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2:15 PM ET, August 2, 2024

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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election … If a voter in Michigan performs a search on Google, a somewhat shocking ad might pop up.  —  The ad shows a young man lying in bed late at night when someone else texts him, “Hey you need to vote,” …
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NBC News:
Election 2024 live updates: Harris team says it raised $310M in July, more than twice what Trump's team announced  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' team said it raised $200 million during the first week of her campaign. … Jobs report, stock declines put the economy back into the spotlight ahead of the election
CNN:
Harris campaign says it raised $310 million in July, doubling Trump's haul  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign said it raked in a whopping $310 million in its July fundraising efforts - more than double the amount raised by her Republican rival last month …
Politico:
Playbook PM: Plouffe joins Harris campaign  —  MAJOR STAFFING NEWS FOR HARRIS — DAVID PLOUFFE is joining KAMALA HARRIS' campaign as a senior adviser, a person familiar with the move tells Ryan.  —  Plouffe was BARACK OBAMA's 2008 campaign manager and in 2012 served a similar role …
Axios:
Scoop: Trump stalled Black journalists interview over fact-checking … - “[Trump's team] said, 'Well, can you not fact check? … - At the time, President Trump blamed the delay on audio problems.  — Lemon told Axios, “There were audio problems, but they were resolved very quickly.”
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Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Pushes Back on Debate With Harris, Saying He's Up in Polls
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Racist Attack on Kamala Harris Was No Accident
Bloomberg:
How Biden Persuaded Scholz to Release a Top Kremlin Assassin  — Close relationship between German, US leaders was key to deal  — Biden cites German concessions, Scholz sees solidarity with US  —  The historic prisoner swap that brought about the release of US journalist Evan Gershkovich …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Burgum says Russia agreed to prisoner swap because they think 'Trump's going to win'
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump isn't celebrating as Americans return home from Russia
Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:
Biden Disses Trump On Prisoner Swap: 'Why Didn't He Do It?'
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris officially secures Democratic nomination for president  —  Harris becomes the first woman of color on a major national ticket, with a chance to become the first woman president in American history.  —  Vice President Harris secured a majority of the pledged delegates …
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CBS News:
Kamala Harris passes threshold needed to become Democratic presidential nominee in DNC roll call vote
Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter:   Joe Biden's gifts to America
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
What does “weird” even mean?  Why the vagueness works — and why it's driving MAGA nuts  —  The “weird” discourse is turning MAGA-style doublespeak against itself — and it's totally working  —  Almost as soon as Democrats started circulating the word “weird” as a primary attack on Donald Trump …
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Trump pushes back: 'I'm a lot of things, but weird I'm not'
Discussion: Gizmodo
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Simone Biles jabs Trump: ‘I love my Black job’  —  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
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Angry New Attack on “Dumb” Kamala Gets Wrecked by Leaked Data  —  At a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Donald Trump rolled out a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris that showcased his well-known fondness for high-toned discourse: Her handling of immigration reveals her as not just weak, but also dumb.
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Pritzker says Trump ‘bewildered’ by Harris, new Dem excitement  —  Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Thursday he believes former President Trump is “bewildered” by Vice President Harris and the excitement she has generated among Democrats.  —  “Kamala Harris is the perfect person at this moment …
Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
What happened to JD Vance?  —  This free edition of Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  —  🏔️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🏔️  —  Americans have been waiting for decades …
Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
They Begged Dems for Money—Then Spent Lavishly on Hotels and Entertainment  —  ON NOVEMBER 13, 2023, the political action committee Democratic Victory emailed out a fundraising solicitation expressing concerns about its financial wellbeing.  —  “We're falling short of last week's goal by 18%,” the group's note read.
The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali:
Dear Media, You Are Allowed to Call Trump a Racist  —  Dear readers, I am not a doctor.  I'm just a simple writer.  I share this because I don't know if there are indeed “racist bones” in the human body.  I also don't know what's in “people's hearts.”  Thankfully, I'm married to a doctor who has assured me such a bone doesn't exist.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators fear ugly campaign after ‘uncomfortable’ Trump outburst on race  —  Many Republican senators are feeling “uncomfortable” and “embarrassed” by former President Trump's suggestion that Vice President Kamala Harris isn't really Black and only “happened” to adopt that identity out of political convenience.
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Associated Press:
Few Americans trust the Secret Service after a gunman nearly killed Trump, an AP-NORC poll finds  —  Most Americans have doubts about the Secret Service's ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month's attempt on former President Donald Trump's life, a new poll …
Discussion: Breitbart, The Federalist and DNyuz
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AP-NORC:
Few are very confident the Secret Service can protect presidential candidates from political violence
 
 
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Yamiche Alcindor / NBC News:
Black Muslim group endorses Harris after its ‘uncommitted’ stance on Biden
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David Strom / HotAir:
Director Rowe Personally Crippled Trump's Secret Service Team
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden warns Netanyahu against escalation as risk of regional war grows
Global Affairs:
Republican Concerns over Immigration Hit All-Time High
Discussion: IJR and Washington Post
Tiffany Stanley / Associated Press:
After the end of Roe, a new beginning for maternity homes
 Earlier Items: 
The Hill:
House Democrats home in on Tim Walz for Harris ticket
Discussion: IJR
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Harris events: Not your father's campaign rallies (or Biden's)
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
US adds 114K jobs in July, jobless rate rises to 4.3 percent
Evan McMorris-Santoro / NOTUS:
The Country's Most Diverse Democratic Bench Is On the Cusp of Its Moment
M. Gessen / New York Times:
How Aleksei Navalny's Death Restored Evan Gershkovich's Life
 

 
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Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia:
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Financial Times:
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