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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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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
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 …
Washington Post:
$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt — Political appointees rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers, then closed the case. — This story is based partly on research that Davis and Leonnig conducted …
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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.”
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 …
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Martha McHardy / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris Now Leads Donald Trump in Seven National Polls
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Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Pushes Back on Debate With Harris, Saying He's Up in Polls
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Can Kamala Harris Rebuild the Democratic Coalition?
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Racist Attack on Kamala Harris Was No Accident
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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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Washington Post:
Harris hires Obama campaign veterans to join 2024 effort, replacing Biden loyalists — David Plouffe, Stephanie Cutter and Mitch Stewart are joining the effort. — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris hired a battery of new senior advisers to her campaign this week …
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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
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris secures enough votes to be Democratic nominee for president — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 … Stream Type LIVE — Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE — Playback Rate — Chapters — Chapters — Descriptions
Ivan Nechepurenko / New York Times:
Convicted Assassin Is a Russian Security Agent, Kremlin Acknowledges — Vadim Krasikov, who was returned to Russia in the big prisoner swap, received a hero's welcome from President Putin, along with others who were freed. — The convicted assassin who was the linchpin of the biggest prisoner swap …
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Lara Seligman / Wall Street Journal:
Kamala Harris Played Role in Prisoner Swap
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Trump's Jan. 6 case officially back in Judge Chutkan's hands after immunity ruling — Former President Trump's federal election subversion charges officially returned to his trial judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday to determine the case's future after the Supreme Court last month carved out immunity for former presidents.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump isn't celebrating as Americans return home from Russia — Four U.S. residents wrongly imprisoned in Russia are now back on American soil. No U.S. political figure, however, is celebrating less than Donald Trump. — As President Joe Biden's term enters its homestretch …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Burgum says Russia agreed to prisoner swap because they think 'Trump's going to win'
Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
Biden says ‘not giving up’ on getting US teacher Fogel out of Russia
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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.
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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'
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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 …
IBA:
Statement made by the International Boxing Association regarding Athletes Disqualifications in World Boxing Championships 2023 — As stated, the International Boxing Association (IBA) feels it appropriate at this prevalent time, to address recent media statements regarding those athletes Lin Yu-ting …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Harris VP mystery: Signs point to Shapiro … While Harris could surprise everyone, she seems to be headed toward a pick that a wide variety of sources — Republicans and Democrats — think is both shrewd and straightforward. — It's a combination of math and logic …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider:
JD Vance says he was asked in front of his wife if he had ‘any secret family’ during vice presidential vetting — Sen. JD Vance of Ohio recounted how intrusive his vice presidential vetting could be. — Vance said a lawyer asked him if he had any “secret family.”
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Washington Post:
Inspector general issues report on Secret Service's handling of Jan. 6 attack — The Department of Homeland Security's chief watchdog issued long-awaited findings on the Secret Service's handling of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. — The Department of Homeland Security's chief …
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