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Skip NavigationThe New RepublicThe New RepublicLATESTBREAKING NEWSPOLITICSCLIMATECULTUREMAGAZINENEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGAMESThe New Republic The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New RepublicLATESTBREAKING NEWSPOLITICSCLIMATECULTUREMAGAZINENEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGAMESThe New Republic The New Republic The New RepublicBreaking News Breaking Newsfrom Washington and beyondMost Recent PostPaige Oamek/October 17, 2024/3:36 p.m. ETShare This StoryDonald Trump Can’t Shake Off Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris EndorsementTrump’s team keeps posting references to Swift—most recently an embarrassing take on her song “22.”SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images; ANDRE DIAS NOBRE/AFP/Getty ImagesKamala Harris (left) and Taylor Swift (right)I don’t know about you, but I think Trump might get sued.On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s team posted a cringeworthy video of women lip-syncing to a mash-up of Taylor Swift’s song “22” and the song “Trump Trump Bay” by rapper (and, more accurately, right-wing cable news mainstay) Forgiato Blow. Those women, wearing hot-pink Trump zip-ups, included Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump and former ESPN anchor turned pro-Trump podcaster Sage Steele. The video appears to coincide with Trump’s desperate appeal to women voters following his sycophantic all-women town hall that aired on Wednesday. It also allowed MAGA to try to get in a jab at mega popstar Taylor Swift over her previous endorsement of Kamala Harris. Following Swift’s call to action for her followers to vote for Harris, Republicans, including Trump, lost their minds, with Trump posting in all-caps on Truth Social, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” In posting the video, Trump’s team has no regard for the singer’s impressive legal squad who are known to use the come-down with serious force. Back in August, after Trump shared similarly strange AI-generated images of Swift endorsing him for president, he quickly backtracked, claiming he didn’t know “anything about them.”But it’s not just Swift that Trump should worry about. MAGA superfan Forgiato Blow premiered the song featured in the video, which is a parody of “Ice Ice Baby,” at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. The song was pulled from YouTube after a claim by Sony Music for copyright infringement (“Ice Ice Baby” features a sample of “Under Pressure,” to which Sony owns the rights). Blow had since tweaked the video to skirt the rules, but if team Trump used the wrong version on the audio, they may be on thin ice. Share This StoryEditor's PickTrump’s Very Serious, Very Literal Plans for a Fascist Second Term Most Recent PostHafiz Rashid/October 17, 2024/2:29 p.m. ETShare This StoryNBC Marketing Chief Admits The Apprentice Made Trump a “Monster”John D. Miller just published a mea culpa for his role in building Trump’s false image as a successful businessman and dealmaker—and urged readers to vote for Kamala Harris. Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesDonald Trump in 2006The former head of marketing for NBC is apologizing for “creating a monster” in Donald Trump through the production of his reality TV show The Apprentice.John D. Miller wrote a column for U.S. News and World Report, published Wednesday, about how he helped to market Trump as “a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty,” creating “a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was.” For example, Miller wrote, the boardroom that viewers saw was a set, because Trump’s actual boardroom was deemed to be in poor shape and too old to show on TV. Miller also wrote that more successful CEOs were too busy. According to a New York Times article from September, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, and Richard Branson were also contacted by producers but didn’t make the cut due to a lack of time or the “necessary charisma.” Trump, unlike those other business leaders, “had plenty of time for filming, he loved the attention and it painted a positive picture of him that wasn’t true,” wrote Miller. Trump’s availability was due to the fact that, when the show first went to air in 2004, he wasn’t particularly busy: His business “empire” had been decimated by multiple bankruptcies, and he was no longer doing much at all. The show’s promotion would blanket NBC’s programming and create an exaggerated image of the real estate investor.“The image of Trump that we promoted was highly exaggerated. In its own way, it was ‘fake news’ that we spread over America like a heavy snowstorm,” Miller wrote. “I never imagined that the picture we painted of Trump as a successful businessman would help catapult him to the White House.”  