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Alec Baldwin returned to "Saturday Night Live" last night, putting aside his long-time role of Donald Trump to step into the shoes of Bret Baier.

Putting aside questions of complicity, the fact is that millions of Americans are content to put their head in the sand and convince themselves that vote for the GOP in 2024 is a vote for lower taxes, if nothing else.

Putting aside issues such as reproductive rights and whether, for example, the United States and Ukraine should remain free and democratic nations, it’s not clear that voters see Trump’s policies — a 10% across-the-board tariff that one analysis shows would raise costs for a middle-class family by $2,500 a year — as any better than Bidenomics and the relative continuity offered by the vice president.

Boxer Imane Khelif will fight for an Olympic gold medal on Friday after putting aside the row surrounding her eligibility to comprehensively win her semi-final against Janjaem Suwannapheng in Paris.

Legal experts, political advisors and scholars from across the political spectrum are warning that a second term for Donald Trump could mean effectively ending democracy in America, a threat they say calls for voters putting aside their policy differences to defeat the threat of autocracy in November.