1/2/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic energy in the perennial battleground state of Pennsylvania is raising questions about President Donald Trump’s ability to replicate his stunning 2016 win in a state Republicans hadn’t carried for nearly two decades. Now, Republicans are picking up the pieces and, in some quarters, calculating that those performances mean nothing good for […]

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1/2/2019

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump declared himself ‘the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party’ on Wednesday [1-2-19]. Yet his allies fear a primary challenge from a high-profile Republican could doom his re-election. The concern was outlined in a private email shared among Republican National Committee members hours after the GOP’s […]

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1/31/2019

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s campaign went on a massive spending blitz at the end of 2018 — a sharp increase in outlays, driven by midterm election rallies and digital advertising, that marks an unofficial kickoff to his 2020 reelection effort. Trump’s campaign spent $23 million in the last three months of the year, […]

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12/22/2018

BORDER/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I won an election, said to be one of the greatest of all time, based on getting out of endless & costly foreign wars & also based on Strong Borders which will keep our Country safe. We fight for the borders of other countries, but we won’t fight for the borders of […]

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12/21/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Connie Schultz stood at her stove this week and stirred a big pot of thick vegetarian chili. On the long brown table set and waiting for lunch was a copy of that day’s New York Times, folded and opened to a page with a column with a headline I couldn’t help but […]

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12/18/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president’s campaign into a single entity. It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party: Traditionally, a presidential reelection committee has worked in tandem […]

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12/15/2018

CALIFORNIA/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Anti-Trump sentiment helped Democrats topple every Republican House member in Orange County last month in the storied California conservative stronghold. Now, a Trump administration push to deport Vietnamese nationals is compounding the party’s problems, possibly cementing the loss of a coastal county that had long been the epicenter of Republican power in […]

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12/13/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is daring other Republicans to run against him in 2020, saying they’re not likely to unseat him because of strong support from his base. During an interview on Thursday [12-13-18], Fox News’ Harris Faulkner asked the president about possible primary opponents in the 2020 election, including the outgoing governor […]

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12/11/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump-aligned Republican activists in New Hampshire are quietly maneuvering to fortify his standing and avoid a potentially disruptive primary challenge in 2020. In the most far-reaching move, Donald Trump’s allies are looking to scrap the state GOP’s tradition of remaining neutral in the primary — to clear the way for an endorsement […]

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12/10/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey on Sunday [12-9-18] night implored Democrats to nominate a presidential candidate in 2020 who could unseat President Donald Trump, calling the president’s behavior in office ‘an attack on our values’ and saying that Democrats ‘have to win’ the presidency. Comey pointed to Trump’s targeting of private […]

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12/7/2018

CAMPAIGN/ECONOMY/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s economic officials are reassuring investors about recent white-knuckle stock market volatility, while Trump’s political advisers are increasingly alarmed that the economy could present a stiff 2020 campaign headwind. Many of Trump’s political allies acknowledge that his reelection prospects hinge in large part on how Americans judge their economic prospects […]

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12/4/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Representatives Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins campaigned this fall while out on bail for felony charges. Representative Greg Gianforte had been convicted of misdemeanor assault. Senator Bob Menendez’s trial on bribery and fraud charges had resulted in a hung jury. How did voters respond? All four were re-elected last month, Mr. […]

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11/29/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel oversaw history defying gains in the Senate and unprecedented fundraising strength. I have asked her to serve another term for my 2020 re-elect, because there is no one better for the job!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 29, 2018 7:04 pm […]

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11/28/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Democrats face a narrow path back to the majority in the 2020 elections, running through Trump country in a year when the president will be on the ballot galvanizing his supporters. Republicans cemented a 53-47 Senate majority with victory in Mississippi on Tuesday [11-26-18], and they must defend nearly twice as […]

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11/26/2018

ELECTION/ENDORSEMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Brad Raffensperger will be a fantastic Secretary of State for Georgia – will work closely with @BrianKempGA. It is really important that you get out and vote for Brad – early voting….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 26, 2018 3:20 pm […]

