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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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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Potential Trump loss threatens destruction of modern GOP — An identity crisis. A brutal power struggle. Years in the wilderness. — If Donald Trump is defeated in next month's election, the Republican Party will face a reckoning unprecedented in modern political history.
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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Johnson won't say Biden won in 2020, raising worries on 2024's process — During a testy exchange on ABC News, the House speaker wouldn't say Trump lost in 2020, saying that the question was a “gotcha game” by the media. — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wouldn't acknowledge Sunday …
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George Fabe Russell / USA Today:
Mike Johnson refuses to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Rep. Adam Schiff says Trump ‘will contest’ election results if he loses
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Tal Axelrod / ABC News:
Johnson punts on GOP rhetoric, 2020 election outcome
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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 …
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.
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Deadline:
‘SmartLess’ Podcast Snags Tim Walz Interview … Kamala Harris' vice presidential nominee will be virtually sitting down with the SmartLess podcast Monday, we hear. — Minnesota Gov. Walz, who is also appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live tomorrow, will hold a Zoom conversation with the popular podcast hosts …
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Aliza Chasan / CBS News:
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz will be featured on “60 Minutes” tomorrow. Here's what to know for the interview.
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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 …
Maya Boddie / Alternet.org:
‘Shameful!’ Johnson slammed for saying Congress won't cut recess short to pass disaster relief aid — Although Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) plans to visit the western part of North Carolina this week in the “deadly and devastating” aftermath of Hurricane Helene …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Speaker Johnson calls federal response to Helene ‘a massive failure’
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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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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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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response — Former President Donald Trump has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about the federal response to Hurricane Helene. — While various misinformation about the response has spread widely without Trump's involvement …
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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.
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Washington Post:
Vance says Trump administration would end funding to Planned Parenthood — While some states have halted government funds to Planned Parenthood, recent GOP-led efforts to defund the nonprofit nationwide have been largely unsuccessful. — Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former president Donald Trump's running mate …
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.
New York Post:
FEMA abandons devastated NC town residents because they can't drive around ‘road closed’ sign: 'Nobody's been bringing in supplies except civilians' — BAT CAVE, North Carolina — Residents of a tiny North Carolina town that was almost totally destroyed by Hurricane Helene fending for themselves …
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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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