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Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
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From election rules to the role of social media, the right is now embracing different things that they used to criticize.
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 Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Melania Trump is fully on board with her husband's 2020 election denial, her new memoir reveals.
The famously taciturn wife of former President Donald Trump rarely opines about politics. But in her book, Melania, scheduled to be released Tuesday, the former first lady suggests the 2020 election was stolen.
Looking back on her husband's last presidential campaign, Melania writes that she was optimistic about his chances, "but the media, Big Tech, and the deep state were all determined to prevent Donald's re-election, by any means necessary."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 VIEWpress/Corbis/GettuDonald Trump's 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been exiled to New Hampshire after parachuting onto this year's campaign in August and suggesting to people he was plotting a coup, according to a report in The Guardian.
After the abrasive Lewandowski returned to the Trump orbit as an unpaid senior adviser, he told people he had been brought back to "run the campaign," sources told the newspaper. That was false, those sources said, noting Trump merely asked people to find "something for Corey to do."
In addition to playing palace intrigue against Trump campaign chiefs Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, Lewandowski also began a clandestine audit of the campaign's finances because of his misgivings about LaCivita, The Guardian reported.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The question is less about 2020 than about the willingness of Trump supporters to reject his efforts to subvert the 2024 results.
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 Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump would seek to defund Planned Parenthood if he wins the election next month, according to his running mate.
"On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean our view is we don't think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions," JD Vance said on Saturday, according to NBC News. "That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around. It will remain a consistent view."
Figures this year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 93.5 percent of abortions in 2021 were carried out either at or before 13 weeks, with less than 6 percent performed between 13 and 20 weeks, and less than 1 percent either at or after 21 weeks.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 ABC NewsRepublican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson refused to condemn suggestions by former President Donald Trump and his son Eric that Democrats are to blame for the recent assassination attempts on his life.
Appearing on ABC's This Week, the election conspiracist and leading GOP congressman also declined to say that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
"They impeached him twice and then, guys, they tried to kill him, they tried to kill him," Eric Trump told a Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, held at the site where Trump was shot in July. "And it's because of the Democratic Party. They can't do anything right."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The U.S. Capitol attack and Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election were major issues in the campaign last week, but voters may already have their minds made up.
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