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5 ways Trump and allies plan for a more authoritarian second term

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 4:52pm
Trump looks an increasingly good bet to regain the presidency -- even as plans for a much more heavy-handed second term increasingly crystallize.
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Ex-DOJ employee who testified against Fugees rapper sentenced

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 3:43pm
Ex-DOJ employee George Higginbotham had testified against Fugees rapper Pras Michél in a criminal case arising from one of the world’s biggest financial scandals.
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Elizabeth Moynihan, impassioned scholar of Mughal gardens, dies at 94

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 1:56pm
While managing the Senate campaigns of her husband, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, she achieved wide renown for her decades of fieldwork in India.
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Anti-Trump forces splinter on alternative candidate as DeSantis, Haley fight on

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 11:54am
With nearly two months until the first nominating contest, anti-Trump Republicans have yet to merge around a consensus candidate against the former president, who holds a commanding lead in polls of the GOP race
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Trump’s legal issues are bound with a thread of willful dishonesty

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 11:52am
Dishonesty has long been Trump’s currency.
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Team DeSantis is somehow still trying to hype his electability

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 10:06am
You have to argue something, I guess.
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These Miami-Dade voters want Ron DeSantis as governor, but not president

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/07/2023 - 5:00am
Some voters in the county that DeSantis won by double digits in the 2022 governor’s race race are calling on him to support Trump’s bid to reclaim the presidency.
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Iowa Gov. Reynolds hits back at Trump as she throws support to DeSantis

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 11:11pm
After months of trying to ignore Trump’s broadsides, Reynolds rebuked the former president.
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Trump belief that 2020 election was stolen is not a defense, DOJ says

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 8:58pm
Prosecutors for Special Counsel Jack Smith said they can prove Donald Trump used deceit to try to overturn the election results without getting in his head.
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Five GOP presidential candidates are set to debate Wednesday night

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 8:31pm
Only five Republican presidential candidates will take the debate stage in Miami on Nov. 8, while Trump will again skip the showdown.
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Grievances, insults, tangents: Trump brings his 2024 campaign into the courtroom

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 7:59pm
Monday’s testimony in a civil case offered a glimpse of the extraordinary intersection of a presidential candidate’s political strategy and conduct in court.
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Some Democrats worry Biden’s team is ignoring political warning signs

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 7:35pm
A series of recent polls shows Trump running even or ahead of Biden. His team says they don’t mean much a year before the election.
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Testifying in fraud case, Trump clashes with judge and draws reprimands

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 6:28pm
Trump clashes with judge and draws reprimands as he testifies in $250 million civil fraud trial
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A disgraced former Trump official wants to deport Palestinians

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 5:36pm
Ryan Zinke, now a congressman from Montana, offered legislation tailored to the conservative media crowd.
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Tlaib draws criticism from fellow Democrats with comments about Israel, Palestinians

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 5:09pm
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is facing a fresh wave of criticism — with some of the sharpest coming from fellow Democrats — over her comments related to Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, days after she avoided being censured in the House over related actions and remarks.
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4 things we learned from Trump’s testimony in the New York fraud trial

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 4:36pm
Trump’s civil fraud trial testimony quickly went off the rails, reminding everyone how ugly things are likely to get in the months ahead -- and likely intentionally so.
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The Mississippi governor’s race hasn’t been this competitive in 20 years

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 3:10pm
Democrat Brandon Presley, a second cousin to Elvis Presley, has excited voters in deep red Mississippi, with his strong challenge to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.
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Are young voters actually split between Trump and Biden?

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 3:01pm
The most puzzling part of the New York Time-Siena College poll released Sunday is the even divide between the candidates among voters under 30.
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Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 1:27pm
Advisers have also discussed deploying the military to quell potential unrest on Inauguration Day. Critics have called the ideas under consideration dangerous and unconstitutional.
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Trump and media want a televised trial in D.C. The Justice Dept. doesn’t.

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/06/2023 - 1:00pm
Donald Trump and the media want to make the historic prosecution of the former president in D.C. the first time federal courts allow TV cameras to broadcast or record a criminal trial.
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