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12:45 PM ET, August 28, 2023

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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump federal election trial set for March 4, 2024  — The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's criminal election interference case shut down a bid by the former president to set his trial more than two-and-a-half years away.  — But the judge also said that she would reject …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Sets Trial Date in March for Trump's Federal Election Case  —  Judge Tanya S. Chutkan rejected efforts by the former president's legal team to postpone the trial until 2026.  —  The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump's prosecution on charges of conspiring …
Associated Press:
Biden is widely seen as too old for office, an AP-NORC poll finds.  Trump has problems of his own  —  Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term.  Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age.
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
House Republican aims to defund Trump prosecutions until 2024 election  —  Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is proposing two amendments to an appropriations bill that would defund the various prosecutions of former President Trump.  —  He is adding to the defense of the former president mounted …
Wall Street Journal:
The World Is Contemplating a Second Trump Administration
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Meadows heads to federal court for first skirmish in Trump Georgia case
The Hill:
Trump, co-defendants to be arraigned in Georgia on Sept. 6  —  Former President Trump will be arraigned next Wednesday in Georgia over charges he and 18 co-defendants sought to overturn the state's election results.  —  Trump's arraignment has been set for Sept. 6 at 9:30 a.m. …
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NBC News:
Trump and co-defendants in Georgia election case will be arraigned Sept. 6
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
DeSantis booed at vigil for victims of racist shooting in Florida  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a GOP presidential candidate, was met with boos while speaking late Sunday at a vigil held for the three victims of a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville.
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis booed at vigil for Jacksonville shooting victims  —  The governor has announced funding for security at a historically Black college where the gunman first appeared before killing three Black people at a Dollar General store.  —  Gov. DeSantis booed at vigil for Jacksonville shooting victims
CNN:
Jacksonville gunman in racially motivated attack legally bought two weapons earlier this year, sheriff says
Associated Press:
Sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot 3 Black people at a Florida store
Florida Times Union:
Jacksonville sheriff identifies hate crime killer and victims at Dollar General shooting
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Killing of ‘Staunch’ GOP Activist in New Hampshire Under Investigation  —  A colleague called Alexander Talcott “an exceptionally skilled champion for the rule of law and the importance of fair and honest elections.”  —  A Republican Party activist and lawyer died after he was fatally stabbed …
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Kaitlin McKinley Becker / NBC Boston:
GOP activist, lawyer stabbed to death in his Durham, NH, home  —  A suspicious death investigation that was underway this weekend in Durham, New Hampshire, has been ruled a homicide after an autopsy was completed on the victim.  —  The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office said in a statement Sunday …
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
August 2023 National Poll: Trump Debate Snub May Open Door for Other Candidates  —  Home Polls August 2023 National Poll: Trump Debate Snub May Open Door for Other Candidates  —  Hunter Biden Legal Issues Offsetting Trump Indictments for Independents  —  A new Emerson College Polling survey …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump support ‘softening,’ possible opening for challengers
Discussion: Kaplan Strategies
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“We call that kind of love a cult”: Experts on the latest disturbing poll of Trump supporters  —  New poll reveals that members of the MAGA cult trust Trump most: He “provides the kind of love they crave”  —  As I have previously explored in a series of conversations with cult …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Messenger
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
If the U.S. economy is doing well, why do so many Americans say it's terrible?  —  The leading economic indicators show the U.S. economy is performing well, but most Americans still believe economic conditions are extremely poor — as if the country was mired in a deep recession.  What explains this discrepancy?
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’  —  Feds allege officers collected photos of K-9 attacks and crafted an American flag with spent munitions … But what happens when these same police become agents of wanton violence?  A new federal indictment pulls …
 
 
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
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McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain
Ruth Igielnik / New York Times:
Americans Still Put Their Trust in Juries. Will Trump's Trials Break That Faith?
Discussion: Fox News
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