Notices by Philip Bump (pbump@journa.host), page 2

In recent weeks, particularly as his position in the polls has weakened, Trump has repeatedly fallen back on one of his favorite campaign tactics: accusing his opponents of things he's been accused of. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/05/trump-falls-back-his-im-rubber-youre-glue-campaign-approach/

The newsletter this week looks at that viral thread of bad charts — not all of which were actually bad. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=66d3221b97ff550effc26a3d&linknum=2&linktot=58

Wrote about the numerous ways you can put money in Trump's pocket without giving a cent to his campaign. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/28/trump-merchandise-sales/?itid=ap_philipbump

Zuckerberg's effort to get Jim Jordan to stop yelling at him at leads to Trump identifying a culprit in rigging the 2020 election: the Trump White House. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/27/zuckerberg-letter-trump-2020-election/

Where RFK and Trump align is on one of the defining divides in politics: subjectivity vs. objectivity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/26/fact-vs-fiction-election/

In the (free to read) newsletter, new data on how people compare the candidates outside the lens of politics. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=66c9e79cda896967aab23131&linknum=2&linktot=67

I wrote about Adam Kinzinger and the difficulty of convincing Republicans that Democrats actually like America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/23/theres-reason-adam-kinzinger-defended-democrats-patriotism/

So Bill Clinton's 50 million to 1 million jobs added claim? It is correct. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/22/clinton-dnc-jobs-created-since-cold-war/

Hey, guess what? The Trump claim that some big conspiracy misled Americans about jobs data is nonsense. I know, you're shocked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/21/today-trump-his-allies-are-being-dishonest-about-jobs-data/

Donald Trump obviously just uses hazy claims about violence and crime because he likes to fearmonger and doesn't care about accuracy. But his casual dishonesty on the subject is rarely as obvious as it was on Tuesday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/21/trump-crime-fear/

Used Vance's "postmenopausal" controversy to write about something underrecognized in the moment: the recently emerging equivalence between the size of the young and old populations in America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/16/effects-graying-america-seep-into-2024-campaign/

Since its July poll, Pew finds much more enthusiasm among Democrats for their candidate — and a jump in motivation on both sides. That plus RFK's fade suggests that voters are getting serious about a newly contested race. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/with-biden-out-voters-are-suddenly-taking-election-seriously/

CNN got hidden-camera video of a key Project 2025 author that very much reinforces why Trump can't distance himself from those proposals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/new-hidden-camera-video-reinforces-trumps-project-2025-problem/

Trump wanted to run against Biden and the state of crime, immigration and inflation in the first half of Biden's presidency. Now he's running against Harris — and 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/14/other-big-shift-presidential-race/

For the first time, Trump earlier this year was regularly hitting 50 percent in national polls. Then Biden dropped out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/trump-was-close-breaking-his-poll-ceiling-then-harris-arrived/?itid=ap_philipbump

Actually, if sea levels rose significantly, there'd be less ocean frontage, not more. But that's just a sliver of the extent to which Trump has no obvious idea what he's talking about on the subject. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/does-donald-trump-understand-how-ocean-works/

The AI-plane thing and the Trump campaign's memo claiming that the Times-Siena poll is skewed are two sides of the same coin: amplifying his base's willingness to reject reality before election results start coming in.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/ai-crowds-unskewed-polls-trump-prepares-reject-another-loss/

So about that comparison Trump drew between his audience on Jan. 6 and MLK's March on Washington. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/08/trump-crowd-martin-luther-king/

Hard to complain about rally-attendance reporting when you're not holding rallies for people to attend. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/08/trump-isnt-campaigning-hard-he-used/

An interesting state-level experiment and a longer national trend both show Harris solidifying support with younger voters. (Older than in the picture.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/harris-trump-poll-changes-wisconsin/