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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Takes Narrow Lead Over Harris in Closing Weeks of Race — Voters remember Trump's presidency more fondly as negative views of Harris grow — Donald Trump has opened a narrow lead in the presidential race, as voters have adopted a more positive view of his agenda and past performance …
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CBS News:
Trump slams Harris, former chief of staff while campaigning with controversial allies — Former President Donald Trump campaigned Wednesday in the battleground state of Georgia with two controversial allies. Tucker Carlson and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene joined the rally where Trump fired …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
DNC to run billboard bearing bombshell headline outside Trump rally — The Democratic National Committee is running a billboard tonight outside Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas emblazoned with the headline of a bombshell report Kamala Harris and her allies have seized on to cast Trump as power hungry and “unhinged.”
Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:
The ‘Trump Is Hitler’ October Surprise Didn't Work, So Here's Kamala's Next Big Move
The ‘Trump Is Hitler’ October Surprise Didn't Work, So Here's Kamala's Next Big Move
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Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Harris holds 3-point lead over Trump in Michigan: Poll
Harris holds 3-point lead over Trump in Michigan: Poll
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Harris-Trump showdown: New national poll shows who has the edge 2 weeks from Election Day
Harris-Trump showdown: New national poll shows who has the edge 2 weeks from Election Day
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement — Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper's owner blocked the editorial board's plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
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Jeff Bercovici / The San Francisco Standard:
L.A. Times opinion editor quits after billionaire owner kills endorsement
L.A. Times opinion editor quits after billionaire owner kills endorsement
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Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
GOP's Fred Upton backs Kamala Harris' presidential campaign — West Michigan Republican and former U.S. Rep. Fred Upton is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 bid for the White House, saying his party's nominee, former President Donald Trump, is divisive, unhinged and has “not changed his colors.”
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Politico:
Playbook: How Harris ended up sounding like Biden — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — NEW POLLS OVERNIGHT — Arizona: Trump +1 per Marist. ... Georgia: Harris and Trump tied, per Marist. ... North Carolina: Trump +2, per Marist ... National: Trump +2, per WSJ.
NBC News:
Biden says ‘Lock him up — politically lock him up’ in remarks about Trump
Biden says ‘Lock him up — politically lock him up’ in remarks about Trump
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Barton Gellman / Time:
Your Vote Is Safe — As Nov. 5 approaches, former president Donald Trump has left little room for doubt about his intentions. He will almost certainly declare victory on election night, as the votes are still being counted. He may turn out to be right. But if Vice President Kamala Harris wins …
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New York Times:
There Are Four Anti-Trump Pathways We Failed to Take. There Is a Fifth. — Democratic self-rule contains a paradox. It is a system premised on openness and competition. Any ambitious party or politician should have a shot at running for office and winning. But what if a major candidate seeks to dismantle that very system?
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The Guardian:
Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a ‘twisted game’ with Jeffrey Epstein, former model alleges — Stacey Williams says the ex-president, whose spokesperson denied the allegations, touched her in an unwanted sexual way in 1993, after Epstein introduced them
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Former Model Says Trump Groped Her During Encounter Facilitated By Epstein: Report
Former Model Says Trump Groped Her During Encounter Facilitated By Epstein: Report
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Arizona Republic:
FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspected shooter of Arizona Democratic Party office — Lauren De Young Richard RuelasArizona Republic — (This story was updated with new information.) — Federal agents on Wednesday morning hauled more than 100 firearms, including “machine guns …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump shrugs off lifetime of scandals … - Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts in New York for paying illegal hush money to a porn star, making him the first former president to be charged, convicted and potentially sentenced to prison. — He refused to concede the 2020 election …
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump's Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election
Trump's Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election
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Steven Greenhouse / Slate:
What's Preventing Harris From Crushing Trump Is Shockingly Simple — As Elon Musk's rabid pro-Trump mania makes clear, billionaires are wielding their financial might in this year's presidential election far more than in any previous campaign—and far more openly, too.
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Biden administration expands tax credit for producing solar, wind and battery components — The Biden administration is expanding a federal tax credit that seeks to incentivize domestic production of components for solar and wind energy, as well as batteries.
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Washington Examiner
Alex Keeney / Politico:
'They're Just Over It': How Trump Has Converted Male Frustration Into a Movement — In the crucial swing state of North Carolina, a quixotic concert unveiled how Trump and his allies have shrewdly maneuvered to capture young men in 2024. — CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina —
Simon J. Levien / New York Times:
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Provisional Votes After Mail Ballot Rejections — The decision is likely to affect thousands of mail-in ballots among the millions that will be cast in Pennsylvania, a pivotal 2024 swing state. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that voters …
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Public Notice:
Molly Jong-Fast on why living in a blue state won't save you — “If we are the ‘enemy within,’ that means we go to the camps too.” — ∙ Paid … 🚨 Subscribe to Public Notice 🚨 — Donald Trump often asks prospective voters, “What do you have to lose?”
CNN:
McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan 'wouldn't recognize' Trump's GOP — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn't recognize” the party today.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Republican legislators in North Carolina demand investigation of judge for mentioning reproductive rights — Three Republican state senators in North Carolina have demanded an investigation of state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. The state senators, Buck Newton (R), Amy Galey (R) …
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Daily Press
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Guess who's suing the FTC to stop click to cancel … Three industry groups are suing to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its new “Click to Cancel” rule that requires companies to make it easy to cancel subscriptions, according to Reuters. And yes, it's exactly who you'd expect.
Corey G. Johnson / ProPublica:
WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT — FOR YEARS, America's most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives. — Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running …