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Trump rallygoers cite economy as a top midterm issue
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'They just kept kicking me and hitting me with sticks, and it just kept going on and on, and then I actually thought, OK, maybe I'll just play dead and pretend I'm dead, and they'll stop, and they'll leave me alone.' The Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine talks with @jaketapper about being attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
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Jeffries suggests to CNN that the GOP will 'scheme' to suppress midterm votes
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Tapper: Trump's closing argument akin to 'we stand by those who stand by child rapists' Hear unearthed audio from Amy Acton's estranged mother, who is featured in Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's controversial ad.
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'This ad is going to go down as the most shameful, disgusting, offensive ad this election season.' GOP Rep. Nancy Mace tells @jaketapper it will take time for her party to recover from the damage done by Ohio Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring his opponent's estranged mother.
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Why the Ramaswamy campaign released the controversial attack ad featuring Amy Acton's mother
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Cook Political Report named Rep. Don Davis 'the most vulnerable House Democrat in the country.' He joined @jaketapper to react.
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'They went and got LeBron. They went and got Brown. Who else do you want? Go get Jesus. He ain't going to save you. Still Knicks in 5.' @OmarJimenez reports for @TheLead from Madison Square Garden ahead of the historic NBA tip-off between the reigning champions and the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Latest episode in our ‘Out of Office’ series- visited North Carolina with outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis - see it on The Lead at 5p
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'Our president is morally blind on this war. He's pitched his lot in with a dictator and a war criminal, and he's being harsh and undermining the democracy, the country that wants to be part of the West... Putin hates us, but the president doesn't see that.' GOP Rep. Don Bacon joins @jaketapper to discuss President Trump's latest comments on Russia's war with Ukraine.
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Tensions flare in court hearing on Trump’s golf course renovation. CNN's @SunlenSerfaty joins The Lead.
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Philadelphia Eagles QB Jalen Hurts is set to miss the rest of the season after doctors found blood clots in his lungs. @DanaONeilWriter joins @jaketapper to react.
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'I took it as a big compliment. I took it as a statement that the Republican party thought they needed to send the most powerful man in the country to try and save Roger Marshall.' Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton tells @jaketapper he thinks Trump's visit to his state will hurt his Republican opponent.
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'Under the first Trump administration, they started building up a very strong profile... but now Trump 2.0, they've just up and disappeared. So, it's not just less frequent, it's not at all.' Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes tells @Boris_Sanchez the Trump administration stopped all briefings on foreign threats to US elections.
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