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12:25 PM ET, August 24, 2024

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Chris McGreal / The Guardian:
Is Trump OK?  Unhinged reaction to rise of Harris worries supporters  —  Rambling speeches peppered with insults, narcissism and an obsession with crowd size have raised questions about the former president's fitness for office  —  Even some of Donald Trump's supporters are now asking …
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New York Times:
Trump's Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off Script  —  Despite calls by his advisers to focus on the issues, former President Donald J. Trump has made it clear that he intends to keep running his campaign his way.  —  Donald J. Trump's political endurance this year has been attributed …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
DNC ratings thump Trump as 29 million TV viewers watch Harris' acceptance speech  —  The momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign helped push the ratings for the Democratic National Convention past the Republican festivities for former President Trump.
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Trump Fumes When Fox News Asks About Harris's Momentum After DNC
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Disaffected Republicans and former Trump officials spoke at the DNC. Fox News didn't air a second of any of their speeches.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Al Weaver / The Hill:
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Harris, Walz lean into erasing medical debt  —  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
Discussion: DNyuz
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Democrats Find Confidence Without Complacency
Kurt Andersen / The Atlantic:
RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer  —  he leading third-party candidate for president—an environmental lawyer and activist, a son and nephew of legendary liberal Democratic politicians—just quit the race and announced that he is joining the campaign of the most anti-environment president …
Discussion: ABC News
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
RFK Jr.'s out.  Does it change the race?  —  EXIT STAGE RIGHT — Some third-party presidential campaigns are noble endeavors driven by the loftiest of principles.  Others are vanity projects, exercises in cynicism that leave our politics slightly more soiled for the experience.
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Cornel West can't be on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot, court decides
Discussion: HotAir and Althouse
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. suspends his campaign — with an appropriately bizarre theory  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he can somehow still be elected president.  Let's count the holes in his reasoning.  —  The promise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent 2024 campaign was always something of a mirage.
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Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
RFK Jr., environmental warrior, backs the ‘drill, baby, drill’ ticket  —  As an activist and lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent decades battling for environmental protections that Trump has worked to undo.  —  Kennedy had promised to be “the best environmental president in American history.”
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Elizabeth Wagmeister / CNN:
Cheryl Hines comments on husband RFK Jr.'s decision to drop out of race, does not mention his Trump endorsement
Stephen Fowler / NPR:
Robert F. Kennedy suspends his independent presidential campaign and backs Trump
Business Insider:
RFK Jr. suspends 2024 campaign, throws support behind Trump
CNN:
Fauci recovering after hospitalization for West Nile virus  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering at home after being hospitalized with West Nile virus, a spokesperson said.  —  Fauci, a longtime public health official …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Kamala's Harsh Takedown of Trump Points the Way to a Post-MAGA America  —  Kamala Harris just showed us the promise of a post-MAGA future.  Now it's up to the voters to decide to take us there.  —  In her rousing convention speech on Thursday, Harris offered many olive branches to right-leaning independents and Republican voters.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
These Young Women Didn't Want to Vote for Biden.  They're All In on Harris.  —  In new polls, a large majority of young women plan to vote for the vice president.  We talked with eight of them.  —  Constance Lancelle, 22, of Milwaukee, was “definitely not interested in voting for Biden,” she said.
Discussion: ABC News
Melinda Newman / Billboard:
Foo Fighters Did Not Allow Donald Trump to Use ‘My Hero’ at Rally, Will Donate Any Royalties to Harris Campaign  —  Trump played the 1997 hit to bring Robert Kennedy Jr. to the stage in Glendale, Arizona.  —  Donald Trump may consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his hero, given he played …
Mark Antonio Wright / National Review:
Trump Is Behind Not Because the Press Is Hyping Kamala but Because He's Unpopular  —  Let me stipulate for the record: The American press is an embarrassment.  Journalists are being unfair in their coverage.  CNN and Politico and the New York Times and the Associated Press and NBC Nightly News …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Grateful Calvin / Twitchy:
Oh, the Irony: Kamala Claims to Have ‘Stood Strong Against Elder Abuse’ in DNC Acceptance Speech
Discussion: Townhall and RedState
Politico:
‘Throwing money down a well’: McCarthy's revenge tour comes to an end
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Discussion: Politico and nationalinterest.org
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Elon Musk's Lawyers Quietly Subpoena Public Interest Groups
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
What Kamala Harris Was Really Saying in Her Convention Speech
Discussion: Washington Post
Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Judge dismisses felony against former Louisville officers behind Breonna Taylor search warrant
 

 
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