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CLEVELAND, Ohio The race to succeed Marcia Fudge in Congress is rapidly coming down to two candidates, each boasting a hefty amount of national, state and local backing.

Big name figures have endorsed both former state Sen. Nina Turner and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown in the Democratic Primary, a sign of the dividing line thats sprung up. However, the endorsements show that contrary to the national media description of the 11th Congressional District being a Biden-versus-Sanders type race, theres more nuance.

Turner, an ally of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, did garner his endorsement earlier in the race while Brown recently logged that of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, giving more fuel to this being a showdown of the establishment and liberal wings of the party.

But both candidates boast a healthy amount of congressional and local backing that doesnt fit neatly into that mold.

Of the two largest cities in the district Akron and Cleveland Turner and Brown are roughly split on local government endorsements.

Turner has the backing of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland City Council members Blaine Griffin, Kerry McCormack and Brian Mooney and Akron City Councilmembers Phil Lombardo, Shammas Malik and Tara Samples who was also on her campaign payroll as of the last filing deadline in April.

Supporting Brown are Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan, former Mayor Don Plusquellic and Akron City Councilwoman Ginger Baylor and Cleveland City Council members Joe Jones, Kevin Bishop, Basheer Jones, Anthony Hairston and Brian Kazy.

Brown has a clear edge in Cuyahoga County government, with County Executive Armond Budish, County Council President Pernel Jones Jr. and County Council members Dan Brady, Scott Tuma and Sunny Simon.

Turner does not have any members of county government listed in her endorsements on her website, but does boast the backing of the Black Elected Officials of Summit County.

Brown also leads handily in terms of the number of mayors who have endorsed her candidacy, which includes:

-Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell

-Seven Hills Mayor Anthony Biasiotta

-Woodmere Mayor Benjamin Holbert III

-Warrensville Heights Mayor Brad Sellers

-Shaker Heights Mayor David Weiss

-North Randall Mayor David Smith

-Solon Mayor Ed Kraus

-Orange Village Mayor Kathy Mulcahy

-Glenwillow Mayor Mark Cegelka

-Highland Hills Mayor Michael Booker

-Brooklyn Heights Mayor Michael Procuk

-Broadview Heights Mayor Samuel Alai

-Bedford Mayor Stanley Koci

Although logging the mayor of the largest city in the district in Jackson, Turners only other mayoral endorsements are University Heights Mayor Michael Brennan and Newburgh Heights Mayor Trevor Elkins who was also on Turners campaign payroll as of April.

Of the mayors who have endorsed, Turners oversee a population of 395,524 while Browns represent 334,396 including Akron, which is not fully in the district.

Turner has a slight edge when it comes to members of the state legislature:

-Ohio Senate Minority Leader Kenny Yuko

-State Sen. Sandra Williams

-State Sen. Nickie Antonio

-State Rep. Phil Robinson Jr.

-State Rep. Janine Boyd

-State Rep. Stephanie Howse

-State Rep. Juanita Brent

-State Rep. Mike Skindell

-State Rep. Tavia Galonski

Brown counts the backing of state Reps. Terrence Upchurch and Kent Smith.

Both Turner and Brown have received support from members of Congress as well, though Turner has logged more. Turner has often been backed by all six members of The Squad, a group of the most liberal members in Congress, as well as the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of 91 House members that make up the most liberal branch of the House Democratic Caucus.

Those supporting Turner include Sanders, California Reps. Ted Lieu, Ro Khanna and Katie Porter, Michigan Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Andy Levin, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Mark Pocan.

Brown counts the backing of Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Columbus Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, a California Democrat and chief deputy whip of the House Democrats.

While not listed on her website, multiple U.S. House members also headlined a Washington fundraiser for Brown, including G.K. Butterfield of Arizona, Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, Robin Kelly of Illinois, Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Marc Veasey of Texas and Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.

Both Turner and Brown also boast a bevy of faith leaders, crucial to political success in the district, especially on the East Side of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. Labor has also split on the two, with SEIU Local 1 and 1199, the Communication Workers of America District 4 and Local 4340 and the Amalgamated Transit Union among those supporting Turner. The Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council, United Auto Workers Regional 2B, Pipe Fitters Local 120, Laborers Local 310, Boilermakers Local 744, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 38 and Bricklayers Local 5 are among the unions that support Brown.

