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Republicans Plant Seeds to Overturn a Trump Defeat
Republicans are setting off a slew of legal fights in the battleground states ahead of the November election, raising suspicions among Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies that the underlying goal is to gin up doubts about the result if Donald Trump loses.
All these claims look different on the surface. But the Harris campaign says there’s a pattern tying them together: Trump and his Republican allies want to sow confusion about the outcome should he lose. Democrats have submitted legal filings in at least one case that convey their misgivings about what they contend is the true purpose of the GOP litigation.
A defeated Trump could invoke the cases to revive his unfounded claim that election procedures are tainted in ways that should nullify the result.
Far Right Set for Historic Win in Eastern Germany
Voters go to the polls in eastern Germany on Sunday in two ballots that could yield the first state election win for a far-right party in the country since the end of World War II, putting fresh pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s embattled government.
Trump’s Angry New Rant Over Arlington Scandal Should Wake Up Dems
As the Arlington Cemetery plot thickens, it’s time for the Democrats to get tough and get to the bottom of this.
Why Pennsylvania and Georgia Are Must-Win States
For Kamala Harris, it is Pennsylvania. For Donald Trump, it is Georgia.
Each campaign has a state that is arguably ‘must-win’ in its path to 270 electoral votes, which explains why both nominees are expending so much time, energy and money in those two places—to secure their own prize and block the other.
Harris will spend part of the Labor Day holiday in Pittsburgh alongside President Biden, after a postconvention bus tour Wednesday and Thursday that took her through rural Georgia. Trump, meanwhile, has been traveling across the so-called “blue wall” states, including the biggest battleground prize of Pennsylvania.
Said Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik: “There are two pivot points for the election: Pennsylvania and Georgia. If Trump can win Pennsylvania or Harris can win Georgia, I think they are then overwhelming favorites to win the election. It’s still possible for Trump to win without Georgia, it’s still possible for Harris to win without Pennsylvania, but it’s a lot more difficult.”
Armenia and Azerbaijan tout possible peace deal
The two sides say they are close to an agreement that could end one of the former Soviet Union’s longest-running territorial conflicts.
Trump Is Making New, Sketchy Foreign Business Deals
When Donald Trump launched his first presidential campaign nearly a decade ago, there was a deluge of concerns about his foreign financial entanglements. And rightfully so. Given the financial overlap between Trump, his family, his company, and a constellation of kleptocratic regimes, especially Russia, Trump presented an unprecedented opportunity for foreign regimes to directly access the White House and tilt American policy in the process.
Now, with Trump running for the presidency once more, those concerns have hardly disappeared. If anything, foreign governments — including brand-new regimes that weren’t involved in Trump’s first whirlwind in the White House — have only spied new opportunities to burrow into his pockets and into a second administration.
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I Watched Footage of Jerry Lewis’s Unreleased 1972 Holocaust Film
“The Day the Clown Cried” has a reputation for being the worst movie ever shot. When I saw it, I was surprised at what I found.
