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Politics Over Black Lives Matter Protests After Ferguson Influenced Settlements : NPR

In the counties that voted for Clinton, there were 61 fatal incidents. Twenty of those cases settled for a total of more than $50 million, or about $2.6 million per case. Most of the settlements were for more than $1 million.

In the counties that voted for candidate Donald Trump, there were 31 deaths. Eight of those cases were settled, for a total of $14 million – about $1.8 million per case. Three settlements topped $1 million.

Biden’s lead remains the steadiest on record – CNNPolitics

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Biden’s lead remains the steadiest on record – CNNPolitics

Biden's up 52% to 42% over President Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, and he has a 50% to 44% edge over Trump in the key battleground state of Wisconsin as well.

Biden's 10 point and 6 point advantages are the exact same they were when CBS News/YouGov polled the contests before the party conventions.

The polls are reflective of a race that barely budges even after two conventions, protests and unrest in some cities over police brutality and as the nation navigates the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, the stability of this race is record breaking when looking at polling dating back to 1940.

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In ‘Compromised,’ Notorious Ex-G-Man Peter Strzok Explains Himself And Takes Aim At Trump : NPR

Strzok was at the center of a number of white-hot cases over his career and would have had ample material for a book even before his path crossed with that of Donald J. Trump.

That, however, is what fate had in store, and for as much as Strzok and his publisher may want this book to be about Trump or the counterintelligence business, it clearly can't avoid being about him.

Can a gumshoe privately contemptuous of the Republican politician he's investigating and who's violating his marital vows and leaving evidence of the foregoing on a U.S. government-issued electronic device also work by the book in his capacity as a top FBI investigator?

No, Trump and his supporters have fulminated, and they've sought to cast Strzok and Page as the faces of an ostensible conspiracy within officialdom out to get Trump.

Trump team plots how to bust Biden in the debates – POLITICO

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Trump team plots how to bust Biden in the debates – POLITICO

One outside adviser to the president’s 2020 campaign said the goal is to equip Trump with ways in which he can box in Biden on policy matters by forcing him to either disavow his party’s most controversial positions on immigration, taxes, abortion or the "Green New Deal," a move that would enrage his progressive base, or alternatively, force him to embrace positions that alienate moderate voters and would fit into the Trump campaign’s “radical leftist” narrative about him. Trump will also go after Biden’s 47-year record in Washington in the Senate and as vice president.

One surprising upside of Trump… Peace ✌

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One surprising upside of Trump… Peace ✌

While liberals for a while were pretty certain that President Trump was going to get us into war with Iran over his silly pissing match, one thing that seems likely is that we will get through his presidency without war.

Probably mostly dumb luck because the president has alienated both our allies and opponents alike and has managed to distabilize the world and actively worked to undermine global cooperation and unity. But I also think Trump is an isolationist and really doesn’t want to get the country into war.

Yet, that’s a terrible way to act on the international stage and it seems rather unbelievable that we are turning our back on the globe. We can and should do better.