Why intelligence community fears Republicans’ ‘nonsensical’ policy proposals in Project 2025 put US elections at risk
During the 2020 election, amid conspiracy theories and hoaxes about Covid-19 and the presidential election, CISA flagged state and local officials’ concerns about online falsehoods to social media companies. This practice, dubbed “switchboarding,” outraged conservatives, who accused CISA of suppressing their speech. House Republicans produced a report on what they called “the weaponisation” of the agency, two GOP-led states sued the government (the US Supreme Court dismissed the case).
President remains defiant despite calls on him by more Democrats to drop out of the race
The divide among Democrats stood in sharp contrast to the scenes that played out this week at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where former party rivals united around Trump, who accepted the Republican nomination in a rambling speech that featured his familiar mix of grievance and bombast.
