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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Media's Sudden Crush on Kamala Harris — As the lights at the Kamala Harris presidential campaign flickered and powered down last December, weeks before the voting started, the press corps delighted in cataloging her deficiencies as a candidate and a campaigner.
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New York Times, HuffPost, Redstate and The Federalist
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New York Times:
How Biden Chose Harris: A Search That Forged New Stars, Friends and Rivalries — Joe Biden winnowed a large list of candidates to four finalists before settling on Kamala Harris, in a process shaped by questions of loyalty. He is eyeing other contenders for top administration jobs.
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The Federalist, The Cain Gang, The Hill, The Independent and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Voters See Harris as More Moderate Than Trump or Pence — Slim majority approves of Biden's choice, which generated more buzz than 2016 Tim Kaine pick — 37% of voters heard “a lot” about presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's selection of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate …
John F. Harris / Politico:
The Epic Blandness of the Joe Biden Campaign — Back in early 2019, a group of about 15 campaign journalists took part in an informal survey of who they expected to be the Democratic presidential nominee. — These reporters and editors, I happen to know, are all smart and well-connected.
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Axios, Reuters, National Review, Breitbart, The Hill, Washington Monthly, One America News Network, CNN, Fox News, New York Times and Wall Street Journal
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Woman Problem Just Got a Whole Lot Worse — Biden's pick of Kamala Harris was expected. What happened next, however, was not. And it spells trouble for the incumbent. — BEAST INSIDE — No one was shocked by Joe Biden's pick of California Senator Kamala Harris.
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Kamala Harris receives strong marks as Joe Biden's VP: POLL
Kamala Harris receives strong marks as Joe Biden's VP: POLL
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Politico, NBC News, Ipsos, Breitbart, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Times and The Week
Fox News:
Biden calls for mandate requiring all Americans to wear masks
Biden calls for mandate requiring all Americans to wear masks
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Redstate, Politico, Reuters, The Hill, Just The News, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
Jill Filipovic / GEN:
The Great Gen X vs. Boomer Debate Comes for Kamala
Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Democrats see a winning formula in Kamala Harris. Will she bring suburban women and Black voters to the polls?
Texas Democrats see a winning formula in Kamala Harris. Will she bring suburban women and Black voters to the polls?
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Bangor Daily News, Vox and Bloomberg
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Joe Biden calls for a nationwide mask mandate as he pushes his plan to combat coronavirus
Joe Biden calls for a nationwide mask mandate as he pushes his plan to combat coronavirus
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Patterico's Pontifications and Raw Story
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election — Good thing nobody's predicting a huge surge in mail any time soon. — Aaron Gordon — The United States Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without …
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Politico, Redstate, The Nation, The Verge, CNN, Law & Crime, The Week, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and Twitchy
Washington Post:
Trump opposes election aid for states and Postal Service bailout, threatening Nov. 3 vote — President Trump on Thursday said he opposes both election aid for states and an emergency bailout for the U.S. Postal Service because he wants to restrict how many Americans can vote by mail …
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NBC News, Vanity Fair, Fox News and Mother Jones
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump blurts out his true motive on mail-in voting
Trump blurts out his true motive on mail-in voting
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The Hill, Fortune, Mother Jones, The Moderate Voice, POLITICUSUSA, IJR, Raw Story, The Root and The Week
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
'That's not our game': Kudlow says White House won't accept ‘voting rights’ provisions in virus aid bill
'That's not our game': Kudlow says White House won't accept ‘voting rights’ provisions in virus aid bill
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NPR, Rolling Stone and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's attack on the Postal Service is now a national emergency
Trump's attack on the Postal Service is now a national emergency
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vox, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Trump admits he is undermining USPS to make it harder to vote by mail
Trump admits he is undermining USPS to make it harder to vote by mail
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CNBC, Breitbart and WisPolitics.com
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Trump vows to block stimulus funding for mail-in voting and USPS
Trump vows to block stimulus funding for mail-in voting and USPS
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CNN, Associated Press, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Rolling Stone, The Week, Breitbart and Washington Post
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump openly admits to sabotaging Post Office to boost his re-election chances
Trump openly admits to sabotaging Post Office to boost his re-election chances
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Reason
John C. Eastman / Newsweek:
Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility — , PROFESSOR OF LAW, CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY AND SENIOR FELLOW, CLAREMONT INSTITUTE — Editor's note: Some readers reacted strongly to this essay, seeing it as an attempt to ignite a racist conspiracy theory. That is entirely inaccurate, as this Note explains.
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National Review, BuzzFeed News, Talking Points Memo, Vox, CNBC, The Atlantic, ImmigrationProf Blog, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, VICE, Axios, The Daily Caller, Law & Crime, Right Wing Watch, LGBTQ Nation, Daily Kos, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Wrap, Raw Story, Slate, The Moderate Voice and Associated Press
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Newsweek:
Editor's Note: Eastman's Newsweek Column Has Nothing to Do With Racist Birtherism — Some of our readers have reacted strongly to the op-ed we published by Dr. John Eastman, assuming it to be an attempt to ignite a racist conspiracy theory around Kamala Harris' candidacy.
