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2:20 PM ET, September 19, 2024

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New York Times:
Harris Had Stronger Debate, Polls Find, but the Race Remains Deadlocked  —  Kamala Harris holds an edge over Donald J. Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.  But new surveys found that the race remains a tossup nationally.  —  Kamala Harris overwhelmingly impressed voters …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The Actual Electoral Map Is Three States  —  If the former president wins the East Coast trio of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, he will go back to the White House.  —  Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, on Aug. 21.
Politico:
Playbook: Mike Johnson's uneasy decision
Discussion: Punchbowl News and RedState
Washington Post:
Harris and Trump essentially tied in Pennsylvania, Post poll finds
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
White Dudes for Harris unveils eight-figure swing-state campaign
Discussion: Florida Politics
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
J.D. Vance's Weak Excuse for “Pet Eating” Lie Just Blew Up In His Face … Prepare to be shocked: At around the time J.D. Vance started dissembling about Haitians eating people's house pets, a Vance campaign staffer privately spoke with the city manager of Springfield, Ohio, where thousands of Haitians have settled.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Trump-Vance Intentionally Blurs The Line Between Illegal And Legal Immigrants  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  Sign up for the email version.  —  No One Is Safe  —  The Trump-Vance ticket's unbridled racist attacks on Haitian immigrants in Ohio …
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
JD Vance is factually challenged - and morally deficient  —  The vice-presidential candidate seems to feel no remorse about spreading dangerous misinformation that has put lives at risk  —  There was a moment when JD Vance could have turned back from the story.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Real Reason Trump and Vance Are Spreading Lies About Haitians
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
JD Vance keeps getting ahead of Donald Trump on policy
Nicholas Liu / Salon:
“Delusional and unsettling”: Trump forgets there was no debate audience, claims crowd “went crazy”  —  Appearing on Fox News, the 78-year-old Republican claimed that he won over an audience that did not exist  —  Former President Donald Trump appeared on a taped segment of Fox News' “Gutfeld!”
Discussion: Mediaite, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
With one exaggerated anecdote, Trump kneecaps his Jan. 6 defense  —  Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday, Trump told a story he's told before — one in which a politician is threatened by angry Trump boosters and he calls them off.  —  Donald Trump's tough-guy shtick plays well on Fox News …
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: 12 completely fictional stories Trump has told in the last month  —  Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories.  —  This isn't run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating that political candidates of all stripes engage in.
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Harris hopes to turn Ukraine war into winning issue in battle with Trump for Polish American votes
Discussion: Politico
Carolina Journal:
Robinson under pressure to withdraw from gubernatorial race  —  North Carolina Republicans are bracing Thursday morning as word spreads about a damning news story looming regarding Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.  —  Sources with direct knowledge have spoken with Carolina Journal on the condition …
US Department of Justice:
Alaska Man Arrested for Threatening U.S. Supreme Court Justices, Their Family Members  —  For Immediate Release  —  An Alaska man was arrested yesterday in Anchorage for allegedly threatening to injure and kill six U.S. Supreme Court Justices and some of their family members.
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Alaska man indicted for threatening to assassinate Supreme Court justices and their family members
Discussion: Associated Press
NBC News:
Lindsey Graham visits Nebraska on behalf of Trump campaign to push for electoral vote change  —  The South Carolina senator wants the governor to call a special session to put forward legislation that would make Nebraska a winner-take-all state in the Electoral College.
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Bloomberg:
Secret Service Probing Musk's Post About Threats to Biden and Harris  —  The Secret Service is looking into Elon Musk's post on X that suggested it was strange no one attempted to assassinate President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.  In response to a FOIA request …
Matt Bernardini / The Guardian:
Ex-Trump advisers help to grow pro-Russia website that spreads misinformation  —  George Papadopoulos and others involved in Intelligencer, increasingly popular source of news in rightwing circles  —  Amid the recent crackdown on Russian influence in American media, a group of former Trump advisers …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Georgia's abortion ban killed a young mother.  The Christian right now blames the victim  —  Anti-choice activists argue that if Amber Nicole Thurman had submitted to forced childbirth, she'd still be alive  —  Pro-choice activists warned in the immediate aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health …
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Local Teamsters unions in key battleground states endorse Harris  —  Local unions within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are putting their support behind Vice President Harris in November, despite the wider union's decision to withhold a presidential endorsement this year.
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Axios:
The Harris-Walz media strategy: Hide from the press … - That strategy comes even as many voters say they want to learn more about Harris — and as her campaign has said she's changed many of her past liberal positions to more centrist policies.  — The previously press-friendly Walz …
New York Times:
How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers  —  The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say.  It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse.  —  Leer en español阅读.体 …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Discussion: The Mahablog
Stephen Prager / Current Affairs:
The Right is Where the Money Is … Earlier this month, the Department of Justice charged two employees of the Russian state TV channel RT with illegally pouring nearly $10 million into a Tennessee company, Tenet Media.  The company, founded by now-former Blaze TV personality Lauren Chen and her husband …
Bethany McLean / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's financial failures are stunning.  ‘Lucky Loser’ has the receipts.  —  Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner's book, which builds on their Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting, is much more than an excavation of the former president's tax returns.  —  If you tell someone who is not a fan …
Discussion: New York Times
Rebecca Crosby / Popular Information:
The stark reality of mass deportation  —  Former President Donald Trump has promised that he will start mass deportations if he wins in November.  The promise has become a central selling point of his 2024 campaign.  At a campaign rally in Michigan this summer, Trump vowed …
Chorus Nylander / KVOA-TV:
N4T Investigators: Several Trump supporters seated on stage during Tucson rally experience eye injuries  —  TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - It's a mystery at a Donald Trump rally that left multiple people with eye injuries and few answers.  —  The News 4 Tucson Investigators spoke exclusively …
Alex Roarty / NOTUS:
Democrats Are Building the Ground Game They Wish They'd Had in 2020.  They're Not Sure How Much It'll Matter.  —  Democrats have regrets about their campaigning during the pandemic.  This year, they're going all out to make sure they leave nothing to chance.  — Copy
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Former Georgia lieutenant governor says Trump is ‘not God’: 'He's a loser'  —  Georgia's former Lt. Gov Geoff Duncan (R) slammed Trump for sinking the latest government funding bill after delivering an ultimatum calling for the plan to include a proof of citizenship voting requirement
Discussion: Alternet.org, HuffPost and UPI
 
 
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Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
NAACP to spend $20 million mobilizing Black voters this fall
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Can Harris's Cynical, Run-out-the Clock Campaign Succeed?
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
‘Uncommitted’ leaders say they won't endorse Harris
New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg Plays Vance in Walz's Debate Prep
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
For only the second time, a top science magazine endorses for president
Discussion: The Atlantic and UnHerd
Associated Press:
These evangelicals are voting their values — by backing Kamala Harris
Daniel Greenfield / Frontpage Mag:
First Somali Refugee to Run Public Housing Admits to Stealing Millions
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Legal Watchdog Group Warns Pro-Trump Lawyers Against Subverting Democracy in November
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Are in a Civil War Over Trump's Weed Plan
Discussion: Politico
David Gilbert / Wired:
Anti-Immigrant Election Deniers Have Turned Their Online Following Into an Army of Activists
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Trump's Laziest Campaign
Discussion: USA Today, Raw Story, Politico and Fox News