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Vance: "If you look at the Epstein files which were released…what is the one obvious thing? Donald Trump didn't just throw him out of his club, he turned Jeffrey Epstein in to to the local police for being a creep."

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Vance: "There is so much that I'm proud of. Absolutely, we need to get more done. Which is why you need to give us two more years to get great results for the American people."

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Trump brings aide Margo Martin on stage and gives her a kiss on the cheek: “I’m not allowed to say she’s beautiful…Her mom and dad are here…I see why she’s good looking. I believe in the resource theory. Fast horses, right?”

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Trump: "I'm here in Oklahoma and I'm really here because I love you people…We're worried about Michigan. We're worried about Texas. We're worried about a few states."

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Trump on Dennis Rodman and Enes Kanter: "I'm giving them a full pardon that they can go into women's sports anytime they want."

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Trump: "Pretend I'm running, please. Just pretend."

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Trump in Oklahoma: "We're going to send Ken Paxton to the U.S. Senate. He is, whether you love him or don't love him, he is a little controversial."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Trump in Oklahoma: "You know why I'm here?…I felt I had an obligation. All these races, I think they're going to be — you gotta get out and you gotta vote for your great future senator, future governor…They're going to win."

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Trump: "We do so well in Oklahoma…They say, 'Why are you going to Oklahoma?' You know why? Because I won Oklahoma all three times."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

@crampell.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social react to Trump boasting that he has "the highest of IQs" while suggesting his own supposedly superior brain is the safeguard America needs against the risks of AI. "This is beyond parody."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h

Trump is using your tax dollars to bankroll ads about purging the “deep state” and going after his enemies. @cheetah.bsky.social reports that even Republicans in Congress think the campaign-style spots could be illegal, but they have little idea how to stop them. lnk.thebulwark.com/4AJCyN8?utm_...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

@timmiller.bsky.social and Josh Barro on the collapse of Trump’s economic brand as voters sour on the economy he promised to fix. “The shine finally came off because he finally did something that was very clearly his fault that made the economy worse in a way that everybody feels.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

Trump said his trade war with Canada would help American dairy. Instead, it’s hammering U.S. cheesemakers and wiping out export business. @crampell.bsky.social reports on the farmers now begging Trump to stop “helping.” lnk.thebulwark.com/4rGhJxQ?utm_...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

American politics has gone a little psycho. George Conway is here to make sense of it. Psycho Politics with @gtconway.bsky.social, a new podcast from The Bulwark. First episode drops Monday, October 12.

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I think Gavin Newsom's performance art in trying to sort of be like Trump played well for a minute on Twitter but didn't have staying power because people like holding the mirror up, but they don't wanna be that, actually. They want to be better."

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Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos analyzes the potential terrorist attack that occurred on a flight over the Middle East: “If it's a lone wolf terrorist attack…that is the hardest type of attack to thwart because there's no cell to penetrate.”

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Trump: "We took over Venezuela…We took over tremendous wealth."

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Trump: "President Xi, we get along great. He's a great, great gentleman…He's a real leader. I always say, he's central casting. But we get along great."

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Trump: "The only thing we're doing badly at is public relations. In other words, we're doing a phenomenal job, but maybe by a combination of things, maybe we're doing a bad job in selling it."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

Trump: "We have to have a fair and free media, which we don't have. You have some very good reporters there, but you have some very bad ones. You have some evil, sicko people."

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@timmiller.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social torch Pete Hegseth for obsessing over “fatties, “weirdos,” and testosterone while failing at the actual job of leading the Defense Department. "This whole thing is preposterous. It is just performative nonsense."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

Trump is using taxpayer dollars to fund campaign ads—and even Republican senators are calling foul. @cheetah.bsky.social reports on GOP lawmakers blasting the scheme while admitting they have little idea how to stop it. lnk.thebulwark.com/4AJCyN8?utm_...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

@mpolymer1.bsky.social says the FBI's counterterrorism agents are very good at keeping us safe. The problem is who's giving the orders: "You have a leadership which is more worried about taking these FBI agents and chasing migrants at Home Depot."

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Trump: "Now I have to make a decision, [Iran] will either sign a very fair deal, or they won't exist any longer."

