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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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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 …
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 and Raw Story
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
A Catastrophic Debate for Trump  —  He was angry and fixated on the past, and he failed to define Harris or her policies.  —  Tuesday's debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was a train wreck for him, far worse than anything Team Trump could have imagined.
Discussion: USA Today and New Republic
Jared Gans / The Hill:
GOP grapples with fallout from Trump's rocky debate  —  Campaign Report  —  The Big Story  —  Republicans are regrouping after the former president repeatedly lost his composure, and Vice President Harris was widely viewed as the winner of the night, with some admitting Trump had a poor showing …
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 …
Nielsen:
Over 67 Million Viewers Tune In for ABC News Harris-Trump Debate … The ABC News debate was the first debate between the two participating candidates and second of this election cycle.  Including ABC, the debate aired live on 17 television networks reported by Nielsen …
Discussion: Fox News and Deadline
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 …
Sarah Longwell / The Atlantic:
How Swing Voters Reacted to the Trump-Harris Debate  —  “I think she was the clear winner,” said one voter.  “She was more presidential.”  —  Before last night's debate, I got a text from a friend who summed up Kamala Harris's predicament: She has to appear feminine but not dainty.
Reuters:
Some undecided voters not convinced by Harris after debate with Trump  —  Kamala Harris was widely seen as dominating Tuesday's presidential debate against Republican former president Donald Trump, but a group of undecided voters remained unconvinced that the Democratic vice president was the better candidate.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
67.1 Million People Watched Harris and Trump, Outdrawing Last Debate  —  The TV audience for the Harris-Trump matchup was roughly comparable to the second Trump-Clinton debate in 2016.  —  There is a new most-watched moment of the 2024 presidential campaign.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
How Harris Roped a Dope
David Mack / Slate:
If You Want to Know Who Won the Debate, Watch Fox News the Moment It Ended
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Maria Aspan / NPR:
Wall Street investors think Trump lost the debate, too
Discussion: CNN, New Republic and Fortune
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump's Final Unraveling
Discussion: CNN and New York Daily News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The night Donald Trump choked like a dog (Kamala's version)
Discussion: Raw Story and Rolling Stone
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Flash Poll: Majority of debate watchers say Harris outperformed Trump onstage
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Tanks in Election Betting Odds After Harris Debate
Associated Press:
Donald Trump looks to regain his footing after a rocky debate
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Chris Wallace: Debate was ‘devastating’ for Trump
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Axios and KFTC-TV
Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News:
A look at Trump's ‘transgender operations on illegal aliens’ debate claim
Discussion: Fortune and USA Today
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
The debate between Harris and Trump wasn't close — and 4 other takeaways
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Donald Trump no longer knows how to talk to anyone outside his base
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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Vivian Ho / The Daily Beast:
Dad Demands Donald Trump and JD Vance Stop Exploiting His Son's Death  —  ‘MORALLY BANKRUPT’  —  The father of an Ohio boy who died in a bus crash involving a Haitian immigrant called on Donald Trump and JD Vance to stop using his son's name to demonize immigrants.
Howard Schneider / Reuters:
Haitian immigrants fueled Springfield's growth, and now a presidential debate
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Taylor Swift Drove Nearly 338,000 People to Vote.gov With Kamala Harris Endorsement Post  —  According to data from the GSA, Swift's post directed 337,826 people to the site, which refers people to their local state election websites. … According to a spokesperson for the U.S. Government …
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New York Times:
How Taylor Swift Surprised Harris, and Entered a New Political Era
Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk Threatens Taylor Swift After Harris Endorsement: ‘I Will Give You a Child’
Discussion: Forbes, HotAir and The Atlantic
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Unhinged Elon Musk Offers to Impregnate Taylor Swift
Politico:
Johnson forced to delay vote on stopgap funding plan as GOP opposition rises  —  House GOP leaders pulled their six-month stopgap funding plan on Wednesday, hours before a scheduled floor vote.  Facing a number of Republican holdouts, Speaker Mike Johnson said they'll delay the vote until next week …
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Speaker Johnson pulls a vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown
The Hill:   Mike Johnson pulls stopgap funding plan over widespread GOP opposition
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 …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says he's done apologizing  —  The home of the Golden State Warriors was packed on Tuesday evening this week, but it wasn't to watch Steph Curry.  Thousands of fans gathered at the Chase Center in downtown San Francisco to watch one of Silicon Valley's biggest ballers …
Discussion: New York Times
Rick Perlstein / American Prospect:
The Zeal of the Convert  —  Matthew Sheffield, a former rising star in the conservative movement, turned away from what he finally realized was an extremist, anti-truth agenda.  —  Journalist Matthew Sheffield appearing on The Young Turks in 2019  —  Matthew Sheffield is one of the most interesting people I've ever met.
 
 
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