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Washington Post:
Trump to release taped interview with Tucker Carlson, skipping GOP debate — Former president Donald Trump intends to skip the first Republican presidential primary debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday and instead plans to post a prerecorded interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson …
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New York Times:
Inside Trump's Decision to Skip the G.O.P. Debate — Fox News leaned on the former president privately and publicly to join the debate. But all the while he was proceeding with a plan for his own counterprogramming. — On a cool August night on the crowded patio of his private club in New Jersey …
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Axios:
Scoop: Big GOP donors push for Trump alternative — Several top GOP donors, panicked about their current choices, are holding back 2024 money with the long-shot dream of luring an alternative to former President Trump into the presidential race at the last minute.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Why Trump might regret passing on the first debate — In recent nominating contests, the nationally televised shoutfests have prompted significant shifts in polling afterward. — Donald Trump wants to deprive his competitors of any oxygen. That's why the former president is likely skipping next week's debate in Milwaukee.
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The Atlantic:
The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again — The only question is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment. — As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor …
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Election Law Blog, Law Dork with Chris Geidner, Raw Story, UPROXX, PoliticusUSA, New York Times, Unfogged and Washington Monthly
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency — Prominent conservative legal scholars are increasingly raising a constitutional argument that 2024 Republican candidate Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency because of his actions …
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Election Law Blog, The Hill, Little Green Footballs and The Moderate Voice
Andrew Zhang / Politico:
MAGA world lashes out over DeSantis' ‘listless vessels’ remark — Trump campaign and supporters push comparisons to Hillary Clinton's ‘deplorables’ remark. — The Trump campaign and MAGA world on Saturday blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for remarks appearing to label some of the former president's supporters “listless vessels.”
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Biden campaign predicts GOP candidates will ‘out-MAGA each other’ at debate — President Biden's reelection campaign on Saturday predicted that the GOP presidential candidates will “out-MAGA each other,” in the first GOP debate next week, according to an email memo.
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Christie: Trump Canceled Election Fraud Press Conference Because 'He's Scared' Of Jail — Trump first promised a news conference to reveal proof that the 2020 election in Georgia had been “stolen” from him, but then canceled. — ATLANTA — While Donald Trump claims he canceled …
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New York Times:
Giuliani Repeatedly Sought Financial Lifeline From Trump — As Rudolph Giuliani has neared a financial breaking point with a pile of legal bills, the former president has largely demurred, despite making a vague promise to pay up. — Rudolph W. Giuliani is running out of money and looking …
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Insider, UPROXX, Progress Pond, HotAir and Raw Story
Liz Skalka / HuffPost:
The GOP Is Over Its War On ‘Woke’ — Turns out Republican primary voters aren't that into the anti-woke rallying cry, and presidential candidates are responding accordingly. — DES MOINES, Iowa — Jill Connell is sick of hearing the word “woke.” — The 66-year-old from Kansas …
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New York Post
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Christie hits Trump on foreign policy: 'I don't want to be the apple of Vladimir Putin's eye' — Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie hit against former President Trump's comments about his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin's after the former president claimed he was the “apple of his eye.”
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Michael Martina / Reuters:
US urges China to cease military pressure against Taiwan — The U.S. urged China on Saturday to stop pressuring Taiwan, after Beijing launched military drills around the democratically governed island in response to Taiwan Vice President William Lai's U.S. visit.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Chicanery of the Hunter Biden Plea Bargain — ‘Special counsel’ David Weiss has done everything in his power to make the DOJ's investigation of Biden family corruption disappear. — Sham special counsel David Weiss could not have more royally screwed up the Hunter Biden case.
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