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Federal Appeals Courts Emerge as Crucial for Trump in Voting Cases

This month, a federal judge struck down a decree from Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas limiting each county in the state to a single drop box to handle the surge in absentee ballots this election season, rejecting Mr. Abbott’s argument that the limit was necessary to combat fraud.Days later, an appellate panel of three judges

Sean “Diddy” Combs Thinks There Will be a Race War if Trump Wins

Donald Trump has long been desperate for celebrity endorsements. The only that ever seemed to come, though, were from people like Ted Nugent, Tim Allen and Kid Rock. The majority of musicians, actors and artists support Democratic candidates. Rap mogul Sean Combs recently came out to endorse Joe Biden. Diddy, however, took it one step

Trump Campaign Lawyers Are Aiding a Leading Proponent of QAnon

Senior lawyers for the Trump campaign set up a small law firm last year that is working for Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican House candidate in Georgia with a history of promoting QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory.While federal filings show that the firm, Elections L.L.C., principally collects fees from the president’s campaign and the Republican

Joe Biden town hall drew more viewers than Trump, early ratings show

Joe Biden’s town hall drew more TV viewers than President Trump’s competing event on Thursday night, according to early figures. A total of 12.7 million viewers tuned in to ABC to watch Biden field questions from voters from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., compared to 10.4 million who watched Trump do the same on NBC,

Rachel Maddow Declares Trump’s NBC News Town Hall A Catastrophe

With just over two weeks until votes are counted, Donald Trump needed to show up at Thursday night’s town hall event and do something to peel voters away from Joe Biden. Unfortunately for his struggling campaign, Trump may have done just the opposite. As Rachel Maddow said following the president’s town hall, “I know why the

Trump and Biden Spar From Afar at Town Halls

President Trump spoke positively about an extremist conspiracy-theory group, expressed skepticism about mask-wearing, rebuked his own F.B.I. director and attacked the legitimacy of the 2020 election in a televised town hall forum on Thursday, veering far away from a focused campaign appeal. Instead, he further stoked the country’s political rifts as his Democratic opponent, Joseph

Trump’s Law And Order Message Flops In The Midwest As Biden Leads In Wisconsin And Minnesota

Donald Trump hoped his new “law and order” campaign strategy would save him in key midwestern battleground states like Wisconsin and even help him carry historically blue Minnesota, but new polling released Saturday shows that his bet isn’t paying off. According to a batch of polls from The New York Times/Siena College, Biden has a

Trump Onslaught Against Biden Falls Short of a Breakthrough

In Minnesota, Mr. Biden was ahead among suburban voters by 20 percentage points. In Wisconsin, that advantage was just five points.More significant for the former vice president is his strength with seniors, an advantage Democrats did not enjoy four years ago. Mr. Biden enjoys a 12-point lead, 52 to 40, among people 65 and older

Trump campaign reaches 100M voters in campaign milestone

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee passed an enormous milestone this week — making contact with their 100 millionth voter through door knocking and phone banking. The RNC says it has knocked on the doors of 12 million potential voters in battleground states since mid-June — that’s around 1 million a

What to Watch as Biden Observes 9/11 in NY, and He and Trump Go to Shanksville

Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to New York and Pennsylvania on Friday to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as he and President Trump put forth radically different visions of what it means to comfort a nation in mourning.Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will attend the National September

The Trump Campaign Violates Michigan Law With Superspreader Campaign Rally

Even before Donald Trump touched down in the swing state of Michigan on Thursday night, his campaign broke state law by hosting an outdoor event with more than 250 people. CNN’s Jim Acosta, on the ground for the event, noted that there’s “very little social distancing and not many masks” present at the Trump rally,

Trump Has Chosen Photo Ops Over Substance in Encounters With Black Leaders

On Martin Luther King’s Birthday in January 2017, Donald J. Trump, then the president-elect, welcomed a group of civil rights leaders, led by Dr. King’s eldest son, into his office in Trump Tower.After a tour of Mr. Trump’s celebrity curio collection (Shaquille O’Neal’s sneakers, size 22, were a highlight), the visitors presented him with a

Adam Schiff Has A New Whistleblower On Trump Censoring Russian Election Interference Intel

Adam Schiff announced that he has a new whistleblower related to Trump retaliation and the censorship of Russian election interference intel. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff said in a statement: The whistleblower retaliation complaint filed by former Acting Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Brian Murphy outlines grave and disturbing allegations that senior White House

Biden Pushes a Jobs Plan and Tears Into Trump’s Covid Response in Michigan

WARREN, Mich. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. tore into President Trump on Wednesday over new revelations from a forthcoming book by the journalist Bob Woodward that the president knowingly minimized the risks of the coronavirus, arguing that Mr. Trump had lied to the American public and put lives in danger.Mr. Biden’s remarks came as part

