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Today's stories
ANTIFA / BLM RIOTERS in Wisconsin and woke brown shirt patrols in D.C. demanding dinners throw up a modern-day heil aren’t doing Democrats any favors.
Polling has Biden trailing Hillary in all battleground states as of two days ago. Biden did not get a bounce from the DNC convention or Kamala pick, and the media is calling attention to these issues.
A cautious right-leaning political observer will take all of this with a grain of salt. There's nothing about the current set-up that makes reelection a sure thing for Trump, but the race is close and certainly closer than the media has for months been projecting.
Media attention on the tight race might be a correction from the 2016 playbook. In the last run, for them, victory was inevitable, and they gave Hillary an undeserved air of inevitability. It's been suggested that this caused complacency among liberal voters. Maybe.
Like 2016, there’s a non-zero chance that a leak, an arrest, a surprise legal filing, or a death will impact polls and voter enthusiasm before election day.
Finally, tracked here since December, black and African American voters are going to vote in larger numbers for Trump. For that matter, so are Latino and Hispanic voters.
Related: Old man beaten unconscious protecting his shop | rundown of rioters getting shot
THE MEDIA SUCKS, the truth isn't important to them, they have an anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-Trump agenda.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION streaming viewership on Monday massively outpaced the Democrat Convention while broadcast television ratings lagged (GOP-17M vs. DEM-18.7M).
Probably a push in the end but guess how the media covered the story.
Regardless, the GOP Convention continues at pace, with themes contrasting the doom and gloom of the DNC.
LAURA will make landfall late tonight/early tomorrow. This storm is predicted to be a wind event (as opposed to rain), the damaging effects of which could reach 150 - 200 miles inland (see above map).
Hit the links
SAISD planning to strap struggling taxpayers with record debt
Travis County expanding mail-ballot drop locations, thanks to Greg Abbott
Rick Perry dares Democrats to spend 'a ton of money' in Texas
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