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Politico:
Playbook: Look who's pushing for a Trump reset — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — QUOTE OF THE DAY — A senior administration official to WSJ's Alex Ward and Nancy Youssef on the possibility of an Iranian attack on Israel …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to meet with Kamala Harris to discuss Cabinet job — Harris has rebuffed the offer of an endorsement, while Kennedy has also had conversations with Republican nominee Donald Trump about a role in his administration. — Independent presidential candidate Robert …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans tell Trump to focus on issues, not “crowd sizes.” Project 2025 shows that will backfire
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Axios:
Campaign spending booms in race to define Harris
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Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg and Deadline
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
GOP Lawmakers Sound the Alarm That Trump Can't Help but Be Trump
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Washington Examiner, WKRN-TV and Cook Political Report
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign
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New Republic and Raw Story
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Keeps Watching Clip of Himself Being Shot at: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’
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Crooks and Liars
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump has the inklings of a plan to take on Harris, but he seems unable to implement it
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Washington Post, Metro.co.uk, Washington Examiner and CNBC
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
August 2024 National Poll: Harris 50%, Trump 46% — Home Polls August 2024 National Poll: Harris 50%, Trump 46% — Independents, Younger Voters Swing Toward Harris — The first Emerson College Polling national survey following President Biden's decision not to seek re-election finds …
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Berwood A Yost / Franklin & Marshall College Poll:
Franklin & Marshall Poll Release: August 2024 — I'm writing to share our summary report for the August 2024 Franklin & Marshall College Poll. I've highlighted a few of the key findings below, but I encourage you to read the full report, which is also included.
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Daily Kos
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Worry as Red State Polls Look ‘Worse Than They Should’ for Trump
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: New matchup, same result — Trump bests Harris by one point
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Vance agrees to Oct. 1 debate with Walz — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 … Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE — Playback Rate — Chapters — Chapters — Descriptions — descriptions off, selected — Captions
CBS News:
Gov. Tim Walz agrees to VP debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1
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Associated Press:
White House says deals struck to cut prices of popular Medicare drugs that cost $50 billion yearly — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking a victory lap after federal officials inked deals with drug companies to lower the price for 10 of Medicare's most popular and costliest drugs …
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Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
Nevada Senate Race Now Favors Democrat, Report Says — The nonpartisan Cook Political Report moved the race from “tossup” to “lean Democrat” after polling shows Senator Jacky Rosen with a large edge. — Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada, a Democrat seeking re-election to her seat for the first time …
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emptywheel:
The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One — As you know, I was calling on the press to focus on the suspected $10 million payment Egypt made to Trump since before it was cool — since even before the WaPo significantly advanced the story over a month later.
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.”
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Media Matters for America
Erica Orden / Politico:
Trump seeks to delay his hush money sentencing until after the election — His lawyers are seeking to have the conviction overturned on immunity grounds. — NEW YORK — Attorneys for Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing the former president's Manhattan criminal case to postpone his sentencing …
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Brooke Seipel / International Business Times:
JD Vance: ‘Whole Purpose Of The Postmenopausal Female’ Is To Care For Grandkids — JD Vance once said one of the best things for the economy is the “postmenopausal female” because her purpose in life is to provide free childcare. — The comments were revealed Wednesday in newly resurfaced audio from 2020 …
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CNN:
Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term — Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Musk's New AI Image Generator Immediately Used to Troll Him — OBVIOUSLY — Images flooded X showing Musk carrying out a school shooting with Mickey Mouse or being led on a leash by Donald Trump. — Elon Musk's AI chatbot launched a new image generation feature Wednesday …
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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 …
Cameron Joseph / Christian Science Monitor:
JD Vance: Amazon funded Black Lives Matter so riots would destroy rival retailers — Loading... WASHINGTON — In 2021, J.D. Vance gave a speech to a conservative think tank on “woke capital” - and accused Amazon of funding Black Lives Matter in order to burn down the competition.
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Raw Story and View from the Wing
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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