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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?
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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 …
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Dave Eisenstadter / masslive.com:
Harris vs. Trump: New poll shows 7-point swing in presidential race
Harris vs. Trump: New poll shows 7-point swing in presidential race
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Roll Call, New Jersey Online and Vox
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
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Breitbart, Washington Post, The Post Millennial, DNyuz, Florida Politics and The National Pulse
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis agrees to cooperate in Arizona elector case — In a deal that allows Ellis to avoid potential jail time, she has agreed to provide prosecutors with evidence that could implicate other defendants. — PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) …
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Arizona Attorney General's Office:
Attorney General Mayes Announces Cooperation Agreement in Fake Electors Case — PHOENIX - Attorney General Kris Mayes today announced a cooperation agreement with a defendant in the fake electors' case. Jenna Ellis signed the agreement earlier this morning.
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Jenna Ellis flips to help Arizona prosecutors in 2020 election case
Jenna Ellis flips to help Arizona prosecutors in 2020 election case
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Associated Press
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.
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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
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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
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The Weekly Sift, Raw Story and Alternet.org
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
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Los Angeles Times, The Raw Story and Townhall
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 …
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David McCabe / New York Times:
‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case — The ruling on Google's search dominance 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 …
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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 …
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Stan Choe / Associated Press:
Dow drops 1,000 points, and Japanese stocks suffer worst crash since 1987 as markets quake worldwide — Nearly everything on Wall Street is tumbling as fear of a slowing U.S. economy grows and sets off another sell-off for financial markets around the world.
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CNN:
Japanese stocks crash in biggest one-day drop ever as global market rout intensifies — Hong Kong/London CNN — Japanese stocks suffered their biggest ever daily loss Monday as fears about a US economic slowdown sent shock waves through global markets.
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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.
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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 …
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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
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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
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris closes in on VP pick with announcement expected Tuesday
Harris closes in on VP pick with announcement expected Tuesday
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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 …
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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 …
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Wonkette, CNN, New Republic, The Raw Story, Democrats, Alternet.org and Associated Press
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 …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Madeleine Greenberg / Democracy Docket:
Nevada Court Rejects Trump Campaign's Attempt To Throw Out Some Mail-in Ballots — The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have lost yet another attempt to weaken mail-in voting ahead of the November election. This time, a state court judge has denied the campaign's request …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump keeps attacking their spouses. Top GOPers keep supporting him anyway. — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is the latest to find a family member in Donald Trump's crosshairs. — Some of the ugliest moments in the 2016 Republican nominating contest came when Donald Trump attacked Sen. Ted Cruz's family.
Sarakshi Rai / The Hill:
UK knocks Musk for ‘civil war’ comment amid nationwide riots — The U.K.'s 10 Downing Street has hit back at Elon Musk's comments over violent unrest in Northern England and pushed back on his statement that “civil war is inevitable”. — Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesperson responded …
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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 …
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The Raw Story and DNyuz
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 …
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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.”
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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.
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Ward Clark / RedState:
Crisis at the Border: Under Biden, at Least 99 Illegals on Terror Watch List Released Into United States — One wonders, if a presidential administration was deliberately trying to destabilize the United States and bring about a serious terror attack on the American people - say …
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Fox News, The Post Millennial and Twitchy