Harris campaign: The Iowa poll is exciting, but...  Democrats were giddy Saturday when a gold-standard poll found Kamala Harris narrowly leading Donald Trump in deep-red Iowa.  But Harris' senior campaign officials are cautioning against getting too excited about the Des Moines Register survey.

Trump talks about reporters being shot and says he shouldn't have left White House after 2020 loss  —  Donald Trump gave a profane and conspiracy-laden speech two days before the presidential election, talking about reporters being shot and suggesting he “shouldn't have left” the White House after his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump Boasts ‘Every Rally Is Full’ as Camera Immediately Pans to Empty Seats, People Leaving  —  The former president falsely claimed his rallies “do not have any seats that are empty”  —  A savvy camera operator fact checked Donald Trump live.  —  During his rally in Greensboro …

Canvassers for Elon Musk's America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out  —  A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans.  They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.

Trump doesn't rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president: 'I'll make a decision'  —  In an interview with NBC News, the former president also said that a push by RFK Jr. to remove fluoride in water “sounds OK to me.”  —  Former President Donald Trump said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have a …

Apology Not Accepted  —  I woke up yesterday morning to learn that Don Trump—the famed rapist, convicted felon, and white christian presidential candidate—had mimed performing a blowjob on his microphone stand to the clear delight of his crowd.  —  There's a famous Christian thinker named Jesus H. Christ …

Ann Selzer: How Could This Be?  —  Few states are as red as Iowa, and yet the legendary Iowa pollster Ann Selzer found that Kamala has leapfrogged over Trump to take the lead there.  The turnaround is due to women—particularly women 65 and older, who previously tilted toward Trump, but now favor Kamala 63% to 28%.

GOP candidate Tim Sheehy says medical records don't exist for gunshot wound  —  In May, the candidate said it was “insulting and ridiculous” that he would be asked to provide them.  —  Tim Sheehy, the Montana Republican nominee for Senate, said in an interview with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly …

CNN Exclusive: Bill Clinton has hopes and fears on what comes after 2024 - for the country, the party and himself  —  Michigan's West Coast CNN —  Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality - potentially American democracy's or the Democratic Party's, but also his own.

Cruz on McConnell's replacement: I want a ‘leader who changes how the Senate operates’  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he hopes whoever replaces Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) atop the Senate GOP is someone who will change “how the Senate operates.”

Why business leaders are worried about JD Vance  —  They've watched the party move away from them under Donald Trump.  They're worried his chosen successor could accelerate the shift.  —  Business leaders watched with growing frustration as Donald Trump pushed the Republican Party toward …

FCC commissioner claims Harris on ‘SNL’ violates ‘equal time’ rule  —  A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner has claimed that Vice President Harris's recent appearance on “Saturday Night Live” violates the “equal time” rule.  —  “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade …

2024's biggest gaffe?  GOP telling the truth about what it will do to America.  —  The most wildly misunderstood yet commonly used word in American politics is “gaffe.”  The dictionary defines it as “an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder” — and that's not wrong.