Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Tuesday, September 29th. In today's news, intelligence professionals say President Trump's debts and foreign intelligence. Today's

intelligence professionals say President Trump's debts and foreign

entanglements pose national security risks.

Nancy Pelosi makes a coronavirus offer that

restarts negotiations with the White House, and a new Washington Post

poll shows Joe Biden leading in Pennsylvania ahead of tonight's debate. But first,

the big idea. A database built by Cambridge Analytica, the Republican-aligned

firm that unraveled over allegations of improper use of Facebook data, disproportionately

identified black voters as ripe for deterrence in

profiles that were prepared for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

This is according to a damning new report from Britain's Channel 4 news.

The firm Cambridge Analytica was founded in part by the Trump campaign's one-time chief executive,

Steve Bannon, who now faces unrelated felony charges.

A database of nearly 200 million American voters sorted likely Democrats into several categories,

such as core Hillary Clinton supporters or disengaged Clinton supporters.

The database put three and a half million African Americans into a third category called

deterrence and an apparent bid to single them out for advertising messages designed to dissuade them from voting.

This happened in 16 target states. In all of them, black voters made up a

disproportionate share of those marked for deterrence, but it was especially the case

in places like Michigan and Wisconsin, which Trump won narrowly. The database

according to Channel 4 was used by the Trump campaign. This is an allegation

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