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    How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert

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    Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight backHaving lost his mail-in ballot case, Donald Trump will probably resort to ever more extreme ways to try to hold a Republican Congress in November’s elections.His last-ditch effort to count Joe Biden out in 2020 was for Republicans to “investigate” states Biden narrowly won; proclaim fabricated allegations of “stolen elections” to be true; and then reassign those states’ electoral votes to Trump. I have previously described how that same playbook could be used to try to steal the midterms if a Democratic margin of victory in the House is relatively narrow. Continue reading… More

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      Could Abdul El-Sayed Be the Muslim Politician America Needs?

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      When Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary this month, my first reaction was surprise. My second was dread. Surprise, because a Muslim American with an unmistakably Arab name and an unapologetically pro-Palestinian record had won a statewide primary in a swing state. He ran well to the left of the Democratic establishment without hiding… Continue reading Could Abdul El-Sayed Be the Muslim Politician America Needs?
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