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Rep. Jim McGovern rips apart Republican Michelle Fischbach, MAGA extremists and the GOP over their unserious messaging bills on DEI and climate change that are linked to Project 2025. McGovern bashes the Republican party for pushing legislation that have no chance of becoming law, criticizes the GOP for demonstrating what the definition of incompetence is and so much more in epic fashion. For more from TYT Investigates, SUBSCRIBE at:    / tytinvestigatesreports   You can read our stories at https://www.TYT.com/investigates LIKE and FOLLOW us at   / tytinvestigates  . And connect with us on Twitter @TYTInvestigates 240801__IV01_MCGOVERNGOPMESSAGINGBILLCLIMATEDEIFLOOR

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The Alexander brothers are two of the biggest real estate agents in the country, representing high profile clients like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Now, the brothers are facing a deluge of sexual assault allegations, with some very disturbing details. Civil lawsuits have been filed, but no criminal charges yet. Meanwhile, the FBI and local police are investigating. Prosecutor Dave Aronberg, AKA the Florida Law Man, discusses the latest in this matter and what lies ahead.

POLITICO Nightly: Trump’s multiracial miscalculation

 

By Charlie Mahtesian and Calder McHugh Former President Donald Trump participates in a question-and-answer session with political reporters at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago on Wednesday. Rachel Scott, senior congressional correspondent for ABC News (right) was one of the moderators. | Jamie Kelter Davis for POLITICO TIME BOMB — Donald Trump is once again at the center of the attention economy after drawing gasps for questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ race and heritage . He’s muscled his way back into the news cycle after nearly two weeks of Harris dominance. The question is at what cost. It’s too soon to know whether Trump has done his campaign any lasting damage or whether he’s simply triggered another outrage cycle that’s destined to burn itself out. What seems clearer is that Trump has handed his party a time bomb that’s set to detonate after he’s left the scene, if not in November. That’s because the multiracial population in the United States — which includes Kamala Harris — is the fastest growing demographic group in the country, according to the 2020 Census. Between 2010 and 2020, it nearly tripled in size to 33.8 million people . These voters, who self-identify as more than one race, aren’t likely to take kindly to efforts to pigeonhole, politicize or disparage multiracial identity, as Trump sought to do with Harris, who is both Black and Asian American. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now, she wants to be known as Black,” Trump said in an interview Wednesday at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists. “So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” The problem isn’t merely Trump’s deliberately provocative remarks about the authenticity of Harris’ racial identity. It’s also what the discussion reveals about him and, by its tacit assent, the GOP. The very focus of his argument betrays an anachronistic view of race at a time when attitudes toward racial identity — for a variety of reasons — are rapidly changing. Trump and the older elements of the MAGA coalition may demand a crisper delineation of racial identity — the kind that they’ve been familiar with for much of their lives — but that’s at odds with the direction the country is headed. The ham-handed ploy to portray Harris, an HBCU grad, as a kind of race traitor or an inauthentically Black person mainly serves to remind voters of the 78-year-old Trump’s advanced age — nothing says septuagenarian like a preoccupation with pointless racial and ethnic distinctions. The trouble for the Republican Party is that Trump’s remarks come amid signs of a historic realignment, driven by gains among working class Latino and Black voters, that would remake the GOP into a populist, multiracial working class coalition . Many of those voters have a more fluid definition of race. Roughly 28 million Hispanics identified as more than one race in 2021 , up from just 3 million in 2010. The pace is slower among Black Americans, but still notable: In 2000, 93 percent identified their race and ethnicity as Black alone. By 2019, that number was down to 87 percent . And Trump’s attacks are all the more conspicuous given that the only non-white president the United States has ever elected is multiracial himself — Barack Obama was born to a white mother and a Black father. Trump, of course, was a prominent member of the “birther” movement, insisting that Obama was not born in the U.S. His attacks on Harris are of a different stripe — that she’s somehow not Black enough, or not authentically Black. They are reflected in some corners of the internet , where influencers suggest that Harris will prioritize “East Indian immigrants” over Black Americans, or that she doesn’t share the same experiences as other Black Americans given that she’s a descendant of Jamaicans rather than an American descendant of slavery, or “ADOS.” These ultra-fringe movements, though, are just that — representative of a tiny sliver of the American public. And if Trump wants to expand the Republican tent, attacking Harris for her racial background based on an outmoded understanding of race in America will likely do just the opposite. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com . Or contact tonight’s authors at cmahtesian@politico.com and cmchugh@politico.com or on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @PoliticoCharlie and @calder_mchugh . What'd I Miss? — Narrowed version of Trump’s New York gag order will remain in place for now, appeals court rules: A panel of appeals judges today rejected Donald Trump’s effort to toss the remaining limitations imposed by a gag order stemming from his Manhattan criminal case, leaving the Republican presidential nominee restricted in his public comments even during the heated general election stretch. In late June, Trump succeeded in convincing the judge who imposed the gag order, Justice Juan Merchan, to loosen the restrictions, allowing the former president to comment publicly on witnesses and jurors involved in Trump’s criminal trial, which ended in his conviction on 34 felony counts in late May. — Senate blocks bipartisan tax package: The Senate blocked a once-promising $78 billion tax package today in the chamber’s last vote before lawmakers headed out of Washington for August recess. The bill went down in a vote of 44-48, with the vast majority of Republicans, one Democrat and two independents voting against a procedural motion to limit debate on the package, which includes an expansion of family tax credits and would revive a trio of lapsed business breaks. It would have required 60 votes in favor to succeed. excerpt: “Sixteen million kids will be worse off and half a million will remain in poverty because Senate Republicans decided they’d rather wait around and hope Trump wins in November than take a bipartisan victory today,” said Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a prime negotiator of the package, in a statement after the vote. — Key Trump ally in 2020 should lose law license for two years, DC disciplinary panel rules: Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department attorney who became a central figure in Donald Trump’s bid to seize a second term he didn’t win, should be suspended from practicing law for two years , a Washington, D.C., disciplinary panel ruled today. The oversight panel, authorized by the D.C. bar, rebuked Clark for aiding Trump’s effort to use the Justice Department’s might to undermine the results of the 2020 election. As part of that effort, Clark proposed a plan to persuade Republican-led legislatures to appoint pro-Trump presidential electors in states Joe Biden won. Clark’s role in the scheme violated his code of professional ethics as an attorney and even threatened to destabilize the country, the panel found. Nightly Road to 2024 THE FRACKING WHISPERER — This week, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has been doing damage control for statements she made in 2019 in support of a ban on hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. Politicians seeking votes in Pennsylvania have to stake middle ground on fracking, a method of drilling horizontally through shale to tap pockets of natural gas. Harris’ flip-flop is emblematic of the treacherous path Democrats tread in Pennsylvania where the fossil fuel industry flexes economic and political muscle , writes the Philadelphia Inquirer. At the same time, the state has forceful environmentalists pushing for renewable energy. Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, a potential Harris running mate, has managed to keep the natural gas industry from getting too uneasy, although bruising some people in the process. Observers say he could help Harris navigate a tricky landscape. THE NEVER SHAPIRO MOVEMENT — As Kamala Harris prepares to name her running mate ahead of a rally on Tuesday in Philadelphia, pro-Palestinian protests are very much part of the calculus surrounding Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro , who is believed to be on her shortlist of potential running mates, writes the New York Times. Efforts by a motley collection of left-wing and pro-Palestinian activists to derail his nomination have presented the Harris campaign with a decision as the vice president prepares to make one of most significant choices of her career: Should she take the opportunity to stand up to her far-left flank in an appeal to the center of the party and to independents, or should she shy away from inflaming an issue that has divided and bedeviled the party — Israel’s war in Gaza? BALLOT WARS — A judge refused today to put on hold his ruling that allows disabled people in Wisconsin to be emailed absentee ballots at home in November’s presidential election in the closely watched battleground state, reports the Associated Press. Republicans asked the judge to not enforce his ruling while their appeal is pending. But Dane County Circuit Judge Everett Mitchell rejected their arguments today, saying putting his ruling on hold “would inflict significant harm on both the disability rights advocates and the public interest.” It will now be up to the state appeals court to decide whether to pause the ruling that opens up a new way for an unknown number of disabled voters to cast their ballots in swing state Wisconsin before the Nov. 5 election. AROUND THE WORLD President Joe Biden, joined by relatives of prisoners freed by Russia, delivers remarks on the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russian captivity today. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images FREE AT LAST — Four Americans and 12 Germans were released from Russia today in one of the biggest and most complex prisoner swaps in U.S. history . The Americans included three journalists: Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, according to U.S. officials. Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive and former Marine, was also released. One of the freed Germans was Rico Krieger, who had been sentenced to death in Belarus. Several Russian dissidents imprisoned in the country were also released. In exchange, Moscow received eight Russians who had been imprisoned in five different countries. The biggest prize of the group for Russia was Vadim Krasikov, a Kremlin-connected colonel in Russia’s secret service who was jailed in Germany in 2019 for killing a Chechen dissident. The deal, which had been in the works for more than a year, marks a major victory for President Joe Biden. “In the context of the war against Ukraine and the overall degradation of our relations with Russia, securing the release of Americans detained in Russia has been uniquely challenging,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters today. “It became clear that the Russians would not agree to the release of these individuals without an exchange that included Vadim Krasikov.” The agreement was finalized several days before the president announced that he was leaving the ticket, said a senior administration official. And read the inside story of how the negotiations went down from The Wall Street Journal . Nightly Number 0.25 percent The amount that the Bank of England just lowered its main interest rate , from 5.25 percent to an even 5 percent. It’s the first interest rate cut from the bank since the onset of Covid, and makes it the latest central bank to cut interest rates after a stretch of increases. RADAR SWEEP COVER ART COVERAGE — Do you have a favorite album cover? The art of figuring out how to brand the cover of a record has become an industry in and of itself. And while a lot of artists opt for abstract art on their albums, many over the years have ventured across America (and the world) in order to capture what they believe to be the right image to represent their music . In Smithsonian Magazine, Catherine Duncan took a look at six iconic covers — from KISS’ “Dressed to Kill” to Wilco’s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” and the stories behind where exactly in the U.S. they were shot and why each artist chose these landscapes. Parting Image On this date in 1990: About 15,000 people, led by Roman Catholic nuns, march through the streets of New Delhi to the Indian Prime Minister V.P. Singh’s residence to protest the alleged rape in July of two Roman Catholic nuns in Gajraula, a town in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and the police’s indifference to catch the perpetrators. | Barbara Walton/AP Did someone forward this email to you?  Sign up here .   Follow us on Twitter Charlie Mahtesian @PoliticoCharlie Calder McHugh @calder_mchugh   Follow us

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This Guy is Scared His worst nightmare? Losing to a woman of color Dan Rather and Team Steady Aug 1 Credit: Getty Images When I heard that Donald Trump was scheduled to appear at the National Association of Black Journalists conference, I was, frankly, surprised. Strategically I thought that it would not be the best move for the Republican presidential nominee. While he has improved in the polls among Black voters, he is not close to winning that demographic. He would, by all accounts, be walking into a hostile room. I assume his campaign ran a cost-benefit analysis. If they did, their numbers were off. In what will likely go down as one of Trump’s worst interviews — and that is a low bar — he started out defensively and ended by getting pulled off stage early by his campaign staff. He lied and ranted, incoherently at times, about Kamala Harris and her race. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump asked. Remember, he said this in a room full of Black journalists. He also said immigrants are taking “black jobs.” Asked what a black job is, Trump said a “black job is anybody that has a job.” What? You could hear the gasps in the room. This was not Trump’s first toe dip into the pool of racist and sexist epithets since Harris entered the race, but it was the most blatant. All the talk of a more disciplined Trump this campaign cycle seems to have disappeared. Take his Fox “News” interview on Tuesday. Trump said Harris wouldn’t be able to stand up to world leaders because of her appearance. “She’ll be like a play toy,” said Trump. “They look at her and they say, ‘We can’t believe we got so lucky.’ They’re going to walk all over her.” He then turned to the camera and said, “And I don’t want to say as to why. But a lot of people understand it.” As someone who has studied politics for decades, I find Trump’s pivot to over-the-top misogyny and bigotry a head scratcher. I have my theories, and I’d be interested to hear yours, but a case can be made that boils down to the fact that Donald Trump is facing a challenger who is a woman and a woman of color. He simply cannot fathom the idea that she could beat him. His ability to control his inner bully is gone. Eleven days ago, Trump was running against a white man, older than himself, who was not  popular. The playbook for that campaign was to sit in the dugout and let Biden strike out. And it was working. But that was then. Today, Trump’s lead in national and swing state polls has all but evaporated. He is being backed into a corner, and his instinct is to lash out and double down. That’s the behavior of someone who is anxious and afraid. Harris has turned the political tables on Trump. She is now controlling the narrative, and it’s not one he likes. The enthusiasm she now engenders used to be reserved for Trump. The Trump campaign claims they were planning for a Harris run, but no one could have predicted the quick coalescing around the vice president and the groundswell of momentum she is enjoying. Can it last? And if so, how? The history of winning presidential elections teaches that she should stay steady, and by that I mean she should hit hard when she sees a clear opening, but mostly she should be disciplined, project positivity, and stay above the fray. Harris’s response to Trump last night was spot on. “The American people deserve better,” Harris told a crowd in Houston. “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts.” Two weeks ago, many Americans were so unhappy with their options they chose to stick their collective heads in the sand to avoid having to pay attention to the race. That disinterest helped Trump. The less people saw of him, the better he did. He clearly has reverted back to his constant attack mode.  The race has shifted from a referendum on Joe Biden to a referendum on Trump, who can’t help but show his true colors. To support my team’s efforts to protect our democracy through the power of independent journalism, please consider joining as a paid subscriber. It keeps Steady sustainable and accessible to all. Thank you. No matter how you subscribe, I thank you for reading. Stay Steady, Dan

