Top Items:
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:
The Hill and Digby's Hullabaloo
RELATED:
The Hill:
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Forbes, The Daily Caller, IJR, DNyuz and The Post Millennial
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
Jordan King / Newsweek:
Donald Trump's Polling Losing Streak Grows as He Goes a Week Without Win
Donald Trump's Polling Losing Streak Grows as He Goes a Week Without Win
Discussion:
Breitbart, Washington Post, The Post Millennial, DNyuz, Florida Politics and The National Pulse
Rex Huppke / USA Today:
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.
Discussion:
The Raw Story, New Republic and Washington Post
RELATED:
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators say Trump caught ‘off guard’ by Harris's strength
GOP senators say Trump caught ‘off guard’ by Harris's strength
Discussion:
KRQE NEWS 13
Geoff Duncan / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A Harris presidency would give the GOP time to purge Trumpism
A Harris presidency would give the GOP time to purge Trumpism
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, The Raw Story and Townhall
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
GOP gaslighting gets weirder: Why Trump and Vance spread lies about race and gender
GOP gaslighting gets weirder: Why Trump and Vance spread lies about race and gender
Discussion:
The Raw Story, The Weekly Sift and Alternet.org
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
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 …
RELATED:
Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Kamala Harris to announce vice president pick before battleground states tour
Kamala Harris to announce vice president pick before battleground states tour
Discussion:
freebeacon.com, Reuters, Forbes, Instapundit, The Guardian, Politico, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, CNN and Political Wire
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Harris VP search comes down to the wire, with Dems divided over Shapiro, Walz, Kelly
Harris VP search comes down to the wire, with Dems divided over Shapiro, Walz, Kelly
Discussion:
New York Times, Washington Times, New York Post, Scripps News, IJR, Reuters and USA Today
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris closes in on VP pick with announcement expected Tuesday
Harris closes in on VP pick with announcement expected Tuesday
Discussion:
Fox News, DNyuz, Iowa Capital Dispatch, PJ Media, Washington Post, The Post Millennial and New York Times
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Harris to embark on a seven-state campaign blitz with her VP pick
Harris to embark on a seven-state campaign blitz with her VP pick
Discussion:
Roll Call, Scripps News, The Hill, Vox, The Economist, Axios, New Jersey Online, Breitbart, NPR and Raw Story
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
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.
Discussion:
CNN, Business Insider, Axios, The Raw Story, The Guardian, Lawyers, Guns & Money, CBS News, Forbes, Orlando Sentinel and NBC News
CNN:
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 …
RELATED:
David McCabe / New York Times:
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 …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Associated Press, TechCrunch, CBS News, Semafor and The Verge
NBC News:
Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis to cooperate with prosecutors in Arizona ‘fake electors’ case — Ellis initially pleaded not guilty when the charges were unveiled earlier this year. The charges against her are now being dropped. — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' office announced Monday …
Discussion:
Washington Post
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
The Daily Beast, NPR, TMZ.com, Democrats, Vanity Fair, Mediaite, New Republic, New York Post, Forbes, New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Hill and masslive.com
John Kruzel / Reuters:
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 …
Discussion:
CBS News, New York Times, The Hill, PoliticusUSA, Associated Press, NBC News, Fox News, Law & Crime, IJR and The Guardian
Deborah Yetter / Kentucky Lantern:
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 …
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns & Money
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, New Republic, Democrats, The Raw Story, Associated Press and Alternet.org
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 …
Discussion:
New York Times, Fox News, HuffPost, The Hill, Boing Boing, Mediaite, Breitbart, NBC News, Washington Examiner, CNN, New Republic, The Guardian, USA Today, New York Post, The Daily Signal and IJR
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
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.”
Discussion:
The Raw Story, The Kyiv Independent, The American Conservative and ABC News
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
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
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 …
Discussion:
DNyuz and The Raw Story
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
It's fine to laugh at JD Vance and his couch — 🚨 This all-free, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers 🚨 If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism. — 🛋️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🛋️
Meridith McGraw / Vanity Fair:
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.
Discussion:
The Daily Beast, Alternet.org and Raw Story
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
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 …
Discussion:
Off the Kuff
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Post
Liz Crampton / Politico:
Arizona could become the blueprint for Democrats looking to build state power — Republicans currently control Arizona's state House and Senate by just one seat. Democrats see a chance to flip both. — TUCSON, Arizona — For Arizona Democrats, this election is about more than delivering Kamala Harris a key Sun Belt state.
Discussion:
Arizona Republic, Washington Examiner and PoliticusUSA
Ward Clark / RedState:
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 …
Discussion:
New York Post, Townhall, The National Pulse, The Post Millennial, The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy