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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Scaramucci: Trump Is ‘Coming to Grips’ With Losing the Election — ‘GROWING DARKER’ — Trump's former White House communications director says it's going to be “rough” until Election Day. — Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trump's one-time White House communications director …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's decline: His interviews and lies get worse — As the 2024 race draws tighter, the former president's actions suggest he is spiraling. … This week, I look at felon and former president Donald Trump's downward spiral, pick the distinguished persons of the week and share some Chicago sites.
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Raw Story and Chicago Sun Times
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Trump's “caught on tape” women problem … - A Quinnipiac Poll out this week found a gender gulf among likely voters in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania: Women backed Harris 54% to 41%, while men went for Trump, 49% to 42%.
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Alternet.org, Raw Story, NBC News and Digby's Hullabaloo
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's fury over Harris' switch with Biden is increasingly driving his campaign — Deep into his ranting news conference on Thursday, former President Donald Trump told a truth that explained everything : “I'm very angry at her.” — He was referring to Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Boing Boing, Taipei Times, Sentinel Colorado, Los Angeles Times, IJR, Bloomberg, RTÉ and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Kamala Harris unveils populist policy agenda, with $6,000 credit for newborns — The vice president endorses government action on housing, groceries, medical debt, drugs and other issues. — Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday unveiled an aggressively populist economic agenda …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don't propose price controls? — It's hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris's price-gouging proposal is. — “Price gouging” is the focus of Vice President Kamala Harris's economic agenda, her presidential campaign says.
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Doug Sosnik / New York Times:
How Harris Has Completely Upended the Presidential Race, in 14 Maps — With Kamala Harris now at the top of the ticket, the enthusiasm and confidence within the Democratic Party feel stronger than at any point I've seen since Barack Obama ran for president in 2008.
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John Solomon / Just The News:
Presidential race swings 6 points in two weeks, catapulting Trump to lead and ending Harris surge
Presidential race swings 6 points in two weeks, catapulting Trump to lead and ending Harris surge
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Washington Post, RedState and The Napolitan Institute
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Pennsylvania 2024 Poll: Trump 49%, Harris 48%
Pennsylvania 2024 Poll: Trump 49%, Harris 48%
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The Hill, New York Post, ABC27, Breitbart and Pew Research Center
Ben T.N. Mause / NOTUS:
How Project 2025 Turned Into the GOP's Biggest Political Loser — It's also become a major liability for The Heritage Foundation — and staffers at the conservative think tank know it. — Copy — There's a good reason Donald Trump and his campaign are so desperate to distance themselves …
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Raw Story, New Republic, Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, Alternet.org, Steady and Washington Post
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump transition chair pick signals think tank influence
Trump transition chair pick signals think tank influence
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HuffPost, USA Today, Axios, New York Times, Reuters, Washington Examiner, E&E News and New York Post
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump names major donors and adult sons to lead transition team
Trump names major donors and adult sons to lead transition team
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial and IJR
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump draws a parallel between a campaign donor and war heroes — Trump told an audience on Thursday that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was “better” than the Medal of Honor, since honored soldiers were often wounded. — The day before Halloween 2019, President Donald Trump welcomed Master …
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Raw Story, NBC News, Media Matters for America, New Republic and The Guardian
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NBC News:
Trump says presidential civilian award is ‘better’ than top military honor whose recipients are ‘dead’ or ‘hit’ by bullets — Trump praised Republican donor Miriam Adelson for having received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a top civilian award. — BEDMINSTER, N.J. …
Paige Oamek / New Republic:
Tim Walz's Quip on “White Guy Tacos” Sends MAGA Into Meltdown … Right-wingers are spreading another conspiracy about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz: he's lying about liking “white guy tacos.” — Kamala Harris and her running mate on Thursday posted a promotional video of them discussing food …
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Balloon Juice, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, freebeacon.com and Twitchy
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Matt Margolis / PJ Media:
Tim Walz Looks Like an Increasing Liability for Harris
Tim Walz Looks Like an Increasing Liability for Harris
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Twitchy, The Western Journal and Frontpage Mag
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Tim Walz's ‘White Guy Tacos’ Quip Gets MAGA All Hot and Bothered
Tim Walz's ‘White Guy Tacos’ Quip Gets MAGA All Hot and Bothered
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The Daily Caller, RedState, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Boing Boing, New York Post, Alternet.org, modernity, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
New York Times:
The Onion Adds a Monthly Print Edition … This week, The Onion began distributing a print edition for the first time in more than a decade. — The funniest writers at The Onion shuffled through dozens of news stories at a meeting last week, trying to discern which headline would make readers laugh harder.
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The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
Zachary Folk / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance Officially Has a Lower Favorability Rating Than Sarah Palin — LOW BLOW — Ohio Sen. JD Vance is now the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in modern history—soaring past former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unfavorability ratings during the 2008 campaign.
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ABC News, Boing Boing, New Republic, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Crooks and Liars and Mediaite
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Emily Guskin / Washington Post:
Americans' first impressions of Walz are positive, negative for Vance
Americans' first impressions of Walz are positive, negative for Vance
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Fox News, The Guardian and Sputnik News
The White House:
Joint Statement from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar — Over the last 48 hours in Doha, senior officials from our governments have engaged in intensive talks as mediators aiming to conclude the agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees.
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Washington Examiner, UPI, Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and Semafor
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Nine Years of Trump Is a Warning We Must Heed — Apart from Donald Trump, the basic problem of the Republican Party's so-called fever — the extent to which it has been captured by nihilists and ideological extremists — is that the party is untethered from any electoral dynamic that might force it to moderate its behavior.
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
This Georgia Republican Defied Trump. Now He's Fighting a Defamation Suit. — The secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has spent $500,000 defending himself in court. He says the plaintiff will only settle if he effectively endorses a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2020 election.
Jordain Carney / Politico:
House GOP sets its sights on Walz — The House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into Democrats' vice presidential pick. — House Republicans are setting their sights on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats' vice presidential candidate — the latest indication that they are using …
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Washington Examiner, New Republic, Townhall, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘Washington Post’ reviews star columnist Taylor Lorenz's ‘war criminal’ jab at Biden — Senior editors at the Washington Post are reviewing a prominent tech columnist's private story on social media, which appears to label President Biden a “war criminal” in a photo.
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HotAir, Twitchy, The Post Millennial, New York Post, RedState, Reason and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »
Nataliya Gumenyuk / Foreign Affairs:
Ukraine on the Offensive — How Kyiv's Attack on Russia—and Successful Defense of Its Northern Flank—Has Changed the War — Launched on August 6, Ukraine's surprise cross-border offensive into the Kursk region of Russia has startled the world. Not only is the operation far and away …
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The Daily Caller and Reuters
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Larry Hogan praised Donald Trump's ‘incredible justices to the Supreme Court’ in 2022 — The News — Maryland Senate candidate Larry Hogan heaped praise on Donald Trump for his Supreme Court nominees at a speech in November 2022, months after all three joined a majority ruling overturning .
Robert Reich:
The real fix for Social Security — One of the reasons I write this letter to you each day is to arm you with the facts and analyses you need to respond to the garbage coming out of the Trump campaign and Trump's Republican Party. — Today I want to talk to you about Social Security.
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The South Dakota Standard
Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
The untold story of how Nancy Pelosi forced Biden to quit with a brutal phone call and humiliating ultimatum that ruined 50 years of friendship... and has left Jill and Joe furious — The exact circumstances that led to President Joe Biden's dramatic withdrawal from the 2024 election race …
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The Daily Beast, The Post Millennial, New York Post and The Gateway Pundit