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11/26/2018

CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/MINORITIES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Representative Mia Love, the only black Republican woman in Congress, lashed out on Monday [11-26-18] at President Donald Trump and her party, saying in her concession speech that they had failed to fully embrace minority voters. Love, a conservative from Utah, narrowly lost her bid for a third term to Salt Lake […]

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11/26/2018

ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump brought back the playbook he used during the leadup to the midterm elections, warning of the dangers of illegal immigration and painting Democrats as radical ‘socialists,’ as he returned to the campaign trail Monday [11-26-18] to try to keep a Mississippi Senate seat in GOP hands. A day […]

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11/26/2018

ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Christmas has come to Biloxi, Mississippi, as President Donald Trump holds his second rally of the day in the state. The Mississippi Coast Coliseum has been decked out in an elaborate display that includes dozens of evergreens, a gigantic fake chimney, complete with stockings and a wreath, and Santa’s present-filled sleigh. […]

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11/26/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [11-27-18] that he’s spoken with Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith about her comments referencing a ‘public hanging’ and suggested her apology should suffice…Hyde-Smith joked about going ‘front row’ to a ‘public hanging’ in a video posted to Twitter earlier this month, prompting her African-American opponent to call her […]

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11/26/2018

ELECTION/GOP/MINORITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Days after losing her re-election bid in deep red Utah, Representative Mia Love, the only black Republican woman in Congress, condemned President Trump on Monday [11-26-18] in a scathing concession speech, describing him as having ‘no real relationships, just convenient transactions.’ She used similar language to attack her own party, accusing […]

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11/25/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTER FRAUD: “Secretary of State Bill Gardner has had a decadeslong run as the legendary, hard-nosed guardian of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. But he may not make it through the Trump era. Gardner, a fixture in presidential politics after more than 40 years in office, may be on the verge of a bitter ouster […]

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11/25/2018

ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I will be in Gulfport and Tupelo, Mississippi, on Monday [11-26-18] night doing two Rallies for Senator Hyde-Smith, who has a very important Election on Tuesday [11-27-18]. She is an outstanding person who is strong on the Border, Crime, Military, our great Vets, Healthcare & the 2nd A. Needed in D.C.” […]

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11/23/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump insists the GOP’s midterm election shellacking had nothing to do with him. Things will be different, he says, when his name is actually on the ballot in 2020. While it’s true that most presidents who see their party suffer major losses in their first midterm election get reelected anyway, Trump […]

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11/23/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrat Sherrod Brown just won reelection resoundingly in a Trump state running on Trump’s issues — taking a hard line on trade and helping blue-collar workers. Now the Ohio senator is talking increasingly like he’s prepared to take on the president himself. In an expansive interview that began in his Senate office, […]

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11/21/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In the days after the midterm elections, executives at President Donald Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, huddled on calls to discuss the possible implications of Democrats winning back the House of Representatives and the potential risk that poses to the company. While the Trump Organization has a long history of […]

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11/20/2018

ELECTION/GOP/RACISM/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump spoke up for a Republican senator Tuesday [11-20-18] facing a runoff election and fierce criticism after making a joke about a ‘public hanging.’ Trump said he plans to hold at least two campaign events, possibly even a third, to support Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in her runoff against Democrat […]

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11/20/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [11-20-18] used the annual presidential turkey pardoning to offer a message of unity heading into the holiday season — but first, he couldn’t resist taking a few digs at Democrats who contested heated midterm races. Trump announced that Peas beat out Carrots in an online White House […]

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11/19/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Election Day predictions of HUGE voter turnout are as old as Election Day itself. There’s always a slew of stories, tweets and videos about really long lines at some local precinct where no one has ever seen lines like these before. And then, usually, the voter turnout nationally turns out to be […]

