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12:55 PM ET, September 8, 2020

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New York Times:
How Trump's Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage  —  Five months ago, President Trump's re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s.  The Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated.
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Politico:
The 8 states where 2020 will be won or lost: A POLITICO deep dive  —  Within each of these swing states, the roadmap ahead for President Donald Trump and Joe Biden is clear.  Polling, however, is not.  —  POLITICO Illustration  —  Minnesota's Iron Range.  Wisconsin's “WOW” counties.
Bloomberg:
Trump Weighs Putting Up to $100 Million of His Cash Into Race  — Discussions follow heavy spending by campaign earlier in year  — Biden reported record $365 million fundraising haul in August  —  President Donald Trump has discussed spending as much as $100 million of his own money …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump defends his campaign's spending as cash advantage evaporates  —  President Donald Trump defended his campaign's financial decision-making on Tuesday, after a report provoked new scrutiny of his reelection team's spending habits and squandered cash advantage over Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump to announce SCOTUS list as early as Wednesday
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
1,000 people double-voted in Georgia primary and may face charges  —  Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Tuesday that 1,000 Georgians voted twice in the state's June 9 primary, a felony that he said will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Michael Cohen explains why Trump likes Putin, and what Trump really thinks of his supporters  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is an authoritarian, racist sexual predator, according to a new book by his former lawyer and confidant, who says Trump admires ruthless dictators and openly mocks …
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Stephen Rodrick / Rolling Stone:
Michael Cohen Says Sorry. (And That His Ex Boss Is an Asshole)
Discussion: The Hill and The Wrap
Anastasia Tsioulcas / NPR:
Trump Fired A ‘Faux-Bama,’ Michael Cohen Says In Tell-All Memoir
Discussion: UPI and Raw Story
Isaac Stone Fish / Washington Post:
Why Disney's new ‘Mulan’ is a scandal  —  The most devastating part of “Mulan,” Disney's much-anticipated live-action remake of the 1998 animated film, isn't the story.  It's the credits.  The film retells the ancient Chinese tale of Hua Mulan, a filial daughter who dresses as a man to join the army …
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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Hundreds of Americans Planted ‘Chinese Mystery Seeds’  —  What I learned by reading thousands of internal emails about the Chinese mystery seeds.  —  Jason Koebler  —  In late July, America was briefly enthralled with “Unsolicited Seeds from China,” which started showing up in mailboxes in all 50 states.
Discussion: New York Post
Politico:
Senate returns with a path to nowhere on coronavirus aid  —  The Senate returns from its August recess Tuesday with no signs of progress on a new coronavirus relief package — and only days to reach a deal before lawmakers head back home to campaign.  —  Despite weeks of high-level talks between …
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
Trump's dilemma: How much longer to contest Michigan?  —  BRIGHTON, Mich. — President Donald Trump won Michigan in 2016 by a total of just 10,704 votes out of some 4.7 million cast, a lightning-in-a-bottle victory over a fatally flawed opponent.  —  Four years later, Trump's already-microscopic margin …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Video shows USPS mail being dumped in a California parking lot.  A postal union says USPS employees weren't involved  —  CNN obtained surveillance video from a Glendale, California, spa showing bags of mail being dumped in a parking lot earlier this month  —  (CNN)Bags of mail were dumped …
Discussion: Breitbart
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CBS News:   Probe launched after bags of mail dumped in 2 spots in L.A. area
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority  —  After George Floyd was killed, Donald Trump sensed an opportunity.  Americans, anguished and angry over Floyd's death, had erupted in protest—some set fires, broke the windows of department stores, and stormed a police precinct.
