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Telling ‘Freudian slip’ from Trump’s new press secretary pinpointed by George Conway

George Conway said Thursday that Katie Zacharia’s stumble at her first White House briefing , when she referred to her husband as “my president,” was “quite the Freudian slip.” The lawyer and Trump critic, who ran unsuccessfully in a Democratic congressional primary in New York earlier this year, discussed the moment with Tim Miller on The Bulwark’s…

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Dem running for Elise Stefanik’s seat won’t say if he would vote for Hochul in embarrassing election snubThe Democratic candidate running for retiring Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s upstate congressional seat has publicly refused to say if he’d support or even vote for Gov. Kathy Hochul. North Country Dem nominee Blake Gendebien snubbed Hochul live on the air last week, refusing to answer a radio host’s question about whether he supported the incumbent...

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Sued by Man She Begged to Pay Her Amex BillKimberly Guilfoyle is having a rough week. MAGA donor and former congressional candidate Eric Deters announced in a video Thursday that he had filed a defamation lawsuit against the disgraced former U.S. ambassador to Greece and her lawyers. “This might just bring down the entire Trump administration,” Deters said in the video. Deters became ensnared in…

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Senate on high alert as mystery letters with unknown substance target CongressLetters containing “ suspicious substances ” have turned up at Senate offices and election offices nationwide, prompting a federal investigation just three weeks before the midterm elections. A notice from the Senate Sergeant at Arms, reported by Punchbowl News, told Senate offices Thursday that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the FBI and the U.S.…

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US Families Have Spent an Extra $4,700 Each Due to Trump Policies—Including $100 Billion on GasDemocrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee on Thursday published updated data estimating that President Donald Trump's policies have cost the average US family $4,700 during the first two years of his second term. One major driver of price increases has been Trump's illegal war with Iran, which led to a global spike in energy prices after…

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Poll Shows Tight Race in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional DistrictA new survey in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District shows former Rep. Elaine Luria with a narrow 3-point edge over Republican incumbent Rep. Jen Kiggans. That is within the poll’s 4% margin of error, meaning the race is effectively a dead heat going into the final weeks of the campaign. The poll of 702 likely voters...

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Suspicious mailings to election officials, congressional offices under investigationThe FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance.

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Trump operatives caught torching his ‘Golden Goose’ in misleading attack mailer: reportPresident Donald Trump's own political operation is quietly attacking Democrats over an industry the president has spent months hyping as a windfall. No Going Back PAC, an offshoot of Trump's super PAC MAGA Inc ., sent out a mailer targeting Jamie Ager, the Democrat running in North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, for being "open to large AI data…

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Trump candidate implodes when asked about his district: 'I don't know, ask Grok'A Republican House nominee endorsed by President Donald Trump could not name the largest city in the district he wants to represent, telling a reporter, “I don’t know, ask Grok.” Anthony Constantino, who is running in New York’s 21st Congressional District, made the remark in an interview with journalist Jake Lahut published Thursday in Lahut’s…

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News Wrap: Trump says Fort Hood shooter's execution will not be livestreamedIn our news wrap Thursday, President Trump canceled plans to livestream the December execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, federal law enforcement agencies are investigating a series of letters containing what they're calling "suspicious substances" that were sent to congressional and state election officials and police report multiple victims in a…

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Katie Zacharia holds awkward debut briefing as Trump's press secretary - videoNew White House press secretary Katie Zacharia faced reporters for the first time on Tuesday, delivering a brief 14-minute briefing and taking questions from just three media outlets. In her opening remarks, she praised Donald Trump’s energy policies, saying he had restored US 'energy dominance', and credited his tariffs with stopping China from…

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New White House press secretary begins her termKatie Zacharia is scheduled to hold her first briefing Tuesday.

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Katie Zacharia Picked as Trump’s New White House Press SecretaryMs. Zacharia is a conservative commentator who is also an adviser to the company that runs President Trump’s social media site, Truth Social. She succeeds Karoline Leavitt.

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WATCH: New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia takes few questions in short first briefingRoughly half of Zacharia's first news briefing as the White House press secretary was a topper in which she read out President Donald Trump's achievements.

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Katie Zacharia visibly ‘nervous’ in first 14-minute White House press briefingPresident Trump announced Zacharia as the successor to Karoline Leavitt last week, with Monday being her first official day in the job.

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White House’s Spin On Katie Zacharia’s Debut Briefing Has Critics In Disbelief“You can’t be serious,” commented former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

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How did Katie Zacharia do at her first - very brief - White House briefing?The BBC's Sarah Smith was in the room and describes Zacharia's performance and the moment she broke news about Kimberly Guilfoyle being asked to resign.

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