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2020 Election Live Updates: After Harris Pick, Sexist and Racist Attacks From Trump and Fox News Hosts — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are expected to make their first appearance as running mates today. In Tuesday's primaries, Ilhan Omar beat back a challenge and a QAnon supporter prevailed in Georgia.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson's mangling of Kamala Harris's name was all about disrespect — When I was a young reporter I had an editor who was a stickler for getting people's middle initials correct in news stories. — “If you get the name wrong, there's no reason for anyone to trust anything else you write,” he'd say.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“She'll Scare the S—t Out of Suburban Women”: Inside Trumpworld's Anti-Kamala Harris Attack Plan — It's getting ugly—"nasty" and “phony” is how Trump greeted the historic pick—and the campaign is revving up to tag Harris as a left-wing opportunist. But some GOP insiders are skeptical.
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David A. Hopkins / New York Times:
What the Kamala Harris Pick Tells Us About Joe Biden — His choice is a characteristic example of his tendency to row in the direction of the day's strongest political currents. — Mr. Hopkins is a political scientist. — Joe Biden is often described as an ideological moderate.
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Kamala Harris Built a ‘Digital Army’—Now She Gets to Use It
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Natalie Shure / In These Times:
Now Comes the Difficult Work of Pushing the Biden-Harris Ticket Left
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Mike Allen / Axios:
What Joe Biden's historic selection of Kamala Harris tells us about how he would govern
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Crystallizes Trump's View of Women: They're ‘Nasty’ or Housewives
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Insists That Joe Biden Didn't Really Pick Kamala Harris
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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Is Biden's Choice for Vice President
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USA Today:
Kamala Harris is a living, breathing rebuke to the Trump presidency: Mastio & Lawrence
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Daily Kos
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Harris wants U.S. to give Americans $2,000 a month during pandemic, a contrast with Biden's measured approach
Joshua Lawson / The Federalist:
No, Kamala Harris Isn't A ‘Moderate’ — She's A Radical Threat To America
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Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Kamala Harris Makes History, Many Times Over
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David Byler / Washington Post:
Harris is a small-c conservative, party-friendly pick — which makes her just right for Biden
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Team Trump Hasn't Figured Out How to Attack Kamala
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Sees the Future in Kamala Harris
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump adds coronavirus adviser who echoes his unscientific claims — (CNN)Moments before President Donald Trump entered the room for his recently reinstated daily coronavirus briefing Monday, three aides preceded him: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, budget chief Russell Vought and a new face.
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Politico:
Kanye flops among Black voters — Rapper and former Donald Trump supporter Kanye West is running for president with the backing of a handful of GOP operatives who are betting he can pull Black voters from former Vice President Joe Biden. — But Democrats aren't sweating West at this point …
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
‘Overture’ for more virus talks rejected as standoff deepens — WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House's top negotiator tried to revive stalled talks Wednesday over coronavirus aid, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer dismissed the “overture,” …
Reuters:
Kanye West met with Kushner as rapper eyes 2020 election spot — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Entertainer and Trump supporter Kanye West recently met with White House adviser and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, a source familiar with the meeting said on Wednesday as the entertainer pursues …
FiveThirtyEight:
2020 Election Forecast — The presidential race is in many ways just getting started. On Tuesday, we got Joe Biden's VP pick (Sen. Kamala Harris), the Democratic National Convention is next week, and the Republican National Convention soon after. So while it's clear that Biden …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
It's Way Too Soon To Count Trump Out — Joe Biden currently has a robust lead in polls. If the election were held today, he might even win in a landslide, carrying not only traditional swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania but potentially adding new states such as Georgia and Texas to the Democratic coalition.
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
‘This is no longer a debate’: Florida sheriff bans deputies, visitors from wearing masks — On Tuesday, as Florida set a daily record for covid-19 deaths, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods prohibited his deputies from wearing masks at work. His order, which also applies to visitors to the sheriff's office …
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Austin L. Miller / Ocala.com:
Marion County deputies ordered not to wear masks
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Greene wants to be ‘worst nightmare’ of Democrats. She could also haunt Georgia GOP — ROME - Many top Georgia Republicans have watched with dread - but took little action - as Marjorie Taylor Greene rose from longshot candidate to the cusp of Congress. Shortly after her victory …
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta / CNN:
Why I am not sending my kids back to school — (CNN)One of the questions I am getting more than any other: Am I going to send my children back to school? As a father of three teen and preteen girls, this has been a constant discussion in our household, and it hasn't been easy.
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HuffPost:
Trump Has Nearly Eliminated Intelligence Briefings From His Schedule Entirely — A HuffPost analysis finds the president has averaged less than one a week since July 1, after the public learned of Russian bounties on murdered U.S. soldiers. — WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump's interest …
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The Week
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Weighs Replacing Mark Esper at Pentagon After Election — Departure may come as part of other changes in cabinet — Trump frustrated by pushback on deploying troops to protests — President Donald Trump has privately said that he intends to replace Secretary of Defense Mark Esper …
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Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
If Donald Trump Controls The Mail, He Controls Democracy — The president is working overtime to turn the federal bureaucracy into a subsidiary of his campaign. — Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can slow the mail. But President Donald Trump can.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ron Johnson says committee Republicans blocking Comey, Brennan subpoenas — Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Ron Johnson suggested Wednesday that fellow Republicans on his committee were blocking him from subpoenaing former FBI Director James Comey …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
White House clarifies limits of jobless aid plan as talks with Congress dim — Unemployment benefit will be $300 per week, not the $400 Trump promised on Saturday — President Trump's senior aides acknowledged on Tuesday that they are providing less financial assistance for the unemployed …
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat / The New York Review of Books:
Co-opt & Corrupt: How Trump Bent and Broke the GOP — “As time went on, it became clear that the sickness was a feature, that anyone who entered the building became a little sick themselves,” wrote the journalist Olivia Nuzzi in March 2018 of the Donald J. Trump White House and those who serve it.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air — Airborne virus plays a significant role in community transmission, many experts believe. A new study fills in the missing piece: Floating virus can infect cells. — Skeptics of the notion that the coronavirus spreads through …
Washington Post:
Chinese network of fake accounts targets Trump with English-language videos — A network of fake Chinese accounts has been posting videos bashing President Trump, criticizing his recent closure of China's consulate in Houston, his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to ban …
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