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Total women in the U.S. House:
1989:
16 Democrats
13 Republicans
2019:
89 Democrats
13 Republicans
2,098
44,723
180,855
Dr. Fauci on @CNN: "I took a trip up there to the North Pole, and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself. I measured his level of immunity, and he is good to go. He can come down the chimney. He can leave the presents. You have nothing to worry about."
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FAUCI: "If we had everyone have universal use of masks, distancing, no crowds, outdoors, wash hands, you wouldn't see the surges we're seeing. It occurs because of the lack of implementation of simple public health measures. It's so frustrating, because it's not rocket science."
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TRUMP: "When I took over, we didn't even have a test."
SWAN: "Why would you have a test? The virus didn't exist."
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Sen. Rand Paul on Fox News: "If you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinly-veiled innuendo calling us White supremacists, calling us racists, calling us every name in the book, calling us people who don't tell the truth."
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TRUMP: "If I lose to him, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I will never speak to you again. You'll never see me again."
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Idaho Republican Attorney General on Texas election lawsuit: “I am declining to join this effort... As is sometimes the case, the legally correct decision may not be the politically convenient decision. But my responsibility is to the State of Idaho and the rule of law.”
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PSAKI: “Senator Manchin will have to explain to those families paying $1,000 a month for insulin why they need to keep paying that, instead of $35 for that vital medicine.”
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BIDEN: "My program is too expensive? ... The average amount forgiven in the PPP pandemic loan program, the average loan amount forgiven was $70,000. Now, a kid making $60,000 trying to pay back his bills, asking for $10,000 of relief? Come on. The hypocrisy is stunning."
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ROMNEY: "That comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable."
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Biden is leading Trump among black voters 81% to 3% via new national Quinnipiac poll just out.
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WALENSKY: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus."
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Should be impeached and removed via @CNN polling:
Clinton, 1998:
29% impeach
67% don't impeach
Bush, 2006:
30% impeach
69% don't impeach
Obama, 2014:
29% impeach
70% don't impeach
Trump, 2019:
50% impeach
43% don't impeach
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37,628
Trump approval rating among black Americans in new ABC/Post poll -->
3% approve
93% disapprove
3,228
8,923
35,694
Democratic primary voters under 35 years old via new Quinnipiac poll:
Sanders 52%
Warren 17%
Biden 11%
Yang 7%
Gabbard 3%
Buttigieg 2%
Bloomberg 2%
Everyone else 1% or less
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Suburban women in Wisconsin are going 64% Biden vs. 29% Trump in new Fox News poll out tonight.
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GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham on Fox News: "If they pick up one more seat in 2022, if they get 51 or 52 Democratic senators, they're going to abolish the filibuster and transform America."
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WHO Director General: "The pandemic is accelerating at an exponential rate. The first 100,000 cases took 67 days. The second 100,000 took 11 days, the third 100,000 took just 4 days, and the fourth 100,000 just 2 days."
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FAUCI: “The numbers that you’ve been hearing, the 180,000+ deaths, are real deaths from COVID-19. Let there not be any confusion about that. It’s not 9,000 deaths from COVID-19. It’s 180,000+ deaths.”
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New 2020 head-to-heads in national Quinnipiac poll just out:
Biden 53%, Trump 40%
Sanders 51%, Trump 42%
Harris 49%, Trump 41%
Warren 49%, Trump 42%
Buttigieg 47%, Trump 42%
Booker 47%, Trump 42%
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FAUCI: "As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great. I mean, we’re just not."
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Latest CDC data by vaccine status:
Unvaccinated: 451 cases per 100k
Vaccinated: 134 cases per 100k
Boosted: 48 cases per 100k
Unvaccinated: 6.1 deaths per 100k
Vaccinated: 0.5 deaths per 100k
Boosted: 0.1 deaths per 100k
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Average presidential approval ratings through this point in term via ABC/Post and Gallup polling:
Kennedy 73%
W Bush 71%
HW Bush 70%
Johnson 69%
Eisenhower 67%
Nixon 58%
Truman 56%
Obama 55%
Reagan 55%
Carter 52%
Clinton 51%
Ford 47%
Trump 38%
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SASSE: "When we talk in private, I haven’t heard a single Congressional Republican allege that the election results were fraudulent – not one."
