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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll gives Republicans the edge in most races — The latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll paints a bleak picture for Georgia Democrats in November, with every statewide candidate aside from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock facing a sizable deficit less than two months before the election.
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The Hill, Axios, Breitbart, Erick Erickson's Confessions …, LifeNews.com and Sacramento Bee
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Barbara Rodriguez / The 19th:
Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump's stolen election rhetoric — ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams on Monday cautioned against conflating her refusal to concede in the 2018 Georgia governor's race with former President Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, RedState and The Bulwark
Marist Poll:
Warnock Edges Walker in U.S. Senate Race, Kemp Leads Abrams for Governor — U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (47%) leads his Republican challenger Herschel Walker (42%) by five percentage points among Georgia registered voters, including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.
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CNN
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Trump eyeing Georgia rally after Warnock-Walker debate
The Jolt: Trump eyeing Georgia rally after Warnock-Walker debate
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The Hill, Slate and Washington Examiner
Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Stacey Abrams rejects comparison of refusal to concede in 2018 to Trump's 2020 claims
Stacey Abrams rejects comparison of refusal to concede in 2018 to Trump's 2020 claims
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Townhall
Emma James / Daily Mail:
Special delivery for Joe? Plane used by Florida Gov. DeSantis to send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard is now heading to Delaware airport near Biden's two homes! — Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be sending another plane from Florida - this time to President Biden's home state of Delaware
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Insider, New York Daily News, RedState, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Ace of Spades HQ, WHTM-TV, The Gateway Pundit, Louder With Crowder and The Daily Wire
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Linda Chavez / The Bulwark:
The Cruelty and Dishonesty of the DeSantis Immigration Stunt
The Cruelty and Dishonesty of the DeSantis Immigration Stunt
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Insider, Washington Examiner and The Guardian
Miami Herald:
Texas sheriff will investigate Florida flying Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard
Texas sheriff will investigate Florida flying Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard
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The Boston Globe, Slate, RedState, USA Today, We Love Trump, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo, WFLA-TV and Townhall
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Texas sheriff to investigate DeSantis flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard
Texas sheriff to investigate DeSantis flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard
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Insider, The Guardian, San Antonio Express-News, WFLA-TV, BizPac Review, The Hill, FIRST DRAFT, The Post Millennial, Reason, Breitbart, NBC News, National Review, Associated Press and IJR
New York Times:
Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment — The footage raises new questions about efforts by Trump affiliates in a number of swing states to gain access to and copy sensitive voting software after the 2020 election. — Newly released videos show allies …
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The Hill, CNN and Boston.com
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Washington Post:
Video appears to undercut Trump elector's account of alleged voting-data breach in Georgia — On Jan. 7, 2021, a group of forensics experts working for lawyers allied with President Donald Trump spent eight hours at a county elections office in southern Georgia, copying sensitive software and data from its voting machines.
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press and Mediaite
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden over seating position at Queen's funeral — Former president claims if he was still in the White House he would have been sat nearer the front — Donald Trump has mocked Joe Biden over his seating position at the late Queen's state funeral.
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USA Today, The Guardian, Insider, The Times, HuffPost and The Liberty Loft
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is More Deranged Than Ever
Donald Trump Is More Deranged Than Ever
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CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Political Insider, Plain Dealer and Axios
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Making Love to QAnon and We Should All Be Terrified
Trump Is Making Love to QAnon and We Should All Be Terrified
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Daily Kos, Raw Story, Insider and Rolling Stone, more at Mediagazer »
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Conspiracy Theorists Want to Run America's Elections. These Are the Candidates Standing in Their Way — Nobody recognizes Adrian Fontes when he walks into a Phoenix lunch spot near his office. The former recorder of Maricopa County looks like any other Arizona dad: a neat beard …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Bret Baier Wanted Fox to Rescind Arizona Call, ‘Put It Back’ in Trump's ‘Column’ — “The sooner we pull it—even if it gives us major egg—and we put it back in his column the better we are in my opinion,” the “straight-news” anchor told Fox's president by email.
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Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
Bret Baier wanted to rescind Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Biden in 2020 and wrote in an email, ‘The Trump campaign was really pissed,’ book says — Fox News anchor Bret Baier “was ready to give into” pressure from Trump after the network said he lost Arizona, new book says.
