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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
If Republicans Want to Win, They Need Trump to Lose — Big — To dominate the country once more, Republicans need to hasten the move to a post-Trump party. — Accepting his party's nomination in 1984, Democrat Walter Mondale vowed to cut the deficit with a memorable line about the tough medicine either …
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Playbook: The Republicans secretly rooting for a Trump loss — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT — “Ukraine foreign minister resigns amid war's biggest reshuffle,” by Reuters' Olena Harmash in Kyiv …
Christopher Anstey / Fortune:
Goldman Sachs predicts stronger GDP and job growth if Democrats sweep White House and Congress
Goldman Sachs predicts stronger GDP and job growth if Democrats sweep White House and Congress
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Harris to propose tenfold startup tax incentive increase she says will spur small business creation
Harris to propose tenfold startup tax incentive increase she says will spur small business creation
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Harris targets small business tax break in contrast with Trump's corporate tax cuts
Harris targets small business tax break in contrast with Trump's corporate tax cuts
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans fret over Trump's freefall among women — 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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CNN:
CNN polls across six battlegrounds find Georgia and Pennsylvania are key toss-ups — The 2024 presidential campaign's home stretch kicks off with a mixed outlook across six key battlegrounds, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in each state. Vice President Kamala Harris holds …
NBC News:
Poll: Half of Gen Z voters support Harris, one-third back Trump — The NBC News Stay Tuned Gen Z Poll powered by SurveyMonkey shows Harris with a significant lead over Trump, but not quite the deficit Trump suffered in 2020. — Half of Gen Z voters say they'll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris …
Kayla Clarke / WDIV-TV:
New poll shows where Michigan voters stand in Trump-Harris race
New poll shows where Michigan voters stand in Trump-Harris race
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump appears to have misled Gold Star families on troop deaths in Afghanistan — Trump frequently suggests, as he did in a TikTok filmed at Arlington Cemetery, that an 18-month period without hostile-fire deaths took place entirely in his presidency.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The ugly truth we're missing on Trump, Arlington — There's an old saying: Never take any time off in 2024. OK, I just made that up, but no sooner did I decide to skip a few column slots to recover from the joy, or whatever, of Chicago's Democratic National Convention, than all heck broke loose.
Silver Bulletin:
Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast — All the numbers for Trump vs. Harris. — ∙ Paid … Let's cut to the chase: So, who's gonna win the election? — Well, honestly, we don't know — but we can give you our best probabilistic guess.
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The Hill:
Trump ties himself in knots on abortion — Video Player is loading. — Play Video — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 … Stream Type LIVE — Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE — Playback Rate — Chapters — Chapters — Descriptions — descriptions off, selected
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ProPublica:
Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much” — In a call with donors, First Liberty Institute's Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas. The leader of the religious-rights group also labeled Justice Elena Kagan …
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Josh Marshall on how the “liberal media” works against Dems — “Republicans in the national political conversation have trained the press to think, ‘We play hard. We break the rules sometimes.’” — ∙ Paid … How is it possible that the elite press, comprised largely …
Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Trump admits he lost 2020 election ‘by a whisker’ during Lex Fridman podcast — Trump repeats false claims about voter fraud as he concedes 2020 loss in podcast interview — Support truly — independent journalism — Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Meghan McCain says she won't support Harris or Trump — Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said she will not support Vice President Harris or former President Trump in November. — Her comment comes just hours after her brother, Jimmy McCain, threw his support behind Harris.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Biden administration to accuse Russia of sustained effort to influence 2024 election — The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms …
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Eric Berger / The Guardian:
‘A ton of Covid out there’: US summer wave not taken seriously enough - experts — Epidemiologists push newly approved booster vaccines as current virus strain threatens at-risk groups — Infectious disease experts say many people are not taking the latest Covid-19 wave in the US seriously enough …
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Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Former Trump Aide Peter Navarro Implores MAGA Fans To Avoid Kamala Harris Mistake — The election-overthrow plotter used a soccer analogy to make his point. — LOADING — Peter Navarro, Donald Trump's former adviser who helped plot the attempted election overthrow in 2020, had a message for MAGA world.
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David Harsanyi / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris's banana republic on free speech — In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper that social media companies “are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop.” — Does it?
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Reuters:
Sweden's foreign minister says he will step down — Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom will step down next week, he wrote in a post on social media platform X on Wednesday. — “It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that I have today informed the prime minister that I will leave …
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Jessica Grose / New York Times:
Two Florida Moms, One Congressional Seat and the Future of MAGA — On a steamy weekend in June, I went to St. Petersburg to report on the race for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. In a heavily gerrymandered and polarized country, it's one of the few congressional races …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Why thousands of Florida students are not being taught sex ed — In May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed Florida House Bill 1069, a law that requires sex education classes in the state to conform to right-wing ideology. Specifically, the law requires all sex education classes …
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Politico:
Republicans pushing Christianity into public schools are hitting resistance — even in red states — New policies in places like Florida, Louisiana and Oklahoma are rekindling the debate over the separation of church and state. — Florida now allows chaplains in public schools.
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Jeff Maurer / Slow Boring:
To fight wokeness, vote Harris — The left's worst ideas flourish under Trump … Subscribe to I Might Be Wrong — Trump wants the election to be about wokeness. He rails about wokeness constantly — it's in his speeches even more than Hannibal Lecter, feckless whinging about the Biden-Harris switch …
Nick Arama / RedState:
Classic Gold: Doocy Grills WH About Kamala's Fake Accent and KJP Implodes — Kamala Harris seems to have learned something from Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton: how to make things up to appeal to your audience. — Hillary Clinton pulled out the hot sauce story and a fake Southern accent.
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Lorena O'Neil / Louisiana Illuminator:
Doctors grapple with how to save women's lives amid ‘confusion and angst’ over new Louisiana law — When a woman starts bleeding out after labor, every second matters. But soon, under a new state law, Louisiana doctors might not be able to quickly access one of the most widely used life-saving medications for postpartum hemorrhage.
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