In his interactions with Trump, Miller found that he was both “manipulative, yet extraordinarily easy to manipulate,” foreshadowing his dealings with autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. He also noticed that Trump was thin-skinned and quick to seek retribution. Miller, who calls himself a “born-and-bred Republican,” closed his article by urging people to vote for Kamala Harris, saying that he and others “did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader. I deeply regret that. And I regret that it has taken me so long to go public.”Miller joins many others who worked with Trump, either in his business or the White House, who now regret their efforts and are urging people to vote against him. Share This StoryEditor's PickHarris’s Harsh Takedown of Fox’s Bret Baier Exposes MAGA’s Biggest LieMost Recent PostPaige Oamek/October 17, 2024/1:45 p.m. ETShare This StoryTrump: It’s Ukraine’s Fault It Got Invaded by RussiaThe former president will blame anyone but his buddy Vladimir Putin for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Vladimir Putin in 2017On a podcast released Thursday morning, Donald Trump said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “should never have let that war start,” referring to Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, which began when Russia invaded the country in February 2022. It was the latest of Trump’s many statements absolving Russia—and its murderous leader, Vladimir Putin—of blame for the invasion.  Throughout the nearly 90-minute interview with Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast, Trump continued to slam Zelenskiy, facetiously calling him “one of the greatest salesmen I’ve ever seen.” “Who else got that kind of money in history? There’s never been. And that doesn’t mean I don’t want to help him because I feel very badly for those people. But he should never have let that war start. That war is a loser,” said Trump. After lying that Zelenskyy started Ukraine's war with Russia, Trump says he "largely blames" Biden for the war and adds that Biden "instigated" it. (Putin apparently is blameless in Trump's eyes) pic.twitter.com/19Wzpa3aOw— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2024 Trump also focused on the “beautiful golden domes”—referring to the numerous Orthodox churches, many hundreds of years old—destroyed by the Russian army, rather than the one million dead or injured in the conflict. (Trump loves a good dome.) And then, he attempted to paint President Joe Biden as the instigator of the war, rather than Putin. “Everyone will say, ‘Oh, this is terrible, he’s blaming Biden,’” said Trump, who then clarified that he is in fact blaming Biden, adding that “he instigated that war.” Trump has come under fire this month over rumors that he continued his relationship with Russian autocrat Putin after leaving the Oval Office. As president, Trump sent Putin Covid tests; out of office, the two have reportedly talked on the phone on numerous occasions, though both deny this (not always convincingly). On Tuesday, the former president did very little to deny those allegations, stating in an interview with Bloomberg that it would have been “a smart thing.”Share This StoryEditor's PickThe Incomprehensible Scale of Trump’s Deportation PlansMost Recent PostEdith Olmsted/October 17, 2024/1:32 p.m. ETShare This StoryJD Vance’s Latest Whine About Harris Makes Absolutely No SenseJD Vance, who has one of the biggest platforms in the country, thinks Kamala Harris is censoring him.Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesJD Vance would not stop complaining Thursday about having been “censored,” when what he was actually describing was being corrected.During a campaign stop in Pittsburgh—a publicized event with a large crowd, hardly censorship—Vance transformed a speech meant to be about economic issues into a diatribe about free speech. He repeatedly claimed that Kamala Harris wanted to censor Americans’ speech—without providing any actual instances where she had done so. “We have leaders who would rather censor their fellow citizens than listen to them and persuade them,” Vance said. He referred to his previous, and fully debunked, claims alleging that illegal immigrants had taken over the cities of Springfield, Ohio; Aurora, Colorado; and Charleroi, Pennsylvania. “We are seeing all across this country that criminal gangs, sometimes, are moving into our communities and making it unsafe for American citizens,” Vance said. He immediately tried to walk back his gross generalization. “And even if it’s not criminal gangs, sometimes it’s people moving into our communities who have no legal right to be there.”However, the groups that Vance has discussed, Haitian immigrants in Springfield and Charleroi, do have a legal right to be there. They are in the United States under temporary protected status, a legitimate legal status that Vance has conveniently decided he doesn’t believe in. As for Aurora, Vance and Donald Trump have pushed claims that Venezuelan gangs have laid claim to apartment buildings in the area, an allegation that has been challenged by both residents and law enforcement.Vance blamed the “thousands upon thousands of children” of undocumented immigrants for a decline in the quality of American education, and blamed immigrants for long wait times in emergency rooms. At no point did he actually detail any supposed “censorship” of his words, but Vance’s statements about these immigrants have been subject to thorough fact-checks because they were all, in reality, untrue. Despite all the supposed government censorship, he did manage to get the words out without being arrested, which must have been a relief. Later, Vance turned back to the subject, claiming that he and Trump would “always fight for your right to speak your mind.”