In this edition: A guide to today’s primaries, the latest on how unrest is changing the presidential race, and fresh Democratic infighting in two upcoming races.
Category: Politics
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What’s keeping Senate Republicans from ditching Trump?
As difficult as life is now for some Senate Republicans, there’s very little political advantage in no-man’s land
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Republicans find more fault with police than Trump when it comes to protests
The president’s effort to focus negative attention on a third party has paid off — to some extent.
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How the Trump administration has tried to explain clearing protesters from Lafayette Square
The Trump administration has given differing and at times contradictory accounts of why protesters were cleared outside of Lafayette Square on June 1.
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Following messy start, enormous Paycheck Protection Program shows signs of buttressing economy
The government’s Paycheck Protection Program initially ran dry, prompting outrage. The new problem: Now not enough businesses are taking advantage.
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The frequent overlap between Trump’s conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda
Trump’s Tuesday tweet based on an OANN report was hardly the first time Trump has passed along something that fits so neatly with Russian propaganda
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Trump tweets outrageous conspiracy theory about injured Buffalo man
Once again the president makes us regret we can award no more than Four Pinocchios
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Trump draws rebukes for suggesting 75-year-old protester pushed to the ground in Buffalo was part of a ‘set up’
In a morning tweet, the president floated a unfounded theory about a man who video captured being shoved by police and lying on the ground bleeding.
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The partisan divide that threatens progress on racial justice
New polls show that while a majority of Americans are more focused on racism than in years past, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to prioritize it.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders backs Rep. Eliot Engel’s primary challenger Jamaal Bowman
In a statement, the Vermont independent said Bowman is “is someone we can trust to be a powerful advocate for a progressive agenda in Congress.”
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The Daily 202: ‘Demilitarizing’ the police could be a more fruitful rallying cry for reformers than ‘defunding’
Trump reversed Obama’s post-Ferguson executive order. Democrats – plus Charles Koch and Rand Paul – are trying to restore the limitations on the Pentagon’s 1033 program.
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Trump sides with deranged conspiracy theories over Black Lives Matter protesters
The president’s efforts to smear Black Lives Matter protesters turn surreal.
