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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump's political oxygen — 🚨 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. — 💥 Subscribe to Public Notice 💥
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Business Insider and No More Mister Nice Blog
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James Carville / New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Best Strategy to Defeat Trump — I hate to say it, but Donald Trump remains the singular most recognized name in the United States. Since he moseyed down that golden escalator in 2015, he has dominated the American airwaves and algorithms.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Axelrod: Trump will lose if race is decided on popularity — Democratic strategist David Axelrod said on Tuesday that former President Trump will lose the presidential election if the race is decided on the popularity of the two candidates alone. — “I think it's going to be a very tough race,” Axelrod told CNN's John Berman.
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Fox News
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's hardline new quest to destroy Harris' momentum
Trump's hardline new quest to destroy Harris' momentum
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Raw Story, HuffPost, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Politico, Los Angeles Times, Eschaton and Business Insider
Politico:
The map is wide open and the attack ads are coming in ‘snap election’ between Harris, Trump
The map is wide open and the attack ads are coming in ‘snap election’ between Harris, Trump
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Associated Press, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, New York Times and Townhall
USA Today:
Poll: Democrats boosted, GOP confidence shaken as Harris-Trump campaign is joined
Poll: Democrats boosted, GOP confidence shaken as Harris-Trump campaign is joined
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Forbes, Mediaite, Fox News, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors, Breitbart, Political Wire and Washington Times
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Harris to release new economic policy plans before debate
Harris to release new economic policy plans before debate
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The Hill, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, New York Post and emptywheel
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House and Senate Republicans are starting to panic about a huge money gap with Democrats — GOP leaders on Capitol Hill are privately — and publicly — warning donors they need more money. — Republicans are racing to plug a massive money hole — before it's too late.
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Salon, The Daily Caller, Alternet.org, Raw Story, ABC News and Punchbowl News
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Harris to transfer nearly $25 million to help down-ballot Democratic candidates
Harris to transfer nearly $25 million to help down-ballot Democratic candidates
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Joe.My.God. and Alternet.org
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris campaign, DNC, announce unprecedented down-ballot spending
Harris campaign, DNC, announce unprecedented down-ballot spending
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Axios, New York Times and The Daily Beast
Bryan Metzger / Business Insider:
Kamala Harris has raised so much money that she's giving $25 million of it to other campaigns
Kamala Harris has raised so much money that she's giving $25 million of it to other campaigns
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The Hill and Foreign Policy
US Department of Justice:
Former High-Ranking New York State Government Employee Charged with Acting as an Undisclosed Agent of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York — Defendant Engaged in Political Activities …
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Semafor, New York Post, CNBC, Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, The Post Millennial, Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit
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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
Former aide to New York's governor is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government — A former New York state government official who worked for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged Tuesday with acting as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, National Review, CBS News, freebeacon.com, New York Daily News, Townhall, Baltimore Sun, Shore News Network, Newsday, ABC News, The Daily Caller, Türkiye Today, Twitchy and IJR
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Former Aide to Hochul and Cuomo Is Charged as Chinese Agent
Former Aide to Hochul and Cuomo Is Charged as Chinese Agent
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HotAir, New York Post, UPI, The National Pulse and Fox News
Washington Post:
House Democrats ask Trump if he illegally accepted $10 million from Egypt — A recent Washington Post article detailed a now-closed Justice Department investigation spurred by intelligence from 2016 indicating that the Egyptian president sought to give Donald Trump money.
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CNBC, Alternet.org and PoliticusUSA
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Raskin launches probe into closed DOJ investigation of Trump-Egypt ties
emptywheel:
All Trump's Recidivists — Donald Trump and Stephen “Discount Goebbels” Miller have a plan. As the election draws near, they want to find every instance of an undocumented immigrant who commits a violent crime; that is and will continue to be their routine response when Trump's misogyny or his own crimes get coverage.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Murderer whose life sentence was commuted by Trump convicted of domestic violence — Davidson, who was convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer in 1990, shared an attorney with Donald Trump Jr. — A drug kingpin convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer …
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Unearthed video: JD Vance said childless elites make the U.S. “dangerous.” It was too much for a Newsmax interviewer. — In a previously unreported interview, JD Vance ranted in 2021 that the country has become a “dangerous place to live” because of childless elites.