While both have raced to gather as many endorsements as possible, several high-profile endorsements are still sitting the race out.

The most notable name who hasnt endorsed as of yet is Fudge, one of the highest profile political names in the area who represented the district in Congress for a decade. Fudge was recently named President Joe Bidens Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

While she has not offered her insight into the race, Fudge and Brown have a close relationship. However, a recent violation of the Hatch Act by Fudge and a desire to work with whoever wins the race may prevent her from attaching her name to a candidate.

Other national figures have remained mostly quiet on the race as well, including Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, perhaps not wanting to alienate the eventual winner should they choose the losing candidate.

Locally, Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat who lives in the district, has said he has no plans to endorse either.

Shontel Brown, who chairs the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, has said there are currently no plans for an endorsement since the party has never endorsed in congressional primaries in the past. Vice-chairman and City Council President Kevin Kelley, an influential figure in Democratic politics, is also staying out of the race, as required by the by-laws of the party.

Ohio House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes, an Akron Democrat who at one point was considering a run for herself, also hasnt made it known who she is supporting.

None of the other 11 candidates have tallied significant national, state or local endorsements.

Ohios 11th Congressional District includes the eastern portion of Cuyahoga County stretching south to Summit County and the West Side of Akron. It is gerrymandered to heavily favor Democrats.

The registration deadline to vote in the Aug. 3 primary is July 6. Early voting for the contest starts July 7.

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Who is winning the endorsement race in the 11th Congressional District special election? - cleveland.com

A fantastical story recently appeared on a website familiar to the fact-checkers of PolitiFact.

Real Raw News has published several stories that weve previously debunked, including about former President Donald Trump indicting Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a foiled Trump assassination, and Navy SEALs arresting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Its latest dispatch about Clinton claims that she was hanged on April 26 at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to the story, it was the culmination of an operation that started the night the SEALs arrested her.

"After a five-day tribunal at the worlds most infamous detention center, a three-officer panel found Clinton guilty of murder, accessory to murder, treason, child trafficking, and other high crimes," the story says.

This post was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

News of Clintons arrest, let alone killing, would be widely covered by the media. No such reports exist, nor credible evidence to support the idea that Clinton was hanged. The information in this blog post is completely baseless.

In the days since her supposed execution, Clinton has been active on Twitter, including promoting the latest episode of her podcast, "You and Me Both," on April 27.

The previous week, publishers Simon & Schuster and St. Martins Press announced Clinton would co-author a thriller with her friend titled "State of Terror."

Like that forthcoming novel, this blog post is a work of fiction.

We rate it Pants on Fire!

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Hillary Clinton escaped her email scandal thanks to Deep State agents like James Comey rigging the investigation in her favor.

But Clintons luck may have finally run out.

And now Hillary Clinton is about to face trial. Here is why she will be found guilty.

Democrats have decided to embrace McCarthyism and denounce every one of their foes as Russian spies.

This tactic didnt work well for Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Cold War and it certainly wont work for Democrats today.

The present-day Russian obsession started with the Steele dossier that was funded by the Clinton campaign.

Even though most of the substance of the dossier was completely fictional it was used by the FBI as justification for spying on the Trump campaign.

The Democrats made the claim that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia for years until the Mueller report showed that there was no evidence to support that claim.

If Hillary Clinton had stopped there she might have gotten away with it but she decided to press her luck with another outlandish claim.

Tulsi Gabbard is the black sheep of the Democratic Party because she refused to vote for their impeachment because she said that impeachment should be a bipartisan effort or it would divide the country.

The refusal to join in the Democrats self-destructive hatred of Trump has made Gabbard the target harassment from her own Party.

Hillary Clinton went after Tulsi Gabbard in an especially vicious way calling the Hawaii Congresswoman a Russian agent.

But Tulsi Gabbard just smacked Hillary Clinton with a massive lawsuit for her defamatory comments.

According to The Daily Wire:

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) announced Wednesday morning that she has filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton for the former secretary of states claims that Gabbard is a Russian asset.

