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It's critically important to consider Trump's new claims of voter fraud in the context of his having made similar claims over and over and over without any evidence emerging to prove him right. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Imagine if the boy who cried wolf was just like, "guys there's a wolf" repeatedly and everyone was like, "there isn't though" and the boy just kept saying, "yeah there is."

That's Trump on voter fraud. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Trump's allegations are never that isolated incidents occur, which obviously they do. It's that sweeping, systematic fraud occurs frequently — for which the evidence doesn't exist.
Saying Trump was proven right about fraud because a few random people got caught cheating is like saying that the earth is flat because your basement floor is level.
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A notable shift downward in projected deaths from coronavirus is already being spun as "experts were wrong!!" instead of "hey, the thing experts said would drive down deaths might be driving down deaths."
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This tweet has spurred a lot of questions about the extent to which distancing was incorporated into the model in the first place. Allow me to explain: wapo.st/39QKePW
For those for whom clicking a link is a strain, here’s Birx yesterday. wapo.st/39QKePW
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I’m going to share something that I haven’t shared before, largely because it was so traumatizing. But I think it’s useful for people to know about, parents in particular.
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Two years ago, Thomas was sick. He had some sort of virus, short of the flu. We took him to the doctor and gave him Motrin for his fever.

Afterward, we were heading to the car when Thomas suddenly went limp. He began seizing and wouldn’t respond to me or my wife.
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Sometimes, kids get fevers which spike so quickly that it essentially shorts out their brains’ control over their bodies. It’s not dangerous, but we didn’t know that in the moment.
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The AP asked people to provide one word to describe the 2020 candidates. The responses were often not complimentary (and not one word). wapo.st/3ac66pt
I made a chart showing how people described the candidates (naturally) but I also made a little quiz to see if you can guess. wapo.st/3ac66pt
How poll respondents described 2020 candidates in one (or a few more) words. wapo.st/3ac66pt
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