American politics has not seen a sore loser this big since Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government after the 2020 election.

Haley Stevens could not get over losing the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan to Abdul El-Sayed. For days, she has been publicly criticizing El-Sayed for ads that he has nothing to do with.

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Stevens made her crash-out official on Sunday by endorsing the sinking Republican campaign of Mike Rogers.

Stevens appeared with Rogers at a church in Detroit, and afterward spoke to the media, where she made it clear that she can’t get over her primary loss.

Rep. Stevens is claiming that she is still a Democrats and supports Democrats, “ I think that Chuck Schumer is gonna become the majority leader, you know? And I think that there are incredible Democrats and incredible activity taking place across this country.”

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In her next breath, Stevens let loose with her bitterness and personal grudge, “ I stood with my party, and I was booed off the stage, and, you know, it was violently shouted down. You know, I was up there with other Democrats. Those people who were on that stage with me, they're gonna make their choice. The ballot box is still very personal and, and private. And today, in a moment of faith, tied to my faith and to this great city... By the way, I'm standing here with a guy named Mike Rogers.”

Haley Stevens Has No Future In The Democratic Party After Endorsing Mike Rogers

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Republicans are about to get blown out in the midterm election, so the corporate media that nudged the electorate towards Donald Trump in 2024 is about to be proven very wrong.

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Trump’s return to the White House has not been the license to print money and profit driver that the big media corporations were hoping for, but the inherent bias of these corporations due to being overwhelmingly owned by people who donate to and support Trump, means that there is often an inclination to tilt the coverage toward the right no matter what the people in front of the camera may personally believe.

The biggest media companies in America have based their coverage on the inaccurate idea that the United States is a center-right nation, so when an election looks to be moving toward the left, they will look for stories that will give the right a chance, because election drama is very profitable for the media, and less drama means fewer viewers, which equals less money added to the corporate bottom line.

Even though the Republican Party under Donald Trump is a raging dumpster fire, it is Democrats who get hit with the division and drama narrative.

In Michigan, Hayley Stevens fed the media what they were looking for when she criticized Abdul El-Sayed for ads that he has nothing to do with, and tried to revive the Democratic Senate primary divisions in Michigan.

Kristen Welker pounced on Stevens’ comments, and they were her first question to Rep. Jamie Raskin on Meet The Press.

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Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC doesn’t seem to want to be a senator. Much like the man who put her in office, Donald Trump, she has complained about having to campaign for votes.

Graham is unqualified and only seems to have gotten the Senate appointment because her brother Lindsey died while in office. The problem, besides her distaste for campaigning, is that Darline Graham isn’t qualified to be a US Senator and looks to be in way over her head.

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Republicans are outraged that they have had to throw resources into South Carolina to boost Graham.

Darline Graham also represents the sort of nepotism and elitism that Americans are sick and tired of under Donald Trump.

Some Republicans in South Carolina are concerned that Darline Graham is unqualified and not conservative enough. As a campaigner, Graham has been lackluster, as any unqualified novice might be.

When Lindsey Graham was still alive, Dr. Annie Andrews wasn’t given much of a chance to flip the seat, but all that has changed because of the political environment and the weakness of Darline Graham as a candidate.

With three days to go until Election Day, Annie Andrews appeared on MS NOW and spoke about the South Carolina election.

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Donald Trump canceled his final two rallies, which were meant to help Republicans hold endangered US Senate seats in Kansas and Iowa. The cancellations came at the same time that it was reported that the president had been complaining about his travel schedule in the month of October.

The White House has sold Trump as this tireless ball of energy who never stops working. The reality is that Trump barely works 3-4 days a week and spends nearly every weekend or long weekend at one of his private clubs at the expense of taxpayers.

Trump is also eighty years old and has developed some health issues.

Until the midterm election campaign, Trump’s rallies had virtually vanished during his second administration. Trump would reportedly complain about traveling to help any Republican in an election because he isn’t on the ballot, so he doesn’t care.

Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t care about the results of the midterm election, because he will still be president, even if Republicans get swept out of power elsewhere.

It all finally broke loose as Trump held what was supposed to be his final rally on his way to Florida for a weekend at his private club, and the president’s little fit may have cost Republicans more Senate seats in the Midwest.