In a press release published to Gabbards presidential election campaign website, Gabbard claimed Clinton deliberately and maliciously made false statements in an attempt to derail Rep. Gabbards campaign. Clinton made the remarks about Gabbard during an October 17, 2019 interview, saying, somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary [is a] favorite of the Russians Yeah, shes a Russian asset.

Gabbards press release notes that after Clintons comments, the media extensively republished and disseminated these statements, which were interpreted widely as Clinton asserting that Gabbard is a Russian asset.

In the lawsuit itself, Gabbards attorneys at Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP allege that Clinton possibly made the remarks out of personal animus, political enmity, or fear of real change within a political party Clinton and her allies have long dominated. They allege Clinton lied about Gabbard publicly, unambiguously, and with obvious malicious intent and that the claims have harmed Gabbard.

Hopefully this will teach Hillary Clinton to watch her tongue and stop spreading lies to try to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

American Patriot Daily will keep you up to date on any new developments in this ongoing story

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Hillary Clinton continues to look elegant even at 73, turning heads everytime with her classic sense of style. Recently, the former Us Secretary of State took us back in time, to give us a glimpse of her younger self with a throwback picture.

Hillary took to Instagram to share her picture from the cover of a 1998 Vogue edition. Clicked by Annie Leibovitz, the picture shows the politician sitting on a couch in a velvet dress. Needless to mention, Hillary looks stunning as ever in the cover photo. Take a look:

Turns out, it was popular designer Oscar de la Renta who convinced Vogues Anna Wintour to put Hillary on the December 1998 cover, making her the first First Lady to pose for the prestigious cover.

I was able to convince Anna to put her on the cover. I did a lot to define to the viewer who Hillary actually is, de la Renta told Haute Living in an interview.

He added, [The cover shot] was taken when she was still in the White House. I do remember at the time her advisers werent sure if it was the right thing to do, but in the end, she said, Oscar, you have a great instinct about me. Lets do it. The dress she wore for the cover was a creation by the designer himself.

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The interesting story behind how Hillary Clinton landed her first Vogue cover in 1998 - The Indian Express

MSNBC's Chuck Todd defended Dr. Anthony Faucis email controversy on Wednesday, dismissing thousands of his emails released last week as "harmless" with a not-so-subtle nod to Hillary Clinton in the process.

"Those 3,200 pages of emails dont appear to contain anything particularly explosive. Still, the attacks against him have been, in a word, relentless. Its also very familiar if youve followed American politics over the last five years," Todd said during his introduction.

Chuck Todd defended Dr. Anthony Faucis email controversy on Wednesday, dismissing thousands of his emails released last week as "harmless." (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC)

"This is an attempt to weaponize something thats kind of harmless and try to create a controversy," Todd added. "Weve seen this with emails before, havent we?"

AMID FAUCI EMAIL REVELATIONS, GROWING NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS CALL FOR TOP DOC'S OUSTER

The MSNBC host appeared to be referring to the saga that dogged Clinton throughout her failed 2016 presidential bid.The FBI began investigating Clintons handling of emails in 2015 after it was revealed she had used a private server for her government emails. Then-FBI Director James Comey announced in July 2016 that the agency would not recommend charges, but famously described Clinton as having been "extremely careless" in her conduct, and she repeatedly gave misleading answers about sending and receiving classified material.

Todd viewed the issue as important enough to cover at the time, repeatedly grilling her and others about the email scandal during the 2016 campaign.

Todd said Wednesday that Republicans are harping on Faucis emails "in an effort to excuse or maybe paper over" the way former President Donald Trump handled coronavirus.

"Dr. Fauci now finds himself at the center of the GOPs pandemic messaging, which is a place where a public health official like him does not like to be," Todd said.

FAUCI CLAIMS US GAVE $600,000 TO WUHAN LAB RESEARCH; DOCUMENTS SHOW IT WAS MORE

Among the information in Faucis released emmails was that an expert told Fauci as early as January 2020 it was possible that the COVID-19 virus could be artificially altered (though the expert who told him that later reversed his stance); that Fauci apparently took seriously the possibility that money from his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), could have funded "gain of function" work on coronaviruses in a Wuhan lab; and that he was in touch with an individual who'd directed funding to that lab.

Many Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have called for Fauci to resign or be fired from his post.

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Fox News Tyler Olson and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

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