Month: August 2024

The Elon Musk / Donald Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster  The Vergesource

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley called on Republicans to get over Vice President Harris being the Democratic nominee, saying they should “quit whining” and focus on defeating her at the ballot box. Haley told Fox News’s Bret Baier on Tuesday that she anticipated the switch from President Biden to Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee,…
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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday that Republicans need to “make a serious shift” if they want to win the November election, focusing in on key demographics with whom they can gain on Vice President Harris in the polls. Haley told Fox News’s Bret Baier that former President Trump should stop discussing frivolous talking…
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Trump-Musk interview live: Trump bizarrely likens Harris to wife Melania in rambling, tech-plagued X interview  The Independentsource

Now-retired Sen. Richard Burr voted to convict Trump in 2021 for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and misses  POLITICO Europesource

Neera Tanden, a top official in the Biden White House, expressed outrage over what she called a “double standard” in the media’s response to a hack of the Trump campaign after her communications were extensively covered following a 2016 hack of the Clinton campaign. Tanden, who leads the White House Domestic Policy Council, aired her…
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Column | Musk’s chat with Trump was a peek inside the right-wing bubble  The Washington Postsource

Harris in ‘striking distance’ of Trump in Florida, pollster says  The Hillsource

Former Pro-Trump County Clerk Is Found Guilty of Tampering With Voting Machines  The New York Timessource

Cyberattack, inflation, immigration: Six takeaways from Trump-Musk chat  Al Jazeera Englishsource

Trump to sue DOJ for $100M over Mar-a-Lago raid, alleging ‘political persecution’  Fox Newssource

Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk  The Guardian USsource

FBI says it’s investigating efforts to hack Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns  NBC Newssource

The ex-Arizona governor defied Trump by certifying the state’s 2020 election results and once claimed that Lake was “misleading” voters.

Trump and Musk host friendly conversation on X after delay from technical difficulties  CNNsource

Republicans have reportedly been pleading with Trump to stay on message — but his campaign just can’t seem to help itself.

Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) said Tuesday he would put his “differences aside” to vote for former President Trump and Senate candidate Kari Lake (R) in November, despite previous tensions with both individuals. “Much is on the line this election year & I’m encouraging all eligible Arizonans to vote & prioritize the issues that…
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The Musk-Trump X interview: a surprisingly dull meeting of two planet-sized egos  The Guardian USsource

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s X Interview Took Forever to Start, Then Never Ended  WIREDsource

Kamala Harris Takes Nine Point Lead Over Donald Trump in Wisconsin Poll  Newsweeksource

Former President Trump on Tuesday attacked media outlets over coverage of his lengthy chat with billionaire Elon Musk on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, which the mogul owns. “I spent 2 1/2 hours last night talking to Elon, a fantastic guy, getting all-time record Views/hits, and all the Fake News wants to report…
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Vice President Harris is nipping at former President Trump’s heels in his home state of Florida, a pollster from Suffolk University says after a new Sunshine State survey. The USA Today/Suffolk University/WSVN-TV poll found Harris just 5 points behind Trump among likely Florida voters, 42 percent to 47 percent, just outside the poll’s margin of…
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Rambling Trump, Musk interview marred by tech issues  Reuterssource

The Republican Party is no longer the party of free markets and small government. The 2024 GOP platform explicitly calls to “fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.” Sen. JD Vance, the party’s vice presidential nominee, has expressed sympathy for the “Bernie Bros” who supported progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders’s…
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