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Donald Trump’s campaign is packed with lobbyists, despite his earlier focus on “draining the swamp,” the Washington Post reports.

Speaker Mike Johnson appears set on raising the threshold for the motion to vacate that allows rank-and-file members to try to remove the speaker, Punchbowl News reports. Said Johnson: “I don’t think there’s anybody who thinks the current sword of Damocles is sustainable.”

In undercover audio, the Trump ally and notorious Republican “dirty trickster” Roger Store suggests bringing armed personnel to election locations in order to get the results they want, Rolling Stone reports. Said Stone: “We have to fight it out on a state-by-state basis, but you have to be ready. When they throw us out of Detroit, you go get a court order, you come in with your own armed guards, and you, and you dispute it.”

“Republicans spent decades railing against welfare recipients. Now, they’re deeply reliant on them to win elections,” Axios reports. “The explosion of people getting 25% or more of their income from government aid — and Republican reliance on their votes — vividly explains the rise of former President Trump and the remaking of the Republican Party.” “Trump rose to power with the backing of the working class, then reoriented the party to focus on them as much as big business.” “This helps explain the massive surge in government spending under Trump, his continued opposition to trade agreements, his scorn for GOP ideas to gut Social Security and Medicare, and his us-vs.-them rhetoric.”

New Wall Street Journal polls: Arizona: Harris 48%, Trump 46% Georgia: Harris 48%, Trump 46% Michigan: Harris 49%, Trump 47% North Carolina: Harris 47%, Trump 47% Nevada: Trump 49%, Harris 43% Pennsylvania: Trump 47%, Harris 46% Wisconsin: Harris 48%, Trump 48% “The survey finds that the race in every state—and therefore the presidential election—is too close to call.

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