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2:35 PM ET, July 20, 2022

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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senators announce bipartisan bills to stop candidates from stealing elections  —  WASHINGTON — After months of negotiating, a group of senators announced two proposals Wednesday designed to close gaps in federal law and prevent future candidates from stealing elections.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senators finalize bipartisan proposal designed to prevent another Jan. 6  —  A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday finalized a deal to reform a 135-year-old law that governs the peaceful transition of power, hoping to pass it before the end of the year.
Discussion: CNN, Insider, ABC News and New York Times
NBC News:
‘A real moral force’: Conservatives praise Pence for being courageous on Jan. 6  —  WASHINGTON — Some House Republicans praised former Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021, and encouraged him to run for president in 2024 in a closed-door gathering Wednesday.
Discussion: CNN and Axios
Leigh Ann Caldwell / Washington Post:
Trump wanted Pence to reject votes for Biden. A new bill would prevent that.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Insider and CBS News
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump's choices escalated tensions and set U.S. on path to Jan. 6, panel finds
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Words & Deeds
Juliegrace Brufke / Washington Examiner:
House Republican Study Committee members praise Pence for certifying 2020 election
Discussion: The Hill
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
The GOP Just Nominated a ‘QAnon Whackjob’ and a ‘True Confederate’ in Maryland  —  A guy who tried to impeach Maryland's GOP governor was just nominated to replace him—and he's not even the most extreme candidate who won on Tuesday.  —  Cameron Joseph  —  WASHINGTON, US
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Cook Political Report:
Maryland Goes MAGA  —  For the last seven years, Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan defied political gravity and traditional political stereotypes.  But, Hogan's brand of moderate, anti-Trump Republicanism lacks appeal among the GOP faithful who show up and vote in GOP primaries.
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Documents show the secret strategy behind Trump's census citizenship question push  —  Former President Donald Trump's administration spent years trying to add a census citizenship question as part of a secret strategy for altering the population numbers used to divide up seats in Congress …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
New Findings Detail Trump Plan to Use Census for Partisan Gain
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge orders Giuliani to testify before Fulton grand jury  —  Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, is being ordered to appear in front of a Fulton County special grand jury next month after failing to attend a hearing in New York to challenge a recent subpoena.
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NBC News:
Judge orders Rudy Giuliani to testify before grand jury in Trump election probe
Dan Mangan / CNBC:   Rudy Giuliani ordered to testify at Georgia grand jury in Trump election meddling case
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Trump-backed Arizona Senate candidate escalates election fears ahead of GOP primary  —  (CNN)Arizona Republican Blake Masters, who earned Donald Trump's endorsement for the Senate race by embracing the former President's lies that he won the 2020 election, has turned to questioning whether …
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Bryan Metzger / Insider:   How a fight over Trump's endorsement, white nationalist online trolls, and a Holocaust denier has upended an Arizona GOP state Senate primary
FiveThirtyEight:
The Abortion Vote In Kansas Looks Like It's Going To Be Close  —  A new poll shows that Democrats may be more energized than Republicans.  —  By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Nathaniel Rakich and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Nathaniel Rakich  —  Jul. 20, 2022, at 9:33 AM
David Siders / Politico:
'It's the accumulation': The Jan. 6 hearings are wounding Trump, after all  —  The conventional wisdom about the Jan. 6 committee hearings was that no single revelation was going to change Republican minds about Donald Trump.  —  What happened instead, a slow drip of negative coverage, may be just as damaging to the former president.
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Secret Service was told at least once before Jan. 6, 2021, to preserve texts  —  A senior Secret Service official said agency employees received two emails — at least one prior to Jan. 6, 2021 — reminding them to preserve records on their cellphones, including text messages …
Discussion: CNBC
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Jamie Gangel / CNN:
Secret Service provided a single text exchange to IG after request for many records
Julian Routh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
John Fetterman, in first interview since stroke, talks recovery and return to U.S. Senate campaign trail  —  This story will be updated.  —  In his first media interview since suffering a stroke days before the May primary election, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman …
Discussion: The Hill
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Endemic Covid-19 Looks Pretty Brutal  —  It may surprise you to learn, given the mood of the country — and indeed the world — about the pandemic that probably half of all Covid infections have happened this calendar year — and it's only July.  By December, the figure could be 80 percent or more.
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Politico:   Covid cases are skyrocketing again. States have no new plans.
Scott Tobias / The Reveal:
The case of the disappearing blockbuster: James Cameron's ‘True Lies’  —  The first $100 million movie is simultaneously retrograde, forward-looking and completely of its time.  —  Last week on Facebook, Jamie Lee Curtis shared a fond memory about a stunt she did for James Cameron's 1994 …
Jordan Green / Raw Story:
Witness Garrett Ziegler lashes out at J6 committee in white nationalist grievance rant  —  After invoking the Fifth Amendment and executive privilege more than 100 times to refuse to answer questions from the January 6th Committee on Tuesday, former White House aide Garrett Ziegler opened …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Confessions of a Conservative Apostate  —  What does it mean to be a conservative now? … For weeks I've been watching a parade of Republican officials describe how they worked inside a Republican administration under Donald Trump as the GOP fell to a bunch of kooks, opportunists, racists, and aspiring fascists.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Okay, but Cassandra cannot possibly be right *again*  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  I hear what you are saying.  And, yes, the data is compelling.  Cassandra has been right literally every time she has made a prediction.  War.  Famine.  Rights rollbacks.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Schumer seeks enough GOP votes to pass same-sex marriage bill  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that he is working to get sufficient Republican support for the Senate to pass a bill that would federally protect same-sex marriages.
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
GOP's grassroots money problem  —  Democrats across the 10 most competitive Senate races are out-raising Republicans by more than $75 million among small-dollar donors — those giving less than $200 — according to an Axios analysis of Federal Election Commission records.
Eric Connor / Post and Courier:
US Rep. Timmons deflects affair, abuse of power allegations on Upstate SC radio  —  GREENVILLE — U.S. Rep. William Timmons went on conservative talk radio to address rumors circling for weeks that he had an extramarital affair and abused his power as a congressman to further it.
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
‘The mouth of a bear’: Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia  —  NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost contact with her younger brother Dmitriy, who was trapped in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.  —  Russian forces had bombed the orphanage where he worked …
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Republicans Have Created a Pro-Life Dystopia  —  And they're not going to do anything to fix it  —  Roe v. Wade Protest  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is arrested during a sit-in outside of the Supreme Court to protest the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on July 19, 2022.
Discussion: New Jersey Monitor
Aubrie Spady / Fox News:
Trump-backed Kari Lake shared anti-Trump ‘not my president’ meme on Facebook days before 2017 inauguration  —  Former VP Pence and Gov. Ducey both recently endorsed Lake's primary opponent Karrin Taylor Robson.  —  Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona speaks on Trump's impact on the primaries
Discussion: The Hill, IJR, Mediaite and Raw Story
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Your-pain-our-gain Buttigieg: I'm “astonished” that people aren't flocking to EVs  —  If you got strong Marie Antoinette vibes from Pete Buttigieg's House testimony yesterday, his appearance today on CNBC's Squawk Box will amplify them considerably.  The Transportation Secretary told Rep. Carlos Gimenez …
Discussion: Townhall and The Federalist
The Hill:
Democrats want Biden to go scorched-earth on GOP  —  When Michelle Obama declared “When they go low, we go high” about Republicans in 2016, Democrats generally agreed with the sentiment.  —  After all, the party was up against Donald Trump, a man who seemed to find joy in making personal attacks part of his daily routine.
 
 
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Nancy Rommelmann / Common Sense:
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What Driving Means for America
Discussion: Althouse
Manny Garcia / Austin American-Statesman:
Uvalde families deserve the Texas House Committee report in Spanish. Here it is.
Jacob Fenston / DCist:
‘It Is Counterintuitive’: NPS Officials Say That More Cars Will Improve Rock Creek Park's Environment
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Where does the British public stand on transgender rights in 2022?
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
You Trust the Media More Than You Say You Do  —  If you follow the trendline of plummeting trust …
Discussion: The Federalist
John Solomon / Just The News:
Colbert crew's behavior in Capitol complex caused Democrat staffer to call for emergency help
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
After 246 years, Marines set for their first Black four-star general
Discussion: FedScoop