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10:10 AM ET, October 21, 2024

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Susan Page / USA Today:
Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access: new poll  —  Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump − among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is.  —  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“I started to learn what patriarchy was”: How Donald Trump pushed Republican women out of the GOP  —  Former Republican women explain why they finally broke with Trump: “I was ashamed”  —  PHILADELPHIA — Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love …
John Della Volpe / New York Times:
Trump's Bro-Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men  —  Generation Z is poised to flex its growing political muscle in the 2024 presidential election, and in my surveys and focus groups with these voters, I'm seeing the strong potential for a turning point in American political alignment.
Discussion: Raw Story and American Prospect
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally
Discussion: NPR
Washington Post:
Harris and Trump locked in dead heat in seven-state poll, with some voters still deciding  —  Former president Donald Trump shows strength in Arizona while Vice President Kamala Harris runs strongest in Georgia, according to a Post-Schar School survey.
Discussion: ABC News, Daily Mail and FOX 32 Chicago
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Where are the polls?  —  Just by looking at the polls, you wouldn't know Election Day is 16 days away.  That's because there really aren't any new polls — or at least, many reliable ones.  And it's making it hard to discern just how close is the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
USA Today:
Exclusive poll: Harris and Trump tied amid battle for Latino and Black voters
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop  —  Trump didn't answer a question on the minimum wage, instead promoting his unsubstantiated claim that Kamala Harris never worked at the burger chain.  —  Trump works fry station at McDonald's in Pennsylvania
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John Bowden / The Independent:
Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald's drive-thru window about whether he'll accept election result
Discussion: Daily Mail and New York Times
Fox News:
Trump makes fries at Pennsylvania McDonald's: 'I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala'
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Makes Fries at McDonald's in Bizarre Attempt to Troll Harris
Popular Information:
TD Bank executives oversee $670 billion drug money laundering scheme, avoid jail  —  On March 7, 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking at the American Bar Association's 39th Annual White Collar Institute, gave an impassioned soliloquy on the importance of criminally prosecuting …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Republicans set stage for PA vote counting shenanigans  —  If you can't beat 'em, destroy the system. … 🍟  —  There's no question that for the 2024 election, Pennsylvania is currently ground zero, so it's unsurprising that both campaigns are campaigning hard in the state.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
He Runs Fox News' Decision Desk. Here's How He Sees Election Night Coming.
Discussion: Mediaite
CBS News:
A statement from 60 Minutes  —  Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.  That is false.  —  60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes.
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Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Scoop: Mike Johnson's tense text messages with Liz Cheney … - Johnson said the two “agreed to disagree” over whether Trump is a threat to democracy.  — Cheney disputed Johnson's characterization of the exchange, telling Axios that she and the speaker “used to be friends, but we did not ‘agree to disagree.’”
Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Fascist’ Meme Returns  —  Why the public isn't buying this Democratic claim about Trump.  —  No doubt it was inevitable.  As Election Day nears, and the progressive panic over Donald Trump escalates, Democrats are closing their campaign with a favorite theme: Mr. Trump is a threat to the Constitution …
CBS News:
“Election protection” activist says he plans to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding” names as “suspicious”  —  In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election protection” activist group of 1,800 volunteers in North Carolina is seen instructing attendees at a virtual meeting to flag voters with …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Let President Fire Agency Leaders  — Case could have stripped SEC, FTC, CPSC of independence  — Appeal pressed by research groups represented by Don McGahn … The appeal, pressed by two research organizations in a case involving the Consumer Product Safety Commission …
Discussion: CBS News and The Hill
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen's civil rights claim against Trump  —  The justices turned away Cohen's appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials put him in solitary confinement in order to silence him.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen's …
Discussion: CBS News, The Hill, USA Today and Bloomberg
Chandelis Duster / NPR:
Biden administration proposes a rule to make over-the-counter birth control free  —  The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would expand access to contraceptive products, including making over-the-counter birth control and condoms free for the first time for women of reproductive age who have private health insurance.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control
Discussion: Bloomberg and The White House
Madison Fernandez / Politico:
The GOP has been using a campaign finance loophole to save on TV ads.  Now Dems are getting in on it.  —  Democrats are starting to use a campaign finance loophole to save big bucks on TV advertising — after failing to stop Republicans from doing the same.
Discussion: The Message Box
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Can the Media Survive? … On and off the record with:  —  Imran Amed, founder and editor-in-chief, The Business of Fashion.  Willa Bennett, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen.  Jeremy Boreing, co-founder and co-CEO, The Daily Wire.  Graydon Carter, founder and co-editor, Air Mail.
Russell Contreras / Axios:
1 in 5 Republicans want Trump to call election invalid if he loses … - The survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Brookings Institution is the latest sign of how Trump's grievances and conspiracy theories have reshaped his party — and whipped up its most disaffected, far-right elements.
Axios:
McConnell backed Jack Smith, wanted Trump to “pay” for Jan. 6 … - “If he hasn't committed indictable offenses, I don't know what one is,” the longest-serving Republican leader told journalist Michael Tackett in an interview for “The Price of Power,” weeks after Smith brought the charges against Trump in August 2023.
 
 
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Jakob Hanke Vela / Politico:
EU's game plan for Trump trade war: ‘Hit back fast and hard’
Discussion: Fortune
Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says
Discussion: Raw Story
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Campaign Notebook: I spent 3 days in the ‘blue wall’ states. Here's what voters told me
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris outraised Trump more than 3-to-1 in September
 Earlier Items: 
Crooks and Liars:
Trump's Brain Is Broken And JD Vance Is The Real Candidate
Dan Froomkin / Salon:
If Trump wins, blame the New York Times
Discussion: Breitbart
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Arnold Palmer Was ‘Appalled’ by ‘Crude’ Trump, Who Praised the Late Golfer's Genitals
Matt Brown / Associated Press:
Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as ‘spiritual warfare’
Discussion: The Dispatch
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Shapiro Wants Musk Investigated for Giving Cash to Registered Voters
A.R. Moxon / The Reframe:
This HAS To Be Normal  —  Nazism is on the ballot this year, and people who consider themselves Nazis …
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Police:
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games

Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary

 
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