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6:55 AM ET, August 5, 2024

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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
What's Rattling Trump: The Size of Harris's Crowds  —  The numbers game is everything to Donald J. Trump.  Vice President Kamala Harris's first big rally appears to have gotten under his skin.  —  When former President Donald J. Trump walked onto the stage at his rally in Atlanta on Saturday …
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Maya Boddie / Alternet.org:
‘Unprecedented’: Launch of ‘Republicans for Harris’ causes commotion  —  Vice President Kamala Harris is scoring support not only from top Democratic leaders, but also GOP leaders, as the group, “Republicans for Harris,” officially announced its launch via social media Sunday.
Discussion: UPI and Raw Story
Politico:
Playbook: Decision day for Harris  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BAD DAY TO CHECK YOUR 401(K) — “Losses Cascade as Traders Look to Fed for Rescue,” by Bloomberg's Robert Brand and Allegra Catelli: “As concerns about a US economic slowdown intensified …
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times and USA Today
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 …
Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Ex-Trump White House officials, dozens of Republicans endorse Harris … Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign on Sunday flaunted over two dozen presidential endorsements from Republican party members, including some who served in former President Donald Trump's administration.
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
Where Harris faces pressure from the left  —  The Democratic presidential candidate is already encountering demands and disappointment over issues progressives want her to push even harder than Biden.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris is already starting to break with the party's left flank.
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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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posts video saying he put a young dead bear in Central Park  —  Kennedy said that The New Yorker magazine found out about the incident and asked him for confirmation.  —  Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged Sunday that he abandoned …
Discussion: DNyuz
Chas Danner / New York Magazine:
RFK Jr. Admits Planting Dead Bear in Central Park
Discussion: DNyuz and CBS News
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 …
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
Is Sen. Marky Kelly in or out of Harris VP search?  Posts on X stir intrigue  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., posted a message on social media that seemed to imply he's not Kamala Harris' pick to serve as vice president − then deleted and replaced the post − fueling intrigue …
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Washington Post:
Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela's opposition show  —  Edmundo González likely beat President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 election by millions of votes, a review of data from election receipts shows.  —  CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's opposition candidate …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elon Musk PAC being investigated by Michigan secretary of state for potential violations … A political action committee backed by billionaire Elon Musk is under investigation in Michigan amid efforts to collect voter data.  —  Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has said he created …
CNN:
Rioters attack hotels used to house asylum seekers amid worst UK disorder in years  —  Rioters set fire and broke into hotels used to shelter asylum seekers in northern England on Sunday, as the country grapples with the worst social unrest it has seen in years.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Blinken told G7 Iran and Hezbollah could attack Israel in next 24 hours … - But unlike the Iranian attack against Israel on April 13 — in which Iran launched nearly 350 attack drones and missiles toward Israel, and Israel, the U.S. and their allies worked together to intercept most of them …
Streiff / RedState:
ABC's Stephanopoulos Loses His Crap When Rep. Donalds Refuses to Back Off on Kamala's ‘Blackness’  —  ABC Washington correspondent and host of This Week George Stephanopoulos went down in a spectacular blaze when he tried to badger Trump surrogate and Florida Congressman Byron Donalds …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Gorsuch on Biden Supreme Court proposals: ‘Be careful’  —  The justice said an independent judiciary “means that when you're unpopular, you can get a fair hearing.”  —  Justice Neil Gorsuch is pushing back against President Joe Biden's recent proposals to restructure the Supreme Court.
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Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:
ABC Host Received Death Threats Following Trump Interview  —  BACKLASH  —  NPR reporter Eric Deggans revealed in an X post on Saturday that ABC host Rachel Scott received death threats following her widely publicized interview with former President Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:   The NABJ interview with Trump provides a model for media coverage
 
 
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Lauren Shirreff / Telegraph:
The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ outlet fuelling violence on Britain's streets
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
No, We Have No Idea What the Migrant Crime Rate Is
Discussion: New York Post
Kenneth Niemeyer / Business Insider:
Trump says he has ‘no choice’ but to support electric vehicles because Elon Musk ‘endorsed me very strongly’
ABC News:
Former Trump administration official Kellyanne Conway registers as lobbyist for Ukrainian billionaire with past ties to Trump
Discussion: The American Conservative and IJR
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