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11:50 AM ET, September 20, 2022

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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll gives Republicans the edge in most races  —  The latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll paints a bleak picture for Georgia Democrats in November, with every statewide candidate aside from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock facing a sizable deficit less than two months before the election.
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Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump's stolen election rhetoric  —  Republicans have continued to call Abrams' actions in 2018 the original “Big Lie.”  As Abrams runs for Georgia governor again, she wants to be clear she's here to defend democracy.
Marist Poll:
Warnock Edges Walker in U.S. Senate Race, Kemp Leads Abrams for Governor  —  U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (47%) leads his Republican challenger Herschel Walker (42%) by five percentage points among Georgia registered voters, including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.
Discussion: CNN
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Trump eyeing Georgia rally after Warnock-Walker debate
Discussion: The Hill, Slate and Washington Examiner
Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Stacey Abrams rejects comparison of refusal to concede in 2018 to Trump's 2020 claims
Discussion: Townhall
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden over seating position at Queen's funeral  —  Former president claims if he was still in the White House he would have been sat nearer the front  —  Donald Trump has mocked Joe Biden over his seating position at the late Queen's state funeral.
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is More Deranged Than Ever  —  J.D. Vance didn't invite Donald Trump to Ohio, where the former president gave a lengthy, rant-filled speech at a rally on Saturday—and it's easy to see why.  “J.D. is kissing my ass.  Of course, he wants my support,” Trump said to those who gathered …
Miami Herald:
Texas sheriff will investigate Florida flying Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard  —  Authorities in Texas have opened a criminal investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis' operation to fly roughly 50 Venezuela migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard last week.
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Amy Simonson / CNN:
Bexar County Sheriff announces investigation into how migrants went from Texas to Martha's Vineyard
Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
The Trump/DeSantis War May Start Sooner Than You Think  —  The best defense is a good offense.  —  Donald Trump is not a patient man.  Patience is a virtue, after all, and Trump has never had much regard for virtue.  But he's been surprisingly patient with his one serious rival …
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
GOP loyalty to Trump over party dips to new low in NBC poll
Discussion: The Hill
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Republicans' choice for 2024 should be abundantly clear
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Was Warned Late Last Year of Potential Legal Peril Over Documents  —  A former White House lawyer sought to impress on him the need to return material he had taken with him upon leaving office.  —  A onetime White House lawyer under President Donald J. Trump warned him late last year …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Bret Baier Wanted Fox to Rescind Arizona Call, ‘Put It Back’ in Trump's ‘Column’  —  “The sooner we pull it—even if it gives us major egg—and we put it back in his column the better we are in my opinion,” the “straight-news” anchor told Fox's president by email.
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Ayesha Rascoe / NPR:
‘The Divider’ probes Trump's White House years for lessons about our political future
Discussion: Politico
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Conspiracy Theorists Want to Run America's Elections.  These Are the Candidates Standing in Their Way  —  Nobody recognizes Adrian Fontes when he walks into a Phoenix lunch spot near his office.  The former recorder of Maricopa County looks like any other Arizona dad: a neat beard …
New York Times:
Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment  —  The footage raises new questions about efforts by Trump affiliates in a number of swing states to gain access to and copy sensitive voting software after the 2020 election.  —  Newly released videos show allies …
Discussion: CNN and Boston.com
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CNN:
Men are leading a movement to lock up women for getting abortions  —  A businessman turned state representative from rural Oil City, Louisiana, and a Baptist pastor banded together earlier this year on a radical mission.  —  They were adamant that a woman who receives an abortion should receive …
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Charlotte Shane / Harper's:
The Right to Not Be Pregnant  —  I've never wanted to be pregnant, and I've been pregnant three times.
Discussion: HotAir and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
Scientists have calculated how many ants are on Earth.  The number is so big it's ‘unimaginable.’  —  A new estimate for the sheer number of ants on Earth comes to an “unimaginable” sum, one researcher said  —  It's the ants' world, and we're just visiting.
Discussion: Fortune and Ace of Spades HQ
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump discovers he's not in Cannon-land anymore  —  Donald Trump put the Justice Department on its heels, courtesy of a single federal judge who gave him the benefit of almost every doubt as he fought against the FBI's probe of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
How Democrats are trying to counter a wave of GOP attacks on crime  —  Democratic candidates across the country are getting hammered on crime and public safety.  The left's best-funded gun safety group thinks they have the answer on how to push back: linking crime to how easy it is to get a gun in America.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
The Cheney 2024 conundrum  —  Liberals who lavish praise on Liz Cheney for her defiance of Donald Trump are making one thing crystal clear: Don't expect us to support her for president, or any other political office, for that matter.  —  The Wyoming Republican's anti-Trump maneuvers …
Discussion: National Review
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
‘Crime Is a Construct’ : My Morning With the Park Slope Panthers  —  A Brooklyn man with politics ‘to the left of Lenin’ tries to organize a neighborhood watch.  It didn't go quite as planned.  —  In the last couple of months in Park Slope—the baby bjorn-wearing capital of bourgeois-bohemian New York …
Discussion: National Review
Jessica Piper / Politico:
What the numbers really say about abortion and Democrats in the midterms  —  Democrats have been on a voter registration tear since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.  There's just one problem for them — they are digging out from under major Republican gains in the previous 18 months.
Andy Campbell / Hachette Book Group:
Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Indiebound Bookshop Target Walmart … A gripping investigation into the nation's most notorious far-right group, revealing how they created a new blueprint for extremism and turned American politics into a blood sport  —  After the 2016 election …
Molly Beck / Journal Sentinel:
Michael Gableman, who produced no evidence of 2020 election fraud in $1 million review, now suggests the country needs revolution  —  MADISON - Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman told a group of Republicans this month that a revolution against government officials …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Elton John will perform at White House on Friday  —  Singer Elton John will perform at the White House Friday night, according to a release from the White House.  —  There is a large tent being erected on the South Lawn for the event, the construction of which began Monday, a White House official told CNN.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
U.S. arrests along Mexico border top 2 million a year for first time  —  U.S. authorities made more than 2 million immigration arrests along the southern border during the past 11 months, marking the first time annual enforcement statistics have exceeded that threshold, according to figures provided …
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C.C. McCandless / KNWA FOX24:
Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man's nose near Razorback Stadium  —  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A food company executive was arrested on a pair of charges after reportedly biting a man's nose in a parking garage in Fayetteville on Saturday night.
 
 
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Jesse Scheckner / Florida Politics:
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Discussion: HotAir and The Daily Caller
Chris Bragg / Albany Times Union:
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Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
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Christian Paz / Vox:
Ruben Gallego's ready for a fight — even if the Democratic Party isn't
Discussion: The Hill and Mock Paper Scissors