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    Media Outlets Project Biden Victory as Trump Says Election ‘Far From Over’
    Several major news outlets on Saturday projected former Vice President Joe Biden to have won a prolonged presidential election, even as ballot counting and litigation continue. President Donald Trump has not conceded the contest, and his campaign team note pending legal challenges across several closely contested states. “The simple fact is this election is far…
    Fred Lucas
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    What to Know About Litigation Being Waged Across US to Preserve Trump Presidency
    We all knew Election Day 2020 wouldn’t be normal. And yet it still seems remarkable that we don’t know yet who will be the president of the United States on Jan. 20. And we may not know for some time if we’ll have four more years of President Donald Trump or a newly inaugurated President Joe Biden. Even if…
    Hans von Spakovsky | Zack Smith
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    Trump on Presidential Race: ‘They’re Trying to Steal an Election’
    In remarks Thursday night, President Donald Trump argued that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election could be affected by voter fraud. “If you count the legal votes, I easily win,” Trump said, speaking in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House. “If you count the illegal votes, they can try…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Trump Campaign Sues in Nevada, Alleging Votes Cast by Nonresidents and Dead
    Lawyers for the Trump campaign are going to federal court in Nevada to demand that election officials stop counting ballots that the campaign claims were cast in the names of voters who are dead or no longer state residents. At a press conference Thursday morning near the Clark County election office, Trump campaign representative Ric…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Why More Hispanics Voted for Trump in 2020
    President Donald Trump did historically well in terms of the Hispanic vote.  In both Texas and Florida, the Republican nominee did well among Hispanics.  Per NBC News, “55 percent of Florida’s Cuban-American vote went to Trump, according to NBC News exit polls, while 30 percent of Puerto Ricans and 48 percent of ‘other Latinos’ backed Trump.” Nationally, he…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump Takes His Case to Court in 3 Battleground States
    The Trump campaign seeks a recount in Wisconsin and has gone to court in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan over ballot counting rules to settle a presidential election that remains undecided.   As of Wednesday evening, Fox News Channel had former Vice President Joe Biden just six votes shy of the 270 needed in the Electoral College…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Gains Ground Among Minority Voters, but Loses Some With Whites
    President Donald Trump expanded his share of both the black and Hispanic vote from four years ago, based on exit polling, even as the presidential race remains undecided.  Trump’s share of votes fell by nearly the same proportion among white and male voters, according to exit polling by The New York Times compared to its…
    Fred Lucas
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    Hatred of Trump vs. Hatred of the Left
    One way in which yesterday’s presidential election can be summarized is this: It was a contest between those who hate Donald Trump and those who hate the left (as I always point out, I am referring to “the left,” not to liberals or liberalism). This is so accurate an assessment I suspect even most Democrats…
    Dennis Prager
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    Shut Down DC Targets Conservative Organizations as ‘Trump Boosters’
    Shut Down D.C., a progressive group that says it uses “strategic direct action to advance justice and hold officials accountable,” is targeting at least 27 conservative organizations in the Washington metro area as Election Day approaches. An interactive map from Shut Down D.C. lists as “Trump boosters” a range of organizations, including The Heritage Foundation,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump Sparks Coyote Conundrum by Citing Smuggling of Illegal Aliens
    Something unexpected happened during the second and final presidential debate Thursday night between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.  No one saw this coming.  The internet exploded in a frenzied discussion of “coyotes,” with blue-check-marked leftists leading this cultural canine curiosity. The website for the Merriam-Webster dictionary reported a 675% increase in…
    Mike Howell
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    8 Highlights From Second Biden-Trump Debate
    President Donald Trump and his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, clashed Thursday night in the second and final presidential debate before the Nov. 3 election. Trump and Biden traded boasts and criticisms in a meeting that began at 9 p.m. EDT at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, after officials said both men tested negative…
    Virginia Allen | Jarrett Stepman
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    Cleaner Faster? Trump to Let Dishwashers Use More Water
    The Trump administration has finalized plans to release a new rule allowing one class of dishwashers to clean a load in less than an hour. Dishwashers on average take about two and a half hours to wash a load of dishes because of government regulations, more than twice as long as it took the appliances…
    Fred Lucas
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    Nearly 1 in 4 College Students Say They’ll ‘Likely’ Protest If Trump Wins Election, Survey Says
    Around 40% of college students said they will likely or certainly protest if President Donald Trump wins the election, according to an Axios poll released Friday. Exactly 22% of students surveyed said they are likely to protest and 17% said they will protest should Trump win the 2020 election, the College Reaction/Axios survey found. More students,…
    Mary Rose Corkery
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    Push for 25th Amendment Commission Isn’t About Trump, Pelosi Claims
    Congressional Democrats’ renewed embrace of the 25th Amendment is not aimed at removing President Donald Trump from office, at least not in the near-term, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday.  “This is not about President Trump. He will face the judgment of the voters,” Pelosi said. “But he shows the need for us to create…
    Fred Lucas
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    A Look Back at Trump’s Health Care Reforms
    This article is an excerpt from the “2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration.” It looks back at policy decisions made by the Trump administration over the past four years. You can purchase your copy of “Mandate 2020” here. The 2016 election produced a president and congressional majority committed to repealing and…
    Marie Fishpaw | Doug Badger
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    Pelosi’s Trump-Obsessed Plan for the 25th Amendment Distorts the Constitution
    If necessity is the mother of invention, obsession is the weird uncle of crazy. Leftists obviously do not want President Donald Trump in the White House. After the two methods of removing a president that the Constitution provides—the ballot box in 2016 and impeachment this year—failed, however, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants to invent…
    Thomas Jipping
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    How Trump Restored the Principles of Welfare Reform and Lifted Americans Out of Poverty
    This article is an excerpt from the “2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration.” It looks back at policy decisions made by the Trump administration over the past four years. You can purchase your copy of “Mandate 2020” here. For decades, conservative policymakers have worked to reform welfare—so it’s a temporary safety-net,…
    Leslie Ford
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    Trump ‘Doing Really Well,’ Could Be Released From Hospital Soon, His Doctor Says
    President Donald Trump could be released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he’s being treated for COVID-19, as early as Monday if his condition continues to improve.  “The fact of the matter is, is that he is doing really well, that he is—he is responding,” Trump’s doctor, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley, said…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    ‘I’ve Said It Many Times’: Trump Condemns KKK, White Supremacists, Proud Boys
    President Donald Trump condemned white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Proud Boys in a Thursday evening interview. “I’ve said it many times, let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK, I condemn all white supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    6 Highlights From Trump-Biden Debate
    President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden squared off for the first of three debates Tuesday night.  Here’s six matters the two discussed in the debate, which was moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.  1. Election Integrity With COVID-19 prompting significant mail-in or absentee voting, election integrity has become a major topic…
    Fred Lucas
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