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NEW from me: 2.5 hour waits. Poll workers in hazmats. A mother who left the polling station worried it wasn't safe. Scenes on the ground from the questionably safe Wisconsin election, and a defiant Milwaukee that feels it's being silenced

nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/…
A house near one polling site DJ'd a playlist of soul music. David Bowen, a state rep who had coronavirus, is picking up absentee from sickly residents. A teacher named Breana Stewart spent the AM passing out Clorox wipes and fresh pens to those in line

nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/…
It is not as bad throughout rest of state. Rural and suburb communities are reporting 30ish minute wait times, and more options for drive thru balloting. National focus was on Sanders/Biden, but the item du jour in state is the Supreme Court seat

nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/…
one lady went thru the whole line and voted with a cardboard sign that read "THIS IS RIDICULOUS"
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Again, Twitter tunes in to Tucker Carlson in these moments like this and is shocked. Real ones know the MAGA heads have had it out for Burr for a while (intelligence committee) and never wanted Kelly Loeffler in the first place (Doug Collins)
Carlson breaks with "conventional GOP ranks sometimes because Carlson has a real ideology. Yall can keep acting shocked or you can learn how the Trump media ecosystem works. I promise you'll know more the second way
It's not that hard! Go on Facebook, follow some pro-Trump groups. Read the stuff Fox News is aggregating from. Follow @peltzmadeline. You'll know the enemies and the friends and you'll sound smarter for it. Fox is the last step in the conservative media chain, not the first.
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NEW: I went to 'TRUMPSTOCK' in rural AZ for my latest story on white identity and the GOP. How white fears + conspiracy binds the base to POTUS, and how, for many Trump voters, his 2016 story starts w/ birtherism, not that escalator. I hope you'll read it

nytimes.com/2019/12/28/us/…
Outside nat'l media gaze, which focuses on DC actors or the Trump rally, a circuit of small, decentralized gatherings in Trump's name is having impact, particularly in white, rural towns. And here, everything is more explicit, including the overt prejudice
nytimes.com/2019/12/28/us/…
This is the third story I've done this year on white identity + the GOP. Previously, I went to St. Cloud, MN, and talked to a group of white voters seeking to ban refugees in their city. Like those at Trumpstock, it was driven by fear of cultural change

nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/…
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Stacey Abrams lost by ~50,000 votes
"Most of the precinct closures and relocations occurred after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 ended federal oversight of local election decisions under the Voting Rights Act."

"Black voters were 20% more likely to miss elections bc of long distances."
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"This election is about who counts in the state." Our Daily episode last year was prescient
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