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9:30 AM ET, October 26, 2022

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Axios:
Fetterman's painful debate … Capitol Hill's reaction to the Pennsylvania Senate debate was brutal for Democratic nominee John Fetterman, from Democrats and Republicans alike. … Fetterman struggled at times to respond to the moderators' questions, even with the assistance of a closed captioning device.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How much will John Fetterman's rocky night matter?  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Let's state the obvious:JOHN FETTERMAN struggled to effectively communicate during his one and only Senate debate with MEHMET OZ Tuesday in Harrisburg.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Fetterman struggles during TV debate with Oz  —  PHILADELPHIA — John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz sparred over abortion, fracking and other hot-button issues during their Senate debate Tuesday night, with the Democrat who suffered a stroke more than five months ago struggling at times …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Fetterman, Showing Stroke Effects, Battles Oz in Hostile Senate Debate
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Overview: 10 Rating Changes as Democrats' Blue State Problems Grow  —  Two weeks out, Republicans have the momentum in the race for House control.  Last week, the GOP regained the lead in FiveThirtyEight's generic ballot average for the first time since August amid worsening economic news.
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Two-thirds of Republicans still don't believe Biden was elected legitimately  —  Just 5% of “Trump-first” Republicans view Biden's election as legitimate almost two years after the 2020 race concluded.  —  Almost two years after President Joe Biden won the presidential election …
Discussion: Politico, NPR and Raw Story
Punchbowl News:
THE TOP … THERE ARE 13 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY. … CLF WILL PUT MORE RESOURCES INTO SEVEN DISTRICTS THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS.  HERE ARE THE RACES ITS TARGETING: … PORTER IS FACING A STIFF CHALLENGE FROM REPUBLICAN SCOTT BAUGH IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Two in five U.S. voters worry about intimidation at polls -Reuters/Ipsos
Discussion: Roll Call and Spectrum News 1 Ohio
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:   The House: GOP Hits 218 in Ratings as Battle Rages Across Big Playing Field
CNN:
DOJ asks judge to force Trump White House lawyers to testify in Jan. 6 probe  —  ‘Deep trouble’: Consultant during Trump's impeachment gives his take on DOJ move  —  Ex-GOP adviser examines the ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene phenomenon’  —  Woman confronts armed man near ballot drop box
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
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Rolling Stone:
‘Absolutely F—ing Not.’ Trump's Team Scrambled to Talk Him Out of Jan. 6 Testimony  —  The former president saw a chance for a live televised spectacle.  His advisors saw a fast-track to perjury charges … Even the idea of it sent Trump's advisers scrambling to convince him it would be a disaster.
Semafor:
Senator Robert Menendez is under investigation again  —  Kadia is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from BuzzFeed News.  Sign up for the daily Principals newsletter to get our insider's guide to American power.  —  Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J. faces a new federal investigation …
New York Times:
A Secret Deal, Wishful Thinking: How the U.S.-Saudi Relationship Ruptured  —  Ahead of President Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia this summer, his administration thought it had secured pledges of increases in oil production throughout the year.  The opposite happened.
David Weigel / Semafor:
Bernie Sanders: House progressives were wrong on Ukraine  —  Dave is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from the Washington Post.  Sign up for Americana to get his coverage of the national political scene in your inbox twice a week.  —  THE SCOOP
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HuffPost:
How A Progressive Bid To Shape Ukraine Policy Imploded
Emily Tamkin / New Statesman:
Ye, Adidas and the trap of celebrity anti-Semitism  —  Prejudice against Jewish people won't be stamped out in America because the German sportswear company dropped Kanye West.  —  WASHINGTON DC - Adidas has announced that it will sever its partnership with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West …
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Lisette Voytko / Forbes:
Billionaire No More: Kanye West's Antisemitism Obliterates His Net Worth As Adidas Cuts Ties
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Exclusive: Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show  —  “Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.  —  The reality, according to internal Twitter (TWTR.N) research seen by Reuters …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Dems hit Republicans from the right with “Trump traitor” ads  —  Democrats are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking Republican House candidates from the right, with efforts to boost spoiler Libertarian candidates and portray a Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump as a traitor to the former president.
Articles and Investigations:
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial  —  A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.  —  Co-published with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Douglas Soule / Tallahassee Democrat:
Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Marco Rubio hold big leads over Democratic opponents  —  TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks before the November 8 election, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio hold double-digit leads over their Democratic opponents, a new poll shows.
Lynne O'Donnell / Foreign Policy:
Russia's Recruiting Afghan Commandos  —  Abandoned special forces veterans are getting job offers for a very different kind of battlefield.  —  Members of Afghanistan's elite National Army Commando Corps, who were abandoned by the United States and Western allies when the country fell …
Natalie Weber / Tampa Bay Times:
Attorney who fought Florida helmet laws died in motorcycle crash while not wearing one  —  Ron Smith, 66, and his girlfriend, 62-year-old Brenda Jeanan Volpe, were on their way to a funeral with a group of riders from the American Legion.  —  In the late 1990s, when Florida bikers …
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Here's what changed in Dinesh D'Souza's ‘2,000 Mules’ book after it was recalled  —  After an abrupt recall and a two-month delay - along with the threat of possible legal action - the election denial book 2,000 Mules has reached bookstores, though with a few significant changes.
Discussion: Washington Times and Raw Story
Max Bearak / New York Times:
Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality  —  With an annual summit next month, the United Nations assessed progress on countries' past emissions commitments.  Severe disruption would be hard to avoid on the current trajectory.
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Associated Press
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Justice Alito says leak of abortion opinion made majority ‘targets for assassination’  —  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said Tuesday that the leak of his draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade made his colleagues in the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court “targets for assassination.”
Jon Wiener / The Nation:
Mike Davis: 1946-2022  —  A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist's eye and a historian's memory.  —  Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, died October 25 after a long struggle with esophageal cancer; he was 76.  He's best known for his 1990 book about Los Angeles, City of Quartz.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: National Republicans jump back into New Hampshire Senate race  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee is recommitting resources into the New Hampshire Senate race, according to an NRSC official, just days after the Senate GOP's top super PAC cancelled its spending on behalf of nominee Don Bolduc.
Associated Press:
Russia, Belarus ambassadors barred from Nobel ceremony  —  STOCKHOLM — The ambassadors of Russia and Belarus have been excluded from this year's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of the war in Ukraine.  —  The Nobel Foundation, a private foundation which administers the prestigious awards …
 
 
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Washington Post:
As mayor trying to revive crumbling town, Fetterman shunned local government
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Fox News:
Pennsylvania debate or political charade? Voters weigh in ahead of Oz-Fetterman showdown
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Dodge, deny or fib: Candidates stay vague on 2024 plans
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
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