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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Exclusive: Trump ground game in key states flagged as potentially fake — Data suggests canvassers linked to Elon Musk's America Pac falsely claimed to have visited homes of potential voters — Donald Trump's campaign may be failing to reach thousands of voters they hope to turn out in Arizona and Nevada …
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The Mahablog and National Zero
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Elon Musk's Fake Sites and Fake Texts Impersonating the Harris Campaign — There's deeply cynical and then there's things which might be illegal. In the first category we have an Elon Musk-funded PAC microtargeting Jewish and Arab communities with diametrically opposed ads about Kamala Harris's support for Israel or Palestine.
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The Wrap and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How Trump's Cockiness Could Cost Him Votes — The GOP loves to pretend they are winning, but Trump has a different challenge — It's that time of the year again — Republicans are declaring with certainty that they will win the election while Democrats anxiously wait for the sky to crash down on their heads.
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Split-Ticket Voters Buoy Democrats in Key Senate Races
Split-Ticket Voters Buoy Democrats in Key Senate Races
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The Gateway Pundit and CBS News
Efrén Pérez / The Hill:
Here's why some Latinos are genuinely embracing the Republican Party — With the presidential election less than one month away, many people are still trying to make sense of why some Latinos support Donald Trump and the Republican Party, who display clear nativist stances.
Olivia Herken / The Wisconsin Independent:
Western Wisconsin farmers say Van Orden behavior derailed meeting on agricultural policy … Two farmers from western Wisconsin are speaking out after a meeting last month on agricultural policy with Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden was derailed by the congressman when he and his staff interrupted …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Pro-Iranian account leaks alleged U.S. intel on Israel's attack plans … - The leak could be an attempt to disrupt the Israeli operation. — The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, but did not dispute their authenticity.
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KDFX-TV, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and Ken Klippenstein
Jennifer Taylor-Skinner / HuffPost:
JD Vance's Most Recent Comment About His Wife Having Three Kids Is Going Viral Because People Think It's Really, Really Creepy — “I've never heard a man refer to his kids as my wife's children. That's insane.” — Michaela Bramwell— BuzzFeed — JD Vance is on my timeline yet again …
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The Bulwark
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
What Elon Musk Really Wants — The Tesla and X mogul has long dreamed of redesigning the world in his own extreme image. Trump may be his Trojan horse. — In Elon Musk's vision of human history, Donald Trump is the singularity. If Musk can propel Trump back to the White House …
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Alternet.org, Digby's Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, Bloomberg and Political Wire
Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian:
Montana park ranger says Senate candidate Tim Sheehy lied about combat wound — Sheehy has claimed that he was wounded in Afghanistan, but ranger says he investigated accidental shooting in park in 2015 — A former Montana park ranger has now publicly accused Tim Sheehy …
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Alternet.org, Associated Press, New York Times and Washington Post
Chang Dong-woo / Yonhap News Agency:
(5th LD) N. Korea decides to send around 10,000 soldiers to support Russia in Ukraine war: Seoul — (ATTN: UPDATES with response from NATO chief in paras 17-18) — South Korea's spy agency on Friday confirmed that North Korea has decided to send around 10,000 troops to support Russia …
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Obama: ‘You would be worried if your grandpa was acting’ like Trump — Former President Obama took a swipe at former President Trump's competence Friday, mocking the GOP nominee for his recent rhetoric. — “He called himself ‘the father IVF,’” Obama said during a rally in battleground Arizona.
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Mediaite, Washington Examiner and Al Jazeera
Torsten Bell / The Guardian:
Here's why sex discrimination at work doesn't go away until women are in charge — New research reveals men pay little heed to women in mixed-sex teams — Single-sex teams are something for the football pitch, not the workplace. It's not the 1950s. Many studies show the benefits of mixed teams …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
America's gullibility crisis … In the last few weeks alone: — MAGA influencers breathlessly spread the false claim that Vice President Kamala Harris used a teleprompter during her Univision town hall, which the X algorithm then promoted in its trending topics as fact.
CNN:
Here's how Trump, Harris and their allies have altered their ad spending strategies in October — In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care …
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The Independent
Darren Samuelsohn / USA Today:
Microphone malfunction: Trump waits on stage for 18 minutes during ‘technical difficulties’ — Donald Trump's rally in Detroit hit a snag on Friday night when the audio stopped working and the Republican presidential nominee passed the time walking around on the stage for about 18 minutes waiting for a fix.
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Associated Press, Detroit Free Press, Washington Examiner, The Hill and Mediaite
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
North Carolina Officials Report Record Turnout for First Day of Early Voting — The more than 353,000 ballots cast signaled enthusiasm in the battleground state, but the significance of the high turnout was unclear. — More than 353,000 ballots were cast in North Carolina on Thursday …
Politico:
Defense Secretary Tom Cotton? Here's who could be in Trump's Cabinet. — Former President Donald Trump, who is in the throes of a tight campaign, has not engaged in formal conversations about a potential Cabinet. But that hasn't stopped him from spitballing potential contenders during …
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Washington Examiner
Jesse Arm / Manhattan Institute:
Polling a People: Survey Analysis of the Political and Policy Preferences of 2024's Jewish Electorate — Key Takeaways — Between October 5th and 9th of 2024, the Manhattan Institute polled a representative sample of 658 Jewish registered voters across the U.S. on their feelings …
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IJR and New York Post