Politico: “Trump’s latest policy proposal proposes taxing large private university endowments to pay for a new institution called ‘American Academy.’ … Using the federal government to create an entirely new educational institution aimed at competing with the thousands of existing schools would drastically reshape American higher education.”
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Taylor Swift Did Not Coordinate Harris Endorsement
“About an hour after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president, the Democratic candidate’s campaign had friendship bracelets for sale on the Harris campaign website,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
Mike Johnson’s Hell-in-Waiting If He Keeps the Gavel
“Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting for his job this week. Today’s setback gives him a sense for how difficult — and lonely — it will be if he wins,” Axios…
Electoral Vote Count Will Get Special Security
“The federal government has for the first time declared that the certification of the presidential vote next year will be treated as a ‘national special security event’ — an acknowledgment…
Schumer to Corner GOP on In Vitro Fertilization
“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will give Vice President Kamala Harris a helping hand in prosecuting the case against the Republican party’s abortion policies,” Axios reports. “Schumer will force…
Harris Campaign Pushes for Another Debate
Washington Post: “The Harris team believes a second debate could give her another valuable platform to reach voters who are unlikely to attend her rallies or be swayed by her…
It’s Go Time for the Harris Campaign
“The clash between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was perhaps the last major opportunity for the vice president to define herself in front of a massive audience,” Politico reports. “But…
How False Claims of Pet-Eating Migrants Caught On
Washington Post: “The allegation, based on scattered social media posts drawing on photos and stories far from Springfield, unspooled over several days into a twisted and demagogued message that Trump…
67 Million Watched the Debate
New York Times: “Tuesday’s televised clash between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump drew 67.1 million live viewers, according to Nielsen, outdrawing Mr. Trump’s debate in June…
A Nudge
You may have been meaning to become a Political Wire member but haven’t gotten around to it. I totally get it… life gets busy. So consider this a nudge. The…
Conspiracy Theorist Joins Trump for 9/11 Ceremony
“Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who posted last year that 9/11 was an ‘inside job,’ joined Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in New York and Pennsylvania on Wednesday as he…
Trump Allies Don’t Want Him to Debate Harris Again
Rolling Stone: “By early Wednesday morning, multiple Trump aides were telling Rolling Stone that their boss did not perform as well as they wished, that Harris had exceeded expectations, or…
How Swing Voters Reacted to the Debate
Sara Longwell: “I conduct focus groups with voters every week, and I’ve heard one theme come up again and again: They often worry about Harris’s ability to stand up to…
A Catastrophic Debate for Trump
Karl Rove: “Will this debate have an effect? Yes, though perhaps not as much as Team Harris hopes or as much as Team Trump might fear. But there’s no putting…
Taylor Swift Registers New Voters
NPR reports that as of 11 a.m. ET today there have been 306,422 visitors to Vote.gov referred from Taylor Swifts’s Instagram post last night endorsing Kamala Harris for president.Save to…
Joe Wilson Remains Hospitalized
“Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) spent a second day in a Washington, D.C., hospital, while his office has offered little detail regarding his condition after doctors reportedly told Wilson’s family the…
Debate May Widen Money Gap Between Harris and Trump
“Donald Trump’s performance in Tuesday night’s debate is likely to exacerbate the widening financial gap that he faces with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now enjoying her eighth week…
Kamala Harris’ Secret Weapon
Charlie Warzel: “The definitive image from last night’s debate is a very specific split-screen view of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. In the left frame, Trump is mid-monologue, lips pursed…
Harris Leads in Wisconsin
A new Marquette University Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump among likely voters, 52% to 48%. In a multi-candidate field — where Robert F. Kennedy…
The Beginning of Donald Trump’s Final Unraveling
Michael Tomasky: “Kamala Harris was really good Tuesday night—really, really good. She accomplished everything she needed to accomplish. She sliced and diced him. She dangled bait and he leapt at…
GOP Candidate Doesn’t Have the MBA He Claims
“The claim that car dealer and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno held an MBA from the University of Michigan has appeared in both a car dealership application and in…