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3:20 PM 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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal:   The Rare Bipartisan Issue in This Year's Election: Recreational Weed
Emily Chang / ABC News:
College students in battleground states could make an election impact with registration decisions
Discussion: Townhall and Washington Times
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
Natalie Allison / Politico:
They lost their homes and possessions. They're showing up to vote in NC.
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Democrats
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:   New analysis shows Trump would devastate Social Security's finances, debunking MAGA talking point
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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Washington Post:
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop
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.
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Karen Kaplan / Los Angeles Times:
Infant mortality in the U.S. worsened after Supreme Court limited abortion access  —  Infant deaths have increased in the United States since the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade and allowed states to make abortion illegal, researchers reported Monday.
Discussion: New Republic
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 …
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
Discussion: Wired and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Biographers Call Out All The Signs Of His Possible Cognitive Decline
Discussion: Twitchy
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, Axios and Mediaite
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Marlene Lenthang / NBC News:
Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ sue Trump for defamation after debate comments
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 …
Discussion: 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.
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Votebeat
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump backs Congress returning from recess to pass hurricane relief  —  Former President Trump on Monday said he would be in favor of Congress returning early from recess to pass additional aid following Hurricane Helene.  —  “I would be in favor of it, yeah.
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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Brian Fung / CNN:
How Republicans pushed social media companies to stop fighting election misinformation
John Heilemann / Puck:
Kamala Before the Storm  —  As pre-election Democratic bedwetting reaches clinical levels …
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USA Today:
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Vox:
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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 …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The big political shift that explains the 2024 election
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Let President Fire Agency Leaders
Discussion: NPR, Reason, CBS News and The Hill
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen's civil rights claim against Trump
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Trump's Bro-Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men
 

 
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