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This is Gabriel Rench with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Wednesday, August 25th, 2020. The GOP Convention ratings need a little boost, some spineless Republicans endorse Biden, and the elites don’t need to abide by the COVID regulations. First night of GOP convention delivers nearly six times more views than start of Democrats’ event on C-SPAN livestream https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513507-first-night-of-gop-convention-delivers-nearly-six-times-more-views-than-start C-SPAN’s livestream of the first night of the Republican National Convention has attracted nearly 440,000 views, marking a substantial increase over the start of the Democratic National Convention, which drew 76,000 views. And according to the former newspaper NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/08/25/us/politics/25reuters-usa-election-tv-ratings.html A total of 15.8 million people watched the mostly virtual Republican National Convention’s first night on Monday, according to early Nielsen Media Research, fewer than the 18.7 million viewers who watched the first night of the Democratic National Convention across the same number of networks. Progressive groups urge TV networks to tape-delay GOP convention https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513508-progressive-groups-urge-networks-tape-delay-gop-convention-to-fact-check According to the Hill: “Progressive groups are urging TV networks to delay airing parts of the GOP convention until they are able to fact-check the claims made by speakers. CNN and The New York Times have been running fact-checking pages on their digital platforms. “I think it’s important for objective journalists to note how wildly imbalanced the dishonesty is between the current parties. This one half-night of Republican programming so far has been exponentially more dishonest than the entire four nights of the Democratic convention,” CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale tweeted. In recent years some media outlets have opted out of airing White House press conferences or Trump campaign speeches live to avoid potentially airing misinformation.” Of course, where was the fact-checking for the DNC? Trump is a racist, a xenophobe, a bigot. The reason why the DNC does not get the same treatment, is because the mainstream media either believes all of the lies or they support the power play that lying brings to an election. Over 70 Republican National Security Officials Endorse Biden, Deem Trump ‘Dangerously Unfit’ For President https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/08/20/over-70-republican-national-security-officials-endorse-biden-deem-trump-dangerously-unfit-for-president/#c09cde753753 According to Forbes: “A group of 73 former U.S. National Security officials who served under GOP administrations, including former CIA and FBI chiefs, endorsed Democratic nominee Joe Biden in a joint statement on Thursday, joining the growing number of prominent Republicans to depart from their party for the 2020 election.” This list includes: Carly Fiorina John Kasich Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake Joe Walsh Cindy McCain, Sen. John McCain’s widow Meghan McCain And more… It is clear that the Republican Party is full of people whose principles are about as strong as a wet noodle. I get not voting for President Trump, but what I don’t get is voting for those who want to murder babies, mandate sodimite marriages, and require my 10 year old daughter to use the public restroom next to a grown man. Join us at our first annual Fight Laugh Feast Conference in Nashville this October 1st through 3rd. The theme of our conference is Weapons for this War and we are excited to bring all our friends together for some good fellowship in a crazy 2020. We will kick the whole thing off with beer (punch for the kids) and psalm singing the first night, followed by a slate of speakers committed to driving the nails of the gospel into your everyday life including Pastor Douglas Wilson, Pastor G [...]