Republicans are upfront about it….
One of President Donald Trump’s top reelection advisers told influential Republicans in swing state Wisconsin that the party has “traditionally” relied on voter suppression to compete in battleground states, according to an audio recording of a private event obtained by The Associated Press. The adviser said later that his remarks referred to frequent and false accusations that Republicans employ such tactics.
Justin Clark, a senior political adviser and senior counsel to Trump’s reelection campaign, made the remarks on Nov. 21 as part of a wide-ranging discussion about strategies in the 2020 campaign, including more aggressive use of Election Day monitoring of polling places.
“Traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places,” Clark said at the event. “Let’s start protecting our voters. We know where they are. … Let’s start playing offense a little bit. That’s what you’re going to see in 2020. It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much better-funded program.”…
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A federal judge on Friday announced she will block a North Carolina photo ID law set to take effect in 2020 until it has been adjudicated in court, CBS reports.
Why it matters: The decision means voters will not have to show certain types of photo identification at the state’s primary election in March. The NAACP, which filed the lawsuit, has argued that the law would deter black and Hispanic voters….
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A federal judge on Friday denied an effort led by the voting rights group Fair Fight Action to return roughly 98,000 Georgia voters to the state’s voter rolls.
What’s happening: This ruling is part of a larger initiative for the state to cancel approximately 300,000 inactive voter registrations, due to those voters moving away or not participating in elections.
The big picture: Voter suppression has been a hot-button issue in Georgia in the wake of the 2018 gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams (D) …
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Associated Press: “A Wisconsin appeals court on Tuesday put on hold an order to immediately remove up to 209,000 names from the state’s voter registration rolls, handing Democrats who had fought the move a victory in the battleground state.”
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PERRY BACON JR.10:36 PM
“I can’t hold a grudge,” Biden says, in discussing the impeachment process and moving on from it. I thought that was a great answer overall.
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GEOFFREY SKELLEY10:36 PM
Klobuchar has had a few stumbles and hasn’t been as sharp as in some previous debates, particularly the December one. She did have a solid answer on health care, pointing out that the Affordable Care Act is polling better than the president. Klobuchar didn’t seem as effective as Buttigieg in going after the progressives on health care matters, although she did have a strong answer where she noted that she’d found 137 things that a president can do in the first 100 days to improve health care.