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10:50 AM ET, October 11, 2024

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New York Times:
Musk Is Going All In to Elect Trump  —  Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.  —  In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, the richest man in the world has involved himself in the U.S. election in a manner unparalleled in modern history.
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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Obama admonishes Black men for hesitancy in supporting Harris  —  Former president suggests some in the Black community are uncomfortable voting for a woman and are coming up with excuses  —  PITTSBURGH — Former president Barack Obama on Thursday made a direct, impassioned plea to black men …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
What It Looks Like When One Side Rejects Democracy  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  Sign up for the email version.  —  When Democracy Itself Is On the Ballot, We've Already Lost  —  The last few weeks have been a particularly strange stretch …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The One Thing Obama Got Wrong  —  Hey, you!  Yeah, I'm talking to you, you resident of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, or these cities' environs!  —  We're coming your way next week—come hang out with us!  And in the meantime: Happy Friday.  —  What Obama Said  —  by Bill Kristol
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Obama tells men Trump doesn't represent ‘real strength’
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Battle for Swing States Is Tied, Trump Has Edge on Top Issues, WSJ Poll Shows  —  Voters prefer the Republican on economy and border security, but Harris still has a path to Electoral College win  —  WASHINGTON—Voters in the nation's seven battleground states see Donald Trump as better equipped …
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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Harris and Walz are winning the economic policy argument  —  They're turning a Democratic weakness into a strength. … 🙌  —  For months, Trump campaign operatives have said they want their candidate to “stick to his economic policies.”  Trump supporters have repeated that shibboleth …
Discussion: Politico
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour promoting Harris
Discussion: Michigan Advance
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Voters question Harris' pitch as agent of change: POLL
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and The Hill
Fritz Farrow / ABC News:
Harris campaign launches ‘Souls to the Polls’ effort to turn out Black churchgoers as Election Day approaches  —  The get-out-the-vote program includes the creation of a faith advisory board.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the National Baptist Convention on Sept. 8, 2022 in Houston.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
I'm Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is … The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.  As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Plane with banner telling Trump to watch ‘The Apprentice’ flies near Pennsylvania rally
NBC News:
Cities seek more than $750K in unpaid bills for Trump campaign events since 2016  —  At least four cities and a county are still waiting to be reimbursed for costs associated with local law enforcement and first responders during Trump's visits.  —  Former President Donald Trump held …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
'He's Not Well': Trump's Bizarre Off-Topic Ramble Raises Alarm Over ‘Mental Capacity’  —  The former president jumped from topic to topic to topic during a stream-of-consciousness rant.  —  LOADING  —  Donald Trump's rambling speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday at times veered …
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The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Goes to Detroit and Insults the Entire City
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Mark Milley fears being court-martialed if Trump wins, Woodward book says  —  Retired US army general fears unusual action of being recalled to uniform for retribution, veteran reporter writes  —  Mark Milley, a retired US army general who was chair of the joint chiefs of staff under Donald Trump …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Roger Stone Suggests Using ‘Armed Guards’ During Election in Secret Video  —  The Trump ally explains how to ensure the former president returns to office in undercover footage from liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor  —  DONALD TRUMP IS still mad he lost in 2020, and this year he and his allies …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
ProPublica:
In Texas' Third-Largest County, the Far Right's Vision for Local Governing Has Come to Life  —  From cutting social services to changing election rules, Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare has pushed his agenda with an uncompromising approach.  His term offers a rare look at what happens …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: The Republican welfare state … - This helps explain the massive surge in government spending under Trump, his continued opposition to trade agreements, his scorn for GOP ideas to gut Social Security and Medicare, and his us-vs.-them rhetoric.  —  Trump saw what establishment Republicans missed:
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Problem With This Conspiracy Theory Is Reality  —  According to Tim Sheehy, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Montana, young people have been “indoctrinated” on the issue of abortion.  —  “Young people, listen up, they've been indoctrinated for too long.
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Trump's 2020 Fake Electors Are Now 2024 Electors — And State Officials Too  —  In swing states that didn't put in accountability measures, Republicans are elevating those who participated in the plot to overturn the 2020 election.  —  Jose Pagliery and Byron Tau  — Copy
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Fox News's Cavuto: Trump hurricane ‘misinformation’ cannot be ‘tolerated’  —  Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto took a shot at former President Trump for spreading falsehoods about hurricane relief money for people in North Carolina, Florida and other states impacted by extreme weather in recent weeks.
Vogue:
Vice President Kamala Harris on Her Race to the Finish  —  If politics is a game best played in temperate weather, Kamala Harris's arrival in Ripon, Wisconsin, on October 3 caught the luck of an unseasonably warm sun.  It's 71 degrees—by Wisconsin standards, summer—when Air Force Two touches …
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
Matthew Continetti / freebeacon.com:
How Harris Bombed Her Media Blitz  —  Column: The vice president can't—or won't—fashion her own political identity  —  Michael Dukakis shows up in a tank.  George H.W. Bush checks his watch during a debate.  John Kerry says he was for the $87 billion for Iraq before he was against it.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Taylor Lorenz leaves ‘Washington Post’ after rift with editors  —  When tech columnist Taylor Lorenz left the Washington Post last week, she did so with a splash: An interview with The Hollywood Reporter about launching her own digital magazine, called User Mag.
NewsHound Ellen / Crooks and Liars:
Rapist Trump Cheated Brett Kavanaugh's Way Onto The Supreme Court  —  Is it any wonder that Kavanaugh returned the favor by granting Trump dictator-like immunity?  —  Can you help us out?  —  For nearly 20 years we have been exposing Washington lies and untangling media deceit …
CNN:
Federal judges decline to extend voter registration deadline in Georgia and Florida as states face hurricane damage  —  Two federal judges have rejected requests to immediately reopen voter registration in Georgia and Florida as the southeast continues to grapple with significant storm damage ahead of the November election.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
When the Hurricane-Relief Worker Turns Out To Be a Neo-Nazi
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate candidates steer clear of debates
Discussion: The Columbus Dispatch
CNN:
Biden tells Trump to ‘get a life’ over storm misinformation, promises Milton survivors they'll get the help they need
Fred Fleitz / American Greatness:
How the Biden/Harris Admin Helped Iran Get to the Brink of a Nuclear Bomb
Joey Nolfi / Entertainment Weekly:
ABC airs anti-abortion ad with disturbing images during The View broadcast comparing show cohosts to Nazis
Discussion: Mediaite
CBS News:
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New York Post:
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Jim Jordan warns FTC to back off suing car dealer accused of overcharging Latinos
Discussion: New York Post
Hadleigh Zinsner / FactCheck.org:
Republican Farmers Featured in Harris Ad Are Not Actors, Not Democrats
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Delivers Historically Illiterate Lecture on Tariffs
Discussion: The Hill
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
The FBI conducted a sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh. Surprised?