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If the New York Times report is true, the Mary Peltola campaign did something dumb and unnecessary, but not illegal. The two Dan Sullivans ballot controversy and the role the Peltola campaign might have played in recruiting a second Dan Sullivan were breathlessly treated by elites like the Times and the White House as a major scandal.

The problem is that the two candidates with the same trick is an ancient trick that is used in every single election cycle.

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In fact, Republicans are using it themselves in 2026.

There is a left-wing candidate in Nevada named Danielle Ford, who happens to also be running for governor in Nevada, and coincidentally shares the same name as the Democratic nominee.

Republicans have been trying to confuse voters in Nevada into voting for the other Danielle Ford.

However, the DOJ has not yet opened an investigation into this case.

In my view, it is a low-brow thing to do, but it isn’t illegal.

The US Attorney for Alaska held a press conference on Friday to discuss the criminal probe into the two Dan Sullivans and the Alaska Senate election lawsuit.

It was a total faceplant.

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Republicans have known for more than a year that the 2026 midterm election could be bad for them. The House was going to be hard to keep, and the hope was that the GOP could turn control of the House into a partisan turnout rock fight that would let them maintain a small majority.

That hope vanished when Donald Trump juiced up inflation with tariffs, and then turbo-charged it by starting a new war in the Middle East.

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The range of seats that Democrats could win has continued to expand. The map started off with 18 swing districts that Republicans almost universally carried in 2024. That is where the baseline of a small Democratic majority started.

Since the Iran war, the number of House districts and Senate seats that Trump’s policies put in jeopardy has exploded. The map has gone from districts and Senate seats that Trump won by 5 points being up for grabs to Republicans rushing to shore up districts and states that were Trump +15 to +20.

Voter anger is the oxygen that is fueling the Democratic gains. This election is about two issues that are intertwined. Voters are most angry about corruption and costs.

Republicans are now facing a wipeout, and they are trying to get a lifeline from the party’s leadership, which is funded by billionaires.

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Donald Trump has been complaining both privately and publicly about his midterm rally schedule. Trump has actually been complaining about his travel schedule since he was 80 years old and seems to hate traveling to do these rallies, as he has reportedly questioned why he is doing all of this traveling when he isn’t on the ballot.

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The travel has clearly had an impact on the president. Not only have his rally crowds gotten smaller in the red states that he is visiting, but his speeches have become more disjointed and at times nonsensical.

For instance, in South Carolina he promised that a Democratic midterm election victory would bring about another Great Depression.

Trump said, “ If Democrats win, you will have a 1929-style economic depression because that’s how bad their policies are. You’ll end up in a depression. If that happens, that will happen. If the Republicans win, you’ll each have $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for our country like we have never seen before, like what’s going on.”

Trump will still be president after the midterm election. If there is a depression, it will be his fault. Democrats in Congress can’t change economic policies without his cooperation.

Plus, Republicans already rejected his $5,000 bribe and said that it won’t be happening. Americans would have a better chance of getting those checks if Democrats won than if Republicans win.

Trump is clearly toast, but when a reporter asked if the president was canceling an upcoming trip to Kansas because he was tired of traveling, the president blew up.

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The reason why Donald Trump is terrible on the campaign trail as an incumbent goes beyond his inability to admit a mistake. Trump’s only style of politics is to behave like an outsider and campaign on how terrible everything is.

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It is a strategy that worked in 2016 and 2024, but it has failed when Trump is the incumbent, and the person who makes things terrible is him.

At a rally for Darline Graham, in theory, this rally was for Graham, but she was barely given any time; the president decided to pair his effort to buy votes by promising $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress, with the threat of a Great Depression if Democrats take control of Congress.

Trump said:

 If Democrats win, you will have a 1929-style economic depression because that's how bad their policies are. You'll end up in a depression. If that happens, that will happen. If the Republicans win, you'll each have $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for our country like we have never seen before, like what's going on.

And remember, just recently I gave all members of the military seventeen hundred and seventy-six dollars. Remember that? The military. Less than a year ago. And everyone said, "Oh, it couldn't, it can't be done." It was seventeen seventy-five. I said, "One dollar more," and we made it seventeen seventy-six. Can you believe it? One dollar more. I said, "That's a strange number. Let's do a dollar more."