“The genius of the First Amendment is that when we debate our ideas, rather than censor one another, we can actually come to the table. We can disagree but still share a meal with one another afterwards,” he said.“You do not bring our fellow citizens together by trying to silence them. You bring our fellow citizens together by talking to them. And inviting the conversation about how we’re going to make this country better, and fix our problems.”Of course, when Vance or Trump are invited to the table, they lose their minds at the slightest bit of correction, not censorship. Vance himself flew off the handle after the smallest fact-check during the vice presidential debate. “We may not always agree with each other, but we will fight for your right to speak your mind because this is America, and we get to say whatever the hell we want to,” Vance concluded his speech Thursday. He has repeatedly proved that painfully clear. It’s worth noting that Vance and Trump haven’t limited their misinformation campaigns to immigration but have also spent the better part of the last two weeks spreading false claims about federal hurricane relief efforts, all while the work was actually undercut by MAGA lawmakers who opposed emergency funding until they wanted it.In any case, it seems that Vance should be more worried about self-censorship, as his running mate has started pulling out of interview after interview. Share This StoryRead more about Vance:Voters Hate JD Vance AgainMost Recent PostEllie Quinlan Houghtaling/October 17, 2024/1:04 p.m. ETShare This StoryOklahoma Official Hit With Lawsuit for Trump Bible ScamState education Superintendent Ryan Walters has been sued for his attempt to use Oklahoma schools to line Donald Trump’s pockets.Rebecca Noble/Getty ImagesOklahomans are turning to the legal system to fight back against Superintendent Ryan Walters’s Bible education mandate for public schools.Dozens of parents, teachers, and religious leaders in the Sooner State collectively filed suit Thursday against Walters and the state’s Department of Education, calling on the Oklahoma Supreme Court to intervene in the mandate’s implementation. Walters announced in September that he intended to spend as much as $3 million on the purchase and intracurricular use of Bibles in Oklahoma public schools. The plaintiffs in Thursday’s suit included 14 public school parents, four public school teachers, and three faith leaders, all of whom torched the effort for seeking to spend millions in taxpayer dollars on what they described as an unethical, unconstitutional, and an illegal reallocation of resources. According to the suit, Walters’s plan would “unlawfully support an invalid rule” since “no statutory or other legislative authority exists” for him to spend state funds on specific curricular materials. Instead, the Department of Education is restricted to providing state funds to individual school districts, which are then mandated to “spend on texts of their own choice.”“Respondents intend to spend on the Bibles funds that were designated for other purposes and have not been lawfully reallocated,” the plaintiffs wrote.Curiously, once Oklahoma’s Department of Education opened bids to fill a 55,000 unit order of Bibles for classrooms across the state, Walters’s parameters for the eligible Bibles became eyebrow-raisingly specific.Bid documents indicated that the Bible suddenly needed to meet strict expectations, including that the text itself be the King James version, that the copies include core, historical elements of the U.S. educational system, including the Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and that the text be bound in leather or a leather-like material. That narrowed the pool of applicants down to just one apparent choice: Donald Trump’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” Bible.That detail didn’t pass muster with the suing Oklahomans, either, who wrote in their suit that it seemed “highly unlikely that anyone could fulfill the requirements” of the bid other than Trump’s version. Further still, the group criticized the state for proposing to spend as much as $54.55 a pop on the Trumpian Bibles—just a couple dollars cheaper than the text’s resale price—when other Bibles can be purchased for as little as $3 a piece.“As parents, my husband and I have sole responsibility to decide how and when our children learn about the Bible and religious teachings,” Erika Wright, the founder and leader of the Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition and one of the plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement. “We are devout Christians, but different Christian denominations have different theological beliefs and practices. It is not the role of any politician or public school official to intervene in these personal matters.