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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Georgia Senate Race Unchanged: Warnock Leads Walker 52% - 45%, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Gov Race Between Kemp And Abrams Remains Too Close To Call — mail_outline — In the wake of a controversy that's landed Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker in the national spotlight …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
UGA poll: Warnock-Walker close; Kemp builds lead over Abrams — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker remain in a neck-and-neck race for the state's wildly competitive Senate seat, according to a University of Georgia poll released Wednesday, while GOP Gov. Brian Kemp …
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Charles Franklin / Marquette University Law School:
New Marquette Law School Poll survey of Wisconsin voters finds Johnson leading Barnes in Senate race, Evers and Michels in a gubernatorial toss-up — MILWAUKEE - A new Marquette Law School Poll survey of Wisconsin finds a wider margin in the U.S. Senate race than a month ago.
James Wigderson / Journal Sentinel:
I'm a lifelong Republican but sometimes party loyalty asks too much. I'm voting for Mandela Barnes and Tony Evers. — In his book about President John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” the historian Arthur Schlesinger wrote about Kennedy's disappointment with the Massachusetts Democratic Party's nominee for Senate, Gov. Foster Furcolo.
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Journal Sentinel:
Election deceiver, science fabulist, billionaire benefactor. After 12 years, it's time to term-limit Sen. Ron Johnson
Election deceiver, science fabulist, billionaire benefactor. After 12 years, it's time to term-limit Sen. Ron Johnson
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Wall Street Journal, The Hill, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story, HuffPost and More Perfect Union
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Media's Misguided Love Affair with John Fetterman
The Media's Misguided Love Affair with John Fetterman
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Mediaite
Joanna Slater / Washington Post:
Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families — A Connecticut jury ordered Infowars founder Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook shooting for the suffering caused by years of lies that the massacre was a hoax.
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Live Updates: Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families Nearly $1 Billion — A jury in Connecticut awarded damages to the families of eight victims killed in the 2012 shooting and an F.B.I. agent who responded to the scene. Jones had already been found liable for defamation …
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Washington Post:
Trump worker told FBI about moving Mar-a-Lago boxes on ex-president's orders — Key witness and security-camera footage offer evidence of Trump's actions after government subpoena, people familiar say — A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago …
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Jacob Solis / The Nevada Independent:
Fourteen members of Laxalt family endorse Democratic rival, Cortez Masto, in Senate race — Fourteen members of Republican Senate candidate and former Attorney General Adam Laxalt's family announced Wednesday that they would collectively endorse his Democratic opponent …
Washington Post:
New evidence to show Trump was warned of violence on Jan. 6 — The Jan. 6 select committee's hearing this week is expected to corroborate parts of the more-startling accounts of that day — The probably final public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 …
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Violent threats against Jan. 6 witnesses spread on fringe sites
Violent threats against Jan. 6 witnesses spread on fringe sites
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Dennis Prager / Media Matters for America:
“There's no secular argument against adult incest” — QAnon and white nationalist-linked media provide friendly platform for Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake — Spotify's Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread the baseless conspiracy theory that January 6 was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI
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NBC News:
Oath Keeper testifies about massive gun pile stashed in hotel on the eve of Jan. 6 — WASHINGTON — A member of the Oath Keepers who brought an AR-15 to a Virginia hotel on the eve of Jan. 6 described entering a room filled with a large stash of weapons in a seditious conspiracy trial on Wednesday.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Oath Keeper describes group's large weapons cache ahead of Jan. 6
Oath Keeper describes group's large weapons cache ahead of Jan. 6
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Tim Ryan's Alpha Maneuver — If Trump insists on being the ultimate alpha male, what does that make all of his supporters? — At least one Democrat has started to figure out how to exploit a GOP weakness. He's Tim Ryan, who is running against J.D. Vance for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in rape accuser's lawsuit next week — A federal judge has denied former President Trump's motion to pause the proceedings of a defamation suit against him from a woman who has accused him of rape while appeals over the case play out, setting him up for a deposition next week.
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
Trump Must Face Grilling in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Suit, Judge Rules
Trump Must Face Grilling in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Suit, Judge Rules
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Jeremy Shapiro / War on the Rocks:
We Are On a Path to Nuclear War — In war, nothing is inevitable and not much is predictable. But the war in Ukraine has a direction that observers can see and that we should name. What began as a criminal Russian aggression against Ukraine has become a proxy war between Washington and Moscow.
