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Van Jones from CNN expressed concern about new polls showing that former President Trump is ahead of President Biden in five out of six important states, and he believes it should make the Democrats pay attention. The New York Times poll published Monday found Trump with a slight lead in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and with significant leads in…

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) gave his support to a Democratic mayor to take over his Senate seat, which Republicans view as the top opportunity to gain a seat this year.  Manchin backed Wheeling Mayor Glenn Elliott (D) on Monday, expressing in a video that Elliott posted on his account on social platform X that he is…

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Americans regardless of their politics should fear the “kind of threats” made by former President Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee this fall. In a podcast episode of Democracy Docket’s “Defending Democracy” that aired last Friday, Clinton drew a stark contrast between Trump and President Biden, saying the…

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed his desire to move the U.S. budget onto blockchain, a record of transactions commonly linked with bitcoin and other digital currencies. “I'm going to transfer the complete U.S. budget onto blockchain so that any American – every American – can view every budget item at any time.

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The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem over the use of voting machines in Arizona elections, the latest blow to the two GOP candidates, who have seen their lawsuit rejected several times. Lake and Finchem asked the Supreme Court to review a…