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12:10 PM 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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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 …
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 …
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
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
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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
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Harris' new map: Sun Belt back in play
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 …
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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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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 …
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
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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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.
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 …
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Senior economics aide Gene Sperling is leaving the White House to work on the Harris campaign  —  White House senior adviser Gene Sperling is leaving his administration position to work with Vice President Kamala Harris' election campaign as the Democrats step up efforts to challenge Donald Trump on policy issues in November's election.
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 …
 
 
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Trump leans into religious extremism to energize rightwing evangelicals
Discussion: Washington Post
Dave Eisenstadter / masslive.com:
Harris vs. Trump: New poll shows 7-point swing in presidential race
Discussion: New Jersey Online
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
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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