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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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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
House passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown
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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Liam Archacki / The Daily Beast:   ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson Defended White Actor's Drunken N-Word Rant
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Republicans' Electoral College Edge, Once Seen as Ironclad, Looks to Be Fading
Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway and The Bulwark
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
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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.
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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Marni Rose McFall / Newsweek:
Kamala Harris Announces First Solo Network Interview Since Democratic Nomination
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
A Wisconsin Mayor Took Issue With a Ballot Drop Box Decision, So He Took the Drop Box  —  Mayor Doug Diny of Wausau, Wis., said the City Council should have been consulted before the installation.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court had said authority rested with the city clerk.
Discussion: Wausau Pilot & Review and WPR
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Shereen Siewert / Wausau Pilot & Review:
Wausau mayor moves ballot box in controversial act  —  Wausau Mayor Doug Diny is facing scrutiny after video surveillance footage showed him carting the city's outdoor ballot drop box inside on Sunday while sporting a Department of Public Works jacket and hard hat.
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
GOP lawmaker deletes racist social media post after swift backlash  —  Rep. Clay Higgins deleted a social media post Wednesday with racist tropes about Haitians after swift backlash from his congressional colleagues, including a call to censure him on the House floor.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
CBC calls for GOP lawmaker to be censured for post attacking Haitians as ‘thugs’
Russell Payne / Salon:
“The evidence will be powerful”: Legal experts say Jack Smith about to drop a bomb in Trump case  —  Legal scholars expect a bitter fight over what evidence may be redacted from the public  —  Special counsel Jack Smith is expected to submit an “oversized” brief in former President Donald …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Says Adams Should Resign ‘for the Good of the City’  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the most prominent elected official to call for Mayor Eric Adams to no longer lead New York City.  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on Wednesday …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Secret Service agent under investigation for alleged sex assault on Harris aide … The U.S. Secret Service is investigating allegations that one of its agents sexually assaulted a female staff member of the office of Vice President Kamala Harris, the agency confirmed Wednesday.
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NBC News:
Secret Service agent placed on leave after ‘misconduct allegation’ with Harris staffer
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Armed Man Claims He Came Within Feet of Obama Outside L.A. Restaurant  —  DODGED A BULLET  —  The security guard, who declined to be identified, told TMZ that it was a clear “security lapse” by the Secret Service.  —  An armed security guard claims he came within a few feet …
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TMZ.com:
Barack Obama's Secret Service Detail Penetrated, Armed Man Walks Up to SUV
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Root
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Nice Little Jewish Community You Have Here  —  Donald Trump's former longtime adviser Michael Cohen has said of the ex-president, whom he has likened to a Mob boss: “He speaks in code.”  Trump used the code last week to send a warning to American Jews.  “If I don't win this election,” …
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 …
The Verge:
Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone  —  Meta's CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he's done with politics, and more. … We have a very special episode of Decoder today.  It's become a tradition every fall to have Verge deputy editor …
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 …
Faith Wardwell / NBC News:
Poll: Project 2025 is broadly known and severely unpopular with voters  —  Democrats have sought to tie Trump to the conservative policy roadmap linked to some of his top supporters, even as the Republican distances himself.  —  Nearly all voters who are familiar with Project 2025 …
Discussion: Alternet.org and New Republic
The Hill:
Trio of sex scandals create unwelcome September surprises for GOP  —  A trio of sex scandals are becoming September surprises for Republicans, creating unnecessary distractions as the party seeks to win control of the White House and Congress this fall.  —  It's unclear if any of the controversies …
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Harris Casts Herself as a Pro-Business Pragmatist in a Broad Economic Pitch  —  Declaring “I am a capitalist” in a speech in Pittsburgh, Kamala Harris promised not to be “constrained by ideology” even as she said she would fiercely defend unions and the middle class.
Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
Republicans Seem To Be A Far Greater Threat To Pets Than Immigrants  —  Some of them have actually killed dogs!  —  LOADING  —  JD Vance, Donald Trump and other Republicans are clinging to a racist and thoroughly debunked lie that a group of legal immigrants in Ohio are abducting, killing and eating people's pets.
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Independent Challenger Overtakes Nebraska's Republican Senator in New Poll, Drops Scathing New Ad  —  Independent candidate Dan Osborn's run to oust Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) this November has grabbed national attention as polls have shown a surprisingly close race …
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Alex Jones' Infowars Will Be Sold for Parts at Auction to Pay Sandy Hook Families  —  UNDER THE HAMMER  —  The sale is still only expected to raise a fraction of what he owes.  —  Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars will be sold for parts to pay towards the more than $1 billion he owes …
Washington Post:
Russia's nuclear doctrine to include attacks on nonnuclear states  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said non-nuclear states supported by nuclear ones could face Russia's nuclear deterrent in an expansion of its policy.  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin made a fresh nuclear threat …
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.
WRAL-TV:
Top members of Robinson's state office to resign in wake of porn-site report  —  The resignations, to take effect in the coming days, follow the departures of at least eight members of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's gubernatorial campaign.  Robinson has denied allegations made in a CNN report …
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 …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Republicans Have A Nazi Problem  —  The problem is that they're brimming with Nazis  —  Left intellectuals have argued in circles for years over whether it's academically valid to call Trump and his Republican devotees fascist.  —  The debate has mostly pitted practical thinkers …
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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