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Crayton Questions DOJ Election Monitor Push

The Gateway Pundit reaches for "bombshell" where News One stays flat.

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What happened Crayton Questions DOJ Election Monitor Push.
The headline split The left frames it as "Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys". The right frames it as "Commerce Department: 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020 Election".
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Left / center-leftTrump DOJ To Send 1,000 Election Monitors To Midterm Polling Sites [Op-Ed]

NewsOne · Left · Opinion

CenterCrayton Questions DOJ Election Monitor Push

Bloomberg · Center · News report

Right / center-rightTrump Says Census Bureau Analysis of 128 Million Votes Identified 24,000 Non-Citizen Voters in 2020 Election

The Epoch Times · Right · Analysis

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NewsOneOpinion · Aug 18, 10:14 PM

Trump DOJ To Send 1,000 Election Monitors To Midterm Polling Sites [Op-Ed]

The Trump administration has spent much of its second term trying to federalize control of elections ahead of this fall’s midterm elections.

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The Epoch TimesAnalysis · Aug 19, 12:56 AM

Trump Says Census Bureau Analysis of 128 Million Votes Identified 24,000 Non-Citizen Voters in 2020 Election

"That is just the beginning,” Commerce Sec Lutnick posted to X. “More than 32 million more voters’ records will be analyzed in the coming weeks."

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PJ MediaNews report · Aug 19, 12:25 AM

Commerce Department: 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020 Election

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ABC News - PoliticsNews report · Aug 18, 11:37 PM

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

A mysterious political firm admitted to fabricating multiple election polls this month

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RedStateNews report · Aug 18, 11:34 PM

Nothing to See Here Folks — Except 24,000+ Noncitizens Voting in the 2020 Election

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Center-rightMostly Factual
Fox News PoliticsNews report · Aug 18, 10:58 PM

Mysterious polling firm behind fake election surveys closes after admitting ‘social experiment’

Median Strategies admitted its polls on the Los Angeles mayor race and Wisconsin primary were fabricated as a "social experiment" before closing.

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BloombergNews report · Aug 18, 10:35 PM

Crayton Questions DOJ Election Monitor Push

Kareem Crayton, vice president of the Brennan Center's Washington, DC office, raises concerns about the Justice Department's plan to deploy election monitors to polling sites, saying questi...

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The Gateway PunditAnalysis · Aug 18, 10:20 PM

BOMBSHELL: Trump Says Census Bureau Analysis Confirms Over 24,000 Noncitizens Voted in 2020 Election as 32 Million Records Remain to be Analyzed: “I WON THE ELECTION!”

bombshell

President Donald Trump dropped a massive Truth Social bombshell Tuesday, revealing that the U.S.

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The Seattle TimesNews report · Aug 18, 10:09 PM

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

A mysterious political firm admitted to fabricating multiple election polls this month.

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The Washington TimesNews report · Aug 18, 10:07 PM

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was "gaining momentum."

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InstapunditOpinion · Aug 18, 10:00 PM

GOOD: DOJ to send 1,000 poll monitors to watch elections this fall.

DOJ to send 1,000 poll monitors to watch elections this fall.

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