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Angela Stanton King, the Trump ally who is running for Congress, has appeared to double-down on her support for QAnon this morning on social media, retweeting another user asking: “Why would people feel so threatened by a group that is fighting against pedophilia and child sex trafficking? …unless of course….”
King, who is running in Atlanta, Georgia, for the congressional seat once held by the late civil rights icon John Lewis, told the Guardian in an on-camera interview she believed the debunked conspiracy theory while continuing to deny she was a follower of QAnon.
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Steve Peoples and Hannah Fingerhut are reporting on a new poll from the Associated Press this morning which brings the news that the overwhelming majority of American voters believe the nation is deeply divided over its most important values, and many have doubts about the health of the democracy itself. Supporters of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike think the opposing candidate will make things even worse if elected.
Overall, 85% of registered voters describe Americans as being greatly divided in their values, and only 15% say that democracy in the United States is working extremely or very well.
