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5:20 PM ET, October 14, 2024

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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.
Discussion: New York Post and PJ Media
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump targets immigrants legally in US for deportation  —  🗳️ This special five-edition week of Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already, please click the button below and sign up to support our independent journalism.  🗳️
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.”
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Who Don't Believe Trump
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day
CNN:
Suspect arrested after reports of threats toward FEMA operations in North Carolina  —  A North Carolina man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office.
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Harris adviser Plouffe: Most public polls are ‘horses‑‑‑’  —  David Plouffe, senior adviser to the Harris-Walz campaign, said most public polls are “hores‑‑‑” and discussed the campaign's internal polling in a podcast interview released Sunday.
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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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Harris campaign targets Republicans in Arizona with new ad
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Times
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
New NRA Chief Once Tortured a Cat to Death  —  Doug Hamlin pleaded no contest to brutally murdering a pet cat with his fraternity brothers as a student at the University of Michigan  —  REPUBLICANS SPENT THE better part of September falsely smearing migrants as sadistic pet torturers in their bid to stoke fear about immigration.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member  —  Doug Hamlin pleaded no contest to animal cruelty over 1979 incident in which fraternity cat was tortured and killed  —  Douglas Hamlin, who was appointed to lead the NRA this summer in the wake of a long-running corruption scandal …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Daily News
David Moye / HuffPost:
Geraldo Rivera Endorses Kamala Harris Over ‘Sore Loser’ Trump  —  “However you justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar,” the veteran newsman said in a social media post Monday.  —  LOADING  —  Veteran newsman Gerald Rivera has finally broken away …
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Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:   Eric Holder Predicts Harris Will Get 5 Million More Votes Than Trump
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
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.
New York Times:
Another Trump Clemency Recipient Faces Domestic Violence-Related Charges  —  Philip Esformes is at least the seventh person to be charged with new crimes after receiving a second chance in the last days of the Trump administration.  —  A Florida man who received a commutation …
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Aaron Navarro / CBS News:
More than 230 doctors and health care providers call on Trump to release medical records  —  More than 230 doctors, nurses and health care professionals are calling on former President Donald Trump to release his medical records, arguing that he should be transparent about his health “given his advancing age.”
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 …
Democracy Docket:
Right-Wing Group Dismisses Voter Challenge Lawsuits in Nevada Counties  —  The right-wing organization Citizen Outreach Foundation voluntarily dismissed three lawsuits it filed in Nevada that asked county election officials to process around 30,000 voter challenges weeks before the election.
Jared Gans / The Hill:
New Jersey rep goes silent for 8 seconds after question on mass deportations  —  Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) fell silent after being asked by a debate moderator and his Democratic opponent whether he supports enacting mass deportations of migrants, a policy that former President Trump has called for.
Discussion: Jewish Insider
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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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate rankings: 5 seats most likely to flip
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Trump Campaign's Weird Hurricane Relief GoFundMe Raises Red Flags  —  Donald Trump's campaign has begun raising money for hurricane relief—but it's not exactly clear how that money will be used.  —  Two weeks ago, the Trump campaign created a GoFundMe “as an official response for MAGA supporters …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Christopher F. Rufo / Christopher Rufo:
Kamala Harris's Plagiarism Problem  —  The vice president appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime.  —  Kamala Harris has become famous, in part, for her unique rhetorical style.  She switches freely between various accents and peppers her speeches with catchphrases …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Cruz calls out McConnell-aligned group for not spending ‘a penny’ in Texas  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) vented his frustration with the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), for not spending any money in his competitive reelection race …
 
 
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USA Today:
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Kash Patel: The Magical Rise of a Self-Described ‘Wizard’ in Trump World
Veronica Cardenas / The Hill:
The return of family separation: Trump wants to deport the parents of American-born kids
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Harris proposes 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs, as Trump makes inroads
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden warned Iran that killing Trump would be an act of war: report
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Inappropriate and unprofessional’: State Election Board chair wants his Republican peers to back down
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Karine Jean-Pierre blocks John Kirby at White House podium
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Texas county sidelines librarians, reclassifies book on abuse of Native Americans as “fiction”
Associated Press:
This could have been a year of a federal court reckoning for Trump. Judges had other ideas
Discussion: ProPublica
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America's choice: Do voters want to live in reality, or a dangerous dream world?
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Axios:
Behind the Curtain — Election scenario 1: War-gaming a Trump sweep
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg warns newsroom decay is how ‘democracy decomposes’
Discussion: Instapundit
 

 
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox Deportes and NBCUniversal's Telemundo will each produce separate Spanish-language broadcasts of Super Bowl LIX in 2025, an unusual arrangement

Max Tani / Semafor:
Yashica Olden, who was Condé Nast's first head of diversity, equity, and inclusion, quietly left in June 2024, after internal tensions over the Israel-Hamas war

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