October 5, 2020
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Trump Tests Positive for Fearlessness
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by Tony Perkins
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He meant it as an insult, but when Chris Rock mentioned the president's condition on "Saturday Night Live" and said, "my heart goes out to COVID," the White House probably chuckled in agreement. If there's one person the virus probably regrets infecting, it's a fighter like Donald Trump. From the minute he announced his diagnosis to every upbeat video since, the president isn't flinching in the face of this test. He's doing what he's done since the very beginning: confronting the virus head-on.
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Tweetstorm Floods Voters with Contrast
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by Tony Perkins
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President Trump may have been taking a break from the White House, but he hasn't taken a break from his Twitter account! The world's most famous coronavirus patient didn't appear to slow down during his trip to Walter Reed Medical Center. In between treatments and other business, he managed to squeeze in a tweetstorm about what's at stake November 3rd.
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Democrats Try to Expand the Affordable Abortion Care Act
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by FRC's Connor Semelsberger
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As the clock ticks closer to the election, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, are representing their respective parties in the latest bout of COVID-19 relief negotiations. The problem with this set up is that there has only been two people involved in negotiating a measure with a trillion dollar price tag and thousands of pages of legislative text without any broader deliberation from the people's representatives.
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Today's show features: Roy Blunt, U.S. Senator from Missouri, Chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, and Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, on the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation and the latest on the negotiations for Coronavirus relief; Jim Banks, U.S. Representative for the 3rd district of Indiana, on the House GOP's China Task Force Report; Pastor Carter Conlon, General Overseer of Times Square Church, on the prayer event in Plymouth on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing; Eric Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, on the DOJ backing Capitol Hill Baptist Church's efforts to hold services in DC, and the Michigan Supreme Court ruling striking down Governor Whitmer's pandemic-related orders.
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