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NEW: President Trump's overall approval rating has fallen to just 29% (!) via new Pew Research poll just released.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders says Senate should use 51-vote reconciliation threshold to pass $2,000 checks, $600 unemployment benefits, state and local funding, 12 weeks of paid leave, universal pre-K, tuition-free college, cancel student debt and $15 minimum wage.
cnn.com/2021/01/19/opinions/…
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CHENEY: "Just set the politics aside for a minute and think to yourselves, what kind of human being does that? What kind of human being sits for 187 minutes when he's the only one who can stop it, and he knows what's happening, and he refuses to take action?"
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Latino voters under 30 years old in California via @CNN:
Sanders 84% (!!)
Warren 6%
Biden 5%
Everyone else 4%
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PELOSI: "Hakeem Jeffries will be the speaker of the House. I don't know what the margin will be, but I know that we have the votes to win the House."
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BIDEN: "Exxon released its earnings today. You know how much they made in the third quarter? $18.7 billion in 90 days. That’s nearly triple what Exxon made last year, and the most it’s made in its 152-year history, while the rest of America is struggling."
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President Trump's approval rating clocks in at 32% approve, 67% disapprove among suburban women in new Fox News poll.
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New Fox poll on SCOTUS reform:
- 71% support mandatory retirement age
- 66% support 18-year term limits
- 46% support adding more justices
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FAUCI: "99.5 percent of the deaths, in the United States, are among unvaccinated people, and 0.5 percent are among vaccinated people. Boy, if there ever was a statistic that would stimulate someone to get vaccinated, I think this one is it."
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BLITZER: "You've said you're worried a foreign country could send thousands of fake ballots... What are you basing that on?"
BARR: "As I've said repeatedly, I'm basing that on logic."
BLITZER: "Pardon?"
BARR: "Logic."
BLITZER: "But have you seen any evidence?"
BARR: "No."
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Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, says President Trump's call with Georgia Secretary of State "merits nothing less than a criminal investigation."
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Dr. Fauci to @jaketapper: "I hope that Republicans will notice that the former president of the United States did get vaccinated, which means he believes in vaccinations. So, follow his lead."
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Reported US coronavirus cases in March via @CNN:
3/1: 89
3/2: 105
3/3: 125
3/4: 159
3/5: 227
3/6: 331
3/7: 444
3/8: 564
3/9: 728
3/10: 1,000
3/11: 1,267
3/12: 1,645
3/13: 2,204
3/14: 2,826
3/15: 3,505
3/16: 4,466
3/17: 6,135
3/18: 8,760
3/19: 13,229
Now: 18,182
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Reported US coronavirus cases via @CNN:
3/1: 89
3/2: 105
3/3: 125
3/4: 159
3/5: 227
3/6: 331
3/7: 444
3/8: 564
3/9: 728
3/10: 1,000
3/11: 1,267
3/12: 1,645
3/13: 2,204
3/14: 2,826
3/15: 3,505
3/16: 4,466
3/17: 6,135
3/18: 8,760
3/19: 13,229
3/20: 18,763
3/21: 25,740
Now: 32,502
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SOTOMAYOR: "My disagreement with the Court runs far deeper than a quibble over how many defendants these petitioners may sue. The dispute is over whether States may nullify federal constitutional rights by employing schemes like the one at hand."
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Trump's approval rating among black women in today's new @CNN poll is 3% (!)
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Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell is calling on Speaker Pelosi to *refuse to seat* the 126 Republican members of Congress who signed the Texas election amicus brief to the 117th Congress on January 3.
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BIDEN: "Trump wasn’t there. He's the first president in the history of the United States of America that didn't show up on Inauguration Day. Classy guy. I was just as happy he didn’t."
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TRUMP: "I was very nice to Mayor de Blasio. I got him ventilators when he needed them... I got him the gowns. I got him the masks. I got him everything... Then he throws a big Black Lives Matter sign right down in the middle of Fifth Avenue."
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President Biden's overall approval rating in the last seven Quinnipiac polls: 49%, 46%, 42%, 38%, 37%, 36%, 33%.
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New Fox News polls just out:
PA SEN:
47% Fetterman (D)
36% Oz (R)
GA SEN:
46% Warnock (D)
42% Walker (R)
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MCCONNELL: "After they change the filibuster, they're going to admit the District as a state. They're going to admit Puerto Rico as a state. That's four new Democratic senators in perpetuity. Once they get a hammerlock on the Senate, they're going to then pack the Supreme Court."
