The GOP’s account was being used to help re-elect President Trump in the key battleground state.
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Jim Fossel: Susan Collins is one of the Senate’s last mavericks
Collins is one of the few senators willing to buck her party when it’s in the interest of people back home.
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Jim Fossel: Court packing would damage democratic institutions
Democrats are threatening to tear up the Supreme Court in response to Republicans’ constitutional actions.
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George Smith: Elect legislators who will work together
In the past, lawmakers with different views could work toward a compromise. Not anymore.
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Jim Fossel: Pandemic highlights conventions’ shrinking relevance
We carry on with these archaic traditions every four years, but they rarely make much of a difference in either that specific election cycle or national politics.
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Four people at RNC in Charlotte test positive for coronavirus, county says
The disclosures come after county health officials raised concerned about a lack of social distancing and mask wearing during the business meeting of the RNC in Charlotte on Monday.
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Republican convention takeaways: What virus? Fear motivates
President Donald Trump’s nominvation acceptance speech was often foreboding, his new policies were few, and he gave only a vague idea of what four more years under him would bring
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Trump, on huge White House stage, decries Biden, defies pandemic
The president declares that ‘at no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas.’
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Republican convention speakers defend police as nation faces new racial tensions
Vice President Mike Pence, the evening’s featured speaker, argues that Democratic leaders are allowing lawlessness to prevail in U.S. cities.
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Republican convention’s opening night showcases rising stars, dark warnings
Trailing in his reelection campaign, the president tells delegates, ‘The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election.’