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“I think that the Republicans and an increasing number of other demographics that have never been reliably Republican — the Hispanic community, African American community, the Jewish community. “I think they’re going to come out and vote in droves for the Republican side, and they’re going to return the levers of power in Washington back to our side, because they …

The Independent reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene was not the only one of Fauci’s critics who caused a stir during Monday’s proceedings. A January 6 rioter, who served one of the toughest prison sentences yet for the insurrection, was seen sitting behind the medical expert pulling faces. CNN host Kaitlan Collins also claimed that the man yelled out in agreement when …

Tom McGrath writes for Politico: If you really want to understand Trump’s appeal, you need to go back a few decades to examine the social forces that shaped his rise as a real estate developer and remade American politics in the 1980s. Specifically, you need to wind back the tape to the 1984 Democratic primary, the almost-pulled-it-off candidacy of Colorado …

ABC News reports: While former President Donald Trump’s conviction is injecting new uncertainty into this year’s White House race, the verdict is also starting to roil potentially equally consequential races: those for key Senate seats. Republican Senate candidates released ads Monday savaging Montana Sen. Jon Tester and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, the chamber’s two most vulnerable Democrats this cycle. Businessman …

Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate reports: The State of Utah is accusing TikTok of allowing “virtual strip clubs” on its platform, leading to the sexual exploitation of minors, according to a new lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed on Monday by the Utah Division of Consumer Protection, accuses TikTok’s live-streaming feature called TikTok LIVE of letting adults give virtual currency to young …

NBC News reports: North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat who is running for governor against Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, plans to launch his first two television ads on Tuesday, one of which attacks his opponents’ views on abortion in the high-stakes battleground race. “Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers,” Robinson says …

“I think the problem right now is everybody gets their news sources in silos and they just keep getting reinforced with certain ideas. I went to a neighbor’s house the day after the 2020 election, their flag was upside down. “There’s a lot of life out there besides arguing about nothing and telling lies, and so I made a choice …

“It’s a pattern, Kaitlan, that whenever somebody gets up – whether it’s a news media, you know Fox News, does it a lot, or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that’s responsible for the deaths of X number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created – immediately, it’s …

The Associated Press reports: After a weekend in which conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned that his media company faced an imminent shutdown by the federal government because of his bankruptcy cases, a judge on Monday allowed Jones to keep operating for the next two weeks while it is decided whether his assets should be liquidated. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez …

The Washington Post reports: Louisiana lawmakers on Monday approved a bill that would expand judges’ powers to sentence people convicted of certain sex crimes against children to physical castration. If passed into law, the bill would allow judges to order a surgical castration, which is more invasive than the chemical methods outlined in a 2008 law. Surgical castration orders would …