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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Trump tops Harris by 2 points among Arab American voters: Survey — Former President Trump leads Vice President Harris by 2 points among Arab American voters, according to a new survey released on Monday. — The poll, conducted by Arab News/YouGov, found Trump up 45 percent to 43 percent …
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Forbes, Breitbart, Al Jazeera and Semafor
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump has a slight edge in Georgia over Harris, latest AJC poll finds — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll shows the race remains very close — Former President Donald Trump appears to have a slight edge in Georgia over Vice President Kamala Harris in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll …
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Exclusive: Harris holds 46%-43% lead over Trump amid voter gloom, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds — Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris held a marginal 46% to 43% lead over Republican former President Donald Trump, with a glum electorate saying the country is on the wrong track, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
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The Hill, New York Daily News, Digby's Hullabaloo, Fox News, New York Post, Washington Examiner, USA Today and Daily Mail
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
A jittery Harris campaign makes big plans to clinch a narrow win — With two weeks to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris' top advisers are staring down numbers that show a wide majority of Americans saying the country is on the wrong track. — They're also confident that the next two weeks …
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Raw Story
Jason Gewirtz / CNBC:
Harris leads Trump by 20 points with younger Americans, new CNBC/Generation Lab survey finds … Exactly two weeks before Election Day, a new CNBC/Generation Lab survey finds that Vice President Kamala Harris has grown her advantage in recent months over Republican Donald Trump among Americans between the ages of 18 and 34.
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The Hill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New Jersey Online and Forbes
emptywheel:
Kamala Harris against Despair — As you know, I've been tracking Kamala Harris' outreach to Republicans, Liz Cheney above all, with a good deal of interest. I've spoken about why it makes sense from a demographic perspective; if Harris can attract some of Nikki Haley's voters, it could put her over the top in these 50/50 states.
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Washington Post:
Trump puts noisy, crude campaign in spotlight, as Harris seeks to turn it against him
Trump puts noisy, crude campaign in spotlight, as Harris seeks to turn it against him
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Reason, Politico, Twitchy, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, Townhall, PoliticusUSA, CBS News and HuffPost
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Which Republican Might Join a Harris Cabinet? We Asked Around.
Which Republican Might Join a Harris Cabinet? We Asked Around.
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The Federalist, Raw Story, The Hill and Twitchy
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
“Pro-life” Cheney says GOP-led states' post-Roe moves “not sustainable”
“Pro-life” Cheney says GOP-led states' post-Roe moves “not sustainable”
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The Guardian, New York Times, ABC News, Pennsylvania Capital-Star and New York Daily News
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
Kamala Harris Isn't Repeating the Mistakes of 2016
Kamala Harris Isn't Repeating the Mistakes of 2016
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The Gateway Pundit, Al Jazeera and ComingSoon.net
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
'More Republicans than you've seen vote for a Democrat in decades': Inside the Harris campaign effort to turn red voters blue
'More Republicans than you've seen vote for a Democrat in decades': Inside the Harris campaign effort to turn red voters blue
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RedState
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump ground game faces new fraud claims as video shows door-knock hack — Exclusive: clip from canvasser for Musk's America Pac reveals apparent ease in which GPS location can be spoofed — Donald Trump's ground game in Arizona and Nevada may be undercut by canvassers working …
Tom Dreisbach / NPR:
Trump has made more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies — With just two weeks remaining until the presidential election, former President Donald Trump has used his most recent appearances on podcast and cable interviews to escalate attacks on fellow Americans whom he calls “the enemy from within.”
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Ned Hamson's Second Line View …
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Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
Let's Be Honest, Trump's Running As a Fascist
Let's Be Honest, Trump's Running As a Fascist
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The Dispatch and Wall Street Journal
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Doctor Who Wrote ‘Goldwater Rule’ Says He Would Recommend Dementia Tests For Trump — An author of the 1973 American Psychiatric Association standard says it was never meant to stop doctors from expressing their opinions based on public information. — WASHINGTON ― …
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Raw Story and The Independent
CNN:
A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled elderly Americans into giving away millions of dollars — The 80-year-old communications engineer from Texas had saved for decades, driving around in an old car and buying clothes from thrift stores so he'd have enough money to enjoy his retirement years.