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11/19/2018

ELECTION/GOP/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In his first set of political rallies since Democrats flipped the House, President Donald Trump will travel to Mississippi on Nov. 26 to stump for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in her runoff against Democrat Mike Espy. Trump plans to campaign at rallies in Tupelo and Biloxi for Hyde-Smith. The runoff will take […]

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11/17/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Andrew Gillum on having run a really tough and competitive race for Governor of the Great State of Florida. He will be a strong Democrat warrior long into the future – a force to reckon with!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 17, 2018 11:39 am […]

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11/16/2018

ELECTION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s post-midterm election news conference at the White House last week took a surprising turn when a reporter asked about locking down his 2020 ticket. ‘Mike, will you be my running mate?’ Mr. Trump asked Vice President Pence, who stood up, raised his hand, and nodded. ‘Will you? Thank you. […]

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11/16/2018

BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [11-16-18] night returned to the issue of the migrant caravan, a topic he placed intense focus on before the midterm elections but since then has remained largely silent about. Before Friday night, Trump had not written about the caravan on Twitter since before the midterm elections. At […]

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11/16/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Brian Kemp on becoming the new Governor of Georgia. Stacey Abrams fought brilliantly and hard – she will have a terrific political future! Brian was unrelenting and will become a great Governor for the truly Wonderful People of Georgia!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 16, 2018 7:37 pm […]

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11/16/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Ron DeSantis on becoming the new Governor of Florida. Against all odds, he fought & fought & fought, the result being a historic victory. He never gave up and never will. He will be a great Governor!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 16, 2018 7:36 pm […]

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11/16/2018

ELECTION/GOP/MEDIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “People are not being told that the Republican Party is on track to pick up two seats in the U.S. Senate, and epic victory: 53 to 47. The Fake News Media only wants to speak of the House, where the Midterm results were better than other sitting Presidents.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]

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11/16/2018

ELECTION/GOP/MEDIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “People are not being told that the Republican Party is on track to pick up two seats in the U.S. Senate, and epic victory: 53 to 47. The Fake News Media only wants to speak of the House, were the Midterm results were better than other sitting Presidents.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]

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11/15/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump might return to Mississippi to campaign for a Republican U.S. senator who’s facing a Democrat in a runoff. The White House is looking at holding a rally in Mississippi before the Nov. 27 runoff, but plans were still not definite on Wednesday [11-14-18]. That’s according to a person […]

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11/15/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Like most unsubstantiated claims leveled by President Donald Trump, his allegations of fraud in the high-stakes recount in Florida’s Senate and gubernatorial elections started with a tweet. Shortly after polls closed on last week’s midterm election, the president warned of a ‘big corruption scandal’ in Florida as officials struggled to tally […]

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11/15/2018

ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump insisted Thursday [11-15-18] that despite a recent flurry of high-level reshuffling inside his administration, with more reportedly on the way, his White House ‘is running very smoothly.’ The media, Trump said, had overhyped personnel moves, which have included the removal of Jeff Sessions as attorney general and […]

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11/15/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-14-18] once again tried to make a case for voter ID laws by using a grocery store analogy, inexplicably claiming shoppers need to show identification to buy cereal…The President appeared to be referencing an earlier argument he’d made this summer — that because photo identification is […]

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11/15/2018

ECONOMY/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I wrote in this space before the midterm that President Donald Trump has a better than 50 percent chance of being re-elected in 2020. Since the results of the 2018 election rolled in, several people have asked if I feel the same way given the Democratic gains in the suburbs and upper […]

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11/15/2018

ECONOMY/ELECTION/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, already in a grumpy post-midterm mood, faces a growing list of economic problems that could irritate him even more next year. Chief among them is a withdrawal from the economy’s sugar high. Fiscal stimulus from the GOP tax cuts is likely to start running out. The Federal Reserve […]

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11/14/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is set to formally sign a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement in just two weeks — but the Republican loss of the House in the midterms means he’ll need Democratic support to get the deal through Congress next year. Administration officials have expressed optimism […]

