The president’s suggestion that supporters cast a ballot by mail and at polling sites marked his latest attempts to impugn the integrity of mail-in voting.
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With less than two months remaining until Election Days, both campaigns are also reacting to a bombshell report in the Atlantic that Trump called U.S. soldiers injured or killed in war “losers."
Military veterans and their families erupted in anger against Trump, following a bombshell article in the Atlantic revealing that he had derided fallen U.S. soldiers as “losers" and “suckers.”
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It’s difficult to divorce Trump's avoidance of the topic from his handling of other recent allegations of Russia’s malign activity.
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For years, President Trump warned about voter fraud. Then he suggested that voters vote twice in the 2020 election, which would lead to voter fraud.
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Even if all this criticism is unwarranted, this salon visit and the House speaker’s response don’t help Democrats argue that they’re the ones taking covid-19 seriously.
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On CNN, Barr made two consecutive false claims about the risks of expanding mail-in ballots.
The Democratic presidential candidate plans to hold a community meeting and speak with the family of Jacob Blake, who was shot seven times by police in Kenosha. Trump is heading to another key battleground state.
The report by the Atlantic cites four unnamed people with firsthand knowledge of the president’s comments. The White House calls the claims ‘false.’
The president himself, however, has said almost nothing about the poisoning of Putin’s fiercest critic.
The Democratic presidential nominee listened to community leaders and spoke to Jacob Blake during a visit to a town embroiled in recent protests.
A governor’s party affiliation plays a more significant role in the timing and extent of mask rules than the number of coronavirus infections and covid-19 deaths in a state, researchers say.
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In this edition: Trump's Blue Lives campaign, the aftermath of the Massachusetts primary, and the moderators for this year's presidential debates.
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FiveThirtyEight polling averages instead see the race in most states largely unchanged after the conventions.
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The country's chief law enforcement officer massively misrepresents the risk posed by mail-in ballots.
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For the first time, red counties are seeing as many new cases as blue ones.
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State politics reporters will be working extra hard over the next two months — or however long it will take to know the results of the election — so it’s to everyone’s benefit to identify and amplify them.
The president says his intention is to urge those who vote by mail to follow up at polling sites to ensure that their votes are counted.
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The ban on political ads has big loopholes — but Facebook also recognizes this is not the real problem.
