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Playbook: “Recently, it’s become something of a pattern: Trump is scheduled for an interview with a neutral media outlet, the date nears and then … things fall apart.” “It happened just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ — and that’s on the heels of him backing out of a ‘60 Minutes’ episode earlier this month.” “Why does this keep happening?

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The Trump campaign knows voters hate the felon’s/Project 2025's plan to kill Obamacare. That's why the campaign is trying so hard to pretend otherwise. At a rally on Wednesday, J. D. “I’m cool with lying for political gain” Vance told some whoppers: VANCE: A lot of folks don't remember this, but President Trump inherited, and I'm talking about the private health care exchanges.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz called out Donald Trump’s recent behavior in a hilarious but pointed manner during a campaign stop on Tuesday. Speaking from a rural Pennsylvania farm owned by a former Trump supporter, Walz made some jokes at the Republican nominee’s expense before getting serious about why the prospect of another Trump presidency isn't funny. “[Trump] walks into this grocery store, and he hands a $100 bill to a lady to pay for his groceries,” Walz told the crowd.

Nate Silver: “It was almost inevitably going to happen at some point, given how close the forecast has been to 50/50 since Kamala Harris took over for Joe Biden. But for the fourth time this cycle, the streams have crossed, and the nominal favorite in the race has changed. Thanks in part to one of the first high-quality national polls in weeks to show him ahead — yes, it’s from Fox News, but Fox News polling has no history of GOP bias — Donald Trump now has a 50.2 percent chance of winning the Electoral College.” “That’s not much different from Trump’s 49.4 percent chances yesterday: the difference is that he wins the Electoral College an additional 1 time out of 125.