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They don’t call him the Grim Reaper for nothing.
Killing
legislation is what he does. But this time it’s different. The
legislation is bipartisan, and it’s about election security. It would
modernize voting machines and require back-up paper ballots,...
Opinion
A Trumpy Wannabe Tries to Spend His Way to Victory in Va.
‘GREAT CANDIDATE’
Unlike Trump himself, Glenn Youngkin is spending dozens of millions of his own fortune to try to pull off an upset in the increasingly blue state.
Eleanor Clift
Updated...