Meduza.io:
Russia's ‘irrecoverable losses’ in Ukraine: more than 90,000 troops dead, disabled, or AWOL — More than 90,000 troops make up Russia's “irrecoverable” military losses in Ukraine, as reported by the Russian media project iStories (or Vazhnye Istorii). One of the two sources of this information works …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party — The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism. — In mid-September, I attended the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, where Republican politicians, right-wing thought leaders, and various party apparatchiks …
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Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Historically, Toss Up Races Break Decidedly Toward One Party — In the Cook Political Report vernacular, the classification of “Toss Up” is used to refer to races that are the most competitive of the cycle, and which either party stands a reasonable chance of winning.
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
How Far Would a Republican Majority Go? — In 2011, the new House Republican majority, egged on by Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy and led by radical Tea Party rightists such as Jason Chaffetz, brought the U.S. to the brink of a default. The disaster was headed off by a last-minute compromise …
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NBC News:
Some of Katie Hobbs' supporters are concerned MAGA firebrand Kari Lake is outshining her low-key campaign — Katie Hobbs: Debating Kari Lake 'doesn't do any service to the voters' — PHOENIX — In the homestretch of Arizona's high-stakes contest for governor, Democratic Secretary …
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NBC News:
Full Fetterman interview: 'I believe I'm going to be able to serve effectively' after stroke — In an exclusive broadcast interview with NBC News taped Friday at his home, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, tells NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Ben Sasse is an affirmative action hire if there ever was one — Conservatives have long bemoaned the politicization of higher education, accusing faculty and administrators of catering to “wokeness” and engaging in cancel culture personnel policies. Now, we will see how deep their concern …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple to Withhold Its Latest Employee Perks From Unionized Store — Apple Inc. is withholding its latest employee benefits from staff who work at its sole unionized retail store, a move that could potentially inflame labor tensions at the technology giant. — The company told retail …
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Axios:
Scoop: Peter Thiel offers to double down on Arizona Senate race — Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel has told the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund he is willing to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the Arizona race on the condition the super PAC finds matching funds, Axios has learned.
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ABC News:
Treasury Department to probe DeSantis' use of COVID relief money to fund migrant lights — “We plan to get this work underway as quickly as possible,” Treasury said. — Ron DeSantis speaks during the 2022 Victory Dinner in Hollywood, Fla., July 23, 2022. — Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
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Fox News:
Mayorkas alerted that no Haitian migrants were ‘whipped’ hours before WH press conference — Mayorkas would go on to describe the incident as ‘horrifying’ — Flashback montage: Media pushed false narrative about Border Patrol whipping migrants — EXCLUSIVE: Homeland Security Secretary …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump supporters convicted of bringing guns to Philadelphia after 2020 election — WASHINGTON — Two Donald Trump supporters who traveled to Philadelphia with guns after the 2020 presidential election were convicted on weapons charges on Wednesday, but acquitted on three election-related counts.
Ali Meyer / KFOR-TV:
KFOR EXCLUSIVE: Stitt's secret plan to build a new Governor's mansion — OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The State of Oklahoma has a website devoted to the Oklahoma Governor's mansion. As of this month, paragraph 12 of the website states: “Governor Stitt and his family live in the five rooms on the second floor.”
KFF:
KFF Health Tracking Poll October 2022: The Issues Motivating Voters One Month Before The Midterm Elections — Key Findings — In the upcoming midterm elections, many races will be decided by marginal changes in turnout with a few voters making a difference.
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork, with Chris Geidner:
The Supreme Court won't let a racist jury stop a death sentence — “I think we should stay with our Blood Line,” a juror who later sentenced Andre Thomas to death told lawyers before trial. The conservatives let the Texas death sentence stand. And: More from SCOTUS.
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Media Can't Gaslight the Public about John Fetterman's Health — Like it or not, voters are going to discuss Fetterman's condition, and trying to browbeat them into silence won't work. — Herewith, some news for those within the press who are attempting to bat away scrutiny …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How Close Is Vladimir Putin to Using a Nuclear Bomb? — A Russian attack would terrorize the Ukrainian population and shatter a seven-decade-old international taboo, all while bringing few benefits on the battlefield. — In what the Russian government called retaliation for a Ukrainian attack …
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