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Former President Donald Trump has found a new way to separate his supporters from their hard-earned money, according to critics.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, the former president announced he was now selling Trump-branded gold wristwatches.

"The Official Trump Watch Collection is here, and these Watches are truly special — You’re going to love them," he wrote. "Would make a great Christmas Gift. Don’t wait, they will go fast. GET YOUR TRUMP WATCH RIGHT NOW!"

In the past, Trump has also sold his supporters items such as golden sneakers, digital trading cards, Bibles, and cryptocurrency, so his foray into gold watches seems like a logical next step, observers says.

Nonetheless, many of the president's critics took to X to marvel at the sheer number of overpriced consumer goods he's pitching to his supporters, especially during a time when he is claiming that the American economy is in a supposed death spiral.

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"The grift never ends with Trump," wrote former NBCUniversal executive Mike Sington. "Now he’s selling watches to his MAGA fans. Get this, they’re priced from $499 to $100,000, and look like crap. Another total rip-off."

"He is the greatest conman and grifter in the history of America," wrote the pseudonymous account Spiro's Ghost. "He comes up with a new way to fleece his cult members constantly with completely worthless nonsense. All of this while he says AMERICA WILL END! and will become COMMUNIST! if he doesn’t win in November. Laser focus."

"If you already have a Trump Bible ($60), Trump digital Pokémon card ($99), Trump sneakers ($499) and Trump souvenir coin($100), clearly you need a Trump watch," joked Huffington Post reporter S.V. Dáte. "Prices: $499 to $100,000. This is what the second shift workers of western Pennsylvania have been clamoring for."

Twitter user Thomas Macioszek, meanwhile, dug up an old quote from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) during a 2016 debate in which the Florida Republican said, "If Donald Trump hadn't inherited $200,000,000, he'd be in New York City selling watches right now."

And former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele labeled Trump a "two-bit huckster" who is "pumping out another trinket for the masses to consume (at $100K a pop) because that’s better than actual policies."

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For decades, Republicans have relied upon older voters turning out in large numbers to make up their deficits with younger voters.

However, CNN polling expert Harry Enten on Thursday highlighted polling showing that this could actually reverse in the 2024 election.

During a breakdown of recent polls, Enten showed that Vice President Kamala Harris at the moment is enjoying a three-point lead among voters who are 65 years or older, which is a significant shift from the four-point advantage that Trump had among voters 65 and older back in July when he was still running against President Joe Biden.

However, the same polls show that Harris at the moment isn't doing as well with young voters as Biden did in 2020, which lead to Enten being asked if this was a good tradeoff for her.

"It is an excellent tradeoff!" Enten exclaimed.

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He then explained that voters between the ages of 18 and 29 are projected to make up only 13 percent of likely voters, whereas voters 65 and older are projected to make up 29 percent of voters.

"If you're Kamala Harris, yeah, shed a little bit among younger voters," he said. "If you're going to shed support anywhere, shed it among younger voters.

Writing on X, Enten elaborated that Harris's lead among older voters is "one reason Harris has a small national lead over Trump" and is potentially a "huge development because seniors vote in huge numbers."

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Speaking with the co-hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," on Thursday morning, business analyst Andrew Ross Sorkin explained that Vice President Kamala Harris alleviated a lot of concerns about her candidacy during a Wednesday speech and subsequent interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle.

Harris has been facing criticism from mainstream media members for not explaining enough about her policies while they have given Donald Trump a "pass" as co-host Joe Scarborough observed earlier.

According to Sorkin, Harris has some "reluctant" fans in the business community and one declaration she made on Wednesday allayed any fears they may have had.

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"There's a line in her speech yesterday where she said she was 'a capitalist,' and where she was free and fair markets, that was music to the ears of folks who weren't really sure where she really stood," Sorkin told the hosts.

"They have heard her called a progressive and then to hear her say that, you know we have heard from a lot of oh folks from inside her campaign that she was going to tack to the center, but was she really? I think this was, to the world of business a sigh of relief. Yes, she's going to have higher corporate taxes than former president Trump would be pushing for. At the same time there's a sense now you're going to have divided government anyway."

"The feedback I heard from the business community last night was very, very positive for her pretty much across the board," he added. "They want to know more, but they were feeling -- they were feeling better. Again, I don't know if this is a vibes campaign, but the vibes were better. "

"She also said something very interesting," he told the hosts. "She said I'm not against them being wealthy, I'm not against success. I just want to figure out a way to tax the system in a fair way. I think that to some degree resonated. Now I know there are going to be some selfish folks out there who are super greedy who don't even like the idea of it. But I just think that, when you start to think about what is the more practical approach to all these things, she definitely laid out her case, and I think it landed to a large degree."

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Donald Trump spent Tuesday campaigning in Georgia, but someone apparently forget to tell him.

The former president spoke at a campaign rally in Savannah, where he touched on his plans to lower taxes and boost manufacturing, but he spent much of his 90-speech criticizing vice president Kamala Harris on border security and the economy, although he baffled many with a late-night post capping off the day.

"A great day in Louisiana!" Trump posted shortly after midnight on Truth Social.

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Trump seemingly tried to cover up his mistake by posting about "internal polling" that showed him winning Louisiana – which he easily won in 2016 and 2020 – "by the largest margin," and then sent out a "thank you" to Georgia shortly before 2 a.m.

"He was in Georgia," posted The Lincoln Project.

