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11:50 AM ET, August 5, 2024

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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Surprise Poll Reveals a Key Trump Weakness Against Kamala Harris  —  It's one of the biggest unknowns about Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy: Will she successfully reconstitute the Democratic coalition amid Donald Trump's surprising, persistent strength among nonwhite voters, particularly Latinos, and young people?
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
JD Vance is touring the same states as Harris this week  —  The Republican vice presidential nominee is “bracketing” Harris as she introduces her runningmate.  —  JD Vance is planning to trail Kamala Harris to a series of battleground states over the coming week, a move that comes …
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Harris VP search comes down to the wire, with Dems divided over Shapiro, Walz, Kelly  —  Harris is due to appear with her running mate in Pennsylvania on Tuesday  —  Join Fox News for access to this content  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' search for a running mate is quickly coming to a close …
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Harris VP announcement coming Tuesday with likely video
Discussion: CBS News
Politico:
Playbook: Decision day for Harris
Politico:   What's shaping up as tension points between Harris and the left
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators say Trump caught ‘off guard’ by Harris's strength  —  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
Discussion: KRQE NEWS 13
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Axios:
1 big thing: Sun Belt surprise … - Why it matters: Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina — which had looked to be trending toward former President Trump — are suddenly crackling battlegrounds online, on the airwaves and on the ground.  —  🖼️ The big picture …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Associated Press
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Harris' new map: Sun Belt back in play … - A new CBS poll shows Harris and Trump are tied across the collective battleground states, erasing Trump's previous lead over Biden.  — The Harris campaign is counting on a strategy that involves engaging Republicans who have endorsed Harris …
Discussion: HotAir, NOTUS and Los Angeles Times
Josh Boak / Associated Press:   Hospitality workers' union endorses Harris, dismissing Trump's pledge of tax-free tips
Washington Post:
Secretaries of state urge Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info  —  Grok, the AI search assistant on Musk's X platform, suggested that Kamala Harris had missed the ballot deadline in nine states.  She hasn't.  —  Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter …
Discussion: The Guardian and Mediaite
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Ivana Saric / Axios:   Musk's AI chatbot spread election misinformation, secretaries of state say
Julianne McShane / Mother Jones:   Elon Musk's X Is Spreading Deepfakes of Kamala Harris
Andrew McDonald / Politico:
UK PM slams Elon Musk for saying far-right riots ‘inevitable’  —  LONDON — Britain's Keir Starmer took aim at Elon Musk after the tech billionaire claimed the wave of far-right violence hitting the U.K. was “inevitable.”  —  The British prime minister's spokesperson said there was …
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Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is ready to shock Washington if Trump wins second term … Russell Vought sounds like a general marshaling troops for combat when he talks about taming a “woke and weaponized” federal government.  He recently described political opposition as …
Discussion: CNN, The Raw Story and Alternet.org
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?  —  The third-party Presidential candidate has a troubled past, a shambolic campaign, and some surprisingly good poll numbers.  —  In December of 2021, the pollster Jeremy Zogby began designing a national survey to capture the radical changes …
Michael Dahlstrom / Yahoo News:
Free speech fears after Aussie group SUSPENDED by Elon Musk's X … Australian anti-nuclear campaigners have been suspended from billionaire Elon Musk's privately-owned social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.  The decision has sparked fears about US-based companies limiting free speech by environmental campaigners.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Left a Dead Bear in Central Park  —  Mr. Kennedy, an independent presidential candidate, confessed to dropping off the bear cub 10 years ago and making it appear that a bike had hit the animal.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate …
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Journal still can't confirm January story about UN agency for Palestinians  —  The Scoop  —  In January, The Wall Street Journal made an explosive claim: Quoting “intelligence reports,” the paper reported that not only had 12 members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency …
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Usha Vance Defends Hubby J.D. Over His ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ Comment  —  WELL, ACTUALLY...  Trump's running mate was actually trying to make a “substantive” point, his wife said on “Fox & Friends.”  —  J.D. Vance's wife is pushing back against criticism her husband is facing for his …
Dave Eisenstadter / masslive.com:
Harris vs. Trump: New poll shows 7-point swing in presidential race  —  A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll conducted between July 29 and Aug. 1 showed a 7-point swing in the presidential race since the last time the poll was conducted in January.The poll went from a 4-point lead …
Discussion: New Jersey Online
 
 
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Trump leans into religious extremism to energize rightwing evangelicals
Discussion: Washington Post
David P. Deavel / AMAC:
Media Lets Kamala Do Another Basement Campaign
Discussion: Power Line
Thomas Catenacci / freebeacon.com:
Far-Left Climate Activists Say Kamala Harris Is One of Them
 Earlier Items: 
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Blinken told G7 Iran and Hezbollah could attack Israel in next 24 hours
Streiff / RedState:
ABC's Stephanopoulos Loses His Crap When Rep. Donalds Refuses to Back Off on Kamala's ‘Blackness’
Lauren Shirreff / Telegraph:
The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ outlet fuelling violence on Britain's streets