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8:40 AM ET, August 15, 2024

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Campaign spending booms in race to define Harris … - Harris and Trump are rushing to lock in perceptions about her for a sliver of the electorate in the six or seven swing states likely to decide the winner on Nov. 5.  — Through Thursday, the Harris and Trump campaigns and their supporting groups …
Washington Post:
Harris's policies have shifted and are still taking shape  —  Republicans say Harris's policy swings let them define her as a liberal.  Democrats say detailed positions are less important than a big message.  —  Kamala Harris, amid a furious battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019 …
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign … - Trump's “election integrity” team also has raised concerns among Democrats about potential voter intimidation at the polls.  — If Trump loses on Nov. 5, the election teams would be his evidence collectors for what almost certainly …
Discussion: Raw Story
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:   Republicans Worry as Red State Polls Look ‘Worse Than They Should’ for Trump
New York Times:
Harris Is Set to Lay Out an Economic Message Light on Detail
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Trump Gambles on Outside Groups to Finance Voter Outreach Efforts
Discussion: Raw Story
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Fox News
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Keeps Watching Clip of Himself Being Shot at: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’  —  ‘OVER AND OVER AGAIN’  —  Sources close to the ex-president's campaign have said he's particularly fixated on a single seven-second clip.  —  Those close to Donald Trump fear the former president “may have legit PTSD” …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: New matchup, same result — Trump bests Harris by one point  —  Highest share of voters in over two years rate their personal finances positively  —  Join Fox News for access to this content  —  No matter how many major events intervene, and goodness knows there have been several …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Trump Allies Fear He's Sabotaging His Own Campaign  —  The former president can't get over feeling “cheated” by Joe Biden's exit from the race, says one source, while another speculates he might “have PTSD” following last month's assassination attempt.  —  In the hierarchy of Donald Trump's put-downs …
Victoria Prodeline / Monmouth University …:
Jump in Enthusiasm for 2024 Race
Clare Olson / Heartland Signal:
JD Vance in 2020 agreed grandmothers raising children is ‘whole purpose of the postmenopausal female’  —  While appearing on “The Portal” podcast in April 2020, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) agreed with host Eric Weinstein's claim that “postmenopausal females” exist just to help take care of children.
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
J.D. Vance's Weird Thoughts on Older Women Exposed in New Audio  —  J.D. Vance's views on gender and parenting have come back to haunt him, again.  —  In 2020, long before he entered politics, Vance appeared on a podcast where the host said that having grandmothers help raise children is …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The case for Harris embracing nationwide free school meals  —  It's good policy and good politics. … Last weekend at a rally in Las Vegas, Kamala Harris announced one of her first explicit new policy positions: a plan to “eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.”
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Eleanor Mueller / Politico:   Bipartisan push for family-friendly policies gains momentum
CBS News:
Gov. Tim Walz agrees to VP debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1  —  Washington — Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1 in New York City.  —  Former President Donald Trump's campaign has not yet agreed to the date …
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
George Helmy will be new U.S. Senator from New Jersey  —  Gov. Phil Murphy intends to appoint George S. Helmy, his former chief of staff, to the United States Senate to replace Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.  —  Murphy is expected to formally offer Helmy the post on Thursday …
Financial Times:
Russians fleeing Ukraine's incursion say Putin has abandoned them  —  ‘Lies are causing civilians to die’, says resident of town captured by Kyiv's forces  —  On the day Ukrainian forces started rolling into Russia's Kursk region, a group of about 40 people, mostly women, filmed a video about what was happening in their town.
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Associated Press:
Ukraine says it has taken more ground and prisoners during its advance into Russia border region
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Why Facebook blocked Popular Information's reporting on Laura Loomer  —  Yesterday, Popular Information published a detailed report on the close relationship between former President Donald Trump and Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist who says America should be a “white Judeo-Christian ethnostate.”
April Rubin / Axios:
Trump effort to push back oral arguments in case against Fani Willis denied … - Postponed oral arguments were requested by Trump's lawyer Steve Sadow to accommodate a pre-paid international trip with his wife to celebrate his 70th birthday and their 45th wedding anniversary, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Discussion: Law & Crime and The Root
Sejal Govindarao / Associated Press:
Ruling: Fetus can be referred to as ‘unborn human being’ in Arizona abortion measure voter pamphlet  —  An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being …
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Jessica Boehm / Axios:
Arizona will call fetuses “unborn human beings” in abortion initiative description
Discussion: Associated Press
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Prepare for Trump to be sentenced to prison on September 18  —  The objective here is to enable VP Kamala Harris and the media-Democratic complex to label Trump ‘a convicted felon sentenced to prison’ as voting begins  —  To the surprise of no one, Judge Juan Merchan has yet again denied …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Walz's false claim that Vance never voted for any pro-worker bills  —  Walz relies on a dubious metric, which misses at least two pro-worker bills supported by Vance. … — Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, in a speech in Los Angeles to a conference of the American Federation of State …
Discussion: The Dworkin Report
Lisa Song / ProPublica:
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable?  When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.  —  Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags …
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