🟡New: Previewed tonight’s YIMBYs for Harris 🥥🌴🏠🌆 virtual fundraiser that has a slate of elected Democrats lined up carrying a simple message: Build, baby, build. Self-identified YIMBY Sen. Brian Schatz: “Come in, the water is warm” semafor.com/article/08/27/…

Nicole Torres, a Republican district leader in the Bronx and BOE employee, is facing federal charges for taking bribes to assign people as poll workers. An unnamed "local organization" also got bribes - and context would suggest it's the Bronx GOP. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

In a 15-person seminar, Yale students will learn ‘how to run a political campaign’ from Chris Christie Via ⁦Kadia Goba⁩ semafor.com/article/08/28/…

Good Hamed Aleaziz rundown of the Biden change to asylum policy; dramatically shrunk the number of migrants, but not mentioned by Harris. Notable, as campaign keeps getting border wall Qs (wall never stopped asylum claim abuse) nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/…

Put my own spin on an Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith State Fair photo tradition!   Thanks to all the amazing firefighters in our community.

As Kadia Goba wrote in Principals just this morning, this was the biggest question hanging over the Harris campaign and it's the very first clip from the interview

Not in the clip, but Harris also referenced her role as VP and hearing from a wide range of Americans on issues to explain how she might change — something multiple allies suggested as potential answers to Kadia Goba ahead of the interview cnn.com/2024/08/29/pol…

Trump in Michigan: "I’m announcing today, in a major statement, that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment. ... We want more babies, to put it very nicely."

NEW: A Trump campaign advisor tells Shelby Talcott that he has not yet said how he’ll vote on Florida’s abortion rights amendment after the former president said he believes “the six weeks is too short.” semafor.com/article/08/29/…

. Astead making one key point on CNN about 2019: The problem for Harris then wasn't strictly "interviews" it's that the Dem primary was a policy food fight that required candidates to constantly make rapid-fire no-win choices between base and swing voters

Incredible: the The Minnesota Star Tribune found who owns Tim Walz's old Sega Dreamcast -- a Plymouth, MN man who bought it off Craigslist for $25 from a former Walz intern startribune.com/tim-walz-gover…

BREAKING: A top Brazilian judge orders the suspension of Elon Musk's X for refusing to name an in-country legal representative. apnews.com/article/brazil…

Mayoral challengers Brad Lander and Zellnor Myrie are *both* fundraising this evening off the “chaos mayor” story in The Atlantic.

A Trump rallygoer "stormed into the press area" and was subdued by police "moments after Trump criticized major media outlets for what he said was unfavorable coverage and dismissed CNN as fawning for its interview" with Harris and Walz apnews.com/article/trump-…

Graham says on ABC he doesn't support Trump's proposal for the government to pay for IVF costs He suggests instead offering a means-tested tax credit for IVF costs instead

My FIRST Semafor byline Why Congress would be smart to sew up spending disagreements before 2025 ... because debt limit is right around the corner. Smart money currently on funding government past Sept. 30 into December More in Principals this a.m. semafor.com/newsletter/09/…

Here’s my text with the former mayor of NYC, Bill de Blasio, who, with other Italian-Americans is participating in that Zoom call trend in support of VP Harris —this one: Paisans for Harris.

Judge Chutkan is on the bench and we're off

Trump says he plans to create a "government efficiency commission" tasked with a complete "financial and performance" audit of the federal government with Elon Musk leading it. Adds Musk has agreed to it

New w Kadia Goba: why Harris + Trump will think twice before filling out their Cabinet w Congress members Slim majorities Tough Senate confirmations Cleaver: “Would be unfortunate if we sought to mess up our majority because of ambition and asininity" semafor.com/article/09/05/…