't have a basketball game and football game."

Rick ended his call by insisting that Democrats should repent.

"And seriously, on the weather, it's going to get bad in the South," he said. "So all the people, Democrats in the South, better repent now because the storm's coming your way."

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) predicted that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) would prosecute vaccine-related "crimes against humanity" if he becomes President-elect Donald Trump's next attorney general.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on pandemic preparedness on Thursday, Greene accused the federal government of using "the American people's hard-earned tax dollars to create viruses that can be unleashed on the world like COVID-19 was."

"Dr. [Anthony] Fauci lied to the American people, abusing his power and position and role, a very powerful role paid for by the American tax people," she said. "He lied, and many, many people died."

"Now vaccines have been mandated on the population in order to work, go to school, and live as functioning citizens in the United States," she continued. "I can tell you when you talk about vaccine hesitancy, as one sitting before you that never took the COVID vaccine, nor will I take it, thank God. I'm so glad I didn't take it."

Greene falsely suggested other vaccines were linked to "the rise of autism, learning disabilities, neurological problems, and so much more that children are suffering from today."

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"Preparing for the next pandemic is actually recognizing that the last pandemic resulted in crimes against humanity," the lawmaker opined.

"People that perpetuated and continue to perpetuate these crimes need to be prosecuted, and that needs to be starting in the next administration, and I'm pretty sure our next attorney general will do that, and I look forward to seeing that happen," she added.

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Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy flummoxed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by suggesting that President Joe Biden's Tuesday meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris would be an "awkward" situation.

Doocy made the remark during Tuesday's White House briefing.

"We know that today, a week after the election, President Biden and Vice President Harris had a private lunch," the Fox News correspondent noted. "How awkward was that?"

"I don't even understand," a surprised Jean-Pierre replied. "Why would it be awkward?"

"Because the President got squeezed out for her, and then she kept him at arm's length, and then she lost, and now she's back," Doocy said.

"Why would you characterize it as awkward?" the press secretary wondered. "They have regular lunches. They meet and talk regularly. Why would you call it awkward?"

Doocy argued there might be "weirdness about the way that things have unfolded since" the election.

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"Did you see them together yesterday, as well, when they honored our veterans and were together during the day, making sure that we didn't forget the brave men and women that fought for this country?" Jean-Pierre pointed out. "Did you see them together yesterday?"

"They had an opportunity to discuss the last 70 days or so of this administration, how important it is to get things done for the American people," she added. "And that's their focus. That is genuinely their focus."

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An Ohio sheriff's office official has reportedly told Democrats that he would not respond to their emergency calls because of their party affiliation.

In the days leading up to the November presidential election, Clark County's Lieutenant John Rodgers said he would use voter registration records to determine which calls he responded to.

According to WHIO, Rodgers' posts had been shared over 250,000 times on social media as of Friday.

The station reviewed social media posts with the threats from Rodgers.

"I am sorry. If you support the Democrat Party I will not help you" and "The problem is that I know which of you supports the Democratic Party and I will not help you survive the end of days," he reportedly wrote.

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One post demanded "proof of who you voted for" from residents seeking help.

The Clark County Sheriff's Office told WHIO that an investigation had been launched into the social media posts.

"It is understood that while these comments are highly inappropriate, they in no means reflect the Clark County Sheriff's Office delivery of service to ALL our community and does not reflect the mission and values of the Sheriff's Office. The community has a right to be upset over the actions of Lt. Rodgers and he, as well as the Sheriff's Office in general, will have to work even harder to replenish the trust of members of our community," a statement from the department said.

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Rodgers suggested that he was under the influence of sleep aids when he wrote the posts.

"It does cause some of my communication to be 'out of character' which is a documented side effect," Rodgers explained in one post.

The Clark County Sheriff's Office said Rodgers had received a written reprimand for violating the department's social media policy.

NBC host Kristen Welker confronted Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), a surrogate for Donald Trump, after the former president called supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris "garbage."