"Trump spent the day in Georgia then posted that it was 'A great day in Louisiana,' another example of how he’s changing American politics with his outside-the-box approach to social media," noted USA Today columnist Rex Hubke. "Also, Joe Biden is old and in mental decline."

"Trump was in Georgia, not Louisiana. Who’s gonna tell him?" said Bloomberg columnist and Trump biographer Tim O'Brien.

"Dementia Don strikes again. (Trump was in Georgia today. not Louisiana)," added the account Republicans Against Trump.

"Trump appears to have lost a total grasp on things," The New Republic wrote. "Donald Trump can’t seem to remember what state he’s even in anymore."

The New Republic pointed out that wasn't even the first geographical error he'd made that day after he misstated the name of Charlottesville, Virginia, the site of the infamous 2017 white nationalist rally.

“She didn’t say anything except lies, like bloodbath, like Charlottestown,” Trump said during the Savannah rally in response to an attack line from Harris during their debate earlier this month.

The spokesperson for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point Action group expects Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to help former President Donald Trump to win over "females" because she said birth control was "poison" and men in the U.S. "don't have sperm anymore."

During a Tuesday interview, Turning Point's Caitlin Sinclair hailed Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) strategy for the Trump campaign.

"Look, we talk about this gender divide all the time right now, right?" Sinclair told Real America's Voice. "And I think this is the way Donald Trump can get more of the females on board."

Sinclair cited low fertility rates and "the highest numbers of autoimmune conditions in this country, in history."

"So this is how, if you ask me how we can bridge this gender gap and divide," she continued, "this is how Donald Trump can attract more of the female voters who care about all of these issues, care about how birth control is poisoning us, they care about how the men in this country don't have sperm anymore."

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"So this is my answer to how we can bridge that divide," Sinclair added. "And I am definitely on board MAHA, because, guys, there is no Make America Great Again, there is no MAGA without MAHA."

In a report earlier this year, The Washington Post noted that "prominent conservative commentators have seized upon mistrust of medical professionals, sowing misinformation as a way to discourage the use of birth control."

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Women are increasingly being charged with pregnancy-related crimes since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that had found a constitutional right to abortion. Abortion bans are playing a role.

A new study, "Pregnancy As a Crime: A Preliminary Report on the First Year After Dobbs," found 210 cases of pregnancy-related crimes were charged in the first year since the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court ruling that rescinded the constitutional right to abortion. That is the largest number of cases in any 12-month period since the year Roe v. Wade was decided.

"Most of the cases identified were in just two states: Alabama and Oklahoma," according to the Associated Press. Essentially half of all cases (104) were charged in just one state: Alabama. Oklahoma ranked second with 68.

"Wendy Bach, a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and one of the lead researchers on the project, said one of the cases was when a woman delivered a stillborn baby at her home about six or seven months into pregnancy," the AP reports. "Bach said that when the woman went to make funeral arrangements, the funeral home alerted authorities and the woman was charged with homicide."

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Mary Ruth Ziegler, a legal historian focusing on abortion at University of California Davis School of Law, told CNN, “Prosecutions of pregnant women for conduct during pregnancy didn’t start with the anti-abortion movement, but they definitely accelerated with the anti-abortion movement.”

Lourdes Rivera, president of Pregnancy Justice, the nonprofit organization that released the study, told the AP, “It’s an environment where pregnancy loss is potentially criminally suspect.”

Rivera, speaking to Jezebel, "said the report’s findings reflect how 'post-Dobbs, abortion bans have created a chilling effect, an environment for law enforcement to misapply existing criminal laws and the ideology of fetal personhood' to wrongly criminalize a range of legal behaviors from pregnant people."

Earlier this year the Republican National Committee released its first new platform in eight years. Some media reports claimed it was "softening" on abortion, and some far-right activists blasted the RNC for that stance. But the new platform included language paving the way for what some call fetal personhood, the belief that human life begins at conception and therefore a fertilized egg is immediately conferred the same civil rights as every other person in America.

CNN reports fetal personhood "is at the root of many of the allegations" examined in the Pregnancy Justice report.

“The goal was not just to have these individual people go to prison, it was meant to set a precedent about what fetal rights look like,” Ziegler said. “So going for the easiest target made sense.”

CNN adds that "the data from June 2022 to June 2023 shows that the vast majority of pregnancy-related charges alleged substance use during pregnancy, according to the new report from Pregnancy Justice. In more than half of the cases, substance use was the only allegation made against the defendant."

The vast majority of the defendants were low income, and proof that the fetus was actually harmed was not required for most of the 210 charges.

"About half of cases were in Alabama, where residents voted in 2018 to amend the Constitution to include protections for unborn life and where the state Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos are children and those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death," CNN noted.

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“The People of Alabama have declared the public policy of this State to be that unborn human life is sacred,” Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote in his concurring opinion earlier this year. “We believe that each human being, from the moment of conception, is made in the image of God, created by Him to reflect His likeness.”

Pregnancy Justice on social media explained that after the Dobbs decision, "State actors are emboldened, putting pregnant people under INCREASED surveillance and making a dire situation even worse."

Dr. Norman Ornstein, a political scientist, senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, and contributing editor for the Atlantic weighed in on Alabama Public Radio's report from the Associated Press.

"Alabama. Elected Tommy Tuberville. Katie Britt. Kay Ivey. A Hellscape of racism and cruelty," Ornstein wrote, referring to the state's Republican freshmen U.S. Senators and longtime Republican governor.

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