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12:55 PM ET, August 15, 2024

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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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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
With JD Vance, Things Just Get Weirder And Weirder  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  Sign up for the email version.  —  What On Earth?  —  JD Vance is coming into focus as a living breathing embodiment of the caricature …
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 …
Discussion: Townhall
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:   Top Trump advisers in turmoil after campaign's worst month of 2024
Berwood A Yost / Franklin & Marshall College Poll:
Franklin & Marshall Poll Release: August 2024
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to meet with Kamala Harris to discuss Cabinet job
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Washington Post:   Election 2024 live updates: Biden to join Harris at Md. event; Trump to hold news conference
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans tell Trump to focus on issues, not “crowd sizes.” Project 2025 shows that will backfire
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Beast
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Worry as Red State Polls Look ‘Worse Than They Should’ for Trump
Discussion: Fox News
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Keeps Watching Clip of Himself Being Shot at: ‘May Legit Have PTSD’
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
New York Times:
Kennedy Sought a Meeting With Harris to Discuss a Cabinet Post
Discussion: Eschaton
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.
Discussion: Forbes and Alternet.org
Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
Democrats Maintain Edge in New Senate Polls, As Nevada Moves Back to Lean Democrat  —  The 2024 election has already been historic in a number of ways, but November could mark another recent electoral oddity — a rise in ticket-splitting between presidential and Senate races.
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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 …
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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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Vance and Walz agree to a vice presidential debate on Oct. 1 hosted by CBS News
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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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New, Lower Prices for First Ten Drugs Selected for Medicare Price Negotiation to Lower Costs for Millions of Americans
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 …
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.”
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 …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign brings Corey Lewandowski back on board  —  The move is part of an expansion of the campaign's ranks  —  Donald Trump's campaign is expanding its ranks as he seeks to regain his footing in the presidential campaign, bringing on a handful of top allies — including former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Brad Dress / The Hill:
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris to call for federal ban on price-gouging in Friday speech  —  Vice President Harris on Friday will outline a series of economic policy proposals as part of her presidential campaign, including a call for a federal ban on corporate price-gouging.  —  Harris will deliver remarks in North Carolina …
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Lisa Song / ProPublica:
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable?  When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Is there anything more pathetic than a used plastic bag?
David Strom / HotAir:
SHOCK: Secret Service Agent Left Her Post Protecting Trump to Breastfeed Baby She Brought to Rally  —  Susan Crabtree of RealClearInvestigations broke a story this morning that in a sane would would shock you, but in the current world run by the Biden administration is just another day ending in “Y.”
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and View from the Wing
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ … Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt has made headlines for saying that Google was blindsided by the early the rise of ChatGPT because its employees decided that “working from home was more important than winning.”
 
 
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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Trump's Crocodile Tears for the Jews
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Tic Tacs, tampons, turmoil: What Trump's ‘economy’ speech actually covered
Discussion: IJR, Raw Story and Daily Kos
New York Times:
He Still Thought He Could Win: Inside Biden's Decision to Drop Out
Discussion: HotAir, The Hill and RedState
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Hack Backtrack  —  “It's frustrating,” one former Clinton communications official told me Wednesday.
Senator Bernie Sanders / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders: America Must Confront Its Long COVID Crisis
Charles Sykes / The Atlantic:
The Trump Campaign Endorses a Racist Theory
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News and ComingSoon.net
 Earlier Items: 
Zeninjor Enwemeka / WBUR:
VP hopeful Tim Walz raises $1.2 million at Boston fundraiser
Discussion: Colorado Newsline and CBS News
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Tim Walz's 2006 campaign falsely described details about his arrest for DWI in 1995
Christian Edwards / CNN:
Russian court gives 12-year treason sentence to Russian-American over $50 charity donation
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Walz's false claim that Vance never voted for any pro-worker bills
Discussion: The Dworkin Report
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The case for Harris embracing nationwide free school meals
Discussion: Fortune, Associated Press and NBC News
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours

 
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