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PoliticusUSA and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Was Warned Late Last Year of Potential Legal Peril Over Documents — A former White House lawyer sought to impress on him the need to return material he had taken with him upon leaving office. — A onetime White House lawyer under President Donald J. Trump warned him late last year …
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, The Hill, Associated Press, Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story, The Daily Wire, The Full Belmonte and Insider
Jessica Piper / Politico:
What the numbers really say about abortion and Democrats in the midterms — Democrats have been on a voter registration tear since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. There's just one problem for them — they are digging out from under major Republican gains in the previous 18 months.
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Washington Examiner and FiveThirtyEight
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Chaotic Politics of Lindsey Graham's Abortion Bill
The Chaotic Politics of Lindsey Graham's Abortion Bill
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, HuffPost and Blue Virginia
Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
Scientists have calculated how many ants are on Earth. The number is so big it's ‘unimaginable.’ — A new estimate for the sheer number of ants on Earth comes to an “unimaginable” sum, one researcher said — It's the ants' world, and we're just visiting.
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Fortune and Ace of Spades HQ
Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
The Trump/DeSantis War May Start Sooner Than You Think — The best defense is a good offense. — Donald Trump is not a patient man. Patience is a virtue, after all, and Trump has never had much regard for virtue. But he's been surprisingly patient with his one serious rival …
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The Daily Beast, Florida Politics, The Message Box, Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
Meduza.io:
Russia barrels ahead towards annexation A summary of Russia's ‘referendum’ plans and new mobilization laws — After months of uncertainty surrounding the Russian authorities' plans to conduct “referendums” on annexing Ukraine's occupied territories, the Kremlin postponed the project …
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David L. Stern / Washington Post:
Separatist regions push to join Russia as war effort falters
Separatist regions push to join Russia as war effort falters
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HotAir, Insider, Institute for the Study of War, The Guardian and New York Times
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump discovers he's not in Cannon-land anymore — Donald Trump put the Justice Department on its heels, courtesy of a single federal judge who gave him the benefit of almost every doubt as he fought against the FBI's probe of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
‘One of the worst presidential campaigns’: Navarro reflects on why Trump lost — EXCLUSIVE — During the home stretch of the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump was rocked by “one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern history,” former White House adviser Peter Navarro claims.
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The Guardian
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Ayesha Rascoe / NPR:
‘The Divider’ probes Trump's White House years for lessons about our political future
‘The Divider’ probes Trump's White House years for lessons about our political future
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Politico
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
‘Crime Is a Construct’ : My Morning With the Park Slope Panthers — A Brooklyn man with politics ‘to the left of Lenin’ tries to organize a neighborhood watch. It didn't go quite as planned. — In the last couple of months in Park Slope—the baby bjorn-wearing capital of bourgeois-bohemian New York …
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National Review
CNN:
These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time — A businessman turned state representative from rural Oil City, Louisiana, and a Baptist pastor banded together earlier this year on a radical mission. They were adamant that a woman …
Washington Post:
Trump's ‘big lie’ fueled a new generation of social media influencers — Accounts that rose to prominence spreading disinformation about the 2020 election now drive other polarizing debates, a Washington Post data analysis found — Three days after the 2020 election, Kyle Becker …
Elena Schneider / Politico:
How Democrats are trying to counter a wave of GOP attacks on crime — Democratic candidates across the country are getting hammered on crime and public safety. The left's best-funded gun safety group thinks they have the answer on how to push back: linking crime to how easy it is to get a gun in America.
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Associated Press
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Molly Beck / Journal Sentinel:
Michael Gableman, who produced no evidence of 2020 election fraud in $1 million review, now suggests the country needs revolution — MADISON - Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman told a group of Republicans this month that a revolution against government officials …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
The Cheney 2024 conundrum — Liberals who lavish praise on Liz Cheney for her defiance of Donald Trump are making one thing crystal clear: Don't expect us to support her for president, or any other political office, for that matter. — The Wyoming Republican's anti-Trump maneuvers …
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National Review
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Elton John will perform at White House on Friday — Singer Elton John will perform at the White House Friday night, according to a release from the White House. — There is a large tent being erected on the South Lawn for the event, the construction of which began Monday, a White House official told CNN.
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Bloomberg, Associated Press, Politico, The Hill, Raw Story, Washington Times and New York Daily News
Andy Campbell / Hachette Book Group:
Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Indiebound Bookshop Target Walmart … A gripping investigation into the nation's most notorious far-right group, revealing how they created a new blueprint for extremism and turned American politics into a blood sport — After the 2016 election …