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.

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 …

Trump's Latest Problem?  Republicans for Harris  —  High-profile GOPers aren't just planning to vote for the Democrat, they're organizing and working to convince others.  —  Michael Brodkorb, former deputy chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, finds himself part of an unlikely yet growing wave …

Mother of shooting suspect called Apalachee High School and drove 200 miles after getting alarming text, grandfather says  —  The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack …

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 …

Translating the Crazy  —  UPDATES: I got COVID sixteen days ago and, though I am substantially better, I'm still exhausted.  I know every case is different, but is this normal?  Anyway, with my book coming out on Tuesday, there will be no rest for the weary any time soon.  More book news after today's piece.

Mysterious influencer network pushed sexual smears of Harris  —  The Scoop  —  The organizers of a mysterious network paid influencers to promote sexual smears of Vice President Kamala Harris as Democrats rallied around her to be their presidential candidate in late July.

Florida voters who oppose the state's 6-week abortion ban say they are being visited by police  —  Critics accuse Gov. Ron DeSantis of seeking to intimidate supporters of a pro-choice referendum  —  Florida voters who signed a petition to place a pro-choice abortion referendum on the ballot …

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 …

Wrecked rain gauges.  Whistleblowers.  Million-dollar payouts and manhunts.  Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.  —  Storm clouds roil in this time-lapse video taken over Baca County in southeastern Colorado, where rain is scarce and where for years a criminal enterprise damaged rain gauges …

GOP plots Pennsylvania onslaught as Democrats battle to keep ‘really difficult’ Senate seat  —  For more on CNN's coverage of the US Senate race in Pennsylvania, watch CNN's “Inside Politics with Manu Raju” on Sunday at 8 a.m. ET and 11 a.m. ET.  —  Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania CNN —

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.