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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
JD Vance doesn't think he needs debate prep to defeat Tim Walz — He plans to attack Walz during the debate over his record as governor. — Ahead of his first and likely only national debate of the presidential cycle, JD Vance prepared for the event at his home in Cincinnati and virtually on Zoom.
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Libby Cathey / CBS News:
DNC trolls Trump, Vance with digital projections on NYC's Trump Tower ahead of debate
DNC trolls Trump, Vance with digital projections on NYC's Trump Tower ahead of debate
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HuffPost, New Republic, The Daily Beast, Fox News and The Hollywood Reporter
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Dems privately worry how Walz will fare against Vance in VP debate
Dems privately worry how Walz will fare against Vance in VP debate
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The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Forbes, Pepperspectives, USA Today, Telegraph, The Verge, ABC News, MPR News and Fox News
Washington Post:
N.C. presidential race close as Helene recovery begins, Post poll finds — Republican Mark Robinson trails by a wide margin in the race for governor following allegations of lewd and racist comments. — North Carolina voters are closely divided in the choice between Donald Trump …
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The Bulwark, The Hill, New Jersey Online and New York Magazine
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Casey up 4 points over McCormick in Senate reelection bid: Survey
Casey up 4 points over McCormick in Senate reelection bid: Survey
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Joe.My.God.
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Stein leads Robinson by double digits in NC governor race
Stein leads Robinson by double digits in NC governor race
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Washington Post, Joe.My.God. and New York Post
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Poll shows a tight race in Pennsylvania, with warning signs for Harris among older voters
Poll shows a tight race in Pennsylvania, with warning signs for Harris among older voters
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The Hill, AARP, The Dispatch, The Capitolist and Fox News
Associated Press:
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks.
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Washington Post:
Jimmy Carter turns 100, and his hometown is ringing in the milestone — He is the first American president to reach the century mark. Locals are excited to celebrate the man they know as “Mr. Jimmy.” — PLAINS, Ga. — Signs that read “Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President!” dot lawns.
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Business Insider, The Guardian, New York Post, Al Jazeera, TMZ.com, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, UPI, Axios and Roll Call
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Video Out of North Carolina After Hurricane Helene Is Tough Viewing — Meanwhile, eighty-two Republicans voted to shut down the government as a catastrophic storm prepared to devastate a quarter of the country. — The video evidence from western North Carolina looks like something Matthew Brady would have sent back from Antietam.
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Is Pushing Donald Trump to Man Up and Debate Kamala Harris Again — ROUND TWO? — Trump's former adviser said she tried to juice Trump's ego by telling him he's like Major League Baseball standout Shohei Ohtani. — Kellyanne Conway, the former adviser to former president Donald Trump …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway: Trump didn't say ‘totally no’ to another debate
Kellyanne Conway: Trump didn't say ‘totally no’ to another debate
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New Republic
Dan Rather / Steady:
Facts Need To Be Checked
Facts Need To Be Checked
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The Hill, MPR News, USA Today, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Beast, CBS News, Axios, Adweek, Fox News, New York Times, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, So What and Poynter
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Trump Sure Sounds Like He's Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
Trump Sure Sounds Like He's Expecting Vance to Lose Debate
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Washington Examiner, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, New York Post, Mediaite, The Dworkin Report, Boston Herald and The Hill
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Taylor Lorenz Exits Washington Post to Launch ‘User Mag’ on Substack (Exclusive) — Lorenz, who is leaving the newspaper to launch the publication, says that it will “cover technology from the user side,” in contrast to traditional coverage of social media.
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HotAir, New York Post, Fox News, Mediaite, BizPac Review, Twitchy, The National Pulse and acecomments.mu.nu, more at Mediagazer »
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Paypal Opted You Into Sharing Data Without Your Knowledge — Here's how to opt out of sharing data for “Personalized shopping.” — PayPal quietly opted users into sharing data with third parties for “personalized shopping experiences,” according to multiple complaints on social media and 404 Media's own tests.
Associated Press:
Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene — Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia.
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Politico:
US officials quietly backed Israel's military push against Hezbollah — The officials urged caution and stressed the need for diplomacy. But the timing was right for such a military shift, they concluded. — Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support …
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New Republic, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Politico, IJR, Middle East Monitor and CNN
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
Iran preparing missile attack on Israel, White House says
Iran preparing missile attack on Israel, White House says
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Victor Fiorillo / Philadelphia Magazine:
Philly-Area Republican Couple Threatened After Filming Kamala Harris Ad — The normally idyllic lives of these Main Line farmers changed after MSNBC spotlighted the commercial. — Pennsylvania farmers Bob Lange and wife Kristina Chadwick Lange are lifelong Republicans.
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SAVVY MAINLINE and Raw Story
Jerusalem Post:
Eight killed in terror shooting in Jaffa, many more wounded — The shooting, which the MDA designated a mass-casualty incident, occurred near a light rail station in the central Israeli city. — Eight people were killed and at least seven wounded, as well as a dog, in a shooting terror attack in Jaffa …
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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Why the “vetting” of JD Vance was a spectacular failure — 🚨 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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Phoebe Quinton / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Thousands of people purged from Georgia's voter rolls reregistered after Kamala Harris' rally in Atlanta — More than 40,000 people have filled out paperwork to vote on Election Day in November — Stanlecia Johnson, 48, registered to vote when she turned 18 years old …
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Raw Story
Popular Information:
Hundreds of citizens wrongly stripped of voting rights in botched effort to legitimize Trump's conspiracy theory — One of the central narratives that former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing is that Democrats are planning to steal the election by using undocumented immigrants to pad their vote totals.
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Alabama Reflector, USA Today, The Daily Signal, American Greatness, Washington Examiner and Raw Story
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Nevada Republicans Freak Out Over ‘Deplorable’ Statue of a Giant, Naked Trump — ‘PORNOGRAPHIC’ — A 43-foot effigy of an entirely nude Donald Trump that mysteriously appeared outside Las Vegas over the weekend has been condemned by Nevada Republicans, who slammed the “deplorable” sculpture as “pornographic.”
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The Guardian, New York Post, New Republic, Nevada Republican Party, ComingSoon.net, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Blaze Media and Daily Kos
John McCormack / The Dispatch:
What Happened to Tucker Carlson? — The strange journey of a pundit, Trump whisperer, and potential 2028 presidential candidate. — (Illustration by Aaron Sandford/Photos via Getty Images) — When 9/11 truthers confronted Tucker Carlson on the campaign trail ahead of the 2012 Iowa caucuses …
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Media Matters for America
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
5 possible October surprises that could roil the Trump-Harris race — The 2024 presidential race has seen enough shocking events transpire in a few short months to fill an entire calendar year, but that doesn't mean there won't be a much-talked about October surprise looming in the final weeks of the campaign.
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Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit