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Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump suggests he might skip ABC debate with Harris — The Sept. 10 debate with ABC is the only one both campaigns have agreed to do with one of the major networks. — Former president Donald Trump suggested Sunday evening that he might skip a Sept. 10 ABC News debate with Vice President Kamala Harris …
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CNN:
Trump campaign casts fresh doubt on September debate with Harris over microphone dispute — Former President Donald Trump's campaign is casting fresh doubt on whether a September 10 debate will take place on ABC amid a dispute over the rules, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
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Politico:
Playbook: Scoop: The secret debate about the Trump-Harris debate — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — SCOOP: IS THIS THING ON? — Last night, former President DONALD TRUMP posted on Truth Social, tearing into ABC News for a “This Week” …
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CNN:
Trump team prepares for sprint to November with ‘all hands on deck’ approach — Fresh off a week of daily counterprogramming events and an effort to steal the spotlight from his new opponent, Donald Trump and his campaign are seeking to harness that pace in the lead-up to November …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Harris builds an army of House surrogates
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's personal attacks aren't just who he is. They're his strategy
Trump's personal attacks aren't just who he is. They're his strategy
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
The state of the race as we await Harris's post-DNC bounce — An expert on what we should make of Kamala's polling gains. — ∙ Paid — 🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers 🚨 If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump's Achilles Heel: Ridicule Him … Donald Trump is in free-fall. Read this description from Sunday's Washington Post of how the GOP nominee spent last week: “[A]ides did not want a situation where he was watching the convention every night, getting angry …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Trump's economic gamble … - The former president is seizing on every negative bit of economic news to make the point that the economy is much worse than the Biden administration says. … It's a cherry-picking battle. — Harris has a much more optimistic view of the economy.
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Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
Trump Whines About Fox News as Poll Numbers Keep Dropping
Trump Whines About Fox News as Poll Numbers Keep Dropping
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Sunday Snapshot: Trump's ambiguous abortion messaging
Sunday Snapshot: Trump's ambiguous abortion messaging
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
They Served With Trump and Saw the Crazy. They Should Endorse Harris. — THE MOMENT FROM THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION I kept coming back to this weekend wasn't from Oprah or the Obamas, Steph or Steve, Kamala or Doug—not even Gus Walz, America's proudest son.
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Clay Walker / The Daily Beast:
Isaac Hayes Estate Marks Victory in Suit Against Trump — ‘SEE YOU IN COURT’ — Isaac Hayes' estate filed a lawsuit this month over Donald Trump's unauthorized use of “Hold On, I'm Coming.” — ‘ON THE MEND’ — According to a statement from the venue, T-Boz suffered “severe nausea, vomiting, and intense abdominal cramps.”
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Donald Trump Just Got Served In Federal Isaac Hayes Estate Lawsuit — Isaac Hayes III posted on Sunday that Donald Trump and his campaign have been served in their federal lawsuit alleging 134 instances of copyright infringement. — The civil lawsuit alleges that Trump and his campaign used …
Peter Bergen / CNN:
Gen. McMaster's blistering account of the Trump White House — Until now, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has held his fire about his stint in the Trump White House. McMaster served with distinction in key American conflicts of the past decades: the Gulf War, the Iraq War and the war in Afghanistan …
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Axios:
McConnell's big fear on the next budget fight … - In a recent meeting with other GOP offices about a short-term spending bill strategy, top McConnell staffers argued that adding a non-citizen voting bill would backfire. — One fear is such a move would open the door for Democrats to tack …
Abbie Cheeseman / Washington Post:
Biden keeps low profile on vacation as Democrats aim to capitalize on DNC — Only a matter of weeks ago it seemed inconceivable that Biden would watch someone else accepting the presidential nomination from a TV screen some 2,000 miles away. — SANTA YNEZ VALLEY, Calif. …
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Associated Press:
Member of British journalist team dies after Russian missile hits hotel in eastern Ukraine — A British safety adviser working with a team of Reuters journalists was killed when a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency confirmed.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Watch: Scott Jennings laughed at on CNN for claiming 'People don't want to feel joy' — It did not take long on Sunday morning for conservative CNN political commentator Scott Jennings to realize he had stepped in it when he claimed, “People don't want to feel joy” during his appearance on “State of the Union.”
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Clay Walker / The Daily Beast:
Joyless Lindsey Graham: Democrats' Joy 'Doesn't Exist in Real World'
Joyless Lindsey Graham: Democrats' Joy 'Doesn't Exist in Real World'
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