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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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Balloon Juice, Digby's Hullabaloo and ComingSoon.net
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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 …
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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 …
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New York Post, The Atlantic, Fox News, Washington Post, Twitchy and Mediaite
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 …
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The Atlantic, Raw Story, New Republic and Washington Post
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
‘AI’ crowds and unskewed polls: Trump prepares to reject another loss
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
The 2024 campaign will now turn on whether Trump can blunt Harris' soaring start
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Raw Story, El País and Associated Press
James Powel / USA Today:
Harris becomes betting favorite in presidential election odds after swing state barnstorm
Associated Press:
Harris is pushing joy. Trump paints a darker picture. Will mismatched moods matter?
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freebeacon.com, Associated Press, RUMBLE and The Guardian
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake
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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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The Guardian, The Hill, BBC, Variety, RedState, TMZ.com, Breitbart, The Sun, Washington Examiner and Twitchy
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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.
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NBC News, Politico, The Daily Beast, USA Today, HuffPost, Axios, Washington Times, Breitbart, City A.M., Raw Story, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, IJR and Semafor
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.
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Associated Press, Breitbart and New York Daily News
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Desperate Trump Returns to X as Poll Numbers Keep Tanking
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NBC News, Washington Examiner, Business Insider, Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Post, Alternet.org and The Hill
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Democrats continue to joke about false JD Vance rumor after years of criticizing Trump for spreading misinformation
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Fox News and New York Daily News
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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Roll Call, The Daily Beast, Scripting News and Washington Post
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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 …
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PoliticusUSA, New Republic, Boing Boing, Raw Story and Blueprint
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 …
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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 …
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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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 …
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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Jordain Carney / Politico:
House Freedom Caucus sets its terms for September spending fight
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NBC News, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, The Hill and Fox News
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.
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Boing Boing, New Republic, LGBTQ Nation, New York Daily News and The Daily Beast
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Obama secretly running Kamala Harris campaign: ex-Speaker McCarthy — Former President Barack Obama is secretly running Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, using his people to direct her bid, ex-Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy claimed Sunday. — “If you're watching the campaign now …
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Townhall, NOTUS, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
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