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11:50 AM ET, October 21, 2024

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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally  —  Bret Stephens: Please don't tell me you're going to ask how I'm going to vote.  —  Gail Collins: Well, Bret, why would you imagine such a thing?  Just because I keep getting stopped by people on the street, demanding to know whether you're going to support Kamala Harris.
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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 …
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.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
He Runs Fox News' Decision Desk.  Here's How He Sees Election Night Coming.  —  In a new interview, Arnon Mishkin opens up about controversial election calls and makes some predictions for what's to come.  —  Arnon Mishkin poses for a photo at the Fox News headquarters on Oct. 16 in New York.
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 …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:   NYT's Bret Stephens explains why he's backing Harris
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
Discussion: Raw Story
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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.
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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Daniela Sirtori / Bloomberg:
McDonald's Tells Workers It Doesn't Endorse Political Candidates After Trump Visit
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows  —  In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces Defamation Suit From Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’  — Trump is sued over comments he made in presidential debate  — Five teenagers wrongfully convicted in 1989 jogger rape case  —  Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during …
Discussion: Forbes, CNN, The Hill, CNBC and The Wrap
Michael Kransz / MLive.com:
Gerald Ford's daughter endorses Kamala Harris for president  —  GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The daughter of Michigan's only president, Gerald R. Ford, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.The youngest child of the late Republican president, Susan Ford Bales, issued the endorsement Monday, Oct. 21 …
Tom D'Angelo / Palm Beach Post:
Arnold Palmer's daughter on what he would think of Donald Trump today: 'I think he'd cringe'  —  Donald Trump's opening at his rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pa., birthplace of the late Arnold Palmer, was a boast about how close he was to the legendary golfer.  —  But that relationship …
Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Moldova says ‘Yes’ to pro-EU constitutional changes by tiny margin  —  BBC Eastern Europe correspondent, Chisinau  —  People in Moldova have backed the Eastern European country's proposed changes to its constitution and commitment to joining the EU by the thinnest of margins in a referendum.
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, The Hill and Reason
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 …
Washington Post:
Viral attack on Walz features fake former student making false claim  —  Hawaii man who attended a school where Walz taught — but says they never met — was dismayed to see person in video using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate  —  Using a stolen identity to attack Tim Walz
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 …
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.
CBC News:
Musk, putting up over $70M US to help Trump, raises legal questions with million-dollar giveaways  —  It is a federal crime to pay people with intention to induce them to cast a vote or register to vote  —  Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Josh Shapiro is among those calling for an investigation …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 20, 2024  —  I had hoped to write tonight about the farm bill, which Eric Hovde, running for the Senate from Wisconsin although it's not clear he lives there, could not talk about in the debate between him and incumbent senator Tammy Baldwin on Friday.
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 …
Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says  —  The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget predicts many of Trump's policies could hasten the looming depletion of the Social Security Trust Fund.  —  A new report projects that the Social Security Trust Fund might run …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thin veneer over Trump's fascistic rhetoric  —  The former president knows what he's not supposed to say, but he often can't help saying it anyway.  —  Former president Donald Trump participated in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday.  If so inclined, as many Fox News viewers presumably …
AP-NORC:
Registered voters are split on trusting Harris or Trump to handle economic issues  —  Although 62% consider the national economy in bad shape, there has been an improvement in the public's view of the economy since last year. … Most registered voters believe the economy is not doing …
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
What happened to the progressive revolution?  —  Politics feels different in the 2020s.  Is it a blip or a lasting change? … The left's hopes for sweeping change from the 2010s have crashed into the reality of the 2020s.  —  The energy of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns and the George Floyd protests is a distant memory.
Discussion: The Guardian
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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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
AS ATTACKS INTENSIFY, TRUMP BECOMES MORE POPULAR.  It's hard to measure the intensity …
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Biographers Call Out All The Signs Of His Possible Cognitive Decline
Discussion: Twitchy
Chandelis Duster / NPR:
Biden administration proposes a rule to make over-the-counter birth control free
Jakob Hanke Vela / Politico:
EU's game plan for Trump trade war: ‘Hit back fast and hard’
Discussion: Fortune
John Della Volpe / New York Times:
Trump's Bro-Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men
Discussion: American Prospect and Raw Story
Russell Contreras / Axios:
1 in 5 Republicans want Trump to call election invalid if he loses
Discussion: The Independent
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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
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Madison Fernandez / Politico:
The GOP has been using a campaign finance loophole to save on TV ads. Now Dems are getting in on it.
Discussion: The Message Box
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
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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