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Q: “Would the U.S. retaliate against Iran if they are behind that attack on the plane?” Trump: “They’ll be hit very hard, don’t worry.”

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Trump: "Oil is lower now than it was in the Biden administration."

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Trump: “We have the best economic numbers of any president in the history of our country…I give us an A+ on the government, on economics, on everything.”

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Q: “Are you planning to pardon your top aides before you leave office?” Trump: “It’s not something I’m thinking about now, but based on Biden, I can do whatever I want.”

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Vance: "A middle aged woman who I think had been drinking…She said, 'I just love you and Byron Donalds.'…And she says, 'Are you guys related?' And I say, and maybe I've been in politics too long, ladies and gentlemen, without skipping a beat, I said, 'Yes, he's my second cousin.'"

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Q: “Lara Trump said today that the Iran war may threaten the midterms for you.” Trump: “Well, it’s possible.”

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@slotkin.senate.gov: "The existential issue threatening the United States is not coming from abroad. It is coming from the deep threat to the middle class and the American dream."

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@slotkin.senate.gov: “We need a new generation of leaders across the board…Everyone's saying the…same two things. We want a new generation of leadership, and we want big and bold ideas."

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@pennbarker.bsky.social reacts to Pete Hegseth overhauling the school curriculum for DOD schools: “We are in the middle of a war…And the fact that the Secretary of Defense is focused on censorship of the DOD schools…This is not the job of the Secretary of Defense.”

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I am incredibly skeptical of Florida, but I still think people should give money to Angie Nixon. It's a really tough race, but she's doing the work…She is an all-out grinder and she's also pretty funny. She's a good, charismatic candidate."

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There was finally bipartisan momentum to help parents with childcare costs. Then Trump stepped in. @citizencohn.bsky.social explains how the admin’s proposal could take support from working parents to subsidize stay-at-home parents and reignite a culture war. lnk.thebulwark.com/3VZpkvC?utm_...

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Scandal-plagued Republican Rep. Max Miller has a new ad attacking his Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter. There's just one big problem — it's BS. @sarahmatthews1.bsky.social on the new ad riddled with lies and pure projection.

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "What's funny about the Paxton comments about Trump is that Paxton is already trying to lay the groundwork to blame Trump for him losing…These are guys who think they're going to lose and they're already starting to place blame."

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Libertarians could be the spoiler Republicans didn’t see coming. @lauren-egan.bsky.social reports on third-party candidates threatening to siphon off just enough disaffected GOP voters to scramble key midterm races. lnk.thebulwark.com/3U1jqJV?utm_...

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@timmiller.bsky.social, @willsommer.bsky.social, and @samsteindc.bsky.social dig into the leak alleging Candace Owens had lesbian dating profiles and whether her years of calling everyone else gay were just projection.

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Ben Parker slams Pete Hegseth: "You’re not a Fox News host anymore. Your job should be trying to win over America’s enemies, not alienating your fellow Americans."

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@jvl.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social on Ken Paxton blaming Trump for dragging down his campaign: “This is biting the hand that feeds you on a scale that we just haven’t seen from other MAGA Republicans this cycle. The vibes must be really bad right now.”

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Did Bridgegate blow open the GOP field and create the opening Donald Trump rode all the way to the White House? @timmiller.bsky.social and Maria Comella revisit the scandal that kneecapped Chris Christie before 2016:

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Trump: “California’s a very crooked election system…I would’ve won California if that were an honest system. I would’ve won.”

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Q: “DHS is spending millions of dollars on new ads about you…Why should U.S. taxpayers pay for that?” Trump: “I’m not running for office and I don’t talk about anybody…That’s an ad for the spirit of our country. If somebody said that that’s wrong, I’ll gladly pay the money.”

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Trump: “We have the best economy…The only thing we don’t have is good public relations. We don’t seem to be able to get the word across that we have more people working than ever before.”

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Q: “There was a report that Ken Paxton was complaining about your midterm convention and he felt like it hurt him.” Trump: “It’s possible that could be true."

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Hegseth: “Our colleges and universities have become anti-American DEI-worshipping, woke factories…We need students of Western civilization and the pillars of our republic…who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of Athens, the power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia circa 1776.”

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