"Governor, let me ask you about a big story this week, the campaign continuing to deal with the fallout from the offensive comments about Puerto Rico made by a supporter of former President Trump by that comedian at that rally last weekend," Welker told Burgum in a Sunday interview. "The Puerto Rican community in Pennsylvania factors almost half a million people in that critical state, some saying they were absolutely furious about the comments, hurt that former President Trump hasn't apologized."

"Do you think that this incident could cost former President Trump the state of Pennsylvania, which is critical to winning?" she asked.

Burgum dismissed remarks made about Puerto Rico by a comedian at a recent Trump rally.

"I mean, there was not approval from a very supportive Trump audience," the governor said. "It's not how President Trump feels."

Burgum also pointed to remarks made by President Joe Biden that seemed to refer to Trump supporters as garbage.

"Well, speaking of that, Governor, former President Trump had this to say back in September on that point about garbage," Welker noted before playing a clip of Trump calling Harris supporters "scum" and "garbage."

"So, Governor, is it hypocritical to fixate on President Biden's comments, considering Donald Trump used the word garbage to describe Kamala Harris's supporters?" Welker asked.

"Well, I think what again, what we're seeing here again this week, again, and whether the parsing of comments from the last seven days is not what's going to determine the election," Burgum scoffed. "There's always been there's always a lot of name calling in the last week. This has all happened before."

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"You said the other day, quote, I guarantee John Kelly talked to somebody on Kamala Harris' campaign beforehand, before he did this interview," Tapper noted during a CNN interview with Vance that aired on Sunday.

Tapper said he had "spoken with people in John Kelly's circle, and I've spoken with people in the Kamala Harris campaign."

"They say there's been no communication the entire time," the CNN host explained. "So where did that come from?"

"Oh, I'm highly skeptical of that, Jake," Vance replied. "You know the way that these attacks work."

"So you made it up," Tapper noted.

"No, I said that the American media and the American Democratic Party apparatus works a certain way," Vance fired back. "And it's interesting, we've now spent, Jake, three minutes talking about John Kelly."

"If it is true that he never spoke with anyone in Kamala Harris' orbit, I'm happy to apologize to John Kelly for misstating how he delivered this news to the Atlantic Magazine," he added.

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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted former President Donald Trump on his plan to put a 200% tariff on foreign auto companies.

"The Wall Street Journal said that your plans will increase the debt and deficits more than Kamala Harris'," Bartiromo explained to Trump on Sunday.

"If I do this, you're gonna have car companies coming back to the country because of the taxes and the tariffs," the Republican candidate replied. "I'm gonna put a 200% tariff on every car, and you're not gonna ever sell them into the United States."

"But what about the criticism, and the Journal has done this as well, that if you do put something like a 200% tariff on a product, that it's only gonna mean higher prices for consumers?" Bartiromo asked. "It's gotta be passed on somehow."

"All I'm doing is saying, I'll put 200 or 500, I don't care," Trump replied. "I'll put a number where they can't sell one car into the United [States], I don't want them to sell their car, because I don't want them hurting our car companies."

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz advised Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to mind his "own business" after the Republican vice presidential nominee made false claims about late-term abortions.

During Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Walz said that banning abortion rights would have drastic consequences.

"We are pro-freedoms for women to make their choices, and we're going, and Kamala Harris is making the case, to make options for children more affordable, a $6,000 child tax credit, but we're not gonna base that on the backs of making someone like Amber Thurman drive 600 miles to try and get healthcare," Walz explained.

Thurman died after receiving delayed reproductive care stemming from lost federal abortion rights.

Vance alleged that Walz had signed a law allowing doctors to execute babies that survive a "botched abortion."

"That's not true!" Walz interrupted. "That's not what the law is."

"That is, I think, whether you're pro-choice or pro-abortion, fundamentally barbaric," Vance insisted.

"These are women's decisions to make about their healthcare decisions and the physicians who know best when they need to do this," Walz shot back. "Trying to distort the way a law is written to try and make a point, that's not it at all."

"Please, tell me, what was I wrong about?" Vance demanded.

"That is not the way the law is written," Walz replied. "It was fact-checked at the last debate, but the point on this is there's a continuation of these guys to try and tell women or to get involved."

