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With 13 days to go before Election Day, Republicans and aides of former President Donald Trump are already mounting legal challenges in the battleground states most likely to decide the 2024 race. The New York Times recently reported that the various lawsuits are primarily challenging the use of voting machines in states like Georgia, Nevada and Virginia. Plaintiffs are baselessly claiming that voting tabulation machines are incapable of properly counting ballots and are opting instead for hand-counting of ballots on election night. Hand counts are a pet cause of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who continues to deny that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election. He told the Times : "My whole thing is to get rid of machines in the election and go to paper ballots, hand counted." READ MORE: Attorneys ditch Mike Lindell as he fights to avoid paying $5M "Here in the USA, we have the worst election platforms in the world," Lindell said at one of former President Don...

Canvassers working for billionaire Elon Musk's pro-Donald Trump America PAC in the battleground states of Arizona and Nevada are "using GPS spoofing to pretend they have knocked on doors when they haven’t," The Guardian exclusively reported Tuesday . Per the report, "A bootleg how-to-spoof video, made by an America Pac canvasser in Nevada and obtained by the Guardian, shows the apparent ease with which locations can be changed to fake door-knocks, calling into question how many Trump voters have actually been reached by the field operation." The Guardian's Hugo Lowell notes that "the ramifications for Trump may be far reaching, given America Pac has taken on the bulk of the Trump campaign’s ground game in the battleground states, and the election increasingly appears set to be decided by turnout." READ MORE: 'That was fiction': Elon Musk denies committing $45M a month to pro-Trump super PAC Lowell reports: In the how-to-spoof video...

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump over the GOP nominee's refusal to approve the bipartisan Senate border bill earlier this year. Referencing Trump's declaration last month that he has "concepts of a plan" when it comes to policies on immigration, healthcare, and other key issues, Obama emphasized that unlike Trump, Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz actually have a plan. "If you challenge Trump or [GOP vice presidential nominee] Vance on these concepts, they'll fall back on one answer: Blame the immigrants," the 44th president said. "He wants you to believe that if you let him round up whoever he wants and ship them out all your problems will be solved. Now, I want to talk about this. This is serious. We have a real issue at the borders. We're a nation of immigrants and we're a nation of laws. We've got to make sure the system works the way it's supposed to, in an orderly f...

Politico published a story on Monday that critics say sanitized Donald Trump's speech in storm-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina — even as the article acknowledged several other chaotic developments and actions the former president has taken in the previous few days. "After a weekend of headlines about Donald Trump’s entertainment-focused message on the campaign trail — he jokingly touted the size of Arnold Palmer’s genitalia, learned how to cook McDonald’s french fries and appeared at a Steelers game — the former president delivered a more somber address about the resilience of survivors of the deadly storm, while also bashing the Biden-Harris administration’s response," said the report, written by Natalie Allison. Commenters on social media took umbrage, accusing Politico of whitewashing Trump's extreme behavior. "In 2024 Trump being 'somber' just means he didn’t explicitly mention anyone’s genitalia or call for using the military against America...

Eric Trump on Monday falsely said his father, Donald Trump, saved the word “Christmas,” by declaring, “we’re gonna call it a Christmas tree because we celebrate Christmas as a nation.” The ex-president’s son falsely alleged President Barack Obama “weaponized the IRS to go after um, you know, Christian organizations…absolutely viciously,” before setting his sights on an old right-wing canard that liberals hate Christmas. “You know, you had a cognizant effort to get rid of the word ‘Christmas,'” Eric Trump told Newsmax. “I mean, they were calling it a holiday tree, uh, during the Obama administration.” READ MORE: ‘Ugly, Ignorant, Fear Mongering’: Trump and Fox News Hammered Over His ‘Insane Lies’ Every year during his two terms in office, President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama, celebrated Christmas, with a tremendous number of Christmas trees at the White House, and with the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, often accompanied by their two daughters. - Y...

Under a second Donald Trump presidency, Social Security will "run out of money" in the next six years, CNN reports . Per the report, the new analysis — which comes from the nonpartisan government watchdog Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget — was slammed by the GOP nominee's campaign, claiming the group has been "consistently wrong throughout the years." But the watchdog's senior policy director, Marc Goldwein, told CNN, "I don’t think I’ve ever seen a plan that would have this big of a negative effect on solvency in a general election campaign." READ MORE: ‘Zero remorse’: Trump doesn’t condemn gunman who allegedly threatened FEMA workers CNN noted : Social Security’s finances have long been on shaky financial ground . As the nation ages, the ranks of beneficiaries have surged while the number of workers contributing to the system has shrunk. The program’s combined retirement and disability trust funds are currently scheduled to run...

MSNBC's Deadline: White House host Nicole Wallace on Monday did not mince words in a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump's statement over the weekend about Arnold Palmer's genitalia. "This is a guy that was all man," Trump told MAGA supporters at a Saturday, October 19 Pennsylvania rally. "This man was strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, 'Oh my God, that's unbelievable.'" Wallace played a clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) Sunday, October 20 interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, in which the Republican lawmaker refused to condemn the former president's comment. READ MORE: ‘Zero remorse’: Trump doesn’t condemn gunman who allegedly threatened FEMA workers Tapper asked Johnson, "Is this really the closing message you want voters to hear from Donald Trump? Stories about Arnold Palmer's penis?" Instead of answering the questio...