2024 Election
“I’m a Better Looking Person Than Kamala”: Donald Trump’s Off-Script Moments Are Getting More and More Unhinged
Allies are urging the former president to stick to policy points ahead of the DNC. Instead, he’s using his time to go after Harris’s looks.
By Katie Herchenroeder
JD Vance Again Defends Donald Trump, This Time From Insulted Veterans
The VP hopeful attempted to soften backlash from Trump’s recent comments diminishing the Congressional Medal of Honor.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Trump Made a Nice Little Profit on Trump-Branded Bibles, a.k.a. His “Favorite Book”
Nice work if you can get it!
By Bess Levin
Does Anyone Know What Donald Trump Is Talking About Anymore?
Hannibal Lecter? Cheerios? “Bird cemeteries?” The former president is tying himself in a knot of discursive tangents and in-jokes that only makes sense to an increasingly small sect of the American public.
By Eric Lutz
2024 Election
Kamala Harris’s Campaign Is Bringing Good Vibes Only to the 2024 DNC: “You Can’t Buy It. You Can’t Fake It”
Democrats are riding a wave of “genuine energy” to Chicago next week, says Senator Dick Durbin, which could offer the veep a vital boost in the home stretch of the election: “I can understand why Donald Trump’s worried.”
By Eric Lutz
RFK Jr. Throws Sad Little Hissy Fit After Harris Ignores His Attempt to Score a Position in Her Cabinet
Nothing says presidential material like a post-spurning tantrum.
By Bess Levin
Inside the Hive
Sweet Emotion: How the Harris-Walz Ticket Wields Joy Against Donald Trump
On the latest episode of Inside the Hive, MSNBC analyst Anand Giridharadas discusses why the positivity around Harris is taking all the oxygen away from Trump’s frightening ambitions. “Fascism’s a f--king bore,” he says. “We have to show what it would feel like to be alive.”
By Brian Stelter
Stars & Cars
Of Course Tim Walz Unwinds by Tinkering With His Vintage American Truck
Like the Minnesota governor, the 1979 International Harvester Scout is an honest product of the Midwest.
By Brett Berk
JD Vance Agrees “the Postmenopausal Female” Exists to Raise Grandchildren
Donald Trump’s running mate has an endless reserve of creepy commentary.
By Bess Levin
New Poll Shows Harris Beating Trump in Pennsylvania, Among Women, and in “Personality” and Honesty
Meanwhile, an average of national polls puts Harris ahead 47.2% to 46.7%.
By Bess Levin
Of Course Trump Is Going to Claim the Election Was Stolen If Harris Wins: Ex-Trump Official
This should come as a surprise to exactly no one.
By Bess Levin
2024 Election
Kamala Harris Needs to Knock Trump in Her DNC Speech—Without Popping the Joy Balloon
Still riding a wave of optimism, the veep is expected to forge a more personal connection with voters that could insulate her from future MAGA attacks. One top Democratic speechwriter says they were “dreading” writing a speech for Biden: “This will be a lot more fun.”
By Chris Smith
2024 Election
Trump Allies Fear He’s Sabotaging His Own Campaign
The former president can’t get over feeling “cheated” by Joe Biden’s exit from the race, says one source, while another speculates he might “have PTSD” following last month’s assassination attempt.
By Gabriel Sherman
Trump Suggests He’ll Flee to Venezuela If Harris Wins the Election
He absurdly claimed that the South American dictatorship will be safer than the US.
By Bess Levin
RFK Jr. Ruled Ineligible for New York Ballot After Judge Calls BS on Him Living in a One-Room Rental for $500 a Month
He only started paying rent after a report questioned if he really lived there.
By Bess Levin
Donald Trump Has Jumped The Shark
The former president was hoping his conversation with Elon Musk could reset his spiraling campaign. Instead, the glitchy, garbled interview underscored just how boring the Trump Show has gotten.
By Eric Lutz
2024 Election
Have We Learned Anything Since 2016?
Donald Trump will still play assignment editor—if the media lets him.
By Molly Jong-Fast
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Kamala Harris’s Campaign Mocks How Much Donald Trump and Elon Musk Suck at the Internet
The two “cannot run a livestream in the year 2024,” the Harris campaign snarked on X.
By Kase Wickman
excerpt
Poker Pros, Crypto Kings, and Tech Titans: Nate Silver’s Guide to “The River”
In an excerpt of his new book, On the Edge, the statistician explains why “Riverians”— with their penchant for data, free speech, and unfettered capitalism—are steeped in a political power struggle against the Democratic-aligned “Village” elites.
By Nate Silver
Vance Claims Trump “Couldn’t Hear the Question” When He Suggested He Was Open to Banning Abortion Pill Mifepristone
The Ohio senator insists Trump has no intention of restricting the drug and merely wants to leave the matter up to “the states.”
By Bess Levin