memeorandum: Donald Trump Is Both Candidate And Insider Threat (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

11:45 AM ET, October 11, 2024

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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: Raw Story and HuffPost

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.

Discussion: Raw Story, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

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 …

William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Obama Laughs It Up Over Trump Wearing an Adult Diaper

Discussion: The Guardian, New York Times, Raw Story, BizPac Review, NBC News, HuffPost, TMZ.com, Daily Mail, Washington Examiner, Mediaite and The Independent

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill, Fox News, New Jersey Online, Daily Mail and The Post Millennial

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

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Townhall and Breitbart

Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour promoting Harris

Discussion: Michigan Advance

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.

Washington Post:
Inside the Harris campaign's ground game

Discussion: The Hill, Jewish Insider, Agence France-Presse, Washington Examiner, NBC News, RedState and KDFX-TV

Pew Research Center:
1. The Harris-Trump matchup

Discussion: Axios, Washington Post, Reason and Fox News

Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Cards Against Humanity to pay swing-state non-voters to make a plan to vote

Discussion: Axios, NBC News, Bloomberg, The Register and New York Daily News

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, New Jersey Online, Joe.My.God., Vogue, Daily Mail, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, IndieWire, Deadline and TMZ.com

Travis Gettys / Raw Story: Trump ghostwriter ‘deeply unsettled’ by evidence of ex-president's ‘psychopathy’

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 …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Scientific American and emptywheel

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 …

Discussion: The Oakland Press, The Independent, Washington Post, Mediaite and New Republic

Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Says He Was ‘Man of the Year.’ His Source Says It Isn't True.

Discussion: The Daily Beast

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” …

Discussion: New Republic, Diane Ravitch's blog, Michigan Advance, PoliticusUSA and American Thinker

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 …

Discussion: The Independent, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story

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 …

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 Guardian, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Mediaite

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 …

Discussion: Thinking about, Axios, New York Post and The Daily Beast

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 …

Discussion: TMZ.com, The Daily Beast, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, Raw Story, New Republic, Forbes, Twitchy, Washington Times, Associated Press, Toledo Blade and Breitbart

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.

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.

Discussion: New Jersey Online, Joe.My.God., HuffPost, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and Raw Story

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

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

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.

New York Times:

Trump Aides Sought Enhanced Security for Closing Stages of Campaign — Susie Wiles, a top Trump campaign adviser, was in contact with the White House chief of staff and the head of the Secret Service seeking military assets and other steps. — Former President Donald J. Trump's campaign …

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

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 …

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:

Politico:

Senate Republicans to save millions of dollars on ads — thanks to the FEC — A paralyzed FEC won't block Republicans from using a new strategy that allows them to run TV ads for their candidates at a fraction of the cost. — Senate Republicans are preparing to significantly escalate …

Discussion: WisPolitics and The Nevada Independent