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Politico:
Playbook: Trump's media backout — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — A ONE-TWO PUNCH — With 18 days left until Election Day, VP KAMALA HARRIS will be hitting the road with the two most popular members of her party: BARACK and MICHELLE OBAMA.
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New Republic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Joe.My.God. and National Zero
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Eugene Daniels / Politico:
An ‘exhausted’ Trump says no to another interview
An ‘exhausted’ Trump says no to another interview
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Axios, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, Mediaite and The Hill
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Harris Will Campaign With the Obamas Next Week
Harris Will Campaign With the Obamas Next Week
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump's Meandering Speeches Motivate His Critics and Worry His Allies
Trump's Meandering Speeches Motivate His Critics and Worry His Allies
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Harris to join Michelle and Barack Obama on the campaign trail
Harris to join Michelle and Barack Obama on the campaign trail
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RedState, NBC News and Associated Press
Natalie Allison / Politico:
‘Now I like him’: Some Black voters in Georgia see Trump as a real option
‘Now I like him’: Some Black voters in Georgia see Trump as a real option
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HotAir, Breitbart, Townhall, The Spectator World and freebeacon.com
Griffin Eckstein / Salon:
“I did make a mistake”: Baier apologizes for playing edited Trump clip in Harris interview — The Fox News anchor's deceptive video clip left out Trump's remarks about “enemies from within” — Fox News anchor Bret Baier is apologizing for playing a misleadingly edited clip in an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Former GOP adviser: White House race is Harris's to lose — Mark McKinnon, a longtime GOP political adviser, says he thinks Vice President Harris will win the election, now just 18 days away. — “I'm going to make a bold prediction here because I just don't give a sh- if I'm wrong …
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Daily Mail and Vanity Fair
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
UK Labour Party risks Trump ire with ill-judged Harris campaign effort
UK Labour Party risks Trump ire with ill-judged Harris campaign effort
Washington Post:
Trump delivers profanity, below-the-belt digs at Catholic charity banquet — The only person off limits for Trump's roast was himself. — NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used his remarks at a Catholic charity banquet here on Thursday to skewer prominent Democrats, often in off-color terms.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Critics Slam Al Smith Charity Dinner For Normalizing ‘Deranged Madman’ Donald Trump — Critics didn't find the former president's attendance at the white-tie event funny, with emcee Jim Gaffigan drawing ire too. — LOADING — Critics condemned the appearance of Donald Trump …
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Ryan Nobles / NBC News:
Trump overcharged Secret Service agents to stay at his D.C. hotel, new Democratic report says — Then-President Donald Trump also benefited from U.S. officials and others seeking jobs and pardons who paid for stays at his downtown Washington hotel, House Democrats allege.
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Trump hotel overcharged Secret Service, report by House Democrats finds — Trump's D.C. hotel charged the Secret Service above-normal government rates — and sometimes charged the agency more than it did other patrons, House Democrats found. — During Donald Trump's presidency …
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CBS News
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini — To support The Atlantic's journalism, please consider subscribing today. — Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Mary Claire Evans / Gallup:
Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago — Economic Confidence Index remains negative at -26 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than half of Americans (52%) say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, while 39% say they are better off and 8% volunteer that they are about the same.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Breitbart
Public Notice:
Julian Zelizer on Trump's increasingly dire rhetoric — “He doesn't even really use code words or anything. He's just all in.” — ∙ Paid … In the closing days of the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump is talking a lot about “the enemy within.” He's threatened to deploy the US military against his domestic political foes.
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Washington Examiner
ProPublica:
JD Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated Tax and Election Laws, Experts Say — Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can't legally intervene in political campaigns. — Co-published with Documented
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 17, 2024 — In a new rule released yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission requires sellers to make it as easy to cancel a subscription to a gym or a service as it is to sign up for one. In a statement, FTC chair Lina Khan explained the reasoning behind the “click-to-cancel” rule …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden tells Netanyahu it's time to end Gaza war after Sinwar's elimination … - Israeli and U.S. officials say Sinwar's death on Wednesday creates an opportunity to resume talks on a deal to release the 101 hostages still held by Hamas and establish a ceasefire in Gaza.
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of Yahya Sinwar
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of Yahya Sinwar
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
When the Top General in the U.S. Says You're ‘Fascist to the Core’ — Toward the end of his tenure, Gen. Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023, told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post that Donald Trump was a fundamental threat to the safety and integrity of the United States.
New York Times:
How Silicon Valley Billionaires Became Trump's Biggest Donors … Last February, the billionaire financier Nelson Peltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly Republican donors and a handful of G.O.P. strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront estate in Palm Beach …
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New Jersey Online, The Guardian and Forbes
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Even Fox News's Bret Baier Admits Harris Outsmarted Him in Interview — Fox News's Brett Baier went on the offensive during an interview with Kamala Harris Wednesday night, but even he had to admit she got the best of him. — In a segment reacting to his own contentious interview …
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Kevin Manahan / New Jersey Online:
Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to Trump: ‘She was on a mission’
Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to Trump: ‘She was on a mission’
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Rick Mayer / Health News Florida:
Judge orders state to end threats against TV stations: 'It's the First Amendment, stupid' — In a sharply worded order, a federal judge issues a temporary restraining order after a lawsuit was filed against the state by a group campaigning for the abortion-rights amendment proposal.
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Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo and Axios
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Jackie Llanos / Florida Phoenix:
U.S. judge blocks DeSantis admin's threats to broadcasters over Amendment 4 ads
U.S. judge blocks DeSantis admin's threats to broadcasters over Amendment 4 ads
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump says Fox shouldn't air negative ads — Former President Trump criticized Fox News in an interview Friday for airing negative political ads attacking him, saying he would appeal directly to media mogul Rupert Murdoch to remove them from the network. — “In the old days, you never played negative ads.
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Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:
A Mystery $30 Million Wave of Pro-Trump Bets Has Moved a Popular Prediction Market — Four Polymarket accounts have systematically placed frequent wagers on a Trump election victory — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls.
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