“Oklahoma’s education system is already struggling, ranking nearly last in national standings,” Wright continued. “Mandating a Bible curriculum will not address our educational shortcomings.”Share This StoryRead more about the plan:Oklahoma Uses Schools to Line Trump’s Pockets in Shameless Bible GriftMost Recent PostHafiz Rashid/October 17, 2024/12:58 p.m. ETShare This StoryVoters Hate JD Vance AgainTrump’s running mate saw a short boost in his numbers after the vice presidential debate. It’s gone now.Meg Oliphant/Getty ImagesJD Vance at a NASCAR race in mid-October.JD Vance’s poll numbers are back to abysmally low levels, two weeks after they spiked following his debate against Tim Walz.A new poll from The Economist and YouGov from October 12 to 15 shows that after an initial jump in support for Vance following the debate on October 1, his favorability numbers have dropped to where they were before the debate, a historic low for a vice presidential candidate. According to the poll, 9 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of Vance on September 28, and that number improved to 2 percent on October 5. But as of October 12, 10 percent of respondents had negative opinions of the Republican vice presidential candidate.Donald Trump’s decision to choose Vance as his running mate does not seem to have given his campaign a boost. Trump’s choice was made before President Biden withdrew from the 2024 election and was meant to shore up support from the MAGA base instead of pulling in swing voters. When Kamala Harris succeeded Biden in July, Trump’s folly was quickly exposed, leading many Republicans to second-guess the decision. Those Republicans had their fears validated in the following week, with sexist comments about “childless cat ladies” resurfacing from Vance’s past. The awkward Ohio senator did himself few favors while trying to ingratiate himself with the electorate, including making a bad joke about Diet Mountain Dew being considered “racist.”Vance’s liabilities have subsequently piled up. He had previously suggested that Trump had committed serial sexual assault, was found to have promoted a right-wing conspiracy theorist’s book that called progressives “unhumans,” and The New Republic revealed that he wrote a favorable foreword for a book linked to Project 2025. The debate gave Vance respite from the bad press, giving the public a brief impression that he was a normal person. But as the poll results show, that quickly faded, reminding the public all about his weird ideas. The fact that Vance spoke coherently and clearly in the debate and seemed relatively pleasant—as opposed to his normally awkward, off-putting demeanor—couldn’t make up for the fact that they share the same destructive ideas. Share This StoryEditor's Pick  An Appreciation of “The Weave”: Trump’s New Literary Contraption  Most Recent PostEllie Quinlan Houghtaling/October 17, 2024/12:24 p.m. ETShare This StoryMitch McConnell’s Damning New Comments Show He’s Using TrumpA new book exposes just how two-faced Mitch McConnell is when it comes to Donald Trump.Doug Mills/Pool/Getty ImagesPerhaps nobody in Washington has flipped their opinion on January 6 quite like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.Despite his public fawning, behind the scenes of the political theater, McConnell’s true feelings about Donald Trump were well known, according to The Price of Power, an upcoming book on the Republican senator by journalist Michael Tackett. McConnell reportedly referred to Trump as “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” as well as a “despicable human being” weeks before Trump’s supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol with intent to harm Vice President Mike Pence, then–House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and other key politicians.Before the Georgia runoff election in November, McConnell reportedly described Trump as “stupid as well as being ill-tempered and can’t even figure out where his own best interests lie,” according to Tackett.In the midst of the insurrection, as rioters banged on his barricaded office doors, McConnell addressed his staff in tears.“You are my family, and I hate the fact that you had to go through this,” he told them.In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, McConnell laid the responsibility of the day’s events at Trump’s feet, proclaiming that there was “no question” the former president was “morally responsible” for the violent attack, and reprimanding Trump for his inaction while his supporters ransacked the legislature as a “disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.” Still, when it came time for the Senate to vote on the House’s impeachment of the outgoing president for his involvement in the riot, McConnell chose to acquit. Then, after a year of relative silence on the issue, McConnell chose to wrist-slap the Republican National Convention for censuring House GOP lawmakers who investigated the events of the day.