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“Donald Trump is now going all-out against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., amid polls that indicate the independent candidate would take more votes than Trump than incumbent President Joe Biden,” USA Today reports. “RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal,” Trump said in a three-part post on his Truth Social website late Friday.

“Five years ago, Britain’s Conservative Party scored a landslide victory in a general election that contained outlines of a realignment in that nation’s politics. Today, those same Conservatives appear headed for one of their worst defeats in a generation, an unraveling of a once-proud party that has come with astonishing swiftness,” the Washington Post reports. “The decline and fall of the Conservatives is the story of a political party that has become exhausted and inward-looking after more than a decade in power.

“He goes to a Kentucky Fried Chicken or Chick-fil-A. They cheer him. This man is a hero.” —Jeanine Pirro, taking about Donald Trump on Fox News.

“Fresh off some historic wins for the labor movement, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain could be the man who makes the biggest difference for President Biden in key Midwestern swing states in the fall,” the Washington Post reports. “The union leader has soared to prominence over the past year by leading the UAW to some of its most significant gains in decades.

“The Supreme Court’s conservatives often accuse liberals of inventing provisions nowhere to be found in the Constitution. Now, the fingers are pointed in the other direction,” Politico reports. “At the attention-grabbing arguments this week over Donald Trump’s claim of sweeping presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, the six-member conservative bloc seemed largely unconcerned by a key flaw in Trump’s theory: Nothing in the Constitution explicitly mentions the concept of presidential immunity.”

“Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York’s Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. His aides speak of making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Democratic constituencies,” the AP reports. “But five months before the first general election votes are cast, the former president’s campaign has little apparent organization to show for its ambitious plans.” “The Trump campaign removed its point person for coalitions and hasn’t announced a replacement.