Trump has evolved from trying to bribe voters to trying to scare them with a depression.

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Donald Trump’s deal with Putin to fund Russia’s war against Ukraine by importing illegal Russian diesel has hit a big snag.

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American companies want nothing to do with it.

The Washington Sun reported:

U.S. firms don’t want to take on the risks that would come with buying diesel from the Russians, in part because congressional Democrats say that Trump’s order violates sanctions laws, industry officials and energy analysts told The Washington Sun.

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“Moscow and Washington are still scrambling to find takers, but we wouldn’t be surprised if the cargoes ultimately head to Brazil,” Rapidan Energy Group said in a note to clients.

“They’re being very strongly encouraged by both Moscow and Washington to take these cargoes, including with steep discounts, but they’re encountering a wall of resistance based on reputation and legal risks,” one analyst said.

The total amount of diesel being imported from Russia over the next three months is nine days worth of US consumption.

The legal risk to companies and individuals that buy the diesel is exponentially greater than the reward of a little bit of cheap fuel, but it is congressional Democrats and their soon-to-be newfound power that is already acting as a check on Trump.

Democrats Warned Oil Execs They Could Face Prison For Buying The Illegal Russian Diesel

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When the president knows that the size of the room he is playing in is really small, he preemptively makes up a number. Within the first five to ten minutes of his remarks, Trump will comment on how packed the room in Ohio is and how the “fake news” will report that the crowd was small.

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Reporters report that the crowd is small when the crowd is small.

There is no bias involved. It is a matter of looking at a room or asking a local official about venue capacity.

Long gone are the days when Trump would fill 20,000-seat venues, or even back in 2016 when he rallied in football stadiums.

Trump’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. Fewer Americans are identifying as MAGA.

The president still has lots of ride-or-die supporters, but those numbers are shrinking as many Republicans have tired of his act, and the room he is playing in Ohio is a new low.

Is This Rock Bottom For Trump’s Attendance?

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Democrats are ready for Trump and Republican congressional leadership to try anything to stay in power. Mike Johnson’s term as Speaker ends at noon on January 3, 2027. Usually, new members are sworn in, then the new Congress is gavelled in, then votes are held for the Speaker of the House election.

As the nation recently witnessed with the House Republicans’ Kevin McCarthy fiasco, where the vote to elect McCarthy descended into chaos, the new Congress can’t function without a Speaker.

On MS NOW, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) was asked if he is worried about Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune doing Trump’s bidding and refusing to seat Democrats who won seats in the House and Senate.

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Alicia Menendez asked Booker, “ What do you think happens if the President of the United States calls Speaker Johnson, calls Leader Thune and says, "Do this for me. Get this done?”

Sen. Booker answered, “Well, I've watched Speaker Johnson practice this advanced form of yoga that I've never seen before where he'll bend over backwards and do whatever the President of the United States tells him to do. We've seen how he has dragged his feet to seat people that duly won elections. So I'm tired of the rhetoric. Show me that you are more loyal to the people than to a president; you're more loyal to the Constitution than Donald Trump's corruption, and I have not seen that from him. So I, I'm, I'm telling everybody right now, anything is possible with a commander in chief who's a proven cheater, and House and Senate Republicans that have shown their loyalty is to Mar-a-Lago and not the rule of law.”

Booker is right, but it is not quite as easy as Trump makes a phone call and Republicans stay in power.

The Bigger Danger Is That Trump Leaves Congress Empty. Here Is How That Works.

What must be understood is that Republicans don’t get to stay in power if Johnson refuses to seat Democrats.

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Republicans are doing everything that has worked in the past to rally the base in the Trump era. The president is holding daily rallies, billionaires have filled dark-money super PACs with cash, ads are flooding the airwaves, and conservative media is an endless drumbeat of promotion of GOP candidates and warnings of doom if Democrats win.

Even with fewer Americans watching television through traditional means, the cable news networks remain a decent barometer of engagement and interest. Fox News remains the dominant network on cable news. Fox has cornered the market on conservative viewership and has a big lead on both MS NOW and CNN in terms of viewers.

The Fox bloc is also some of the most dedicated Republican voters in America. Die-hard Fox News watchers vote regularly, and they vote Republican.

