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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 …
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
‘60 Minutes’ Brings the Receipts on Trump's Interview About-Face
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Harris reveals owning a Glock: ‘Of course’ I've fired it
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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New York Times:
Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change — A national Times/Siena poll found Kamala Harris with a slim lead over Donald J. Trump. Voters were more likely to see her, not Mr. Trump, as a break from the status quo. — Voters are now more likely to credit Vice President Kamala Harris …
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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 …
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Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Kamala Harris gains slight lead over Donald Trump in Michigan, poll shows
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Trump-Harris race tightens after Vance debate ‘win’
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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
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Harris and DeSantis fight over hurricane relief calls
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
DeSantis ‘not aware’ of Harris calls after reports he dodged them
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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.
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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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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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.
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.
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
As Major Hurricane Approaches Florida, FEMA Faces Severe Staffing Shortage — Fewer than 10 percent of the agency's disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is running out of staff to deal …
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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Disaster relief hurricane loan program precariously low on funds
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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 …
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.
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.
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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 …
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