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6:40 PM ET, September 6, 2024

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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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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.
Jared Gans / The Hill:
New poll shows Florida, Texas within margin of error in Harris-Trump race
Discussion: Townhall and Florida Politics
New York Times:
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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Politico:
Donald Trump gets the ‘inside straight’ he's been hoping for in court  —  The former president has had remarkable success with his strategy of delays, but a legal reckoning looms if he loses the election.  —  Donald Trump has pulled it off.  —  Voters will go to the polls …
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 …
Fox News:
Judge Merchan delays Trump sentencing until after election
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing until after election
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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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Putin Pals Say Accused MAGA Media Stars Should Come to Russia for Protection  —  ‘THEY FINALLY WOKE UP’  —  Kremlin media hailed the bombshell influence plot uncovered by the DOJ, which it says saw millions funneled to a MAGA media group in the U.S.  —  This week's Department …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Inside Tenet Media, the pro-Trump ‘supergroup’ allegedly funded by Russia
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  —  Donald Trump on Friday inexplicably started detailing two horrific sexual assault allegations made against him, as part of a hapless attempt to discredit a completely different sexual assault allegation.
The Hill:
Appeals court weighs Trump's bid to toss E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict
Politico:
Harris team worried she'll be ‘handcuffed’ by debate rules set by Biden  —  Even some Democrats dismiss her griping as gamesmanship.  But the mic rules are changing her strategy.  —  Kamala Harris had planned to object, fact-check and directly question Donald Trump while he was speaking during their debate next week.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:   Harris hires rural vote director in bid to cut into Trump's battleground margins
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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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
JD Vance Has Become Trump's Human Bulldozer
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Following Trump's train of thought as it derails on a child care question
Jackson Walker / WOAI:
California Democrat changes affiliation to Republican: 'I've had enough'  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (TND) — Former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, R- District 24, announced on Wednesday she would ditch the Democratic Party and change her affiliation to the GOP.
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Cook Political Report shifts 6 House races toward Dems, 2 toward GOP
Discussion: Forbes
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 …
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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 …
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.
Discussion: New Republic and The Mahablog
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.
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 …
Discussion: Slate, Associated Press and Democrats
 
 
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Jamie Joseph / Fox News:
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
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Biden's Labor Legacy Is in Jeopardy — With Help From the Supreme Court
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
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