However, in the midst of this Republican push to get their voters motivated and to the polls, Fox News viewership has plummeted.

Fox News is a barometer of Republican interest and engagement, and it is currently showing the same thing that Republican operatives have been saying for months. Trump and his party have an enthusiasm problem, and it seems to be getting bigger.

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Donald Trump and Ken Paxton have been holding a series of rallies on Tuesday in Texas to try to stop the bleeding and prevent James Talarico from becoming the first Democrat to be elected statewide in Texas by flipping a US Senate seat.

Trump and Paxton were a nightmare for Republican hopes in Texas.

Here was Trump’s message on affordability:

You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. I said it the other night. You'll be my guest at Mar-a-Lago. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price-conscious.

That was Trump’s message on costs and affordability in Corpus Christi.

When Trump wasn’t telling non-billionaires to go F themselves, he was making deranged claims about James Talarico.

In Lubbock, the president said Talarico would:

 Confiscate your guns and stop all ammunition sales. As your Senator, Ken Paxton will have only one thing to say to any Democrat who wants to destroy your Second Amendment. It's called, "Go take a hike. Go take a hike" The term he uses. He uses that term often, I think.

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It is a bit soon to tell, but new polling released after Donald Trump’s rally for Mike Rogers shows that Abdul El-Sayed’s lead has been growing in the state with a week to go before the midterm election.

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While it is too soon to have firm polling to measure the direct impact of Trump’s Sunday rally full of racism and bigotry, the landscape appears to already be shifting away from Rogers.

A new WDIV/Detroit News poll found El-Sayed leading Rogers 51.4%-45.1% Michigan voters who know Mike Rogers don’t like him, as his favorability rating is a net (-15), with 32% of voters favoring him and 47 giving the Republican an unfavorable rating.

Abdul El-Sayed has a net (-2) favorable rating, with 42% of voters favoring him and 44% giving the Democrat an unfavorable rating.

Rogers is flailing to close out the election as he had a very uncomfortable Meet The Press where he refused to say that he is MAGA Republican on the same day that he rallied with Donald Trump.

The Trump rally itself was a disaster, and Trump didn’t try to hide his bigoted attacks on El-Sayed. The president even tried to connect the Democratic candidate, who was 16 years old at the time, to the 9/11 attacks.

The state of the race helps to explain JD Vance’s complete desperation as he campaigned in Michigan on Tuesday.

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Pete Hegseth is trying to find an escape plan to get out of the administration before the likely incoming Democratic House majority can impeach him.

House Democrats are unified, and it is growing increasingly certain that they will impeach Trump’s Pentagon boss after they take back the House majority. The next Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2027.

Hegseth is trying to get Sen. Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to the Senate after she wins the gubernatorial election next week.

However, Hegseth’s scheme has run into a major complication, as outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has announced that he will use the first week of the House’s lame duck post-election session to force a vote on impeaching Hegseth now.

Massie was about to force a vote on impeaching Hegseth on September 15, so Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the House early until after the election.

When Republicans return, likely after having lost several dozen seats, Rep. Massie is going to try again, but this time, he expects not only to get a vote, but much better odds of success.

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Deep-red Mississippi has a surprisingly competitive Senate race, so the White House sent Donald Trump to save the day.

The problem is that they sent 80 year old Donald Trump who looks completely worn out by his recent rally schedule and seen his popularity plummet even among MAGA.

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Trump claimed that a town with a population of 14,000 had 22,000 people at his rally:

 And by the way, have you seen the crowd outside? 22,000 people watching. We love you out there. They're watching.

The big crowds at Trump’s rallies always seem to be outside where the television cameras can’t see them. The reason why the cameras can’t see them is that for a decade Trump has dictated the placement of the TV cameras at his events.

Trump was in deep red Mississippi, so he must have been immensely popular. Trump has had a difficult time finding safe spaces that he can visit and feel loved in. The Republican Party has had to keep Trump away from swing states because his presence helps Democratic candidates more than Republicans, even though Republicans keep claiming that the polls are fake. Democrats keep winning elections since Trump returned to office.

Trump Was Heckled In Mississippi

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Sen. Susan Collins has Republican super PACs spending hundreds of millions of dollars for her in Maine. Collins spent the Senate debates playing a familiar tune for voters in the state. Collins tried to claim that she was independent, but also, in very Trumpian fashion, refused to call her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court a mistake.

