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This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, September 3, 2020. Only 59 days until the pandemic is over. 26 days until the Fight Laugh Feast Conference in Nashville. Today you will hear how Trump has trolled the lefty voting game, new studies suggest that steroids help COVID-19 patients, the world bids adieu to the greatest Met of all time, the CDC claims to be America’s new landlord, Antifa supporter who shot a Prayer Patriot in Portland gets the royal treatment on VICE, and yet another medical study confirms very low infection fatality rate for COVID 19. By the way we have a new email address for all the daily news brief listeners: news at crosspolitic dot com is a great way to share articles and stores with us that may end up in our daily or weekly shows: news at crosspolitic dot com https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-encourages-supporters-vote-illegal/story?id=72791833 In the battleground state of North Carolina Wednesday, Trump trolled the Democrats by encouraging people to vote by mail and then also go to the polls on Election Day, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in order to personally verify that their vote has been counted. “They will vote and then they are going to have to check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way because if it tabulates then they won’t be able to do that. So, let them send it in, and let them go vote,” Trump said Wednesday in an interview with a North Carolina news station WECT. He continued: “And if the system is as good as they say it is, then they obviously won’t be able to vote. If it isn’t tabulated, they will be able to vote. So that’s the way it is, and that’s what they should do.” Most of the media took the bait and ran around in tight circles shrieking for most of the day on Thursday, repeating the mantra: it’s illegal to vote twice, while crossing themselves and sprinkling holy water on their heads. In other trolling news, the White House presser on Thursday featured a video loop of Nancy Pelosi going into the San Francisco hair salon without a mask last Monday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-steroids/steroids-cut-death-rates-among-critically-ill-covid-19-patients-major-study-finds-idUSKBN25T20D Treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with corticosteroid drugs reduces the risk of death by 20%, an analysis of seven international trials found on Wednesday, prompting the World Health Organisation to update its advice on treatment. “The evidence shows that if you give corticosteroids …(there are) 87 fewer deaths per 1,000 patients,” she told a WHO social media live event. “Those are lives … saved.” https://www.mlb.com/news/tom-seaver-dies-at-75 Tom Seaver, nicknamed “The Franchise,” known as the greatest Met of all time, died Wednesday. Seaver pitched in the Major Leagues for 20 seasons, winning 311 games and recording a 2.86 ERA. A 12-time All-Star (10 times from 1967-77), he struck out 3,640 batters, which currently ranks sixth all-time but was third, behind only Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton, at the time of his retirement in 1986. Seaver led the National League in strikeouts five times from 1970-76, and he and Christy Mathewson are the only pitchers to record 300 wins, 3,000 strikeouts and an ERA below 3.00. Seaver’s 16 Opening Day starts is a Major League record. His number 41 was the first to be retired by the Mets organization in 1988, and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992 with the third highest percentage of votes in Hall of Fame voting history. Perhaps his most famous season was 1969 when he led the Mets to their miracle championship. Tom Seaver was 75. This is why we need Weapons for this War. Which is why we want to invite you to our first annual Fight Laugh Feast Conference in Nashville October 1-3. We’ve put together a package that is full of feasting and psalm singing, hearty fellowship, and a line up of speakers Douglas Wilson, George [...]