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2:10 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 …
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 …
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 …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
DNC ratings thump Trump as 29 million TV viewers watch Harris' acceptance speech
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
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 and DNyuz
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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.
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
RFK Jr., environmental warrior, backs the ‘drill, baby, drill’ ticket
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Cornel West can't be on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot, court decides
Discussion: HotAir and Althouse
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
Al Weaver / The Hill:
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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
Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News and The Guardian
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Harris, Walz lean into erasing medical debt
Discussion: DNyuz
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
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Democrats Find Confidence Without Complacency
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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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 …
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.
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
Jonathan Corum / New York Times:
Words Used at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions  —  Speakers at the Democratic National Convention used more than 109,000 words over four days in Chicago this week.  Their choice of words and phrases contrasts the themes and ideas of last month's Republican National Convention.
Discussion: IJR, Diane Ravitch's blog and Forbes
 
 
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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
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Kamala's Harsh Takedown of Trump Points the Way to a Post-MAGA America
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Townhall
Politico:
‘Throwing money down a well’: McCarthy's revenge tour comes to an end
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