"I use this line on this, just mind your own business on this," he added. "Things worked best when Roe v. Wade was in place."

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Fox News host Shannon Bream confronted Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) by noting that "women just don't trust" former President Donald Trump's agenda.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream noted Trump was trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia.

"And part of that is a gender gap with women who say they do not trust you or him," she explained. "On issues of abortion or IVF this week, Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, the GOP said they're going to take a vote on this."

"But it's not going to work," she continued. "It's not working, in particular, not working. How can the GOP — Is it possible to fix it? Because women just don't trust you guys on that one."

Britt said the solution was for Trump to talk to the voters.

"Look, there's been no stronger supporter of IVF than President Trump," she insisted. "Senator Ted Cruz and I sent a letter with all 49 Republican senators signing on saying they strongly support nationwide access to IVF."

Bream responded with a fact-check.

"So you voted against a measure, though, that was offered up by Democrats on IVF in the Senate there, and they continue to point to that to say Republicans aren't supportive of protecting IVF," the Fox News host said. "Why did you vote no?"

"This is politics at its worst," Britt complained before blaming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

"Instead of putting the farm bill on the floor, which we do every five years, and our farmers are hurting," Britt argued. "You can talk to any farmer in any corner of this country, and they say it is challenging to make ends meet and we know food security as national security instead of putting any of those bills on the floor."

"That bill did not protect religious freedom, something that we have agreed is a bipartisan issue of something we do, you know, consistently," she added.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina, to "sue the hell out of CNN" after the outlet reported on comments he wrote on a pornographic website.

During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked Graham if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trumpshould withdraw his endorsement of Robinson.

"He deserves a chance to defend himself, Mark Robinson," Graham dodged. "The charges are beyond unnerving. If they're true, he's unfit to serve for office. If they're not true, he has the best lawsuit in the history of the country for libel. He's claiming they were artificially created and that CNN passed it along to be true."

"Well, so what I would do if I were him? I would hire the best lawyer I could find," he continued. "I'd sue the hell out of CNN because what they're saying about him is just unbelievable."

Graham argued that Trump could win North Carolina even if Robinson lost his race for governor.

Welker pushed back by noting that Robinson "has not produced one shred of evidence" to defend himself.

"At the very least, should former President Trump pull his endorsement or make it clear that he's distancing himself?" Welker asked again.

However, Graham dodged the question while calling Robinson a "political zombie."

"There's nothing, no accusation involving Trump," the senator insisted. "It's all about Robinson."

"Should every Republican in the country be held responsible for this guy?" he complained. "It's him, not me. It's not Trump. He's the one that supposedly said these things. He has a right to defend himself."

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) confronted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) Tuesday for sharing a fake image of Donald Trump cradling a duck.

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, Swalwell noted that Jordan had promoted unverified claims that migrants were stealing and eating pets by posting an AI-generated image on X.

Swalwell told witnesses who were the victims of crime that Jordan shared the image "knowing that you're gonna come here to talk about your loved ones who were lost."

"You would expect some seriousness, some gravitas, respect for the people who came here," the lawmaker insisted. "What in the hell is this the chairman tweets? 'Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio' because he goes down some crazy rabbit hole completely debunked that aliens are eating pets."

"My God, are you okay, Mr. Chairman? Because last year, for a very long time, you tweeted and promoted Kanye West as he was calling for genocide against the Jews," he continued. "And now, when we have victims coming here, you're tweeting this nonsense."

Swalwell said he couldn't understand Jordan's thinking.

"I hope you're okay," he told Jordan. "I don't know if the aliens who are eating your ducks are in the room with us right now but, Mr. Chairman, this is a serious issue. These people have loved ones who have been lost, and you tweeted this, so I am sorry that you came here expecting seriousness."

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The father of a school shooting victim blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other Republicans for "praying today instead of reacting."

After a school shooting in Georgia on Wednesday, Scripps News correspondent Nathaniel Reed reported that Greene had issued a statement asking people to "join me in prayer for all students, staff, and families at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia."

