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Raw Story reports: In a highly contentious interview on CNN Sunday morning, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) repeatedly refused to condemn Kyle Rittenhouse, the Donald Trump fan accused of shooting and killing two Black Lives Matter protestors early this week. Speaking with “State of the Union” host Dana Bash, Johnson repeatedly spoke over her while manically spouting out prepared comments and …

Wisconsin Public Radio reports: Rapper Kanye West is making another effort to get on Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, filing a lawsuit late Friday that argues the Wisconsin Elections Commission violated his constitutional rights when it rejected his nominating petitions. The lawsuit, which was filed in Brown County Circuit Court, argues that the Elections Commission erred when it voted 5-1 that West …

The Birmingham News reports: An Alabama Republican congressional candidate on Saturday defended the teen in Wisconsin charged in the shooting deaths of two people during protests after Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot seven times in the back by a police officer. Barry Moore, a former state legislator from Enterprise who is the Republican nominee in the 2nd …

From a pair of lawyers who served in White House Counsel’s Office under Reagan and Bush I: First and foremost, the Hatch Act explicitly exempts the president and vice president from its strictures President Trump was entirely within his legal rights to give his acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House. Any members of the White House …

Rand Paul writes for Fox News: My wife Kelley and I were attempting to leave the White House event. We were staying at a hotel directly across the street, maybe 50 yards from the gates of the White House. But as we went to leave, it became apparent there was no safe exit out the gates and through the unruly …

ABC News reports: Nick Sandmann is joining Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign team as their grassroots director. McConnell’s campaign team confirmed the hiring to WYMT Friday morning. McConnell’s campaign manager Kevin Golden provided this statement on the new hire: “We’re excited to have Nicholas on Team Mitch. Along with our already strong team, his efforts to bring people together …

Politico reports: A federal judge has ordered a jury trial in former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s libel suit against the New York Times over an editorial linking her to the 2011 Arizona shooting rampage that badly wounded then-Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed six others. In the latest round of litigation in the case, U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff rejected …

The Associated Press reports: North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said on Friday he “fell short of my own standard” by failing to keep his face mask on in the White House crowd while listening to President Donald Trump accept the Republican nomination. Tillis, who is in a tough reelection bid against Democrat Cal Cunningham, has been consistently talking up face …

CNN reports: The billboards began popping up along a desert stretch of highway in Arizona and California in early August — plastered with “Make America Great Again!” in large capital letters or an image of President Donald Trump looking up to the sky and giving a big thumbs up. The small company that funded the large billboards had just months …

Fox News reports: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox & Friends” he believes he would have been killed if not for the police when he and his wife were surrounded and attacked by a “mob” yelling threats and pushing police upon exiting the White House after President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) Thursday night. The Pauls …

The Denver Post reports: Congressional candidate Lauren Boebert — who often espouses a pro-police, law-and-order message on the campaign trail — has been arrested and summonsed at least four times over the past decade, records show. Boebert was arrested twice in Mesa County in 2015 after a verbal altercation with police at Country Jam, a music festival near Grand Junction. …

CBC News reports: A crowd of protesters surrounded U.S. Sen. Rand Paul as he was leaving the White House following the Republican National Convention early Friday, shouting for the lawmaker from Kentucky to acknowledge the shooting of Breonna Taylor. Video posted on social media showed dozens of people confronting Paul and his wife, who were flanked by Metro Police, in …

The Los Angeles Times reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, California’s most powerful Republican, lauded President Trump as a savior for the nation on Thursday, the final night of the GOP’s national convention. “No one has done more to protect and advance [the United States] than President Trump,” McCarthy said, arguing that Trump created strong trade deals, supported the military …

Politico reports: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson paused during remarks at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night to express support for the family of Jacob Blake, the Black man shot in the back by police in Kenosha, Wis., on Sunday. Carson went on to defend Trump’s record on issues important to the Black community, saying Trump — …

The New York Post reports: In his speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that if Democrats win, police will be defunded, Second Amendment rights will be trampled — and Americans’ hamburger intake will be limited. “Today’s Democrat Party doesn’t want to improve life for middle America,” McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a taped …

The Associated Press reports: Rudy Giuliani is painting a grim portrait of violence in America as he endorses President Donald Trump’s reelection bid at the Republican convention. He made no mention of the Russia investigation, in which he defended Trump, or his role in trying to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine. The saga ended up with Trump getting …

The Week reports: Sen. Tom Cotton delivered a cartoonishly hawkish speech at the RNC Thursday night, just a few minutes before President Trump delivered his acceptance speech, positioning him as a White House favorite in the contest to succeed the current president in 2024. Far from advocating ending wars, Cotton delivered a sermon in praise of bellicosity, denouncing every foreign …

Mother Jones reports: Toward the end of her Thursday night address to the Republican National Convention, Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior advisor, looked out on the crowd on the White House lawn and took one more swing at the piñata of the week: Joe Biden and the “political elite” who backed him. “Dad, people attack you for being …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump will cap the 2020 Republican Convention on Thursday night by outlining his vision for a second term in the White House. Aside from Trump’s headlining remarks, the top congressional Republicans — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — will vouch for their party’s congressional candidates and the president’s reelection …

CBS News reports: The U.S. banking industry’s largest lobbying group will run television advertisements supporting the reelection of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), one of the most vulnerable incumbent Senate Republicans. The American Bankers Association (ABA) on Thursday released an ad praising Collins as “America’s most bipartisan senator,” lauding her for her role in creating the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the …