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Former Nevada Republican Party chair Amy Tarkanian does not think Donald Trump's Monday interview with X owner Elon Musk won any new voters.

Speaking to International CNBC, Tarkanian explained that Trump's comments were nothing more than the same grievances over and over again.

"I actually didn't learn anything new," she said. "It's pretty similar to one of his rallies. But unfortunately, once again, if you're somebody who were maybe on the fence, or if you were just somebody [who] was just curious, or somebody who has made up your mind; I don't think really it really changed too many minds."

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Host Dan Murphy explained that Trump is losing ground on voters who believe he would do better on the economy, as a recent poll showed that Vice President Kamala Harris now has the edge over him on the issue.

Tarkanian agreed it was bad news, but there is even worse news when the same poll is broken into demographics. Trump has always struggled with female voters and young voters. Tarkanian explained that these numbers look even worse up against Harris.

"Those are two areas Trump has struggled with, even in his first campaign, and he just seems not to have bounced back," she said. "And I think with the pick of his vice presidential nominee, J.D. Vance, and his unfortunate comments that have come to the forefront attacking women, whether it be on reproductive rights or whether it be on statements that women should stay in unhealthy marriages, even if they are violent, for the children. These are things that are not helpful at all for the Trump ticket. He has quite an uphill battle."

A split like this means that voters can end up making decisions on single-issue topics or on how the candidate makes them feel. Harris uses words like "freedom" and "joy," which appeals to more voters. Trump, she said, is still angry.

Tarkanian said the one benefit is that Trump essentially received "two free hours of advertising" for his campaign.

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Donald Trump attacked Kamala Harris for pledging to improve border security and blaming Republican lawmakers for the failure of a bipartisan immigration bill.

The vice president promised to sign similar legislation into law if elected to succeed President Joe Biden and touted her own record as California attorney general, saying she had prosecuted "transnational gangs, the drug cartels and the human traffickers," but Trump lashed out on social media.

"Kamala Harris just said, after 10 years of weak statements, and 3 1/2 years of REALLY WEAK ACTIONS, that she wants to get tough on the Border," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Well, why hasn’t she done it, it’s almost four years too late. She’s all talk, NO ACTION! Our Country is being absolutely obliterated by her, our wonderful 'Border Czar,' allowing millions of people to pour in, totally unchecked and unvetted, with large numbers of terrorists, and many others from prisons and mental institutions."

Federal data estimates 4.2 million people entered the country illegally since Biden took office, although Republicans insist that number is closer to 8 million, and migration experts say there's no evidence of widespread entry into the U.S. by criminals or mental patients.

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"Because of her, we have become a DUMPING GROUND FOR THE WORLD," the ex-president said. "KAMALA BROKE IT, I WILL FIX IT!"

Harris reminded voters that senior Republicans, including Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, acknowledge that Trump's opposition killed the border deal because he wanted to campaign on that issue hoped to deprive Biden of a political win.

“Donald Trump [doesn’t] want to fix this problem," Harris said over the weekend at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona. "He talks a big game — about a lot of things — but he talks a big game about border security. But he does not walk the walk.”

The Paris Olympics won mostly rave reviews from western media after they closed on Sunday, while media in Russia, whose team were excluded because of its war in Ukraine, sniffed at France's success.

Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke wondered whether Tinseltown was up to the task of rivalling Paris when it hosts the next Summer Olympics in 2028.

"We have to somehow take greatness and make it even greater," he wrote, calling the Games in France "a blockbuster Parisian party that was two weeks of pure Hollywood".

"How on earth can the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics surpass what the world just witnessed in a two-week burst of picturesque rejoicing from the Champ de Mars to the Palace of Versailles?"

The New York Times was generous in its praise of the sporting extravaganza, saying it lifted France from its gloom brought on by political crisis.

"Many are reluctant to let go of its magic: of the adrenaline-fuelled excitement, of the party free of political debate, of the sense of time deliciously suspended, like the glowing Olympic cauldron that has hovered wistfully over the city every night."

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The Guardian of Britain hailed the Games' message which it said was "the importance of protecting the spirit of the games in an uncertain world riven by conflict".

But Jim White, writing in The Telegraph, said that Paris "could not match the spirit and warmth of London 2012".

The Italian media was unanimous in its praise, with Corriere della Sera saying Paris had "overcome its fears" despite a prologue marked by "rain, pollution of the Seine and sabotage".

La Repubblica highlighted the "Diversity Olympics".

Spain's El Mundo added: "The Paris of the Olympics was the most dedicated Paris we'd seen in a very long time."

Germany's Die Welt praised the security ensured by the French, saying Paris showed how the Games can be organised "safely in a metropolis in a free and democratic country".

Poland's Rzeczpospolita called the Paris Games "a love letter" while Gazeta Wyborcza noted that nearly all the competitions "took place in front of full stands".

In Portugal, the editor of daily Correio da Manha, Carlos Rodrigues, called the Games "a magnificent success".