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Raw Story and Alternet.org
Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
Trump Defends Right to Make Threats Against FEMA Workers — ‘ENTITLED’ — FEMA recently paused its recovery effort in the area amid a flurry of threats and reports of being targeted by militias. — Donald Trump kicked off his day-long tour in North Carolina by surveying the damage caused …
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Daily Kos, The Guardian, CBS News, PoliticusUSA, Carolina Journal, Daily Mail, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and NewsNation
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emptywheel:
So Help Me God: Lawyers, Encryption, and Insurrection — I still owe you a longer post on what I gleaned from my deep dive into the mostly sealed immunity appendix over the weekend. Here's my evolving understanding of the appendix so far. … But for now, I want to share a hypothesis …
New York Times:
Samuel Alito and Princess Gloria Bonded Over Catholicism and Ending Abortion … Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, a 1980s party girl, has evolved into a conservative Catholic with ties to the European far right. — Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis pulled a long dark coat over her silk scarf …
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Eat Into Democrats' Early Voting Advantage — More than 15 million Americans have already voted, as both parties scour data for clues on turnout — Democrats have a clear edge in early voting so far, but Republicans are embracing the practice of casting their ballots before Election …
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Pluribus News and New York Magazine
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
With Election Day 2 Weeks Away, 15 Million Voters Have Already Cast a Ballot
With Election Day 2 Weeks Away, 15 Million Voters Have Already Cast a Ballot
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The Bulwark, Fox News, The National Pulse, Washington Examiner, USA Today and Daily Mail
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Key suspect in Jamal Khashoggi murder has X account reinstated — Saud al-Qahtani had been suspended permanently on Twitter before Elon Musk took over and rebranded it as X — A key Saudi suspect in the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 has had his account reinstated on X …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also promised to prosecute his political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives …
Madiba K. Dennie / Balls and Strikes:
Mifepristone Lawsuit: Republican Attorneys General In Court Filing: We Demand Pregnant Teenagers — Three state Republican Attorneys General filed a complaint in federal court on October 11 arguing that their states have a right to pregnant teenagers and that right is being violated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Esquire, Ms. Magazine, New York Times and Dowsing in the Maelstrom
Melissa Segura / The Guardian:
The Maga legal networks that could topple Planned Parenthood and gut women's healthcare — Revealed: outcome of coming election may determine staying power of hard-right activist Leonard Leo's crusade to reshape US courts — In the second year of Donald Trump's presidency …
David Dayen / New York Times:
A Second Trump Administration Would Be a Carnival of Corruption and Greed — By now, the story has made the rounds. Back in June, Oklahoma's superintendent for public instruction, Ryan Walters, ordered every classroom in the state to teach the Bible between fifth grade and high school.
New York Magazine:
An Update to Our Readers — Last month, the magazine enlisted the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine to review Olivia Nuzzi's work during the 2024 campaign. They reached the same conclusion as the magazine's initial internal review of her published work, finding no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias.
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Rolling Stone, Business Insider, Blaze Media and The Gateway Pundit
US Department of Justice:
Philadelphia Resident Charged for Election-Related Threat to State Party Representative — For Immediate Release — An indictment was unsealed today charging a Pennsylvania man with threatening to kill a representative of a state political party who was recruiting official poll watchers.
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The Hill, Reuters, The Independent, UPI and USA Today
Washington Post:
Republicans lean into anti-transgender message in closing weeks — GOP candidates are attacking transgender rights in swing states, as part of a final pitch to voters. — Donald Trump and other GOP candidates are increasingly targeting transgender people in the election's closing days …
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
The Pollsters Blew It in 2020. Will They Be Wrong Again in 2024? — Survey firms are trying to learn from their mistakes after the biggest polling error in 40 years — Once the votes were counted in the 2020 presidential election, the result was clear: The pollsters had lost once again.
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New York Times
Julianne McShane / Mother Jones:
Hundreds of Doctors Are Demanding Trump's Health Records — After former President Donald Trump's very weird week, more than 400 doctors and health professionals are questioning his mental and physical fitness to serve, and calling for him to release his medical records.
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Politico and Boston Herald
ProPublica:
Donate — Recent years have seen a jump in the number of migrants coming to the U.S. border. — We've had spikes in the past. — What's different now is more migrants are turning themselves in instead of trying to escape arrest. — And the repercussions are being felt in different places across the country.