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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/Fox NewsListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.On March 15, former Vice President Mike Pence dropped quite the bombshell to Martha MacCallum on Fox News: He would not be endorsing his former running mate, Donald Trump, to be president.Despite getting the scoop, Fox News gave the news just four minutes of coverage, according to Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters for America. That compares to CNN, which gave the story an hour and 19 minutes, and MSNBC, which spent an hour and 14 minutes covering the story.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Donald Trump may generate daily headlines with his bombastic statements and myriad legal troubles, but of all the important 2024 election-related issues worth discussing there is one in particular that deserves highlighting, according to The New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy.The Trump campaign was in full damage control last week after the former president called in to CNBC and suggested making cuts from Medicare and Social Security, which offer financial care to retired Americans or those with a disability.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Donald Trump’s unfounded new claim that Hillary Clinton used acid to delete her emails shows the former president doesn’t quite grasp how the BleachBit software program works.“They released Hillary Clinton. She hammered her phones, she used all sorts of acid testing and everything else. They call it BleachBit, but it’s essentially acid that will destroy everything within 10 miles,” he told Newsmax. “I mean, what she did was unbelievable. Nothing happens to her.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesThere was one question on everyone’s lips this awards season: Is Ryan Gosling going to sing “I’m Just Ken” live at the Oscars? The actor, whose turn as Ken in Barbie earned him several nominations this year, has demurred thus far. While perennial winner Billie Eilish has performed her own Oscar-nominated Barbie ballad live at recent award shows, Gosling has preferred to stay silent and seated—thus depriving us of what could very well be a grandiose, unforgettable live performance. Not even his generous Christmas gift to fans, a holiday remix of Ken’s anthemic showstopper with accompanying music video, could abate our thirst for seeing Gosling don the mink live in the flesh, for once and for all.After months of lead-up, Gosling will grant us our wish: The actor is slated to perform “I’m Just Ken” live during this year’s Academy Awards, which airs March 10. With the song up for Best Original Song—again competing with Eilish’s multiple-award-winning theme—it’s only fair that Gosling gives it the last big push it deserves.But this brings an interesting, newer question to the table. No shade to Dead Man’s Bones, but we know Gosling for his acting more than anything else. Can an actor really hold his own against professional musicians out there in the Original Song arena? Gosling would be far from the first to do so—and, should “I’m Just Ken” win, he wouldn’t even be the first actor-by-trade to sing the song to Oscars victory.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.After listening to Alabama Sen. Katie Britt’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, The New Abnormal team asks the question on everyone’s mind—did the rising Republican star not think it through or was she set up to fail?The New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy quipped that her whispered, over-the-top delivery as she sat in a kitchen is the reason why “there shouldn’t be conservative theater kids.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.As Donald Trump’s legal woes continue, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner tells The New Abnormal that the former president’s financial troubles are about to come to a head.A federal judge on Thursday denied his appeal surrounding the E. Jean Carroll case, meaning he will have to come up with $91 million to appeal his rape defamation trial. He is also on the hook to pay up if he wants to appeal the $464 million judgment in his New York fraud case.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyListen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.Former President Donald Trump scored a big win Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declared that individual states could not remove him from their ballots, no matter the reason.The ruling really got under the skin of The New Abnormal hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy, who argue on this week’s episode that the high court’s strange approach to states’ rights shows exactly why elections for national office should be held at the national level.Read more at The Daily Beast.