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Former President Donald Trump has branded Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) "very weak" and questioned his ability to stand against President Joe Biden's agenda.

In an interview with One America News (OAN), Trump criticized GOP lawmakers who failed to push his claims that the presidential election was stolen from him through mass voter fraud to the extent he wanted them to, The Washington Post reported.

The former president added that there would be a "different president" in the White House had McConnell pursued his baseless claims about the 2020 election and fought for "election integrity."

"But other than fundraising, he's very weak," Trump said of McConnell. The Post reported that he later told OAN that Democrats can get "whatever they want approved," and said McConnell was "hopeless and he can't stop anything."

His criticism of McConnell follows a February statement in which he called the Kentucky Republican a "dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack" who was failing to deliver for the GOP.

"He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country," Trump wrote at the time. "Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership."

He also attacked "wayward Republicans" who voted in favor of an independent commission investigation into the January 6 Capitol riots on Wednesday, further exposing divides between the populist and so-called moderate wings of the GOP.

Thirty-five Republican lawmakers voted with House Democrats on Wednesday to establish a commission that would investigate how the fatal Capitol riots began, and delve into the Trump administration's response.

Most GOP representatives opposed the commission plans, which Trump has dubbed a "Democrat trap" an an unfair partisan probe.

"It is just more partisan unfairness and unless the murders, riots, and fire bombings in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, and New York are also going to be studied, this discussion should be ended immediately," Trump said. "Republicans must get much tougher and much smarter, and stop being used by the Radical Left."

In spite of the criticism Trump has thrown at him, Sen. McConnell has opposed the commission plans and indicated that Democrats won't win the 10 Republican votes needed to pass the measure through the upper chamber.

"There is, has been and will continue to be no shortage of robust investigations," McConnell said in the Senate. "The facts have come out and they'll continue to come out."

Newsweek has contacted Senator McConnell's office and the officer of the former president for further comment.

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Former President Donald Trump's "From the Desk of..." blog crashed on Saturday. Users were greeted with an error message, saying "something has gone wrong and this URL cannot be processed at this time."

The hourlong outage came after Trump posted a message about the ongoing election recount in Maricopa County, Arizona, according to the Gateway Pundit.

The message included unverified statements about election fraud in Arizona, saying "seals were broken on the boxes that hold the votes, ballots are missing, and worse."

Trump launched the blog in early May as a way to talk directly to his followers and the media. He was previously removed from both Twitter and Facebook, his most-used social media networks.

The Twitter ban for @RealDonaldTrump was said to be permanent. Facebook has been wrestling with letting the former president back onto its platform. The company said earlier this month that it plans to revisit the decision in six months.

His blog had about 212,0000 engagements during its first week online, notably fewer than some of his most popular tweets.

Earlier this month, Peter Loge, an associate professor at George Washington University, told Insider's Thomas Colson that "Trump is just shouting into the void."

Loge added: "He isn't letting anyone shout back. Shouting at people is a less effective way to maintain celebrity status and keep selling new merchandise than finding ways to create the illusion of interaction is."

Trump's blog states that it's paid for by Save America, a joint fundraising committee paid for by political action committees Save America and Make America Great Again.

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Donald Trump has moved his base operation from Mar-a-Lago in Florida to Bedminster, New Jersey, ahead of a fundraiser this weekend, according to a report from CNN.

Trump made the move last week and is expected to reside in the members only Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster through the summer.

The former president is expected to make an appearance at a fundraiser at Bedminster for the Make America Great Again Super Pac on Saturday.

The pro-Trump fundraiser, which is run by his longtime adviser Corey Lewandowski, will be Trumps first official appearance at the club this season, although he has been spotted playing the clubs 36-hole golf course. The fundraiser on Saturday will include reception and a dinner. The minimum price for entry is $250,000.

Former Trump aides have also set up base at Bedminster Township. The move will make it easier for the staff to visit the Trump offices in Trump Towers in Manhattan which is 45 miles east of Bedminster. Trumps daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, also have a property on the Bedminster resort.

Several lawmakers, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, had visited the former president in his Mar-a-Lago residency, where he settled after he lost the presidency, seeking endorsement from him.

It is expected future pro-Trump fundraisers and visits from potential candidates seeking his endorsement will also shift from south Florida to New Jersey.

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Joe Bidens vote share in Kenosha, Wisconsin was conspicuously low

May 22nd 2021

AS PROTESTERS FILLED American streets last year to decry the killing of George Floyd, Joe Biden had reason to feel nervous. Four days before Floyds death, Omar Wasow, an academic, published a paper claiming that violent racial-justice demonstrations following the murder of Martin Luther King in 1968 had set off a backlash. Vote shares for Richard Nixon, who ran for president promising law and order, were 1.5-7.9 percentage points higher in mostly white areas near violent protests than in comparable ones that were farther away.

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Democrats fears now look ill-founded. Just 6% of the 10,000 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in May-October 2020 were violent, according to ACLED, a database. Mr Bidens lead in polls grew in the wake of Floyds murder. A recent study by Bouke Klein Teeselink of Yale and Georgios Melios of University College London argued that the protests in fact aided Mr Biden. It found that Democrats vote share rose more in 2016-20 in areas with good weather in late springcausing large, frequent marchesthan in places where it rained.

However, this paper treated violent and peaceful protests equally. When marches did turn violent, data from Kenosha, Wisconsin imply that Republicans benefited.

In August Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, a black man. Enraged citizens took to the streets; many looted stores and burned down buildings. A local business group estimated the damage at $50m.

Last week Jesse Richardson, a university student, published a blog noting that Mr Bidens vote share was lower in Kenosha than in similar parts of Wisconsin. Following his work, The Economist drilled down to the precinct level, the smallest electoral unit. Using demography, density and vote history, we built a model to predict presidential votes in the states 3,300 precincts.

Beyond a 30-mile radius from Kenosha, the model matched reported votes well. Within that circle, however, Mr Bidens vote share lagged its estimate. Near its centre, he fell short by 2.4 percentage points. Among Wisconsins 50 most populous counties, Mr Bidens biggest deficit relative to predicted votes was in Kenosha County.

The presidents weak showing in Kenosha could have been caused by something besides the protests. But the most likely interpretation is that when frustration with the police boils over into lawless demonstrations, the party seeking changes to policing tends to pay an electoral price.

Sources: Wisconsin secretary of state; US Census Bureau;The Economist

This article appeared in the Graphic detail section of the print edition under the headline "Price of progress"

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