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Another statue has popped up to commemorate a major moment in Donald Trump's history: his alleged tryst with adult film star and director Stormy Daniels.

Huffington Post's Jen Bendery has been following the statues as the civic crafting group erects them around the country. So far, similar monuments have appeared in Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On Monday, the new statue was in the Donald J. Trump State Park in Yorktown Heights, New York.

On Monday, it was a "7 feet wide by 8 feet tall" Trump statue, and on top was "a tiny golden mushroom." Daniels infamously compared a Trump extremity to a mushroom in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel.

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Named "The Very Large Donald J. Trump Monument," the tiny mushroom stands atop a large pillar. Bendery said it's clear it "trolls Trump over the size of his manhood."

"Despite this towering statue's impressive heft, The President's former mistress, Stormy Daniels, knowingly slandered the President as having a 'smaller than average' monument and claimed it is an 'unusual' monument similar to 'a mushroom.' She further went on to describe his monument as 'the least impressive I've ever had,'" the plaque reads.

"The circumstances surrounding her statements have been verified by a New York State court of Law," it also reads.

Indeed, Trump's company faced off against several felony counts for attempting to cover up a payoff to Daniels to stay quiet about the affair. He was found guilty on all counts.

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One of the most closely watched swing states on Election Night 2024 will be Pennsylvania, where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been campaigning aggressively in the hope of winning the state's 19 electoral votes.

Pennsylvania has gone Democrat in most of the United States' post-1980s presidential elections. But Trump carried Pennsylvania in 2016 before losing it to now-President Joe Biden four years later in 2020.

According to NBC News' Garrett Haake, Trump already appears to be gearing up to "contest Pennsylvania election results" if they go Harris' way.

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Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Wednesday: "Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scales rarely seen before. REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!"

In response to Trump's post, Haake tweeted, "Trump appears to be laying the groundwork to contest Pennsylvania election results, claiming without evidence this morning that the whole commonwealth somehow is cheering at 'large scale levels.'"

Polls, in late October, are showing a very close race in the Keystone State.

An InsiderAdvantage poll released on October 28 showed Trump with a 1 percent lead over Harris in Pennsylvania. But a CBS News poll that came out the following day found Harris and Trump tied.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) advised Vice President Kamala Harris to label Donald Trump a "Nazi" after President Joe Biden seemed to suggest that the former president's supporters were "garbage."

During a Wednesday interview with Real America's Voice, Huckabee addressed Biden's reaction to a comedian at a recent Trump rally who suggested Puerto Rico residents were "garbage." A transcript that was later corrected by the White House seemed to say that Trump supporters were also garbage.

The former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate offered some advice to Harris.

"When something like that happens, the smart play is to disavow yourself and say, look, I think Donald Trump is a Nazi, which she's been saying, which is ridiculous in itself, because then that means all of us who support him, we must be following a Nazi," he said. "So the fact that she has kept silent on this is an agreement with Joe that all the people who support Donald Trump are garbage."

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Huckabee also said Biden was treating Trump supporters like Jews killed in the Holocaust.

"So if you've decided that some human beings really are garbage, rubbish, and trash, and need to be exterminated because they just aren't that important, it's not hard to get there," Huckabee opined. "One of the reasons that the Nazis were able to murder 6 million Jews and 11 million people total is because they spent decades telling people that some people just weren't taking care of, the infirm, the elderly."

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A Republican senator faced significant backlash Wednesday after he first disavowed racist jokes told at former President Donald Trump's recent rally then promoted his on a podcast with a white nationalist.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who is running for reelection this year, promoted his appearance on Laura Loomer's show just days after condemning comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's slur on Puerto Ricans, whose nation he called a "floating island of garbage."

"Excited to talk about the Senate GOP Leader race soon with [Loomer]!" wrote Scott. "We need Republicans in Washington to act like Republicans again. Looking forward to the conversation!"

Replied independent journalist Aaron Rupar, "Did Alex Jones turn you down or what?"

Loomer is the controversial MAGA activist who has spread conspiracy theories about the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, pronounced herself a "proud Islamophobe" and addressed white nationalists at a 2022 conference during which she declared she was a "white advocate," reports show.

