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12:15 PM 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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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: The Root, Raw Story and HuffPost
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 …
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
Discussion: Politico
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Voters question Harris' pitch as agent of change: POLL
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour promoting Harris
Discussion: Michigan Advance
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 …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trump ghostwriter ‘deeply unsettled’ by evidence of ex-president's ‘psychopathy’  —  Donald Trump's ghostwriter for his myth-making memoir “The Art of the Deal” explained how the new film “The Apprentice” reveals how the former president's childhood trauma warped him into a “psychopath” …
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Tony Schwartz / New York Times:
What ‘The Apprentice’ Gets Exactly Right About Trump  —  “The Apprentice,” a new movie that dramatizes the early years of Donald Trump's career, ends with a scene between Mr. Trump and an actor who plays me.  The year is 1986 and I'm interviewing Mr. Trump for the first time, to begin ghostwriting …
Joanne Haner / The Hill:
Michigan newspaper issues correction after Trump claims he won man of year award  —  A Michigan newspaper issued a correction after former President Trump cited the paper at a speech in Detroit, claiming he was Michigan's “Man of the Year” in 2023.  —  The former president pulled out a printout …
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 …
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Obama Laughs It Up Over Trump Wearing an Adult Diaper
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Democrats to swing states: A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump  —  Democrats are arguing in a new pitch to swing-state voters that a vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein would only help elect former President Trump.  —  An ad released Thursday says that Stein was “key” …
Pew Research Center:
1. The Harris-Trump matchup  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  — Other findings: Views of the campaign, concerns over political violence, clearness of candidates' issues positions, an absence of shared facts  — Voting preferences among registered voters
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post, Reason and Fox News
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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 …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
James Carville on Aging, Edibles and His Anxieties About Harris … Mr. Carville was among the first prominent Democrats to urge Mr. Biden to drop out of the presidential race.  “I could have been embarrassed.  He could have run and won.  But it never occurred to me that I was wrong,” he said.
Discussion: RedState
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Vance, Given 5 Chances to Say Trump Lost in 2020, Takes None  —  In an interview with The New York Times, Senator JD Vance repeatedly refused to acknowledge Donald J. Trump's defeat and said he would not have certified the 2020 results.  —  Heading into the final three weeks of the 2024 election …
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
'It's mindblowing': US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge  —  Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans  —  Meteorologists tracking the advance of Hurricane Milton have been targeted by a deluge …
NBC News:
Jon Tester pushes for ticket-splitters in a Montana Senate race that appears to be slipping away  —  Trump voters look set to decide the Senate majority.  The main fight in Montana is all about how many of them longtime Democratic Sen. Jon Tester can entice to split their tickets.
Jim Lockwood / The Times-Tribune:
Scranton firefighters were not holding pro-Trump signs at rally  —  The Scranton Fire Department firefighters' union had nothing to do with several signs stating “Scranton Firefighters for Trump” held and displayed by members of the public at the former president's campaign event Wednesday in Scranton, the union announced on Facebook.
Discussion: New Republic, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
When the Hurricane-Relief Worker Turns Out To Be a Neo-Nazi  —  Seizing on the politicization of the government response, white supremacist groups have turned out to help after recent storms in North Carolina and Florida in order to boost recruitment and burnish their image
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Donald Trump Is Both Candidate And Insider Threat  —  Mainstream reporters should cover him as both; Democrats should campaign against him AND try to foil his schemes.  —  It came as little surprise, because he'd been clear all along that he intended to hide or ignore or misclassify new cases of COVID-19.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Independent and Joe.My.God.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Houston Public Media
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.
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:
 
 
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Tom Cotterill / Daily Mail:
Star Wars unveils first look of its first trans woman stormtrooper called ‘Sister’ with armour in the colour of the transgender flag
New York Times:
Trump Aides Sought Enhanced Security for Closing Stages of Campaign
Discussion: Washington Post
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Harris Town Hall Moderator Debunks Crazy New Teleprompter Claim
Politico:
Senate Republicans to save millions of dollars on ads — thanks to the FEC
NewsHound Ellen / Crooks and Liars:
Rapist Trump Cheated Brett Kavanaugh's Way Onto The Supreme Court
Fritz Farrow / ABC News:
Harris campaign launches ‘Souls to the Polls’ effort to turn out Black churchgoers as Election Day approaches
Joey Nolfi / Entertainment Weekly:
ABC airs anti-abortion ad with disturbing images during The View broadcast comparing show cohosts to Nazis
Discussion: Mediaite
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Problem With This Conspiracy Theory Is Reality
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Trump's 2020 Fake Electors Are Now 2024 Electors — And State Officials Too
New York Post:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds Doritos to left-wing influencer in deeply bizarre ‘communion’ video
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Jim Jordan warns FTC to back off suing car dealer accused of overcharging Latinos
Discussion: New York Post
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Delivers Historically Illiterate Lecture on Tariffs
Discussion: New Republic and The Hill
 

 
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Financial Times:
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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

 
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