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3:10 PM ET, August 15, 2024

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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Will Try to Drag Kamala Into the Mud With Him  —  It's his only play.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Mud Pit  —  One of the things we're hearing from Good Republicans is that Donald Trump is falling down on the job by indulging in his usual personal attacks and shenanigans.
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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 …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Top Trump advisers in turmoil after campaign's worst month of 2024
Discussion: USA Today and New Republic
Politico:
Playbook: Look who's pushing for a Trump reset
Discussion: Townhall
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans tell Trump to focus on issues, not “crowd sizes.” Project 2025 shows that will backfire
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to meet with Kamala Harris to discuss Cabinet job
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.
Daily Mail:
Trump VP pick JD Vance is seen posing with three female classmates at boys' urinals in unearthed high school photo  — 18-year-old JD Vance was snapped posing with three girls in the boys' bathroom  — The photo appeared in the 2003 yearbook of Middletown High School in Ohio
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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
Discussion: New York Magazine and Daily Kos
AARP:
Harris and Trump Tied in Head-to-Head Ballot Among Michigan Voters
Discussion: The Hill
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
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Zelensky says Ukraine has captured key Russian town  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00  —  Loaded: 0%  —  Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters  — Chapters  —  Descriptions
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David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Walz Says He'll Make Debate With JD Vance All About Project 2025
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Vance agrees to Oct. 1 debate with Walz
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 …
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.
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.”
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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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 …
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.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News totally ignored new report showing violent crime is down — while running more than 4.5 hours of violent crime coverage  —  RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TYLER MONROE, BEN VAN BLOEM, HARRISON RAY & NOAH DOWE  —  Fox News has not mentioned on air new data released on Friday showing …
Discussion: Axios and Fox News
Jill Filipovic:
What Are Females For?  —  Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance really does love to run his mouth on podcasts.  The latest unearthed audio has him agreeing with a conservative podcast host on what women are for once we hit menopause: Helping to raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.”
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
Montana's top court strikes down parental consent law for minors seeking abortion  —  Montana's highest court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring minors to get parental consent when seeking an abortion violated the state's constitution, upholding a legal challenge by Planned Parenthood.
Geoff Dembicki / The Guardian:
Revealed: Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025  —  Foundation says it ‘does not endorse any organizations’ while funneling hundreds of thousands to rightwing causes  —  A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands …
Discussion: Climate Desk
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Biden joins calls for new elections in Venezuela  —  Washington is aligning with the leaders of Brazil and Colombia, key regional interlocutors.  —  President Joe Biden joined the leaders of Brazil and Colombia on Thursday in calling for new elections in Venezuela, following an election …
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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Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Support for LGBTQ equal rights sank this year, but remains high
Discussion: RedState and GLAAD
Lenny Bronner / Washington Post:
Harris has opened up a second path to victory, according to The Post's polling model
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Democrats Lean Into Liberty and the Language of Republicans
Mike Bedigan / The Independent:
Trump watches himself get shot ‘over and over’ and campaign staff fear he has PTSD: report
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Trump's Crocodile Tears for the Jews
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
He Still Thought He Could Win: Inside Biden's Decision to Drop Out
Discussion: HotAir, Alternet.org and RedState
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Hack Backtrack  —  “It's frustrating,” one former Clinton communications official told me Wednesday.
Brooke Seipel / International Business Times:
JD Vance: ‘Whole Purpose Of The Postmenopausal Female’ Is To Care For Grandkids
Lisa Song / ProPublica:
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
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

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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