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2:35 PM ET, August 8, 2024

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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Tim Walz's normal dad energy is causing MAGA to come unglued  —  Walz is the opposite of weird: Kamala Harris' running mate shows masculinity can be about love and not hate  —  In their first go-round in attacking Gov. Tim Walz, the Donald Trump campaign bet that maximum hyperbole …
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Politico:
Why Harris isn't taking questions  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  —  There is a line in the movie “Bull Durham” where CRASH DAVIS, the sage journeyman catcher played by KEVIN COSTNER, tells “NUKE” LaLOOSH …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Harris's Rise Has Unsettled Trump, Who Is Struggling to Focus, Supporters Say  —  Donald J. Trump's allies want him to talk about the issues, but he seems distracted by Kamala Harris's burst of momentum.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump dialed into “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning …
Discussion: Wide World of News and Axios
Washington Post:
Tim Walz's military record, National Guard departure get new scrutiny  —  The Harris-Walz campaign has cited his Army experience as an asset.  But Republicans and some who served with him have questioned claims about his service.  —  Tim Walz was weighing a life-altering decision when he stepped …
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Why Trump's Plan to Brand Walz as Too Liberal Will Fail
Discussion: Washington Post, Twitchy and Politico
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Vibes and Polls and Positioning of the Harris Candidacy
Discussion: The Liberal Patriot
Politico:
Playbook: Team Trump tries to tear down Walz
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump isn't campaigning as hard as he used to  —  In 2016 and even 2020, Trump kept up a brisk pace of events in the summer.  This year, he hasn't.  —  Donald Trump has always been fixated on crowd size, to the point that it's one of the defining features of his approach to politics.
Discussion: The Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Hold a News Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday  —  The former president's prominence in news coverage has slipped since President Biden withdrew from the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.  —  Donald J. Trump plans to hold a “general news conference” …
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Trump campaign calls Harris' surge ‘suspended reality’
Discussion: New York Times
Robert Costa / CBS News:
Biden “not confident” Trump will accept 2024 election results
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
‘If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that’: Harris fires back at Gaza protesters at rally
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Highground Inc.:
Democrats Take Early ‘Top of the Ticket’ Lead Following Arizona's Primary Election  —  You are here: - Home - Democrats Take Early 'Top of...  Harris holds slim lead over Trump within the margin while Gallego leads Lake by 11 in Arizona  —  Contact: Paul Bentz, 602-528-3684
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, BizPac Review and WTTG-TV
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
BREAKING: The New York Times helps JD Vance Swiftboat Tim Walz  —  Tim Walz “enlisted Army National Guard in Nebraska in 1981 and retired honorably in 2005,” according to his military records.  Months after Tim Walz retired from the Army National Guard in 2005, his unit received orders to deploy to Iraq.
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Politico:
Vance runs a Swift Boat attack against Walz's military service
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump team targets Walz and his military record in attempt to slow down Harris
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Pelosi says it's her life goal to ensure ‘that man’ Trump never steps in the White House again  —  Nancy Pelosi's influence can be seen all across the Democratic Party shakeup that in a few short, agonizing weeks has reengineered the 2024 presidential ticket and the race for the White House.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Nancy Pelosi's Art of Power  —  The former Speaker discusses how she hastened Joe Biden's decision to drop out, her new memoir, and not getting “doggy doo-doo on your shoe.”  —  Nancy Pelosi likes to say that she went from “housewife to House member to House Speaker.”
John Sexton / HotAir:
ISIS-Inspired Teens Planned to Attack Taylor Swift Concert in Vienna  —  Taylor Swift was supposed to be starting the first of a three-night stint in Vienna Austria tonight, but the concerts have all be canceled after an ISIS-inspired plot was discovered.  The two teens behind it hoped …
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Brendan Morrow / USA Today:
Taylor Swift terrorist threat suspect confessed he intended to kill fans: Officials
Anusha Mathur / Politico:
JD Vance's TikTok flop  —  BALANCE OF POWER — When Kamala Harris opened her own personal TikTok account in late July, separate from her existing campaign account, within days she received millions of likes and hundreds of thousands of supportive comments welcoming her to the app.
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Josephine Walker / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris' Empty Plane
Andrew McDonald / Politico:
Elon Musk shares fake news claiming UK rioters will be sent to ‘detainment camps’  —  LONDON — Elon Musk is at it again.  —  Amid an ongoing feud with the British government about unrest on the country's streets, the billionaire X owner boosted, and then deleted, an entirely-manufactured …
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
What the Jeffrey Epstein Documents Reveal About Donald Trump  —  Speculation about which famous and powerful figures would be tarnished by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal heated up at the end of last year when a judge ordered that court documents from a years-old case related to the disgraced financier be made public.
Fiona Harvey / The Guardian:
‘Massive disinformation campaign’ is slowing global transition to green energy  —  UN says a global ‘backlash’ against climate action is being stoked by fossil fuel companies  —  Fossil fuel companies are running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” so that countries will slow …
Discussion: The Nation and NPR
 
 
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
2024's priciest Senate races
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Tim Walz unleashes hell on Earth
Discussion: The Mahablog
David Strom / HotAir:
Will Walz's Stolen Valor and Demotion Be a Fatal Wound?
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Kenneth L. Khachigian / Wall Street Journal:
Nixon Shouldn't Have Resigned  —  I argued in August 1974 that the president should stay and fight.
Discussion: Reason, WTTG-TV and USA Today
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Steve Martin turns down Walz role on ‘SNL’: 'I'm not an impressionist'
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Chutkan in charge: Judge ignites flurry of activity in Trump Jan. 6 case
Public Notice:
The world has a lot to lose from a second Trump presidency
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Hunter Biden ‘received compensation’ from Romanian businessman aiming to influence U.S. policy, special counsel in tax case says
Maya Boddie / The Raw Story:
‘I think this settles it’: Vance busted over resurfaced post jabbing ‘undisputed war hero’
 

 
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