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4:20 PM ET, September 11, 2024

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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Kamala Harris Broke Donald Trump  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  Last night in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris did to Donald Trump what Donald Trump had done to Joe Biden: She broke her opponent on a debate stage.
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Demands ABC Be Shut Down for Daring to Fact Check Debate  —  SCORCHED EARTH  —  The former president went on ‘Fox & Friends’ to complain that he'd been treated unfairly.  —  Donald Trump called for ABC News to be shut down during a rant about the way he was treated by the network during …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
How Harris Roped a Dope  —  Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris walked onto the ABC News debate stage with a mission: trigger a Trump meltdown.  —  She succeeded.  —  Former President Donald Trump had a mission too: control yourself.
Discussion: Wait - what ?
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
What More Do You People Want from Kamala Harris?  —  1. The Philadelphia Massacre  —  Let's do this rundown style.  —  1. Harris delivered the goods.  You never know if a politician can play on the national stage until they do it.  Sometimes a promising candidate pops.  Sometimes they're Ron DeSantis.
Discussion: The Mahablog
Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones:
Even Fox News Acknowledges Reality: Trump Blew the Debate  —  “Make no mistake about it: Trump had a bad night.”  —  As my colleague David Corn put it, Donald Trump lost the first presidential debate against Kamala Harris by simply being himself: He spent the night ranting, raving …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How resounding was Kamala Harris's debate win?  Let's look at the polls.  —  Early results show Harris won by a historically large margin.  And Trump voters both acknowledged that and said it could impact their votes.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris turned in one of the more resounding debate performances …
David Mack / Slate:
If You Want to Know Who Won the Debate, Watch Fox News the Moment It Ended  —  Tuning in to Fox News following Tuesday's presidential debate, it was hard to describe the mood.  Somber comes to mind—a little like you might find at a funeral, perhaps for a beloved cat consumed by a political boogeyman.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump's Final Unraveling  —  Let's cut to the chase: “I have concepts of a plan” was the defining moment of this debate and is going to go down in presidential debate lore as one of the most pathetic lines in debate history.  For the record, it was about health care …
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
The debate between Harris and Trump wasn't close — and 4 other takeaways  —  Well, that was different from the June 27 debate between President Biden and Donald Trump.  —  If that June debate was a five-alarm fire for Democrats that eventually forced Biden from the race …
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Flash Poll: Majority of debate watchers say Harris outperformed Trump onstage  —  Registered voters who watched Tuesday's presidential debate broadly agree that Kamala Harris outperformed Donald Trump, according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS.
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
“Concepts of a Plan”: Trump Roasted for Having No Clue What He's Doing … Donald Trump tried to sidestep giving a policy position on health care, and walked straight off a rhetorical cliff.  —  During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Trump struggled to answer a question about his health care plan …
Riley Hoffman / ABC News:
READ: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript  —  Harris and Trump are meeting for the first time on the debate stage.  —  LIVE  —  Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris participate in a presidential debate in Philadelphia, Sept. 10, 2024.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Tanks in Election Betting Odds After Harris Debate
Discussion: NPR, New Republic and Forbes
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Beginning of the End for Trump
New York Times:
How Taylor Swift Surprised Harris, and Entered a New Political Era
Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News:
A look at Trump's ‘transgender operations on illegal aliens’ debate claim
Discussion: USA Today
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:   Debate May Widen the Money Gap Between Harris and Trump
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Donald Trump no longer knows how to talk to anyone outside his base
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Chris Wallace: Debate was ‘devastating’ for Trump
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and KFTC-TV
Doug Schoen / Fox News:
In the Trump-Harris faceoff there was a clear winner but don't believe this election is over
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Narcissist Lost the Debate
Discussion: Unprecedented
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
More in overnight poll say Harris won debate
Discussion: Scripps News and Fox News
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump “less inclined” to do another debate with Harris
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Unhinged Elon Musk Offers to Impregnate Taylor Swift  —  The father-of-12 offered his unlikely insight into the presidential debate after Swift endorsed Harris.  —  ‘NO GOING BACK’  —  “Harris proved she's the best choice to lead our nation forward,” says the man she replaced as Democratic presidential nominee.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Taylor Swift endorses — and searches for voter registration jump
Jessica Orozco / springfield-news-sun:
Aiden Clark's dad begs Springfield, politicians: Stop using son to hate Haitians  —  Boy was killed in 2023 school bus crash caused by Haitian immigrant; father says 'we can't even protect his memory when he's gone'  —  The father of the 11-year-old boy killed last year when a minivan driver struck …
The Hill:
Mike Johnson pulls stopgap funding plan over widespread GOP opposition  —  House GOP leadership scrapped plans for a Wednesday vote on the party's stopgap funding plan, as its chances of passage sank in recent days amid opposition from defense hawks and hardline conservatives.
Discussion: Politico and UPI
Associated Press:
Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting  —  State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation's mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election …
 
 
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