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3:40 PM ET, September 11, 2024

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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 …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
How Harris Roped a Dope  —  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.  —  He failed.  —  Trump lost his cool over and over.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
emptywheel:
Kamala Harris, Protagonist  —  Shortly before the debate started (I watched it after it was over, after getting some sleep), I tweeted that I wasn't sure if journalists would even notice if Kamala Harris' obvious efforts to get under Trump's skin didn't work.
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 …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Beginning of the End for Trump
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Tanks in Election Betting Odds After Harris Debate
Discussion: NPR, New Republic and Forbes
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:   Debate May Widen the Money Gap Between Harris and Trump
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Chris Wallace: Debate was ‘devastating’ for Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and KFTC-TV
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Donald Trump no longer knows how to talk to anyone outside his base
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump “less inclined” to do another debate with Harris
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:   Trump's debate debacle put the GOP's dangerous obsession with MAGA media nonsense on display
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Narcissist Lost the Debate
Discussion: Unprecedented
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Kamala Harris, Donald Trump shake hands again at 9/11 anniversary ceremony
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
More in overnight poll say Harris won debate
Discussion: Scripps News and Fox News
Washington Post:
Who won the Harris-Trump debate? We asked swing-state voters.
Politico:
Senate Dems balk at Johnson's spending bill, but wait to release their own plan  —  Senate Democrats have lambasted Speaker Mike Johnson's spending plan as partisan showboating, but they're sticking to a wait-and-see approach before moving on any alternative proposal ahead of an end-of-month government shutdown deadline.
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The Hill:   Mike Johnson pulls stopgap funding plan over widespread GOP opposition
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 …
 
 
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Democrat in Florida Senate race raises more than $1M after poll showing dead heat
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Howard Schneider / Reuters:
Haitian immigrants fueled Springfield's growth, and now a presidential debate
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Trump attends 9/11 anniversary with Laura Loomer, who shared video claiming “9/11 was an Inside Job!”
Discussion: NBC News and New Republic
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Donald Trump always got the last word
Discussion: HotAir and The Root
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Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America's libraries
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Grifters use antisemitism, conspiracies to split the right
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At Least Two Saudi Officials May Have Deliberately Assisted 9/11 Hijackers, New Evidence Suggests
Discussion: CNN
 

 
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