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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Yet Another Mark Robinson Eye-Popper — Donald Trump's legal troubles have been out of the news lately, but they may be coming back in a major way. Per CNN: … Remember back when it was going to be a tentpole of this race that Donald Trump is a felon? Hey, you never know. Happy Wednesday.
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New York Times, The Daily Beast, Tangle, CNN, New Republic, NC Newsline and Raw Story
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Republicans' Electoral College Edge, Once Seen as Ironclad, Looks to Be Fading — A review of the evidence that Donald Trump's advantage relative to the national popular vote has declined significantly. — Ever since Donald J. Trump's stunning victory in 2016 — when he lost the popular vote …
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OutsideTheBeltway and The Bulwark
Erin Doherty / Axios:
Biden insists he would have beaten “loser” Trump … - Polling after Biden's shaky June debate performance — before he suspended his campaign — also showed that the majority of voters believed that the Democratic Party would perform better with a different candidate atop the ticket.
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The Hill, New Republic, ABC News, New Jersey Online, Twitchy, CBS News, Deadline, New York Times, Washington Examiner and Reuters
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Marni Rose McFall / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris Announces First Solo Network Interview Since Democratic Nomination — will be interviewed by Stephanie Ruhle in Pittsburgh Wednesday night, in what will be her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic nominee. — The interview will air on
NBC News:
Harris to flesh out her economic vision in Pittsburgh, pitching ‘pragmatic’ approach
Harris to flesh out her economic vision in Pittsburgh, pitching ‘pragmatic’ approach
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Associated Press, ABC News, NPR, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Washington Post, Bloomberg, CBS News and Blue Virginia
Elena Moore / NPR:
A new poll of young voters shows Harris with a commanding 31 point lead over Trump
A new poll of young voters shows Harris with a commanding 31 point lead over Trump
Ingrid Vasquez / People:
Donald Trump's Sexual Assault Accusers Tell Their Stories in Chilling New Ads (Exclusive) — Ads launching on Wednesday, Sept. 25, feature two of the presidential nominee's accusers, including former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff — George Conway, the ex-husband of former Donald Trump …
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Jamie Frevele / Mediaite:
‘I Tried to Push Him, He Kept Coming Back At Me’: Trump's Sexual Assault Accusers Speak Out in Chilling 2024 Election Ad — Former President Donald Trump declared this week that he would be a “protector” of women. In a pair of campaign ads, two women described how the ex-president sexually assaulted them.
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Anti-Psychopath Political …, HuffPost, New York Daily News and Daily Kos
Politico:
‘He should be doing better’: Even some Trump allies see him veering off course — While polls show an incredibly close race, some of Trump's allies are concerned about his lack of focus. — Donald Trump was meeting privately in mid-September with one of his oldest friends, Steve Wynn …
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Washington Post, Raw Story and Alternet.org
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Max Burns / The Hill:
Voters aren't buying into Trump's political fantasy world anymore — Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 in part by creating a parallel universe where everything was going wrong. Violent migrants were flooding into the country, Trump argued. Crime was at an all-time high.
ProPublica:
Neo-Nazi Telegram Users Panic Amid Crackdown and Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Online Extremist Group — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — This story is part of a collaboration between FRONTLINE …
Dave Collins / Associated Press:
Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ' Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims …
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Alex Jones' Infowars Will Be Sold for Parts at Auction to Pay Sandy Hook Families
Alex Jones' Infowars Will Be Sold for Parts at Auction to Pay Sandy Hook Families
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Mother Jones, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Axios:
Scoop: Senate Democrats prepare Florida and Texas offensives … - But Democrats are signaling they want to expand the playing field and be in a position to steal Republican seats in states like Florida. … - They are also eyeing Texas, where a recent poll has Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) …
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Joe.My.God., Raw Story, WFAA-TV and Florida Politics
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Hateful New Rants at Rally Are Harshly Debunked by Town Leader — They are taking from us. At bottom, that's a key message that Donald Trump and his partner in slime, J.D. Vance, are running on when they falsely attack immigrants for eating pets, spreading diseases …
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Alternet.org, Raw Story, Washington Post and New York Times
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News does not have an independent decision desk — The 2020 cycle shows that network executives can overrule its calls — Fox News depicts the “decision desk” that calls elections for the network as an independent, data-driven body cordoned off from its right-wing propaganda machine.
