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10:25 AM ET, October 15, 2024

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Reuters:
Exclusive: Kamala Harris could join podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview - sources  —  Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could sit down with popular podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.
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The Bulwark:
Harris Goes On Fox.  Trump Sticks to the Henhouse.  —  With Harris taking some real risks in the closing weeks, the ex-president is basically talking to fanboys.  —  Three weeks to go!  Happy Tuesday.  —  Playing to Win  —  Until now, Kamala Harris's campaign has executed a smooth …
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Big Mad That Fox News Is Interviewing Harris  —  After the network announced that the vice president would sit down for an interview, Trump raged on social media  —  REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Donald Trump, increasingly prone to temper tantrums and outbursts of violent rhetoric …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump's GOP moves to dramatically revamp election rules  —  Republican allies of former President Trump have embarked on a sweeping effort to restrict voting and purge voter rolls across the country since the 2020 election, something critics fear could stymie participation in the November contest …
Discussion: KDFX-TV and Associated Press
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Plots to Declare 2024 ‘Rigged’ — Using GOP Efforts to Slow the Vote Count  —  The former president and his allies have worked to make sure 2024 mail-in ballots are counted slowly, so he can again demand officials “stop the count”  —  WITH JUST WEEKS left in the 2024 presidential contest …
Discussion: CBS News
Tom Hals / Reuters:
Some US voters head to court before they head to the polls  —  For Ericka Worobec of Cecil, Pennsylvania, mail-in voting is a family ritual.  For a primary election in April, she researched the candidates and issues with her young son before making her selections.
Discussion: KDFX-TV
Washington Post:
Republicans face backlash for lawsuits targeting overseas and military voting
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode  —  The scene comes as Vice President Kamala Harris has called Trump, 78, unstable and called into question his mental acuity.  —  OAKS, Pa. — The town hall, moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) …
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Mitt Romney should endorse Kamala Harris  —  📊 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.  📊  —  🚀 Subscribe to Public Notice 🚀
Discussion: KDFX-TV
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Charlie Sykes / MSNBC:
Why I just endorsed Kamala Harris  —  Some conservatives reject Trump but cannot bring themselves to vote for the one candidate who could stop him.  I refuse to be one of them.  —  In Dante's “Inferno,” as I've previously written, moral cowards aren't even allowed into hell.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
'That's You': Tim Walz Sounds the Alarm on Trump Threatening to Sic the Military on ‘The Enemy From Within’  —  Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz warned a crowd of supporters that former President Donald Trump was talking about them when denouncing “the enemy from within.”
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Neil Gorsuch's New Book Is an Embarrassment  —  The conservative Supreme Court justice produced a tendentious account of the legal system in service of a political narrative — and he won't answer his critics.  —  The Supreme Court began its new term last week at a perilous moment for the institution.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
The Glaring Truth About That Man With Guns Arrested at a Trump Rally  —  MAGA Republicans have begun touting the arrest of an armed man outside Donald Trump's rally Saturday as a “thwarted” third assassination attempt, but federal investigators said that there was no indication that the man …
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Michael Isikoff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Manager Chris LaCivita's Multi-Million Payday Revealed  —  HOW MUCH?  —  Chris LaCivita, the Republican strategist entrusted with returning Trump to the White House, has eye-opening deals with the campaign, the Daily Beast has learned.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The Kavanaugh cover-up  —  Over the last few years, the Supreme Court majority has issued a series of rulings that have fundamentally reshaped America — ending federal protections for abortion rights, upending the ability of federal agencies to issue regulations, and granting the president near-total immunity from criminal prosecution.
Discussion: PREVAIL
Maya Boddie / Alternet.org:
‘Donald Trump gives up on speaking’: Fox News correspondent blasts ‘strange’ MAGA town hall  —  Fox News national correspondent Bryan Llenas detailed his experience as a Donald Trump town hall attendee in Oaks, Pennsylvania Monday night, after the former president stopped speaking and “started playing music” instead.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Tradeoffs are real  —  Sorry, but it's true  —  The other day, I found myself clicking on a link to a report from the Roosevelt Institute and the Climate & Community Institute titled “Planning to Build Faster: A Solar Energy Case Study.”  This is a topic that I'm really interested in.
ABC News:
Trump town hall derailed after medical emergencies in the crowd  —  What was supposed to be a Q&A with supporters was marred by fainting spells.  —  Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign town hall on Oct. 14, 2024, in Oaks, Pa., as South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem watches.
The Economist:
The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust  —  “On present policies and performance, the United States is condemned to slower growth than the other main industrial countries for the foreseeable future.”  So declared the Competitiveness Policy Council …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Republican Operatives Function as Hidden Hand Behind Pro-Trump Efforts  —  A political nonprofit organization called Building America's Future has raised and spent more than $100 million over the past four years.  —  A group of Republican donors and operatives has been the hidden hand behind …
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Behind the Curtain — Election scenario 2: Harris sweep … - Democrats would race to make American courts less conservative, and hope for a Republican-appointed Supreme Court justice to retire.  —  This period of unified Democratic power would likely last two years, until the next congressional races …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
JD Vance Awfully Quiet After Report on How His Mom Got Health Care  —  JD Vance credited Donald Trump for his family being able to get off of Medicaid and onto private health insurance, at the vice presidential debate earlier this month.  But he isn't telling the whole story: that it was due to Obamacare.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia's new election rules are headed to court  —  A rule requiring a hand count of the number of ballots and five other rules are being challenged  —  An attempt to invalidate new Georgia election rules goes to court Tuesday, including an election night hand-count verification of the number of ballots cast.
Discussion: ABC News and Fox News
Jack Herrera / Texas Monthly:
The Border Crisis Won't Be Solved at the Border  —  If Texas officials wanted to stop the arrival of undocumented immigrants, they could try to make it impossible for them to work here.  But that would devastate the state's economy.  So instead politicians engage in border theater.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Business efforts to break the NLRB reach the Supreme Court  —  On Monday, a car supplier went to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to block a National Labor Relations Board proceeding against the company from beginning on Tuesday — the highest-profile action yet in a growing effort …
 
 
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