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Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump cancels a streak of events with only days until election … - Vice President Kamala Harris, on the other hand, has been on a media blitz after enduring criticism from Republicans about a perceived lack of interviews. — And while Harris has ventured into the unfriendly territory …
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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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Business Insider, Financial Times, Fortune, The Mahablog, Election Law Blog, The Independent, Gizmodo, Townhall, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Forbes and HotAir
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
An ‘exhausted’ Trump says no to another interview — Recently, it's become something of a pattern: Donald Trump is scheduled for an interview with a neutral media outlet, the date nears and then ... things fall apart. It happened just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC's …
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HuffPost, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Blaze Media, RedState, Mediaite, Progress Pond and Daily Kos
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Fox News disputes Trump's claim that its employees helped write his jokes — Donald Trump says Fox News employees helped him write his jokes for the Al Smith dinner. Fox says that's fake news. The former president, whose roast of Kamala Harris and other Democrats at Thursday's Al Smith dinner pulled …
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NBC News:
Harris says it is part of the American tradition for VPs not to criticize the president — NBC News spoke to the vice president exclusively after her rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday continued to steer clear …
Nicholas Liu / Salon:
“Horrible mess”: Trump called out for “ungodly” profanity-laced tirade at Catholic event — “Who does that?” questioned former Republican lawmaker Barbara Comstock, calling Trump a “buffoon” — The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an annual Catholic charity event in New York City …
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The American Spectator, Raw Story and Michigan News Source
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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Griffin Eckstein / Salon:
“I did make a mistake”: Baier apologizes for playing edited Trump clip in Harris interview
“I did make a mistake”: Baier apologizes for playing edited Trump clip in Harris interview
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump ‘Exhausted and Refusing Interviews’: Report
Donald Trump ‘Exhausted and Refusing Interviews’: Report
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Palmer Report and The Independent
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Univision Town Hall Participants Unimpressed With ‘Arrogant’ Trump
Univision Town Hall Participants Unimpressed With ‘Arrogant’ Trump
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Raw Story, Washington Post and HuffPost
David Strom / HotAir:
The Smell of Desperation — Look, I keep saying that Kamala Harris could win this election …
The Smell of Desperation — Look, I keep saying that Kamala Harris could win this election …
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Washington Times, Townhall, Twitchy and TMZ.com
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's hysterical closing argument: Save the cows!
Donald Trump's hysterical closing argument: Save the cows!
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Raw Story and New Republic
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump admits he's demanding Rupert Murdoch stop running ‘negative ads’ on Fox News
Trump admits he's demanding Rupert Murdoch stop running ‘negative ads’ on Fox News
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Endangered Democrats brag about Trump ties in final stretch
Endangered Democrats brag about Trump ties in final stretch
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Washington Examiner, Twitchy, IJR, Washington Times and The Gateway Pundit
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Critics Slam Al Smith Charity Dinner For Normalizing ‘Deranged Madman’ Donald Trump
Critics Slam Al Smith Charity Dinner For Normalizing ‘Deranged Madman’ Donald Trump
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Duane Patterson / HotAir:
Oohs and Boos at the Al Smith Dinner
Oohs and Boos at the Al Smith Dinner
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Townhall, PJ Media, Fox News, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, The Hill, Bloomberg, CBS News, Scripps News and Associated Press
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Former GOP adviser: White House race is Harris's to lose
Former GOP adviser: White House race is Harris's to lose
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NC Newsline, Raw Story, Daily Mail, New Republic and Vanity Fair
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Best, Worst and Most Awkward Lines at the Al Smith Dinner
Best, Worst and Most Awkward Lines at the Al Smith Dinner
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New York Magazine, PJ Media, Breitbart, BizPac Review, IJR, The Dispatch, KDFX-TV, The Hill and The National Pulse
USA Today:
New evidence unsealed of how Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 rally was funded — Bart Jansen Josh Meyer Aysha BagchiUSA TODAY — WASHINGTON - A trove of new records released in the federal election-interference case against former President Donald Trump described how money was spent on Trump's …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police says she was ‘duped’ by Trump's election lies — Dana Jean Bell, who yelled at an officer who later died by suicide, “regrets ever having responded to Trump's call,” her lawyer wrote. She was sentenced to 17 months in prison.
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Joe.My.God., CBS News and ABC News
NBC News:
Trump calls judge overseeing his Jan. 6 case ‘the most evil person’
Trump calls judge overseeing his Jan. 6 case ‘the most evil person’
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Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller, HuffPost, CNN, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages — An Elon Musk-funded group called Future Coalition PAC is targeting Muslim voters in Michigan and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania with diametrically opposed political advertisements about Kamala Harris.
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The Hill, Gizmodo and The Independent
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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Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
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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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again
How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again
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New Jersey Online and Balloon Juice
Matt Giles / Wired:
It Sure Looks Like Trump Watches Are Breaking Copyright Law — The company behind Trump Watches prominently features an iconic image of the presidential candidate on its timepieces. There's one big problem: It's not allowed to. — In late September, Donald Trump gushed on Truth Social …
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Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
A Candidate for U.S. Senate Says He Was Shot in War. Was He? … Doubts have been raised about whether Tim Sheehy sustained a bullet wound as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan.Tailyr Irvine for The New York Times — In a book and in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Montana …
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
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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 hotel overcharged Secret Service, report by House Democrats finds
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Joe.My.God., CBS News and PoliticusUSA
Matthew Duss / New York Times:
With Sinwar Dead, We Must End the War in Gaza — The death of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, provides a new opening for the United States to meaningfully push for a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza and for the de-escalation of violence across the Middle East.
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Judge Orders DeSantis Administration to Stop Threats Over Abortion-Rights Ad — The organization behind a campaign for an abortion-rights ballot measure sued the Florida governor's administration over its threats of criminal prosecution against TV stations.
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Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
What should be in your civic information diet? — Good afternoon from Washington, where I just finished listening to the first meeting of the U.S. government's Open Government Federal Advisory Committee over on Zoom. Administrative meetings like this aren't usually open …
Charles R. Davis / Salon:
“That man needs to go to jail”: Former Trump voters explain why they could never support him again — Speaking to Salon, Republicans and independents who previously backed Trump explain why they're now voting blue — PHILADELPHIA — Free markets, free trade and defending democracy …