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Nina Martin / Mother Jones:
Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Record Number of Women Were Prosecuted the Year After Dobbs — One night in March of 2023, Amari Marsh went to the bathroom and suffered a miscarriage. “I screamed because I was scared, because I didn't know what was going on,” she recently recalled.
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Pregnancy Justice, CNN, The Root, Alternet.org, Alabama Reflector, Alabama Public Radio and CBS News
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Donald Trump and Bernie Moreno rage at “crazy” female voters who refuse to fall in line — MAGA candidates can't hide their irritation that women are allowed to think for themselves — As Steve Kornacki of NBC News explained Monday, the polling gender gap between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is “off the charts.”
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NBC News, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Republicans keep coming up with new ways to insult women
Republicans keep coming up with new ways to insult women
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HuffPost, Ohio Capital Journal, NBC News, WCMH-TV, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Lawyers, Guns & Money, New Republic, Daily Kos, Mediaite and CBS News
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Donald Trump Cut Ties to Some Online Fund-Raisers — The campaign also reduced the commission retained by the remaining vendors, as the former president falls behind Vice President Kamala Harris in the cash race. — Former President Donald J. Trump's campaign cut ties late last week …
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Joe.My.God.
Paul Farhi / Vanity Fair:
Why News Outlets Are Sitting on Hacked Trump Documents — The pilfered VP-vetting materials failed the “newsworthy” test, says New York Times editor Joseph Kahn. Politico and The Washington Post also passed on publishing docs from the breach, which—as Popular Information revealed Tuesday …
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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
JD Vance: Political heroin dealer — 🚨 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 💉
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Kushner's Fund Has Reaped Millions in Fees, but So Far Returned No Profits — The son-in-law of former President Donald J. Trump has said he has intentionally moved slowly to invest investors' money, which came primarily from foreign entities. — The private equity firm run by Jared Kushner …
Jordain Carney / Politico:
House GOP launches investigation into Zelenskyy's Pennsylvania visit — House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer launched an investigation on Wednesday into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent visit to an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania. House Republicans have already cried foul …
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Axios, Fox News, RedState, PoliticusUSA, Townhall and Washington Examiner
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
Biden Delivers Inspirational UN Speech — “Some things are more important than staying in power” — Yesterday President Biden gave his final speech in front of the United Nations. And while it got corporate media's attention, in most cases they used it as a hit piece on Biden's legacy.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, E&E News, New York Post, WHTM-TV and Reuters
The Hill:
Trump makes last-minute push for alternative stopgap with voting provisions — Former President Trump is making a last-minute push for House Republicans to adopt a short-term government funding package that includes language pertaining to voting, multiple sources told The Hill.
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The Maine Wire
Hillary Rodham Clinton / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: To err is human, to empathize is superhuman — Is there any way to drain the fever swamps so we can stand together on firmer, higher ground? … Like anyone who is trying to understand how normal people get drawn into a life of hate and violence, I went for a canoe ride.
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Althouse
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Nothing to See Here, Just a Man of the People Hangin' With the Soroses — Who in the world thought this would make a great photo op for Tim Walz? — Besides Donald Trump, that is? — Frankly, I'm surprised this is still up after a few hours. Twitchy picked up Alex Soros' weird photo op overnight …
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Twitchy, Fox News, New York Post and The Daily Caller
Oren Cass / The Atlantic:
Trump's Most Misunderstood Policy Proposal — Donald Trump's proposal to impose tariffs as high as 60 percent on imports from China, and a global tariff of 10 to 20 percent, takes the right approach to addressing globalization's failures—but it has drawn resounding mockery from economists, and, in turn, from the mainstream media.
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Cafe Hayek, The National Pulse, Business Insider, Reuters, The Hill, Associated Press and Bloomberg
Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:
Trump Calls On Apple to Decrypt Phones of Would-Be Assassins … The former president said that the FBI had been unable to access “three potentially foreign-based apps” on the phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Pennsylvania man who shot at and grazed Trump's ear during a rally in July.
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New Republic and Washington Times
Chris Hughes / New York Times:
Why Do People Like Elon Musk Love Donald Trump? It's Not Just About Money. — On a Friday morning in May, a day after Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in a scheme to influence the 2016 election by falsifying business records, I met a tech leader for breakfast in the Flatiron district of Manhattan.
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The Daily Caller
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Democrats take legal action against Georgia election board — Democrats are accusing three GOP members of the State Election Board of holding an illegal meeting and illegally passing rules critics say will sow chaos in the presidential race. — Three Democrats have asked a state court …