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10:25 AM ET, September 20, 2024

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CNN:
'I'm a black NAZI!':  NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum  —  Editor's Note: The below story contains offensive language.  —  Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina …
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Washington Post:
Trump says if he loses election, Jewish voters would have ‘a lot’ to do with it  —  Trump again suggested that American Jews owe him their votes because of his positions on Israel, invoking dual-loyalty trope.  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Thursday in back-to-back speeches …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
North Carolina GOP defends Robinson following explosive CNN report  —  The North Carolina Republican Party released a statement Thursday evening defending its gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, after an explosive report about him was released.  —  “Mark Robinson has categorically denied …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Why a scandal consuming a Trump protégé could harm the ex-president in North Carolina
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Sabato's Crystal Ball shifts North Carolina gubernatorial race toward Democrats amid Robinson controversy
NBC News:
Mark Robinson vows to stay in N.C. governor race following report he made inflammatory comments on porn site
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
New Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Party at the Center of the Sex Trafficking Scandal  —  This is the first public filing that cites sworn testimony alleging that Gaetz attended one of the long-rumored parties with a teenage girl.  — Copy  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Was at Sex and Drugs Party With High School Junior: Court Docs  —  BOMBSHELL  —  Filings cite sworn statements from three witnesses.  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz was at a 2017 party with a 17-year-old girl at the heart of an alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed Thursday.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Nuzzi's RFK Relationship  —  “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the spokesperson said. … “Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged …
Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
Kentucky sheriff charged in killing of judge at courthouse  —  A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.  The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Says Anyone Who Breaks Into Her House Is ‘Getting Shot’  —  The Democratic presidential nominee said she can support both the Second Amendment and commonsense gun reform.  —  LOADING  —  Vice President Kamala Harris defended her gun ownership and said she would use a firearm …
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ABC News:
Harris teams up with Oprah to broaden her outreach to persuadable voters
Mike DeWine / New York Times:
I'm the Governor of Ohio.  I Don't Recognize the Springfield That Trump and Vance Describe.  —  I was born in Springfield, Ohio.  My wife, Fran, and I have lived our entire lives less than 10 miles from this city.  —  When we were dating in high school, we would go there to see movies …
Discussion: The Hill, Plain Dealer and The Guardian
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
It's Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation
Discussion: The Guardian
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Apocalypse delayed: Trump keeps promising a doom that never comes  —  Trump predicted that if Biden won, the economy would crash, crime would soar and Christmas would be canceled.  None of that happened, but he's reusing those claims anyway.  —  If the election does not go his way …
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Former Longtime Teamsters President Blasts Successor For Not Backing Harris  —  Jim Hoffa accused the union's current president, Sean O'Brien, of “a failure of leadership,” saying he boosted Trump's campaign with a non-endorsement.  —  LOADING  —  Former longtime Teamsters President Jim Hoffa blasted …
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Local Teamsters unions in swing states rush to endorse Harris
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Mike Johnson bypassed a second time with rare maneuver … - In May, a discharge petition led by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) attained the necessary 218 signatures to force a House vote on legislation providing tax relief to victims of natural disasters.  — The last time a discharge petition succeeded …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and FOX8 WGHP
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump Electoral-Vote Heist Underway in Nebraska  —  With the major-party presidential candidates in close battles in a sparse landscape of battleground states, every electoral vote matters.  There are scenarios where either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins 269 or 270 electoral votes.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden unleashes Cabinet sprint ahead of election … - From implementing clean tech tax credits to spending billions of dollars to build roads, bridges and semiconductor facilities, top officials know that there's more work to do.  — Senior White House officials and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …
Rachel Selzer / Democracy Docket:
North Carolina Judge Denies Republicans' Request To Block UNC Mobile Voter ID  —  A North Carolina judge denied a request from the Republican National Committee (RNC) and North Carolina Republican Party to prohibit University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students and employees from using …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Jason Stanley on how authoritarians rewrite the past  —  “Authoritarian regimes must erase any history of social movements for democracy.”  —  ∙ Paid … “Fascist politics invokes a pure mythic past tragically destroyed,” Jason Stanley wrote at the very beginning of his 2018 book …
The Atlantic:
Trump's Deranged Plan to Lower Food Prices by Raising Them  —  If you wish grocery stores were more expensive and offered less variety, then you'll love his tariff proposal.  —  At a campaign event on Tuesday night, Donald Trump vowed to lower the price of groceries by ... taxing them?
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Noah Pransky / NBC New York:
UH-OH: The slowest mail in the country is in key swing states, NBC investigations finds  —  Tens of thousands of voters were disenfranchised by slow mail in 2020  —  In 2020, when the United States Postal Service began an ambitious plan to modernize and consolidate services …
Discussion: NPR, Alternet.org and New Republic
New York Times:
Harris, With an Online Avalanche, Outspends Trump by Tens of Millions  —  The week of their debate, Kamala Harris outspent Donald Trump by 20 to 1 on Facebook and Instagram.  It was just one sign of how uneven their online advertising battle has become.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris …
Heath Brown / Washington Monthly:
No Transition Team Should Confront the Roadblocks Faced in 2020  —  The Trump administration did not handle the 2020 transition responsibly.  Even though it means cooperating with the Trump transition team, the Biden administration must do better.  —  Shortly after the Democratic National Convention ended …
 
 
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
How they have failed us  —  It is as if the editorial department at The Washington Post woke …
Mary Ziegler / Slate:
The Deaths of Two Mothers in Georgia Show Ending Roe Was Never About “Life”
Discussion: WHDH-TV and The American Spectator
Kinsey Crowley / USA Today:
So it begins: 2024 presidential election underway as early voting opens in states
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Biden Awards $3 Billion to Boost Domestic Battery Production
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Pelosi: Trump Doesn't Have the ‘Sanity’ to Be President
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Falsely Accusing Harris Of Using Hacked Material - Which Is Exactly What He Did In 2016
Nina Burleigh / New York Magazine:
How Opus Dei Conquered D.C.
Siena College Research Institute:
Harris Leads Trump by 13 Points, 55-42%, Similar to 53-39% in August; In Multi-Candidate Race, Harris Leads by 12 Points, Same as August
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
Producers had to heavily edit The Apprentice to stop Trump from looking like a ‘complete moron’, authors claim
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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