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7:50 AM ET, October 21, 2024

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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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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Makes Fries at McDonald's in Bizarre Attempt to Troll Harris  —  The former president contends — without any evidence — that his opponent never worked at the fast food restaurant as she has said  —  Donald Trump is spending part of his Sunday afternoon behind the counter at a Pennsylvania McDonald's.
John Bowden / The Independent:
Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald's drive-thru window about whether he'll accept election result  —  Ex-president once again raises notion that election could be tainted by fraud his campaign failed to prove existed in 2020  —  Your support helps us to tell the story
Discussion: New York Times
Fox News:
Trump makes fries at Pennsylvania McDonald's: 'I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala'
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.’”
Discussion: New York Post
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Sunday Snapshot: Trump's NSFW joke NBD for GOP
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
Emell Derra Adolphus / The Daily Beast:
Trump Raves About Size of Arnold Palmer's Penis: ‘All Man!’
Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Speaker Johnson Refuses To Play Ball When Asked About Trump's Bizarre Arnold Palmer Penis Banter
Tal Axelrod / ABC News:
GOP Gov. Sununu: 'I don't like' Trump's rhetoric, but it's ‘nothing new’
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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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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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.
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
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 …
Discussion: The Bulwark, Raw Story and The Hill
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.
Associated Press:
Harris Rallies Georgia's Black Churchgoers With Help Of Stevie Wonder  —  Harris celebrated her 60th birthday while visiting two Atlanta-area churches during campaign stops on Sunday.  —  LOADING  —  Kamala Harris on Sunday summoned Black churchgoers to turn out at the polls and got …
Discussion: Associated Press and Reuters
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Associated Press:
One of the last Navajo Code Talkers from World War II dies at 107  —  John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe's native language, has died.  He was 107.  —  Navajo Nation officials in Window Rock announced Kinsel's death on Saturday.
Discussion: New York Times, UPI and Task & Purpose
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Shapiro Wants Musk Investigated for Giving Cash to Registered Voters  —  The Pennsylvania governor suggested that law enforcement “take a look at” the billionaire's million dollar giveaway to registered voters who sign his PAC's petition … Musk has vowed to give away one million dollars each …
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro: Law enforcement should ‘take a look at’ Elon Musk voter payments
Katie Razzall / BBC:
I'll stand for Russian president when Putin's gone, Navalny's widow tells BBC  —  Yulia Navalnaya intends to be president of Russia, she tells me.  She looks me straight in the eye.  No hesitation or wavering.  —  This, like so many of the decisions she made with her husband, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is unambiguous.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control  —  The new rules under the Affordable Care Act would include emergency contraception, a newly approved nonprescription birth control pill, spermicides and condoms.  —  The White House announced on Monday that it would propose …
Dan Froomkin / Salon:
If Trump wins, blame the New York Times  —  America's paper of record refuses to sound the alarm about the threat Trump poses to democracy  —  If Donald Trump wins the Nov. 5 election, the New York Times will be partly responsible.  —  As the dominant voice in American journalism …
Discussion: Breitbart
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris outraised Trump more than 3-to-1 in September  —  Kamala Harris' campaign outraised Donald Trump by more than 3-to-1 in September, with the vice president's massive $222 million haul further extending her financial advantage in the final stretch of a tight presidential election.
 
 
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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
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Israel gave the White House its demands for ending the war in Lebanon
Discussion: Reuters
New York Times:
Elon Musk's Big Business and Conflicts of Interest With the U.S. Government
Discussion: Business Insider
Crooks and Liars:
Trump's Brain Is Broken And JD Vance Is The Real Candidate
Reuters:
Ukraine's Zelenskiy seeks strong reaction to North Korean involvement in war
Discussion: UPI and Fortune
Matt Brown / Associated Press:
Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as ‘spiritual warfare’
Discussion: The Dispatch
 Earlier Items: 
Nick Gilbertson / Breitbart:
Exclusive -Trump: Madison Square Garden Rally ‘Sold Out in Less than 3 Hours’, ‘Going to Be Fantastic’
Discussion: Townhall
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
With an eye on House majority, Democrats mull ways to ‘fix Congress’
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump had little regard for the Constitution while in office. He's an even bigger threat to the rule of law now.
A.R. Moxon / The Reframe:
This HAS To Be Normal  —  Nazism is on the ballot this year, and people who consider themselves Nazis …
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
The CIA analyst who triggered Trump's first impeachment asks: Was it worth it?
Discussion: Twitchy and Digby's Hullabaloo
Bob Taft / dayton-daily-news:
VOICES: One vote for Sherrod Brown
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press