Month: August 2024

Harris slices Trump’s national lead in half: New polling average  The Hillsource

Donald Trump’s Interview With Black Journalists Ends Abruptly  Newsweeksource

Trump’s nephew on why he’s voting for Kamala Harris  CNNsource

Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) first entered popular culture selling a caricature of Appalachian culture to eager elite consumers on both the political right and left. His 2016 book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” spent a whopping 36 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, twice…
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Maryland Senate candidate Larry Hogan (R) took a subtle dig at former President Trump Wednesday, after the GOP nominee questioned Vice President Harris’s racial identity during a combative interview at the National Association of Black Journalist’s conference in Chicago. “It’s unacceptable and abhorrent to attack Vice President Harris or anyone’s racial identity,” Hogan, the former…
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Trump Falsely Claims Harris Hasn’t Always Identified as Black  TIMEsource

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said former President Trump’s comments on Wednesday questioning Vice President Harris’s heritage as a Black woman represent an effort to “deflect” from key issues in the election and “divide” the country. “This is a standard playbook for Donald Trump to try to deflect and divide,” Booker said in an interview on…
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Trump lies about Kamala Harris’ race, bashes moderator at Black journalists convention in Chicago  Chicago Sun-Timessource

No matter what you thought about President Biden’s fitness to serve another term, we’re past that. Now we can focus on what the frontrunner candidates for 2024 actually want to do.  This is, sadly, not always easy.   Policy questions are complicated. It’s hard for regular voters — people with, you know, jobs, bills and…
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It’s all about relevance, claimed former Trump White House communications director Mike Dubke.

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) is calling on Republicans to “stop the trash talk” leading up to November, arguing such attacks will do little to shore up support for the GOP ticket. “As Donald Trump and my fellow Republicans navigate the next steps of their campaigns, my message to them is this: The path…
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Trump questions Harris’s Black identity. Harris says Americans ‘deserve better.’  The Washington Postsource

Compared to almost any other economy in the world, the U.S. is in great shape today, but with three important caveats:  First, the economic divides are too great. Second, the shortsighted behavior of corporations has led to underinvestment and a lack of resilience. Third, the right’s drive to hamstring governments has led to insufficient public…
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Harris campaign knocks Trump’s ‘tirade’ at NABJ  The Hillsource

One underreported proposal in Project 2025 would give the government a chilling amount of power to track Americans’ health care.

Trump Falsely Claims Kamala Harris ‘Happened To Turn Black’ At Heated Chicago Interview  Block Club Chicagosource

Trump Flipped Out That ‘Lunatic’ Project 2025 Could Tank His Campaign  Rolling Stonesource

Harris hits Trump for showing NABJ “disrespect”  Axiossource

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After combative interview at NABJ convention, Trump faces new criticism  PBS NewsHoursource

Some Republicans Embrace Conspiracy Theories on Trump Assassination Attempt  The New York Timessource

Trump mocks Harris’s heritage: ‘She happened to turn Black’  The Hillsource

Trump attacks ABC News reporter during tense NABJ interview  The Hillsource

Trump on Harris’ race: ‘Didn’t know she was Black’  MSNBCsource

And it wasn’t the former president’s racist comments about likely Democratic rival Kamala Harris.