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McConnell’s reply to Trump’s implicit election threat leaves a lot to be desired

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pushed back against President Donald Trump’s alarming refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the general election in November.

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Trump's troubled campaign calls off $4.5 million in ad buys in key battleground states

President Donald Trump's campaign called off $4.5 million in ad buys in some key battleground states, as Joe Biden expands his purchasing.

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Financial company calculates Joe Biden policies will create 7.4 million more jobs than Trump and the GOP if elected

The Financial services company Moody's Analytics did an analysis of economic strength under both presidential candidates and found that Vice President Joe Biden is more likely to bring about a better economy than President Donald Trump if elected.

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Conservative columnist says Trump could be ‘in for a rude awakening’ in the first presidential debate

The first of three presidential debates is scheduled for this Tuesday, September 29 and will be moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, who leans conservative but is by no means one of President Donald Trump’s mindless sycophants. Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, can both expect some hardball questions from the Fox News host.

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'The cake is baked': GOP pollster thinks Trump needs a miraculous debate performance to save his campaign

President Donald Trump is trailing Democratic rival Joe Biden by an average of around seven points, according to polling averages at both Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight.

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'Disgraceful': Despite mass suffering, GOP senators prepare to leave town without approving COVID relief

An additional 1.5 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week and more than 20 million people across the U.S. are going hungry, but Senate Republicans are preparing to leave Washington, D.C. for the campaign trail as early as Thursday without approving any legislation to ameliorate nationwide suffering brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and congressional inaction.

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Lindsey Graham forced to go on Fox News and beg for campaign cash: ‘I am being killed’

Recent polls revealed that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is neck and neck with his Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison

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North Carolina GOP election officials resign in 'protest' -- one day after agreeing to mail-in voting deal

Two Republican members of North Carolina's State Board of Elections on Wednesday abruptly resigned in what they claimed was in protest over being "misled" by Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein over a deal they reached on mail-in ballots.

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Trump’s election threats are an effort to suppress Democratic turnout

Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses in November should alarm every American. “You know that I have been complaining very strongly about the ballots,” he said on Wednesday. “Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer frankly. There’ll be a continuation.” It was Stalin-esque.

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‘You got owned’: Rand Paul mocked for trying to rebut Fauci 24 hours after they clashed at hearing

One day after being rebuked by Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate hearing on the nation’s coronavirus response, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) posted a link to Twitter in an attempt to bolster his previous argument to Fauci that New York has overcome the coronavirus pandemic because it achieved herd immunity.

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Which of Trump’s Supreme Court choices might be most reliably conservative?

As President Donald Trump looks to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he and other Republicans want to secure a reliable conservative majority on the nation’s highest court for many years to come.

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Trump's own FBI director throws cold water on president's claims of voter fraud

President Donald Trump's own FBI director cast doubt on his repeated claims about voter fraud.

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This watchdog calculated all of Trump's conflicts of interest -- the total number is stunning

President Donald Trump was officially declared the most corrupt president in history by the ethics watchdog group CREW.

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