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Former President Donald Trump had more than a dozen seasons of "The Apprentice" to cast himself as a businessman and a dealmaker, but a new book is claiming that is all a lie. Russ Buettner, New York Times investigative reporter and author of "Lucky Loser," joins "America Decides" to discuss.
Story by Khaleda Rahman

Former President Donald Trump's pledge to restore the Confederate title of a military base that was renamed has sparked criticism on social media.

During a town hall in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Friday night, Trump, the Republican nominee, said he would restore Fort Liberty's name to Fort Bragg if he wins November's election against Vice President Kamala Harris.

The base was originally named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, but was officially renamed Fort Liberty last year as part of a broad Department of Defense initiative to rename military installations with titles of Confederate soldiers.

Trump had opposed the move as president, but Congress overrode his veto to approve defense legislation that included the provision. The calls to remove Confederate symbols grew during the racial justice protests that erupted in the summer of 2020 following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police.

"I walked in, the first question that I asked, 'Should we change the name from Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg?'" Trump said during his opening remarks at the town hall, to raucous applause. "So here's what we do. We get elected. I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it."
Story by Carl Gibson

All across the country, Republican candidates who openly doubt the outcome of the 2020 election are running in statewide elections. This includes Republican nominees for both U.S. Senate races as well as gubernatorial elections, and even candidates seeking to oversee their respective state's elections.

CNN found that of the 51 Republican statewide hopefuls on the 2024 ballot, 23 of them — a full 45% of all Republican statewide candidates – are election deniers. And many election deniers are seeking office in some of the most hotly contested battleground states in presidential elections.

34 states are holding U.S. Senate elections in November. And 14 Republican Senate candidates have gone on the record supporting election-denying narratives. This includes incumbents like Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Rick Scott (R-Florida) as well as candidates seeking to oust Democrats like Sam Brown in Nevada, Kari Lake in Arizona, Bernie Moreno in Ohio and Royce White in Minnesota.
Story by Lee Moran

Jimmy Kimmel exposed Republican hypocrisy over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump with a blistering montage on Thursday.

Kimmel noted how conservatives were “very worked up” about Joe Biden’s age and energy level before he abandoned his reelection campaign and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris.
Story by Erin Alberty

Advocates of school book bans have shifted their sights toward Utah's little free libraries after a Democratic lawmaker planned to add banned books to the volunteer-run curbside collections in her district.

Driving the news: State Rep. Sahara Hayes (D-Salt Lake City) recently announced on Instagram that she planned to celebrate national Banned Books Week by placing titles that are banned in a Utah school inside little free libraries.

That led to accusations that she was distributing "explicit content" to children in violation of Utah laws.

Some of the activists have previously filed police reports accusing schools of distributing pornography because they carried books by acclaimed authors like Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Sherman Alexie.

Zoom out: Brooke Stephens — a leader with Utah Parents United who called for Hayes' prosecution and has previously mobilized parents to report librarians to police — argued last week that owners of Little Free Libraries should face prosecution if they make "obscene" material available.

The other side: Book ban opponents say threats to prosecute people for simply having or putting books in reach of children likely will have a chilling effect on authors, parents and owners of little free libraries.
Story by Rhian Lubin

Rudy Giuliani allegedly sent a text message begging Michigan lawmakers to overturn the 2020 election result – but got the wrong number.

The embattled former New York City mayor, who is also facing trial accused of conspiring to subvert Arizona’s 2020 presidential election results, has a long history of technological gaffes and humiliating mishaps.

The latest embarrassing example was detailed in special counsel Jack Smith’s legal briefing, filed in federal court in Washington DC on Wednesday, which outlines the federal election interference case against Donald Trump in the most thorough detail to date.

include the fullest account and evidence of what happened in the lead-up to the election and Trump’s alleged attempt to subvert the result as if it were an opening statement to a jury.

Giuliani is not named in the filing but is presumed to be “co-conspirator 1”, accused of launching state-by-state efforts to convince Republican lawmakers to support Trump’s mandate of overturning the 2020 election result.

According to the 165-page document, Trump turned to Giuliani when others were “telling the defendant what he did not want to hear – that he had lost” the 2020 election. Trump enlisted Giuliani as his personal attorney because he “was willing to falsely claim victory and spread knowingly false claims of election fraud,” according to the document.
By Melissa Quinn, Robert Legare

Washington — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has made public a key filing from special counsel Jack Smith that includes evidence compiled in his investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged efforts to subvert the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election.

The highly anticipated 165-page filing provides the most comprehensive look at the evidence federal prosecutors have amassed in their case, which was upended by the Supreme Court's July decision finding Trump is entitled to some level of immunity from federal charges.

In the new brief, prosecutors argued that Trump's conduct was private in nature and therefore not covered by immunity. They reiterated the allegations against Trump and revealed new insights into the mountains of evidence they have collected over the course of the case.

The filing described how Trump and his aides allegedly planned to challenge the election results far in advance of Election Day and pressured Vice President Mike Pence to reject Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021. In one striking passage, prosecutors said Trump replied, "So what?" when he was told that Pence could be in danger at the Capitol.

