Trump Picks Sen. Jd Vance Of Ohio, A Once-fierce Critic Turned Loyal Ally, As His Gop Running Mate

Axios: “It should come as no surprise that Trump, the country’s chief election denier and a champion of the anti-Obama ‘birther’ movement, is susceptible to conspiracy theories.” “But as Trump has gotten older, the rabbit holes have grown deeper and more radical — a backdrop to his distrust of the media and refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 election.” “The result — on display as he falsely claimed immigrants are eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio — is a candidate who’s become a walking liability for his own campaign.” CNN: Trump is drowning in the misinformation swamp he helped create.

Conservative activist Leonard Leo said he would withhold money from organizations he supports unless they use their funding to “weaponize the conservative vision,” Axios reports.

“She was on the plane with him the day of the debate and on the ground with him the morning after. Some Republicans are worried she had something to do with what happened in between,” Semafor reports. “Laura Loomer, the right-wing agitator known for egging on Donald Trump’s most inflammatory instincts, has been regularly popping up around the former president.

Monica Lewinsky actually linked to Matt Drudge from her Instagram account.

“State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U. S. Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies,” the AP reports.

Playbook: “If you had doubts about the central importance of the so-called ‘blue wall’ states, look no further than the fact that Harris and Walz themselves will be barnstorming those states exclusively later this week, while their spouses head for states that are either less competitive or less central to the path to victory.