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Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia have surrendered. Now what?

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 5:18pm
Shortly before noon, the final co-defendant surrendered: Stephen Cliffgard Lee, who faces five counts for his role in an alleged criminal conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
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Ex-Virginia school board candidate accused of attacking police on Jan. 6

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 5:16pm
Jared Miller, who ran for a school board position in Chesapeake, Va. in 2022, is accused of attacking police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
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Americans don’t view all of Trump’s indictments equally

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 4:15pm
Among partisans, though, there’s more (predictable) consistency.
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Donald Trump marks return to X, formerly Twitter, with mug shot tweet

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 2:30pm
With 1 million ‘likes,’ the tweet still is not Trump’s most popular. That record is held by the tweet that announced his positive covid diagnosis.
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Houston selected for 2028 Republican National Convention

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 1:27pm
The RNC changed its rules in early 2022 to start picking the convention site six years out, according to a Republican involved in the process.
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Parsing Trump’s post-surrender comments in Georgia

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 11:37am
The former president offered a preview of his political (if not legal) rhetoric.
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What our post-debate poll means for DeSantis, Ramaswamy and Haley

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 11:35am
Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy were declared the winners by most voters, but their showings were less impressive in context. And Nikki Haley’s performance probably mattered most.
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The mug shot seen round the world: Donald Trump’s forever photo

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 11:19am
Trump, 77, is known for mugging for the camera. Now, he has a mug shot, the first former president to be the subject of one.
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Trump is selling his mug shot on shirts, koozies and bumper stickers

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 11:06am
For $34, Trump supporters can buy T-shirts and other merchandise featuring the first mug shot of a former American president. Bumper stickers are going for $12.
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Jonathan Turley’s deceptive Trump defense

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 9:07am
The George Washington University Law School professor claims the former president was not asking for a recount when he called Georgia’s secretary of state.
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New security clearance system is years late, its cost estimate unreliable

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 5:00am
After a major 2015 cyber breach, the Pentagon planned a new federal background check system, but it is way behind schedule and no one know how much it will cost.
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Vivek Ramaswamy says ‘hoax’ agenda kills more people than climate change

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 2:00am
We puzzled till our puzzler was sore — this claim makes no sense.
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Ramaswamy and Haley show the GOP’s divergent paths coming out of the debate

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 7:13pm
The Trump-friendly entrepreneur and anti-Trump former U.N. envoy illustrated the chasm in the GOP as the underdog candidates labor in the former president’s shadow.
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Montgomery students can’t opt out of LGBTQ storybooks, judge says

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 5:48pm
In denying a temporary injunction, a federal judge was not persuaded that certain readings infringe on the First Amendment rights of religious parents.
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Ratings for first Republican debate of 2024 couldn’t compare with 2016

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 5:42pm
Roughly 12.8 million watched the Fox News GOP debate that lacked Donald Trump -- a big number for cable TV these days but far fewer than watched in 2015.
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For every six Republican debate-watchers, one watched Trump instead

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 4:12pm
About 5 percent of Republicans report watching the former president’s conversation with Tucker Carlson, compared with 15 percent who watched the whole debate.
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It wasn’t just his personality that prompted those attacks on Ramaswamy

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 2:58pm
It’s another indicator of how Ron DeSantis’s star has fallen.
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Our Republican debate poll finds Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy won

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 2:00pm
A Washington Post/FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll survyed likely Republican voters before and after the debate
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Some undersold moments from the first Republican debate

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 1:14pm
Breaking down DeSantis’s squeamish response on Pence and Jan. 6, Pence’s conspicuous “contrition” reference to Trump, and other moments that haven’t gotten their due.
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‘Abortion until the day of birth’ is evocative — but misleading

Washington Post Elections - Thu, 08/24/2023 - 12:31pm
Candidates participating in the Republican debate spoke out against something that’s rare — or, in some cases, non-existent.
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