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Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 — Tim Sheehy was cited for illegally discharging a weapon in a national park but says he made up the gunshot to cover up a bullet wound he received as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan that he never reported to superiors
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Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
GOP Candidate Says He Lied to Ranger About How He Was Shot
GOP Candidate Says He Lied to Ranger About How He Was Shot
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NBC News:
Biden may have trouble getting on Ohio's general election ballot, state's top elections official warns — In a letter to Ohio's Democratic Party chair, Secretary of State Frank LaRose warns that the Democratic National Convention will take place after a state deadline to declare a candidate.
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ABC News:
Biden could face challenges getting on Ohio general ballot — The state's Dems were alerted Joe Biden could be non-compliant with state law. — President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a campaign event with Vice President Kamala Harris in Raleigh, N.C., March 26, 2024.
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CNN:
Biden hauls in $90 million in March as campaign embarks on general election blitz — President Joe Biden raised more than $90 million for his reelection campaign and the Democratic Party in March, a whopping haul in a month that saw him pivot to a general election posture …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden campaign raises $90M in March, enters second quarter with $192M on hand
Biden campaign raises $90M in March, enters second quarter with $192M on hand
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UPI, Axios, Associated Press and Washington Examiner
Axios:
Trump's team shows growing pains in pivot to general election
Trump's team shows growing pains in pivot to general election
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
NPR:
March fundraising numbers show Biden significantly outpacing Trump
March fundraising numbers show Biden significantly outpacing Trump
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RTÉ, Associated Press, USA Today, HuffPost, New York Times and CBS News
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden campaign announces pulling in $90M in March
Biden campaign announces pulling in $90M in March
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Daily Caller News Foundation, Vanity Fair and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information — NEW YORK (AP) — The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Is Accidentally Exposing Aileen Cannon's Shady Pro-MAGA Game — When Judge Aileen Cannon handed down her latest ruling in the prosecution of Donald Trump for stealing classified documents, many legal observers immediately understood the shady gamesmanship lurking behind it.
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Alternet.org and Washington Examiner
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
April 5, 2024 — Today offered yet more evidence that Biden's rejection of the Republicans' supply-side economics in favor of investing in ordinary Americans is paying off with high growth, low unemployment, and strong wages. — Today's jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor …
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Sen. John Fetterman blasts squatters, violent crime: ‘I am not woke’ — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman ripped the idea of “squatter's rights” during an exclusive interview with The Post this week. — “Squatters have no rights,” Fetterman said, adding that the issue was one he often dealt …
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Mediaite, Twitchy, BizPac Review and The Daily Caller
Rachel Leingang / The Guardian:
Trump's bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed — Excerpts from his speeches do not do justice to Trump's smorgasbord of vendettas, non sequiturs and comparisons to famous people — Donald Trump's speeches on the 2024 campaign trail so far have been focused …
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill:
Do our leaders, ‘experts’ and pundits want World War III? — At least within the circles I run, people who encounter purposely-created insanity and danger openly acknowledge the insanity and danger and, for reasons of self-protection and survival, want it stopped as fast as possible.
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Mass. GOP ousts veteran Republican power player Ron Kaufman from RNC post — Kaufman, a former treasurer for the Republican National Committee, was upset by Brad Wyatt in a narrow 37-35 vote taken at a Republican State Committee meeting. — BURLINGTON, Massachusetts …
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Gayle Pollard-Terry / Los Angeles Times:
Cecil ‘Chip’ Murray, L.A. civil rights icon and spiritual leader, dead at 94 — The Rev. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, who made the First African Methodist Episcopal Church the most prestigious Black pulpit in Los Angeles, attracting presidents, governors and mayors to hear his dynamic sermons, has died.
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Shanti Das / The Guardian:
‘Extreme’ US anti-abortion group ramps up lobbying in Westminster — The UK branch of the Alliance Defending Freedom has increased its spending and is forging ties with key MPs — A rightwing Christian lobby group that wants abortion to be banned has forged ties with an adviser …
MSNBC:
Calls grow for RFK Jr. to drop out after remarks sympathetic to Jan. 6 rioters — MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting joins MSNBC's Ali Velshi to discuss why independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. should end his bid for the White House.
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