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9:50 PM ET, October 6, 2024

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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Harris hits Trump on abortion record in “Call Her Daddy” interview … - “There are now 20 states with Trump abortion bans, including bans that make no exceptions for rape or incest,” Harris said on the podcast. … - “President Trump has been incredibly clear: the issue of abortion …
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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 …
Politico:
Harris attacks Trump with new Jack Smith revelations
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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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Rep. Adam Schiff says Trump ‘will contest’ election results if he loses
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.
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 …
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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
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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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 …
Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone:
Trump Reiterates He Wants to Be a ‘Dictator’ for ‘One Day’ at Wisconsin Rally  —  It's the GOP presidential nominee's fourth event in Wisconsin in eight days  —  Donald Trump held a rally for the second time in as many days, this time in Juneau, Wisconsin, on Sunday following his return to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
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
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 …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Muslim faith leaders endorse Harris  —  The vice president is in need of allies in a community that remains frustrated with the administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.  —  A group of imams endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in an open letter shared first with NBC News on Sunday …
Discussion: Fox News and New York Times
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.
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
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
Business Insider:
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because ‘we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway’  — Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged more AI development, even though it requires so much energy.  — AI models require enormous data centers …
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: RedState, Reuters, CBS News and Politico
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
 
 
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Nick Reisman / Politico:
New York Dems are queasy over Cuomo's potential comeback
Associated Press:
A strike on a mosque kills 19 as Israel bombards northern Gaza and southern Lebanon
The Hill:
Melania Trump speaks out on abortion. Will it moderate Trump's image?
Discussion: NBC News
Arek Sarkissian / Politico:
Florida prepares to evacuate millions of people ahead of another hurricane
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Oil Moguls Emerge as Key Cash Source for Trump as Race Nears End
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Tim Walz Easily Bats Down Fox Anchor's Anti-Abortion Questions
Justin Spike / Associated Press:
Hungarians protest state media ‘propaganda factory’ and demand unbiased press
Discussion: Euractiv and Bloomberg
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).
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
ProPublica:
Election Skeptics Are Running Some County Election Boards in Georgia. A New Rule Could Allow Them to Exclude Decisive Votes.
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
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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