#EndorseThis: The Latest Funny Lie Uttered By Reince Priebus

#EndorseThis: The Latest Funny Lie Uttered By Reince Priebus

Seth Meyers is trying to keep score in the burgeoning feud between Donald Trump and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who will skip the inauguration because he questions the legitimacy of Trump’s election. As the Late Night host points out, to watch Trump disparage Lewis tells us more about his character than that of his target. But it tell us even more about the Republicans to hear them complain about Lewis — because, heaven forfend, they would never question a president’s legitimacy.

We had all better get used to hearing such whining from Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, who comically attempts to explain away Trump’s years-long “birther” crusade against Barack Obama’s legitimacy. Evidently Priebus had to learn to lie as effortlessly and shamelessly as the president-elect to qualify for his new job. He easily passed that test, but he’s still practicing hard every day.

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North Carolina GOP's Extremist Nominees Excite Democratic Strategists

Michele Morrow

In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly missed capturing North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, losing the state by a slim 1.4-percentage-point margin. But that was nearly four years ago. Before the Dobbs decision. Before Donald Trump’s 91 felony indictments. And before last week, when the state’s GOP voters nominated a guy who favorably quotes Hitler, has compared LGBTQ+ people to insects and larvae, and thinks a six-week abortion ban isn’t quite extreme enough for governor. Tar Heel State Republicans also nominated another extremist, Michele Morrow, for superintendent of the state’s schools.

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