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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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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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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.
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Political Wire, Axios and Joe Biden
Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as president — CLAIM: If Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate she will not be eligible to serve as president because her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica. That means, if Biden is unable to serve a full term as president …
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Kamala Harris receives strong marks as Joe Biden's VP: POLL — Kamala Harris steps into her new role on a relative high note. — Sen. Kamala Harris steps into her new role as Joe Biden's vice presidential nominee on a relative high note. Harris receives strong marks as the pick …
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Sumantra Maitra / The Federalist:
Why Kamala Harris's Stealth Radicalism Is Worse Than Bernie Democrats' Open Radicalism
Why Kamala Harris's Stealth Radicalism Is Worse Than Bernie Democrats' Open Radicalism
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The Independent, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and National Review
New York Times:
Her Voice? Her Name? G.O.P.'s Raw Personal Attacks on Kamala Harris
Her Voice? Her Name? G.O.P.'s Raw Personal Attacks on Kamala Harris
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The American Independent, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Townhall, Politico and POLITICUSUSA
Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
Kamala Harris' Indian American Identity Is Finally in the Spotlight
Kamala Harris' Indian American Identity Is Finally in the Spotlight
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Washington Post, New York Times, ProPublica and Los Angeles Times
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WATCH: New Trump ad hammers Biden/Harris over Joe's endless array of racial gaffes — Expect to see a lot of this as we head into the meat of election season. — Joe Biden's history with race is a minefield. It's been fodder for both Republicans and Democrats for years.
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‘Antifa’ website cited in conservative media attack on Biden is linked to — wait for it — Russia — WASHINGTON — At his press briefing Wednesday, President Trump, as he usually does, — called for a question from Chanel Rion, the chief White House correspondent for the conservative …
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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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Financial disclosures reveal postmaster general's business entanglements and likely conflicts of interest, experts say — Democrats call on watchdog to investigate USPS changes — (CNN)Postmaster General Louis DeJoy continues to hold a multimillion-dollar stake in his former company XPO Logistics …
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Trump blurts out his true motive on mail-in voting — Back in March, President Trump seemed to blurt out the real reason he opposes expanded voting by mail in the 2020 election. Referring to provisions in the Democrats' coronavirus stimulus bill to vastly increase funding for voting by mail …
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Trump vows to block stimulus funding for mail-in voting and USPS
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Igor Derysh / Salon:
Mail sorting equipment being “removed” from post offices, leaving mail to “pile up”: union leader
Mail sorting equipment being “removed” from post offices, leaving mail to “pile up”: union leader
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Postal Service could halt special treatment of ballots, congressional Democrats warn
Postal Service could halt special treatment of ballots, congressional Democrats warn
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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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Qwazy for QAnon — No fewer than 60 current or former congressional candidates have expressed interest in or support for the conspiracy. — I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy …
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The Party of Lincoln Belongs to QAnon Now. Thanks, Donald!
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Politico:
McCarthy faces QAnon squeeze
McCarthy faces QAnon squeeze
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The Good Son — Jared Kushner, the second-most-powerful man in the White House, is quite a bit smarter than the most powerful man, his father-in-law, the president. Donald Trump possesses a genius for the jugular, but he evinces few other signs of intelligence. He certainly displays no capacity, or predisposition, to learn.
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Randall Lane / Forbes:
Inside Kanye West’s “Almost Daily” Chats With Jared Kushner—And Whether The White House Exploits His Mental State
Inside Kanye West’s “Almost Daily” Chats With Jared Kushner—And Whether The White House Exploits His Mental State
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College Democrat Chats Reveal Year-Old Plan to Engineer and Leak Alex Morse Accusations … The leadership of the UMass Amherst College Democrats began discussing an operation they believed could sink the campaign of Alex Morse for Congress as far back as last October, a plan they then helped engineer …
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Politico:
The payroll tax problem — Editor's Note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services' morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day's biggest stories.
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Trump's Payroll-Tax Deferral Plans Spur Confusion
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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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Let it flow: Trump Administration eases showerhead rules — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump Administration wants to change the definition of a showerhead to let more water flow, addressing a pet peeve of the president who complains he isn't getting wet enough.
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Donald Trump / Reuters:
US proposes change to shower rules after Trump's hair-washing moan
US proposes change to shower rules after Trump's hair-washing moan
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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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Political Football Is No Substitute For the Real Thing … The most material political news that broke this week was not the selection of Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as Joe Biden's running mate, but the disastrous decision of major college football conferences to cancel their 2020 seasons.
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Bob Woodward obtains letters between Trump and Kim Jong-un for new book Rage — Bob Woodward's second book on the Trump White House has a title, Rage, and promises to reveal the secrets of “25 personal letters exchanged between [Donald] Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that have not been public before”.
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The Trump administration haphazardly gave away millions of Covid-19 masks — to schools, broadcasters, and large corporations — Hundreds of millions of cloth face masks shipped to U.S. agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private companies by the Trump administration appear to have been allocated …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Another illegal Trump administration policy, and yet another premature Trump administration victory lap
Another illegal Trump administration policy, and yet another premature Trump administration victory lap
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A Deadly Coronavirus Was Inevitable. Why Was No One Ready? — Scientists warned of a pandemic for decades, yet when Covid-19 arrived, the world had few resources and little understanding — Hunkered around conference tables at the World Health Organization's Geneva headquarters …
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“A mad woman”: Trump trains attacks on Harris, AOC, Pelosi — President Trump on Thursday attacked Sen. Kamala Harris, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi throughout an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo, respectively calling them “mad,” “not even a smart person” and “stone cold crazy.”
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