Kamala's Killer Instinct, Biden's Glass Jaw, and Williamson's Mesmerizing Lunacy  —  The headline out of tonight's debate is going to be Kamala Harris starting off the second hour by turning to Joe Biden and just kicking the snot out of him on the previously long-forgotten issue of forced busing in Delaware.

Kamala Harris breaks out  —  MIAMI — For the first half of Thursday's presidential debate, Joe Biden looked as if he would somehow be able to stand at center stage yet not be the center of the bullseye of other candidates' attacks.  —  California Sen. Kamala Harris changed that …

This wasn't the way Joe Biden wanted the first debate to go  —  His exchange with Kamala Harris was the standout moment of the entire first debate.  —  The biggest single question going into the first Democratic debate was whether any candidate would manage to lay a glove on the frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden.

POLITICO Playbook: Biden's bad night  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE BIG HEADLINE ... JOHN HARRIS: “Joe Biden gets slammed”: “The case against Joe Biden's presidential campaign got made Thursday night right out in the open — sound up, lights glaring — nothing blurred in a haze of euphemism, politesse, or indirection.

‘Everyone hates this place’: Border bill tears apart Democratic caucus  —  Democrats broke into open warfare Thursday over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's surrender to the Senate's emergency border aid package, with the caucus' long-simmering divide between progressives and centrists playing out in dramatic fashion on the House floor.

Trump jokes to Putin: 'Don't meddle in the election'  —  OSAKA, Japan (AP) — With a smirk and a finger point, President Donald Trump dryly told Russia's Vladimir Putin “Don't meddle with the election” in their first meeting since the special counsel concluded that Russia extensively interfered with the 2016 campaign.

Vladimir Putin says liberalism has ‘become obsolete’  —  Vladimir Putin has trumpeted the growth of national populist movements in Europe and America, crowing that liberalism is spent as an ideological force.  —  In an FT interview in the Kremlin on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka …

Smiling Trump tells Putin: 'Don't meddle in the election'  —  Trump's casual comments to Putin at a meeting during the Group of 20 Summit are unlikely to satisfy his critics.  —  OSAKA, Japan — Under pressure to stand firm against Russian election meddling, President Donald Trump touted his …

Tulsi Gabbard Is Having A MAGA Moment After Her Debate Performance  —  “I think a lot of people would vote for her over Trump,” Mike Cernovich said.  “MAGA people.”  Ann Coulter is considering it.  —  Among some conservative pundits there was one clear winner of Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate …

First poll has Tulsi Gabbard as the shock winner of the first Democratic debate and Beto O'Rourke as the clear loser  —  Tulsi Gabbard is the winner of the first Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday, according to a Drudge Report poll.  —  The popular news aggregation internet site took …