Fox News host Jesscia Tarlov welcomed Vox Media’s Astead Herndon onto her Raging Moderates podcast on Wednesday (April 29) to discuss the rise in conspiracy theories on the left and right.
“It’s a great time to be a nut case,” the liberal commentator said as she referenced a new poll from the Manhattan Institute Survey, which found that 46 percent of Democrats believed that the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump was staged.
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