memeorandum: 5 Excerpts From JD Vance's Emails to a Transgender Classmate (New York Times)

8:45 PM ET, July 27, 2024

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Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:

Trump Says Americans 'Won't Have to Vote Anymore' If He Wins — Yesterday, former President Donald Trump told a group of supporters that they won't have to vote again if they elect him to the presidency. “You won't have to do it anymore,” Trump said at the Turning Point Believers' Summit in Florida.

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Michael Gold / New York Times:

Trump Tells Christians 'You Won't Have to Vote Anymore' If He's Elected — Donald Trump, after lamenting that conservative Christians are not “big voters,” urged the religious right to turn out for him “just this time.” — In the closing minutes of his speech to a gathering …

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CBS News:

Trump tells Christian voters “they won't have to vote anymore” if he is elected in November — Former President Donald Trump told attendees at a conservative Christian event on Friday night that they “won't have to vote anymore” if he is elected into office in November.

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Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Trump tells supporters they won't have to vote in the future: 'It'll be fixed!'

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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Trump Tells Christians They Won't Have to Vote in Future: 'We'll Have It Fixed'

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Ian Swanson / The Hill: Trump urges Christians to vote: 'You won't have to do it' in four years

Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Trump Cryptically Declares, 'You Won't Have to Vote Anymore' If He Wins Second Term

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Steven Shepard / Politico:

The election has been totally upended. Here's what the polls show. — It's clear the presidential contest is reshuffled. — The polls are in after a chaotic few weeks in the 2024 presidential election, and they point to a newly hyper-competitive race. — Vice President Kamala Harris' elevation …

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Politico:

Playbook: The JD Vance remorse parade — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — WHAT A CENTURY THIS MONTH HAS BEEN — “I don't know what they've got in these performance enhancers, but I'm feeling pretty jacked up,” President JOE BIDEN posted …

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Bloomberg:

Harris' Running-Mate Search Zeroes In on Three Top Contenders — Kelly, Shapiro, Walz are in top tier for vice presidential run — Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on a group of potential running mates, as she faces a two-week dash to make the biggest decision of her nascent presidential bid.

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Tom Hauser / KSTP-TV:

KSTP/SurveyUSA poll: Harris takes lead over Trump in first Minnesota poll — Riding a wave of mostly positive coverage as the presumptive new presidential nominee for Democrats, Vice President Kamala Harris has a significant lead over former Republican President Donald Trump in Minnesota …

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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg Thinks the Trump Fever Could Break

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Washington Post:
Trump calls Harris a ‘bum,’ complains about Biden's withdrawal

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Katherine Fung / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris Ignores Hillary Clinton's Playbook

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New York Times:

5 Excerpts From JD Vance's Emails to a Transgender Classmate — A former Yale Law School classmate shared with The Times about 90 emails and text messages with Mr. Vance. Here are some of the most revealing moments in their correspondence. — As Senator JD Vance seeks the vice presidency …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, DNyuz, Fox News, Mediaite and The Sun

Stephanie Saul / New York Times:

JD Vance, an Unlikely Friendship and Why It Ended — His political views differed from a transgender classmate's, but they forged a bond that lasted a decade — until Mr. Vance seemed to pivot, politically and personally. — When his book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was published in 2016 …

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Ian Swanson / The Hill:

Speaker Johnson blasts Olympics for mocking Christians, Last Supper — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 — Loaded: 0% — Stream Type LIVE — Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE — Playback Rate — Chapters — Chapters — Descriptions

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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Kelly emerges as a top contender for Harris's VP pick

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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:

Could Josh Shapiro win Kamala Harris the Electoral College? — Do home-state effects matter? — In a change from four years ago, when neither Kamala Harris nor Mike Pence were from anything resembling a swing state — 1, Harris — now heading the Democratic ticket …

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A.R. Moxon / The Reframe:

The Seagulls Descend — So I guess it's time to write about elections. — In the United States, I've noticed that elections seem to be a time for politically activated people to come together to bicker and fight and make points that everyone has already heard and considered …

Scottie Andrew / CNN:

How ‘cat lady’ became an insult for women of a certain age — The stereotypical “cat lady” is one of pop culture's most bizarre characters — and easiest punching bags. — She's “The Simpsons” recurring character Eleanor Abernathy, a reclusive resident of Springfield who speaks in gibberish and hurls her cats at passersby.

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Barak Ravid / Axios:

Golan Heights attack raises concerns of war between Israel and Hezbollah … - U.S. officials are also concerned that without a ceasefire in Gaza, a war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group is becoming more likely, which would exacerbate the regional crisis and draw the U.S. deeper into the conflict.