Cruz suggested that social media companies forfeit protections when they are no longer “neutral.” But the law has no such requirement.
Category: Politics
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Mailing of ballots to all voters in Las Vegas area puts sharp focus on election safeguards
Republicans have seized on accounts of what appeared to be unattended or discarded ballots as proof that mailing ballots to all voters opens the door to massive election fraud.
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Trump just said what Republicans have been trying not to say for years
The president revealed his real concern about mail-in voting: He’s worried Republicans will lose more elections.
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The Daily 202: Violent Minneapolis protests give Trump a chance to be the law-and-order candidate he ran as in 2016
Nixon won amid the turmoil of 1968, and this crisis could rebound to the president’s benefit.
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Trump wants to win over black voters while his base wants him to be tough. His base is winning.
Trump can’t get black voters to see him as an ally when his base wants him to have an iron fist.
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‘The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.’ ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts.’ Twice in 25 hours, Trump tweets conspicuous allusions to violence.
Trump’s dual tweets echo a long-running effort to raise the specter of advocating violence — while exploiting plausible deniability about it.
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No, Twitter is not violating Trump’s freedom of speech
Twitter is a private company that can regulate its content how it wishes
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Power Up: Trump wants masks to be a 2020 wedge issue. But Americans, including Republicans, support them.
Many GOP lawmakers took a pro-mask stand this week.
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With ‘shooting’ tweet, Trump inflames rather than soothes tensions amid Minneapolis unrest
Trump also abdicated the traditional role of an American president abroad on Friday by announcing he was “terminating” U.S. membership in the World Health Organization.
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CDC chief defends failure to spot early coronavirus spread in U.S.
Robert R. Redfield says diagnostic testing would have made little difference, describing it like “looking for a needle in a haystack.”
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As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic values
Trump’s suggestion that authorities would be justified in shooting protesters in Minneapolis seemed antithetical to his condemnation of Bejiing’s crackdown in Hong Kong.
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North Carolina officials push RNC to provide a detailed safety plan for convention
Before greenlighting the event, North Carolina’s top health official said Republicans must explain how they will keep participants safe.
