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 Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Friday expressed concerns about whether Donald Trump and his allies will instigate political violence after the election if he loses to Kamala Harris.
"Two separate questions," Biden said when asked at a White House press conference whether he had confidence the election would be free, fair and peaceful. "I'm confident it'll be free and fair. I don't know whether it'll be peaceful. The things that Trump has said, and the things that he said last time out, when he didn't like the outcome of the election, were very dangerous."
His comments were a clear allusion to the deadly riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when insurrections sought to stop the certification of the election results.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 CNN/screengrabCNN data reporter Harry Enten says that one key statistic may spell serious trouble for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign just one month out from the election—so much so that a win would be, in his words, "historically unprecedented."
In a segment with host John Berman, Enten analyzed the polling data around the question, "Do you think the country is on the right track?" Apparently, just 28 percent of Americans think that the United States is currently headed in the right direction under its Democratic leadership.
Enten said that this a problem for Harris, the party's nominee, given that, on average, this figure sits at 42 percent in years when the incumbent party wins the presidency and just 25 percent when it loses.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 NBC/screengrabLorne Michaels promised to "reinvent" Donald Trump for the 50th season of Saturday Night Live this fall. And now we know, according to SNL alum Dana Carvey, that transformation included a new fat suit.
"They're trying to sort of update Trump a little bit," Carvey explained on his Fly On The Wall podcast with David Spade Friday. Before that, the show's Trump just had "some padding," but on the newest season, "They gave him a ["bigger, whoop-dee-doo"] fat suit."
Carvey, who made a surprise appearance to play Joe Biden, revealed what he saw backstage as makeup and wardrobe prepped the show's resident Trump impressionist, James Austin Johnson. "They went next level with James Austin Johnson about Trump," Carvey said, revealing that there had even been a hair change. "They put a bald cap on [him] because Trump is thinning in the back a little bit."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Tom WilliamsA reporter known for having sources embedded deep in Donald Trump's orbit said Friday she believes the former president "would welcome" his wife's newly-revealed stance in favor of abortion rights.
Maggie Haberman, of The New York Times, said on the paper's The Daily podcast that Melania Trump taking a public stance as bold as being in favor of abortion rights while married to Trump would "make him happy."
"I think there is a world in which this is not a hidden attempt to try to soften him," Haberman said. "Although I imagine that he would welcome that and would make him happy, and it was simply a way for her to get her thoughts out and get attention."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Scott Olson/GettyDonald Trump was reportedly caught on tape turning the grieving widow of a man who died at one of his rallies into a source of amusement for his dinner guests.
The recording, obtained by The Guardian, apparently comes from a private meal Trump held Aug. 10 in Aspen, Colorado. In it, the Republican presidential nominee reportedly recalled a meeting with the wife of Corey Comperatore, the man who was killed by shots fired at Trump by Thomas Crooks at a Pennsylvania rally in July.
"So they're going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the check—we handed her the check—and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I'd much rather have my husband.' Now I know some of the women in this room wouldn't say the same," Trump reportedly said. "At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 ABC/screengrabLiz Cheney has a big fan in one of The View's co-hosts, Alyssa Farah Griffin, whose voice seemed to crack on Friday's show as she lauded the former congresswoman for "doing what's right."
"I watched person after person that I admired and looked up to in politics not speak out and just go along to get along—except for one woman, Liz Cheney," the former Trump White House communications official turned View co-host said, voice shaking. She added that Cheney was "a true leader," and "someone who puts their ambition aside, their career, the money they could make, to do what's right."
After first speaking out against Trump and his role in the attack on the capital, Cheney was expelled from Republican leadership and lost re-election in 2022. This week Cheney began campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris and made a scathing speech blasting Trump at one of Harris' rallies Thursday, during which she also joked about his "spray tanning." Trump responded with a predictable online rant in which he called Cheney a "low IQ War Hawk," and also attacked her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has also endorsed H
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 CBS Photo Archive/GettyRepublican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance tried to "throw off" his opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on Tuesday night's vice presidential debate by greeting him with friendliness and cordiality, an aide to the Ohio senator said in a new report.
Walz was reportedly preparing to debate a much more hostile Republican nominee, sources told Axios—and was expecting "more MAGA mode given what [Vance has] been saying repeatedly on the stump."
"The ‘MN nice' dynamic played out more surprisingly and organically onstage than strategically, in a way maybe neither candidate expected," a Walz campaign aide told the outlet.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Reuters/Brian SnyderDuring his final weeks in office in 2020, President Donald Trump considered granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the internet's best-known drug market, the Silk Road. On Wednesday, the former president upped the ante and said he would personally "SAVE" the dark web impresario, who is serving a life sentence.
"I WILL SAVE ROSS ULBRICHT!" he wrote, in an all-caps post on his financially embattled Truth Social network.
Ulbricht, who used the online handle "Dread Pirate Roberts," was convicted in 2015 on seven counts including selling narcotics and money laundering, as well as running a "continuing criminal enterprise", a charge usually reserved for kingpins like Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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