Scripps News then spoke to Manuel Oliver, the father of a 17-year-old student who was killed during the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting.

"I'm just listening to the quotes from members of Congress, and they're praying?" Oliver noted. "They're asking us to pray, and everyone is listening to them.

"You have a governor in that place that is asking us to pray, to join his family and pray," he continued. "That is not enough, and that is not working."

Wednesday's school shooting killed at least two people, with some reports claiming the number was as high as four. A suspect was in custody, police said.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) acknowledged Sunday that former President Donald Trump was losing to Vice President Kamala Harris in recent polls.

During an interview on ABC, host Jonathan Karl asked Graham how Trump could lose the 2024 election.

"I think the way that they're running the campaign is to draw him into insult debates, get all off script, get off the issues," Graham explained. "Now, in a head-to-head race, Trump is losing slightly, but on the issues, Trump economy plus eight, inflation plus eight, border plus nine."

"My God, that's a blowout," he continued. "Focus on the issues, Mr. President."

Karl pointed out that Trump seemed more interested in insulting Harris than talking about issues.

"And if you look at what the former president has said just in the last week or so about Kamala Harris as he looks ahead to this debate, he has called her, quote, low IQ, dumb, someone who, quote, can't put two sentences together," Karl observed. "Now, those sound a little bit more like schoolyard taunts than the stuff of a presidential campaign, but it's also a strange way to set expectations before a debate."

Graham argued that Harris "has some talent" but had been a "wrecking ball" on foreign policy.

"That's what I would talk about," he insisted. "Not her IQ."

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A frustrated Jim Jordan (R-OH) defended Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance after Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz called him "weird."

During a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Vance predicted that the Republican candidates would do a "great job" in debates with their Democratic counterparts.

"I think J.D. Vance against Tim Walz, I think he'll do great," Jordan insisted. "I think it's amazing Walz is the guy who said — he's the guy who started the whole weird thing."

"I was talking to a group yesterday," he continued. "And I said weird J.D. Vance came from the humblest of families."

Jordan pointed to Vance's record as a Marine and U.S. Senator.

"United States senator from the seventh largest state in the Union; vice presidential candidate. And he's 40. That is not weird!" he exclaimed. "That is amazing. That is exceptional. That — that's the American story and they're gonna make fun of that, right?"

"Go ahead, keep going, wait until the debates."

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Fox News pundit Mary Katherine Ham suggested Donald Trump's recent erratic press conference at Mar-a-Lago could be attributed to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz pointed out that Trump's recent press conference had been described as "whack-a-doodle" and "unhinged."

"The Trump news conference, it was a pretty serious hour in my view, taking questions," Kurtz opined.

"Look, I think that the president clearly has a tendency to take side roads," Ham admitted. "He might have mild ADHD, he's possibly undiagnosed, I don't know, I'm not treating him."

"But he has those characteristics," she added. "He is undisciplined in this way. It can be bad for him tactically to do these things and not keep it on the talking points."

Ham gave Trump credit for taking questions.

"However, and when he talks about polling trutherism and being concerned and saying things that aren't true about the polls or aren't true about ad spending, that makes me concerned, and it should make people concerned," she said.

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CNN host Dana Bash pressed Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance after he suggested Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz did not have affection for his wife.

During a Sunday CNN interview, Bash noted that GOP nominee Donald Trump and his running mate had successfully been labeled as "weird."

"I just, I want to move on to something that Governor [Tim] Walz has called you and Donald Trump and that is weird," Bash said.

"Well, certainly, they've levied that charge against me more than anybody else," Vance admitted. "So I accept their attacks. But I think that it is a little bit of projection."

"Dana, if you think about, you know, just take a couple of days ago, Tim Walz gives this big speech," he continued. "He's been announced as the VP nominee."

"And I remember when I had just been announced as the VP nominee, I gave my big speech, and I saw my wife, and I gave her a big hug and a kiss because I love my wife, and I think that's what a normal person does."

In comparison, Vance said Walz "gave his wife a nice firm Midwestern handshake and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it."

"You're saying Tim Walz doesn't have affection for his wife," Bash said. "I don't even understand that."

