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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why isn't Trumpism hurting the GOP? Some Democrats see vexing answers. — Something extraordinary just happened: In the space of just this week, a president and an ex-president warned that the opposition poses an existential threat to our political way of life.
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New York Magazine, Media Matters for America, Florida Politics, The Guardian, The Nation and Montana Free Press
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Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
In Final Push For Senate Control, Republican Momentum Grows — Republicans enter the final days of the midterms with the political winds at their backs and the slight momentum in the battle for Senate control. While a handful of races remain incredibly tight, and polls show they could go either way …
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Forbes, FiveThirtyEight, The Hill, FightingFakeNews's Newsletter, Politico and CNN
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Stand on the Verge of Total, Veto-Proof Power — In a 50-50 battleground state, Republicans are close to capturing supermajorities in the State Legislature that would render the Democratic governor irrelevant even if he wins re-election.
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Kenosha News, The Nation and Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Republicans Are Bad for the Economy. Here's Why.
Republicans Are Bad for the Economy. Here's Why.
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New York Times, Raw Story, CNN and Blue Virginia
Jessica Piper / Politico:
The districts seeing the most spending show why House Democrats are in trouble
The districts seeing the most spending show why House Democrats are in trouble
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Split Ticket, Washington Post, NPR and FiveThirtyEight
Kimberly Ross / Washington Examiner:
Republicans can do better than Trump as the party's 2024 presidential nominee
Republicans can do better than Trump as the party's 2024 presidential nominee
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New York Times, IJR, Des Moines Register, BizPac Review, BBC, Bloomberg, Insider, HuffPost and The Hill
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump team eyes Nov. 14 announcement — Former President Trump's inner circle is discussing announcing the launch of a 2024 presidential campaign on Nov. 14 — with the official announcement possibly followed by a multi-day series of political events, according to three sources familiar with the sensitive discussions.
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Lawyer Suing Twitter Over Layoffs Says Musk Now Trying to Comply — The lawyer who sued Twitter Inc. “pre-emptively” on the eve of mass layoffs by Elon Musk said she's “pleased” to learn at least some employees will continue being paid until Jan. 4. — Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan …
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Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Elon Musk begins mass layoffs at Twitter — Employees said the layoffs came across teams, as Twitter broadly reduced its workforce. Musk originally pitched investors on cutting Twitter's staff up to 75 percent. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk is beginning mass layoffs at Twitter …
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Reuters:
Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion - sources
Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion - sources
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Bloomberg, The Root, ZDNet and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
Elon Musk Begins Layoffs at Twitter
Elon Musk Begins Layoffs at Twitter
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Ohio 2022: Vance Extends Lead Over Ryan for US Senate — Home Polls Ohio 2022: Vance Extends Lead Over Ryan for US Senate — The final Emerson College Polling survey of the Ohio Midterm Elections finds 51% of voters support Republican JD Vance for US Senate, while 43% support Democrat Tim Ryan.
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PolitiFact and Insider
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Arizona 2022: US Senate and Gubernatorial Elections in Dead Heat
Arizona 2022: US Senate and Gubernatorial Elections in Dead Heat
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Fox News, The Daily Caller and CNN
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC Cuts Ties Unexpectedly With Weekend Host Tiffany Cross … Tiffany Cross, the MSNBC weekend host who was known for running the freewheeling Saturday commentary program “Cross Connection,” is leaving the NBCUniversal-owned cable-news outlet. — Her production staff was informed …
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Mediaite, Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, RedState, The Hill, Forbes, The Root, The Gateway Pundit, Ace of Spades HQ, New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter, The Post Millennial, The Daily Wire, Newsbusters, PoliticusUSA, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, The Daily Caller and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Election Deniers Admit It's A Lie Behind Closed Doors — “It's a huge manipulation,” lamented the Texas Republican. — Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) revealed what election deniers actually say behind closed doors amid a slew of reality-defying candidates running as Republicans in the 2022 midterms next week.
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Daily Kos
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Nadgey Louis-Charles / House Committee …:
Republicans Release 1,000 Page Report on FBI & DOJ Politicization — Today, House Judiciary Republicans released a new report, “FBI Whistleblowers: What Their Disclosures Indicate About the Politicization of the FBI And Justice Department,” detailing a rampant culture of unaccountability, manipulation, and abuse at the highest level.