A Striking Reversal: Trump’s Attacks on the Military and Defense Contractors

President Trump mounted a public attack unusual even for him over the Labor Day weekend, accusing his military leadership of advocating war “so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.”Even for a president who has never hesitated to contradict himself for political

If Trump Loses, He Will Resign And Have Mike Pence Pardon Him

In a discussion with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, explained the great lengths to which the president will go to avoid criminal charges and prison time. Cohen told Maddow he believes that if Trump loses to Joe Biden, he will resign and have Mike Pence pardon him before

Democrats Fear Partisan Slant at Postal Service as Trump Allies Dominate Most of Board

WASHINGTON — A powerful but little-known group of Republican donors installed by President Trump to oversee the United States Postal Service has helped raise more than $3 million to support him and hundreds of millions more for his party over the past decade, prompting concerns about partisan bias at the agency before the November election.The

Trump even Defies Supreme Court in Inflicting His Hate on Transgender Americans

The American people, polls indicate, have not been buying the bill of goods Donald Trump has been selling in his strenuous attempts to represent himself as the “law and order” candidate. They seem to understand Trump is the creator of chaos and the one disrespecting and defying the nation’s laws at every turn, not Biden.

Biden Mocks Trump’s Infamous Ramp Walk. Asks Voters to Compare Their Health.

For a long-time, bashing a political opponents health would be considered out of bounds. That was before the age of Donald Trump, however. The 45th President was downright giddy when he had to opportunity to talk about Hillary Clinton’s bout with pneumonia. Trump has spent the last few months defending his health and mental capacity.

What to Watch For on Labor Day From Trump and Biden

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Labor Day is the traditional kickoff to the fall campaign season, but this year the holiday represents something more: the first time both candidates for vice president will be on the trail on the same day in the same state.Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris on Monday will be

Republicans Worry That The Trump Campaign Is Broke

The Trump campaign isn’t advertising on television and Republicans are worrying that Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is low on cash. Via: The New York Times: His campaign also appears to be facing a significant financial crunch and has largely ceased advertising on television even as Mr. Biden begins to spend heavily from his war chest

Our Actions in This Election Will Tell if We Are For America or For Trump

We already know all there really is to know about Donald Trump. He has no bottom. A few of us knew that in 2016. There is truly no excuse for naivete after what we heard from him in the primary and general elections of 2016 and the nearly four years since. So when Jeffrey Goldberg’s

The Trump campaign is broke

This is quite the remarkable turn of events. Arizona is a must-win state for Trump, and yet here he is, mere weeks before people stop voting, and they’ve pulled their ads. On Thursday, records filed with the Federal Communications Commission by Phoenix-area television stations showed that the Trump campaign cancelled all of its ads between

As Others Condemn Putin Critic’s Poisoning, Trump Just Wants to ‘Get Along’

But in Latrobe on Thursday, the president treated the topic of Russia as little more than a political cudgel used by his opponents for partisan gain. He renewed his attacks on Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, who led the House Intelligence Committee’s inquiry into a possible conspiracy between the Trump 2016 campaign and

Trump’s hires are sabotaging Voice of America and transforming its journalism

Also, if you believe some of the staunch Republicans who Pack has booted out of the way, in this quest to do what is most certainly not his job, he appears to be slightly off his rocker. NPR reports the discovery of a specific case of Pack-Dewey interference in the news, the “formal review” of

Trump’s Base Is Shrinking Which Is Why He’s Trying To Block Your Vote

The backbone of Trump’s support is non-college-educated white voters, but these voters have shrunk by 4% since 2016. NPR and Brookings Institution analyzed census data and found: President Trump’s base has gotten smaller. That’s a key finding of an analysis of how the U.S. electorate has changed since 2016, based on census data analyzed by

Trump and Biden to both attend 9/11 Shanksville, PA memorial

President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will both pay their respects at the site of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the two announced Wednesday. The memorial is located at the site of the attack, where one of the four hijacked planes crashed into

Trump supporters didn’t become conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theorists became Trump supporters

The “quotas” excuse is harmful in so many ways. First, it leaves a large number of poorly informed white men nursing a grudge over a nonexistent “wrong.” Second, it perpetuates the upside-down mythology that white men are somehow at a disadvantage in the workplace. Third, the fact that so many interviewers feel comfortable in using this

Joe Biden Tells America You’re Paying For Trump’s Failure And Delusions

Joe Biden spoke about safely reopening schools and said that Trump has offered parents and students nothing but failure and delusions. Biden said: American families all across this country are paying the price for his failures. And his administration’s failures. Like many of you, because you’re all reporters, you also have a lot of friends,

Trump says Biden is using ‘enhancement’ drug based on performance

President Trump on Tuesday night said he believes Joe Biden “is on some kind of enhancement” based on the former vice president’s previous debate performances. The president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that Biden “was horrible” in the Democratic debates, except for the final one when he squared off against Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I watched