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Has Harris finally broken Trump? He's flailing, glitching and running scared. — Vice President Harris, what have you done to this already very unstable man? The cheese has somehow slid farther off his cracker. — Folks, I think Vice President Kamala Harris has broken Donald Trump.
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The Raw Story, New Republic and Washington Post
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GOP senators say Trump caught ‘off guard’ by Harris's strength
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A Harris presidency would give the GOP time to purge Trumpism
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Los Angeles Times, The Raw Story and Townhall

GOP gaslighting gets weirder: Why Trump and Vance spread lies about race and gender
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The Raw Story, The Weekly Sift and Alternet.org

Hospitality workers' union endorses Harris, dismissing Trump's pledge of tax-free tips

JD Vance is touring the same states as Harris this week
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star, DNyuz, Washington Examiner and Wide World of News


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?
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The Hill, Digby's Hullabaloo and New York Times
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Polls are showing an undeniable shift toward Kamala Harris — Two weeks after becoming the Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris's surge in enthusiasm and support has considerably narrowed the 2024 election. — Last week in these pages, we wrote …
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Washington Examiner, Forbes, The Daily Caller, IJR, DNyuz and The Post Millennial


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 …
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New Jersey Online

Donald Trump's Polling Losing Streak Grows as He Goes a Week Without Win
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Washington Post, The Post Millennial, DNyuz, Florida Politics and The National Pulse


Harris VP announcement coming Tuesday with likely video — Biden's 2020 introduction of Harris is a likely model, campaign insiders say. — Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing her crash search for a running mate to a close, with a final decision expected over the next 24 hours …
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Kamala Harris to announce vice president pick before battleground states tour
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Harris VP search comes down to the wire, with Dems divided over Shapiro, Walz, Kelly
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Washington Times, Scripps News, IJR, Reuters, USA Today and New York Times

Harris to embark on a seven-state campaign blitz with her VP pick
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Scripps News, The Hill, Vox, Washington Examiner, The Economist, Roll Call, New Jersey Online, Breitbart, NPR and Raw Story


Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says — Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow's lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010.
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Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance — New York CNN — Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans …
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Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge Rules — The ruling by Judge Amit P. Mehta was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant. — Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, a federal judge ruled on Monday …
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Associated Press, TechCrunch, The Hollywood Reporter, Semafor and The Verge


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 …
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The Daily Beast, NPR, The Hill, Democrats, Vanity Fair, Mediaite, New York Times, New Republic, New York Post, Forbes, Rolling Stone, The Guardian and masslive.com


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 …
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PoliticusUSA
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Harris' new map: Sun Belt back in play
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NOTUS, HotAir and Los Angeles Times


Former KY Gov. Matt Bevin's adopted son reportedly removed from abusive facility in Jamaica — No one came for him after authorities removed eight boys from Atlantis Leadership Academy, reports Sunday Times of London — As Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin said his overriding goal was to reform …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money


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 …
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CNN, New Republic, Democrats, The Raw Story, Associated Press and Alternet.org


Trumpworld Trashes Kellyanne Conway After She Registers as a Foreign Agent for Ukraine — “She's been pushing Trump to bring her back in, and meanwhile, she's getting paid by the Ukrainians,” an informal adviser to Trump told NOTUS. “Basically, it's a hostile takeover attempt by the Ukrainian government.”
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The Raw Story, The Kyiv Independent, The American Conservative and ABC News


Trump hikes Mar-a-Lago membership to $1m, raising concerns of selling access — Four new spots at his resort have opened at a 43% spike in a move seen as buying political influence — Donald Trump has set a million-dollar price tag for the ability to whisper in his ear should he win …
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DNyuz and The Raw Story


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US Supreme Court declines to halt Trump's sentencing in hush money case — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of Missouri to halt Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing for his conviction in New York on felony charges involving hush money paid to a porn star and left …
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CBS News, PoliticusUSA, NBC News, Law & Crime, IJR and The Guardian


The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump's Rise From the Ashes of 2020 — In an excerpt of Trump in Exile, Meridith McGraw reveals how the former president was overwhelmed by the dysfunction his election loss brought upon Mar-a-Lago—until Susie Wiles took the wheel of his comeback campaign.
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Alternet.org and Raw Story


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 …
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SHOCKER: Former Secret Service Chief Pushed to Destroy White House Cocaine Evidence — In July of 2023, a uniformed Secret Service agent found a bag of cocaine in the White House. Now we don't, to this day, know who the cocaine belonged to - we may very well speculate, for instance …
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The National Pulse, The Post Millennial, The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy


Sheila Jackson Lee's children endorse Sylvester Turner for her House seat — The children of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) endorsed former Houston, Texas, Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) for her House seat on Monday. — The late congresswoman's children, Jason Lee and Erica Lee Carter …
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Trump leans into religious extremism to energize rightwing evangelicals — Ex-president turning to Christian nationalists for support as Kamala Harris's potential nomination poses hard challenge — Donald Trump, now facing a tougher challenge in the US election after Joe Biden stepped …
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Washington Post