Donald Trump is going out like he came in: corrupt as hell. The departing president left the White House for Mar-a-Lago at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, slinking out after a disastrous and deadly four years. One of his last acts on the job was granting a flurry of pardons and …
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The bipartisan, $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill passed by Congress on Monday night is more than a much-needed if somewhat poorly designed financial lifeline for Americans hit hard by the pandemic. The bill — which President Trump is expected to sign shortly — also contains a slew of provisions and …
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Control of the Senate will come down to Georgia. The math is not complicated. In the current Senate, Republicans hold a three-seat advantage, 53-47. With Biden as president elect (and Kamala Harris set to preside as Senate tie-breaker) Democrats need a net gain of three seats to control the chamber. …
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A few things have been relatively certain for several weeks. First, that Joe Biden’s clearest path to an Electoral College victory ran through the upper Midwest (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania). Second, that because of the volume of votes cast by mail this year, and the idiosyncratic rules governing those local …
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President Trump and the Senate Republicans running for reelection do not care about the health of Americans. This isn’t really as incendiary of a statement as it seems. They’ve dismissed the severity of Covid-19 even as it has killed over 225,000 Americans, and effectively — if not explicitly — endorsed …
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Donald Trump really, really wants the 2020 election’s “October Surprise” to be Hunter Biden. For years, his fixer Rudy Giuliani has been circling the globe in search of dirt on Hunter and his father Joe Biden. Now Trump and his team are hoping that they can use it to change …
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Mike Lee, apparently, has some concerns about democracy. This could be argued of pretty much any Republican lawmaker who has endorsed the party’s voter suppression efforts and total supplication to an authoritarian president who won’t commit to a peaceful transition of power. But on Thursday morning, the senator from Utah …
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Hackers from three countries — Russia, China, and Iran — are attempting to infiltrate campaign staffers, think tanks and consultants in order to influence the U.S. presidential election, according to Microsoft. The software company shared a blog post saying that Microsoft detected cyberattacks “targeting people and organizations involved in the …
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Joe Biden accepted his party’s nomination for president on Thursday night in a speech delivered from Wilmington, Del. The former vice president, in the biggest speech of his life, positioned himself as an “ally of the light not of the darkness,” in contrast to President Trump. “Character is on the …
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QAnon supporters are overjoyed after Marjorie Taylor Greene won a congressional primary runoff in her home state of Georgia on Tuesday, a victory that virtually guarantees her a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Greene is a supporter of QAnon, the conspiracy theory that purports that President Trump is …
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