Republicans are facing their worst midterm election environment since 2006, and if the election breaks big for Democrats, 2026 could be the party’s worst midterm defeat in nearly 100 years.

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GOP pollsters, who tend to base their polling on the most favorable turnout model for Republicans, have the race either tied or Collins up by a point. Non-partisan polling has the election anywhere from even to Jackson leading by four points.

Like many other Senate elections in red states where Democrats are competitive, this is a close, close race.

Most of the Democratic candidates trying to flip red Senate seats are going to have to fight tooth and nail, not only against the glut of outside money being spent against them, but also against the habit of voters to elect incumbent Republicans.

Voters in Maine have been electing Susan Collins for decades, but Sen. Collins may have finally met a contest that she couldn’t faux-moderate-bluff her way through.

Susan Collins Pretends To Be Moderate, But Troy Jackson Highlighted The Truth

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Eight days before the midterm election, two things have become certain. Democrats are going to take back the House, and after they do, Democrats are going to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

There is a list of Trump cabinet members who are likely to quit when Democrats win back the House, because they will be facing impeachment. Pete Hegseth is at the top of the list, followed by RFK Jr., and Linda McMahon, who has destroyed the Department of Education.

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There will be an exodus of people out of the Trump administration after the midterm election. Karoline Leavitt got an early start out the door, but will be far from the last person to leave.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) said last month on MS NOW:

 Donald Trump himself has said it multiple times, that he’s planning to give pardons to everyone in his circle. But I actually very much disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t be trying to use every tool we have in the toolbox.

In particular, we have cabinet secretaries like Pete Hegseth, who Republicans think should be impeached at this point because of his illegal killings in the illegal war, and what we’ve seen over the last year is that when Congress did file impeachments, folks like Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi were actually fired by the President because the American people were clear they didn’t want them in those jobs of trust.

So I think there’s a number of cabinet secretaries that have blatantly broken the law, done unconstitutional things, and I think they better get ready because we’ll come for them.

The threats from House Democrats have gotten to Hegseth, so he is trying to get out before Democrats take back power.

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2026 may go down in history as the year of reckoning for bad Republican candidates and incumbents. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi is an example of an incumbent who has been skating on the letter beside her name when she appears on the ballot in a deep-red state.

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Hyde-Smith has never had the reputation of being a good senator, and in a year when the Republican brand might be at its lowest point since 1932, having that (R) beside her name on the ballot isn’t the career-saving asset that it has always been.

It is important that reality is maintained. Democrats winning a US Senate seat in Mississippi would be an out-of-left-field political earthquake that would be even bigger than possible Democratic US Senate victories in Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas.

A loss in Mississippi would signal the kind of nationwide rejection of the Republican Party that would take the GOP years to recover from. If Republicans get wiped out, it may take several election cycles for the party to regain power.

Republicans have been treating Ohio like it is the party’s red wall against total destruction in 8 days, but that wall may have shifted to Mississippi.

Trump Rushes To Save Mississippi

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This is what a political party with no ideas and no plan for the future looks like. After refusing to say that he is a MAGA Republican on Meet The Press, US Senate candidate Mike Rogers brought Donald Trump to Michigan, and the point of the rally was clear from the moment that the president began speaking.

Trump came to Michigan to smear Abdul El-Sayed and scare voters into supporting Rogers.

The rally was some of the most direct and vile racism and bigotry that Americans will see in any campaign.

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Trump, who stole classified documents, suggested El-Sayed would be a national security threat:

 He certainly should not give him a seat in the United States Senate. He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector.

If Abdul gets to the Senate, he would have access to our nation's most closely guarded national security secrets And his vote would wield power over our military, our borders, our homeland security, and much more than that. And to think that so much of our military equipment is made in Michigan.

Trump falsely claimed El-Sayed wants Sharia Law in the US:

 So Abdul, at one point, as you know, a little while ago, not so long ago, also wants our country to go to Sharia law And if he ever pulls that one off, he should be the first one that's tried. That'd be interesting. I'll be a witness.

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The worst came when Trump tried to play into the bigotry around 9/11.

Trump Tried To Connect Abdul El-Sayed And 9/11

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