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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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New Jersey Online, Political Wire and NPR
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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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New York Times, The Hill, New Jersey Online, The Mahablog and The Texas Tribune
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
Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal:
The Rare Bipartisan Issue in This Year's Election: Recreational Weed
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
NYT's Bret Stephens explains why he's backing Harris
Natalie Allison / Politico:
They lost their homes and possessions. They're showing up to vote in NC.
They lost their homes and possessions. They're showing up to vote in NC.
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Washington Post and Associated Press
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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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 …
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Business Insider, Raw Story and Democrats
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 and Ned Hamson's Second Line View …
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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 …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Fear and loathing in Latrobe: Freedom, tyranny, and Arnold Palmer's private parts — LATROBE, Pa. — When fascism finally went mainstream in America, it came hawking a $60 made-in-China Bible and shadowed by a 50-foot American flag braced by construction cranes — and it opened with a story …
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Forbes, McSweeney's, Global News, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
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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Piers Morgan / New York Post:
Trump's genius McDonald's stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot box — “Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's,” Oprah Winfrey once said, “if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.” — I thought of this quote when Donald Trump turned up yesterday at a McDonald's restaurant …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The difference between work and Trump's staged McDonald's theatrics
The difference between work and Trump's staged McDonald's theatrics
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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 …
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Marlene Lenthang / NBC News:
Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ sue Trump for defamation after debate comments
Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ sue Trump for defamation after debate comments
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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Vance: Trump is ‘unfiltered’ — JD Vance said Donald Trump's recent warnings about the “enemy from within” is just part of Trump being an “unfiltered” candidate, when pressed on Fox News about why his comments were necessary. “Donald Trump is unfiltered. This is one of the reasons …
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Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
JD Vance Defends Trump's Alarming Remarks Yet Again: ‘He Speaks From The Heart’
JD Vance Defends Trump's Alarming Remarks Yet Again: ‘He Speaks From The Heart’
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Raw Story, Mediaite and Rolling Stone
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 …
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Arizona county official who delayed certifying election results accepts plea deal — Peggy Judd, who helps lead Cochise County, was indicted a year ago for allegedly flouting the state's deadlines to formally accept the results of the 2022 midterm general election.
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The Guardian, The Hill and Votebeat
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 …
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The Hill
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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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
McDonald's Donald Trump Worked at Failed Last Health Inspection — briefly worked on Sunday failed its last health inspection, documents show. — and served takeout to people in the drive-thru lane in Feasterville-Trevose in Bucks County, a key swing voter area in battleground Pennsylvania.
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HotAir, The Federalist, RedState, The Independent and Meidas+
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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Atlantic Council, UnHerd, The Kyiv Independent, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, New York Times, RTÉ, Al Jazeera, Balkan Insight, Semafor, Politico, UPI, Eunews and Bloomberg
Jessica Taylor / Cook Political Report:
With Two Weeks to Go, Pennsylvania Senate Shifts to Toss Up, Nebraska Senate Moves to Lean Republican — With two weeks to go until Election Day, the Senate map still favors Republicans. Montana Sen. Jon Tester remains the likeliest Democrat to lose reelection, which along with the GOP's certain pickup …
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Axios, The Hill and Washington Post
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 …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Elon Musk's legally problematic $1 million voter giveaway — A look at the legal ins and outs of a Trump-ally scheme that some legal experts call illegal — but which at the very least exploits a loophole. — Elon Musk has inserted himself into an American presidential election more than perhaps …
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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USA Today, The Hill, Twitchy, Reason, New Jersey Online, Daily Mail, New York Post, ABC News, Associated Press, Political Wire and FOX 32 Chicago
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Trump distances himself from Mark Robinson: 'I'm not familiar' — With early voting underway and two weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump is still trying to keep distance between himself and North Carolina's embattled Republican nominee for governor. Asked by POLITICO at a campaign stop …
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Associated Press, New York Times and Breitbart
Andrew Howard / Politico:
Mark Cuban wants Elon Musk and Kamala Harris to be friends — Billionaire Mark Cuban told CNBC on Monday that he offered to arrange a live X interview between Kamala Harris and fellow billionaire Elon Musk, but was told no by Harris' campaign. “Not Kamala specifically but her team …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Times and CNBC
Emily Chang / ABC News:
College students in battleground states could make an election impact with registration decisions — College voters are crucial, and some strategize on where to cast their ballots. — Penn State students stand in line inside the Student Union, called The Hub, waiting to cast their ballots …
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Townhall and Washington Times