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democratic effort to subvert the electoral college plows into

By the popular vote has almost no chance of succeeding, effort led by Democrats to scrap or bypass Electoral College and shift presidential elections to contests decided, guaranteeing Democrats will again have to defeat Trump in Electoral College they lost in 2016 while winning more votes nationally.. ..

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misogyny has become central to the republican mission — and the gop

Several of those women are historic firsts for other reasons, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, or Kyrsten Sinema, D-AZ, the first openly senator, or Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, Democrats from Michigan and Minnesota, respectively. ..

independent counsels' authority on trial'

By pulling sensitive investigations of high officials away from the WASHINGTON — it was supposed to renew public confidence in the political and legal systems Justice Department and politics and putting them into the hands of seasoned and neutral prosecutors.. ..

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