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Judge rules voting machine company’s defamation suit against Newsmax can go to trial– thehill.com
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A voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit against Newsmax appears to be headed toward trial following a judge in Delaware’s ruling on Thursday.

The Florida-based company, Smartmatic, accused Newsmax and other conservative media outlets of airing defamatory statements that implied the company rigged the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Newsmax argued it was reporting on newsworthy allegations made by former President Trump and his allies, though the company previously issued a clarification saying, “it has not reported true certain claims made about these companies.”

Both Newsmax and Smartmatic asked Superior Court Judge Eric Davis to rule in their favor without the case going to trial. Davis granted partial summary judgment but said a jury will decide key issues. The trial is scheduled to start Sept. 30, The Associated Press reported.

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Kari Lake is getting some reinforcements.

Win It Back PAC, a group affiliated with the conservative Club for Growth, will begin a $12 million ad buy on Wednesday to help Lake, the GOP’s Senate nominee in Arizona. The ads will air in English and Spanish in the Phoenix and Tucson media markets.

Lake faces Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego for the open Senate seat. And she has so far faced a giant financial disparity on the air. As of Tuesday, Gallego and his allies have or are set to spend nearly $83 million on the airwaves, compared with $24.5 million for Lake and her allies.

The new ad features a Marine accusing Gallego, a Marine veteran, of ignoring “the invasion of illegals at our border.” A Spanish-language spot slams Gallego for supporting President Joe Biden, whose policies caused rising prices for gas and groceries.

Top Trump Volunteer Out After Warning NH is ‘No Longer a Battleground State’ – politicususa.com

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A top Trump volunteer in Massachusetts is out after sending an email on Sunday evening warning “the campaign has determined that New Hampshire is no longer a battleground state” and urging supporters to put their efforts into Pennsylvania instead.

Tom Mountain, who had served as one of several vice chairs for the Trump in Massachusetts, wrote “the campaign has determined that New Hampshire is no longer a battleground state,” and advised supporters to instead direct their attention to Pennsylvania, the Boston Globe reported in an exclusive.

“(T)he Dems’ campaign shakeup from Biden to Harris led our campaign to shift strategy to other winnable battleground states,” Mountain wrote in an email to Trump volunteers in the state. “So for those who were active in the NH ground campaign in 2016 and 2020, and expected to do the same after Labor Day, the simple question is… what are we to do?” Mountain wrote. “GO TO PENNSYLVANIA. The nearest battleground state. This is a must-win state. If we lose Pennsylvania we lose the election.”

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Excerpt from crooksandliars.com

A blistering ad during last night’s Democratic National Convention laid waste to the lie that Republicans are the party of Law & Order. They are not. They shield lawbreakers, men who sexually assaulted women, business cheats, and politicians who would overturn free and fair elections.

NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. This is the story of Donald Trump.

His entire life, Trump has believed he’s above the law, that no one would ever dare hold him accountable. He lies. He rips off workers. He sexually abuses women.

TRUMP: And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

NARRATOR: He cheats in business. He cheated on his wife with a porn star and paid her off so the American people wouldn’t find out during an election.

But in the criminal justice system, ordinary Americans have had the courage to find him accountable, time and time again.

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Barack Obama has a blast shredding Trump at the DNC

The Trump trolling didn’t stop with Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz.

Former President Barack Obama got some burns in, too, at Tuesday’s Democratic National Convention.

“Here’s a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago,” Obama said.

“It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually been getting worse,” he continued. “The other day, I heard someone compare Trump to the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day. Now, from a neighbor, that’s exhausting. From a president, it’s just dangerous.”

Trump’s “a guy whose act has, let’s face it, gotten pretty stale,” Obama said. “We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. We have seen that movie before, and we all know that the sequel is usually worse.”

“America is ready for a new chapter. America is ready for a better story. We are ready for a President Kamala Harris.”