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Facebook says it will flag any Trump effort to declare premature victory
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Network to also ban political ads in final week of 2020 race
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'Bold action is a winning message': climate advocates hail Ed Markey win
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Green activists say 74-year-old’s primary victory over Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts shows putting the crisis first can succeed More
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Trump suggests people vote twice to test mail-in system, which would be illegal – video
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US president Donald Trump told voters in North Carolina they should vote twice, once by mail and once in person, even though doing so would be illegal. Trump was asked whether he has confidence in the mail-in voting system before suggesting voters break the law as he cast further confusion over the process ahead of November’s election. ‘Let them send it [their mail-in ballot] in and let them go vote, and if their system’s as good as they say it is, then obviously they won’t be able to vote,’ he said.’So that’s the way it is. And that’s what they should do’
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Barr echoes mail-in ballot falsehoods and denies racism in policing
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Nancy Pelosi says she was 'set up' in hair salon mask dispute – video
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House speaker Nancy Pelosi says she was ‘set up’ after she was photographed in a San Francisco hair salon without a face covering, breaking the city’s coronavirus prevention rules. ‘I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighbourhood salon that I have been to over the years many times,’ she said. ‘I don’t wear a mask when I’m washing my hair. Do you wear a mask when you’re washing your hair?’ Security camera footage of Pelosi in the salon was obtained by Fox News, sparking outcry over the incident which was pounced on by Donald Trump
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First Thing: Trump denies police racism is 'systemic' on Kenosha visit
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Animal Crossing: Biden campaign offers virtual yard signs in Nintendo game
Lorilei Storm, an American who has lived in Ireland for the last decade, has signs supporting Joe Biden all over her front yard – not in front of her Dublin flat, however, but the one surrounding her home in the wildly popular Nintendo game Animal Crossing.“Campaign signs aren’t as much of a thing in the UK, so I was really excited to find them in the game – I put up as many as I could,” Storm said.Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has introduced four different official yard signs in Animal Crossing, all of which users can download by scanning QR codes through the Nintendo Switch online app. Animal Crossing has been used for everything from weddings to talk shows and virtual dates as it gained popularity amid global lockdowns due to Covid-19. The addition of campaign material marks a new frontier for the game, and for America’s presidential race.The banners are the latest attempt by the Biden campaign to make virtual inroads with voters at a time when many traditional campaign events are considered unsafe due to Covid-19.While Biden has relied heavily on digital outreach this year, Donald Trump continues to hold in-person rallies, insisting doing so is “very safe” and mocking his opponents for “hiding indoors”. For that same reason, Trump will not be using Animal Crossing to get out the vote, said Samantha Zager, a spokeswoman for his campaign. More
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Five bizarre moments from Trump's interview with Laura Ingraham
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In a particularly odd Fox News interview, the president riffed on Biden’s ‘shadow people’ and compared police shootings to golf
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‘Dark shadows’ are controlling Joe Biden, claims Trump – video
On Monday night, Fox News broadcast the first part of an interview between Donald Trump and Laura Ingraham. The primetime host is one of the president’s chief boosters, having spoken on his behalf at the Republican convention in 2016.
But things did not go entirely smoothly.
Echoing the fallout from recent one-on-ones with Chris Wallace of Fox and Jonathan Swan of Axios, much tougher interrogators, Trump’s rambling, confused, conspiracy-tinged answers swiftly dominated the news agenda. Even by his own standards, the interview contained some bizarre and outrageous statements.
Part two is due on Tuesday night. But according to the influential Politico Playbook newsletter, “very many people in the White House who would like Trump to win re-election are against the sit-down TV interviews the president has been doing.”
Here are five reasons why:
1. Biden and the shadow people
Amid an extended riff about the Democratic nominee being a “weak person” unable to deal with protests over racism and police brutality in many US cities, Trump said: “I don’t even like to mention Biden, because he’s not controlling anything. They control him.”
Ingraham gave Trump a chance to develop the thought: “Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former Obama officials?”
Trump didn’t think that.
‘People that you’ve never heard of,” he said. “People that are in the dark shadows. People that –”
Ingraham interjected: “What does that mean? That sounds like conspiracy theory. Dark shadows, what is that?”
“No,” said Trump. “People that you haven’t heard of. They’re people that are on the streets. They’re people that are controlling the streets.” More
