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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
AARP:
Harris and Trump Tied in Head-to-Head Ballot Among Michigan Voters
Discussion: The Hill
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans tell Trump to focus on issues, not “crowd sizes.” Project 2025 shows that will backfire
Discussion: The Hill
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
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
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Vance and Walz agree to a vice presidential debate on Oct. 1 hosted by CBS News  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance have agreed to debate each other on Oct. 1, setting up a matchup of potential vice presidents as early voting in some states gets underway for the general election.
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CBS News:
Gov. Tim Walz agrees to VP debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1
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 …
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 …
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.”
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.
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 …
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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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.
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
Brad Dress / The Hill:
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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.”
 
 
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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: Raw Story, IJR 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
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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