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In case you missed it, Taylor Swift gave a thoughtful, heartfelt and gently MAGA-mocking endorsement of Kamala Harris Tuesday night. The post has already been liked more than 9 million times on Instagram:read more

The judge ruled that removing Hafner from the ballot would cause significant harm to the division of elections and the public. The division would have to reprint ballots, which would cause it to miss state and federal deadlines for ballot printing. Via Alaska's News Source: A man who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in federal prison for threatening elected officials in New Jersey has been determined eligible for November’s general election ballot for Alaska’s lone U.

State and local election officials from across the country yesterday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the US Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent problems. With Louis DeJoy at the helm, seems like this is a feature, not a bug.

At the conclusion of the first presidential debate between Trump and Harris, Fox News host Martha MacCallum attacked the ABC News debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis signifying Harris won. Host Bret Baier opened by discussing the overall debate and said VP Harris was clearly prepared. BAIER: Well, the topics, inflation, abortion, immigration, January 6th, it took about 40 minutes to get to a question, pressing Vice President Harris on the list of changing policies from when she ran for president in 2019, about an hour before foreign policy came up. The first question of the debate, are you better off than you were four years ago, never fully received an answer there. However, Vice President Harris was clearly well-prepared, practiced on the offensive much of the night.

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Bootsy DeSantis has quite the dilemma on his hands. He knows Amendment 4 will be a catastrophe for Florida's Republican Party, and he's ordering fellow Republicans to follow him over the edge of that cliff. I don't think they're gonna go for it. I think they'll wait until after the election, dig through the wreckage, and see where the real power centers are.