memeorandum: Mother of Georgia suspect is said to have called school before shooting, warning of ‘emergency’ (Washington Post)

7:05 PM ET, September 8, 2024

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Trump and Harris Neck and Neck After Summer Upheaval, Times/Siena Poll Finds — The survey finds that Donald J. Trump is retaining his support and that, on the eve of the debate, voters are unsure they know enough about where Kamala Harris stands. — Former President Donald J. Trump …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Fox News, Forbes, To the Contrary, The i Paper, The Post Millennial, The Hill, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Politico and Althouse

Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:

The mistakes of 2019 could cost Harris the election — Voters think she's too far to the left — but there's plenty of room to define Trump as radical. — For the second time this weekend, I'm upending previously laid plans to cover a more time-sensitive story: the New York Times/Siena College poll that came out this morning.

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, RedState, Fox News, Breitbart, Twitchy and Tennessee Star

CBS News:

Harris v. Trump CBS News poll finds Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin race tight ahead of debate — In Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — all tight races — we see the larger contours of the entire presidential contest ahead of the first Harris-Trump debate. — What makes these states close?

Discussion: The Hill, Forbes, Washington Examiner and PoliticusUSA

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Harris falling behind among male voters in key states — New polls show Vice President Harris has a major challenge in winning over male voters and is losing men by a bigger margin than she's winning women in key states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina.

Discussion: Business Insider and Townhall

Washington Post:
Election 2024 latest news Trump, Harris neck and neck in latest polls

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Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Pennsylvania is key as Harris and Trump prep for their Philly showdown

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Hartford Courant

R.V. / New York Times:
Toplines: September 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide

Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite

Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:

September 7, 2024 — By rights, tonight's post should be a picture, but Trump's behavior today merits a marker because it feels like a dramatic escalation of the themes we've seen for years. Please feel free to ignore—as I often say, I am trying to leave notes for a graduate student in 150 years …

Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Trump's real Project 2025 was written for him in Moscow by Vladimir Putin's men — Unless you work on the politics desk of the New York Times or Washington Post, it's getting harder and harder not to notice the increasingly incoherent yet also dangerously unhinged nature …

Discussion: Washington Post

Richard Hine / Unprecedented: Putin and Rasputin — Old conventional wisdom: “When fascism comes to America …

Washington Post:
Trump dismisses new warnings of Russian interference in election

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Charles R. Davis / Salon:

Trump pledges authoritarian crackdown, saying enemies to be prosecuted at levels “never seen before” — The Republican candidate promised to imprison those whom he falsely claimed stole the 2020 election from him — Former President Donald Trump is promising to carry out what he described …

Discussion: UPI and Reuters

Charles R. Davis / Salon:

Trump, lying about migrants and crime, says mass deportations “will be a bloody story” — The former president has claimed he would use police and soldiers to deport at least 12 million undocumented people — Donald Trump is threatening that a proposed mass deportation of undocumented immigrants …

Discussion: The Atlantic and Digby's Hullabaloo

Washington Post:
Trump pledges to jail opponents, baselessly suggests election will be stolen from him

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Jillian Frankel / NBC News:
Trump threatens lawyers, donors and election officials with prison for ‘unscrupulous behavior’

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Associated Press:
Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate

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Tara Suter / The Hill:

Cooper says he's ‘tired of seeing texts’ from students telling parents they're afraid of school shootings. ‘We cannot normalize this.’ — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said in an interview Sunday that he is “tired of seeing texts from children in a school telling their parents …

Discussion: CBS News

Washington Post:

Mother of Georgia suspect is said to have called school before shooting, warning of ‘emergency’ — The mother of the suspected Apalachee High School gunman said that she called the school on the morning of the shooting and warned a counselor about an “extreme emergency.”

Discussion: Tennessee Star, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, The Post Millennial, RedState, KENS, The Gateway Pundit, New York Daily News, The Sun, IJR, The Daily Beast and CBS News

CNN: Mother of shooting suspect called Apalachee High School and drove 200 miles after getting alarming text, grandfather says

Doug P. / Twitchy:

Variety Asked Elton John About Donald Trump and the TDS Afflicted Will NOT Like His Answer — Those on the Left afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome might not be fully satisfied by Elton John's response to a question from a Variety reporter at the Toronto Film Festival …

Discussion: Variety, RedState and Townhall

Nick Arama / RedState:

Elton John's New Remarks About Trump Are Likely to Have Dems Losing Their Minds — Democrats and media have been going all in to demonize former President Donald Trump as we count down to the election. We see that in the constant drumbeat of bad press for him and positive press for Kamala Harris, for example.

Discussion: Breitbart, Townhall, Fox News and The Gateway Pundit

ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript 9-8-24: Former Rep. Liz Cheney and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders — Former Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney announces her father's support for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on the second day of panels at the 14th annual Texas Tribune Festival in downtown Austin, Texas.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Washington Times, Raw Story and PoliticusUSA

Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
How Trump and Harris are preparing for their first debate of 2024

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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris, Walz to launch ‘New Way Forward’ tour following debate

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Presidential Debate Will be Big Test for ABC

Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Gateway Pundit

Tal Axelrod / ABC News:

Cheney says Trump is an ‘unrecoverable catastrophe’ in call for GOP to vote for Harris — The former congresswoman says not voting for Trump is not enough. — Rep. Liz Cheney Vice Chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol …

Discussion: The Hill, The Guardian and Telegraph

Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:

G.O.P. Report to Denounce Biden Administration Over Afghanistan Withdrawal — In an election-season document, Republicans are set to offer few new revelations but instead heap blame on the “Biden-Harris administration” while absolving former President Donald J. Trump.

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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:

Anti-Abortion Extremists Call the Shots in Trump's GOP — Trump's epic flip flop abortion is why Democratic fears about Project 2025 and a Federal abortion ban are well-founded. — The generally accepted — and oft-repeated — narrative about Trump is that he is a cult-leader who can bend the Republican base to his will.