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The New York Times reports: Ms. Cheney, who has repeatedly pledged to do whatever it takes to stop Mr. Trump from holding office again, never took the stage in Chicago and has yet to endorse Ms. Harris despite repeated outreach from the vice president’s campaign. Ms. Cheney, perhaps the most prominent Republican in the nation making the case against Mr. …

“It’s a shame that 17 years later this is still being brought up. There’s not too much else to say about it at this point. Regardless of political beliefs, one thing I do know is that social media and online bullying needs to stop.” – Caitlin Upton, the infamous 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant, posting to X shortly before deleting …

The Associated Press reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block a ban on firearms at the State Fair of Texas, one of the state’s biggest annual celebrations. Fair organizers earlier this month announced a ban on guns after a shooting last year on the 277-acre (112-hectare) fairgrounds in the heart of Dallas. The move …

Florida Politics reports: Rep. Carolina Amesty has surrendered herself to authorities at the Orange County Jail. Orange County Jail records show the Republican lawmaker was arrested on two counts of forgery, one count of illegally notarizing her own signature on documents, and one of falsely certifying a signature as a notary. All four charges are third-degree felonies under Florida law, …

ABC News reports: Former New Jersey governor and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will teach a course on running for office at Yale University this semester. The weekly seminar taught by Christie is titled “How to Run a Political Campaign” and is open to undergraduates as well as graduate students at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. The course …

Mediate reports: During an interview with CNN on Friday, host John Berman quoted back a 2015 New York Magazine interview with Caitlin Upton who said that following the online attention she had become “very, very depressed” and “thought about committing suicide.” Pivoting to Vance’s post, Berman asked: “So when you posted this last night, were you aware that the woman …

Florida Politics reports: Some leading members of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) are talking about updating the party’s bylaws so that if the Governor removes a criminally charged member from public office, that member can’t then run for a party leadership post. Three Republicans facing indictments won seats last week on the Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee. Two of them, …

“Rush [Limbaugh] used to talk about it. There is a propaganda campaign done by the media networks to deflate our base. Do you agree? And so we must resist that, right? We must resist the propaganda campaign, the psychological warfare that’s trying to deflate us. Here’s the analogy I give, is that they’ve been having an all night rave at …

The Huffington Post reports: Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a teenage beauty pageant contestant on Thursday. In response to Harris’ first sit-down interview with a professional journalist since becoming Democrats’ presidential nominee, Vance posted an infamous clip of a Miss Teen USA contestant struggling to answer a question in 2007. Comparing Harris, a …

“Imagine if those women in the boxing ring had done that when opposite those two male boxers, if they just took a knee immediately and said I refuse, it would have made such a statement. “It would have been so huge given the the size of the stage, you know, the Olympics, the gold medal round. You know, we’ve seen …

The Christian Post reports: A new lawsuit seeks to disqualify a ballot measure that would establish a right to abortion in the Missouri Constitution as several states will give their voters an opportunity to weigh in on abortion this fall. In a statement posted on Facebook, Missouri State Rep. Hannah Kelly announced the filing of a lawsuit seeking to invalidate …

Fox News reports: Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance was booed Thursday by some members of a firefighters union in Boston while delivering a speech in which he asked members “after supporting Democrats for so long in this union, what has it gotten you?” The boos were heard immediately after Vance took the stage at the International Association of Fire …

The Associated Press reports: Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox came under criticism Wednesday for sending a campaign email that featured a photo of him and former President Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony. Federal law prohibits campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, and that rule was widely shared before the Monday ceremony, Arlington …

The right wing Daily Caller reports: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to intervene to get former President Donald Trump into Arlington National Cemetery for the third anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal with Gold Star families, a family told the Daily Caller. Another source familiar with the conversations between the Gold Star families and Arlington National Cemetery said that …

Newsday reports: Former Rep. George Santos’ campaign has $562 in cash on hand but also owes $786,932 in debt, federal records show. The debt includes $156,932 owed to Republican campaign staffers and companies and $630,000 in loans he allegedly made to the campaign. In announcing Santos’ federal indictment in October, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace called the loans “nonexistent” and fabricated. …

Raleigh’s ABC affiliate reports: A viral social media post claims that North Carolina’s ballot for the November election has been “manipulated” to hurt former President Donald Trump. North Carolina state law requires the order of candidates’ names to be determined by a drawing, and election officials have used the same process for many years. First, election officials place 26 balls, …

“There hasn’t been a single investigation or a single firing. I don’t know. I don’t, look, sometimes mistakes happen. That’s just the nature of government, the nature of military service. “But to have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful. We’re going to talk about a story out of …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has hired a Republican operative with expertise in field organizing to help steer his political work, a move that suggests that Mr. Musk is preparing to become even more involved in Republican politics and get-out-the-vote efforts specifically. Chris Young, most recently a senior political official at PhRMA, the trade …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rebuffed a Biden administration plea seeking to revive the latest plan to tackle federal student loan debt. The court in a brief order denied an emergency request filed by the administration seeking to lift a nationwide injunction imposed by an appeals court. The Education Department issued a regulation finalizing its Saving on …

Reuters reports: Sarah Palin on Wednesday won her bid for a new trial against the New York Times over an editorial that the former Alaska governor said was defamatory. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Palin can try again to prove that the Times should be liable for a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass …