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    If Voters Had Known About 8 Stories Media Ignored, Trump Would Have Won, Says Media Watchdog
    The head of a media watchdog organization says the media’s failure to cover eight stories may be the reason President Donald Trump lost the election.  “The media can talk all day long about Donald Trump and all day long about things that he’s doing wrong,” Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump Faces Critical Choice About His Political Future
    Donald Trump is nearing a crossroads. Those who allege that he has endangered the tradition of smooth presidential transitions by not conceding immediately after the media declared him the loser suffer amnesia. When Trump was elected in 2016, the Washington establishment lost its collective mind. The top echelon of the FBI and CIA were still…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘On Her Own’: Trump Legal Team Distances Itself From Sidney Powell
    The legal team for President Donald Trump distanced itself from Sidney Powell Sunday evening, announcing that she has no official role with the campaign or the president himself. The announcement came from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, both of whom have represented the Trump campaign in its lawsuits attempting to…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Taking a Closer Look at the Trump Campaign’s Battle to Recount Legal Votes
    Ken Blackwell, advisory board member of the Trump/Pence 2020 campaign, and J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, join “The Bill Walton Show” to discuss the latest on the Trump campaign’s battle over the counting of legal votes. Read a portion of the transcript, lightly edited, below, or watch…
    Bill Walton
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    Biden to ‘Racist’ Trump Voters: ‘Let’s Heal.’ That’s Easy for Him to Say.
    After four years of Democrats attacking President Donald Trump as “illegitimate,” “fascist,” “Nazi,” “tyrant,” “dictator,” “racist,” “anti-Semitic,” “Russian stooge,” “traitor,” “grifter,” “xenophobe,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” “ignorant,” “fat,” and “lazy,” former Vice President Joe Biden now says, “Let’s heal.” In his “victory speech,” Biden said, “And to those who voted for President Trump, I understand your disappointment…
    Larry Elder
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    Will Trump Ride Off Into the Sunset?
    I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a “tragic hero.” Over two millennia ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles first described the archetype in his portraits of an angry and old but still fearsome Ajax, and heroic but stubborn and self-fixated Antigone. In the iconic John Ford Western “The…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    George W. Bush Congratulates Joe Biden, Says Donald Trump Has Right to Request Recounts
    Former President George W. Bush congratulated former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, in a statement Sunday after several outlets projected the Democrats' election victory. Bush also congratulated President Donald Trump and his supporters for their “hard-fought campaign” and for earning more than 70 million votes. Multiple outlets, including Fox News and The…
    Mary Rose Corkery
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    6 Things I Saw at Dueling Trump-Biden Rallies in Philadelphia
    PHILADELPHIA—In the City of Brotherly Love, which skews heavily Democrat, there was a lot of rejoicing Saturday—and spewing of hatred of Donald Trump. Crowds of thrilled Joe Biden supporters—buoyed by media outlets calling the presidential contest for the former vice president—gathered in the blocks around City Hall and the Convention Center, at times breaking into…
    Katrina Trinko
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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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