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11/14/2018

ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As speculation for 2020 begins to heat up, a little more than 3 in 10 Americans want to see President Donald Trump win a second term in the White House, according to a new poll. A Monmouth University poll out Wednesday found that though the president’s approval rating stands fairly steady at […]

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11/14/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A political clobbering, bickering aides and now a public grenade launched across the White House by the first lady have placed President Donald Trump in a position he loathes: backed into a corner. A week after standing in the East Room and declaring victory in the midterm elections, the President is […]

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11/14/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The midterms suggest that President Donald Trump needs to double down on populism, just not the sort that’s been his signature to this point. Trump is both too populist and not populist enough. His populism is largely, although not entirely, a matter of style — combative, lacerating, emotive, unpredictable and grandiose. This […]

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11/13/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump sought to intervene in Florida’s legally mandated vote recount Tuesday [11-13-18], calling on the state’s Democratic senator to admit defeat and again implying without evidence that officials in two pivotal counties are trying to steal the election…Still, the state elections department and the Florida Department of Law […]

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11/13/2018

CABINET/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is weighing an administration-wide shakeup as he looks to prepare his White House for divided government, but it is unclear who is going and who is staying. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was thought to be out as soon as this week, according to two people with knowledge […]

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11/13/2018

ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bottled-up hostility in President Donald Trump’s administration flowed to the surface Tuesday [11-13-18] during a remarkable 12-hour period following an awkward midterm détente and tense trip to Paris over which the president is still seething. At the White House, Trump appeared poised to dismiss Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen […]

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11/12/2018

ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTER FRAUD: “The concerted effort by Republicans in Washington and Florida to discredit the state’s recount as illegitimate and potentially rife with fraud reflects a cold political calculation: Treat the recount as the next phase of a campaign to secure the party’s majority and agenda in the Senate. That imperative — described […]

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11/13/2018

ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For weeks before the midterm elections, President Trump warned ominously about the threat from a caravan of migrants streaming from Central America toward Mexico’s border with the United States. It was a fearsome mix of criminals and ‘unknown Middle Easterners,’ Mr. Trump claimed darkly, one that constituted a genuine national emergency. But […]

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11/13/2018

CENSUS/DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For years, some Democrats said gerrymandering was an insurmountable roadblock to the House majority that couldn’t be cleared until after the 2020 census. Then along came President Donald Trump. House Democrats steamrolled Republicans in an array of districts last week, from those drawn by independent commissions or courts, to seats crafted […]

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11/12/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Florida elections officials are racing to recount ballots this week after razor-thin voting margins left the state’s marquee contests for the U.S. Senate and governor too close to call. Republicans took the lead in last Tuesday’s [11-6-18] elections, but their margins narrowed and state-mandated recounts were ordered after the processing of more than […]

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11/12/2018

CYBERWAR/ELECTIONS/FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Reflecting reluctance by the Trump administration to limit its options for using offensive and defensive cyberweapons, the United States declined on Monday [11-12-18] to sign a vaguely worded international call to protect civilians against cyberattacks and discourage digital meddling in elections. The United States was one of only a few Western nations […]

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11/12/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD: “The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!” -Donald […]

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11/12/2018

ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTING: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday [11-12-18] urged Florida election officials to end a recount and declare his fellow Republicans the winners of disputed races in last week’s elections, while Democrats picked up a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona. U.S. Representative Kyrsten Sinema declared victory and Republican opponent Martha McSally conceded […]

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11/9/2018

ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump on Friday [11-9-18] floated the possibility that the race for the U.S. Senate in Arizona might need to be redone because of alleged ‘electoral corruption.’ The electoral contest between Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, both current members of the House, is one of the […]

