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Qasim Rashid / Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid:
Walz vs Vance: Fact Checking the VP Debate — Tim Walz and JD Vance met for their first and only Vice Presidential debate. Below I provide a comprehensive analysis on 10 of the most salient questions and subjects. We have a lot to cover so let's dive in. Likewise, please consider subscribing to support my work and advocacy.
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Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
The One Question That Mattered in the VP Debate — IN TUESDAY NIGHT'S VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, JD Vance and Tim Walz covered lots of issues: inflation, housing, guns, abortion, immigration, health care, and much more. — But there was only one question on which the vice presidency …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At debate, Vance whines: You weren't supposed to fact-check me! — Republican vice-presidential nominee brings a Magic Drawing Board to his face-off with Tim Walz. — Half an hour into Tuesday night's vice-presidential debate, JD Vance lodged a whiny protest.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
CNN's Acosta tangles with Lewandowski: 'You won't admit the truth'
CNN's Acosta tangles with Lewandowski: 'You won't admit the truth'
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
JD Vance Was So Good, It May Drive Trump Crazy
JD Vance Was So Good, It May Drive Trump Crazy
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Trump's decompensation was the big debate day story
Stefan Becket / CBS News:
Read the full VP debate transcript from the Walz-Vance showdown
Read the full VP debate transcript from the Walz-Vance showdown
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking the VP debate between Vance and Walz
Fact-checking the VP debate between Vance and Walz
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Vance-Walz Debate Draws 43 Million Viewers, Below 2020 Level
Vance-Walz Debate Draws 43 Million Viewers, Below 2020 Level
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ABC News:
Bombshell immunity filing details Trump's alleged ‘increasingly desperate’ bid to overturn 2020 election — Trump privately described claims of voter fraud as “crazy,” the filing says. — In this July 31, 2024, file photo, Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump waits …
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The Hill:
Jack Smith makes case for Trump Jan. 6 prosecution in wake of immunity decision — Special counsel Jack Smith laid out the pathway for his election interference case against Donald Trump in the wake of the Supreme Court's immunity decision, describing the former president's bid to thwart …
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CBS News:
Key takeaways from special counsel Jack Smith's major filing in Trump's 2020 election case — Washington — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has made public a key filing from special counsel Jack Smith that includes evidence compiled in his investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged efforts …
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Politico:
Jack Smith lays out his case against Trump in vivid detail — In a newly unsealed legal brief, the special counsel revealed private, detailed conversations Trump had with GOP officials in his bid to subvert the 2020 election. — As his bid to hold on to power in 2020 grew increasingly desperate …
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CBS News:
CBS News VP debate poll shows voter reactions to Vance-Walz showdown — In the first — and likely only — vice-presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance, voters who watched Tuesday night said it was an almost even match, and an overwhelming majority felt the tone of the debate was positive.
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Joe Navarro / Politico:
8 Body Language Tells From the Vice Presidential Debate
8 Body Language Tells From the Vice Presidential Debate
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Wall Street Journal:
Vance Makes a Better Case for Trump Than Trump
Vance Makes a Better Case for Trump Than Trump
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Melanie Mason / Politico:
Dead even: POLITICO snap poll shows stark division on debate
Dead even: POLITICO snap poll shows stark division on debate
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Washington Post:
Trump mixes up words, swerves among subjects in off-topic speech — The Republican nominee appeared tired and complained about his heightened campaign schedule. — MILWAUKEE — Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke for 33 minutes before his first mention of the ostensible focus of his remarks.
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Marin Scotten / Salon:
Trump backs out of “60 Minutes” interview after appearing “scattered” and incoherent in Wisconsin — Trump's decision to pull out of the event came after he made confused and incoherent remarks on Tuesday — Former President Donald Trump backed out of an interview with “60 Minutes,” …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump and his allies are not planning to concede another electoral loss — The former president and his allies are making it clear, repeatedly, that the only outcome they will accept without hesitation is one where he is the victor. — The reason that it is important to ask Sen. JD Vance …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir — Exclusive: ‘I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life’, former first lady writes in memoir — Melania Trump made an extraordinary declaration in an eagerly awaited memoir to be published …
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff ‘forcefully slapped ex-girlfriend for flirting with another man’ in booze-fueled assault after date to star-studded gala — Vice President Kamala Harris's husband assaulted his ex-girlfriend, three friends have told Dailymail.com.
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Diana Falzone / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Multiple Women Claiming Romantic Relationships With RFK Jr. Threaten His Standing in Trump Orbit — At least three women are claiming to have had romantic relationships with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in just the last year, as he pursued a long-shot bid for the presidency, Mediaite has learned.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Internal Emails Reveal How Hate Overwhelmed Springfield After Trump's Lies About Haitian Immigrants — A cache of internal emails obtained by 404 Media using a public records request show the chaos caused by the unfounded racist conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are “eating the pets” of residents in Springfield, Ohio.
Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
500-pound US WW2 bomb explodes at Japanese airport 80 years later — A 500-pound bomb from World War II dropped by the United States on Japan exploded at a Japanese airport after nearly 80 years. — One bomb out of the 179,967 tons of bombs dropped on Japan during World War II …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
How unhinged must Trump get to even matter? — The irony is now painful. For many years now, the artsy mountain resort city of Asheville, N.C. has been marketed to a growing retiree population as a “climate refuge,” a temperate inland fortress far from the potential killer hurricanes …
Blue Virginia:
Video: Derrick Anderson's Disastrous Week Highlighted In New Advertisement, “Fake Family Guy,” Ahead of UMW Debate — “Derrick faked having a family. Now he wants to control yours.” — From the Eugene Vindman for Congress (VA07), which has been watching as their opponent …
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
In deep-blue Philly, working class voters are shifting toward Republicans — In deep-blue Philly, working class voters are shifting toward Republicans — Democrats have lost the most ground in neighborhoods where poverty rates are highest. It could hurt Kamala Harris in November.
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Cook Political Report:
Swing State Polling Finds Deadlocked Presidential Contest, ‘Blue Wall’ Senate Races Tighten — A new Cook Political Report Swing State Project Survey conducted by BSG and GS Strategy Group (September 19-25; 2,941 voters), shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading or tied with former President Donald Trump …
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Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk Gave Tens of Millions to Republican Causes Far Earlier Than Previously Known — The donations were to groups with ties to former Trump aide Stephen Miller and to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's presidential bid — Elon Musk's financial support for Republican causes has been much more extensive …
The Annenberg Public Policy Center …:
Trust in U.S. Supreme Court Continues to Sink — Driven by political partisanship, public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court has continued a downward slide since the court's 2022 Dobbs decision overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion …
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Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Oct. 7 ‘vigil for Gaza’ at University of Maryland ‘inappropriate,’ governor says — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) says he will respect a court decision allowing a “vigil for Gaza” planned at the University of Maryland on Oct. 7, but he considers it “inappropriate” to hold the event on the anniversary of Hamas's attack against Israel.
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