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4:05 PM ET, September 20, 2024

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Mike DeWine / New York Times:
I'm the Governor of Ohio.  I Don't Recognize the Springfield That Trump and Vance Describe.  —  I was born in Springfield, Ohio.  My wife, Fran, and I have lived our entire lives less than 10 miles from this city.  —  When we were dating in high school, we would go there to see movies …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
How Dumb Do They Think You Are?  —  Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, comes to the defense of Springfield and its Haitian community in the New York Times today: … Happy Friday.  —  Uh, Gross  —Andrew Egger  —  When the rumor mill started churning yesterday that some major …
New York Times:
Trump Ignores Mark Robinson Controversy, Hoping Gubernatorial Candidate Will Drop Out  —  CNN's article scrambled G.O.P. plans for winning North Carolina.  People close to Donald Trump are holding out hope Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will decide to quit the governor's race.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / NOTUS:
Vivek Ramaswamy Waltzed Into Springfield's ‘Year of Hell’  —  “If the people running for higher office would ask me, I would tell them the Republicans are already going to vote for you,” a local GOP leader said.  “Stop playing to these folks.”  — Copy  —  SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — Donald Trump says he's coming.
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Democrats launch new ad push to tie Trump to Mark Robinson following reported porn website comments
New York Times:
Harris, With an Online Avalanche, Outspends Trump by Tens of Millions
Discussion: Business Insider
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
The North Carolina “Black Nazi” Who Could Cost Trump the Presidency
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots  —  Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.  —  ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board approved …
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
MAGA Republicans Pass New Election Rules in Georgia That Could Rig the State for Trump
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Electoral-Vote Heist Underway in Nebraska
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
How Republicans Could Block a Democratic Victory in Georgia
Discussion: National Archives
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Nuzzi's RFK Relationship  —  “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the spokesperson said. … “Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged …
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
‘I agonized over it’: Behind the scenes with the reporter who uncovered the RFK Jr./Olivia Nuzzi story  — One of the country's most high-profile journalists says she had a “personal” relationship with RFK Jr.  — Now Olivia Nuzzi is on leave from New York magazine, where she's written many buzzy political stories.
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
New Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Party at the Center of the Sex Trafficking Scandal  —  This is the first public filing that cites sworn testimony alleging that Gaetz attended one of the long-rumored parties with a teenage girl.  — Copy  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Was at Sex and Drugs Party With High School Junior: Court Docs
Discussion: Alternet.org and Crooks and Liars
Evan Halper / Washington Post:
Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI  —  The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania plant plans to bring it online by 2028, with the tech giant buying all the power it produces.  —  Pennsylvania's dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant would be brought …
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Tapping Site of US Nuclear Meltdown  —  Constellation to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant reactor as data-center power demand surges.  —  The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will invest $1.6 billion to revive it …
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses  —  In a speech Thursday billed as former President Donald Trump's answer to rising antisemitism, he said Jews would bear much of the responsibility if he loses the presidential election.  —  And in a second speech later in the evening …
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Washington Post:
Trump says if he loses election, Jewish voters would have ‘a lot’ to do with it
New York Times:
Trump Says That if He Loses, ‘the Jewish People Would Have a Lot to Do’ With It
Politico:
House Republicans work to defuse Trump as they defy shutdown demands  —  GOP appropriators have been calling their presidential nominee, trying to convince him his calls to shut down the government over a voting bill are a bad idea.  —  House Republicans are typically hesitant to defy Donald Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Dawn Roberts / Des Moines Register:
I co-chaired Nikki Haley's Iowa campaign.  I am endorsing Kamala Harris.  —  I heard Harris articulate that she has always brought groups of diverse individuals and opinions together to solve problems.  That is a healthier and wiser way to lead.  —  I served as an Iowa state co-chair of the Nikki Haley for President campaign.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Politico:
Playbook: Inside the mind of Harris' messaging maven  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  OVERNIGHT MILESTONE — The midnight deadline having passed, it's now officially too late to remove scandal-plagued Republican gubernatorial candidate …
Discussion: freebeacon.com
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Former Longtime Teamsters President Blasts Successor For Not Backing Harris
Josephine Rozzelle / CNBC:
Trump Media hits new 52-week low after DJT lockup restrictions expire … Shares of Trump Media sank more than 7% Friday morning, hitting a new 52-week low one day after “lockup” restrictions expired, which had previously prevented its majority shareholder, former President Donald Trump …
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken  —  It shouldn't have taken a year, let alone nine, for political elites to stop getting snookered by Donald Trump.  —  I say that as someone with very low expectations.  Being an easy mark is part of the price of admission to the heights of American discourse.
Discussion: Progress Pond
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
Republicans plan to push a potential Harris cabinet to the right  —  There's a real possibility that Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Democrats lose the Senate in November - in which case she'll almost surely run into trouble stocking a Cabinet and the courts.
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NBC News:
Harris could win the presidency but lose the Senate, giving Republicans a veto over her agenda and judges
Discussion: Raw Story
Kelly Rissman / The Independent:
Which Mexico are you?  New Mexico furious after Texas installs razor wire along its border  —  Texas' latest move is a ‘political stunt’ that will have 'will have no meaningful impact on our nation's broken immigration system,' New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said
Associated Press:
Secret Service report details communication failures preceding July assassination attempt on Trump  —  Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service's performance ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, according to a new report …
 
 
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
A Project 2025 Adviser Just Defended Slavery in Haiti
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mark Robinson offers up the 2024 version of the I-was-hacked defense
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Harris Hits Core Campaign Themes in Emotional Forum With Oprah Winfrey
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Heather Hollingsworth / Associated Press:
White officer who fatally shot Black man shouldn't have been in his backyard, judge rules in suit
Discussion: The Root
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Supreme Court declines to reinstate Jill Stein on Nevada's ballot
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
How they have failed us  —  It is as if the editorial department at The Washington Post woke …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Apocalypse delayed: Trump keeps promising a doom that never comes
Discussion: Townhall
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Trump's Deranged Plan to Lower Food Prices by Raising Them
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