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Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode — Vice President Kamala Harris has called Trump, 78, unstable and questioned his mental acuity. — OAKS, Pa. — The town hall, moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R), began with questions from preselected attendees for the former president.
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
Trump Bobs His Head to Music for 30 Minutes in Odd Town Hall Detour — After multiple interruptions, Donald Trump cut off questions and seemed to decide that it would be more enjoyable for all concerned — and, it appeared, for himself — if he fired up his campaign playlist.
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HuffPost, The Guardian, ComingSoon.net, The Daily Beast, The Hill and PoliticusUSA
Charles R. Davis / Salon:
“Trump appears lost”: Alarm after Trump town hall abruptly turns into “bizarre” musical event — For more than a half hour, the former president stood on stage listening to music instead of answering questions — For just under 40 minutes, the Republican candidate who won't release …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump turns town hall into “music fest” after medical emergencies in crowd
Trump turns town hall into “music fest” after medical emergencies in crowd
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Washington Post, NPR, CBS News, The Hill, USA Today, Mediaite, New York Post, NBC News, Forbes and The Guardian
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Harris Goes On Fox. Trump Sticks to the Henhouse. — Three weeks to go! Happy Tuesday. — Playing to Win — by Andrew Egger — Until now, Kamala Harris's campaign has executed a smooth, hit-for-average strategy that has largely avoided big risks. Now, with three weeks to go, she's swinging for the fences.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Kamala Harris could join podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview - sources — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could sit down with popular podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.
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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Big Mad That Fox News Is Interviewing Harris — After the network announced that the vice president would sit down for an interview, Trump raged on social media — REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Donald Trump, increasingly prone to temper tantrums and outbursts of violent rhetoric …
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Kaei Li / Democracy Docket:
Georgia Election Officials Have a Duty to Certify Results, Judge Rules — A Georgia judge ruled yesterday that certifying election results is a mandatory duty for county election officials. — In his opinion, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney stated that …
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Los Angeles Times, Forbes, New Republic and New Jersey Monitor
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Election certification in Georgia is mandatory, judge says
Election certification in Georgia is mandatory, judge says
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Plots to Declare 2024 ‘Rigged’ — Using GOP Efforts to Slow the Vote Count — The former president and his allies have worked to make sure 2024 mail-in ballots are counted slowly, so he can again demand officials “stop the count” — WITH JUST WEEKS left in the 2024 presidential contest …
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Axios
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump's GOP moves to dramatically revamp election rules
Trump's GOP moves to dramatically revamp election rules
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ProPublica, KDFX-TV and Associated Press
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The Kavanaugh cover-up — Over the last few years, the Supreme Court majority has issued a series of rulings that have fundamentally reshaped America — ending federal protections for abortion rights, upending the ability of federal agencies to issue regulations, and granting the president near-total immunity from criminal prosecution.
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Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Travesty Justice: How the FBI's Failure to Vet Brett Facilitated Kavanaugh's Confirmation — A new Senate report exposes the fatal flaws in the Bureau's supplemental investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Justice Kavanaugh—and six years of executive-branch stonewalling.
Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina governor candidate Mark Robinson sues CNN over report about posts on porn site — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced a lawsuit Tuesday against CNN over its recent report alleging he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website's message board, calling the reporting reckless and defamatory.
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Trump Abruptly Cancels Another Mainstream TV Interview — PULLS OUT AGAIN — CNBC co-host Joe Kernen announced on air that the previously unknown interview had been canceled. — SILENT TREATMENT — The former House speaker played a key role in convincing her old friend to abandon his re-election bid.
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Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Trump Leans On Creative Bookkeeping to Keep Up in Cash Race — Donald J. Trump's official campaign committee has a payroll of fewer than a dozen and has found ways for another account to pick up the tab for his rallies. — Donald J. Trump's political operation has been taking extraordinary measures …
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Michael Isikoff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Manager Chris LaCivita's Multi-Million Payday Revealed
Trump's Campaign Manager Chris LaCivita's Multi-Million Payday Revealed
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CBS News, OpenSecrets.org, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and National Zero
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Neil Gorsuch's New Book Is an Embarrassment — The conservative Supreme Court justice produced a tendentious account of the legal system in service of a political narrative — and he won't answer his critics. — The Supreme Court began its new term last week at a perilous moment for the institution.
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Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Journalist says FBI visited after he published hacked Vance document — An independent journalist says he was visited by the FBI after he published materiel allegedly obtained through an Iranian hack of former President Trump's campaign. — “The Bureau told me that I had been the target …
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Ars Technica
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
The Glaring Truth About That Man With Guns Arrested at a Trump Rally — MAGA Republicans have begun touting the arrest of an armed man outside Donald Trump's rally Saturday as a “thwarted” third assassination attempt, but federal investigators said that there was no indication that the man …
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Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
This Awesome Walz Speech Got Almost No Press Coverage — Coach revs up the Motor City — On Friday, Tim Walz dropped a powerful pro-union speech in front of a crowd filled of workers in Detroit, just a day after Trump trashed the city. Walz sent a clear, stern message that he and Kamala Harris …
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Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
Kamala Lays Smackdown On Trump, Crooked Press Ignores it
Kamala Lays Smackdown On Trump, Crooked Press Ignores it
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The Economist:
The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust — “On present policies and performance, the United States is condemned to slower growth than the other main industrial countries for the foreseeable future.” So declared the Competitiveness Policy Council …
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Live coverage: Georgia on track for record first day of voting as state preps for swing-state scrutiny — Early voting begins Tuesday in Georgia and with it comes big election developments, including: — A pivotal hearing in a lawsuit alleging the state Election Board overstepped …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Fascist Romp — Over the past week, Donald Trump has been on a fascist romp. At rallies in Colorado and California, he amped up his usual rants, and added a rancid grace note by suggesting that a woman heckler should “get the hell knocked out of her” by her mother after she gets back home.
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
'That's You': Tim Walz Sounds the Alarm on Trump Threatening to Sic the Military on ‘The Enemy From Within’
'That's You': Tim Walz Sounds the Alarm on Trump Threatening to Sic the Military on ‘The Enemy From Within’
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CNN:
US suggests military aid to Israel is at risk in letter demanding more aid for Gaza — The Biden administration sent a letter to the Israeli government demanding it act to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within the next 30 days or risk violating US laws governing foreign military assistance …
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Axios, Middle East Monitor, New York Post, Exposing the role … and Washington Examiner
Maya Boddie / Alternet.org:
‘Donald Trump gives up on speaking’: Fox News correspondent blasts ‘strange’ MAGA town hall — Fox News national correspondent Bryan Llenas detailed his experience as a Donald Trump town hall attendee in Oaks, Pennsylvania Monday night, after the former president stopped speaking and “started playing music” instead.
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Rolling Stone, New Republic and Daily Mail