How Team Trump Keeps Twisting the Real Election Threat

By Spencer Ackerman, Erin Banco, Adam Rawnsley

Trump officials keep trying to say that China and Iran pose at least as big an election threat as Russia. All of the publicly available evidence points in a different direction.

By Sam Brodey

By linking a vote for Trump SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett with a vote against health care, Democrats hope to hurt Republicans’ chances on the campaign trail.

By Michael Tomasky

Biden should be calm, presidential, nice-old-man-next-door tranquil, while letting Trump show America once again what a coarse buffoon he is.

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By Aram Sinnreich, Dorian Hunter Davis

We know he makes false claims at a faster clip than any other president, we know he makes the same false claims repeatedly, and we know he uses predictable linguistic “tells.”

By Will Sommer, Asawin Suebsaeng

According to two decades of tax data obtained by The New York Times, Trump paid next to nothing the year he was elected—and nothing at all for 10 of the last 15 years.

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 EARS ARE BURNING

The CDC director later confirmed that he was talking about the president’s new favorite task force member Scott Atlas when NBC reporter heard him say “Everything he says is false.”

 BRACE YOURSELVES

The House speaker told Democrats this weekend that the scenario, which hasn’t happened since 1876, is entirely plausible.

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