"I said that he acted weird, which he did, on a national stage in front of his wife and in front of millions of Americans who presumably were watching at home," Vance insisted.

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A celebration of the opening of Donald Trump's campaign office in Valdosta, Georgia, was marred by a physical fight between two conservatives.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution gathered information from police and witnesses following the July 29 event. A police report said that Brandon Phillips, the top aide to U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), intervened in an argument related to election security.

Activist Sam Carnline told police that Phillips spit in his face, prompting physical retaliation.

"Brandon Phillips got in the middle of the conversation because he didn't like the questions he was asking," the police report said. "Words were exchanged between he and Brandon, because he was upset that Brandon spit in his face."

While Phillips denied spitting in Carnline's face, the police report concluded that he did.

"I informed Brandon that he instigated the incident by spitting on Carnline," the officer's report read. "Both parties agreed to separate and go their separate ways with no further law enforcement action needed."

Phillips later told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he intervened because he did not like the questions Carnline, an activist for paper ballots, asked Republican State Rep. John LaHood.

"They say politics can be a contact sport, and sometimes it is," Phillips explained. "I certainly don't mind defending any volunteers or officials who are trying to contribute in a positive way toward a Trump victory from outside agitators with the opposite agenda."

At least one witness suggested Phillips did not start the violence.

"One of the witnesses was Dennis Futch of Moultrie, a veteran Republican activist," the paper noted. "He told the AJC that he didn't see Phillips spit, but that if he did it was inadvertent because they were both shouting. He said he saw Carnline shove or hit Phillips twice."

Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of turning a conversation with Black journalists into a "dumpster fire."

At the National Association of Black Journalists conference on Wednesday, Trump began by calling ABC News host Rachel Scott's questions "horrible" and "nasty."

Tarlov reacted to the Fox panel with shock.

"My reaction is that it was a complete, absolute dumpster fire for the former president," she told host Martha MacCallum. "I don't feel the need to give him any credit for showing up there because he came with a terrible attitude."

"He hit all of his regular hits, lying about his record for Black Americans," she continued. "The comparison saying he's done the most for the Black community since Abraham Lincoln is obviously ridiculous.

"I thought that he was rude and offensive to the questioners."

Tarlov noted that Trump had argued with Scott over whether presumed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris was a "DEI hire."

"And then his response, that she used to be Indian and is now somehow Black, was offensive no matter the color of your skin," the Fox News contributor said.

MacCallum quickly interrupted to defend Trump.

"She has an Indian mother and a Jamaican father," MacCallum said of Harris.

"Right, she's Black!" Tarlov exclaimed.

"But she has an Indian mother and a Black father," MacCallum repeated. "So those are two different backgrounds."

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An MSNBC panel of pundits couldn't help but laugh on Sunday after former President Donald Trump promised "so much electricity" that Americans would be saying, "Please, President, we don't want any more electricity."

During a Sunday panel discussion on MSNBC, host Alicia Menendez read a quote from a recent Trump rally.

"Let me just read it to you because the nuttiness will come through," she said. "We will be creating so much electricity that you'll be saying, please, please, President, we don't want any more electricity. We can't stand it. You'll be begging me, no more electricity, sir. We have enough. We have enough."

"I mean, the guy is a disaster," she observed.

Stuart Stevens suggested that Trump was struggling because he would have picked a different vice presidential candidate if he had known he would be running against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Stevens explained, "They would have chosen another VP contender had they known that they were going to run against Harris."

Menendez wondered if Republicans would consider replacing Trump if they were a "serious party."

"Yes, but that's a time far away," Stevens said. That party doesn't exist anymore. You know, I mean, look, it's clear Donald Trump is a couple of tall boys short of a six-pack."

"But the underlying problem is he — there is no policy here," he continued. "OK, maybe we'll talk about contrast, but you should be able to talk about what you want to do."

Without an actual campaign platform, Stevens said Project 2025 had filled the vacuum.

Former House GOP Committee Counsel Sophia Nelson agreed.

She said Trump "represents a large swath of Americans who also have those grievances."