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11/9/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump fired off a series of agitated tweets on Friday [11-9-18] about the looming Florida recount, alleging ‘election theft’ in the Senate race and suggesting without evidence that Democrats were falsifying votes to undermine GOP candidates. Trump’s unloading began Friday morning as he spoke to reporters while leaving for […]

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11/9/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Thank you @marcorubio for helping to expose the potential corruption going on with respect to Election Theft in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The WORLD is now watching closely!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 1:39 pm […]

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11/9/2018

2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “In the 2016 Election I was winning by so much in Florida that Broward County, which was very late with vote tabulation and probably getting ready to do a ‘number,’ couldn’t do it because not enough people live in Broward for them to falsify a victory!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]

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11/9/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mayor Gillum conceded on Election Day and now Broward County has put him ‘back into play.’ Bill Nelson conceded Election – now he’s back in play!? This is an embarrassment to our Country and to Democracy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 1:14 pm […]

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11/9/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Rick Scott was up by 50,000+ votes on Election Day, now they ‘found’ many votes and he is only up 15,000 votes. ‘The Broward Effect.’ How come they never find Republican votes?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 12:36 pm […]

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11/9/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “As soon as Democrats sent their best Election stealing lawyer, Marc Elias, to Broward County they miraculously started finding Democrat votes. Don’t worry, Florida – I am sending much better lawyers to expose the FRAUD!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 11:52 am […]

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11/9/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You mean they are just now finding votes in Florida and Georgia – but the Election was on Tuesday [11-6-18]? Let’s blame the Russians and demand an immediate apology from President Putin!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 10:58 am […]

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11/9/2018

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday [11-9-18] he would send lawyers to expose what he said without evidence was ‘fraud’ in contested voting in Broward County, Florida. In Florida’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Governor Rick Scott, with his lead over Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson narrowing, filed lawsuits on Thursday [11-8-18] […]

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11/9/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “They were the states that broke Democratic hearts the last time — and the ones where any political comeback would have to begin. So how did the Democrats do on Tuesday [11-6-18] in 2016 Trump country? They won. They also lost. And both experiences are instructive for the party’s future. This […]

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11/9/2018

ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s efforts to whip up fear around immigration in the closing days of the midterm cycle may have helped some Republicans clinch wins around the country. But in places like the diverse Denver suburbs, it had the opposite effect. ‘We are part of this country,’ said Saad Salim, who fled Iraq […]

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11/8/2018

ELECTION/POLICE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Law Enforcement is looking into another big corruption scandal having to do with Election Fraud in #Broward and Palm Beach. Florida voted for Rick Scott!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 8, 2018 9:38 pm […]

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11/8/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Sen. Jon Tester overcame President Donald Trump’s personal interest in his defeat to win a third term by holding on to his base and poaching voters who gave Trump a landslide victory in Montana in 2016. Tester beat Republican Matt Rosendale this week in a close race highlighted by Trump’s four […]

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11/8/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Florida solidified its status as Trump Country this week, reinvigorating Republicans and dispiriting Democrats as the consummate swing state sets the stage for a possible three-peat in 2020…Isbell said a variety of factors that increasingly favor Republicans in Florida became clear Tuesday [11-6-18], chiefly the ‘consolidation of the conservative and white vote […]

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10/8/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Looking over the aftermath of Tuesday [11-6-18] night’s bloodbath for the New Jersey GOP, Assembly Republican leader Jon Bramnick thinks he has a fix. The party, he said, needs to clearly and forcefully repudiate the kind of rhetoric on which President Donald Trump closed the election..The problem for Bramnick is that his sentiment […]

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11/7/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After nearly four years of improbable political momentum, President Donald Trump demonstrated Tuesday [11-6-18] his brand of race-baiting and fear-mongering politics — which inflamed his base voters but scorched the rest — can still win some big elections. That, it appeared, was proof enough to the President his dark impulses haven’t led […]

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11/7/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats who hadn’t had much to celebrate over the past two years two-stepped and toasted their return to relevance on Capitol Hill in the basement of a Washington hotel on Tuesday [11-6-18] night. For the first time in eight years, they had regained the majority in the House of Representatives. […]

