Really remarkable how the race has changed. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

I dug into the array of Trump products you can buy that kick money back to the former president and I will say that I underestimated the scale. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Harris's pledge to "turn the page" on the past decade was an echo of her boss's 2012 prediction that the GOP's fever would break. But there's a significant difference this time. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Oh, Trump's promising free IVF, is he? Like he promised a perfect replacement to Obamacare in 2016? Like he promised a free "cure" for covid in 2020? OK, cool. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

There is one aspect of Fox News that is clearly objective and reliable: its polling. But those polls show Harris gaining so, naturally, the Trump campaign decided to attack them as "atrocious." washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

It's Friday of Labor Day weekend and I have some gift links left this month so here's a no-cost link to the column I wrote this morning about why Harris's interest in "turning the page" on Trumpism isn't solely dependent on defeating Trump. wapo.st/3X3gcDj

And since I’m not writing anything else this month, I’ll use my last gift link to share my piece about how Trump’s IVF pledge is just the latest iteration of his making late-campaign promises to solve health care issues. wapo.st/3yQsjLY

Harris’ comment about “turning the page” on the last decade probably doesn’t look far enough back. Gift link: wapo.st/3X3gcDj

Even if Trump’s record generally meant there was no reason to take his IVF promise seriously, his habit of making unfulfilled campaign-trail promises on health care is more than enough reason. Gift link: wapo.st/3yQsjLY

How do you get Trump to bash Fox? Have it present objective information. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The newsletter this week looks at that viral thread of bad charts — not all of which were actually bad. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?track…

A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee. There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...

Probably helpful to James Comer’s reputation that Harris replaced Biden, since people who weren’t paying attention to his “investigation” will offer hand-wavey summaries of it instead of seeing how thin the gruel actually was.

Russian interference was never a "hoax," of course. But when such efforts began a decade ago, they never could have imagined a GOP that was so receptive to their rhetoric. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

In recent weeks, particularly as his position in the polls has weakened, Trump has repeatedly fallen back on one of his favorite campaign tactics: accusing his opponents of things he's been accused of. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

If you exclude suicides, American kids are twice as likely to die from guns are as European adults. They are more than 20 times as likely to die from guns as European kids. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Let’s imagine a world in which Elon Musk does to the U.S. what he did to Twitter. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Lots of takeaways from the Russia-funding-a-right-wing-social-media-site story, but one important one is that it euthanized the delusional idea that Russia wasn’t trying to influence our politics. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Trump is back in “no puppet, you’re the puppet” mode. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The shooting in Georgia was very familiar. That’s in part because so many kids are killed by guns in the US: more were killed in Georgia alone in 2021 than were killed by guns in all of Western Europe. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…