August 28, 2024

Election

CBS News  -There's a surge in voter registration among key demographics ahead of November's election. According to the data firm TargetSmart, registration is up more than 175% among young Black women

Axios - Former President Trump's campaign promises would send the national debt soaring much faster than Vice President Harris' would, Axios' Felix Salmon writes from two new analyses by the Penn Wharton Budget Model. Both of them increase the deficit. Keeping Trump's campaign promises would increase the national debt by $5.8 trillion over 10 years. Harris' would cost $1.2 trillion.  MORE

Guardian - Georgia state officials were sued on Monday by Democrats, who claim that new election rules are illegal. The suit, filed in Fulton county court, involves rules green-lighted by the GOP-controlled Georgia state election board meant to grant individual county election officials the power to delay or cancel the certification of votes, Reuters notes. In a 3 August rally in Georgia, Trump called out his support for three of the Republican state election board members, calling them “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory”.

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