"You have this fear of D.E.I., this fear of disappearing, this fear of being replaced," she asserted.

"They want to go back to the 1950s. And Vice President Harris, as she says, we're not going back," Nelson added. "She's framed it about freedom. And Project 2025 is all about taking away our freedoms, all of us."

"There's a lot of stuff in there that you should read about because it's about taking away freedom."

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Eric Trump, the son of former President Donald Trump, said that he would "take a bullet" for Secret Service agents after his father was shot at a rally earlier this month.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump if he had requested more security for his father.

"Maria, I'm going to try to bite my tongue as much as humanly possible on this one, but it's obviously a sore subject," Trump said. "You know, first of all, I love the men and women of the Secret Service."

"They were with me for almost five years, and I would take a bullet for them just as fast as they would take a bullet for me," he continued. Some of them are dear friends, personal friends, and they are incredible people."

Trump said the agents on the ground with his father "did their job, and they did it incredibly well."

"The director of the Secret Service should resign in absolute disgrace," he insisted. "The fact that the Biden administration could allow a former president and very likely a future president to take a bullet through the ear, and there's no accountability, and the person's still in their job, just shows how disgraceful and inept the administration is."

The president's son suggested Democrats were behind a plot to kill his father.

"I said that the Democrats would stop at absolutely nothing," he explained. "And I've said on this show before, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried something even worse, alluding to exactly what happened just over a week ago from today."

"And I'm not a tinfoil hat-wearing guy," he added. "In fact, I'm probably a little bit more centrist than a lot of people would otherwise understand."

"But I've seen the way that they've attacked him. I've seen the way that they've tried to get him, and they would stop at absolutely nothing."

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Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy said one of her daughters was facing fears of a right-wing plan called Project 2025.

During a Fox & Friends Weekend discussion, host Pete Hegseth noted that Trump had disavowed the plan created by dozens of former Trump advisers and officials at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

"People who used to work for President Trump, who worked on some of what happened at Heritage," Fox News host Shannon Bream noted. "But the second thing I would say is a lot of the things that are said about Project 2025 are actually not true."

"But they do say, yes, we embrace some stuff that people are going to think is sort of radical," she explained. "We want to get rid of, say, for example, the Department of Education."

Bream claimed the project was "grassroots conservatism" even though it was developed by one of the most prominent right-wing think tanks.

"But they do say, yes, we embrace some stuff that people are going to think is sort of radical," she explained. "We want to get rid of, say, for example, the Department of Education."

Bream claimed the project was "grassroots conservatism" even though it was developed by one of the most prominent right-wing think tanks.

'I'm scared about Project 2025': Fox News host hears fears of right-wing plan www.youtube.com

Donald Trump Jr. invented a conspiracy theory moments after the White House announced President Joe Biden had COVID-19.

During a podcast at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, Trump told his guests that he had some "breaking news."

"Joe Biden apparently has tested positive for COVID," Trump said. "Here we go again. And by the way, it's ahead of major conferences overseas."

"Now, I have my opinion of why maybe Joe Biden didn't really get COVID, but maybe they don't want him on a world stage anymore," he added.

Mike Davis of the pro-MAGA Article III project agreed.

"I think Joe Biden tested positive for dementia, right?" he remarked. "And if they don't want him on the stage... Maybe he'll have to sit on the stage too long. He doesn't have diapers to last that long."

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dodged a question about heated political rhetoric from his fellow Republican senators following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

During a Sunday interview on NBC's Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker noted that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued that President Joe Biden had incited the shooting.

"Another Republican congressman Mike Collins said, quote, Joe Biden sent the orders," Welker said. "Do you think and do you have concerns that that type of rhetoric drawing those conclusions so immediately could only fuel this moment and the next?"

"I don't know," Graham replied. "But I'm just grateful today that he's alive."

"You know, we'll have a chance here to talk about, you know, what's best for America, but let's just today be grateful that our former president, political nominee survived an assassination attempt and all try to do better here."

"I don't want to — I don't want to go down that road right now," he added.

"Fair enough," Welker said.

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