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8:05 PM ET, October 6, 2024

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New York Times:
Trump's Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age … Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side.  Except that there was no audience.  The debate was held in an empty hall.
Fox News:
KJP slammed after Hurricane Helene over mixed messages on whether FEMA resources used for migrants  —  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is facing heavy criticism after sending mixed messages on whether the Biden-Harris administration has been using FEMA resources to support migrants last week.
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George Fabe Russell / USA Today:
Mike Johnson refuses to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday refused to say former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.  —  During a heated interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Senate Republicans' strangely uneven spending map  —  The distribution of ad spending for Senate GOP candidates is highly lopsided, with a massive amount focused on Pennsylvania.  —  Senate Republican spending is heavily concentrated in just a handful of races — a distribution that doesn't match the reality of the battleground map.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
GOP looks to avoid disaster in Nebraska Senate race  —  Republicans are looking to avoid a disaster in the Nebraska Senate race amid signs that an independent candidate could be giving Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) a run for her money.  —  Independent Senate candidate and political newcomer Dan Osborn …
Discussion: Fox News
Aliza Chasan / CBS News:
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz will be featured on “60 Minutes” tomorrow.  Here's what to know for the interview.  —  Voters will get the chance to hear from Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday as she presents her case for why she should be president in a “60 Minutes” election special.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Harris Will Appear in a Whirlwind of Interviews, Most of Them Friendly
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
The Press Gave Up On Telling The Truth This Week  —  They are choosing a dictatorship over democracy  —  Welcome to our 9th edition of Corporate Media Fails, and wow—that was quite a long year—I mean week.  Sometimes when I analyze the news, it seems like those in the Press have quit trying …
emptywheel:
All Hell Is Going to Break Loose: Maybe Jack Smith Did Precisely What Elie Honig Claims He Didn't  —  There are a number of laugh-in-his-face funny things about Elie Honig's column bitching that Jack Smith submitted his immunity filing before the election.  First, for years Honig whined …
Maya Boddie / Raw Story:
Inside Donald Trump Jr.'s plan for ‘building the new Republican Party’: report  —  Donald Trump Jr. recently told The Wall Street Journal that his father, former President Donald Trump, “always jokes—or maybe doesn't joke, I'm not 100% sure sometimes with him—'You know, you're much better at politics than you were at real estate.'”
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Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:   How Donald Trump Jr. Became the Crown Prince of MAGA World
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Autocracy and Poverty  —  When I am on media, television hosts ask how democracy is relevant to people who are voting on kitchen-table issues.  That's easy.  —  When Trump destroys our democracy, he will also destroy our economy.  —  Autocracy will bring poverty.
Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
What I texted President Biden about how to restore public trust during a hurricane of lies  —  Good afternoon from Washington, where we are enjoying the best fall weather yet while a toxic storm of lies, rumors, and conspiracy theories undermines our government's response to the historic hurricane that swept inland last weekend.
Discussion: The White House
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Harris blasts Arkansas governor's comments about her lack of biological children  —  On the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, the vice president spoke about her “modern family” and lifting women up, rather than putting them down for not having kids.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris hit back at Arkansas GOP …
David Cohen / Politico:
Iran is increasingly desperate, retired US general says  —  “Iran is the country that's in a corner,” former CENTCOM commander Frank McKenzie said.  —  Iran is driven by desperation in its current conduct, the former commander of American forces in the Middle East said in an interview Sunday.
Discussion: Reuters, RedState and CBS News
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘Undisciplined, unhinged and deranged’: will Trump's strange behavior hurt him at the polls?  —  While he's always been quick to insult, he's now frequently vicious, and his speeches are increasingly disjointed  —  A “beautiful” beach body and a “mentally disabled” opponent.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 5, 2024  —  William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess is a sentence I never expected to write).  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is elevating McKinley, representative from Ohio from 1877 to 1891 and president from 1897 to 1901, to justify his plan to impose new high tariffs.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Tim Walz Easily Bats Down Fox Anchor's Anti-Abortion Questions  —  Shannon Bream tried to frame the vice presidential nominee as an extremist on abortion.  He didn't let her  —  Gov. Tim Walz vociferously defended his record on abortion rights during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
ProPublica:
Election Skeptics Are Running Some County Election Boards in Georgia.  A New Rule Could Allow Them to Exclude Decisive Votes.  —  An examination of a new election rule in Georgia suggests that local officials in just a handful of rural counties could exclude enough votes to affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential race.
Arek Sarkissian / Politico:
Florida prepares to evacuate millions of people ahead of another hurricane  —  The state is still recovering from Helene, which made landfall less than two weeks ago.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida is facing the threat of another major hurricane making landfall in the state …
Politico:
Harris attacks Trump with new Jack Smith revelations  —  The digital ad, shared first with POLITICO, is targeting voters in key battleground states.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is directly invoking special counsel Jack Smith's investigation to attack former President Donald Trump, in a new ad provided first to POLITICO.
 
 
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Nick Reisman / Politico:
New York Dems are queasy over Cuomo's potential comeback
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Rep. Adam Schiff says Trump ‘will contest’ election results if he loses
Associated Press:
A strike on a mosque kills 19 as Israel bombards northern Gaza and southern Lebanon
New York Times:
Trump's Return to Scene of Attack Was a Do-Over in More Ways Than One
The Hill:
Melania Trump speaks out on abortion. Will it moderate Trump's image?
Discussion: NBC News
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Speaker Johnson calls federal response to Helene ‘a massive failure’
Discussion: Fox News and RedState
Bloomberg:
Oil Moguls Emerge as Key Cash Source for Trump as Race Nears End
Justin Spike / Associated Press:
Hungarians protest state media ‘propaganda factory’ and demand unbiased press
Discussion: Euractiv and Bloomberg
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
Signs grow that young Black voters are going to show up for Harris
Mathew Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Hines & RFK Jr. ‘Have Barely Spoken’ Since Affair News Broke
Discussion: Page Six and New York Daily News