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Robert Laurie / The Cain Gang:
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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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.
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Political Wire and Axios
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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Washington Monthly, Reuters, The Hill, CNN, Fox News, Breitbart and New York Times
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
‘Antifa’ website cited in conservative media attack on Biden is linked to — wait for it — Russia
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Kamala Harris receives strong marks as Joe Biden's VP: POLL
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Politico, Ipsos, Breitbart, FiveThirtyEight, The Week and Washington Times
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Harris could help Biden with women, young voters, maybe some Republicans too - Reuters/Ipsos poll
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Washington Post, The Week, The Daily Caller, New York Times, Politico, Breitbart, Fox News, The Hill and NBC News
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Kamala Harris Showed Swagger, and It Will Drive Republican Men Nuts
Sumantra Maitra / The Federalist:
Why Kamala Harris's Stealth Radicalism Is Worse Than Bernie Democrats' Open Radicalism
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The Daily Caller, The Independent and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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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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Mediaite
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
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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The Moderate Voice, The Hill, Mother Jones and POLITICUSUSA
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and The Dispatch
Washington Post:
Trump says he's blocking Postal Service funding because Democrats want to expand mail-in voting during pandemic
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Vanity Fair
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Trump vows to block stimulus funding for mail-in voting and USPS
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The Week and Rolling Stone
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Trump Says He Wants to Withhold Funds From Post Office So Democrats 'Can't Have Universal Mail-In Voting'
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Raw Story, Reason and Law & Crime
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Postal Service could halt special treatment of ballots, congressional Democrats warn
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Politico, The Guardian, Raw Story, Slate, Daily Kos, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, POLITICUSUSA, Axios and HuffPost
Jerusalem Post:
Israel and UAE reach historic peace deal, Israel to suspend annexation — The peace deal was the product of lengthy discussions between Israel, the UAE and the United States that accelerated recently, White House officials said. — Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a historic peace deal …
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Breitbart, American Herald, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and Just The News
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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.
Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
Here's How Republicans Are Boosting Kanye West's Presidential Campaign — A late-night tweet from Kanye West this week strengthened the impression that establishment Republicans are helping the musician and fashion designer in his quest to get on the ballot in some states as a third party candidate for president.
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Fox News, Washington Post, The Week and New York Post
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story and New Republic
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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Salon and Washington Post
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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POLITICUSUSA
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump lays down gauntlet for Barr on Durham probe: Either ‘greatest attorney general’ or ‘average guy’
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Political Wire
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, The National Interest, The Week and Raw Story
BBC:
US calls for shower rules to be eased after Trump hair complaints — The US government has proposed changing the definition of a showerhead to allow increased water flow, following complaints from President Donald Trump about his hair routine. — Under a 1992 law, showerheads in the US …
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New York Post, The Root and POLITICUSUSA
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Let it flow: Trump Administration eases showerhead rules
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Fox News, Reuters, Vanity Fair, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Law & Crime
Houston Chronicle:
COVID's true toll in Texas is higher than reported, data shows — Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, the state's death toll from all causes has soared by thousands above historical averages — a sobering spike that experts say reveals the true toll of the disease.
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.
The Intercept:
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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Jacobin, The Slot and LGBTQ Nation
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
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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Media Matters for America, National Review and Politico
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
The Party of Lincoln Belongs to QAnon Now. Thanks, Donald!
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Rolling Stone and Business Insider
Ro Khanna / Common Dreams:
Why I Am Voting No on the Democratic Party Platform — History teaches us that the Democratic Party has sometimes faced an issue so great that it alone should be the yardstick for measuring the wisdom of voting for or against the platform. This is one of those times. And Medicare for All is that issue.
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