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Judge Delays Trump's Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day — The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars. — The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump's criminal case in Manhattan postponed …
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NBC News:
Judge delays Trump sentencing in hush money case until November — The former president was scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18. — A New York judge has delayed former President Donald Trump's sentencing on felony criminal charges until Nov. 26. — Judge Juan Merchan handed …
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing until after election
Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing until after election
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Politico:
Trump's federal election prosecution isn't going to trial anytime soon. But it could still produce damaging revelations before Nov. 5.
Trump's federal election prosecution isn't going to trial anytime soon. But it could still produce damaging revelations before Nov. 5.
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Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding — Nothing to see here! — A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Holds Press Event Just To Attack Women Who've Accused Him Of Sexual Assault — The GOP presidential nominee weirdly claimed E. Jean Carroll loves “Law & Order” and copied one of the TV show's episodes to lie about him assaulting her. — LOADING — WASHINGTON — Former President …
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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Trump's New E. Jean Carroll Defense Is That He Assaulted Other Women
Trump's New E. Jean Carroll Defense Is That He Assaulted Other Women
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's word salad answer on child care policy matters — Donald Trump and JD Vance were asked in separate events about child care policy. Vance's answer was ridiculous. Trump's was worse. — For many American families, the cost and availability of child care pose real challenges.
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Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
The Press Response to Trump's Word Salad Answer on Childcare is Peak Sanewashing — Earlier this week, I wrote an article for The New Republic (and expanded on it in a post here at TPA) about how the media “sanewashes” Trump. If you missed that, I recommend checking it out. — The New Republic
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
September State Polling: California, Florida, Ohio, Texas — Home Polls September State Polling: California, Florida, Ohio, Texas — New Emerson College Polling/The Hill statewide polls find Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris by ten in Ohio, 53% to 43%, five in Florida, 50% to 45% …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
New poll shows Florida, Texas within margin of error in Harris-Trump race
New poll shows Florida, Texas within margin of error in Harris-Trump race
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Townhall and Florida Politics
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
JD Vance: John McCain probably wouldn't back Harris because of border
JD Vance: John McCain probably wouldn't back Harris because of border
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Axios, Politico, ABC News and New York Post
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that Tucker Carlson is soft on Nazis — On Monday, Tucker Carlson hosted an amateur historian named Darryl Cooper on his show to discuss the history of World War II. The result was an extended exercise in Nazi sympathizing with little pushback from Carlson …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Tucker Carlson blasted for interview with Holocaust revisionist — Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is facing criticism after hosting a Holocaust revisionist on his podcast. — Carlson, a former Fox News pundit, now hosts a show, “The Tucker Carlson Show,” on the social media platform X. Earlier …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will vote for Harris, his daughter Liz Cheney says — The younger Cheney, one of former President Donald Trump's most prominent conservative critics, also said she was supporting Democratic Rep. Colin Allred for Senate in Texas.
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Megan Cassella / CNBC:
Eighty-eight corporate leaders endorse Harris in new letter, including CEOs of Yelp, Box — @IN/MEGAN-CASSELLA-BA02A160/ @MMCASSELLA — Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president. — Signers include former 21st …
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Associated Press:
“This is not normal. … There are no broadcast television cameras inside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue. But the real story of Jan. 6 is found in the mounds of evidence and testimony judges and juries have seen and heard behind the doors of the courthouse …
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Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
The mainstream press is failing America - and people are understandably upset — The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid — The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media …
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Donald Trump's incoherence makes the media's double standard hard to hide — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris curiously don't get the same coverage — It seems like only yesterday that the elite media were extremely concerned that President Joe Biden had mistakenly referred to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico.
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
The Electoral College bias has returned with a vengeance — Trump has gained in critical states since the DNC — but that may be reversion to the mean. — Silver Bulletin recently passed 200,000 total (paid + free) subscribers, way more than I ever expected.
Jasper Goodman / Politico:
‘A huge mistake’: Trump's crypto allies cringe over family's startup — The crypto venture is attracting what appear to be hacks and attempted scams ahead of its launch. — Donald Trump's sons want to turn their father's growing bromance with the cryptocurrency industry into the new family business.
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Will Doran / WRAL-TV:
Start of mail-in voting delayed in NC, as RFK Jr.'s lawsuit leads to court-ordered pause — Kennedy lost in trial Thursday, but the North Carolina Court of Appeals wants time to consider his argument to have his name taken off the ballot. — Posted 2024-09-06T15:29:29+00:00 - Updated 2024-09-06T16:28:13+00:00
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. labor market cools again in August, adding 142,000 jobs … - The report also shows notable revisions for months past: The economy added just 89,000 jobs in July—25,000 fewer than initially thought. — June's gains were revised down by 61,000 to 118,000.
Axios:
How Harris dodges scrutiny — Why did President Biden's top advisers routinely leak word they found her performance as vice president disappointing or episodically problematic? — How did her views change in five years, from liberal to centrist on health care, immigration and energy?
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RedState, Twitchy, acecomments.mu.nu, The Daily Signal and HotAir
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Harris hires rural vote director in bid to cut into Trump's battleground margins — Rural voters in just a handful of states could swing the outcome of the November elections. — Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing on a new campaign hire as part of her team's push to clinch must-win states …
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Montana Senate Race Moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The Montana Senate race moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican. — We were very close to making this change in yesterday's more expansive Senate update, but we were waiting for some additional polling evidence to do it.
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Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
CNBC Host: I Can't Understand Trump's ‘Crazy’ New Economic Plans — HEAD SCRATCHER — The former president hailed new tariffs as the answer to making child care affordable at a speech—but the questions to him were “controlled,” anchor Becky Quick revealed.
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