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Hakeem Jeffries prepares another bailout for Mike Johnson

(Axios) The really uncomfortable question for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday isn't whether he can pass a government spending stopgap. It's how many votes he'll need to borrow from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat who wants his job. It used to be unthinkable for a GOP speaker to call a vote in which they couldn't win a majority of the majority of their party members on a vote. But Johnson has failed that test twice this year.

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Every Teamsters union in Florida backs Kamala Harris for President

(Florida Politics) Every Teamsters union in Florida just announced support for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. A half dozen unions issued endorsements, including Teamsters Local 79 — SW FL, Tampa, Teamsters Local 173 — Bradenton, Teamsters Local 385 — Orlando, Teamsters Local 512 — Jacksonville, Teamsters Local 769 — Miami and Teamsters Local 947 — Jacksonville. The endorsements were issued as part of a joint endorsement of unions from Florida, Georgia and Alabama.

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Haitian group in Ohio files criminal complaint against Trump, Vance

(The Hill) A grassroots immigrant advocacy group filed a complaint seeking criminal charges in Springfield, Ohio, against former President Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R), over their role in elevating false allegations about Haitian immigrants abducting and eating local pets. The complaint, filed by Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) in Clark County Municipal Court, alleges that Trump and Vance, by amplifying those claims, had a “direct impact” in spurring the 33 bomb threats that rocked the southwest Ohio city.

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Top Trump Aide Sexually Harassed Teenagers, Says Disturbing Report

(New Republic) A former aide in Donald Trump’s presidential administration and a senior adviser to Project 2025 is in trouble for sending creepy internet messages to teenagers. John McEntee, who also co-founded the conservative dating app The Right Stuff, sent messages to multiple young women offering in some cases to give them free trips to Los Angeles and making sexual advances, Wired reports. The app’s sole investor is right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and it has been criticized for its mostly male user base.

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New Reuters-Ipsos National Poll: Harris Plus 6 (LV)

(Reuters) Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump 47% to 40% in the race to win the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, as she appeared to blunt Trump's edge on the economy and jobs, a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Tuesday found. Harris had a lead of six percentage points based on unrounded figures - which showed her with support from 46.61% of registered voters while Trump was backed by 40.48%, according to the three-day poll that closed on Monday.

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Jack Smith Could Drop New Bombshells In Trump's Federal Election Case This Week -- Here's Why

(Forbes) New information could come to light this week about former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office is set to file a lengthy brief making its case for why Trump should be prosecuted, including using new evidence—and a federal judge rejected Trump’s push to prevent it from being released.

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Donald Trump and Bernie Moreno rage at "crazy" female voters who refuse to fall in line

(Salon) Harris leads with women more than Trump leads with men, pushing her ahead in the national poll. Women tend to vote more than men and, in fact, have turned out in higher numbers in every presidential election since 1980. There's every reason to believe that trend will continue, as concerns about abortion bans continue to activate female voters in large numbers. In light of this and his myriad personality disorders, it's not a surprise that Trump is screaming at women voters like he's accusing a soon-to-be-ex-wife of ingratitude.

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Georgia election board probes handling of mass voter challenges in eight Democrat-led counties

(Georgia Recorder) The Georgia State Election Board voted Monday to investigate claims that several county election boards are failing to properly investigate challenges disputing voter eligibility. Three State Election Board members loyal to former President Donald Trump agreed to request that the board’s executive director look into whether eight election boards in counties led by Democrats are improperly dismissing complaints questioning if tens of thousands of voters are eligible to vote. The mass voter challenge controversy has been a mainstay in Georgia over the last several years since the feverish push to overturn the 2020 presidential election results after Trump narrowly lost to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has a New Plan to Paralyze the Vote Count in a Critical Swing State

(Slate) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking increasingly bizarre and contradictory positions in his ongoing crusade to inject pandemonium into the 2024 election. Right now the former third-party candidate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to restore his name to the ballot in New York, asserting a constitutional right to run for president in the state. At the same time, he is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to remove his name from the ballot in that state, asserting a constitutional right not to run there. Moreover, because it is too late to print new ballots in Wisconsin, Kennedy is demanding that clerks manually place stickers over his name on some 4 million existing ballots.

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Manchin won't endorse Harris over vow to gut filibuster to codify abortion rights: 'Shame on her'

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Hakeem Jeffries prepares another bailout for Mike Johnson

8 hrs ago - 11 hours ago The really uncomfortable question for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday isn't whether he can pass a government spending stopgap. It's how many votes he'll need to borrow from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat who wants ... (Axios)

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Trump campaign ad in Georgia (the state), mistakenly depicts country of Georgia

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