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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.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
New hidden camera video reinforces Trump's Project 2025 problem — The former president knows that Project 2025 is unpopular. But he can't distance himself from its contents or its authors. — When Donald Trump was president, Russell Vought joined the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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Rolling Stone, NOTUS and Raw Story
Lenny Bronner / Washington Post:
Harris has opened up a second path to victory, according to The Post's polling model — The Democratic nominee could win in the Rust Belt or the Sun Belt and get to the White House, while Donald Trump must win in both geographic regions to triumph. — A lot has changed in the presidential race …
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
August 2024 National Poll: Harris 50%, Trump 46%
August 2024 National Poll: Harris 50%, Trump 46%
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Nicholas Liu / Salon:
Aides not telling Trump red states “looking worse than they should” to avoid upsetting him: report
Aides not telling Trump red states “looking worse than they should” to avoid upsetting him: report
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Rolling Stone
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign
Trump's “election integrity” plan tests his campaign
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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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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Top Trump advisers in turmoil after campaign's worst month of 2024 — Senior aides see challenges from enemies real and perceived as the ex-president struggles against Harris — Donald Trump has privately expressed faith in his campaign leadership and no personnel changes are currently expected …
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USA Today, CNN, Digby's Hullabaloo, Mediaite and New Republic
Politico:
Playbook: Look who's pushing for a Trump reset
Playbook: Look who's pushing for a Trump reset
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Washington Examiner and Townhall
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans practically beg Trump to change it up. He's not listening.
Republicans practically beg Trump to change it up. He's not listening.
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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
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Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:
Unearthed Photo Shows Teen JD Vance Posing in Bathroom With Three Girls at Urinals
Unearthed Photo Shows Teen JD Vance Posing in Bathroom With Three Girls at Urinals
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Raw Story
ABC News:
Secret Service prepares use of bulletproof glass for outdoor Trump rallies: Sources — The safety measure comes after a gunman tried to assassinate Trump last month. — Former president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc., July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa.
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Steven Walker / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library — Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill. — A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library …
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USA Today and New Republic
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.
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
Nevada Senate Race Now Favors Democrat, Report Says
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Cook Political Report, New Jersey Online and Fox News
US Department of Justice:
Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida — Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen …
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Joe Jacquez / The Hill:
DOJ says man attacked Florida businesses over perceived support of Israel
DOJ says man attacked Florida businesses over perceived support of Israel
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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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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 …
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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Vance agrees to Oct. 1 debate with Walz
Vance agrees to Oct. 1 debate with Walz
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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.
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 …
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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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
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. — 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?
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.”
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Raw Story, Plain Dealer, Vanity Fair, Digby's Hullabaloo and Boing Boing
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage — Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried unsuccessfully to call it off
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New York Times:
Election Live Updates: Biden and Harris Reunite to Celebrate Deal on Drug Prices — Former President Donald J. Trump is delivering a news conference now, just hours after President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made their first joint public appearance since Mr. Biden dropped out of the race.
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