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4:25 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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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 …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Arrived for a Fox Interview. She Got a Debate.
Adam Wren / Politico:
Who won the day?  Harris  —  Donald Trump, who has tried to position himself as women's …
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,” …
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CNN:
At least 30 election deniers and 2020 fake electors serving as Trump electors this year
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark McKinnon / Vanity Fair:
This Race Is Kamala Harris's to Lose.  Here's Why.  —  It will all come down to turnout.  And that, I predict, will mean a Harris-Walz victory.  —  In these waning stages of the late Trump era, everything and nothing is a surprise.  We've become immune.
Discussion: Mercury News
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Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
Harris Teases Concert Branded With Charli XCX's ‘Brat’ Green
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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Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump says Ukraine's Zelensky should ‘never have let that war start’
Discussion: Reuters and Vanity Fair
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).
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump drops the pretense, labels Jan. 6 insurrectionists ‘we’
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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.
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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 …
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 …
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Dave Bautista punches back on view of Trump as ‘tough guy’  —  Former professional wrestler Dave Bautista took out his frustration with former President Trump's “tough guy” image during a bit on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”  Wednesday.  —  “Fellas, we gotta talk,” Bautista says in the video, while sparring in a gym's boxing ring.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michigan judge says RNC suit challenging overseas voters could ‘disenfranchise an entire group of citizens’  —  A Michigan judge suggested Thursday that Republicans waited too long to file a suit challenging the right of some U.S. citizens who live abroad to vote in the swing state.
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: Twitchy
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 …
Discussion: Advocate
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Mattis Told Woodward He Agreed Trump Was a Uniquely Dangerous Threat  —  FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY JAMES MATTIS privately told Bob Woodward that he agrees with the assessment laid out in his book War, which paints Donald Trump as a unique and menacing threat to the country.
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 …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Scoop: Chris Cuomo to host NewsNation town hall with JD Vance … - NewsNation's viewership is roughly split between Democrats (31%), Republicans (35%) and independents (33%), who will all have a presence in the live studio audience.  — Viewers will be able to pre-submit questions for Vance on X …
Discussion: The Hill
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
JD Vance Spreads Election Lie, Press Makes it Worse  —  Falling for the Trump Trap  —  Yesterday, JD Vance finally confirmed that he doesn't think Trump lost the 2020 election, and I was thrilled to see corporate media covering the story.  CNN, WaPo, NY Times, Reuters, NBC News, The Hill …
Popular Information:
Why Elon Musk's events in Pennsylvania likely violate federal law  —  This week, we learned that Elon Musk has donated tens of millions of dollars to help former President Donald Trump return to the White House.  But he's not stopping there.  Yesterday, Musk announced that he is holding …
 
 
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump Keeps Promising New Tax Cuts. Other Republicans Are Wary.
Helen Lewis / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Roomful of Suspiciously Friendly Women
New York Times:
Inside the Secretive $700 Million Ad-Testing Factory for Kamala Harris
Discussion: Raw Story
The Times of Israel:
Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar killed by IDF troops in Gaza
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Comer report reveals Biden-Harris admin's ‘rampant waste, fraud, abuse’
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Reich:
Trump's closing argument: full-throated fascism
Discussion: New York Times and New Republic
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
Is Trump a Fascist?  —  There Trump stood, eyes closed, swaying to the music …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Responds to Climate Question by Rambling Incoherently About Golf Course
Discussion: HuffPost
U.S. Department of Defense:
Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on U.S. Airstrikes in Houthi-Controlled Areas of Yemen
CNN:
CNN tried to find the makers of Trump's new ‘Swiss-made’ watches. We ended up at a shopping center in Wyoming
Discussion: Raw Story and Fortune
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Biden forgives more student loans: 60,000 borrowers will get notices canceling $4.5 billion in debt
 

 
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