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Early voting kicks off in battleground Wisconsin with push from Obama, Walz

(ABC News) In-person early voting kicks off Tuesday across battleground Wisconsin, with former President Barack Obama and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz hosting a rally in liberal Madison and Republicans holding events to encourage casting a ballot for Donald Trump before Election Day. Trump lost Wisconsin by just under 21,000 votes in 2020, an election that saw unprecedented early and absentee voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are expecting another razor-thin margin in Wisconsin and both sides are pushing voters to cast their ballots early.

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Texas Sees Record Early Voter Turnout In Key Democratic Strongholds

(Lone Star Left) The Texas Secretary of State (SoS) shows some of yesterday’s early voting numbers, but many counties have yet to show up. Did we beat the 1.1 million first-day turnout we saw in 2020? We should know later today. Multiple counties around the state saw record turnout yesterday. This is good news for Democrats, as higher turnout typically favors us. Let’s hope that high turnout continues throughout early voting.

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Trump's Ground Game Faces Fraud Claims

(Political Wire) “Donald Trump’s ground game in Arizona and Nevada may be undercut by canvassers working for America PAC using GPS spoofing to pretend they have knocked on doors when they haven’t, according to multiple people familiar with the practice and a leaked how-to-fake-location video,” The Guardian reports. “The ramifications for Trump may be far reaching, given America PAC has taken on the bulk of the Trump campaign’s ground game in the battleground states, and the election increasingly appears set to be decided by turnout.”

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Trump's Plan Would Cut Social Security Benefits By 33%

(PoliticusUSA) A new study by the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found that Donald Trump’s plans for Social Security would drive the program toward insolvency and cut benefits by 33%. According to the CRFB: "In fact, we find President Trump’s campaign proposals would dramatically worsen Social Security’s finances. President Trump’s proposals to eliminate taxation of Social Security benefits, end taxes on tips and overtime, impose tariffs, and expand deportations would all widen Social Security’s cash deficits."

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Trump Defends Right to Make Threats Against FEMA Workers

(Daily Beast) Donald Trump kicked off his day-long tour in North Carolina by surveying the damage caused by Hurricane Helene and railing against federal emergency responders. The agency’s “security stand down” followed false claims made by Trump and several other Republicans about Helene recovery efforts, including that the US government can influence the weather and crucial aid was being withheld because FEMA spent its budget assisting illegal immigrants. Still, the former president still used his North Carolina press conference to continue pushing hurricane misinformation, namely that the federal government spent its resources on “illegal migrants.”

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Trump Campaign Leaves Trail of Unpaid Rally Bills Across the Nation

(Daily Beast) Donald Trump’s campaign has amassed a staggering pile of unpaid debts for services related to his rallies since 2016, according to Al Jazeera, which reported Monday that the former president’s team still owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to 10 cities across the United States. The largest outstanding invoice belongs to El Paso, Texas, which told the network that the Trump campaign still owes it $569,204.63 for a 2019 rally.

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Russian propaganda unit spreading false claims against Tim Walz, which Wired has debunked

(Wired) A Russian-aligned propaganda network notorious for creating deepfake whistleblower videos appears to be behind a coordinated effort to promote wild and baseless claims that Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sexually assaulted one of his former students, according to several specialists tracking the disinformation campaign.

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Ranking Trump's Worst Moments

(Political Wire) The New Republic attempts to rank the 100 worst things Donald Trump has done “since descending that escalator.”

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Trump Has Made 100 Threats to Punish His Enemies

(Political Wire) “Donald Trump has made more than 100 threats to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived opponents,” NPR reports.

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