Twitter to Flag Tweets Claiming Early Victory After Election, Remove Posts Inciting Interference

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Twitter said Friday it will flag posts on its platform that prematurely claim victory in the U.S. presidential race and will remove ones meant to incite people to interfere in the election process.

Less than a month before Election Day, Twitter followed Google and Facebook in becoming the latest major internet company to put new rules in place in anticipation of possible confusion or chaos.

“People on Twitter, including candidates for office, may not claim an election win before it is authoritatively called,” Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour explained in a blog post.

“To determine the results of an election in the U.S., we require either an announcement from state election officials, or a public projection from at least two authoritative, national news outlets that make independent election calls,” they wrote.

Tweets that include early claims about the results of any contests taking place next month will be labeled as premature and refer user to the company’s official page for the elections, they added. (Read more from “Twitter to Flag Tweets Claiming Early Victory After Election, Remove Posts Inciting Interference” HERE)

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GOP Senator Warns: Election Could Be ‘Bloodbath’

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Sen. Ted Cruz believes whether the 2020 election is a “bloodbath” or a triumph for the GOP all depends on whether voters are optimistic in November.

The Texas Republican warned that if “on Election Day, people are angry, they’ve given up hope and they’re depressed, which is what Pelosi and Schumer want them to be,” there could be “a bloodbath of Watergate proportions,” which would entail losing the White House and both houses of Congress.

But “if people are optimistic, they are going back to work, they have a positive future, we could see a fantastic election,” Cruz said, which would mean President Trump getting reelected by a “big margin” and Republicans winning both houses of Congress.

“I don’t recall an election in my lifetime where the delta, the spread between those two, was as dramatic as it is,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

Cruz placed blame on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for holding up a long-awaited round of coronavirus relief. (Read more from “GOP Senator Warns: Election Could Be ‘Bloodbath'” HERE)

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Mother of Kyle Rittenhouse Lashes Out at Joe Biden

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. . .[Rittenhouse’s criminal attorney John] Pierce told Fox News before the hearing that he was “extremely concerned” for Rittenhouse’s safety in light of threats “that have been made to him, to his family, to his lawyers.”

“Adding to that concern is the fact that a former vice president of the United States and a sitting United States senator who are running for president in what is arguably the most heated presidential election, perhaps in American history … has now chosen to use him as a political pawn to suggest falsely that he is a white supremacist,” Pierce added. “And to suggest falsely that he is one of the people that is responsible for the arson, looting and insurrection in Kenosha and Portland.”

Pierce was referring to a video shared last month by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden that appears to suggest the teenager is a White supremacist.

Speaking exclusively to Fox News, Rittenhouse’s mother, Wendy Rittenhouse fumed as she recalled how she stumbled upon the video herself.

“I am angry. My son is not a white supremacist. He is not a racist. He is not in no militia,” she said. “Former Vice President Biden, how dare [he] use my son for a political ad for his campaign.” (Read more from “Mother of Kyle Rittenhouse Lashes Out at Joe Biden” HERE)

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50,000 Received Incorrect Absentee Ballots in Ohio County

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Nearly 50,000 voters received incorrect absentee ballots in the county that is home to Ohio’s capital and largest city, elections officials said Friday as they promised corrected ballots would be mailed within 72 hours.

With about 240,000 ballots mailed, that meant one in five voters received a wrong ballot. The error happened Saturday afternoon when someone changed a setting on a machine that places absentee ballots into mailing envelopes, Franklin County elections officials said Thursday.

Some ballots had an incorrect congressional race, while others had the correct information but were sent to voters in a different precinct. The Franklin County Elections Board said 49,669 voters received incorrect ballots out of 237,498 that were mailed.

That represents 6% of Franklin County’s approximately 880,000 registered voters, and 0.6% of the 8 million voters registered statewide in the presidential battleground. (Read more from “50,000 Received Incorrect Absentee Ballots in Ohio County” HERE)

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Donald Trump Calls for AG Barr to Indict Joe Biden With Just Weeks Until Election; Trump: ‘Where Are All of the Arrests?’

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By Newsweek. With less than one month until the election, President Donald Trump is calling for his attorney general to indict his challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, for the “greatest political crime in the history of our country.”

Russia has plagued the Trump administration since he took office and accusations he colluded with one of America’s top adversaries to win the election called the validity of his victory into question. Democrats and Republicans both use a report from special counsel Robert Mueller to fuel their arguments in favor or against Trump, but recently declassified documents prove the improper behavior falls on Biden and former President Barack Obama, Trump claimed.

On Thursday, Trump told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo that Biden and Obama “spited’ his campaign and urged Attorney General Bill Barr to indict them because “we got plenty, you don’t need any more.” Without an indictment, Trump said, “we’ll get little satisfaction,” and he “won’t forget it.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Calls for AG Barr to Indict Joe Biden With Just Weeks Until Election” HERE)

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‘Where Are All of the Arrests?’: Trump Demands Barr Lock up His Foes

By Politico. Donald Trump mounted an overnight Twitter blitz demanding to jail his political enemies and call out allies he says are failing to arrest his rivals swiftly enough.

Trump twice amplified supporters’ criticisms of Attorney General William Barr, including one featuring a meme calling on him to “arrest somebody!” He wondered aloud why his rivals, like President Barack Obama, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton hadn’t been imprisoned for launching a “coup” against his administration.

“Where are all of the arrests?” Trump said, after several dozen tweets on the subject over the past 24 hours. “Can you imagine if the roles were reversed? Long term sentences would have started two years ago. Shameful!” . . .

“DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, THE BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS (IN HISTORY)!!! BIDEN, OBAMA AND CROOKED HILLARY LED THIS TREASONOUS PLOT!!! BIDEN SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO RUN – GOT CAUGHT!!!” Trump tweeted. (Read more from “‘Where Are All of the Arrests?’: Trump Demands Barr Lock up His Foes” HERE)

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Over Half of Americans Say They Are Better off Now Under Trump Than Four Years Ago Under Obama-Biden

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A solid majority of 56 percent of Americans say they are better off now than they were four years ago, a new Gallup survey reveals.

Only 32 percent say they are worse off than four years ago. The number is, as Fox News’s Laura Ingraham noted on Thursday night, “the highest Gallup has ever recorded.” . . .

Historically speaking, this bodes very well for President Donald Trump as he seeks reelection. Right around previous presidential elections when an incumbent has been seeking reelection dating back to the mid-1980s, never has this number been this high — or even at a majority. For instance, when former President Barack Obama was seeking reelection in early 2012, the number was at 45 percent. It stayed at that level through the election that Obama won until December 2012. Likewise, when former President George W. Bush was seeking reelection in 2004 — in October — the number was at 47 percent. The junior Bush won. When former President George H.W. Bush was seeking reelection in 1992, the number dropped down to 38 percent — and the senior Bush lost. But in 1984, when former President Ronald Reagan was seeking reelection — he won 49 states in a landslide defeat of his Democrat opponent — the number was down at just 44 percent.

It is unclear what the number was during former President Bill Clinton’s reelection campaign in 1996 in the immediate lead-up to the election as Gallup’s chart does not include that year, but earlier in 1996, less than a year before the election in January, the number was reported at 50 percent.

While the 56 percent number is impressive indeed — again the highest ever recorded this close to an election — it was even higher before the coronavirus pandemic swept across the United States. In February, a whopping 61 percent said they believed they were better off than three years earlier when Trump took office in January 2017. As such, while the number slid a little bit — five points — during the coronavirus pandemic the past six months, the number of Americans who consider their lives better with Trump as president remains at record levels even with all the disruption this year.

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Trump Physician ‘Fully Anticipates’ President Will Be Safe to Attend Public Events by Weekend

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White House physician Sean P. Conley on Thursday said he “fully anticipates” that President Donald Trump will be safe to attend public events by the end of this week.

“Since returning home, his physical exam has remained stable and devoid of any indications to suggest progression of illness,” Conley wrote in a memorandum. “Overall he’s responded extremely well to treatment, without evidence on examination of adverse therapeutic effects.”

Trump’s physician noted that this Saturday will mark 10 days since the president’s Thursday coronavirus diagnosis. “Based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President’s safe return to public engagements at that time.”

Trump completed his course of therapy for COVID-19 as prescribed by his team of physicians today. (Read more from “Trump Physician ‘Fully Anticipates’ President Will Be Safe to Attend Public Events by Weekend” HERE)

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Trump Administration Sues Yale Over Use of Race in Admissions

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The Trump administration sued Yale University on Thursday, accusing the school of violating federal civil rights law by discriminating against applicants based on their race.

The Justice Department lawsuit is the most drastic action the Trump administration has taken to combat the use of race in university admissions, a practice that has repeatedly been upheld by the Supreme Court. But race-based affirmative action is considered vulnerable under the conservative majority on the high court, which would expand further if the Senate confirms President Donald Trump’s nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

. . .The Justice Department claims in its complaint that Yale’s admissions process has for decades run afoul of federal civil rights laws that outlaw discrimination on the basis of race.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Connecticut, says Yale’s admissions process relies on an “oversized, standardless, intentional use of race” that favors Black and Hispanic applicants at the expense of their Asian and white counterparts. (Read more from “Trump Administration Sues Yale Over Use of Race in Admissions” HERE)

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Instagram Bans QAnon Accounts, but Refuses to Remove ISIS Accounts Celebrating 9/11

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Facebook-owned Instagram has announced that will ban all QAnon accounts, including ones that don’t promote violence, while refusing to remove ISIS propaganda accounts that celebrate 9/11 under the justification that “people may express themselves differently.”

In an update to its policy announced yesterday, Facebook said that it was moving beyond a measure taken back in August that removed QAnon accounts which contained “discussions of potential violence.”

“We’ve seen other QAnon content tied to different forms of real world harm, including recent claims that the west coast wildfires were started by certain groups, which diverted attention of local officials from fighting the fires,” said the social media giant.

Facebook specified that it would “remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content.”

Many pointed out the hypocrisy of Antifa accounts still being allowed on the platform despite the movement’s involvement in numerous violent riots over the last six months.

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Trump Campaign’s Request to Hold In-Person Debate Denied

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The next presidential debate will remain a virtual format, casting doubt on whether or not the debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will even occur.

Frank Fahrenkopf, the co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said on Thursday that the commission would not reverse its decision to hold the debate scheduled for Oct. 15 in a virtual format. Just earlier, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien urged the debate commission to allow the event to be in person.

“President Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, says the President will be medically cleared for ‘safe return to public engagements’ by Saturday, five full days before the originally scheduled debate in Miami on October 15. There is therefore no medical reason why the Commission on Presidential Debates should shift the debate to a virtual setting, postpone it, or otherwise alter it in any way,” Stepien said in a statement. . .

The commission’s move to make the debate virtual prompted the president to declare he won’t be participating. However, Fahrenkopf said the final debate in Nashville, Tennessee, between the two candidates is scheduled to be in person but could be subject to change based on social distancing recommendations due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Read more from “Trump Campaign’s Request to Hold In-Person Debate Denied” HERE)

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