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Reported US coronavirus deaths:
Feb. 15: 0 deaths
Mar. 15: 65 deaths
Apr. 15: 30,844 deaths
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Sanders won more voters under 30 years old in New Hampshire than all of the other candidates *combined* according to @CNN exit polls.
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ROMNEY: "When politicians attack a judicial system, attack a voting system, attack a free press, these things threaten the foundation upon which not only our own democracy rests but democracies around the world rest."
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Martin Luther King Jr. favorable ratings via Gallup -->
1966: 33% favorable, 63% unfavorable
Now: 94% favorable, 4% unfavorable
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CUOMO: "My mother is not expendable. And your mother is not expendable. And our brothers and sisters are not expendable. We're not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable. We're not going to put a dollar figure on human life."
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2020 head-to-heads from Fox News poll:
Biden 49%, Trump 41%
Sanders 49%, Trump 42%
Bloomberg 48%, Trump 40%
Warren 46%, Trump 43%
Buttigieg 45%, Trump 42%
Klobuchar 44%, Trump 43%
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National exit polls show Black women voted 91% for Joe Biden vs. 8% for Donald Trump.
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TRUMP: "We have a stockpile. It's a federal stockpile. We can use that for states or we can use it for ourselves."
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Reported coronavirus cases:
3/1: 89
3/2: 105
3/3: 125
3/4: 159
3/5: 227
3/6: 331
3/7: 444
3/8: 564
3/9: 728
3/10: 1,000
3/11: 1,267
3/12: 1,645
3/13: 2,204
3/14: 2,826
3/15: 3,505
3/16: 4,466
3/17: 6,135
3/18: 8,760
3/19: 13,229
3/20: 18,763
3/21: 25,740
3/22: 34,276
Now: 42,663
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New @CNN poll: 69% of Americans, including a 48% plurality of Republicans, say the Senate trial should include testimony from new witnesses who did not testify during the House impeachment inquiry.
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Black Americans under 25 years old voted 98% for Joe Biden vs. 2% for Donald Trump via national exit poll.
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None of the three Trump-appointed justices — Gorsuch, Kavanaugh or Barrett — ruled in his favor on Supreme Court election case.
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BIDEN: "The harsh reality is that at least 3 million people now don’t have jobs because our president didn’t do his job when it mattered."
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.@RandPaul: "He didn't call up the president of Ukraine and say investigate my rival."
@jaketapper: "He said investigate Joe Biden."
@RandPaul: "He does not call up and say investigate my rival. He says investigate a person."
@jaketapper: "Joe Biden is his rival." #CNNSOTU
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New @CNN poll by gender:
Men:
Trump 49%
Biden 47%
Women:
Biden 66%
Trump 32%
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Reported US coronavirus cases in March via @CNN:
3/1 - 89
3/2 - 105
3/3 - 125
3/4 - 159
3/5 - 227
3/6 - 331
3/7 - 444
3/8 - 564
3/9 - 728
3/10 - 1,000
3/11 - 1,267
3/12 - 1,645
3/13 - 2,204
3/14 - 2,826
Now - 3,485
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CNN: A new study from Harvard researchers published today in the journal Science finds that "prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022."
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Dr. Fauci on using chloroquine to fight coronavirus on @CNN: "You have to hearken back to the facts. There is no definitive evidence that this works."
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This is absolutely mind-blowing: 1 in 100 Americans have tested positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks.
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GOP Rep. Paul Mitchell tells @jaketapper on @CNN that he is leaving the Republican Party and will serve as an independent for the rest of his term. "This election simply confirms for me that it's all about power first, and that, frankly, is disgusting and demoralizing."
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Support for Trump supporters breaking into the US Capitol via new PBS/Marist poll:
All Americans:
8% support
88% oppose
Republicans:
18% support
80% oppose
Democrats:
3% support
96% oppose
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If you've never read the United Nations report from 2014 about the egregious human rights violations and crimes against humanity in North Korea, you need to read it. I'm threading some key quotes below:
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FAUCI: "One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are, for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable, they just don't believe science."
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RASKIN: "Minority Leader McCarthy's words that were captured on that tape in a discussion with the Republican conference just reinforced everything we are finding, which is that this was an orchestrated, premeditated assault on our system of government."
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New Fox News poll in Wisconsin just out:
Biden 48%, Trump 39%
Sanders 45%, Trump 40%
Warren 45%, Trump 41%
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Reported US coronavirus cases:
0 to 100,000 cases: 66 days
100,000 to 200,000 cases: 5 days
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Rep. Liz Cheney says "I think we will be unanimous" on whether to make a criminal referral on Donald Trump.
