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GOP Campaigns Use Social Pressure To Turn Out Voters

Cindy Siegel was walking through a Houston-area grocery store as she pulled up an app on her phone. With a few easy clicks on Abbott Impact, she could see everyone in her contacts and whether they were registered to vote and had cast a ballot yet. The Harris County GOP chair banks up to 200 messages or calls per day, in between coordinating with campaigns and helping set up polling locations. Read More

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Trump Calls for Alaska's Peltola To Be Taken Off Senate Ballot

So they said they didn't do this, and it turned out they did. The New York Times just released actually an incredible story on it. They created a fake candidate. They took a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against another candidate who's a great senator named Dan Sullivan in order to cheat in the election. And they said they didn't do it, and we caught him cold. Read More

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Analysis & Commentary

Kudlow: Real GDP Rose 3.4%--Get Out There and Sell It, Republicans

There’s so much talk about Democratic dirty tricks and decoy candidates in Alaska, along with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s husband problem in Minnesota. Along with socialists running away from socialism in Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, and elsewhere. Perhaps the most important issue for voters, though, is almost getting blocked out. Read More

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