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11:00 PM ET, October 19, 2024

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Associated Press:
Trump kicks off a Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer's genitalia  —  Donald Trump's campaign suggested he would begin previewing his closing argument Saturday night with Election Day barely two weeks away.  But the former president kicked off his rally with a detailed story …
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Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
‘Weak and pathetic’: Trump seethes as Mark Cuban campaigns for Harris … Former President Donald Trump on Saturday railed against fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, who has been vigorously campaigning for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.  —  “Mark Cuban is a Loser,” Trump wrote in a Saturday Truth Social post.
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.
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Montana GOP Senate Hopeful Accused Firefighters Of ‘Milking’ Infernos For Extra Pay  —  Tim Sheehy, who made his fortune in aerial firefighting, has argued that “a lot” of wildland firefighters want to let infernos burn in order to rack up overtime pay.  —  Montana GOP Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy …
Discussion: Fox News
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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 …
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 …
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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Politico:
Defense Secretary Tom Cotton? Here's who could be in Trump's Cabinet.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Ivana Saric / Axios:
Why Election Day has irreversibly changed … - Early voting in person or by mail has exploded over the past 24 years. … - Early in-person voting is underway in nearly two dozen states, per USA Today. … - A majority of voters who have already voted early or are planning to do so support Harris.
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
North Carolina Officials Report Record Turnout for First Day of Early Voting
Emilio Casalicchio / Politico:
The view from London of the 2024 presidential election  —  Aside from rushing to douse the flames of a possible diplomatic incident over Labour staffers campaigning for Kamala Harris, the U.K. government hasn't quite woken up yet to the presidential election.
Discussion: Twitchy and Politico
Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
Dominion ‘Monitoring’ Misinfo After Musk, MTG Revive Voting Machine Conspiracy Theories  —  The voting machine company reached a record-breaking settlement last year after suing Fox News for falsely claiming its machines were fraudulent.  —  LOADING  —  Dominion Voting Systems released …
Rich McKay / Reuters:
At least 7 dead in Georgia dock collapse on US Atlantic coast  —  At least seven people were killed after part of a boat dock collapsed, sending at least 20 into the Atlantic waters off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia.  —  U.S. Coast Guard ships were searching Saturday night for missing people.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Independent
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 …
 
 
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Mark Thiessen / Associated Press:
The last in-person vote in the US will be cast on the desolate tundra of Alaska's Aleutian Islands
Discussion: RedState and Associated Press
emptywheel:
Trump's GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants
Torsten Bell / The Guardian:
Here's why sex discrimination at work doesn't go away until women are in charge
Jesse Arm / Manhattan Institute:
Polling a People: Survey Analysis of the Political and Policy Preferences of 2024's Jewish Electorate
Discussion: IJR and New York 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
Politico:
Trump considers bucking presidential transition system
Discussion: Raw Story
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
It Was Gross to Watch Trump Yuck It Up with Cardinal Dolan at the Al Smith Dinner
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
 Earlier Items: 
Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica:
The Ghosts of John Tanton
Kate S. Petersen / USA Today:
Trump's campaign leans on climate change denial: Six misleading claims debunked
Discussion: Newsbusters
Politico:
Secretary of State Pete Buttigieg? Here's who could be in Harris' Cabinet.
Discussion: Twitchy and Boston Herald
Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo / The Hill:
3 ways you can push back against election misinformation
The Hill:
Democrats eye voting rights bill as first priority in House majority
Discussion: Associated Press
Zachary Basu / Axios:
America's gullibility crisis
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Harris and Liz Cheney Will Team Up for a Pitch to Blue-Wall Suburbs
 

 
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Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
A profile of Pablo González, a Spanish reporter arrested by Poland for spying who was among those released to Russia in exchange for Evan Gershkovich and others

Marina Adami / Reuters Institute:
Experts discuss Italy's declining press freedom under Giorgia Meloni's government, legal threats to journalists, public broadcaster RAI's independence, and more

Alexandre Rajbhandari / Bloomberg:
Berkshire Hathaway now has a stake of ~32.5% in Sirius XM's publicly traded stock, having become the top holder last month; Sirius XM's shares are down ~50% YTD

 
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