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President Trump has the *worst pre-election approval rating in modern history* immediately before his first midterm election via new @CNN poll and Gallup trend:
W Bush 63%
Eisenhower 61%
Kennedy 61%
Nixon 58%
HW Bush 58%
Carter 49%
Obama 46%
Clinton 46%
Reagan 43%
Trump 39%
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John McCain favorability ratings by party via Fox News poll -->
Democrats:
60% favorable
29% unfavorable
Republicans:
41% favorable
48% unfavorable
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PELOSI: "I don't think there should be any debates. I do not think that the President of the United States has comported himself in a way that has any association with truth, evidence data and facts. I wouldn't legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate."
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Voters over 65 years old:
2016 exit polls:
Trump 52%
Clinton 45%
2020 national @CNN poll:
Biden 57%
Trump 42%
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Here's the "very favorable" number among in-person Iowa caucusgoers via new CNN/DMR poll just out:
Warren 38%
Biden 34%
Buttigieg 32%
Sanders 32%
Harris 31%
Booker 20%
O'Rourke 15%
Klobuchar 12%
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FAUCI: “We've had a sustained outbreak that has gone through March, April, May, June. We're now in July and we are still way up... So I wouldn't call what's going on right now in several of the southern states a second wave, because we have never gotten out of the first wave."
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FAUCI: "If things do not change, if they continue on the course we're on, there's going to be a whole lot of pain in this country with regard to additional cases and hospitalizations and deaths. We are on a very difficult trajectory. We are going in the wrong direction."
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Biden on 200,000 coronavirus deaths: "There are empty chairs at dining room tables and kitchen tables that, weeks and months ago, were filled with a loved one, a mom, a dad, a brother, a sister.. I worry we're risking becoming numb to the toll it has taken on us and our country."
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2020 support among voters under 45 years old via new NPR/PBS/Marist poll:
Sanders 54% (!)
Warren 16%
Bloomberg 8%
Biden 6%
Buttigieg 5%
Klobuchar 5%
Everyone else 2% or less
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CHENEY: "I cannot imagine why or how you could, in good faith, say that we are not going to investigate the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814."
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Sen. Susan Collins: "The President-elect should be receiving the briefings, office space and access to government resources he needs to be ready to govern on Inauguration Day... The states should proceed to certify their election results as scheduled."
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Latest @CNN reporting:
4:25 p.m: Minnesota reports first coronavirus case
5:20 p.m: First coronavirus case in Oklahoma
6:35 p.m: Connecticut reveals first coronavirus case
7:18 p.m: First coronavirus case in Kentucky reported
8:05 p.m: Nebraska reports first coronavirus case
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BIDEN: "One more year, or five more years, of US military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country. And an endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me."
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THOMPSON: "We have proof about Ivanka's participation with her daddy on a regular basis about what was going on. On January 6th, she was there in the White House... And for him to somehow insinuate that his daughter has checked out is disingenuous on his part as a father."
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Dr. Birx has told people around her that she is "distressed" with the direction of the task force, describing the situation as nightmarish and adding she is not certain how much longer she can serve in her position via @acosta cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/…
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CHENEY: "In this election, you have to vote for the person who actually believes in democracy."
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Do you think a politician can have low moral and ethical standards and still be a good leader? (via Fox News poll)
Among Republicans:
46% yes
48% no
Among Democrats:
26% yes
70% no
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ABC/Washington Post poll:
66% Trump acted irresponsibly after election
62% no evidence of voter fraud
60% disapprove of Trump job
59% Trump is below average POTUS
57% Trump bears responsibility for attack
56% remove and disqualify Trump
54% charge Trump for inciting riot
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Reported US coronavirus deaths:
8 weeks ago: 0 deaths
7 weeks ago: 9 deaths
6 weeks ago: 31 deaths
5 weeks ago: 111 deaths
4 weeks ago: 704 deaths
3 weeks ago: 3,834 deaths
2 weeks ago: 12,895 deaths
1 week ago: 26,033 deaths
Right now: 45,039 deaths
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CHENEY: "There are many people around this country who are making claims they know not to be true, and I don't think anybody should vote for any of them."
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President Trump's approval rating stands at 24% approve, 73% (!) disapprove among white women with a college degree via new NPR/PBS/Marist poll.
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12% of Americans say they've never heard of Mike Pence in new @CNN poll
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