"I think [the Electoral College] needs to be eliminated ... I'd like to see us move beyond it, yes," Hillary Clinton said to CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday. Clinton writes in her new book "What Happened" that "the godforsaken Electoral College" is one of the factors that led to her 2016 election loss — when she won the popular vote but lost the election.
Clinton has been consistent in this position, calling for America to rid itself of the Electoral College following the 2000 election.
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President Trump cast an outdated vision of "the 'suburban housewife'" as he swiped this week at Joe Biden's newly minted running mate Kamala Harris — building on his months-long play to drive a wedge through battleground-state suburbs by reframing white voters' expectations.
The big picture: As he struggles to find an attack that will stick against the Biden campaign, Trump for a while now has been stoking fears of lawless cities and an end to what he's called the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream.” It’s a playbook from the ‘70s and ‘80s — but the suburbs have changed a lot since then.
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President Trump added more pressure Friday night on China-based TikTok parent ByteDance to exit the U.S., ordering it to divest all assets related to the U.S. operation of TikTok within 90 days.
Between the lines: The order means ByteDance must be wholly disentangled from TikTok in the U.S. by November. Trump had previously ordered TikTok banned if ByteDance hadn't struck a deal within 45 days. The new order likely means ByteDance has just another 45 days after that to fully close the deal, one White House source told Axios.
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