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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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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour promoting Harris — The Democratic governors of the states making up what is known as the Blue Wall launched a bus tour on Friday aimed at ginning up support for Vice President Harris in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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Michigan Advance
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 …
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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 …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Obama tells men Trump doesn't represent ‘real strength’
Obama tells men Trump doesn't represent ‘real strength’
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Obama Laughs It Up Over Trump Wearing an Adult Diaper
Obama Laughs It Up Over Trump Wearing an Adult Diaper
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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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Washington Post:
Inside the Harris campaign's ground game — Good morning, Early Birds. TGIF. Send tips to earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us. — In today's edition ... Trump's swampy campaign ... Trump 47 captains chase low-propensity voters ... but first ...
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Cards Against Humanity to pay swing-state non-voters to make a plan to vote
Cards Against Humanity to pay swing-state non-voters to make a plan to vote
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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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The Philadelphia Inquirer and Talking Points Memo
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
Donald Trump Goes to Detroit and Insults the Entire City
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Proudly Defends Calling Immigrants Rapists
Donald Trump Proudly Defends Calling Immigrants Rapists
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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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Delivers Historically Illiterate Lecture on Tariffs … Donald Trump has grown increasingly fixated on tariffs, which he seems to think, contrary to the consensus among economists, are borne by foreigners. Trump understands at some level that economists and most business owners disagree with him …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump tells Detroit he'll make car loan interest tax-deductible
Trump tells Detroit he'll make car loan interest tax-deductible
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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 …
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Raw Story and The Daily Beast
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 …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Plane with banner telling Trump to watch ‘The Apprentice’ flies near Pennsylvania rally
Plane with banner telling Trump to watch ‘The Apprentice’ flies near Pennsylvania rally
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NOTUS:
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
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 …
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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.
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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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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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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Some top Dems won't commit to certifying a Trump win … - Trump “is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we're talking about manipulating electoral college counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments,” asserted Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Says He Was ‘Man of the Year.’ His Source Says It Isn't True. — Fact-checkers have found no evidence over the years that former President Donald J. Trump once received the honor in Michigan. — Former President Donald J. Trump expressed irritation on Thursday that anyone would challenge …
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New York Post:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds Doritos to left-wing influencer in deeply bizarre ‘communion’ video — DETROIT — Now that's weird. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer raised eyebrows Thursday over a bizarre video in which she fed Doritos into the mouth of a liberal podcaster …
Liam Reilly / CNN:
FCC chair denounces Trump's calls for CBS to ‘lose its license’ over Harris' ‘60 Minutes’ interview — New York CNN — Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel denounced former President Donald Trump's “threats against free speech” Thursday after he attacked CBS …
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Andrew Howard / Politico:
Kamala Harris agreed to CNN town hall
Kamala Harris agreed to CNN town hall
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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:
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.