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When Trump last month summoned Loomer onto his personal plane and brought her to a Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony in New York City, and at the time it sparked outrage on the right.

And when Scott promoted his appearance on her podcast Tuesday night, he faced similar condemnation from policy experts, political commentators and even a former Trump aide.

"So Rick Scott condemned the anti-Puerto Rican bigotry at the MSG rally, but is going to appear with Laura Loomer, a self avowed white nationalist and Islamophobe on her podcast," wrote Tim Wise, a senior fellow at the African American Policy Forum.

"Lets you know Scott's concerns: it's not that he minds racism. He just needs Puerto Rican votes."

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Mark Jacob, a former Chicago Tribune editor, urged Florida voters not to validate Scott's campaign tactics with their votes on Nov. 5 — and threw support behind his Democratic challenger instead.

"Here’s Republican Sen. Rick Scott legitimizing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who said 9/11 was 'an inside job' and suggested the Parkland school shooting was a hoax," he wrote. "Please, Florida. Vote Scott out. Vote Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in."

Christopher Mathias, senior reporter for the Huffington Post, noted Scott's promotion came within days of condemning Hinchcliffe.

"Less than 48 hrs after distancing self from the racist Puerto Rico remark at MSG, Scott promotes Loomer," wrote Matthias, "who calls herself 'proud Islamophobe' & 'pro-white nationalism' who 'really does believe in IQ science' & called Ilhan Omar 'black dog' & said Somalis are 'inbred' & 'low IQ.'"

Mathias' HuffPo colleague Igor Bobic also highlighted a racist joke Loomer herself made last month that drew criticism from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as well as Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Thom Tillis (R-NC).

"Loomer said if Harris wins the election 'the White House will smell like curry,' drawing condemnations from Graham, Tillis, & even MTG," Bobic wrote. "Graham called her “toxic” and urged Trump to keep his distance."

Trump's former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews posited Scott's decision to appear on the show reflected his desperation to hold onto his Senate seat.

"Imagine wanting power so badly that you’re willing to debase yourself like this," Matthews wrote. "Feeling the need to kowtow to Laura Loomer is disqualifying for someone seeking to lead the Senate GOP."

A New York Times opinion editor wrote Tuesday that while Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have run about the same number of ads in swing states, they're "worlds apart" in tone — and any notion from Trump that the Harris campaign has been too negative is "laughable."

Gus Wezerek published an analysis Tuesday after watching every presidential campaign ad that aired on broadcast stations from Aug. 1 to Oct. 25. After labeling them "positive," "contrast" or "negative," he found a "stark difference.

While Harris' ads varied in tone, Trump's ads, he found, were "mostly negative."

"Republicans have been much more consistent in their messaging," Wezerek said. "When Harris went high, they went low, over and over again."

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The analysis comes after Trump told "Fox & Friends" earlier this month that he thinks networks shouldn't be allowed to run "negative ads" about him until after the election.

"In the old days, you never played negative ads. In other words, when I leave here, I’ll then be hit by five or six ads, and in the old days…” he said.

Trump's complaint about Harris’s "relatively few negative ads particularly laughable," wrote Wezerek.

"If the network applied the same standards to Trump, his campaign wouldn’t have many ads left to run," he concluded.

Vice President Kamala Harris will try to once again set herself apart from Donald Trump when she delivers her closing argument speech Tuesday night at the Ellipse in Washington D.C. – the site of the former president’s Jan. 6, 2021, remarks that followed the Capitol riot and insurrection attempt.

“America, we know what Donald Trump has in mind. More chaos. More division. And policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else. I offer a different path. And I ask for your vote,” Harris will say, according to early excerpts released of the speech.

In her address to the country, which comes a week before Election Day, Harris will offer a promise to the American people.

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“I pledge to seek common ground and common sense solutions to make your lives better. I am not looking to score political points. I am looking to make progress. I pledge to listen to experts. To those who will be impacted by the decisions I make. And to people who disagree with me,” according to the first excerpts.

She will also seek to distinguish herself from Trump, whose campaign is on the offensive amid fallout from disturbing and racist remarks that emerged from his controversial New York City rally.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at my table. And I pledge to be a president for all Americans. To always put country above party and above self.”