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A special correspondent with The Daily Beast connected President Donald Trump's first New York real-estate deal in the 1970s to his desire to punish Harvard University today for defying his authority.

According to writer Michael Daly, the common link between the two episodes is the billionaire Pritzker family; Jay Pritzker ran afoul of Trump when the two entered into an ill-fated partnership to manage New York's Hyatt Hotel in 1975, while niece Penny Pritzker currently serves as Harvard's most senior member on its board of governors.

Trump vowed revenge on the Pritzkers for asking him to pay his part to upgrade the hotel "at a time when [Trump's] dependence on junk bonds and outsized sense of his own brilliance in other projects had left him at the brink of ruin," Daly wrote. "He narrowly escaped and revealed a taste for revenge that has become familiar to many of us in recent days." ...

It's not all bad news for Democrats who are still reeling from the divisive spending bill vote that saw 10 of their own senators, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), cross party lines to approve Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) continuing resolution.

A new opinion piece in The Washington Post has identified at least six Democratic politicians ready and able to lead the party through the political wilderness and toward victory with a spirit that's been lacking for far too long, according to columnist Perry Bacon, Jr.

If you think California Gov. Gavin Newsom is on the list, think again. Bacon claimed Newsom was even worse than Schumer after bizarrely deciding, "this is the time for him to start a podcast with softball interviews of pro-Trump conservatives such as Stephen K. Bannon and Charlie Kirk."...

MILWAUKEE — When visitors land at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, they are deluged by huge billboards for the Heritage Foundation, the Washington, D.C.-based conservative group behind the highly contentious Project 2025 "presidential transition" plan.

But the political debate over presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and his policies immediately spill out on the roads and highways into the downtown Milwaukee, the site of the Republican National Convention.

Massive pro- and anti-Trump digital signs were everywhere, sponsored by a motley crew of political actors, from the Republican National Committee and a political action committee backed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to ones sponsored by a conservative Florida personal injury attorney and a liberal food spice company....

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who has publicly supported President Joe Biden even as his own name has been floated as a possible replacement at the top of the ticket, was caught on a hot microphone on Wednesday doubting the state of the race.

The audio, obtained by CBS Chicago, showed Pritzker telling a constituent at a crime-fighting event that his party is "going to keep fighting."

"I don't know what to say," he said. "You know, got to do what we have to do" ...

Democrats shocked by Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance urged the US president Tuesday to be transparent about his mental fitness as he faced the first call from his own side to drop out of the election.

Some supporters have expressed growing doubts about the 81-year-old’s candidacy after last week’s televised showdown with Donald Trump, when Biden stumbled over his words and lost his train of thought — exacerbating fears about his age.

Congressman Lloyd Doggett became the first Democratic lawmaker to publicly call on Biden to make way for another candidate, saying he was hopeful the president would “make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.”...

CHICAGO — As Democratic leaders gathered in Chicago for a Democratic National Convention walkthrough, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker let it rip on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“It's a choice between kindness and cruelty, between a president who stands up against hatred and extremism, or a candidate who promises to be a dictator and makes excuses for white supremacists who chant ‘Jews will not replace us,’” Pritzker said Wednesday at the United Center in Chicago.

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