memeorandum: New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: After debate, Harris surges to 5-point lead over Trump among registered voters in head-to-head matchup (Andrew Romano/Yahoo News)

10:35 PM ET, September 14, 2024

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Simon J. Levien / New York Times:

Donald Trump Jr. Piles On With Racist Comments About Haitians — After former President Donald J. Trump spread debunked claims that immigrants from Haiti were eating pets, his son cast more aspersions on Haitian immigrants. — Amid fallout from Donald J. Trump's debunked claim about immigrants …

Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway, The Independent and CBS News

Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:

JD Vance's Blood-and-Soil Nationalism Finds Its Target — If Senator JD Vance of Ohio had a moral compass, a shred of decency or a belief in anything other than his own ambition and will-to-power, he would resign his Senate seat effective immediately, leave the presidential race and retire from public life …

Discussion: Mediaite, IJR, Media Matters for America, CNN, Rolling Stone, Raw Story and New York Daily News

Russell Moore / The Atlantic:

Trump's Lie Is Another Test for Christian America — If we're willing to see children terrorized because of a false rumor about Haitian immigrants, we should ask who abducted our conscience, not someone's pet. — The accusation that Haitian immigrants in a small Ohio city are abducting …

Stephen Starr / The Guardian:

Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up — Springfield's immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors — While Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio …

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Post, Twitchy, Balloon Juice, Althouse, Fox News and TMZ.com

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:

‘It just exploded’: Woman who sparked Trump's migrant pet-eating hoax comes forward — The woman who appears to have inadvertently sparked a viral far-right hoax that Haitian migrants working in Springfield, Ohio, are kidnapping and eating people's cats and dogs has come forward to say she regrets …

Discussion: The Guardian, New York Daily News, Mediaite, Alternet.org and The Hill

Lydia Polgreen / New York Times: Trump's Vile Lie About Haitians Is the Latest in a Long and Grim Tradition

Washington Post:
Trump's false claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets invokes racist trope

Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, Slate, Mother Jones, Billboard, The Guardian and The Democracy Labs

Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:

‘The Apprentice’ Producers Were Shocked by Trump's ‘Musty Carpet’ — CREATING DONALD TRUMP — “Our job was to make him look legitimate, to make him look like there was something behind it, even though we pretty much all knew that there wasn't,” one producer said. — Journalist

New York Times: How ‘The Apprentice’ Fueled Donald Trump's Rise to the Presidency

Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:

New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: After debate, Harris surges to 5-point lead over Trump among registered voters in head-to-head matchup — Harris's lead, her biggest yet, is similar among likely voters and when third-party candidates are included — A strong performance in Tuesday's debate …

Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Post Millennial

Deirdre Bardolf / New York Post:

Swift endorsement turns more voters from Harris than it attracts: poll — It might not be such a “Love Story” after all. — Taylor Swift's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, may turn more voters away than it attracts.

Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Washington Examiner

Mary L Trump / The Good in Us:

Cheating as a Way of Life — What Donald keeps getting away with — Donald spent the weekend, as he often does, lying to the American people and ranting about all of the ways in which the debate was rigged against him—from the moderators giving Kamala Harris the questions ahead …

Discussion: Raw Story

emptywheel:

The Laura Loomer Problem Is the Same as the Vladimir Putin Problem — At about the same time that several of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters were warning that Laura Loomer's access to the former President threatens his presidential bid, Tim Walz was in Grand Rapids mocking how easy it is to manipulate Donald Trump.

Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, Vox, The Daily Beast, New York Times, ABC News, Axios, Politico, HuffPost, Salon, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Press Enterprise, LGBTQ Nation, Advocate, The Hill, New Republic, The Floridian, NBC News and Raw Story

Axios:

Trump's swing-state plan targets “sometimes” voters … - Trump's team is outgunned in sheer resources: The campaign says it has about 27,000 top volunteers on the ground nationwide, and “hundreds of thousands” more in various roles in battleground states.

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Monica Alba / NBC News:
Harris campaign targets Latinos in new ad blitz focused on boxing matches and baseball games

Discussion: New York Times and USA Today

New York Times:
Harris Visits Red Areas of Pennsylvania, Hoping to Cut Into Trump's Edge

Discussion: Washington Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, OutsideTheBeltway, USA Today, freebeacon.com, Fox News, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Washington Examiner, ABC News, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News and The Hill

Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Harris and Trump place their chips on different states to win White House

Discussion: Politico, UnHerd and The Daily Beast

Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:

Alarm in UK and US over possible Iran-Russia nuclear deal — US president Joe Biden and British PM Keir Starmer fear secret arms link-up amid talks in Washington over Ukraine — Britain and the US have raised fears that Russia has shared nuclear secrets with Iran in return for Tehran supplying Moscow …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, FDD and New York Post

Sejal Govindarao / Los Angeles Times:

Arizona's 1864 abortion ban is officially off the books — Arizona's Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions officially was repealed Saturday. — The Western swing state has been whipsawed over recent months, starting with the Arizona Supreme Court deciding in April to let the state enforce …

Discussion: The Hill and Fox News

Rachel Leingang / The Guardian:

I read the full 900-page Project 2025 manifesto - here's why it matters — Heritage Foundation blueprint describes an America poisoned by ‘wokeness’ and overtaken by lawlessness that only conservatives can save — I printed out all 900-plus pages of Project 2025 in February on my home printer …

Zoe Kleinman / BBC:

Stephen Fry: Musk and Zuckerberg have ‘polluted culture’ — Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk are “the worst polluters in human history”, Stephen Fry has said. — The actor and comedian made the claim during a lecture at Kings College, London.