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How Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Money by Attacking Other Republicans

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When Marjorie Taylor Greene first entered politics, she was hardly a natural at fund-raising. She was the owner of a CrossFit gym—and a construction company that was founded by her father—before she successfully ran for a congressional seat in suburban Georgia in 2020. To help fund her campaign, Greene put up about $1.4 million of her own money. Then, almost as soon as she had won, a national scandal broke out about her long record of bizarre, violent, and antisemitic

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The G.O.P.’s Election-Integrity Trap | The New Yorker

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Last week, while Trump sat in a courtroom in downtown Manhattan, and Biden campaigned in Scranton by bringing reporters to see his childhood home, several dozen members of Pennsylvania’s Bucks County G.O.P. met for a hot-dog party at the American Legion post in Doylestown. Scott Presler, a MAGA activist and former leader of Gays for Trump, who has been travelling the country registering voters—and encouraging them to vote early—pulled his waist-length brown hair into a ponytail and took the microphone

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Republicans Are No Friends to Working People

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April 12, 2024

If you work for a living, or if you know and love people who do, there’s a lot on the line in this year’s election.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence tour a Carrier factory in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 1, 2016.

(Reuters / Mike Sega)

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Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist

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Shaw could have emphasized even deeper roots. According to “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law,” by James Q. Whitman, the Nazis got some of their worst ideas from us; “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” by Isabel Wilkerson, dilates on the resemblances between the Nuremberg laws and anti-miscegenation laws in Texas and North Carolina; “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism,” by Rachel Maddow, quotes Hitler telling an American reporter, in 1931, “I regard

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveils millionaire lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his VP pick: Independent introduces ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin as his running mate

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy has officially unveiled millionaire Silicon Valley lawyer and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential pick. 

The 38-year-old ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin took the stage alongside the longshot candidate and his Curb Your Enthusiasm actress wife Cheryl Hines in her hometown of Oakland, California, after telling the crowd: ‘In this moment, I am leaving the Democratic Party’.

The avid surfer and investor had given $4.5 million to a super PAC backing

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Nikki Haley concedes defeat and will suspend her presidential bid and refuse to endorse Trump after embarrassing defeat during Super Tuesday with ex-President winning FOURTEEN states as Trump V Biden rerun looms

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By Paul Farrell For Dailymail.Com and Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor For Dailymail.Com In Charleston, South Carolina

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Nikki Haley will finally surrender to Donald Trump in a speech on Wednesday morning after the ex-president delivered a series of devastating blows to her failing campaign on Super Tuesday. 

Haley, 52, will speak in her home state of South Carolina around 10am local time, reports The Wall Street

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Nikki Haley Lost the South Carolina Primary Back When She Was Still Governor

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On Tuesday morning, after Nikki Haley announced that she was going to give a “State of the Race” speech in Greenville, South Carolina, Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign sent out a memo titled “The End Is Near for Nikki Haley,” calling her a “wailing loser hell-bent on an alternative reality and refusing to come to grips with her imminent political mortality.” In Greenville, a small, seated crowd waited for Haley’s remarks while her usual eighties soundtrack—Tom Petty, Queen, the Go-Go’s—played. “Some

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Doctors demand Biden take dementia tests NOW after an astonishing week of gaffes – capped off by brutal DOJ probe that found President suffers ‘significant limitations in memory’

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Doctors today called for President Joe Biden to receive cognitive tests that prove he’s fit to serve after an astonishing week of gaffes, as well as a report from the justice department that raised serious questions about his health.

The DOJ report described Biden, 81, as a ‘elderly man with a poor memory’, finding that he did not remember the years he was vice president and could not recall, ‘even within several years’, when his son Beau died.

Doctors reacting

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Top Republicans Call On Biden To Resign Following Report Highlighting Cognitive Problems

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Top Republicans hammered President Joe Biden on Thursday after special counsel Robert Hur released his long awaited report on the findings from his criminal investigation into Biden’s handling of classified material.

The report said that even though Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” prosecutors concluded that “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.”

There were a variety of reasons why prosecutors declined to prosecute Biden, but arguably the

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Trump calls Haley an ‘imposter’ who had a ‘very bad night’ in wild New Hampshire victory speech: Furious ex-president asks why Democrats were allowed to vote and insists ‘I don’t get angry, I get even’ – as crowd chants ‘birdbrain’

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Donald Trump slammed Nikki Haley for staying in the Republican presidential race as he claimed victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, calling her an ‘imposter’ and claiming she had a ‘very bad night.’

‘We beat her so badly,’ he told his cheering supporters as he mocked the ‘fancy dress’ she wore to deliver a post-primary speech.

He also pointed out Haley came in third in last week’s Iowa caucuses. And he noted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who came in

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