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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
JD Vance doesn't think he needs debate prep to defeat Tim Walz — He plans to attack Walz during the debate over his record as governor. — Ahead of his first and likely only national debate of the presidential cycle, JD Vance prepared for the event at his home in Cincinnati and virtually on Zoom.
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Libby Cathey / CBS News:
DNC trolls Trump, Vance with digital projections on NYC's Trump Tower ahead of debate — In a move intended to troll former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, ahead of the first and only vice presidential debate of 2024, the Democratic National Committee on Monday night …
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Is Pushing Donald Trump to Man Up and Debate Kamala Harris Again — ROUND TWO? — Trump's former adviser said she tried to juice Trump's ego by telling him he's like Major League Baseball standout Shohei Ohtani. — Kellyanne Conway, the former adviser to former president Donald Trump …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway: Trump didn't say ‘totally no’ to another debate — Kellyanne Conway, the former senior adviser to former President Trump, said Monday that she is still hoping Trump agrees to another debate against Vice President Harris, and noted that the former president did not say “totally no” to the prospect.
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Trump Sure Sounds Like He's Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
Trump Sure Sounds Like He's Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
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Newsweek, Boston Herald and The Hill
Associated Press:
Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene — Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia.
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Trump falsely says Georgia's governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage
Trump falsely says Georgia's governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Accuses Biden Of What He Himself Did: Withholding Aid To Storm Victims
Trump Accuses Biden Of What He Himself Did: Withholding Aid To Storm Victims
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CBS News:
Trump falsely claims Biden administration hasn't spoken with Georgia governor about Helene
Trump falsely claims Biden administration hasn't spoken with Georgia governor about Helene
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Washington Post:
Jimmy Carter turns 100 and his hometown is ringing in the milestone — He is the first American president to reach the century mark. Locals are excited to celebrate the man they know as “Mr. Jimmy.” — PLAINS, Ga. — Signs that read “Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President!” dot lawns.
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Associated Press:
Jimmy Carter and hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president's 100th birthday
Jimmy Carter and hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president's 100th birthday
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Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
Supplies arrive by plane and mule to North Carolina as Helene death toll tops 100 — Widespread devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene came into light Monday across the South, revealing a wasteland of splintered houses, crushed cargo containers and mud-covered highways in one of the worst storms in U.S. history.
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Here's how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
Here's how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
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AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Trump: Nobody Could Have Predicted a Hurricane Would Hit Mid-Hurricane Season
Trump: Nobody Could Have Predicted a Hurricane Would Hit Mid-Hurricane Season
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Washington Post:
N.C. presidential race close as Helene recovery begins, Post poll finds — Republican Mark Robinson trails by a wide margin in the race for governor following allegations of lewd and racist comments. — North Carolina voters are closely divided in the choice between Donald Trump …
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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
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John McCormack / The Dispatch:
What Happened to Tucker Carlson? — The strange journey of a pundit, Trump whisperer, and potential 2028 presidential candidate. — (Illustration by Aaron Sandford/Photos via Getty Images) — When 9/11 truthers confronted Tucker Carlson on the campaign trail ahead of the 2012 Iowa caucuses …
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Popular Information:
Hundreds of citizens wrongly stripped of voting rights in botched effort to legitimize Trump's conspiracy theory — One of the central narratives that former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing is that Democrats are planning to steal the election by using undocumented immigrants to pad their vote totals.
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Alabama Reflector, USA Today, The Daily Signal, American Greatness, Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
5 possible October surprises that could roil the Trump-Harris race — The 2024 presidential race has seen enough shocking events transpire in a few short months to fill an entire calendar year, but that doesn't mean there won't be a much-talked about October surprise looming in the final weeks of the campaign.
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Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Nevada Republicans Freak Out Over ‘Deplorable’ Statue of a Giant, Naked Trump — ‘PORNOGRAPHIC’ — A 43-foot effigy of an entirely nude Donald Trump that mysteriously appeared outside Las Vegas over the weekend has been condemned by Nevada Republicans, who slammed the “deplorable” sculpture as “pornographic.”
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Benedict Smith / Telegraph:
Giant naked Trump effigy is ‘deplorable’, say Republicans
Giant naked Trump effigy is ‘deplorable’, say Republicans
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Associated Press:
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Harris launches multimillion-dollar TV ad blitz hitting Trump's ‘concepts of a plan’ for health care — The Democratic nominee is opening an aggressive new front on health care, seeing it as a winning issue to attract voters and paint Trump in a corner. — WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Video Out of North Carolina After Hurricane Helene Is Tough Viewing — Meanwhile, eighty-two Republicans voted to shut down the government as a catastrophic storm prepared to devastate a quarter of the country. — The video evidence from western North Carolina looks like something Matthew Brady would have sent back from Antietam.
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Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Say Goodbye to Truth as We Know It If Trump and Vance Win — We'll miss government facts and science when they're gone. — AS HURRICANE HELENE RACED TOWARD FLORIDA last week, the Miami Herald seized a dramatic opportunity to remind readers that “we live and die—sometimes literally” …
Haley Byrd Wilt / NOTUS:
A Year of Fury and Feuding: GOP Lawmakers Are Still Reeling From McCarthy's Removal — “In the history of politics, it was the single stupidest thing I've ever seen,” New York Rep. Mike Lawler said. — Copy — On a normal day, the House of Representatives is chaotic, loud and full of members jockeying for power.
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