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12:40 PM ET, September 24, 2024

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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump campaign's ground game worries some Republicans  —  The Trump campaign is relying on a so far untested get-out-the-vote strategy ahead of November's election that some Republicans view as a high-risk, high-reward gambit.  —  The Trump campaign has worked alongside outside groups …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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USA Today:
Kamala Harris holds small lead over Donald Trump in Michigan, exclusive poll finds
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Michael Lee / Fox News:
Early mail-in voting data signals good news for GOP, Trump: expert
Discussion: RedState
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Trump tells supporters to vote early even as he still criticizes the practice
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Avoids ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson As GOP Cuts His Cash  —  WHISTLE FOR IT!  —  The GOP is distancing itself from its controversial nominee for North Carolina governor.  —  Donald Trump and the Republican Party are ditching Mark Robinson, their scandal-plagued nominee in the North Carolina governor's race.
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WRAL-TV:
Robinson rejected offers of tech help to investigate posts on porn site, sources say
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's pitch to women is getting weirder and weirder  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  🚨  —  🌀 Subscribe to Public Notice 🌀
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WCMH-TV:
Bernie Moreno says women are ‘single issue voters’ for abortion during Ohio town hall
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is still being hacked  —  Email communications from individuals associated with the Trump campaign have been hacked by malign actors within the last ten days, Popular Information has confirmed.  —  On September 18, I was sent a message from “Robert,” …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Trump hack continued into last week  —  The News  —  The alleged Iranian hack of Donald Trump's orbit continued at least until mid-September and may be ongoing, a document the hackers shared with a progressive publication reveals.  —  Iranian authorities have denied any involvement …
The Guardian:
Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel  —  Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor's pit bull around 2004  —  The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase …
Matt Egan / CNN:
Over 400 economists and ex-officials endorse Kamala Harris  —  New York CNN —  More than 400 economists and former high-ranking US policymakers are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and her vision for the American economy, according to a document announcing the endorsement seen by CNN.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
2024 Election Environment Favorable to GOP  —  Party affiliation, GOP issue advantages, economic pessimism among key factors  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly all Gallup measures that have shown some relationship to past presidential election outcomes or that speak to current perceptions …
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Harris backs ending filibuster for abortion rights legislation  —  “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom,” the vice president said.
Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
‘Get them the hell out’: Trump continues attacks on legal immigrants in Ohio town  —  The former president made the comments about Springfield, Ohio, during a campaign rally Monday in Pennsylvania.  —  Former president Donald Trump continued attacking the immigrant population in an Ohio town during …
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Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump in Pa.: Digressions, threats and vows to be ‘protector’ of women
Discussion: Alternet.org and Rolling Stone
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Washington Post:
Why Mike Johnson won't get McCarthy'd
Discussion: Politico and Alternet.org
emptywheel:
The Habitual Lies on Which Trump Has Built His Attack on Rule on Law  —  Credit where it's due: WaPo has already published two stories this week that attempt to cover Trump like the conman he is, rather than the good faith politician he is often treated as.  —  Yesterday, Ashley Parker wrote …
Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post and Raw Story
Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Head of United Nations calls global situation ‘unsustainable’ as annual meeting of leaders opens  —  U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders Tuesday that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are creating an “unsustainable world” where a growing number of countries believe …
Discussion: Reuters and Los Angeles Times
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Biden to deliver final U.N. General Assembly speech amid global turmoil as election nears
Brett Murphy / ProPublica:
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded.  Antony Blinken Rejected Them.  —  Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development …
Discussion: The Hill and Frontpage Mag
Punchbowl News:
Trump MIA on NRCC fundraising  —  Vice President Kamala Harris recently transferred $10 million to the DCCC.  How much has former President Donald Trump given the NRCC?  Not one red cent.  —  Trump also has yet to appear at a major fundraising event for the NRCC, leaving a huge, eight-figure hole in the committee's budget.
Discussion: Washington Post
Mary B. McCord / Just Security:
Absolute Presidential Immunity and the Evasion of Checks and Balances: My Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee  —  The Supreme Court's immunity decision in Trump v. United States has rightly received strong criticism from legal analysts, including me (here, and here, for example).
Discussion: Raw Story and Common Dreams
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Republicans are more likely to believe false claims about immigrants  —  A third of immigrants — and nearly half of those from Asia — say Trump's false claims about them have had a negative effect.  —  When Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), amplified baseless …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge blocks employee abortion, IVF protections at thousands of Catholic employers nationwide  —  A federal judge in North Dakota issued an injunction on Monday blocking the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from protecting any employees of any members …
NBC News:
Idaho man charged with threatening to kill Trump in phone calls to Mar-a-Lago  —  Warren Jones Crazybull made at least nine threatening phone calls to the former president's residence, prosecutors said in court documents.  —  An Idaho man has been charged with threatening to kill Donald Trump …
Discussion: New York Post
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Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Man Repeatedly Threatened To Assassinate Trump In 9 Calls To Mar-A-Lago, Secret Service Says
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Raw Story, CNN and CNBC
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Kamala Harris Should Explain WHY She's The Underdog  —  She's running into antidemocratic headwinds and must foil Donald Trump's dirty tricks—more people should know that!  —  ∙ Paid  —  Over the weekend, I inserted myself into an argument between Greg Sargent and Rich Yeselson …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The danger of a Trump campaign on a losing trajectory  —  Talk of Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield conceals Trump's tour of sundown towns in battleground states  —  Gore Vidal was correct when he damningly observed that the American people do not have a memory of the last week.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Rajeev Syal / The Guardian:
Top Tories and Trump helped create ‘overt racism’ in UK, says Labour minister
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Wall Street Journal:
Top Economist in China Vanishes After Private WeChat Comments
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Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Pubs could be forced to shut early in new Labour nanny state blow
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
What Will Mitt Romney Do if Trump Wins?
Discussion: The Hill, Deseret News and Raw Story
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A Supreme Court justice warned this ruling would cause ‘large-scale disruption.’ It's already happening
Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Harris won't say if she still backs decriminalizing prostitution
Associated Press:
Trump listens during a farming event in rural Pennsylvania, then threatens John Deere with tariffs
 

 
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