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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Midnight In America — Three weeks and a day until election day, and this thing is tied, tied, tied. Nate Silver's polling average has Kamala Harris up a tick under three points nationally—which might give Donald Trump the barest of edges at this moment in the Electoral College.
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 13, 2024 — “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he's a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country...a fascist to the core.”
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump targets immigrants legally in US for deportation — Having protected status may not save you. … As the 2024 election heads into the home stretch, Donald Trump and JD Vance are doing what they do best: whipping up a racist campaign of hate against immigrants.
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Ohio Capital Journal
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America's choice: Do voters want to live in reality, or a dangerous dream world?
America's choice: Do voters want to live in reality, or a dangerous dream world?
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day
Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day
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Brianna Sacks / Washington Post:
Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows — Safety fears are growing as misinformation collides with a large-scale federal recovery effort. — LAKE LURE, N.C. — Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating …
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Axios:
FEMA makes “operational adjustments” in hurricane response as threats spike
FEMA makes “operational adjustments” in hurricane response as threats spike
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ABC News and The Independent
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
FEMA temporarily pauses aid in parts of NC over reported threats
FEMA temporarily pauses aid in parts of NC over reported threats
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emptywheel and IJR
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Harris campaign targets Republicans in Arizona with new ad — The ad features GOP Mesa Mayor John Giles, who also spoke at the DNC. — Kamala Harris' campaign is out with a new ad targeting Republican voters in the battleground state of Arizona that features the GOP mayor of Mesa saying that he is a …
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Washington Times and Breitbart
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
‘This Is Going To Be Too Close for Comfort’ … When Kamala Harris took over Joe Biden's ailing campaign …
‘This Is Going To Be Too Close for Comfort’ … When Kamala Harris took over Joe Biden's ailing campaign …
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The Hill
New York Times:
Harris Suggests Trump Is ‘Weak and Unstable’ in Pointed Challenge
Harris Suggests Trump Is ‘Weak and Unstable’ in Pointed Challenge
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NBC News:
Harris rallies in a Pennsylvania bellwether county as she focuses on ‘blue wall’ states
Harris rallies in a Pennsylvania bellwether county as she focuses on ‘blue wall’ states
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BizPac Review
Philip Lewis / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris' New Economic Agenda Reveals What She Would Do To Help Black Men
Kamala Harris' New Economic Agenda Reveals What She Would Do To Help Black Men
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Bloomberg, New York Times, NPR, Fox News, Reuters and Washington Post
Flynn Nicholls / Newsweek:
Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida — A boat bearing swastika symbols and Donald Trump — flags was hosed down after trying to join a Trump boat parade in Jupiter, Florida. — The boat was photographed attempting to take part in the parade on Sunday in the
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Michigan GOP candidate's ad aimed at Black voters has wrong election date — The Michigan Legislative Black Caucus accused Republican Tom Barrett's campaign of misleading Black voters with an ad carrying the wrong election date. — Tom Barrett, a Republican vying for a Michigan congressional seat …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Internal polling memo has warning signs for Senate Republicans — Some races are tightening but other key pickup opportunities are moving in the wrong direction, according to a new round of polling from the Senate Leadership Fund. — The top GOP super PAC charged with flipping the Senate …
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Insists He's Not ‘Cognitively Impaired’ In Jumbled Rally Tangent — The former president also slid in a wildly exaggerated claim about the size of the crowd he drew a day earlier. — LOADING — Former President Donald Trump insisted he's not “cognitively impaired” during a wandering …
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New Republic, The Independent and Raw Story
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump ground game undercut by slow internet that crashes app — Trump campaign wants to hit rural voters but slow internet limits the functionality of the Campaign Sidekick app — Donald Trump's campaign has limited ability to know whether their ground game operation is reaching target voters …
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Raw Story
Press Enterprise:
Exclusive: Suspect in Coachella Valley Trump assassination attempt denies accusation, supports ex-president — Suspect a registered Republican from Las Vegas and member of a right-leaning anti-government group, sheriff says — A third assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump …
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New York Post:
Armed man arrested outside Trump's Coachella rally — and sheriff says it was possible third assassination attempt
Armed man arrested outside Trump's Coachella rally — and sheriff says it was possible third assassination attempt
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg warns newsroom decay is how ‘democracy decomposes’ — “We're sleepwalking into an absolute disaster,” Goldberg said. — In an industry beset by challenges, The Atlantic is a rare bright spot. — The 167-year-old magazine announced this week …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Sets an Interview with a Not-So-Friendly Outlet: Fox News. — The interview, to be conducted by the anchor Bret Baier in Pennsylvania, will air Wednesday at 6 p.m. Eastern. — Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to an interview with Fox News, the network said on Monday.
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The Hill, Deadline, Fox News and Joe.My.God.
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Karine Jean-Pierre blocks John Kirby at White House podium … - Kirby, President Biden's top spokesperson for foreign affairs, joined Jean-Pierre for most briefings after Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, 2023. — But for the past two-plus months Kirby has been mostly absent in the briefing room …
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The Daily Caller
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Who Don't Believe Trump — When the former president endorses violence and proposes using the government to attack his enemies, many of his supporters assume it's just an act. — One of the more peculiar aspects of Donald J. Trump's political appeal is this …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Inappropriate and unprofessional’: State Election Board chair wants his Republican peers to back down — In an exclusive interview, John Fervier says Georgia election board members shouldn't be activists — The chair of the State Election Board says his Republican colleagues have gone too far …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Texas county sidelines librarians, reclassifies book on abuse of Native Americans as “fiction” — A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children's book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in New England — Colonization and the Wampanoag Story — from the “non-fiction” section to “fiction.”