"When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office," Smith and his team wrote.
Story by James Bickerton

Authorities in Erie, Pennsylvania, are still seeking $40,330 from Donald Trump's presidential campaign to pay for assistance they provided for his 2018 and 2023 campaign visits, bringing the total debt five cities say he owes them to over $740,000.

The Erie claim was made by a spokesman for the city's Democratic Mayor Joe Schember during a conversation with the Erie Times-News newspaper.

It is in addition to more than $700,000 of unpaid debts that four cities—El Paso, Texas; Spokane, Washington; Mesa, Arizona; and Green Bay, Wisconsin—were still seeking last month for rallies that took place between 2016 and 2019, a Newsweek investigation found.

Erie is also calculating a currently undisclosed figure related to the rally Trump held at the city's Bayfront Convention Center on Sunday, which could push the total unpaid debt figure beyond $740,330.

A 2019 report from the Center for Public Integrity found 10 city authorities, including Erie and the four outlined above, were demanding a total of $841,219 as back payments for historic Trump rallies they helped stage.
Sophia Cai

Former President Trump on Monday tried to take political advantage of the devastation from Hurricane Helene — and drew a scolding from President Biden, who called Trump a liar.

Driving the news: Trump began the day on Truth Social, posting unsubstantiated claims that Biden's administration and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) were "going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas" affected by Helene.

   "He's lying ... and the governor told him he was lying," Biden said of Trump at the White House on Monday.
   "I don't know why he does this," Biden added. "I don't care what he says about me. I care about what he communicates to people that are in need. He implies that we're not doing everything possible. We are."

During a visit to Valdosta, Georgia, on Monday, Trump also claimed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, hadn't been able to reach Biden to discuss the damage to Kemp's state.

   But Kemp said earlier in the day that he'd spoken with Biden at 5 p.m. Sunday — and praised the administration's response to the storm.

Zoom in: Trump's false accusations reflected the risks of injecting loose, campaign-style rhetoric into the ongoing recovery from a disaster that left a triple-digit death toll and millions without water or electricity in six southern states.
Story by Kevin Scott

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Voter suppression in U.S. has remained a highly scrutinized issue. Republicans are often accused of undertaking efforts to prevent eligible citizens from voting. Historically, the problem has targeted racial, economic, gender, age, and disability groups. Since 2021, there have been over 350 bills to restrict voting access across 47 states.

Knewz.com is reporting that Alabama's Secretary of State, Wes Allen, recently initiated the removal of more than 3,000 voters whom he identified as non-citizens. Allen has come under fire for doing so, particularly after acknowledging that some may have become naturalized citizens eligible to vote.

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The Justice Department has since filed a lawsuit against Alabama for its effort, alleging that the action breaches federal regulations that bar such removals in the lead-up to an election.

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“While more than 700 individuals impacted by the Program have since re-registered and returned to active status in the State’s voter registration records, potentially several hundred or even thousands more registered, eligible voters from the list – U.S. citizens – remain in inactive status, stand to be harmed, and risk disenfranchisement just weeks before the upcoming federal election,” DOJ attorneys wrote.
The first former president to reach the milestone, he has said he wants to hang on until Oct. 15, when he can vote for fellow Democrat Kamala Harris.
By Corky Siemaszko

Jimmy Carter has accomplished something no other former U.S. president has — he notched a 100th birthday.

Carter, who served one term in the White House, hit the milestone Tuesday at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he has been receiving hospice care for the last 19 months.

The proud Democrat, who has grown increasingly weaker in recent months, has told relatives he wants to hang on until Oct. 15, when early voting begins in Georgia, so he can cast his ballot in the 2024 presidential election.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter said, his grandson Jason Carter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

A former peanut farmer and Navy veteran, Carter has lived nearly six years longer than another age-defying former president, George H.W. Bush, a Republican who was 94 and 171-days old when he died Nov. 30, 2018.
By Rachel Ramirez, Sharif Paget, Aaron Fisher and Curt Merrill, CNN

CNN — Hurricane Helene laid waste to the southeastern United States. Its sheer wind force and deadly floods left behind a path of destruction stretching over 500 miles from Florida to the Southern Appalachians.

In just 48 hours, vast swaths of the region became unrecognizable. The storm has caused at least 130 deaths, and officials fear the toll could rise as many people remain unaccounted for.

Communities were cut off and stranded as floodwaters washed away hundreds of roads, buildings, homes and vehicles. Communication infrastructure is in shreds. Millions of people have also lost power and access to water across at least six states.
A new poll conducted by a bipartisan team for AARP was shared first with POLITICO.
By Holly Otterbein

Vice President Kamala Harris is neck-and-neck with former President Donald Trump in the all-important battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a new survey shared first with POLITICO.

Harris is winning 49 percent of likely voters, compared with 47 percent for Trump and 2 percent for other candidates, the poll done by a bipartisan team for AARP found. Three percent are undecided.

The survey, completed from Sept. 17 to 24 by landline, cell phone and text-to-web, is the first conducted by AARP in the state since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, and the extent to which it shows Harris has improved Democrats’ chances is staggering.
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