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'Circular firing squad': Furious Trump turning on his team as midterm hopes fade

With Republicans’ hold on Congress slipping, President Donald Trump is blaming the people around him, and his advisers are blaming each other, Reuters reported Saturday. According to three people familiar with internal discussions, Trump has faulted senior aides and political operatives for the GOP’s struggling midterm strategy. He has questioned…

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Raw Story· Oct 17, 2:48 PM'Circular firing squad': Furious Trump turning on his team as midterm hopes fade

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Leaked audio exposes MAGA Senate candidate's plan to station cops at pollsA Trump-backed Senate candidate got caught on a leaked recording laying out his Election Day plan for a deeply Democratic city. Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who is running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, can be heard in audio posted by the Michigan Democratic Party on Saturday pitching the idea of stationing police officers as Republican poll…

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'He's not coming back': Insiders say Top Trump political aide's White House return is deadPresident Donald Trump has said James Blair, one of his top political advisers, would come back to the White House after the midterms. People close to the situation now say that won’t happen. Blair stepped away from his job as White House deputy chief of staff to run MAGA Inc., Trump’s super PAC. Trump called it a “short leave of absence.” But two…

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Former GOP stars back No Kings record early-vote bid as Trump’s polling slide deepensSome of the right's best-known critics of President Donald Trump are throwing their weight behind a nationwide push that organizers hope will shatter early-voting records. Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Never-Trump conservative Bill Kristol cheered on Saturday's No Kings "Vote Early" events, as the anti-Trump coalition traded its mass street…

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Socialism Is Spreading Beyond Blue States. Here’s What’s Driving It.Summary Socialist candidates are running for election this year across the United States, some with the outright endorsement of Democratic Socialists of America and others who prefer to avoid any association with the group. At both the federal level, for the U.S. House and Senate, and locally in cities and states, socialists appear to be...

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Trump: California officials will 'go to jail' if state ignores DOJ voter roll suitPresident Trump reupped the Justice Department's (DOJ) warning that California officials could face criminal charges if they include the mail-in ballots of the over 200,000 people the federal government identified as potential non-U.S. citizens in their midterm election count. “They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!” Trump wrote in a...

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