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Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
Kamala Harris is breaking Republican brains  —  MAGA lacks issues against her, so it brings up the silly and the slimy  —  The MAGA crowd doesn't like Kamala Harris because she's a strong Democratic woman and candidate of African and Asian descent.  —  Those aren't good or valid reasons to oppose her, of course.
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Top Dems threatened to forcibly remove Biden from office unless he dropped out, set him up to fail at Trump debate: Sources  —  Operatives at the very highest levels of the Democratic Party threatened Joe Biden with forcibly removing him from office unless he stepped down, sources told The Post.
CNN:
Harris secures enough delegate endorsements to win the Democratic presidential nomination  —  Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party's nomination for president, according to CNN's delegate estimate.  —  While endorsements from delegates continue to come in …
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Progressive youth voting group endorses Harris  —  The progressive youth voting group NextGen PAC is backing Vice President Kamala Harris for 2024 after President Biden made the unprecedented move to bow out of the running, giving her bid a boost with the critical bloc.
Discussion: Washington Post
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
‘DEI,’ ‘Colored,’ ‘Jezebel’: MAGA Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Getting Ugly  —  The right right can barely contain its racist, sexist contempt for Biden's likely 2024 replacement  —  MAGA REPUBLICANS ARE subjecting Vice President Kamala Harris to a barrage of racist and sexist attacks …
Business Insider:
GOP lawsuits over Kamala Harris using Biden campaign funds or headlining Democratic ballots will all fail, experts say  — Republicans may sue to stop Kamala Harris from taking Biden's campaign cash and place on the ballot.  — Such lawsuits are doomed at best — and at worst would be blatantly frivolous, legal experts told BI.
Discussion: Poynter, Bloomberg, HotAir and NOTUS
New York Times:
Trump's New Rival May Bring Out His Harshest Instincts  —  After years planning to face President Biden, Donald J. Trump and his team will be campaigning against Kamala Harris.  He has attacked female rivals and critics in brutal and personal terms.  —  Donald J. Trump and his political team spent nearly …
New York Post:
Biden cancels nine trips, extends Delaware stay after dropping out of 2024 race  —  President Biden has canceled nine trips that were scheduled for the next two weeks after suddenly dropping out of the 2024 race, The Post can reveal.  —  Biden was scheduled to leave Monday for the West Coast …
New York Times:
Harris Clinches Majority of Delegates as She Closes In on Nomination  —  On her first full day in the race, Kamala Harris drew endorsements from her final possible rivals, hauled in record sums of cash and attacked Donald Trump.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly to assert herself …
Punchbowl News:
7/23/24 ☀️ AM:  —  GOP struggles to find its Harris message  —  Vulnerable Dems see chance for ‘reset’ with Biden out  —  Inside Johnson's assassination commission  —  GOP struggles to find its Harris message … House Republicans just got the rug pulled out from under them.
Politico:
Harris into the whirlwind  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Inside Harris' sprint to the Democratic nomination
Discussion: Politico, NOTUS, CBS News and Fox News
Washington Post:
J.D. Vance bashes Democratic nominee change as anti-democratic
Washington Post:
What Harris needs to do, now, to win
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and CBS News
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Kamala Harris smashes fundraising record with stunning $81 million haul over 24 hours
HuffPost:
Sen. Mark Kelly Emerges As Unexpected VP Candidate For Kamala Harris
David Harsanyi / New York Post:
‘Defenders of democracy’ staged a cover-up and coup
Associated Press:
Harris looks to lock up Democratic nomination after Biden steps aside, reordering 2024 race
Reuters:
Exclusive: Former attorney general Holder to vet Harris' potential running mates, sources say
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign began preparing for Biden exit in May, confidential memo shows
Discussion: The Hill, NOTUS, DNyuz and Vibe
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Biden flips the script — and Republicans forget their lines
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
How Harris is preparing to contrast her record as a prosecutor with Trump's as a felon
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Mark Kelly: Spaceman, Hero—and Kamala Harris' Best Choice for VP
Popular Information:
Top Sinclair anchor resigned over concerns about biased and inaccurate content  —  Eugene Ramirez, the lead anchor of Sinclair's national evening news broadcast, resigned in January over concerns about the accuracy and right-wing bias of the content he was required to present on air, three sources told Popular Information.
Discussion: Raw Story
Oliver Wiseman / The Free Press:
The Curious Case of the Missing President  —  We haven't seen Joe Biden for days.  No wonder conspiracy theories are flying.  —  This piece was first published in our news digest, The Front Page.  To get our latest scoops, investigations, and columns in your inbox every morning …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Mastercard, JPMorgan Get FTC Inquiry Over ‘Surveillance Pricing’  — Agency querying firms that offer pricing software to companies  — Companies more often setting individualized prices on products … The US Federal Trade Commission said it sent subpoenas to eight firms seeking information …
Discussion: The Hill and The Verge
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Judge dismisses Nina Jankowicz lawsuit against Fox News  —  A judge in Delaware tossed a lawsuit filed by Nina Jankowicz, the former head of the short-lived Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disinformation board, against Fox News.  —  The judge granted Fox's motion on Monday to have the case dismissed …
Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
Judge Cannon and JD Vance Are on the Same Team  —  In the days since Judge Aileen Cannon issued her inexplicable 93-page dismissal of the classified-documents case against Donald Trump, I've been coming back to something JD Vance said on a podcast in 2021.  —  Mr. Vance, the Ohio senator …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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