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All I can say is, imagine, once again, how the media would be reacting if this came out of a Democrat's mouth. Here's Trump this Saturday at a rally in Latrobe, PA, waxing poetically about Arnold Palmer's penis size.

In 1960, Roy Orbison scored his first UK No.1 hit with “Only The Lonely.” Originally, Orbison and his co-writer, Joe Melson, tried to sell the song to Elvis Presley and then to the Everly Brothers.
Digby's Hullabaloo: Trump’s grift is starving his campaign.

“One of the truisms of Trump World is that being viewed as boring is a sin more deadly than being wrong,” the New York Times reports.

“For her political activities, she does not have the support of the family. When she told us she was going to run again back in October 2023, we asked her not to.”

— One of Jill Stein’s adult sons, quoted by the New York Times.

Reuters: “Political pundits and social media users have questioned whether specific high-profile Americans could be behind the moves.”

Donald Trump overtook Kamala Harris and now enjoys a two-point lead, 49% to 47%, in the TIPP tracking poll.

“Donald Trump on Saturday spewed crude and vulgar remarks at a rally in Pennsylvania that included an off-color remark about a famous golfer’s penis size and a coarse insult about Vice President Kamala Harris,” the New York Times reports.

An internal whistleblower complaint at Trump Media calls for CEO Devin Nunes to be fired, alleging he has “severely” mismanaged the company and opened it to “substantial risk of legal action” from regulators, ProPublica reports.