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7:20 AM ET, August 19, 2024

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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:

Pennsylvania conservatives panicked Trump is ‘not even trying’ to win key voting bloc — Conservatives in Pennsylvania are growing increasingly alarmed that Donald Trump is not making a concerted effort to win the state's 19 Electoral College votes which could mean the difference between …

Discussion: Fox News

Politico:

Playbook: Biden's day to bask — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — Greetings from Chicago, where the Democratic National Convention kicks off in a few hours, marking another milestone in this crazy presidential election year.

Jonathan Martin / Politico:

How Democrats Reversed the Script on the GOP — Now it's Harris' party that's showing a sense of unity, purpose and relentless focus on winning. — Vice President Kamala Harris is discarding her now-inconvenient left-wing proposals from her 2020 primary bid and airing tough-on the-border ads?

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Jeff Mason / Reuters:

Harris implies Trump a ‘coward’ during Pennsylvania campaign appearance — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris indirectly criticized former President Donald Trump on Sunday, suggesting her opponent in the Nov. 5 election was a “coward” whose politics focused on putting down rivals.

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Steven Shepard / Politico:

Harris' momentum is growing. Our polling expert explains whether it'll last. — Candidates who end the conventions on the upswing typically see that momentum continue through to Election Day. — Kamala Harris stole Donald Trump's Republican convention bounce.

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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Democrats' Unity Convention Has One Giant Exception: The Gaza War

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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Harris and Walz swing through western Pennsylvania in pre-convention bus tour

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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
As Democrats gather in Chicago, the spirit of '68 is a painful memory

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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Pennsylvania is slipping from Donald Trump's grasp

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Bloomberg:
Trump to Visit Border in Bid to Counter Harris Convention Speech

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Avery Lotz / Axios:
“Fake polls”: Vance downplays Harris rise

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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:

Trump 'might win, but he's not a majority candidate': Brit Hume — Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume on Sunday argued that while former President Trump could win the November election, voters' dislike of him makes him “not a majority candidate.” — When asked on “Fox News Sunday” …

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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:

Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock says she's voting for Harris — Former Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock (Va.) said she will vote for Vice President Harris for president on Sunday, marking the latest former GOP member to break from the party's support of former President Trump.

Anumita Kaur / Washington Post:

Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock says she'll vote for Kamala Harris — She clashed with former president Donald Trump throughout her tenure in the U.S. House. — Former Republican congresswoman Barbara Comstock endorsed Kamala Harris's presidential bid on Sunday, joining another former …

Discussion: Raw Story

Avery Lotz / Axios:
Sunday Snapshot: Republicans admit Trump the “provocateur” could lose

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Flynn Nicholls / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris Erases Donald Trump's Significant Lead On Mental Sharpness

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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘Trump the provocateur, the showman may not win this election’

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Axios:

DNC lineup: Who's speaking and what to expect … - Monday, “For the People”: Biden and Dr. Jill Biden speak, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a welcome from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. — Tuesday, “A Bold Vision for America's Future”: Former President Obama …

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Axios:
Michelle Obama to address Democratic Convention on Tuesday

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Washington Post:

FBI arrests D.C. Council member Trayon White — The nature of the allegations against White, a Democrat representing Ward 8, were not immediately clear. The FBI declined to comment. — The FBI arrested D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. on Sunday, according to the council's chairman …

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Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:

McCarthy's last flop … - Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is expected to win easily on Tuesday despite a McCarthy-linked PAC spending more than $3 million against him. — “McCarthy thinks about me a lot more than I think about him,” Gaetz told us. … - “[W]hen you leave, you should go off to do the next thing you're going to do.

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Washington Post:

Republicans flood TV with misleading ads about immigration, border — Turn on reduced motion Scroll to continue — Throughout the year, American airwaves were inundated by campaign advertising mentioning immigration, placing the issue at the center of this year's elections.

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Washington Post:

Secret Service finds protecting Trump is extraordinarily challenging — Trump's team has complained in the wake of an assassination attempt that earlier requests for additional resources had been denied, while agency officials say he receives a heavier level of security than any other former president.

Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:

Election Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia's Election Results — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.

Discussion: New York Times and New Jersey Online

AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:

Sunday Meltdown: Trump Floods Truth Social With Photos of Swifties and Communists — ‘TEARS FLOWING’ — On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, with his rival leading in the polls nationally and in most key battleground states, the former president is posting through it.

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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:

Whitmer says people ‘reading too much’ into price-gouging plan specifics — 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

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