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10:55 AM ET, September 23, 2024

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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Mark Robinson may deliver North Carolina for Kamala Harris  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  🚨  —  📝 Subscribe to Public Notice 📝
Discussion: UPI, Mediaite and The Signorile Report
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
These companies are bankrolling a multi-million dollar effort to elect Mark Robinson governor of North Carolina  —  Even before securing the Republican nomination for Governor of North Carolina in March, Mark Robinson had a long and well-documented record of promoting conspiracy theories …
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Election Live Updates: Republicans' Troubles in North Carolina Grow as Harris Expands War Chest  —  Top aides in Mark Robinson's bid to become North Carolina's governor have resigned.  Vice President Kamala Harris brought in $27 million at a single fund-raiser.  —  Here's the latest on the presidential race.
Colin Campbell / WUNC:
Nearly all of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's campaign staff quits after CNN report  —  Days after a CNN report about racist and sexual comments posted on a pornography forum, all but a few of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's campaign team quit their jobs on Sunday.  —  A campaign news release …
CNN:
4 senior campaign officials for Mark Robinson step down in wake of CNN report
New York Times:
Trump Shows Signs of Strength in Sun Belt Battlegrounds, Polls Find  —  New polls from The New York Times and Siena College showed Donald J. Trump ahead in Arizona and leading in tight races in Georgia and North Carolina.  —  Voters across the Sun Belt say that Donald J. Trump improved …
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Spending deal averts a possible federal shutdown and funds the government into December  —  Congressional leaders announced an agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months, averting a possible partial government shutdown …
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Sheriff's Post About Harris Yard Signs Gets Department Booted From Election Duties  —  BLEW IT  —  Bruce Zuchowski, a Trump-supporting Republican, likened migrants to “human locusts” and called the vice president a “Flip-Flopping, Laughing Hyena.”  —  The sheriff's department in Portage County …
Discussion: Raw Story and Plain Dealer
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Politico:
Department won't provide election security after sheriff's posts about Harris yard signs
Discussion: UPI
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump is at 48 percent.  How could this be possible but for widespread racism?  —  At this point, the racism is obvious.  How else does it make sense that 48 percent of registered voters in last week's Fox News poll say they have no problem putting Donald Trump back in the White House?
Discussion: The Guardian
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New York Times:
Controversies Erupt as Trump and G.O.P. Make Critical Push to Voters
Discussion: Eschaton and Politico
emptywheel:
Why No One Went to Prison for Rudy Giuliani's Hunter Biden Corruption  —  Like many people, I've watched From Russia with Lev since it was released the other day.  —  The documentary tells a story I've covered here in real time: of how, with Lev Parnas' help, Rudy Giuliani solicited dirt on Hunter …
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
College Swimmer ‘No Longer Enrolled’ After Scratching Racial Slur Onto Student's Chest  —  ‘HATE CRIME’  —  It's not clear if they chose to leave or were kicked out.  —  A swimmer who scratched a racial slur onto the body of another student is no longer enrolled at Gettysburg College, the school said.
Sharyl Attkisson / Baltimore Sun:
My interview with Donald Trump  —  With less than seven weeks left until the presidential election, we traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Former President Donald Trump.  We've also asked Vice President Kamala Harris for an interview, but so far, she hasn't agreed.
Discussion: NPR, Fox News, IJR, UPI, The Guardian and NBC News
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Full Measure:
Cover Story: Candidate Trump 2024
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Over 700 national security officials endorse Harris for president … - Several polls show Harris pulling ahead of Trump, including an NBC News survey out Sunday showing the Democrat leading the Republican nationally 49% to 44% and a Washington Post one showing her with a slight lead in four battleground states.
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David Cohen / Politico:
‘To my friends in Nebraska, that 1 electoral vote could be the difference’  —  Lindsey Graham explains why he is pushing Nebraska to change its election rules.  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday justified traveling to Nebraska to push for the state's Republican leadership to change how it awards its electoral votes.
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world's top companies undermining democracy - report  —  Corporations such as ExxonMobil and Blackstone also big funders of climate crisis, new trade union report finds  —  Some of the world's largest companies have been accused of undermining democracy across …
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Musk Says ‘Doomed Humanity’ Will ‘Never Reach Mars’ if Harris Becomes President  —  THE FINAL FRONTIER  —  Amid the ongoing insanity of childless cat ladies, pet genocide, and “Black Nazis,” was it only a matter of time before another planet got dragged into the presidential race?
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Doctor sounds alarm that Trump could gut health care — even if he's not elected  —  Former President Donald Trump may publicly be backing off past attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act, at least until he has more than the “concept of a plan” to do so — but he doesn't actually need Congress …
Discussion: New York Times
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson Denies Hiring MAGA Troll Fraudster as Campaign Manager  —  ‘FALSE’  —  MAGA fraudster Jack Burkman's last claim—made in July—was that Joe Biden, who is alive, had “24 hours to live.”  —  The campaign of Mark Robinson—the Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate mired …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
 
 
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Ryu Spaeth / New York Magazine:
The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
DNC calls Trump ‘chicken’ for not accepting second debate in billboard campaign
Discussion: Washington Examiner, NBC News and IJR
Flavia Krause-Jackson / Bloomberg:
Zelenskiy Hits the US Campaign Trail for Support
Discussion: Reuters
Associated Press:
Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits Pennsylvania ammunition plant to thank workers and ask for more
Discussion: WHTM-TV
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Fumbuka Ng'Wanakilala / Bloomberg:
Tanzania Arrests Opposition Leaders for Planning Protests
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Reuters
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Mayor of Muslim-majority Michigan city endorses Trump: ‘Right choice for this critical time’
Qasim Rashid / Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid:
How Republicans Are Working to Steal the 2024 Election
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Janet Jackson Reportedly Apologizes to Kamala Harris, Blames ‘Misinformation’ for Comments
Marianna Spring / BBC:
‘I hate Trump, she likes him - we both think he staged assassination attempts’
Discussion: Twitchy
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner
 

 
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