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Willie Brown Says Trump's Helicopter Crash Story Never Happened — In a news conference, the former president recounted a brush with death alongside Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor. A few aspects of the story don't hold up to scrutiny. — Former President Donald J. Trump told …
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump Spews Lies, Disparages Harris's Intelligence, Insults Jews, and Rambles About “Insane Asylums” in Unhinged Press Conference
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James Oliphant / Reuters:
Trump apparently confuses Willie Brown with Jerry Brown in helicopter tale
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Old Man Trump Mixes Up California Politicians in Weird Kamala Story
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NBC News:
Trump appears to confuse former Mayor Willie Brown with former Gov. Jerry Brown
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Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Donald Trump isn't fun anymore: How Kamala Harris stole the show — and extinguished his flame
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
“They take the strategic national reserves. They're virtually empty now. We have never had it this low.”
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Associated Press:
Trump recommits to a Sept. 10 debate and lashes out at Harris at news conference
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Why Biden Was Really Forced Out of the Race, According to Anita Dunn — The longtime presidential adviser blames the press and her party for forcing Biden out of the race. — Anita Dunn has no regrets about holding a historically early debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Same Old Tired Shtick — The Harris-Walz barnstorming tour heads for the Sun Belt today, with rallies scheduled in Arizona and Nevada. As Politico notes this morning, those events will provide an interesting test for “whether Walz's folksy, Midwestern brand can resonate beyond middle America.”
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Harris campaign weaponizes crowd size against Trump … - Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are drawing huge crowds as they barnstorm swing states this week, generating an exuberant atmosphere that had been missing from the Biden campaign.
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Harris Used to Worry About Laughing. Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign. — Democrats are smiling again, and so is a vice president who once weighed the political risks of cheerfulness. The high spirits are also providing air cover for scathing attacks on Republicans.
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David Badash / Alternet.org:
Is Donald Trump ‘quiet quitting’? Here's what his ‘meltdown at Mar-a-Lago’ reveals — The first question during Donald Trump's “angry,” “rambling, incoherent, demented,” “complaining,” and “lie-filled” Thursday afternoon news conference from Mar-a-Lago was about campaign strategy, and would he be changing it.
MSNBC:
Lawrence: ‘Stupidest’ candidate Trump did not answer reporters' questions — Donald Trump rambled and lied for over an hour without any follow up questions or fact-checking. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell says that while he hopes Vice President Harris answers questions from reporters …
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Wall Street Journal:
Is Tim Walz Guilty of ‘Stolen Valor’? — His military record isn't a good reason to oppose his candidacy. — There are plenty of reasons to criticize Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, and we've told you about several. But the charges leveled so far about his military service look like …
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker questions Pentagon on Walz's military record — Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday expressing his “grave concern” with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's representation of his military service and demanding more information about the Democratic vice presidential nominee's record.
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Tim Walz is giving MAGA a master class in manhood
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Eden Teshome / The Hill:
Oldest Latino civil rights group breaks with past to endorse Harris — The Harris-Walz campaign has received the first-ever presidential endorsement from the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest and largest Latino civil rights group in the country.
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Josephine Walker / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Turns on Joe Rogan as He Endorses RFK Jr. and Not Trump — TWIN FLAME — Right-wingers on X are not impressed that the popular podcaster is throwing his weight behind RFK Jr. — Podcast host and comedian Joe Rogan told listeners he supports longshot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his show Thursday afternoon.
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Politico:
What the Supreme Court left unsaid about Trump's criminal immunity — The federal election case has returned to the trial court. Now comes the hard part. — When the Supreme Court set out to decide Donald Trump's bid for presidential immunity, the justices were aiming to establish “a rule for the ages.”
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Jack Smith Asks for More Time
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Rep. Meeks on Trump presser: Maybe 'he's not all there anymore' — Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) PAC, on Friday suggested former President Trump may be “not all there anymore” after he held a lengthy and rambling press conference.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’ — In 2016, Democrats taunted Donald Trump as “dangerous Donald.” In 2020, they moved on from dangerous to say that Trump's Republican Party was a threat to the “soul of America.” Both messages — one relatively successful …
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Gabe Kaminsky / Washington Examiner:
Tim Walz repeatedly hosted Muslim cleric who celebrated Oct. 7 and shared pro-Hitler website link — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas's Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted …
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David McAfee / The Raw Story:
‘Something is amiss in Georgia’: Legal expert flags Trump loyalists' likely unlawful acts — Donald Trump's loyalists have infiltrated a Georgia election board and are now wreaking havoc, a legal analyst said on Friday. — MSNBC's Lisa Rubin, a former litigator, highlighted the actions …
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Emell Derra Adolphus / The Daily Beast:
‘Hercules’ Star Kevin Sorbo Tells Kamala Harris to ‘Say the N-word’ If She ‘Really Is Black’ — UNGODLY — Former “Hercules” TV star Kevin Sorbo tweeted that the vice president should say the slur to prove her Blackness, and he was epically torched online for it.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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