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8:15 PM ET, October 17, 2024

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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Harris's Harsh Takedown of Fox's Bret Baier Exposes MAGA's Biggest Lie  —  Judging by the video that Kamala Harris's campaign is circulating, her aides are pleased with one particular exchange during her interview with Fox News's Bret Baier.  In it, Harris dressed down Baier for playing video …
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Axios:
Scoop: Former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent voted for Kamala Harris … - Some are going as far as to actively campaign for Harris, with former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) appearing with the vice president at a rally in the key battleground of Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Momentum shifts against Harris in presidential race  —  The tides of the election are turning against Vice President Harris.  —  During the late summer and heading into fall, Harris appeared to be the candidate with the momentum, with Democrats comparing her candidacy to former President Obama's in 2008.
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump's Rambling Speeches Focus His Critics and Worry His Allies  —  Some advisers and allies of former President Donald J. Trump are concerned about his scattershot style on the campaign trail as he continues to veer off script.  —  In the final weeks of the 2020 election …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Fox News's interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism  —  Brett Baier interrupted Harris so much she could barely finish a sentence.  She still injected some reality into Fox News's world  —  Bret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris …
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Kamala Harris Is Priming Democrats For Violent Resistance If Trump Wins
Mark McKinnon / Vanity Fair:
This Race Is Kamala Harris's to Lose. Here's Why.
Discussion: Mercury News
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Arrived for a Fox Interview. She Got a Debate.
Associated Press:
Israel confirms Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza  —  Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year's attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday.  Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle …
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Michael Collins / USA Today:
Yahya Sinwar is dead. What we know about death of Hamas leader behind Oct. 7 attacks
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of Yahya Sinwar
The Times of Israel:
Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar killed by IDF troops in Gaza
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden tells Obama 'she's not as strong as me' — and ex-prez agrees 'that's true' at Ethel Kennedy service  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden griped to former President Barack Obama that “she” is “not as strong as me” — with Obama agreeing “that's true” — in a stunning off-mic conversation deciphered …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Google will block election ads after polls close … - Google is implementing the policy “out of an abundance of caution and to limit the potential for confusion, given the likelihood that votes will continue to be counted after Election Day,” per a spokesperson.
Discussion: IJR, more at Mediagazer »
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Google to block election ads after polls close on Election Day
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
McConnell called Trump 'stupid" and ‘despicable’ in private after the 2020 election, a new book says  —  Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist,” …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Donald Trump's other mental health problem that we're not talking about  —  Donald Trump may be running again for the presidency, but some days on the campaign trail it feels like he's minoring in psychology.  At a rally Monday night in Atlanta, the GOP nominee added Black and Latino voters …
Adam Van Brimmer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump NRA rally in Savannah canceled  —  Former president was to make second visit to coastal Georgia city in less than a month for ‘Defend the 2nd’ event at Savannah Convention Center  —  SAVANNAH ― The National Rifle Association on Thursday canceled an Oct. 22 rally featuring …
David French / New York Times:
Let's Take the Republican Policy Challenge  —  If you live in Red America, as I do, you're familiar with two conceptually incompatible arguments for Donald Trump.  We'll call them the MAGA argument and the Republican argument.  —  The MAGA argument can be summed up in three words: Burn it down.
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Texas AG sues doctor who allegedly provided transgender care to 21 minors  —  The suit is the first by an attorney general against an individual doctor for allegedly violating a restriction on gender-affirming care for minors.  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Dallas doctor Thursday accusing …
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Ruben, Kate Gallego's divorce records unsealed.  Here's what is in them  —  (This story was updated to add new information.)  —  U.S. Senate candidate Ruben Gallego filed suit to end his marriage with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego just before she gave birth to their son and sought to keep …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump suggests Zelenskyy is to blame for the Russia-Ukraine war  —  “He should never have let that war start,” Trump said, referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  —  Donald Trump blamed Russia's war on Ukraine on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump's legal team tried to keep Stormy Daniels quiet ahead of 2024 election, MSNBC reports  —  MSNBC obtained emails from Daniels' lawyer showing Trump's team attempting to negotiate her silence ahead of November.  —  Former President Donald Trump this summer offered a financial incentive …
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Katie Clancy / Center for American Rights:
CBS Accused of News Distortion in Vice President Kamala Harris Interview — Center for American Rights Files Formal FCC Complaint  —  The Center for American Rights (CAR) has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against WCBS-TV, a CBS-owned station …
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Heat Map of January 6th Defendants Across the United States  —  The graphic below is a “Heat Map” of the United States displaying the hometown origins of all the defendants charged for federal crimes allegedly committed in connection with the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol (identified by general location and not by name).
Adam Wren / Politico:
Vance requested first-class flights and speaking fees up to $40,000 on 2017 book tour  —  JD Vance requested first-class flights, private cars and speaking fees as high as $40,000 from Midwestern public universities during his 2017 book tour — with one university breaking off negotiations for a campus visit in part over the fee.
Discussion: RedState and Twitchy
Mary Ann Akers / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Cancels Second Mainstream Interview in Days  —  SAFE SPACE  —  The ex-president was scheduled to sit down with NBC News on Monday.  But he pulled out after nixing a CNBC interview too.  —  Donald Trump pulled out of another mainstream interview Thursday-this time nixing a sit-down with NBC News.
Discussion: New Republic, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Terri Langford / The Texas Tribune:
Texas' order to ask hospital patients' citizenship status renews focus on the state's large uninsured population
Discussion: The Barbed Wire
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems use cardboard cutouts to mock Virginia candidate over viral ‘fake family’ photo
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Emily Wilkins / CNBC:
Pennsylvania Republican House candidate touts union ties in must-win race
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michigan judge says RNC suit challenging overseas voters could ‘disenfranchise an entire group of citizens’
Discussion: Above the Law
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Mattis Told Woodward He Agreed Trump Was a Uniquely Dangerous Threat
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Scoop: Chris Cuomo to host NewsNation town hall with JD Vance
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Mediaite and The Hill
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump Keeps Promising New Tax Cuts. Other Republicans Are Wary.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Dave Bautista punches back on view of Trump as ‘tough guy’
Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Teen suspect and his father indicted in Georgia school shooting
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
JD Vance Spreads Election Lie, Press Makes it Worse
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