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New York Times:
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.
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Kamala Harris Built a ‘Digital Army’—Now She Gets to Use It — “While she's on the national stage, and while people continue to attack her, we're gonna respond,” said Eric Bazail-Eimil, a student at Georgetown and member of the #KHive. — Three days after winning Sen. Kamala Harris' endorsement …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“She'll Scare the S—t Out of Suburban Women”: Inside Trumpworld's Anti-Kamala Harris Attack Plan
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
The Veep's VP: Inside Joe Biden's search for his own running mate
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The Slot, Axios and Patterico's Pontifications
Associated Press:
How it happened: Inside Biden's search for a running mate
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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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Washington Post, SFWeekly, Bloomberg, Political Wire and The Week
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Team Trump Hasn't Figured Out How to Attack Kamala
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Mother Jones, Raw Story, Politico, The Hill and Spectator USA
Joshua Lawson / The Federalist:
No, Kamala Harris Isn't A ‘Moderate’ — She's A Radical Threat To America
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The Christian Post, American Life League, National Right to Life and Right Wing Watch
David Bernstein / Reason:
Is Kamala Harris Legally African American, Indian, Both, Neither, or Something Else?
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Instapundit
Robert A. George / New York Daily News:
What Kamala can do: The Democrats' — and America's — reconciliation moment
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
What the Kamala Harris Pick Says About the Biden Campaign
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The Nation, The Federalist, CANNONFIRE and American Prospect
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Wall Street executives are glad Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris to be his VP running mate
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Inside Biden's unusual VP pick process: Tough questions, 11 finalists and many lawyers
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IJR
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.
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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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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BBC:
QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene wins Georgia Republican primary — A US businesswoman who has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory has won the Republican nomination for a seat in the House of Representatives. — Marjorie Taylor Greene is now expected to be elected …
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Washington Monthly, National Review, Washington Post and New York Times
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Greene wants to be ‘worst nightmare’ of Democrats. She could also haunt Georgia GOP
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Talking Points Memo, Vanity Fair and Politico
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
Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus-Hit State Budgets Create a Drag on U.S. Recovery — Aid to states and cities is a sticking point as talks in Congress bog down over next round of stimulus — WASHINGTON—Spending cuts by state and local governments grappling with the coronavirus pandemic pose a headwind …
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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 …
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California if it's forced to classify drivers as employees — Uber would likely shut down temporarily for several months if a court does not overturn a recent ruling requiring it to classify its drivers as full-time employees …
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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.
Janice Dean / Fox News:
COVID has devastated my family — Why can't I testify about it? — My story was going to be told by a grieving wife, mother and daughter- in- law who wants answers — When I heard that New York State was having hearings about the coronavirus nursing home tragedy that took the lives …
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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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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visaliatimesdelta:
Ousted Tulare hospital managers face embezzlement, conspiracy, money laundering charges — The Tulare County District Attorney has charged executives of the ousted company that ran Tulare Regional Medical Center with more than 80 combined felony and misdemeanor criminal counts …
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
925 Quarantined for Covid. Is This a Successful School Reopening? — A suburban Atlanta county opened its schools amid controversy and a growing case count, previewing a difficult national back-to-school season. — CANTON, Ga. — The first letter went out on Aug. 4 …
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