By Perry Stein, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The federal election interference indictment against Donald Trump offers example after example of the then-president allegedly trying to pressure his vice president, Mike Pence, to help him overturn the 2020 election results. There was the Dec. 25 phone call when Pence called Trump to wish him a […]
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Young voters play ‘potentially decisive’ role in 2024 election
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ATLANTA – On the way to his dorm between classes at Morehouse College, freshman Daylan Moore, 18, was stopped in his tracks by a question: “Baby, have you registered to vote?” A bright-eyed woman, donning the royal blue and gold colors of the sorority Sigma Gamma […]
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Arizona official who certifies elections alleges fraud after his defeat
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – Fresh off losing a campaignfor sheriff, Pinal County Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh (R) voted “under duress” in August to certify the county’s primary election results. This week, he threatened to sue the Arizona county that employs him, claiming – much like President Donald Trump did after […]
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Trump’s pledge to deport legal immigrants is toxic in more ways than one
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Earlier this month, Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R) repeatedly found herself challenging anti-immigrant rhetoric from the leader of her party and his allies. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had isolated Charleroi, Pa., in Bartolotta’s district as an example of the sort of place under […]
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Biden urges Israel and Lebanon to step back from all-out war
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, The Washington Post (c) 2024 NEW YORK – President Joe Biden urged Israel and Hezbollah to step away from the precipice of all-out war on Tuesday, warning in a major speech before the United Nations that such a conflict could be catastrophic and arguing that there was still time for the […]
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Harris voices support for eliminating filibuster to secure abortion rights
Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support Tuesday for eliminating the Senate filibuster to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v. Wadeand securing abortion rights nationwide. “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio. “To actually put back in law the protections […]
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Tension in the Middle East looms over Biden’s last big U.N. meeting
By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden will head to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, seeking to cement his foreign policy legacy amid the growing threat of war between Israel and Hezbollah and questions about his administration’s handling of Gaza. The annual gathering, which brings together world leaders in New […]
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House moves toward averting a shutdown, sidestepping a Trump demand
By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Defying former president Donald Trump’s demand for a government shutdown, the Republican-controlled House appears poised Monday to advance a bipartisan funding bill to keep federal agencies open on the cusp of November’s elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) late on Sunday introduced a three-month funding extension with […]
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Project 2025 is a huge blunder from Trump’s allies
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 There is vanishingly little doubt that Project 2025 has become one of the most unpopular political programs or ideas in recent history. The question is increasingly how much voters intend to hang that millstone around Donald Trump’s neck. A new NBC News poll Sunday is the latest […]
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Supreme Court rejects bid to put Green Party’s Jill Stein on Nevada ballot
Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The Supreme Court refused Friday to intervene in the Green Party’s efforts to put presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state of Nevada for the November election. The Nevada Green Party had asked the justices to halt a ruling from the state’s high […]