In this edition: The Trump campaign’s endless search for a “smoking gun,” the danger zone for election legislation, and a first look at the campaign cash hauls that could reshape plenty of races.
Category: Politics
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Election live updates: Trump, Biden to appear at dueling nationally televised town-hall events
On a night when they had been scheduled to debate, Trump will be hosted by NBC News in Miami while Biden will be hosted by ABC News in Philadelphia.
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Overloaded voter check-in system partly blamed for long early voting lines in Georgia
As of midday Thursday, 447,704 Georgians had voted early in-person.
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White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump
U.S. intelligence agencies believed Russian agents were ‘working’ Trump’s personal lawyer to disseminate misinformation about the Bidens.
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Democrats’ non-persecution of Amy Coney Barrett
What we saw this week bore little resemblance to the GOP caricatures of a nominee being railroaded, including because of her faith.
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How North Carolina’s mail-in envelope got a new, easier-to-use look
A designer worked with state elections officials to turn a confusing absentee ballot envelope into a user-friendly model for other states.
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Harris suspends travel after two in her orbit test positive for the coronavirus
Kamala Harris cancels travel through the weekend after two people involved in her campaign her tested positive for the virus.
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There remains no reason to trust Trump’s rhetoric about the coronavirus pandemic
The administration’s private concerns about the virus have consistently been a better guide.
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In context: What Biden aide Ron Klain said about the swine flu
President Trump keeps claiming that former Biden chief of staff Ron Klain said Biden’s handling of the 2009 swine flu pandemic was a disaster. Here’s what he actually said.