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Biden email episode illustrates risk to Trump from Giuliani

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York tabloid’s puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden’s son has raised some red flags. One of the biggest involves the source of the emails: Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani has traveled abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens, developing relationships with shadowy figures, including a Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. officials have described as a Russian agent and part of a broader Russian effort to denigrate the Democratic presidential… Source link

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Evangelicals opposed to Trump step out of the shadows with new groups and ads

President Trump “attempts to hijack our faith for votes,” the writer Jerusha Duford — Billy Graham’s granddaughter — said Thursday in a Zoom call sponsored by one of a growing number of evangelical groups that have formed to encourage Christians to vote for Joe Biden. Trump’s “attempts to hijack our faith for votes, and evangelical leaders’ silence on his actions and behavior, has presented a picture of what our faith looks like that is so erroneous that it has done… Source link

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It’s not just ‘suburban women.’ Trump is doing worse with all white voters than in 2016.

From now until Election Day, Yahoo News and YouGov will deliver weekly reports on how sentiment is shifting among key groups of voters in the final phase of the 2020 presidential campaign. At his rally Tuesday in Johnstown, Pa., President Trump briefly veered off script to beseech one particular — and pivotal — slice of the electorate. “Suburban women, will you please like me?” Trump asked. “Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?” The president’s tone was lightly… Source link

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It’s not just ‘suburban women.’ Trump is doing worse with all white voters than in 2016.

From now until Election Day, Yahoo News and YouGov will deliver weekly reports on how sentiment is shifting among key groups of voters in the final phase of the 2020 presidential campaign. At his rally Tuesday in Johnstown, Pa., President Trump briefly veered off script to beseech one particular — and pivotal — slice of the electorate. “Suburban women, will you please like me?” Trump asked. “Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?” The president’s tone was lightly… Source link

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Most Trump voters say they will not accept the 2020 results if Biden wins because of mail-in ballots

Most Americans now believe that President Trump will not accept the results of November’s election if he loses to Joe Biden, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — and an even larger majority of Trump voters say they too will refuse to accept a narrow loss if mail-in ballots contribute to Biden’s victory. In the midst of a pandemic that has seen many states expand their mail-in balloting systems to limit dangerous crowding on Election Day, the issue of postal voting took center… Source link

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Trump floats unprecedented idea of delaying election, which he cannot do

President Trump on Thursday suggested the implausible scenario of delaying the 2020 election, which would take an act of Congress.  Trump raised the audacious idea while continuing his all-out campaign against mail-in voting. He sought to contrast mail-in voting with “good” absentee voting, even though they are the same thing in most states.   “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,”… Source link

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Mueller ‘let Trump get away with lying,’ former House special counsel says

Former special counsel Robert Mueller. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice was an “unconscionable” lapse that “let Trump get away with lying,” Norm Eisen, former special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, said in a Wednesday interview on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” Eisen’s sharp comments about Mueller, for whom he said he has always had great respect, came… Source link

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Twitter removes tweet highlighted by Trump falsely claiming COVID-19 ‘cure’

WASHINGTON — Twitter removed a tweet that had been retweeted by President Donald Trump that falsely said that there was a cure for the coronavirus. Late Monday, Trump retweeted the tweet from an account with the handle “@stella_immanuel” that said: “Covid has cure. America wake up.” Twitter soon after removed the tweet and replaced it with a gray box that says, “This Tweet is no longer available.” A cure for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, doesn’t exist, and scientists have… Source link

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