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David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Withdraws Support, GOP Pulls Funding From ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson — WHISTLE FOR IT! — The GOP is distancing itself from its controversial nominee for North Carolina governor. — Donald Trump and the Republican Party are ditching Mark Robinson, their scandal-plagued nominee in the North Carolina governor's race.
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Robinson ‘unacceptable for any elected position,’ Stein says — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) criticized Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's fitness for office in an interview Monday. — “Mark Robinson has revealed himself to be absolutely unfit to be governor …
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FOX8 WGHP, Daily Kos, USA Today, New York Times and Associated Press
WRAL-TV:
Robinson rejected offers of tech help to investigate posts on porn site, sources say
Robinson rejected offers of tech help to investigate posts on porn site, sources say
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Axios, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and New Republic
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Koch network touts Mark Robinson's policy positions with ‘thank you’ ads
Koch network touts Mark Robinson's policy positions with ‘thank you’ ads
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Joe.My.God., Washington Examiner and National Review
Alex Henderson / Alternet.org:
‘Disaster for Trump’: Republican Governors Association drops NC ad buys
‘Disaster for Trump’: Republican Governors Association drops NC ad buys
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Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Newly unearthed data shows closer links to Robinson and porn, dating sites
Newly unearthed data shows closer links to Robinson and porn, dating sites
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Semafor, LGBTQ Nation, Washington Post, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Joe.My.God. and Alternet.org
Al Weaver / The Hill:
North Carolina GOP senator signals he won't vote for Robinson after bombshell report
North Carolina GOP senator signals he won't vote for Robinson after bombshell report
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New Republic
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Oops! Mark Robinson Decries ‘Lies’ About Porn Site Posts, Then Says They ‘Possibly Happened’
Oops! Mark Robinson Decries ‘Lies’ About Porn Site Posts, Then Says They ‘Possibly Happened’
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Washington Examiner, RedState, The Hill, Axios, New York Post, Fox News, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, CNN, Daily Kos and Vanity Fair
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump campaign's ground game worries some Republicans — The Trump campaign is relying on a so far untested get-out-the-vote strategy ahead of November's election that some Republicans view as a high-risk, high-reward gambit. — The Trump campaign has worked alongside outside groups …
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The Daily Caller
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USA Today:
Kamala Harris holds small lead over Donald Trump in Michigan, exclusive poll finds — Michael Collins Terry CollinsUSA TODAY — WASHINGTON - Vice President Kamala Harris has a small lead over former President Donald Trump in the key battleground state of Michigan, according to an exclusive new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll.
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Swing state voters back Trump over Harris on key global questions: poll
Swing state voters back Trump over Harris on key global questions: poll
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The Hill, Townhall, The Guardian, HotAir, Trending Politics Conservative, New York Post, New York Times and New Jersey Online
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: Harris courts rural Trump voters in Pennsylvania
Scoop: Harris courts rural Trump voters in Pennsylvania
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Raw Story, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Associated Press, New Jersey Online and Washington Post
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Harris leads Trump by 5 points in Pennsylvania: Poll
Harris leads Trump by 5 points in Pennsylvania: Poll
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Breitbart, Spotlight PA, Townhall, Washington Post, CBS News and Washington Monthly
Associated Press:
Trump listens during a farming event in rural Pennsylvania, then threatens John Deere with tariffs
Trump listens during a farming event in rural Pennsylvania, then threatens John Deere with tariffs
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Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Trump tells supporters to vote early even as he still criticizes the practice
Trump tells supporters to vote early even as he still criticizes the practice
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New York Times, The Federalist, HuffPost, Wisconsin Examiner, The Guardian, Raw Story, NBC News, Virginia Mercury, UPI and Financial Times
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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WCMH-TV:
Bernie Moreno says women are ‘single issue voters’ for abortion during Ohio town hall — LEBANON, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio's Republican candidate for U.S. Senate questioned why a certain group of women would be concerned about abortion during an event in the state.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is still being hacked — Email communications from individuals associated with the Trump campaign have been hacked by malign actors within the last ten days, Popular Information has confirmed. — On September 18, I was sent a message from “Robert,” …
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
Trump hack continued into last week — The News — The alleged Iranian hack of Donald Trump's orbit continued at least until mid-September and may be ongoing, a document the hackers shared with a progressive publication reveals. — Iranian authorities have denied any involvement …
Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Head of United Nations calls global situation ‘unsustainable’ as annual meeting of leaders opens — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders Tuesday that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are creating an “unsustainable world” where a growing number of countries believe …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Biden to deliver final U.N. General Assembly speech amid global turmoil as election nears
Biden to deliver final U.N. General Assembly speech amid global turmoil as election nears
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Biden Works Against the Clock as Violence Escalates in the Middle East
Biden Works Against the Clock as Violence Escalates in the Middle East
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Matt Egan / CNN:
Over 400 economists and ex-officials endorse Kamala Harris — New York CNN — More than 400 economists and former high-ranking US policymakers are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and her vision for the American economy, according to a document announcing the endorsement seen by CNN.
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The Guardian:
Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel — Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor's pit bull around 2004 — The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase …
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Rolling Stone, The Bulwark, LGBTQ Nation and Raw Story
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
A Congressman Had an Affair. Then He Put His Lover on the Payroll. — Representative Anthony D'Esposito, a New York Republican, gave part-time jobs to both his lover and his fiancée's daughter, in possible violation of House ethics rules. — As a proud son of Nassau County's …
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Washington Post:
Why Mike Johnson won't get McCarthy'd
Why Mike Johnson won't get McCarthy'd
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Alternet.org, Politico and New York Times
emptywheel:
The Habitual Lies on Which Trump Has Built His Attack on Rule on Law — Credit where it's due: WaPo has already published two stories this week that attempt to cover Trump like the conman he is, rather than the good faith politician he is often treated as. — Yesterday, Ashley Parker wrote …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge blocks employee abortion, IVF protections at thousands of Catholic employers nationwide — The group that brought the challenge to a new federal policy argues it cannot be forced to accommodate “immoral infertility ‘treatments.’” — A federal judge in North Dakota issued …
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
Mike Johnson Privately Tells Republicans Trump Doesn't Want a Shutdown — The speaker briefed members on his private conversation with Trump and left them with some key impressions. — Copy — House GOP leaders are all too aware that the upcoming vote on a stopgap government funding bill won't be kind of them.
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The danger of a Trump campaign on a losing trajectory — Talk of Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield conceals Trump's tour of sundown towns in battleground states — Gore Vidal was correct when he damningly observed that the American people do not have a memory of the last week.
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Punchbowl News:
Trump MIA on NRCC fundraising — Vice President Kamala Harris recently transferred $10 million to the DCCC. How much has former President Donald Trump given the NRCC? Not one red cent. — Trump also has yet to appear at a major fundraising event for the NRCC, leaving a huge, eight-figure hole in the committee's budget.
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Washington Post
Nadia Lathan / Associated Press:
Texas jury clears most ‘Trump Train’ drivers in civil trial over 2020 Biden-Harris bus encounter — A federal jury in Texas on Monday rejected voter intimidation allegations against all but one of a group of former President Donald Trump supporters who surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus …
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Axios, CNN, Associated Press, Raw Story, The Guardian, IJR and WFAA-TV