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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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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, CNN and Mediaite
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trump Can't Deal With Harris's Success — Kamala Harris has had as good a three-week stretch as any presidential candidate in modern American history. — When Joe Biden dropped out on July 21, less than a month after his catastrophic debate performance against Donald Trump …
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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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freebeacon.com, RedState, The Atlantic, American Greatness, Washington Post, New York Post, Twitchy, Mediaite and Fox News
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans can't replace their old man nominee, so they're pretending JD Vance is the GOP candidate
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Raw Story, New Republic and Washington Post
John L. Dorman / Business Insider:
Kamala Harris is going on the offensive on border security. It could keep Arizona blue and cut off Trump's path to victory.
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The Daily Caller, Fox News and Axios
James Powel / USA Today:
Harris becomes betting favorite in presidential election odds after swing state barnstorm
Politico:
Playbook: The unwritten Harris agenda
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HotAir, CNN, Fox News, Associated Press and Townhall
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
EU warns Musk on hate speech ahead of Trump interview; receives profane response — The European Union's digital enforcer wrote an open letter to tech mogul Elon Musk on Monday ahead of a planned interview with former United States President Donald Trump to remind him of the EU's rules on promoting hate speech.
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Euronews, The Hill, Politico, Byline Times, RedState, Breitbart, Reuters, New York Times, One America News Network, American Greatness, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Human Events and RTÉ
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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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Bloomberg, NBC News, The Guardian, CBS News, BBC, Deadline, The National Pulse, The Hill, Variety, RedState, TMZ.com, Breitbart, The Sun, Washington Examiner and Twitchy
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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Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Townhall, Breitbart and New York Daily News
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Trump posts campaign ad on X ahead of Musk interview
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NBC News, HuffPost, USA Today, UPI, Townhall, Axios, New Republic, Washington Times, Breitbart, City A.M., Raw Story, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Semafor and IJR
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Desperate Trump Returns to X as Poll Numbers Keep Tanking
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, NBC News, Reuters, Washington Examiner, Twitchy, Bloomberg, New York Post, Alternet.org, Business Insider and The Hill
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 and Scripting News
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0
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Washington Examiner
Dani Blum / New York Times:
Should You Get Another Covid Shot Now? — The virus is spreading, but new vaccines coming this fall could offer better protection. We asked experts about the right time for a booster. — Patients keep asking Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California …
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 …
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Amanda Seitz / Associated Press:
Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law — WASHINGTON (AP) — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn't know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. — Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed …
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The 19th, Democrats and The Texas Tribune
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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HuffPost, Boing Boing, New Republic, LGBTQ Nation and New York Daily News
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
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
House GOP Hardliners Threaten Government Shutdown Over Baseless Illegal Voters Bill — A right-wing group known as the Freedom Caucus says Republicans should insist on the bill when Congress returns in September. — LOADING — A group of hardline House Republican conservatives …
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NBC News, New Republic, Washington Examiner, The Daily Signal, Washington Times and Fox News
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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
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pro-Trump super PAC plans $100M ad blitz — The ads come as Republicans seek to undercut Kamala Harris ahead of the DNC. — A pro-Trump super PAC is planning a $100 million TV ad blitz in the lead-up to Labor Day, a massive sum as Trump moves to regain his footing in the campaign.
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Bloomberg, New Republic, Raw Story and New York Daily News
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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 …
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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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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