“It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next,” McConnell said at the time.Since then, McConnell has once again endorsed Trump for the Oval Office, rationalizing his support for the former president’s continued executive leadership on the basis that Trump had “earned” the nomination.In a statement to the Associated Press on Thursday, McConnell insisted that he was now on the “same team” as the Republican presidential nominee.“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now,” McConnell said.Share This StoryRead more about McConnell:Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Care Too Much if Trump Leads Another January 6Most Recent PostEdith Olmsted/October 17, 2024/12:19 p.m. ETShare This StoryTrump Abruptly Cancels Two Big Speeches in Sign of How Bad He’s DoingDonald Trump abruptly dropped two public appearances after a series of bumbling speeches.Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has pulled out of two major interviews Thursday, after the Republican presidential nominee made several appearances this week that went disastrously awry. Trump had been scheduled to do an interview with NBC News’s senior business correspondent Christine Romans that would air Monday, but the plans for a face-to-face were apparently shelved. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported Thursday that one source suggested the interview had only been “postponed.”The former president also canceled his speech to an NRA convention on Tuesday in Savannah, Georgia. Convention organizers said Trump had a “scheduling conflict.”These two changes come just days after Trump canceled plans to appear on CNBC’s Squawk Box, which the economic show’s co-anchor Joe Kernan reported Tuesday. While Trump’s campaign claimed he would be unable to attend the Friday interview due to scheduling conflicts that would bring him to Michigan, he is actually scheduled to appear live on Fox & Friends, which is only a few blocks away form the CNBC studio, according to The Daily Beast. The cancellations come amid a rough week for Trump, who has visibly struggled during several events. The former president flailed while responding to tough questions at a Univision town hall Wednesday night, leaving attendees looking particularly unimpressed as he weirdly called the deadly January 6 riot a “day of love.” He babbled incoherently during an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday and threw a tantrum when fact-checked on his outlandish economic plans. On Sunday, he appeared to come untethered from reality as he stopped a town hall in its tracks so he could awkwardly stand onstage and listen to music for 40 minutes. And earlier this month, Trump broke nearly 60 years of tradition by backing out of an invitation for a sit-down interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes.It seems that Trump is trying desperately to avoid a mainstream interview with journalists who aren’t in his pocket, opting instead for friendlier, Fox-ier faces. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris doesn’t appear quite as apprehensive to speak with those who might not agree with her. Harris appeared in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier Wednesday, and seems to have gotten exactly what she wanted out of it. Share This StoryRead more about Trump:Trump Appeals to Latino Voters by Doubling Down on Racist LiesMost Recent PostPaige Oamek/October 17, 2024/12:03 p.m. ETShare This StoryIs Elon Musk Violating Federal Election Law?It sure seems like it.JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty ImagesElon Musk and Donald Trump in PennsylvaniaBillionaire Elon Musk will host his first of several town halls Thursday at 4 p.m. in Folsom, Pennsylvania. The only people allowed to this event, put on by Musk’s America PAC, are registered voters in the state who have signed the PAC’s petition, “support the First and Second Amendments,” and have already voted in the election. Musk says while he has three more “talks” scheduled on the calendar in Pennsylvania, he “will probably do half a dozen throughout the state” by Election Day. There’s just one problem: The events likely violate federal election law. As Popular Information reported on Thursday, “federal law prohibits making or offering to make ‘an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate.’” Musk’s requirement that attendees to his town halls be registered voters likely violates that provision. This follows as Musk continues to increase his involvement in the Trump campaign, with his super PAC essentially running the Republican candidate’s flawed ground campaign with a poorly functioning app.His America PAC is essentially entirely self-funded; according to new campaign finance data, Musk has poured $75 million into the fund since July. Prior to that report, the PAC only showed a measly $8 million from friends like Joe Lonsdale of Palantir and the Winklevoss twins. Trump has hinted that this spending could earn