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Yuki Iwamura / News 5 Cleveland WEWS:
Haitian nonprofit in Springfield files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance  —  Affidavit uses state statute allowing private citizens to file charges  —  The leader of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance filed charges against former president Donald Trump and his running mate …
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Fox 8 Cleveland WJW:
Haitian group brings criminal charges against Trump, Vance for Springfield comments  —  **Related Video Above: Gov. DeWine offers comments on Springfield last week  —  SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WJW) — In the state of Ohio, private citizens have the ability to legally file criminal charges.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Don't scoff at the Hitler comparisons. Trump's rhetoric is that bad.
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Quinnipiac University Poll:
2024 Presidential Race: Can't Get Much Closer, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 64% Want To See The Two Candidates Debate Again  —  mail_outline  —  With 41 days until Election Day, the presidential race remains too close to call as former President Donald Trump receives 48 percent …
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Harvard University:
Harvard Youth Poll  —  Introduction  —  A national poll released today by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Harvard Kennedy School indicates that among 18-to-29-year-olds nationwide, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a commanding 31-point lead over former President Donald Trump among likely voters in a multi-candidate matchup.
USA Today:
Kamala Harris holds small lead over Donald Trump in Michigan, exclusive poll finds
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Swing state voters back Trump over Harris on key global questions: poll
Drew Magary / SFGATE:
The New York Times is washed  —  SFGATE columnist Drew Magary is done with caring about the Times, and you should be, too  —  We're just over a month away from the presidential election and, if you ask the New York Times, the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Raw Story
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's pitch to women is getting weirder and weirder  —  🚨 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 🌀
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Democrats — and Nikki Haley — knock GOP Senate hopeful over suburban women comments
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump's Pitch to Women Is Creepy Abuser Logic
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 …
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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CNN:
Manchin won't endorse Harris over vow to gut filibuster to codify abortion rights: ‘Shame on her’  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' vow to gut the Senate's filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin.
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WPR:
Kamala Harris tells WPR she supports eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion rights
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Avoids ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson as GOP Cuts His Cash  —  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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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Mark Robinson Needs to Disprove ‘Black Nazi’ Report, RNC Official Says
Discussion: Democrats
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Teens Say Trump's Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats  —  Two women tell WIRED that when they were 18-year-old college freshmen, John McEntee, a former Trump administration official and co-founder of a Peter Thiel-backed dating app …
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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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump plays the fear card on the economy - and it seems to be working
Discussion: Raw Story and USA Today
Rachel Selzer / Democracy Docket:
Pennsylvania Appeals Court Affirms Washington County Must Notify Voters of Mail-in Ballot Errors and Allow for Provisional Voting  —  The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court affirmed a lower court's decision requiring Washington County to notify voters of errors on their mail-in ballots and afford …
Discussion: PoliticsPA
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Michael Lee / Fox News:
Early mail-in voting data signals good news for GOP, Trump: expert
Discussion: RedState, WHTM-TV and Virginia Mercury
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump campaign's ground game worries some Republicans
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Trump Campaign Wants Everyone Talking About Race  —  Earlier this month, the self-identified “white nationalist” Donald Trump adviser Laura Loomer said that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.”
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The danger of a Trump campaign on a losing trajectory
Discussion: Raw Story
Brett Murphy / ProPublica:
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded.  Antony Blinken Rejected Them.  —  Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development …
Discussion: Reuters, New Republic, CAIR and Mother Jones
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Son of Ryan Routh, accused in Trump assassination attempt, arrested for child pornography  —  Oran Routh had “hundreds” of files of child pornography, prosecutors said.  —  The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference at the DOJ office in Washington, May 16, 2023.
Suzanne Lynch / Politico:
‘Precious genius’ Elon Musk love-bombs ‘beautiful’ Giorgia Meloni at think tank awards  —  The tech billionaire and the Italian PM exchange pleasantries at glitzy Washington gala dinner, while Atlantic Council staffers fume.  —  NEW YORK — A year ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
2024 Election Environment Favorable to GOP  —  Party affiliation, GOP issue advantages, economic pessimism among key factors  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly all Gallup measures that have shown some relationship to past presidential election outcomes or that speak to current perceptions …
Nandika Chatterjee / Salon:
Russian propagandists spread Trump and the GOP's false claims about migrant voting  —  As part of an influence campaign targeting conservatives, the Russian government impersonated The Washington Post  —  A recently unsealed FBI affidavit revealed that Russian websites have been spreading disinformation …
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 …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Sam Elliott in pro-Harris ad: ‘Are we really going back down that same f‑‑‑ing broken road?’  —  Actor Sam Elliot, known for his deep and resonant voice, urged Americans to back Vice President Harris's presidential bid in an ad released Monday by The Lincoln Project.
 
 
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