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National Review, Los Angeles Times, emptywheel and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Finds Yale Illegally Discriminates Against Asians and Whites in Undergraduate Admissions in Violation of Federal Civil-Rights Laws — The Department of Justice today notified Yale University of its findings that Yale illegally discriminates against Asian American …
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The Federalist, NBC News, New York Post, Law & Crime and Just The News
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Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
Justice Department accuses Yale of illegal bias against White, Asian American applicants in admissions
Brittany Bernstein / National Review:
Justice Department Finds Yale Admissions Illegally Discriminated Against Asian American and White Applicants
Justice Department Finds Yale Admissions Illegally Discriminated Against Asian American and White Applicants
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Twitchy and The Daily Caller
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Harris' Indian heritage could boost Biden with Asian-American voters
Harris' Indian heritage could boost Biden with Asian-American voters
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NBC News
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
GOP-backed House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene: The Obama administration used MS-13 to assassinate Seth Rich — Greene's smear echoes a QAnon conspiracy theory post — Republican House candidate and right-wing commentator Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a QAnon supporter and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist …
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The Bulwark, Mother Jones, ABC News, CNN and Fox News
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
QAnon candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claimed that there's no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon — Greene also falsely claimed that Obama “is a Muslim” — Republican-backed congressional candidate and right-wing commentator Marjorie Taylor Greene …
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Slate, Politico, The Hill, Raw Story, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Think QAnon Is on the Fringe? So Was the Tea Party
Think QAnon Is on the Fringe? So Was the Tea Party
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National Review, CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Axios, Washington Post and Foreign Policy
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters pick Biden, yet more think their neighbors back Trump — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is up 49-42 percent over President Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup, according to a national Fox News survey of registered voters. Nine percent are undecided or back a third-party candidate.
CNN:
Trump goes after FBI director Wray, whom he appointed, and issues warning to Barr — Trump lashes out at FBI director for stating facts — (CNN)President Donald Trump on Thursday again attacked his own FBI director, whom he appointed, and pushed Attorney General William Barr to pressure …
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Evan Perez / CNN:
US intel report on Russia could undercut Trump's hopes for Durham probe
US intel report on Russia could undercut Trump's hopes for Durham probe
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Talking Points Memo
Denise Lu / New York Times:
The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000 — Estimated deaths above normal, March 1 to July 25 — Note: Data is most likely an undercount for some states in recent weeks. — Nationwide, 200,000 more people have died than usual since March.
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The Week
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden praises Israel-UAE peace deal announced by Trump, credits Obama administration — Biden said his administration would ‘seek to build on this progress’ — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday praised the Israel-United Arab Emirates peace deal announced by President Trump …
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Axios, Reuters, The Daily Beast, One America News Network and israpundit.org
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Robert O'Brien says Trump should be ‘front-runner’ for Nobel Peace Prize
Robert O'Brien says Trump should be ‘front-runner’ for Nobel Peace Prize
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Washington Free Beacon
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Dodgers, LeBron James team up to make Dodger Stadium a polling site — Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James' voting-rights group has partnered with the Los Angeles Dodgers to make Dodger Stadium a polling place for the November general election, marking the first time a Major League Baseball team …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Is Jared Kushner illegally coordinating with Kanye West? — Republican operatives around the country are trying to get rapper Kanye West on the presidential ballot. It's an effort that appears to be — and in some cases has been openly acknowledged to be — aimed at helping President Trump's reelection bid.
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electionlawblog.org, NPR, Politico, The Daily Beast and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Secret Service sought tactical aircraft to protect White House amid Floyd demonstrations — The Secret Service sought to bolster its protection of the White House with surveillance aircraft and a Blackhawk helicopter carrying a “fast rope” commando team after crowds protesting the police killing …
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Raw Story
Kale Williams / Oregonian:
Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor — Lynnae Ruttledge was worried when she heard Facebook planned to build a landing spot for an undersea fiber-optic cable near her Oregon Coast home. — Tierra Del Mar, where the 70-year-old retired government worker lives part-time …
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The Hill
Mariel Padilla / The 19th:
Hillary Clinton in a Biden administration? 'I'm ready to help in any way I can.' — When asked if she would take a role in a potential Biden administration, Clinton didn't entirely rule it out. — When asked if she would take a role in a potential Biden administration …
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Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Politico:
As a grim fall approaches, Trump team feels increasingly confident — A pandemic summer marked by testing delays, supply shortages and continued spread of the coronavirus has set the stage for a disheartening start to the fall across much of the U.S., with the shuttering of schools …
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NBC News, One America News Network, Vanity Fair, The National Interest, Raw Story and The Week
Kyle Murphy / Just Security:
I Resigned from U.S. Government After My Own Leaders Began to Act Like the Autocrats I Analyzed — I recently resigned as a senior analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency after experiencing firsthand the actions of U.S. government leaders to suppress nonviolent dissent during the recent nationwide protests for racial justice.
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Law & Crime
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Coup porn: Resistance sees military removing Trump from office — With 80 days left before the presidential election, a new and dangerous rhetoric has emerged from some corners of the Resistance. A number of President Trump's most implacable critics are fantasizing about deploying …
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Defense One
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Florida governor compares reopening schools during coronavirus pandemic to U.S. military raid that killed Osama bin Laden — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday compared the difficulties of reopening public schools for the 2020-21 academic year during the coronavirus pandemic …
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TCPalm.com, The Guardian, Raw Story, IJR, Politico and Florida Politics