"In sporting terms too, Paris was a success, even if it didn't dazzle or create a world star capable of rivalling the likes of Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps."

But others including Frank Renout, writing for Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool, warned that the magic would not last.

"Soon everything will return to normal, which in the case of the French means dark and confrontational," he wrote.

"If 'happiness' were an Olympic sport, France would never have won a medal."

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In Russia, however, some newspapers found fault.

"The Paris Games weren't flawless," said Moskovsky Komsomolets, a pro-Kremlin mass circulation newspaper, stressing it remained unclear who sabotaged France's high-speed rail network before the opening ceremony.

The newspaper argued that spectators will remember "an endless series of scandals" and not the athletes' sporting feats or records.

Komsomolskaya Pravda, a pro-Kremlin tabloid, said the competitions in Paris were "the most shameful Olympic Games in history".

"The Paris 2024 organisers managed to offend hundreds of millions of people with an opening ceremony and a parody of the Last Supper. And then the Olympics became increasingly embroiled in problems, scandals and even crime."

One of its subheads read: "Vomiting athletes, champions with male chromosomes in women's boxing and worms in food."

In Algeria, an editorial in government daily El Moudjahid praised Algerian boxing champion Imane Khelif, who was at the centre of a gender eligibility row at the Paris Games.

"Imane's victory is also a victory for the oppressed and the excluded, but above all it is a victory for the law, which for too long has been trampled by the logic of the powerful, who are greedy for domination and adept at double-standard policies."

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton on Monday suggested that some kind of intervention is needed when it comes to former President Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.

During an appearance on CNN, Singleton was asked by host Jim Acosta about Trump's behavior in recent days, which has included lengthy rants falsely claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris used artificial intelligence to inflate the size of her crowds at rallies.

"I was talking to a Trump adviser earlier and asking him about Trump harping on this crowd size issue and asking, you know, why is he doing this?" Acosta revealed. "And the response I got in the text was, 'No effing clue.'"

Singleton responded by pointing to a Fox News appearance on Monday from former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who encouraged Trump to focus in on the issues rather than making wild claims about Harris faking crowd sizes.

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Singleton also said that Trump needed to hit the trail more so that he could get some positive affirmation.

Acosta pointed out that there has been some talk of having an intervention in the campaign, with longtime adviser Kellyanne Conway reportedly being considered to come aboard.

"They have to get the former president back out there, on the campaign trail, making those cases in battleground states to voters versus what we're seeing on Truth Social," he said.

"Get him off Truth Social?" asked Acosta.

"Absolutely!" Singleton replied.

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Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance worked to do damage control over the weekend after he suggested that parents should be given more votes than single citizens.

During a Sunday interview with ABC News, host Jonathan Karl said he was putting Vance's "childless cat ladies" remark aside to focus on his proposal to give more votes to parents.

"And you said you advocated giving extra votes to people with children," Karl explained.

"Well, John, it's not a policy proposal," Vance said defensively. "It's a thought experiment, right?"

"Some Democrats had said we're going to give children the right to vote," he claimed. "And I said, well, if we're going to give the rights to the children, then we should actually just allow the parents to cast those votes, right?"

"So it's a thought experiment."

Vance admitted, "Sometimes family doesn't work out for people, and that's okay."

"You said, when you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power," Karl noted. "You should have more of an ability to speak your voice in a democratic republic than the people who don't have kids."

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"I mean, you are directly saying that people with kids should have more of a voice in our democracy," the ABC host added. "Thought experiment or not about how that is done, but that is the principle."

"Again, John, it's a thought experiment," Vance replied, sticking to his talking points.

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After going on an extended rant claiming Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz lied about his military service "for political gain," Donald Trump running mate J.D. Vance was pressed by CNN's Dana Bash to defend Trump ducking out on military service completely.

In the midst of the long interview with the Ohio Republican who claimed Walz's actions were "shameful," the "State of the Union" host began, "One last question, Donald Trump didn't serve in the military. He received a medical draft deferment for bone spurs to avoid serving in the Vietnam war, reportedly as a favor to his father."

"Do you find that shameful too ?" she asked.

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"I think that Donald Trump didn't serve in the military but he didn't lie about it, Dana," the Ohio Republican protested. "I've known Donald Trump for a long time..."

"You don't think he— " Bash tried to interject as Vance talked over her and claimed, "Donald Trump didn't lie about serving in the military, he didn't say that he went to Vietnam when he didn't. This is the problem."

"I don't criticize anybody whether they served our country or not," he insisted as he changed the subject. "I think it's honorable to serve, but obviously a lot of people have reasons for not serving. I criticize somebody for embellishing the record for lying, saying I went to war, Dana."

"Don't you think that it's a problem that he [Walz] said I went to war, but he didn't actually? That seems to be a problem to me," Vance continued.

"Well, they've they corrected that, let's move on, " Bash replied.

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