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Joseph Konig / Spectrum News NY1:
Trump falsely claims Harris Michigan rally crowd 'didn't exist,' was generated with AI — Former President Donald Trump took to social media on Sunday to falsely claim that Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign faked photos of the crowd at her Detroit-area rally last week using artificial intelligence.
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Raw Story, Rolling Stone, The Gateway Pundit and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Techmeme »
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake — The former president, in a series of social media posts, said that Vice President Kamala Harris had used A.I. technology to create images of fake crowds at her events. — Former President Donald J. Trump has taken …
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CNN, Diane Ravitch's blog, The Hill, Raw Story, Washington Post and PoliticusUSA
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos — In the days following President Joe Biden's announcement that he would step aside as the Democratic nominee, conspiracy theorists and far-right influencers have promoted a number of falsehoods targeted at the Harris campaign.
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The Daily Beast and CNBC
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Harris is beating Trump by transcending him
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump is obsessed with crowd size. Now Democrats love bragging about it, too.
Trump is obsessed with crowd size. Now Democrats love bragging about it, too.
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The Good in Us, Associated Press, HuffPost and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Julianne McShane / Mother Jones:
Trump Is a Threat Whether He Wins or Loses, Biden Says — “He's a genuine danger to American security,” Biden said of Trump in his first TV interview since dropping out of the race. — In his first interview since dropping out of the election last month and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Business Insider
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Robert Costa / CBS News:
President Biden speaks on the stakes of the 2024 election, and on his place in history
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Fox News, The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, Deadline, New York Daily News and Breitbart
Ivan Pereira / ABC News:
JD Vance says mass deportations should ‘start with 1 million,’ defends ‘thought experiment’ giving parents extra votes
JD Vance says mass deportations should ‘start with 1 million,’ defends ‘thought experiment’ giving parents extra votes
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Breitbart, Daily Caller News Foundation, Mediaite, The Hill, Fox News, Axios, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
NBC News:
JD Vance says 2021 comments about giving more votes to people with kids were a ‘thought experiment’
JD Vance says 2021 comments about giving more votes to people with kids were a ‘thought experiment’
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Bloomberg and The Daily Beast
Ryan King / New York Post:
Biden admits he was pushed out of presidential race, name-drops Pelosi in first interview since exit
Biden admits he was pushed out of presidential race, name-drops Pelosi in first interview since exit
CBS News:
Transcript: Sen. JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Aug. 11, 2024
Transcript: Sen. JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Aug. 11, 2024
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ABC News, Democrats and Washington Times
Joe Hernandez / NPR:
Biden says he's ‘not confident’ of a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses
Biden says he's ‘not confident’ of a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses
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The Daily Caller and The Hill
Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance's Campaign Won't Deny That's Him in Viral Drag Photo — ‘SOFA LAUREN’ — The GOP's vice presidential pick is a vocal critic of gender affirming care for minors and once opposed federal protections for gay and interracial marriages. — Journalist
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Democrats
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Inside Trump's slump … - Advisers are telling him Harris will grow her lead coming out of the Democratic convention, which begins a week from tomorrow — especially if they don't define her better, faster. … But it's Trump. So a new script is often fictional wishfulness.
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PoliticusUSA, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Anger Out of Control as Poll Numbers Keep Cratering — GOING DOWN — According to Axios sources, Trump “is struggling to get past his anger” and his advisers are “deeply rattled” by his “meandering, mean and often middling public performances.” — Donald Trump's advisers …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact-checks former President Trump — There were a host of false things that Donald Trump said during his hour-long news conference Thursday that have gotten attention. — A glaring example is his helicopter emergency landing story, which has not stood up to scrutiny.
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Salon, The Moderate Voice and HuffPost
A.R. Moxon / The Reframe:
What “Center” Is That, Exactly? — Hey friends! If you've read Very Fine People and enjoyed it, why not leave a quick rating or review on Amazon or Goodreads? It would help bunches! — I really can't get over the signs. — The Republicans held what was basically a Nuremberg rally …
Associated Press:
State House Speaker Scott Saiki loses Democratic primary to Kim Coco Iwamoto — Hawaii's longtime House speaker lost his Democratic Party primary election to a former state Board of Education member who campaigned on tackling corruption in government. — Speaker Scott Saiki was ousted by Kim Coco Iwamoto.
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USA Today and Honolulu Civil Beat
Barak Ravid / Axios:
New Israeli intelligence suggests Iran prepares to attack Israel within days: sources … - But one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the intelligence said the situation is “still fluid.” — The assessment, which was drafted in the last 24 hours, represents a shift, the sources said.
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New York Post and Breitbart
David French / New York Times:
To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris — I believe life begins at conception. If I lived in Florida, I would support the state's heartbeat bill and vote against the referendum seeking to liberalize Florida's abortion laws. I supported the Dobbs decision and I support …
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National Review and Fox News
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Kid Rock Threw the Party. MAGA Faithful Brought the Joy, Rage and Smirnoff Ice. — A music festival headlined by the pro-Trump musician offered a snapshot of a maturing American subculture, with a mash-up of hedonism, rebellion and beer-guzzling pursuit of happiness.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
New Mexico governor invites Texas doctors to practice in her state following restrictive abortion law — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced last Sunday an initiative to invite Texas doctors to consider relocating to her neighboring state of New Mexico, in response to Texas's “draconian abortion ban.”
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