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11/7/2018

ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In an hour and 26 combative minutes on Wednesday [11-7-18], President Donald Trump declared CNN reporter Jim Acosta an ‘enemy of the people,’ said he didn’t much care for NBC reporter Peter Alexander, either, told American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan to ‘sit down,’ and accused Yamiche Alcindor of ‘PBS NewsHour’ […]

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11/7/2018

BRETT KAVANAUGH/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans lost dozens of House seats and the majority in that chamber Tuesday [11-6-18], while simultaneously expanding their control of the Senate. At least one factor in those countervailing results is Brett Kavanaugh. While now-Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, like Trump, was not popular in the country as a whole — […]

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11/7/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats wanted a base of power in Donald Trump’s Washington and they got it. They also wanted to wake up Wednesday [11-7-18] morning to a radically changed country. They wanted permission to dismiss the past two years as a fluke of history, a hallucination now fading. And they wanted something more: to […]

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11/7/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tuesday’s [11-6-18] Democratic victory for control of the House shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that many of these felled GOP candidates were in Hillary Clinton-won districts, and President Donald Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. But the Republican Senate gains and strong Florida and Georgia gubernatorial showings ran […]

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11/7/2018

CHINA/ELECTION/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s trade war with China didn’t end with the congressional elections this week. Despite losing Republican control of the House, Trump is unlikely to see anything in the outcome that will persuade him to drop his hardball tactics with Beijing…Few Democrats ran against Trump’s handling of trade relations with […]

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DEMS/ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Around 40% of 2018 voters said they want President Donald Trump impeached, according to CNN’s national exit polls. It’ll become a key question as Democrats seize control of the House and all the investigative and procedural powers that come with that. But while CNN projects that Democrats will take the House, Republicans […]

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ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans rode a red wave in Trump country Tuesday [11-6-18] night, keeping control of the Senate and handing President Donald Trump a partial victory in his first midterm election even as Democrats won the House majority. A handful of Senate races broke decisively for Republicans, allowing them to defeat at least […]

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ELECTION/POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller and his Russia probe on Wednesday [11-7-18], less than 24 hours after Democrats won control of the House. ‘According to NBC News, Voters Nationwide Disapprove of the so-called Mueller Investigation (46%) more than they Approve (41%),’ Trump wrote on […]

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DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In New Jersey, voters slashed the number of Republicans in Congress from five down to two, and possibly only one. In New York, Democrats declared victory in three congressional races in President Trump’s home state, ejecting the last remaining Republican from New York City. And in the six other states […]

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ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump lashed out at journalists during a surly and contentious news conference at the White House on Wednesday [11-7-18], renewing his attacks on the news media as ‘the enemy of the people’ just moments after pledging an end to partisan politics in the wake of a grueling midterm election. In tense […]

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DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats didn’t catch a blue wave. But they managed the next best thing: Divided government in the Trump era. House Democrats won back the majority for the first time since the 2010 elections. Helped by President Donald Trump, Republicans captured Senate seats in Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota to maintain […]

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DEMS/ELECTION/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the highest-ranking House Democrat, declared on Wednesday [11-7-18] that she was confident that her newly ascendant colleagues would elect her speaker, as she moved aggressively to hold off a challenge to her leadership that could fracture the party. The day after midterm elections that handed her […]

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ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s intense focus on immigration in the run-up to the midterms appears to have stemmed GOP losses in Tuesday’s [11-6-18] election, according to a POLITICO analysis of 34 close House, Senate and gubernatorial races. Democrats took control of the House, as predicted, but Republicans were on track to expand their […]

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DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is set to emerge from his midterm campaign hibernation period with a powerful new ally as House Democrats surged back to the majority in Tuesday’s [11-6-18] elections. The lead Russia investigator, who in the days and weeks ahead has a series of important court […]

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