Musk a spot in his Cabinet, mentioning the promise again to Latino voters at his Univision town hall on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Musk showcased his main-character syndrome, posting an embarrassing supercut of himself on the campaign trail at 1 a.m. on Thursday. But Republicans worry that the billionaire might be blowing up Trump’s campaign as he has his randomly exploding Teslas. “We were upfront about our concerns,” an anonymous GOP operative close to Trump told Rolling Stone this week, speaking about the America PAC’s canvassing and voter turnout operation. At the moment, Musk’s PAC is also still hiring door knockers in swing states through X, begging the question from a Trump donor, “Why isn’t the army already in place?”Share This StoryEditor's PickThe Incomprehensible Scale of Trump’s Deportation PlansMost Recent PostHafiz Rashid/October 17, 2024/11:44 a.m. ETShare This StoryFox News’s Propagandistic Response to its Interview with HarrisAfter Bret Baier’s volatile interview with the Democratic nominee, the entire network is pushing a simple message: Harris bombed.Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesFox News anchor Bret BaierFox News is desperately trying to spin Kamala Harris’s interview with Bret Baier Wednesday night and create the impression that the vice president bombed. The effort started right after the interview concluded, with Martha MacCallum telling Baier, “Bret, I thought you did a masterful job. This is the kind of interview that we should see a lot of on the campaign trail. “I thought you really asked the questions that a lot of Americans want answers to, which is, ‘How did you let all these millions of people come into the country, and do you have any regrets about it?’ and I think her answers were not good on that,” MacCallum said.Fox’s @marthamaccallum on @BretBaier’s interview with Kamala Harris: “I thought you did a masterful job. This is the kind of interview that we should see a lot of on the campaign trail.” pic.twitter.com/D3Hpzhcf6m— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) October 16, 2024 Sean Hannity covered for Baier on his evening show, saying, “He didn’t let Kamala off the hook; he pressed her, he pressed her repeatedly. Needless to say, I’d say the joy is gone in the Harris campaign tonight, and her obvious anger? That was on full display, the one she’s notorious for.” Hannity: Needless to say the joy is gone in the Harris campaign tonight. Her obvious anger— that was on full display. The one she’s notorious for pic.twitter.com/RA2BHLIcmL— Acyn (@Acyn) October 17, 2024 Baier went on Hannity’s show himself, and accused Harris of gamesmanship by coming out to begin the interview at 5:17 p.m. instead of earlier. He also accused the vice president of having a “mission” to find a viral moment.“She came to Fox News and she wanted to have a ‘go after Donald Trump’ viral moment that plays on a lot of other channels and on social media, and I think she may have gotten that,” Baier said.  Jesse Watters also took shots at Harris, saying, “She was roughed up so badly, Pelosi’s asking Joe to get back in,” saying that she had no good answers on immigration, praising Baier, and putting down her interviews with other news networks.“This is what an actual Kamala Harris interview should look like. Bret gave her the same treatment as he gave Trump in the spring: respectful, firm, and persistent. We didn’t swap her answers to make her look better like CBS. We didn’t invite little Timmy along to hold her hand like CNN. This was a big girl interview. And she flopped,” Watters said.  Fox News is the most important media organ for Republicans and conservatives, and it’s not surprising that its hosts would push the narrative that Harris messed up. In reality, though, Harris did not back down from the network’s bias, challenging Baier and fighting back against his interruptions, and outside observers, including former Fox employees, agreed. Watters’s contention that Fox treated Harris the same way as Trump is laughable, especially since the network made heavy edits to an interview with the former president in June and had aired a remarkably gentle and sanitized town hall with him earlier that day.The network was always going to be a formidable opponent for the Democrats this election, and Wednesday’s interview is clear proof that Fox’s on-air personalities want to make Harris look bad and help their preferred candidate, Donald Trump. The question is whether their audience was convinced. Share This StoryEditor's PickKamala Harris’s Momentum Is Gone View More PostsRead More: Politics, Law, Supreme Court, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Economic Inequality, Taxes, WashingtonBREAKING NEWS POLITICS CLIMATE CULTURE MAGAZINE PODCASTS GAMESEventsTravelBookstoreDonateAdvertiseFAQPressJobsSubmissionsSubscribe to The New RepublicSign Up for Our Newsletters Terms and ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie SettingsCopyright 2025 © The New Republic. All rights reserved.









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