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Pool Former President Donald Trump repeated his now-familiar lie that widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 election. By Eric Bradner, CNN The Conservative Political Action Conference’s summer gathering in Dallas over the weekend showcased the hold former President Donald Trump — and the conspiracy theories he is touting — has over the Republican Party’s activist base. In his 90-minute speech Sunday, Trump repeated his now-familiar lie that widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 el...

Texas House Democrats leave state to block Republicans from passing voting restrictions AP By Eric Bradner, Dianne Gallagher and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Texas state House Democrats left the state Monday in an effort to block Republicans from passing a restrictive new voting law in the remaining 27 days of the special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott. Two chartered planes carrying the majority of the Democrats who left Texas for Washington, DC, landed at Dulles International Airport on M...

POOL Some GOP contenders are still asserting that former President Donald Trump was robbed of victory last year. By Eric Bradner, Sara Murray and Ben Krolowitz, CNN Republican candidates in a spate of 2021 races and in the 2022 midterms are increasingly focusing their campaigns on the baseless claim that voter fraud was a rampant problem in the 2020 election. Some GOP contenders are still falsely asserting that former President Donald Trump was robbed of victory last year — a lie Trump himsel...

Eva Marie Uzcategui By Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge the core facts in New York prosecutors’ case against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer even as he characterized the charges as a political attack aimed at him. Trump told a crowd in Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday night that “every company” does “fringe benefits,” but he mocked prosecutors for pursuing the charges, saying it is “reminiscent of a communist dictatorship t...

KEYT By Eric Bradner, CNN Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas blamed President Joe Biden for porous borders, waning support for police officers and “a crime wave of unprecedented proportions” Tuesday night in Iowa. Cotton joined the ranks of prospective 2024 Republican presidential candidates to make early visits Tuesday when he appeared at a state GOP event at Jim Dean’s Classic Car Museum in Sioux Center, in Iowa’s northwestern corner. The stop was punctuated by an only-in-Iowa ending: Cotton...

KTVZ By Eric Bradner, CNN Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas blamed President Joe Biden for porous borders, waning support for police officers and “a crime wave of unprecedented proportions” Tuesday night in Iowa. Cotton joined the ranks of prospective 2024 Republican presidential candidates to make early visits Tuesday when he appeared at a state GOP event at Jim Dean’s Classic Car Museum in Sioux Center, in Iowa’s northwestern corner. The stop was punctuated by an only-in-Iowa ending: Cotton...

By Eric Bradner, CNN A Florida condominium’s deadly collapse could force stunned engineers and architects, homeowners associations and local officials to address questions about whether they’ve done enough to maintain other decades-old buildings — and who should foot the bill for more frequent inspections and improvements. “I don’t think anyone in the structural engineering community saw this type of tragedy coming. I think all of us are reeling from it, and saying, ‘Wow, there is d...

Nearly 1 in 3 election officials feel unsafe because of their jobs, a new survey shows Updated 5:58 PM ET, Thu June 17, 2021 Gwinnett County election workers handle ballots as part of the recount for the 2020 presidential election at the Beauty P. Baldwin Voter Registrations and Elections Building on November 16, 2020 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. (CNN)Nearly one in three local election officials included in a new survey say they feel unsafe because of their jobs, part of a report released Wedn...

Two completely different takes on whether travelers should have to prove vaccine or Covid test.

2021 is shaping up to be the year of believing the unbelievable might be possible.