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Mike Allen / Axios:
Taunting Trump: Harris campaign's sneer tactics … Now he's the taunted. — It's another dimension of Vice President Harris' “happy warrior” approach to a campaign that's sure to get uglier this fall. … - But Monday's widespread coverage of the backstage fight over the “muted mics” …
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
Crockett: Trump will ‘get his butt handed to him’ if he debates Harris — Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Monday said that former President Trump will have his “butt handed to him” in the Sept. 10 debate against Vice President Harris — if he shows up. — Speaking on MSNBC …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Cruz urges Trump to agree to ‘whatever stupid rules’ Harris campaign wants for debate
Cruz urges Trump to agree to ‘whatever stupid rules’ Harris campaign wants for debate
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Robert Reich:
How will team Trump tell him he should be muted during his debate with Harris?
How will team Trump tell him he should be muted during his debate with Harris?
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Former Aides to Bush, Romney and McCain Back Harris Over Trump
Former Aides to Bush, Romney and McCain Back Harris Over Trump
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Politico:
Playbook: Inside Harris' big interview decision — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — ONE CEASE-FIRE DOWN — “Oasis reunites for tour and ends a 15-year hiatus during Gallagher brothers' feud,” by AP's Danica Kirka and Maria Sherman in London
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Joshua Glanzer / Florida Atlantic University:
FAU/Mainstreet USA Poll: Harris Gains Momentum in Wake of DNC — The 2024 presidential election is just a few months away — A new poll from the Florida Atlantic University Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab ( PolCom Lab ) and Mainstreet Research USA reveals significant shifts …
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Harris takes lead over Trump after convention: Poll — 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
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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
X changes AI chatbot after election misinformation warnings
X changes AI chatbot after election misinformation warnings
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New York Times:
Trump to Put Kennedy and Gabbard on his Transition Team — Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Gabbard, who had been progressive Democrats for many years, will join the former president's sons and Senator JD Vance, his running mate, as honorary co-chairs. — Donald J. Trump plans to name his former rival …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thread connecting Robert Kennedy Jr., chemtrails and Project 2025
The thread connecting Robert Kennedy Jr., chemtrails and Project 2025
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
How Democrats View Kennedy and Trump: ‘A Weirdo Campaign Just Got Weirder’
How Democrats View Kennedy and Trump: ‘A Weirdo Campaign Just Got Weirder’
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump — The rage and shame of the anti-anti-Trumpers is getting worse. — Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election “on character.”
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Politico:
The bewildering politics of Telegram — Here are two big reasons the controversial app just became a global flashpoint. — When Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested late Saturday at an airport outside Paris, accused of complicity in illegal online behavior and refusing to disclose information …
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
How Telegram played itself
How Telegram played itself
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris' stepdaughter threaten to backfire on Donald Trump — Ella Emhoff has triggered Trump's bitter bro fanbase — but his embrace of the incel vote could come back to haunt — MAGA thought leaders can't stop proving that they are weird, just as Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Ivana Saric / Axios:
Zuckerberg says Biden admin “pressured” Meta to censor Covid-19 content … - This included censoring “humor and satire,” he added, noting that officials “expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.” — “I believe the government pressure was wrong …
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Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
Critics ask for probe after Texas raids homes of Latino campaign workers — The action by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a darling of the far right and ally of former president Donald Trump, came in an area to be hotly contested in November. — SAN ANTONIO — One of the nation's largest …
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Axios:
Harris flip-flops on building the border wall … - Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump's campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border. — But she still has significant differences with Trump on immigration …
Alex Burness / Bolts:
Nebraska Reverts to 19th-Century Voting Restrictions, Clouding Rights for Thousands — The Nebraska Voting Rights Restoration Coalition was ready for July 19. A new state law, Legislative Bill 20, would take effect that day, instantly granting voting rights to some 7,000 people with past felony convictions.
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Trump's Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse — The pro-life justification for supporting the former president has now collapsed. — The most common argument made by former President Donald Trump's evangelical supporters in defense of their support is that although Trump …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
How The Hell Was Trump Allowed To Use Arlington National Cemetery As A Campaign Prop? — This is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there. — Well, luckily for the former president*'s campaign, it wasn't raining on Monday, when he grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery …
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Trump's Latest NFT Sale Depicts Him as Superhero, Motorcyclist — Buyers of 75 NFTs will have dinner with Trump in Florida — Purchasers of 15 NFTs can get a piece of Trump's debate suit — Building on the growing interplay between crypto and politics, Donald Trump is offering …
Katherine Swartz / NOTUS:
The Lawmaker Leading the Investigation Into the Trump Assassination Attempt Says He Warned Campaign Staff About the Venue — Rep. Mike Kelly insisted in an interview that his task force would skirt politics as it seeks a complete answer to what happened in July. — Copy
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Stephen Fowler / NPR:
RFK may be unable to withdraw his name from ballots in some swing states — After spending several months and millions of dollars overcoming onerous requirements to try to get on the ballot in all 50 states, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now facing new barriers to get off the ballot in some states.
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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy — Beijing's hacking effort has “dramatically stepped up from where it used to be,” says former top U.S cybersecurity official. — Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers …
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Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Biden impeachment backlash builds within House GOP — House Republicans are furious about being forced into a last-minute Biden impeachment vote — which they say could hurt their campaigns, top GOP sources tell Axios. … But just one member can force a vote.
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Mariko Paulson / Penn Wharton Budget Model:
The 2024 Trump Campaign Policy Proposals: Budgetary, Economic and Distributional Effects … Key Points — We project that conventionally estimated tax revenue falls by $5.8 trillion over the next 10 years, producing an equivalent amount of primary deficits.
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Is So ‘Desperate’ They've Now Gone After Tim Walz's Dog — PAW PATROL — MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki noted an “important lesson” for Republicans after the conspiracy was quickly debunked. — Republicans spent Monday ginning up a quickly-disproven conspiracy about vice presidential …
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