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Donald Trump is in a very different position than he was just a month ago. And he shows it.
The race remains close, but the credit now belongs to Kamala Harris and Trump’s crusade is heralding a reversal of racial dynamics, in other ways.
Trump continues to create potential off-ramps for the Sept. 10 debate with Kamala Harris, complaining that he shouldn’t have to attend the debate because it’s presented through ABC News, which he says Array endorses him. This despite having already agreed to a debate on ABC News, first with Biden and then again with Harris.
But in another sign of the race’s transformative dynamics, Harris’ campaign is now haggling over her terms, arguing that the candidates’ microphones will have to remain in the debate. This is a substitution for Biden’s position. He objected to hot mics and made them a condition of his initial offer of debates. Overall, this is a small game point, however, it is one where Harris is more competitive than Biden, suggesting she is content to confront Trump’s attempts to talk about her. and sometimes assigns Trump the responsibility of complying with and rejecting his demands.
In another transparent sign that Trump’s crusade is coming after him, Trump himself is accelerating the speed of his own crusade, his crusade team told the WSJ: “Trump’s advisers, who are gearing up for Harris to gain advantages from a post-conventional rise in the polls, say he will be more active in the crusade campaign after having achieved a modest pace when President Biden was still in office. ” the race.
I would adopt a wait-and-see technique of how much more effort Trump is putting into his crusade. Believe it when you see it, especially in light of this WSJ report in the same article: “For a while, most of the events that are considered to be a result of the Trump campaign are smaller in scale, which saves cash, but they are also designed to keep Trump more focused on any given issue, it is a constant struggle. “
If the Trump crusade reset requires keeping him “on topic,” that makes me skeptical about the truth of the reset. It will be a long road to November for Trump’s crusade, stalled with a candidate who may be chronically lagging behind. in his career, overshadowed by a mixed-race woman, and facing the prospect of not only wasting but also a genuine criminal sentence after all.
RFK Jr. ‘s strange, narcissistic and unnecessary presidential crusade ended on Friday in the only possible way, with the victory of Donald Trump. Despite (or perhaps because of) all his baggage: anti-vaccine, pro-road-kill bears, etc. – RFK Jr. is now the topic of the week in MAGA Land, and Trump even went so far as to retweet a post referencing a Trump-Kennedy “ticket. ” Poor JD Vance.
The Colorado Republican Party voted to oust its debatable chairman, Dave Williams, who was elected last year. Williams, among other things, had defamed the LGBTQ community and called for all Pride flags to be burned.
Adam Unikowsky, a former Antonin Scalia employee, takes a closer look at last week’s Arkansas Supreme Court ruling to reject an abortion rights polling initiative, because sponsors hadn’t dotted the i’s and i’s. Unikowsky’s provocative headline gives an idea of where it is headed: “They did not present a photocopy that was not necessary. “»
In another display of the Supreme Court’s degraded and indistinct gun jurisprudence, a federal ruling in Kansas ruled last week that a longstanding ban on firearms violated the Second Amendment, dismissing firearm ownership fees filed against a criminal defendant.
After more than a year in this position, I do not perceive Putin’s influence over Trump.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the United States’ response to the COVID pandemic and retired after nearly 40 years as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering at home after being hospitalized with a COVID-19 infection. West Nile virus that affected him the most. probably contracted. by a mosquito bite in his Washington garden. Fauci, 83, is expected to make a full recovery.
The two American astronauts trapped aboard the International Space Station will use the cursed Boeing Starliner that brought them there to return to Earth. Instead, the Boeing spacecraft will return autonomously next month, and astronauts will wait until next year for a SpaceX spacecraft to arrive and take them home, NASA announced this weekend.
Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore arrived at the ISS in June for a planned 8-day project that will now span about 8 months until the scheduled return of SpaceX’s Dragon in February.
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A lot has happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s morning Memo. Sign up for the version. . . .
A lot has happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s morning Memo. Sign up for the version. . . .
Many things have happened. These are some of the things. This is the TPM Morning Memo. Sign up for the version. . . .