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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 …
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The Texas Tribune and Washington Times
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
NYT's Bret Stephens explains why he's backing Harris — New York Times conservative columnist Bret Stephens said he will cast his vote for Vice President Harris, in the latest iteration of “The Conversation” published on Monday. — “Kicking and screaming, I'll cast my ballot for Harris …
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 …
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 …
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Raw Story
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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Cardinal News, Spotlight PA and Bloomberg
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
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Raw Story
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
What Would the Trump Campaign Plans Mean for Social Security? — The Social Security trust funds will be insolvent by Fiscal Year (FY) 2034, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), at which point the law calls for a 23 percent cut in benefits.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, CBS News, HuffPost, New Republic and PolitiFact
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Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says
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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The Hill, ABC News, Daily Mail, Political Wire and FOX 32 Chicago
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite
State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite
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The Hill, Oregonian, Reason, New Jersey Online and Daily Kos
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
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Raw Story
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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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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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.
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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 …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
TD Bank executives oversee $670 million 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 …
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.
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IJR, Mediaite and Election Law Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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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Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
JD Vance Defends Trump's Alarming Remarks Yet Again: ‘He Speaks From The Heart’ — The former president has described those who oppose him politically as “the enemy from within.” — LOADING — GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Monday defended Donald Trump's description …
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Rolling Stone and Washington Examiner
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 …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Trump: Saudi crown prince ‘a great guy’ — Former President Trump says the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who faces unrelenting criticism over his government's human rights record, is a “great guy.” — “I think it's fine right now,” Trump said of the U.S.-Saudi relationship in a recent interview with Al Arabiya.
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Jewish Insider, Mediaite and HuffPost
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 …
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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.
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 …