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If there ever was a point to Kayne West’s presidential campaign, after this week, that point is gone

The only swing state where West will appear on the presidential ballot is Iowa, where just six electoral votes are up for grabs. Other swing states rejected his applications for a spot on their ballots.

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‘A disgrace’: Joe Biden slams President Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead

“I’ve just never been as disappointed, in my whole career, with a leader that I’ve worked with, president or otherwise,” Joe Biden said.

Biden confirms coronavirus test, says he’ll be tested regularly

The Democratic presidential nominee told reporters of his testing protocol during a wide-ranging news conference in which he blasted Trump for downplaying the coronavirus and thus ensuring that it will continue to kill Americans and ravage the economy.

Trump denies his administration is cutting funding for Stars and Stripes after Pentagon orders it to shut down

President Trump tweeted that he would not cut funding for Stars and Stripes after the Pentagon ordered the military’s independent newspaper to cease publication at the end of the month.

Sept. 1 primary results

US Senate (D)

99.54% Reporting

Edward Markey

Edward MarkeyDeclared Winner

55.4%766,134 votes

Joseph Kennedy
44.6%617,061 votes

Source: AP

US House - 4th District (D)

100.0% Reporting

Jake Auchincloss

Jake AuchinclossDeclared Winner

22.4%34,971 votes

Jesse Mermell
21.1%32,938 votes

Source: AP

US House - First District (D)

99.28% Reporting

Richard Neal

Richard NealDeclared Winner

58.8%83,437 votes

Alex Morse
41.2%58,390 votes

Source: AP

In reflecting on win, Ed Markey says, ‘It’s almost like a sleeping giant got awakened this year’

“Markey’s always been a fairly typical liberal Democrat, but not a progressive crusader,” one observer said. “His reinvention in this campaign isn’t about him changing his positions . . . so much as the way he presents himself to the electorate.”
Kennedy
Markey
Other
99.5% Reporting

Source: AP

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Jake Auchincloss, newly minted Fourth District nominee, leans into pragmatism

“I am a progressive Democrat. I am pragmatic progressive. I will act as such in Congress,” Auchincloss, a 32-year-old Marine Corps veteran, said outside Newton City Hall on Friday.
Yvonne Abraham

Mail-in voting turned Tuesday’s primary election in Massachusetts into a thing of beauty

At least 1.4 million people in Massachusetts cast ballots in Tuesday's primary. You have to go all the way back to 1990 to best that tally.

Federal task force kills Portland shooting suspect at arrest

Trump suggests polling place double-check for mail-in voters

Joe Biden, in Kenosha, says US is confronting ‘original sin’

Black Lives Matter supporters disrupt Loeffler event

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Trump visits Kenosha, calls violence ‘domestic terrorism’

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