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Are Democrats making contingency plans in case they lose?

I know that's far from a certainty, but I wonder, because it would be a complete disaster for them if they did lose.

The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation "conduits," according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House.

A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI created a list of more than six dozen prominent organizations, Americans or foreigners who became figures in the Biden family Ukraine scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

The spreadsheet neatly divided figures along political lines, with Democrats like the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and George Soros listed as victimized "targets" of Russian disinformation and conservatives like Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as "conduits" for disinformation.

Karoline Leavitt is leaving her role as White House Press Secretary at the end of August, and something remarkable happened on her way out the door: Reporters who cover this administration for a living actually lined up to say nice things about her. Naturally, that was too much for Fox News’s Jessica Tarlov to handle.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, who also serves as president of the White House Correspondents' Association, pointed out that Leavitt is "the youngest press secretary in history, huge achievement in and of itself, and was a very effective messenger for this administration." Heinrich also called her "very accessible and in the room with the president," drawing a pointed contrast with Joe Biden's press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. "Often it was apparent that she wasn't as close to the decision-makers and able to give us valuable information, as Karoline has been in her time here," Heinrich said. "So, this is going to be a big loss for this White House."

NBC News correspondent Garrett Haake wrote on X that "it's impossible to overstate how much of an inner-circle figure Leavitt is in this White House, and how much the President trusts her as an advisor on any issue." Other anonymous reporters described her as playing fair while getting "very aggressive" toward questions "framed duplicitously or maliciously." One called her simply "the best press secretary I've ever worked with, and there have been many," crediting her success to the time she has spent studying Trump's reasoning up close. That same reporter had less patience for Biden's team, saying Jean-Pierre "didn't do either" of the things that made Leavitt effective, and that Jen Psaki looked at the press "with disdain."
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To her credit, when discussing the timing of Leavitt's exit, Tarlov waved off any suspicion. Then she immediately undercut herself, arguing Trump kept Leavitt around because she has proven herself to be someone who "does his bidding very well." "You know, she dodges, she attacks, she obfuscates," Tarlov said.

Tarlov then ran through what she claimed was a list of mistruths from the podium.

“I did want to review some of the mistruths, lies, whatever it was from the podium,” she began. ...