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One America News Network, BizPac Review, The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Fox News and Washington Times
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: House GOP to release 1,000-page road map for Biden FBI probe
Scoop: House GOP to release 1,000-page road map for Biden FBI probe
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Washington Post, New York Post, CNN, Washington Examiner, RADlaw Newsletter, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, FOX8 WGHP, Sputnik News, Daily Kos and National Review
ABC News:
Trump ally Tom Barrack found not guilty on foreign lobbying charges — Barrack was accused of acting as a foreign agent for the UAE. — Tom Barrack, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and his one-time inaugural committee chairman, was found not guilty on Friday …
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NBC News, Reuters, Insider, Fox News, CNN, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, UPI, New York Post, The Daily Caller and The New Arab
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Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Former Trump Adviser Acquitted on Charges of Acting as Emirati Agent
Former Trump Adviser Acquitted on Charges of Acting as Emirati Agent
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Hill, CBS News and Courthouse News Service
Washington Post:
Ukraine live briefing: G-7 to offer infrastructure help to Ukraine; Putin tells Kherson residents to flee — MÜNSTER, Germany — Top diplomats from the world's major industrialized democracies agreed to a “coordination mechanism to help Ukraine repair, restore and defend its critical energy …
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New York Times, The Times, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Deseret News, Raw Story, Reuters, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Courthouse News Service, Euractiv and The New Arab
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Stunning poll: 44% of voters see “secret cabal” — Joel Benenson, the renowned pollster for President Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns, gave a first look at the results of a question he'd never asked before: “We wanted to test QAnon's language that the world is controlled by a secret cabal.”
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent — Early this Sunday morning, Americans will engage in the annual autumnal ritual of “falling back” — setting their clocks back one hour to conform with standard time. — If some lawmakers had their way …
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The Hill, Associated Press, Sacramento Bee, ABC7, Union-News, CNN, Pluribus News, Forbes, WPRI-TV and NPR
New York Times:
F.B.I. Locates Suspect After Warning of Security Threat at New Jersey Synagogues — Officials said the man holds “radical extremist views.” On Thursday, they had alerted congregations across the state to be on alert. — Hours after issuing a rare warning about a security threat at New Jersey synagogues …
CNN:
House January 6 committee interviewing Secret Service agents in Trump's motorcade on day of attack — The House January 6 select committee is getting a window into former President Donald Trump's motorcade on the day of the US Capitol attack, interviewing on Friday the Secret Service agent …
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PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, CBS News and American Greatness
Andrea Cavallier / Daily Mail:
NBC News mysteriously PULLS its exclusive report on how Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul, 82, calmly opened door to cops in his underpants - and then walked TOWARDS ‘hammer intruder’ who bludgeoned him — The NBC News report cited sources close to the investigation and was published on Friday morning, but was pulled down by the afternoon
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TODAY.com, National Review, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and New York Post
Kira Lerner / The States:
Conspiracy theorists urge voting as late as possible on Election Day to ‘stop the steal’ — A close ally of Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has a plan that she claims will help win him the election and prevent voter fraud: She wants voters to cast their ballots …
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Insider, Mississippi Politics and News, Des Moines Register, The Texas Tribune, UPI and Denver Post
Liz Calvario / TODAY.com:
Oprah Winfrey announces her support for Dr. Oz opponent, John Fetterman — Oprah Winfrey is making her voice heard. — Ahead of the midterm elections, Winfrey hosted “A Virtual Voting Conversation” on Nov. 3, where she and community leaders discussed the importance of voting during the critical election.
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
How a secret meeting put Hakeem Jeffries on track to replace Pelosi — The race to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the leader of House Democrats may have been clinched at a meeting in the Capitol on Sept. 1. — That's when House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries …
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The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner
Fox News:
House Majority Whip: US ‘on track to repeat’ Nazi Germany, downplays inflation ahead of midterms — House Majority Whip James Clyburn claims US will soon resemble Germany in the 1930s, pointing blame at far-right extremism — EXCLUSIVE — House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C. …
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The Daily Caller, RedState and IJR
Knvul Sheikh / New York Times:
New Covid Variants Are Circulating. Here's What to Know. — The “nightmare variant” is not as bad as it sounds. — As it gets colder and more people move their activities indoors, the recent decline in Covid-19 cases across the United States has started to level off.
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Fortune
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Rick Caruso closes in on Karen Bass as L.A. mayor's race tightens, poll finds — The race for mayor of Los Angeles was tightening rapidly as it entered its final week, with Rick Caruso cutting deeply into Rep. Karen Bass' lead, putting him within striking distance in the contest to run the nation's second-largest city.
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HotAir, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The Daily Caller and Wall Street Journal
Brad Raffensperger / Georgia Secretary of State:
Georgia Voters Post All Time Record for Gubernatorial Early Voting — Georgia voters will exceed 2.4 million votes cast by Friday evening. As of Friday morning, Georgia's record breaking turnout continues with 2,056,545 voters casting their ballot during Early Voting, with 157,334 showing up on Thursday, November 3rd.
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CBS News and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right — Newsweek positioned political activist Josh Hammer to run their opinion pages during the runup to the 2020 presidential election, and since that time, the publication has taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders.
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The Daily Beast