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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
Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald's drive-thru window about whether he'll accept election result
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Fox News:
Trump makes fries at Pennsylvania McDonald's: 'I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala'
Trump makes fries at Pennsylvania McDonald's: 'I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala'
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Lindsey Graham to Republicans backing Harris: “What the hell are you doing?”
Lindsey Graham to Republicans backing Harris: “What the hell are you doing?”
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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.
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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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USA Today:
Exclusive poll: Harris and Trump tied amid battle for Latino and Black voters — Susan Page Sudiksha Kochi Maya Marchel HoffUSA TODAY — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are essentially tied as they head into the final stretch of the presidential campaign, an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite — The polls are not precise enough for a 0.2-point edge to convey meaningful information. — With two weeks to go, the polls of the presidential election are starting to run out of room to get any closer.
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Sunday Snapshot: Trump's NSFW joke NBD for GOP … 1. Johnson: Trump's crude comment just rally “fun” … But now, they're brushing aside questions about his rhetoric, saying political dialogue should be about policy — even when the former president is speaking publicly about a golf pro's genitalia.
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Arnold Palmer Was ‘Appalled’ by ‘Crude’ Trump, Who Praised the Late Golfer's Genitals
Arnold Palmer Was ‘Appalled’ by ‘Crude’ Trump, Who Praised the Late Golfer's Genitals
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Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Speaker Johnson Refuses To Play Ball When Asked About Trump's Bizarre Arnold Palmer Penis Banter
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’
GOP Gov. Sununu: 'I don't like' Trump's rhetoric, but it's ‘nothing new’
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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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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
‘60 Minutes’ responds to Trump's ‘false’ claims about Harris interview
‘60 Minutes’ responds to Trump's ‘false’ claims about Harris interview
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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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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump doubles down on Jan. 6 defense and “enemy from within” comments
Trump doubles down on Jan. 6 defense and “enemy from within” comments
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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:
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.
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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.
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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.’”
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Mary L. Trump / The Good in Us:
The WTF of It All — LIVE AT 6:00 PM ET: Joint me for Ask Mary Anything within Reason! — I've been trying to wrap my head around this mystifying fact: the national presidential polls show Kamala Harris and Donald Trump within a point or two of each other. Most of the swing-state polls are essentially tied.
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 …
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