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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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emptywheel:
A Manufactured Fight over Incumbency Hides Trump's Fascism — Thinking of Trump in terms of presidential administrations — reading this race as a fight over incumbency — is a category error that serves to hide the threat Trump poses to democracy. — Yet a slew of reviews of the DNC …
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Examiner
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 …
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Raw Story, RTÉ, Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Joy Is Not a Strategy — If the Republican convention's message for America last month …
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Breitbart, The Post Millennial, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, American Compass, Townhall, HotAir and Newsbusters
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Democrats once strove to ‘go high’ against Trump. Not anymore.
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Althouse, New York Magazine and Washington Examiner
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
GOP strategist cautions Trump on joining forces with RFK Jr: 'He's kind of a looney tune' — 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
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Democratic convention energy, Harris hot streak making Republicans nervous — 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
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Kamala Harris Defines the Democrats' New Normal
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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 …
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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.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. suspends his campaign — with an appropriately bizarre theory
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One America News Network, ABC News, NBC News, Washington Examiner and New York Post
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Foo Fighters Say Trump Didn't Have Permission to Use ‘My Hero’ at Arizona Rally — Band will take “appropriate action” as well as donate royalties from usage to Harris/Walz campaign
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Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters Slam Trump for Using Hit Song at Rally — KILL THE MUSIC — The band said that any royalties generated by Trump's use of “My Hero” would go to Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. — Journalist — The Foo Fighters called out Donald Trump …
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TMZ.com and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Martha McHardy / Newsweek:
Foo Fighters Deny Letting Donald Trump Use Their Song at RFK Jr. Rally
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CBS News, Vanity Fair, RTÉ, UPROXX, Consequence and Washington Examiner
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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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Fauci hospitalized with West Nile virus, now recovering at home
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Politico:
Are Republicans losing the culture wars? — School board candidates who ran on parental rights in classrooms are suffering defeats in states like Florida, once a leader in the “anti-woke” movement. — Republicans are confronting a decisive moment in the battle over public education: proving they can still win a culture war.
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The Post Millennial and Miami New Times
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Two versions of masculinity are on the 2024 ballot … - But now rather than an aging President Biden, he's running against the potential first woman president. — Vice President Kamala Harris rarely mentions her gender, but the men at her side have embraced their second-fiddle roles in supporting a woman's rise to power.
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Raw Story:
Kristi Noem rejects more than $70 million in federal funds — Governor Kristi Noem's administration recently turned down more than $70 million of federal funds from energy efficiency and environmental programs, according to her top budget official. — The Home Energy Rebates program …
Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones:
Raphael Warnock Told the DNC to “Keep the Faith.” He Restored Mine in the Process. — The senator from Georgia made space for hope—and righteous cynicism. — This week, at the Democratic National Convention, the speeches of Michelle Obama and the Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff …
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