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11:20 PM ET, September 19, 2024

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CNN:
'I'm a black NAZI!':  NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum  —  Editor's Note: The below story contains offensive language.  —  Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina …
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Carolina Journal:
Robinson under pressure to withdraw from gubernatorial race  —  North Carolina Republicans are bracing Thursday morning as word spreads about a damning news story looming regarding Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.  —  Sources with direct knowledge have spoken with Carolina Journal on the condition …
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Email address belonging to Mark Robinson found on Ashley Madison  —  An adviser to the North Carolina Republican confirmed the email address belongs to him.  —  An email address belonging to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was registered on Ashley Madison, a website designed for married people seeking affairs.
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Sabato's Crystal Ball shifts North Carolina gubernatorial race toward Democrats amid Robinson controversy  —  The political forecasting site Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball shifted the North Carolina gubernatorial race Thursday toward Democrats amid an unfolding controversy involving Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate.
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
North Carolina GOP defends Robinson following explosive CNN report  —  The North Carolina Republican Party released a statement Thursday evening defending its gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, after an explosive report about him was released.  —  “Mark Robinson has categorically denied …
Discussion: Raw Story, CBS News and HuffPost
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Mark Robinson is a Trump problem of Trump's own making
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
NBC News:
Mark Robinson vows to stay in N.C. governor race following report he made inflammatory comments on porn site
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
N.C. Republican vows to continue campaign for governor amid fallout of CNN story
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:   GOP Guv Candidate Shared His Love for Transgender Porn & Slavery in Bizarre Old Posts
Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report:
Trump and Johnson's Shocking Bid to Suppress Women's Votes  —  Republicans don't want women to vote.  They now think they may have a strategy that could help make that happen.  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson and former president Donald Trump were pushing the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Eligibility Act) …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Why Trump's election fraud falsehoods might cost the GOP the House
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politico
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Mike Johnson bypassed a second time with rare maneuver
Discussion: FOX8 WGHP
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Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
Kentucky sheriff charged in killing of judge at courthouse  —  A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.  The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines …
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Casey leading McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate polling  —  Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey (D) is leading his Republican rival Dave McCormick in new Keystone State polling.  —  In a new poll from The Philadelphia Inquirer/The New York Times/Siena College, Casey garnered 49 percent support …
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Washington Post:
Harris and Trump essentially tied in Pennsylvania, Post poll finds
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
10 undecided voters explain why they haven't picked a side in this election
Discussion: PBS NewsHour and Bloomberg
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Kamala Harris is doing more press interviews, if you look closely  —  New York CNN —  For several weeks after Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, media observers and critics questioned her decision to remain inaccessible to the press.
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
It's Not Just Haitians In Springfield.  Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation  —  We argue about illegal immigration, but we should be arguing about assimilation and what it means to be a nation.  —  After the presidential debate last Tuesday night, J.D. Vance told CNN's Kaitlin Collins …
Discussion: Lead Stories
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Nuzzi's RFK Relationship  —  “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the spokesperson said. … “Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged …
Siena College Research Institute:
Harris Leads Trump by 13 Points, 55-42%, Similar to 53-39% in August; In Multi-Candidate Race, Harris Leads by 12 Points, Same as August  — Voters Trust Harris More on Abortion, Democracy, Economy; Immigration Tied  — Gillibrand Leads Sapraicone 54-31%; NYS Proposed ERA Favored 64-23%
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Falsely Accusing Harris Of Using Hacked Material - Which Is Exactly What He Did In 2016  —  Trump has successfully persuaded many Americans that his campaign's collusion with Russia in 2016 was a “hoax.”  It was not.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Thursday falsely accused Vice …
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Local Teamsters unions in swing states rush to endorse Harris  —  The powerful national union declared this week that it would not endorse a Democrat for the first time in nearly three decades.  —  A wave of local and regional Teamsters union branches in battleground states rushed …
Bloomberg:
Secret Service Probing Musk's Post About Threats to Biden and Harris  —  The Secret Service is looking into Elon Musk's post on X that suggested it was strange no one attempted to assassinate President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.  In response to a FOIA request …
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April Rubin / Axios:
Secret Service probing Musk's post about Biden, Harris assassination attempts
Kelsey Walsh / ABC News:
Trump tells Jewish audience Israel will be ‘eradicated’ if he doesn't win  —  Trump spoke at a campaign event on “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America.”  —  Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli-American Council National Summit in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19, 2024.
Sister Toldjah / RedState:
WATCH: Nancy Mace Spices Up House Hearing With Ice-Cold Dish of Revenge Against Woke CNN Panelist  —  We've got a lot of serious things going on in this country, some of which undoubtedly weigh heavily on one's emotions, mind, and soul.  —  So, with that in mind, I thought some lighter fare would be in order.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Pelosi: Trump Doesn't Have the ‘Sanity’ to Be President  —  “His thinking is not straight,” the former House speaker said.  —  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Donald Trump lacks the “sanity” to be president of the United States.  —  “It takes vision, knowledge, judgment …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder and Twitchy
David Strom / HotAir:
White Dudes for Harris Ad Changed MY Mind...Not  —  This is going to work.  I am certain of it.  —  As I have said many times, this is the estrogen vs testosterone election, and I am not referring to the hormones that dominate the bodies of the candidates.  —  Men prefer Trump, and women prefer Kamala.
Discussion: Twitchy, RedState and Florida Politics
Noah Pransky / NBC New York:
UH-OH: The slowest mail in the country is in key swing states, NBC investigations finds  —  Tens of thousands of voters were disenfranchised by slow mail in 2020  —  In 2020, when the United States Postal Service began an ambitious plan to modernize and consolidate services …
Discussion: New Republic
ABC News:
Harris teams up with Oprah to broaden her outreach to persuadable voters  —  It was streamed on Oprah's and Harris' socials, potentially reaching millions.  —  Oprah Winfrey speaks with Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at “United For America 2024,” on Sept. 19, 2024, in Farmington Hills, Mich.
Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”  —  On July 15, when former President Donald Trump first appeared at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, he brought along two new accessories.  One was a large bandage covering his ear, which had been nicked by a would-be assassin's bullet.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: 12 completely fictional stories Trump has told in the last month  —  Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories.  —  This isn't run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating that political candidates of all stripes engage in.
Discussion: Alternet.org, Raw Story and TASS
 
 
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