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9:40 AM ET, October 8, 2024

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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
Kamala Harris makes the case in 60 Minutes interview for why she should be president  —  Kamala Harris has been a candidate for president for just two-and-a-half months and the post convention “honeymoon” is over.  With the election just 29 days away, Harris and her running mate Minnesota …
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Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Harris undergoes a ‘60 Minutes’ grilling as Trump sits it out  —  Harris refused to say whether the Biden administration's early border policy was a mistake.  Trump backed out of an interview with the program.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris for weeks was criticized for avoiding tough questions …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris reveals owning a Glock: ‘Of course’ I've fired it
CNN:
‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin  —  Editor's Note: The story below contains explicit language  —  In his new book, legendary journalist Bob Woodward offers a remarkable look behind the scenes …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Woodward's “War” reveals new Biden backstory … Blinken made it clear that getting out was a decision only Biden could make — wanting the president to feel he was making it on his terms, rather than being forced.  — Biden stayed in the race three more weeks, then bowed out as party support collapsed.
Discussion: New Book Releases …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says  —  “War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
55/45 is a really close race  —  After a drought, we finally have enough interesting polling to do a Model Talk on where the race stands: perhaps we'll take another tour through the swing states, for instance.  But we've been leaning heavily on the paywalled side lately …
Discussion: The Hill
Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Kamala Harris gains slight lead over Donald Trump in Michigan, poll shows
Discussion: HotAir and NPR
Associated Press:
Hurricane Milton is a Category 5.  Florida orders evacuations and scrambles to clear Helene's debris  —  Florida's storm-battered Gulf Coast raced against a Category 5 hurricane Monday as workers sprinted to pick up heaps of appliances and other street debris left over from Helene two weeks ago …
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Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis is refusing to take Harris' call on Hurricane Helene
Tara Suter / The Hill:
DeSantis ‘not aware’ of Harris calls after reports he dodged them
Discussion: RedState and Florida Politics
ABC News:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis refused call from VP Kamala Harris about hurricane aid: Source
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Ron DeSantis' Administration Is Threatening to Prosecute the Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is threatening TV stations that air ads in support of an abortion rights ballot initiative with criminal penalties, including jail time.
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds  —  A Democratic senator's report finds new evidence of the White House controlling an FBI investigation into sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee.  —  In September 2018, as allegations of sexual misconduct …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Lauren Egan / Politico:
What Kamala Harris' ‘Call Her Daddy’ media strategy is really about  —  Hint: it's not about mainstream media's egos.  —  On Sunday, a 40-minute interview with Vice President Kamala Harris aired on a platform with an audience of 5 million engaged and loyal listeners.  No, it wasn't “Meet the Press” or “Face the Nation.”
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Helen Lewis / The Atlantic:
What Going on Call Her Daddy Did for Kamala Harris
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He's Visited Gaza, but No Record of Such a Trip Exists  —  An aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, pointed to the former president's trip to Israel.  But Gaza is not in Israel.  —  Donald J. Trump suggested in a radio interview on Monday that he had visited war-torn Gaza in the past …
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Harris to propose new Medicare home care benefit for seniors  —  The vice president is expected to announce the proposal on “The View.”  —  Kamala Harris during a Tuesday appearance on “The View” is expected to announce a new policy aimed at helping families care for aging seniors.
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:   Kamala Harris Will Propose Adding Home Care Benefit To Medicare
Public Notice:
Trump's climate denial is appalling and getting worse  —  It's a perfect storm of ignorance and malevolence. … 🥂  —  In the wake of Hurricane Helene, Trump's blatant lies about FEMA using emergency funds for migrants have gotten a lot of attention, and deservedly so …
Sophia Cai / Axios:
“The Apprentice”: the film Trump doesn't want you to see … - The scenes are based on Ivana Trump's divorce deposition in 1990, in which she detailed a 1989 assault.  — She later walked back her claim that she was raped, and said instead that she “felt violated.”  — Trump has denied the allegations.
Discussion: Variety, Deadline, 77 WABC and Salon
emptywheel:
Disaster Disinformation Is This Year's John Podesta Emails  —  I've already focused on these three paragraphs, but want to return to them.  They're from NYT's article anticipating how the apparently tied race will roll out in the next 30 (now 28) days.
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Disaster relief hurricane loan program precariously low on funds
Discussion: The Daily Beast, HuffPost, IJR and Politico
NBC News:
Montana GOP Senate candidate says women have been ‘indoctrinated’ on abortion  —  In newly unearthed audio from last year, Tim Sheehy said abortion is “all” young women “want to talk about.”  —  Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, who is locked in a highly consequential race …
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and HuffPost
Michael Holden / Reuters:
Russia's GRU seeking to cause ‘mayhem’ in Britain and Europe, UK's MI5 spy chief says  —  Russian military intelligence is seeking to cause “mayhem” across Britain and Europe, the UK's domestic spy chief said on Tuesday, while a growing threat from al Qaeda and Islamic State was his greatest terrorism concern.
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg and The Sun
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Massive Harris ad buy launches wild spending month … - The Harris campaign and its super PACs are swimming in cash. … - For Harris super PAC Future Forward this week, that involves directly appealing to the kind of voter Harris has struggled to attract: white working-class males.
Discussion: The Hill
Rebecca Crosby / Popular Information:
Every problem Trump wrongfully blames on undocumented immigrants  —  Hurricane Helene caused mass destruction across the southeastern United States, leaving thousands needing aid and at least 227 people dead.  Now, former President Donald Trump is using the disaster as a political cudgel …
Discussion: ABC News, New Yorker and RUMBLE
 
 
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Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
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Kayla Guo / The Texas Tribune:
Facing a tight race, Ted Cruz goes quiet on abortion
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Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
Lying Is Loyalty in Trump's GOP
Discussion: Wisconsin Examiner
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
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