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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow warned Monday that Republicans on election boards across the country could refuse to certify the 2024 election results should former President Trump lose in November. “Election boards across the country now include Republican officials who have not only propounded Mr. Trump’s lies about the last presidential election being ‘stolen,’ they have tested how far they can go in denying the certification of the vote,” Maddow wrote in an op-ed published with The New York Times. Maddow argued the spread of what she called “refusenik Republicans” began in 2020, when Trump and then-Republican National Committee Chair Ronna...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on her network’s breaking news coverage of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race that she is “blown away” by his patriotism. Maddow said, “I mean, this is just, this is history at large, you know? We all will remember where we were and what we were doing at this moment. What a man, what a patriot. Um, what is selfless devotion to your country. He has been a phenomenal president. He brought us back from COVID. He gave us the best recovery from COVID of any major nation on earth at a time...

Rachel Maddow and other top MSNBC hosts have been using an LED screen to cover the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee from the liberal network's studio in New York City, according to a report. Maddow, who has been leading the network's coverage of the GOP convention this week, has repeatedly appeared on air with the backdrop of the convention behind her, leading casual viewers to assume she was on the ground in Milwaukee. But Maddow and many of her colleagues, including Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Joy Reid and other MSNBC anchors have not been inside the convention hall or even...

The stalemate in the Democratic Party is likely to continue for some time, as Joe Biden awkwardly made it through his "big boy" press conference. Biden may have done enough to survive for the time being—albeit barely—but at what cost? Democrats are still worried he's going to lose big, and Joe Biden still believes that he is the Democrat best positioned to defeat Donald Trump. "The consideration is that I think I'm the most qualified person to run for president. I've beat him once and I will beat him again. Secondly, the idea I served in the Senate for a...

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow could cost the network a whopping $30 million after making “false” statements in her dubious “news” reporting. Maddow, along with MSNBC colleagues Nicolle Wallace and Chris Hayes, are in hot water after a federal judge ruled they made “verifiably false” statements about a Georgia doctor, Dr. Mahendra Amin, whom they called the “Uterus Collector.” The lawsuit revolves around the anchor’s accusations about Dr. Amin’s alleged involvement in performing unnecessary hysterectomies on women detained at an immigration facility at the time Donald Trump was president. The case stems from a complaint by a whistleblower in 2020 during...

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow said Thursday on “All In” that she was worried President Joe Biden was not being given the real poll numbers, which showed that he was losing the race after he insisted in his press conference that he was not doing poorly. Host Chris Hayes said, “There was something that he said that I thought was striking where he talked about, and I throughout it was honest and gives a window in the psychology. He said I got to finish the job.”

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that no one will be “safe” from Donald Trump if he wins the presidential election in November. Co-host Joy Behar said, “There has been a lot of talk about Trump seeking retribution if he gets into office for his legal troubles, for his personal troubles, for his hair, whatever. He always has somebody to blame, you know? So you said recently that you thought that you as an outspoken critic, could be a target yourself. Some people think that sounds overdramatic but I’m right there with you. I think that...

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow said the jury should be thanked and protected during her network’s coverage of former President Donald Trump being found guilty on all counts in a unanimous decision by a Manhattan jury in his business record trial. Maddow said, “Listen, this is unanimous on all counts. This is a definitive and this is an irreversible verdict. He can appeal. I’m sure he will appeal. But this is everything that the prosecution asked for, from a jury that by all counts took this thing very, very seriously. We counted the deliberation hours down here. The test here for...

Republican Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia criticized MSNBC hosts on Wednesday for mocking voters concerned about illegal immigration. The MSNBC panel, which included hosts Jen Psaki, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow, were discussing Tuesday night exit polling including one which found that immigration was a top issue in Virginia. Several panelists mocked voters’ concerns, with one referencing West Virginia’s proximity to the state, to which Justice responded in a post on X “What an incredibly insulting statement about the hardworking, good people of West Virginia by liberal elites @JRPsaki and @Maddow,” Justice said. “Biden’s open-border policies have created a...

Tuesday night, during MSNBC’s Super Tuesday election coverage, the all-star panel of hosts openly laughed at voters who see the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border as the number one issue in this year’s election. Anchor Joy Reid said, “Republican voters don’t vote that way. The don’t vote based on economic or based on the economic benefits they are getting from the president. They are increasingly from the Tea Party on they’re voting on this idea of an invasion of brown people over the border, the idea that they can’t get whatever job they want. A black person got it. Therefore,...

MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow said it is “irresponsible” of news organizations to carry former President Trump’s remarks when they know he is going to make false statements. As the network cut away from Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech, Maddow said whether or not to provide live continuous coverage of the former president’s public remarks “is a decision that we revisit constantly.” The balance, she said, is “between allowing somebody to knowingly lie on your air about things they’ve lied about before — and you can predict they are going to lie about.” “And so, therefore, it is just irresponsible to...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attempted to counter claims President Biden is too old to lead the White House by bringing up that he has the ability to ride a bike - despite the embarrassing stumble he suffered in June 2022. The issue of Biden's age shot back into focus this week following a damning special prosecutor conclusion that he mishandled classified materials, but was perceived as too old for a jury to convict. It said that a jury would probably conclude that he had 'diminished faculties' and was a 'well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.' In a discussion on...

Self-awareness is hard. Democrats are especially bad at seeing themselves as others see them. Monday night on MSNBC, anchor Rachel Maddow claimed that Trump’s re-election pitch is that he will be a dictator who will end politics in the United States.Jen Psaki sat and listened to Maddow’s unhinged commentary with a snarl on her face“Donald Trump is not leading the Republican Party and leading the Republican field of candidates because of his youthful vigor or because of his eloquence. None of that is going on,” Maddow told Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary for President Biden and her...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that if former President Donald Trump won the presidency again, there will not be another election. Maddow said, “If you listen to what Trump is saying, you don’t sort of regard him as a spectacle, but listen to what he’s saying, he’s basically portraying a future for America, if he is put back in the White House, in which we don’t have another election after that. Because ‘the elections are all rigged.’ That the democratic process can’t be trusted, that Congress should just work for him. The Justice Department should...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Wednesday on “The ReidOut” that former President Donald Trump could make a plea deal vowing not to run for president again to avoid jail time. Anchor Joy Reid said, “What are the chances that Donald Trump, and I had not thought about until you said it, that instead of going through with this trial he takes a plea with the vowed to not run for president again like Spiro Agnew did in the 70s.” Maddow said, “I don’t know what the odds are.” She continued, “I can’t imagine him pleading guilty to anything. Who among...

Russia has banned hundreds of U.S. citizens, including former President Obama, political commentator Rachel Maddow and late-night host Stephen Colbert, from entering its territory in response to the U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine war. The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a Friday post on its website it is blocking entry for 500 Americans in response to the sanctions it said are designed to inflict the most damage possible on officials and civilians in Russia. The list of banned individuals includes former officials, lawmakers from both parties who were elected to Congress during last year’s midterm elections and may have...

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow said Friday on “The ReidOut” that the Republican Party wants to “go back to the good old days where everybody was the same color.” Discussing Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Kanye West, Maddow said, “A certain proportion of the American public likes this stuff and falls for it over and over again and discovers it anew, the same way every new generation believes they discovered sex. Every new generation of Americans believes they have discovered this efficient wave of the future where slow, boring democracy lets all the wrong people have decision-making power instead will be...

Rachel Maddow has departed MSNBC but her legacy there and across cable news will live on. The network’s transformation from Keith Olbermann’s George W. Bush hyperventilations to Nicole Wallace’s intelligence apparatus would not have happened without Maddow massaging the crazy through her windy pontifications. Maddow was Alex Jones with a smug Ivy League elitism and inside voice. No one has ever mastered the “Weekend Update for very serious people” format better than her. While some point to how Bill O’Reilly mainstreamed pen pointing at Fox News, Maddow perfected gestures of disbelief. She might have been intelligent and sincere yet it’s...

Rachel Maddow called the raid on Trump both astonishing and inevitable.

We have watched this clip of Rachel Maddow several times now, waiting for there to be a punchline or something we’re missing, maybe a follow-up about how Trump is still evil and kicks puppies, starves orphans, etcetera, but no. Granted, this is just a clip, and who knows what she rattled off after dropping this little truth bomb but she said what she said. Take a look: Even MSNBC admits President Trump and the rally had nothing to do with the Capitol breach! pic.twitter.com/sMGyHW3KcP — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 10, 2022 Rachel … is that really you?! Wow this...