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Alternet.org, The Guardian, Joe.My.God. and Newsbusters
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Exclusive: John McCain's son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop — Jimmy McCain will be interviewed on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. — CNN — When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event …
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Trump claims ‘no conflict’ in Arlington Cemetery visit despite reports of altercation
Trump claims ‘no conflict’ in Arlington Cemetery visit despite reports of altercation
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, The Hill, The Guardian and IJR
Laura Bassett / The Guardian:
How Ted Cruz's abortion record could cost him a historic election in Texas — The notoriously verbose senator has gone largely silent on the issue since horror stories under the state's ban emerged — The notoriously verbose Ted Cruz has gone largely silent on abortion …
New York Times:
Trump Aides Evacuated Offices After Prank Sparked Bugging Fears — The police were called after suspicious devices were found at a Florida campaign office. It was quickly determined that the devices were likely part of a prank. — Watergate this was not.
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Raw Story
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
Questions surrounding Trump's mental acuity are a real 2024 story — His speech is becoming harder and harder to understand. — The words below were taken verbatim from a campaign speech former President Donald Trump delivered in Potterville, Michigan, Thursday when he was attempting …
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Washington Post:
A louder voice in fighting abortion bans: Men in red states — More men are speaking out in defense of reproductive rights because of harrowing experiences that wives or partners have suffered when a pregnancy went awry. — Thomas Stovall grew up in a strict Baptist family in Mississippi …
The Assembly NC:
Ex-Porn Shop Employees Say Mark Robinson Was A Regular. He Denies It. — After he embraced Christianity in the late 1980s, the GOP candidate for governor says his behavior “did not immediately reform.” Six men say Robinson frequented Greensboro video-porn shops in the '90s and early 2000s.
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Political Wire
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl's Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It — Monday, Politico revealed that convicted fraudsters and right-wing activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have been secretly operating a company that purports to do AI-powered lobbying called LobbyMatic.
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Salon, New Republic, The Verge and Politico
Tom Pappert / Tennessee Star:
The Tennessee Star Releases ‘Manifesto’ Left by Transgender Covenant School Killer Audrey Hale — On Tuesday, The Tennessee Star and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy released 90 pages of writings left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale. The Covenant Killer's 2023 Journal …
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Townhall, Twitchy, RedState, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Louder With Crowder and The Post Millennial
Robert Reich:
Six ways to rein in Musk — Today I want to tell you the dangers posed by an out-of-control Elon Musk (in part I), and six ways to rein him in (in part II). I also provide some personal evidence of how bonkers he is (in my P.S. at the end of today's letter). — I. Elon Musk is Out of Control
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One America News Network
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Former GOP Sen. Pat Toomey Describes How Donald Trump Lost His Support — “When you lose an election and you try to overturn the results so that you can stay in power, you lose me,” Toomey, who retired at the end of 2022, said. — LOADING — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey (R) …
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The Hill, Raw Story, Alternet.org, CBS News and Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Justin Grimmer / Politico:
Don't Trust the Election Forecasts — The data doesn't support the obsession with presidential prognostications. — Even as Joe Biden's presidential candidacy teetered and polls showed him clearly losing to Donald Trump, the election forecasting site 538 was still estimating that Biden was likeliest to win.
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Liberty Street Economics and New York Times
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Vance Championed 2017 Report on Families From Architects of Project 2025 … In his introduction to the 2017 Heritage Foundation report, JD Vance argued that economic struggles were inextricable from what he saw as cultural decay.Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
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Business Insider, Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Alternet.org, New Republic, Raw Story and Wide World of News