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President Trump’s border controls have greatly reduced the strain that illegal immigration once put on American hospitals near the United States-Mexico border. 

Fact check – CLAIM: It is legal for Michigan to send unsolicited applications to vote by mail to every registered voter in the state. VERDICT: UNCLEAR.

During a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that by holding a hearing to subpoena a firm linked to Burisma, the Senate Homeland Security Committee is “promoting conspiracy theories that have already been discredited” and “using Russian propaganda” to slander “the family of the president’s political opponent.”

A series of leaked phone calls from 2016 indicate former Vice President Joe Biden linked the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor, who was probing a company with ties to his son, to more than $1 billion dollars in U.S. aid.

Rice denied knowing anything about the Obama administration surveilling members of the Trump transition team in a March 2017 interview.

President Trump is edging out Joe Biden, the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee, in key battleground states and is also leading in support among independent voters in those states, a CNBC/Change Research poll released Wednesday revealed.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden expressed his opposition to Israel’s plans to extend Israeli law over parts of the West Bank, saying that will “choke off any hope for peace.” 

A recently-released poll shows over a third of Democrat voters are against Joe Biden picking former first lady Michelle Obama as his running mate, even if she wanted to run on the ticket. The CBS/YouGov found 65 percent of Democrats support

The new push by Michigan Democrats to institute vote-by-mail ahead of November may end up ensuring the state, which was already going to be close, does not report its results until well after Election Day. 

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) on Wednesday afternoon responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding over his state’s vote-by-mail plan, calling his warning both “inappropriate and outrageous.” 

CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert once begged Joe Biden to make a White House run. Now the basement dwelling presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is set to return to “Late Night” on Thursday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, who vowed Tuesday not to fire inspectors general, could not remember that President Barack Obama had fired AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin in 2009 while he was investigating a key ally.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday raged over President Trump’s opposition to states, like Michigan, moving toward vote-by-mail for the general election, accusing him of wanting to “oppress people and suppress the vote” while “endangering people’s lives.”

Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline was on display again Tuesday evening when he committed several blunders during an interview with Yahoo News.

After BJ Baldwin, president of Baldwin Motorsports, shot an attacker in Las Vegas to save his girlfriend he stressed that he would not have been able to protect her if Joe Biden’s gun controls had been in place.

“Christian voters are starting to feel that the angels really are on the side of the Donald,” writes Freddy Gray for the Catholic Herald.

During a Wednesday MSNBC “Morning Joe” discussion about President Donald Trump sparring with reporters and others over the coronavirus pandemic, host Joe Scarborough questioned the tactic behind attacking others as he tries to get reelected in 2020.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to punish Michigan for mailing absentee ballot applications to all state voters ahead of the election.

Former Vice President Joe Biden renewed his accusation that President Donald Trump is ignoring antisemitism — even though the president condemned it at length, once again, just a few weeks ago.

During a town hall with Yahoo News on Tuesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden said that he hasn’t watched any of the interviews Tara Reade has done, women “should be presumed” to be telling the truth, and that, based on what he’s seeing online and in the media, “apparently, there’s a lot of other people who are wondering whether or not it happened.”

Joe Biden’s (D) attack on Donald Trump Jr. backfired tremendously Tuesday evening after the president’s eldest son resurrected the largely dismissed realities surrounding the corruption of the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee and his son Hunter.

Former Vice President Joe Biden will deliver the commencement address to Columbia Law School’s graduating class on Wednesday, despite his history of plagiarism and academic embellishment. 

Richard Grenell has declassified an email that Susan Rice sent to herself hours before leaving the White House on January 20, 2017.

At least 30,000 mail-in votes were tallied after election day on April 7 in Wisconsin, according to voting records.

Michigan is sending ballot applications to all 7.7 million registered voters with $4.5 million in funds granted by the CARES Act.

Again and again, it is President Trump’s quiet, patient modesty that shines through. Especially compared to the suffocating loud-mouthed arrogance of his predecessor.

Lauren Witzke, a GOP Senate candidate in Delaware, joined a church service on Sunday in defiance of Gov. John Carney’s lockdown order.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday that he plans on completing his panel’s investigation into the FBI’s probe of now-debunked collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia and release a public report on the findings ahead of November’s presidential election. 

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said during a press conference on Tuesday that Rep. Tom Tiffany’s (R-WI) and Mike Garcia’s (R-CA) elections are a “good indication” for Republicans’ chances of taking back the House in November. 

Former California Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) said she cried for days over Republicans flipping her old seat and said while she takes responsibility for her actions, the GOP win is “no coincidence.”

Tuesday on NBC’s “Today 3rd Hour,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said she had had an “opening conversation” with Joe Biden’s campaign about being the running mate for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former vice president.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Tuesday that all Michigan voters will receive an application to vote by mail for the upcoming August and November elections, citing possible health concerns stemming from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

U.S. Army veteran and Oregon fourth congressional district Republican candidate Alek Skarlatos said on Tuesday that he had outraised Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) by two-to-one in April. 

Nancy Pelosi is seeking to “cripple Catholic schools” by cutting off needed funding while subsidizing “illegal aliens and sanctuary cities,” said Catholic League president Bill Donohue Monday.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) downplayed the possibility that presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden could be replaced before his party’s nominating convention. However, he had questions about Biden’s “capacity,” particularly given his willingness to remain in the basement of his home throughout this stage of the campaign.

For the third time, Joe Biden was forced to battle birds during a campaign livestream on Monday.