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Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps
She learned from Biden’s fatal error.
The more he tries to dominate, the more Trump ‘decomposes’
He can’t change a lifetime of habits.
The Harris campaign figures out how to wound Trump’s ego
His greatest asset has been his greatest liability.
Trump can’t adjust, won’t adjust, to the reality of Kamala Harris
Trump’s smear job against Joe Biden climaxed prematurely, and now that the vice president has taken over, he doesn’t know what to do.
The press corps is Trump’s ‘affirmative action program’
As a consequence, the public can’t see his impotence.
Trump needs people who might want to kill him to vote for him
So he’s preventing wider discussion of the effect of rightwing political violence on democratic politics, though doing so endangers his life.
Harris is outmanning Trump
If the vice president can maintain her current momentum, Trump is going to look, by contrast, older, weirder and more emasculated.
Biden’s exit leaves no room for scammers like Kennedy
That’s going to help the vice president.
You’re wrong, John. Dropping out wasn’t a mistake
A counterpoint to Monday’s edition.
The Narrative is dead, long live The Narrative
The press and pundit corps have been talking about the president’s age for so long that public concern about the age of candidates is baked in.