The flag of pride Or the flag of shame Robert Reich Aug 1 Friends, I want to contrast two displays of the American flag. One occurred today when Simone Biles and Suni Lee paraded it at the Paris Summer Games, as the Americans reclaimed the Olympic title. (The American team had won silver in Tokyo.) Biles made history by winning the gold in the individual all-around individual final at the Games — becoming just the third woman after Larisa Latynina in 1956 and 1960, and Věra Čáslavská in 1964 and 1968, to win the women's individual all-around twice. After Biles learned that she had won, she waved to a crowd that chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” Lee, the all-around champion in Tokyo, won the bronze. She put up amazing routines on bars and floor to secure an Olympic all-around medal for the second-straight Olympics. Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade won the silver medal, finishing 1.199 points behind Biles’s total. These were individual achievements, to be sure, but they also marked extraordinary team victories. Lee credited Biles with helping her get through the night. Team USA won gold Tuesday in the team competition, kicking off its "redemption tour.” Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles competed in all four events. Suni Lee did bars, beam and floor. Jade Carey competed on vault. Olympic newcomer Hezly Rivera didn't compete but still earned a medal. These young women represent the best of America. They overcame adversity with resilience. They supported one another. They sought the gold with ambition and joy. They reflect our nation’s proud diversity. I don’t want to push the analogy more than it deserves, but I also see in their achievement what has suddenly happened to American politics — the remarkable outpouring of support for Kamala Harris, her determination and joyfulness, and refusal to play into Trump’s racial and ethnic bigotry. Which brings me to the other American flag that’s been in the news. You will recognize it — the upside-down flag that flew in front of Justice Samuel Alito’s two homes. Justice Alito’s wife in 2021 explained the upside-down flag on her lawn as “an international signal of distress … [but] what’s happened is it shifted from that to an expression of outrage — a signal to say, 'America has abrogated its own principles and values and I am sending a signal that I disagree' or 'I see this as a violation of American values.' ” The American flag carried by Biles and Lee today is a symbol of pride in an America that fosters equal opportunity for extraordinary achievement. The flag flown upside down in front of the Alito’s home is a symbol of shame — including, now, the shame in Alito’s refusal to recuse himself from the Trump immunity case. Pride and shame. Both are in play. Both are competing for the future. So glad you can be here today. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber of this community so we can do even more.

Top News: Progressives Warn Against Shapiro for VP

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