Monthly Archives: September 2020

Bloomberg Launches Spanish-Language Ads In Florida

The Washington Post reports: Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg is underwriting the cost of a new $6 million Spanish-language ad campaign focused on Latino voters in Florida, a pair of advocacy groups announced Friday. The campaign, directed by Priorities USA Action and the Latino Victory Fund, will include television and radio ads in the Miami, Orlando and Tampa markets, …

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LIVE VIDEO: Ginsburg Lies In State At US Capitol

NBC News reports: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will become the first woman and first Jewish person ever to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol when she is honored on Friday. Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, are among those planning to pay their respects. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Biden’s vice presidential nominee, also …

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Trump Rages: Fox News Polls “Over Sample Democrats”

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is none too pleased with a recent Fox News poll that suggests a rather significant shift in likely voters in two critical battleground states in the coming 2020 general election. Released late Thursday evening, the polls show former Vice President Joe Biden holds a seven-point lead in Pennsylvania, and a stunning five-point lead in Ohio, …

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OH Gov To Deploy National Guard For First Debate

Cleveland’s NBC News affiliate reports: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued a proclamation Thursday to activate 300 members of the Ohio National Guard to assist police officers at the presidential debate in Cleveland next week. DeWine said he reached this decision after receiving a formal request from the Cleveland Police Department Wednesday night. The National Guard will help to make sure …

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Dem Lawyers Ready To Challenge Trump On PA Electors

Axios reports: Democratic lawyers are preparing to challenge any effort by President Trump to swap electors chosen by voters with electors selected by Republican-controlled legislatures. One state of particular concern: Pennsylvania, where the GOP controls the state house. Why it matters: Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, together with a widely circulated article in The Atlantic …

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STUDY: 2% Of Millennials Have A “Biblical Worldview”

The Christian Post reports: Although 61% of American millennials consider themselves to be Christian, just 2% of them were found to hold a biblical worldview, according to a recent study released by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. A biblical worldview, as previously defined by Barna, includes believing that absolute moral truths exist, and that such truth is …

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Chinese Pharma Will Seek FDA Approval For Vaccine

The Washington Post reports: A coronavirus vaccine being developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical company SinoVac will be ready for worldwide distribution by early next year, its CEO said Thursday. The vaccine, dubbed CoronaVac, is one of four in China that is still undergoing a third and final round of testing, a global standard necessary before it can be widely distributed. …

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Pentagon Fears Trump Will Use Military After Election

The New York Times reports: Senior leaders at the Pentagon, speaking on the condition of anonymity, acknowledged that they were talking among themselves about what to do if Mr. Trump, who will still be president from Election Day to Inauguration Day, invokes the Insurrection Act and tries to send troops into the streets, as he repeatedly threatened to do during …

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Robocalls Lies About Mail Voting

CNN reports: Robocalls sent by Trump surrogates Kimberly Guilfoyle and the President’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump are encouraging Republican voters to use absentee ballots to vote in November, calling them one of the “best ways” to support President Trump in November. Both calls attempt to draw a false distinction between absentee voting and other forms of mail-in voting. Guilfoyle’s call goes …

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Russians Nominate Putin For Nobel Peace Prize

From the Russian state news agency TASS: The Kremlin did not nominate Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. “You all know that completely different people are nominated for this award, this is an initiative of those submitting the nomination. In this case, [the nomination was submitted by] the …

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Fox Host To Trump: Don’t “Surrender” When You Lose

“People are rioting, don’t you understand Mr. President? You have to give up, no matter what. You have to lose. We in the media, we Democrats, we have all kinds of traps set for you in one battleground state or another. “With the mail-in voting, with the absentee ballots, with the late counting of ballots, without signatures, even without postmarks, …

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Court Orders US Census To Continue Another Month

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue for another month through the end of October, saying a shortened schedule likely would produce inaccurate results. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in California made her ruling late Thursday, …

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US Passes 7M COVID Cases Amid Surge In Midwest

Reuters reports: The number of novel coronavirus cases in the United States topped 7 million on Thursday – more than 20% of the world’s total – as Midwest states reported spikes in COVID-19 infections in September, according to a Reuters tally. The latest milestone comes just days after the nation surpassed over 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, the world’s highest death toll …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Playbill reports: The release of the upcoming film adaptation of West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg, has been delayed nearly a year due to the ongoing pandemic. Originally scheduled to arrive December 18, 2020, the motion picture from 20th Century and Amblin will now hit screens December 10, 2021. Ansel Elgort and newcomer Rachel Zegler star as star-crossed Tony …

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Trump To Send Seniors $200 Drug Discount Cards By Borrowing $7B From Program That Does Not Yet Exist

STAT News reports: President Trump on Thursday pledged to send $200 prescription drug coupons to 33 million Medicare beneficiaries “in the coming weeks,” a political ploy to curry favor with seniors who view drug prices as a priority. The administration is getting its authority to ship the coupons from a Medicare demonstration program, a White House spokesman told STAT in …

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Trump Signs Toothless Order On Preexisting Conditions

The Associated Press reports: More than three-and-a-half years into his presidency and 40 days from an election, President Donald Trump on Thursday launched what aides termed a “vision” for health care heavy on unfulfilled aspirations. “It is affirmed, signed and done, so we can put that to rest,” Trump said after signing an executive order covering a range of issues, …

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Trump Again Won’t Say If He’ll Accept Election Result

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump refused to promise Thursday that he’ll accept the results of November’s election despite bipartisan outrage over his declining a day earlier to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Joe Biden wins. Speaking on the South Lawn of the White House before a trip to North Carolina, Trump reiterated his debunked …

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Fox News Poll: Biden +11 In NV, +5 In OH, +7 In PA

Fox News reports: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Nevada, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, according to Fox News statewide likely voter surveys. In each of the three states, majorities disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, pluralities say coronavirus is “not at all” under control, and Biden is the preferred choice …

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COURT: Witness Required For SC Absentee Ballots

The Charleston Post & Courier reports: South Carolina voters will need to get a witness signature for absentee ballots after a federal appeals court on Thursday put a halt on a lower court ruling that lifted the requirement. When the General Assembly temporarily allowed all South Carolina voters to cast absentee ballots for any reason this year because of the …

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Man Who Compared Obama To Hitler Says Anybody Who Compares Trump To Hitler Is “Ignorant Of History”

“The parallel today is simply that you have a government, a state, which is getting larger and larger and more and more powerful and it is beginning to push against the church. “There’s a window of opportunity where we can fight. If we don’t wake up and fight before then, we won’t be able to fight. That’s just what happened …

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