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3:15 PM ET, August 12, 2024

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emptywheel:
In Which Ian Miles Cheong Understands Trump's Campaign Better than NYT  —  The second I saw video of Vice President Harris rolling up to a hangar at Detroit's airport on Air Force Two, then alighting with Tim Walz in front of cheering crowds, I knew it would break Donald Trump's brain.
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Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Why Donald Trump Can't Let Go of Joe Biden  —  The former president is caught in a nostalgia trap of his own making.  —  Pocket  —  With remarkable speed, the Democratic Party has embraced Kamala Harris as their presumptive nominee and moved on from Joe Biden, the party's standard-bearer since 2020 …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mediaite
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris  —  The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert.  The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour.  And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama.  Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6 …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans can't replace their old man nominee, so they're pretending JD Vance is the GOP candidate  —  Donald Trump's running mate weirds voters out, but at least he's not an incoherent mess like his boss  —  “What a stupid question this is!”  Donald Trump recently raged at a journalist during …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
‘AI’ crowds and unskewed polls: Trump prepares to reject another loss
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
Politico:
Playbook: The unwritten Harris agenda
Discussion: Fox News and Townhall
James Powel / USA Today:   Harris becomes betting favorite in presidential election odds after swing state barnstorm
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump spreads false conspiracy theory about Harris' Detroit crowd size
Associated Press:
Trump reportedly used a slur against Harris in private conversations
Discussion: The Root
Popular Information:
The most expensive political ad of all time  —  In 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, one of the world's largest social networks, for $44 billion.  From a financial perspective, it has not worked out well.  Over the last two years, the value of Twitter — which Musk renamed X — has plunged.
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Trump posts campaign ad on X ahead of Musk interview  —  Former President Trump on Monday posted to the social platform X for the first time in nearly a year, sharing a campaign advertisement just hours before he is set to sit for an interview with the platform's owner, Elon Musk.
emptywheel:
Elon Musk's Machine for Political Violence  —  Last October, I wrote a post called “Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism,” describing how Twitter had twice served Donald Trump's electoral ambitions.  —  In 2016, trolls — including Don Jr — workshopped memes on a DM list and then used their reach to pressure MSM to adopt their narratives.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is Freaked Out in Ways He Never Imagined Were Possible  —  The Harris-Walz campaign proved two important things last week.  First, it proved that sometimes all you really have to do is answer attacks—the mere fact of answering them deflates their momentum.
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0  —  They're taking a page out of Karl Rove's shameful playbook. … Donald Trump is down so bad that his campaign is bringing back Republican dirty tricks from 20 years ago.  —  Kamala Harris is packing arenas and rising in the polls …
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Poll: Democratic attacks on JD Vance are working  —  The Scoop  —  New polling shared exclusively with Semafor shows Democrats' attacks on JD Vance's views on abortion, divorce and “childless cat ladies” are sticking with voters.  —  A pair of surveys by Blueprint, the centrist Democratic pollster backed …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Betsy DeVos would consider working with Trump again — under one condition  —  Donald Trump's former education secretary Betsy DeVos has changed her mind on serving in his administration if he wins re-election.  —  DeVos resigned on Jan. 7, 2021, following the U.S. Capitol riot, which she called …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump to sue DOJ for $100M over Mar-a-Lago raid, alleging ‘political persecution’  —  Trump attorney says ‘unconstitutional’ raid should never have been approved by Garland, Wray  —  Join Fox News for access to this content  —  EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump is set to sue …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Vice President Kamala Harris's choice of Minnesota governor Tim Walz to be her running mate seems to cement the emergence of a new Democratic Party.  —  When he took office in January 2021, President Joe Biden was clear that he intended to launch a new era in America, overturning the neoliberalism …
Robyn Vinter / The Guardian:
Far-right rallies abandoned amid warnings of 10-year sentences  —  Anti-racism marches attract large crowds as foreign secretary says rioters forgot ‘what it means to be English’  —  Planned far-right rallies did not materialise over the weekend, amid a large turnout of anti-racist protesters …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
JD Vance's false claim that ‘green energy scam’ ships jobs to China  —  The GOP vice-presidential candidate knocks the Inflation Reduction Act, which was designed to combat China's green energy dominance.  —  “She cast the deciding vote for the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that sent a lot of our resources to China.”
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Financial Times:
Delays hit 40% of Biden's major IRA manufacturing projects
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josephine Rozzelle / CNBC:
White House launches broad new regulatory effort, as Harris prepares to unveil economic plan … The Biden Administration on Monday unveiled a new, multi-agency regulatory initiative to target corporate practices that officials claim are designed to waste consumers' time and needlessly burden …
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
House Freedom Caucus backs short-term funding bill to avoid government shutdown  —  Washington — The conservative House Freedom Caucus announced its official position on the upcoming government funding fight on Monday, urging House Republican leadership to push for a stopgap measure to keep …
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David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Second Photo Alleged to Show JD Vance in Drag Posted Online  —  OMG!  —  The Vance campaign has not denied that the man in drag in a viral photo was Donald Trump's 2024 presidential election running mate.  —  A second image of JD Vance allegedly dressed as a woman in a blonde wig has been posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Early numbers show violent crime dropping sharply … - It also gives Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor in San Francisco and California attorney general, a potent defense against attacks from the right on crime. … - 54 of the 69 major cities in the report saw drops in violent crime …
 
 
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Alaina Demopoulos / The Guardian:
My son was struggling - then he fell for Trump's toxic brand of ‘masculinity’. I'm heartbroken
Discussion: Raw Story
Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris campaign touts border record in new ad
Washington Post:
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Can a Minnesota teacher win Pennsylvania?
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The Hill:
Amicable Walz learned hardball politics in the House
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Na Eng / The Hill:
Walz's candidacy is making kindness great again
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Americans' refusal to keep paying higher prices may be dealing a final blow to US inflation spike
Discussion: Fortune and Quartz
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Launches New Effort to Crack Down on Everyday Headaches and Hassles That Waste Americans' Time and Money
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