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Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump was back again in “Saturday Night Live’s” Oval Office — this time for showdown styled on “America’s Next Top Model” between Grim Reaper Steve Bannon (Mikey Day) and Trump’s “little Kush ball” — Jimmy Fallon in shades and a flak jacket. Both vie to be Baldwin’s No. 1.

The loser? Bannon, sent away with another, bigger Grim Reaper down to the “basement” to “join Kellyanne Conway.”  But, Baldwin adds: “You get to come back at the end of all this and help send me to prison.”

Fallon’s mute Kushner is the big winner.

“Jared, you’re such an inspiration. You’ve shown everyone that if you’re born rich and marry my daughter, you can do anything you want,” says Baldwin, who dutifully moves to his tiny desk with toy. Fallon stays in the big desk to “fix everything.”

Before the big showdown, Baldwin’s Trump boasts to VP Mike Pence (Beck Bennett)  about dropping the “mother of all bombs” on ISIS, “so big and fat it almost looks like me in my golf clothes.”

Baldwin muses about the end of his presidency. When Bennett reminds him he still has over 1300 days left, Baldwin responds: “Have you seen my tweets about North Korea? This could all be over by Monday.”

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After a morning of golfing, President Donald Trump’s motorcade took the long way home Saturday to avoid hundreds protesters demanding the release of his tax returns.

NBC News reported that the demonstrators, part of a nationwide protest highlighting Trump’s lack of transparency, gathered along a bridge dividing Florida’s Palm Beach and West Palm Beach hoping to catch the tycoon’s attention as he headed to his Mar-a-Lago estate.

White House reporters traveling in separate vans said that Trump’s motorcade left the Trump International Golf Club at 1:30 p.m. and drove in a long loop to Mar-a-Lago. According to The Hill, press vans took the usual shorter route, passing the protesters. 

On the bridge, demonstrators held signs that read “Show your taxes!” and “Don the Con.” Many expressed anger when they realized Trump wouldn’t see their protest. “We’re very disappointed,” Sharon Adams told the Palm Beach Post. “He’s scared. He’s avoiding everybody. He is avoiding taking responsibility.”

An estimated 700 people attended the West Palm Beach protest. Across the country, tens of thousands gathered for more than 100 rallies, the largest events held in Washington D.C. and New York City.

Organizers planned the marches for April 15 — the date individual tax returns are usually due. This year, however, tax day falls on Tuesday, April 18 since the 15th is a Saturday and Monday is a holiday for federal government workers.

After Saturday’s marches, Nelini Stamp, a keynote speaker at New York’s Tax March rally, said in a statement: “Trump says only the media cares about this taxes. Today, we’ve proved him wrong. It’s time for Trump to come clean, so we know who he’s really working for.”

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As tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated across the U.S. Saturday to pressure Donald Trump to finally release his tax returns, few presented the issue more pointedly than comedian Sarah Silverman. “Show us your f***king taxes, you emotional child,” she challenged in a speech in New York City.

 The actress was one of a multitude of celebrities and politicians who spoke at major rallies in New York and Washington, D.C. Demonstrations were also held in as many as 100 other cities.

“When you love your country you have to speak out and speak up,” Silverman said earlier to an MSNBC reporter. “It’s time to fight for our country. That’s what I intend to do. The only way to really penetrate this administration is to take to the streets — and to be relentless.”

Trump vowed during his campaign that he would release his returns, as presidential candidates and presidents have for decades. But in January, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said Trump would never release his returns because his election proved that “people didn’t care” about it.

The information is particularly important for him because of serious conflict-of-interest concerns over his continued ownership of Trump businesses and debts to foreign interests.

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Republicans have all but erased Democrats’ lead in early voting for the hotly contested special in Georgia’s 6th congressional district. 

There were roughly the same number of Republicans and Democrats who voted when early voting ended on Friday, according to New York Times election expert Nate Cohn.

Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida, came up with similar figures.

The virtually even turnout among Democrats and Republicans in the district is a major change from the first week of early voting, in which Democrats enjoyed a significant lead.

The makeup of the early voting electorate is a notoriously flawed predictor of general election outcomes. For one thing, Democrats tend to turn out in higher numbers to vote early than on Election Day.

And the lack of party registration in Georgia makes tea-leaf reading that much harder. To identify partisans, Cohn and McDonald looked at the last party primary that each of the voters participated in, which may not reflect a consistent party affiliation.

On its face, however, the surge in Republican early voting is an ominous sign for Democrats. The party’s leading candidate, 30-year-old documentary filmmaker Jon Ossoff is hoping to walk away with the majority he needs to win outright in the first round of voting this Tuesday, where he is up against multiple candidates from both parties.

If Ossoff fails to receive 50 percent, he will head to a June 20 runoff, where he will likely face a steeper climb in a head-to-head battle with a Republican. Ossoff currently has the support of 47 percent of the district’s voters, according to a Revily poll conducted from March 10 to 12.

Nate Cohn, nonetheless, highlighted some early voting trends that look favorable for Ossoff. Infrequent voters, who Ossoff needs to turn out, are voting at roughly the rates they would in higher-turnout midterm elections.

And former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would have received 57 percent of the district’s vote if the general electorate in November had been composed of those who voted early in the special election, according to Cohn.

The national Democratic Party and liberal grassroots groups have poured <a href="” target=”_blank”>massive resources and energy into Ossoff’s bid. Even Hollywood stars are chipping in, with Samuel L. Jackson taping a radio advertisement aimed at turning out black voters.

Democrats are hoping the Atlanta-area special election will showcase their ability to translate popular backlash to President Donald Trump into victory at the ballot box.

The congressional seat became available when Trump tapped Tom Price to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. While Price won reelection in the district by 23 points in November, Trump won it by just 1.5 points.

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