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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.
USA Today:
Poll: Democrats boosted, GOP confidence shaken as Harris-Trump campaign is joined — Susan Page Sudiksha Kochi Savannah KucharUSA TODAY … It's a different race. — In a new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll, Democratic prospects have brightened and Republican confidence has been shaken …
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Mock Paper Scissors, Raw Story, Fox News, Mediaite, Breitbart, Washington Times and Political Wire
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, The Guardian, New York Post and emptywheel
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, Politico, HuffPost, Washington Post, Eschaton, Los Angeles Times and Business Insider
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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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 — The boost to House, Senate and state-level candidates follows a $540 million fundraising haul for the vice president over six weeks. — Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign and the Democratic National Committee plan …
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Joe.My.God. and Alternet.org
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
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris campaign, DNC, announce unprecedented down-ballot spending
Harris campaign, DNC, announce unprecedented down-ballot spending
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New York Times and The Daily Beast
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 …
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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.
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Convicted murderer set free by Trump strangled his wife after release: report — Former President Donald Trump made a number of controversial pardons and commutations on his way out the door in 2021, but one that has flown under the radar has been the sentence commutation of Jaime A. Davidson …
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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CNBC, Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
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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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Reuters, Associated Press, freebeacon.com and New York Post
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Feds Bust New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's Ex-Aide
Feds Bust New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's Ex-Aide
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Bloomberg, CBS News, ABC News, Newsday, New York Daily News, The Daily Caller and Fox News
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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New Republic, Raw Story and Wide World of News
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance's Past Links to Project 2025 Architects Exposed
JD Vance's Past Links to Project 2025 Architects Exposed
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The Nation
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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PoliticusUSA
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
Rhian Lubin / The Independent:
Trump campaign ‘no longer thinks New Hampshire is winnable and is pulling back from state,’ leaked insider email claims — Trump volunteer Tom Mountain urged supporters to turn their attentions to Pennsylvania instead - because Trump is ‘sure to lose by an even higher margin’ in New Hampshire than he did in 2016 and 2020
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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 …
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 …
Robert Reich:
Six ways to rein in Musk — (And Musk's infantile response to my criticisms) — 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).
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 2, 2024 — In an interview with right-wing host Mark Levin on the Fox News Channel last night, Trump complained about the new grand jury indictment of him for trying to steal the 2020 presidential election. “Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election …
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Alternet.org, Washington Examiner and Voice of America
Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Trump praises men for ‘allowing’ their wives to attend MAGA rallies without them — Trump asks how their husbands ‘put up’ with them as his appeal with women voters begins to crash — Support truly — independent journalism — Our mission is to deliver unbiased …
Nick Reisman / Politico:
New York Democrats fear abortion-rights amendment is faltering — Once a vehicle for boosting turnout, Democrats worry opponents are making inroads with voters. — NEW YORK — Democrats are squabbling over an effort to guarantee abortion rights in New York — a fight that is threatening …
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The Downballot and Washington Examiner
Olena Harmash / Reuters:
Russian missile strike kills 41 people in Ukraine's Poltava, Zelenskiy says — At least 51 people were killed and 235 wounded when Russia struck a military institute in Ukraine's central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles on Tuesday, the war's deadliest single attack this year.
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, The Hill, The Daily Beast, UPI, Breitbart, Associated Press, New York Times, Politico, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, The Sun, Voice of America, Euromaidan Press, Fox News and Semafor
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Trump is still telling lies he told eight years ago — In a speech last week to the National Guard Association of the United States, former President Donald Trump claimed that he was the president who “created” the Veterans Choice health care program, and got it “passed in Congress,” after others had wanted to do so “for 57 years.”