Discussion: The Nation
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
The Left Secretly Preps for MAGA Violence After Election Day  —  DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS  —  The progressive coalition Fight Back Table has been meeting to game out what happens if Joe Biden doesn't win by a landslide.  It's not pretty.  —  Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups gathered …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
ACLU Official Attacks University For Admitting Nick Sandmann While Professor Promises To Monitor His Conduct  —  I have previously written, as a long supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), about my concern over how the venerable group has changed under its current leadership …
Discussion: National Review and Twitchy
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Michele Bachmann Claims Biden Will Collapse the U.S. Economy and Impose Communism  —  Right-wing former Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on televangelist Kenneth Copeland's “The Victory Channel” last week, where she warned that Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist protesters are trying to destabilize …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Joe Biden is beefing up his campaign in Georgia  —  Joe Biden's campaign is expanding its footprint in Georgia with 10 additional staffers for the final stretch of the presidential race.  —  The 10 operatives will join a small campaign apparatus in Georgia that launched in July with the hire of five well-known strategists.
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
House Oversight Committee will investigate Louis DeJoy following claims he pressured employees to make campaign donations  —  House Democrats are launching an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and called for his immediate suspension following accusations that he reimbursed former employees …
Kanye West / TMZ.com:
President Trump Autographed Bible for Sale  —  Here's a shocker for 54 percent of the country ... President Trump opened a Bible (that's not the shocker), signed his name in it, and now the good book could now be worth nearly $40k.  There it is.  —  Yes, as Trump would almost certainly put it …
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Mark Meadows: ‘Additional documents’ spell ‘trouble’ for ex-officials in Durham investigation  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said he has seen “additional” documents that are pertinent to U.S. Attorney John Durham's criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Supporters who helped Trump win presidency lagging in motivation this year  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - With less than two months to go until the U.S. election, President Donald Trump is having trouble energizing his core supporters, especially white voters without college degrees who were key …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pittsburgh police investigating after viral videos of protesters spread on social media  —  Pittsburgh police are investigating after videos of a Saturday protest in Downtown Pittsburgh showed protesters yelling at restaurant patrons and breaking a glass.  —  The videos, which have been viewed millions …
Stanley B. Greenberg / American Prospect:
How Trump Is Losing His Base  —  Focus groups with working-class and rural voters show the deep health care crisis in America, and trouble for Trump's re-election.  —  The onetime coal boomtown of Glouster, Ohio  —  The heartbreaking health care crisis that is ravaging working-class …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
‘Not The Same Joe Biden’: White House Stenographer Says Former VP's ‘Mental Acuity’ Has Deteriorated  —  Joe Biden's former White House stenographer said the vice president's public speaking ability has deteriorated significantly since leaving office to the point where he's “not the same Joe Biden.”
Discussion: Redstate
Andrew McDonald / Politico:
UK minister confirms plan to break international law over Brexit  —  LONDON — U.K. government plans to backtrack on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement will break international law, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the House of Commons Tuesday.  —  The Financial Times reported Monday …
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Several deaths have been connected to protests, but the story is more complicated  —  Personal disputes and looting linked to some of the deaths.  —  The images are stark — people clashing with police, buildings on fire, vandalism, shootings and even killings.
Discussion: Twitchy
USA Today:
I was a casket bearer at Dover.  I never thought a U.S. president would insult the fallen.  —  The straight-line distance between Washington, D.C., and Dover, Delaware, is less than 85 miles.  It takes a helicopter about 40 to 45 minutes to make the trip.  I was 19 years old, and it was my first time riding a helicopter.
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Trump's Net Worth Drops $600 Million In A Year To $2.5 Billion  —  Senior editor at Forbes, covering Donald Trump's business.
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
A Black seventh-grader played with a toy gun during a virtual class.  His school called the police.  —  Dani Elliott was at work last month in Colorado Springs when her 12-year-old son's vice principal called with alarming news: A police officer was on the way to her house …
 
 
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Hannah Beech / New York Times:
‘Kill All You See’: In a First, Myanmar Soldiers Tell of Rohingya Slaughter
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
By the standards Trump set in his 2012 ‘Obama is fired’ video, Trump would have fired himself
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
All the President's Norms  —  Trump haters wage a war on standards and use his bad behavior as an excuse.
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Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Something's Happening Here: Democrats laying foundation for action with their post-Election Day doomsday warnings
Discussion: Redstate
John Ismay / New York Times:
At Least 37 Million People Have Been Displaced by America's War on Terror
Gray Rohrer / Orlando Sentinel:
DeSantis itching to reopen just about everything but Florida's government
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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