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3:40 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 …
April Rubin / Axios:
Musk's “unparalleled” efforts to put Trump back in the White House … - His involvement is “unparalleled in modern history,” the New York Times reported.  — Trump's campaign didn't immediately respond to Axios' request for comment. … He may even knock on doors himself in the battleground state.
Discussion: CNN
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Vance suggests the left stole 2020 ... by doing what his own campaign did
Washington Post:
Trump requests military aircraft and vehicles amid Iran threat  —  There is no evidence tying Iran to either of the recent assassination attempts, but the FBI has not ruled out the possibility.  —  Donald Trump's campaign requested military aircraft for Trump to fly in during the final weeks …
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Sophia Cai / Axios:   Scoop: Trump campaign gets a new communications chief
Washington Post:
Eight years ago, Trump vowed to ‘drain the swamp.’ Now he swims in it.
Discussion: Raw Story and OpenSecrets.org
New York Times:   Trump Aides Sought Enhanced Security for Closing Stages of Campaign
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: ABC News and Townhall
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour promoting Harris
Discussion: USA Today and Michigan Advance
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Damning Video Shows Roger Stone Is Plotting a Coup for November  —  A nine-minute, unedited, undercover interview with Roger Stone revealed some of the MAGA ally's more disturbing goals for a second Trump administration.  —  The covert recording of a discussion between Stone …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Alice Herman / The Guardian:
Roger Stone calls for ‘armed guards’ at polling spots in leaked video  —  Trump ally and election denier declares readiness to ‘fight it out’ to ensure a Republican presidential victory  —  The longtime Donald Trump ally and friend Roger Stone said Republicans should send “armed guards” …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Roger Stone Suggests Using ‘Armed Guards’ During Election in Secret Video
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump's top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls.  In a fight with such wafer-thin margins …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Mark Milley fears being court-martialed if Trump wins, Woodward book says
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Donald Trump Is Both Candidate And Insider Threat
Discussion: CNN
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
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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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Obama admonishes Black men for hesitancy in supporting Harris
CNN:
Obama tells Black men it's ‘not acceptable’ to sit out election
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 …
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 …
Kylee Griswold / The Federalist:
Kamala Harris Is Too Stupid To Be President  —  Democrats have fallen in line behind geriatric and mentally impaired candidates before.  They'll gladly fall in line behind a stupid one now.  —  Univision hosted a “Latinos Ask” town hall with Kamala Harris on Thursday night …
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” …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
JPMorgan Calls It: The U.S. Economy Has Made a Soft Landing  —  Bank reports better-than-expected results and raises its guidance for full-year net interest income  —  JPMorgan Chase on Friday said the U.S. economy remains strong for both consumers and big companies, a sign that the Federal Reserve …
Discussion: Fox Business and Associated Press
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
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: Washington Post, Axios and Reason
 
 
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Milton shows a Harris victory is needed to combat ‘climate carnage’
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Discussion: Defense One
Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: RedState
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Harris Town Hall Moderator Debunks Crazy New Teleprompter Claim
Wall Street Journal:
When the Hurricane-Relief Worker Turns Out To Be a Neo-Nazi
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
'He's Not Well': Trump's Bizarre Off-Topic Ramble Raises Alarm Over ‘Mental Capacity’
Fritz Farrow / ABC News:
Harris campaign launches ‘Souls to the Polls’ effort to turn out Black churchgoers as Election Day approaches
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: The Republican welfare state
NOTUS:
Trump's 2020 Fake Electors Are Now 2024 Electors — And State Officials Too
Discussion: New Republic
 

 
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
The Atlantic says it is increasing its pace of print publication from 10 to 12 issues per year and announces some expansions to reporting staff in a memo

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Ahead of Hurricane Milton, NPR revised its CMS to enable 200+ member stations to publish text-only versions of their sites, accessible when bandwidth is scarce

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
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