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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: Kamala Harris for the People; Donald Trump for Himself
✹ Biden, Harris in Michigan
✹ This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage: A Media Double Standard of Accountability
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Kamala Harris, in Detroit, vows to protect workers’ rights – Detroit Free PressKamala Harris wants to make it easier to afford housing in Michigan – The ‘Gander
- Presidential race is a tossup in Michigan with 2 months to go, poll finds – Detroit News
- Slotkin builds bigger lead over Rogers in Michigan Senate race, poll shows – Detroit News
- Poll: Michigan minimum wage hike backed, but support dips on tipped wage change – Detroit News
- Michigan’s presidential ballot not finalized as Friday deadline passes – Detroit Free Press
- VIDEO: Lavora Barnes on the influx of presidential candidates campaigning in Michigan – CNN via YouTube
- Biden signs pro-labor order in Michigan, dares a successor to undo it – Detroit News
- Appeals court: Remove RFK Jr.’s name from Michigan presidential ballot – Detroit Free Press
- Michigan canvasser suit part of growing effort to preempt election deniers – Bridge Michigan
- Michiganders get nine new ‘I Voted’ stickers for the November election – Bridge Michigan
Trump/GOP Outrages
- ISA accredited sports appraiser: Why Trump’s new trading cards are a bad bet – MSNBC
- Trump Is Getting More Confused and Incoherent. Will the Media Say So? – The New Republic
- Finally: Top Journo Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump’s Mental State – The New Republic
- From Rambling to Rational: The Media’s Trump Sanewashing Problem – The New Republic
- Trump Tries to Rebrand Incoherent Rambling As ‘the Weave’ – NY Magazine
- Russia Russia Russia v. 3.0: Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere – United States Department of Justice
- Watch: J.D. Vance Has Pathetic Response to Georgia School Shooting – The New Republic
- John McCain’s Son Puts Trump on Blast for Cemetery Stunt – Mother Jones
- Why Trump’s spurious attacks on crime are working – Judd Legum/Popular Information
- House Democrats ask Trump if he illegally accepted $10 million from Egypt – The Washington Post
- Opinion | We need urgent reform after school shootings. Not same cowardly words. – Eugene Robinson/The Washington Post
- Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s campaign schedule for Labor Day 2024 – AS USA
- Why thousands of Florida students are not being taught sex ed – Judd Legum/Popular Information
National Politics and Policy
- Goldman Sachs Warns a Trump Win May Slow the Economy – The Daily Beast
- Raise taxes on the rich or cut them? Harris, Trump differ on economic plans – Bridge Michigan
- Election 2024: How Harris and Trump differ on taxing the rich – AP News
- This summer was the hottest in recorded history around the world – The Washington Post
- Colin Gray, Georgia school shooting suspect’s father, charged with murder – The Washington Post
- Opinion | Allan Lichtman, Presidential Predictions Guru, Is Ready to Call the 2024 Race – The New York Times
- Harris raised $361 million in August, nearly three times Trump’s haul – The Washington Post
- Harris Heads Into First Debate With Positive Favorability and Popular Economic Proposals – Data for Progress
- Harris endorsed vs. Trump by Murdoch heir, CEOs of Yelp, Box, Ripple – CNBC
- Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers – AP News
- Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, as labor market cools – The Washington Post
- Republicans pushing Christianity into public schools are hitting resistance — even in red states – POLITICO
- The GOP Is Better Off With Kamala Harris in the White House – POLITICO
