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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump says he'd ‘fire’ special counsel Jack Smith in ‘two seconds’ if elected again — Smith has led the Justice Department's investigations into Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the hoarding of classified documents. — Former president Donald Trump …
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Jason Calvi / FOX6 News Milwaukee:
Waukesha mayor endorses Kamala Harris; red city mayor plans to vote blue — WAUKESHA, Wis. - The mayor of Waukesha, a key Republican stronghold, exclusively told FOX6 News he's voting for Democrat Kamala Harris for president. — It's a Republican city in Wisconsin's largest Republican county.
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Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
GOP's Fred Upton backs Kamala Harris' presidential campaign
GOP's Fred Upton backs Kamala Harris' presidential campaign
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Marist Poll:
Marist North Carolina Poll: U.S. Presidential Contest in North Carolina, October 2024 — Trump +2 Points in North Carolina — Two points separate former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris among North Carolina likely voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.
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Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller:
NEW WSJ POLL: TRUMP TAKES LEAD NATIONALLY
NEW WSJ POLL: TRUMP TAKES LEAD NATIONALLY
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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.
Your Vote Is Safe — As Nov. 5 approaches, former president Donald Trump has left little room for doubt about his intentions.
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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Takes Narrow Lead Over Harris in Closing Weeks of Race
Trump Takes Narrow Lead Over Harris in Closing Weeks of Race
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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Presidential election is a dead heat though Trump leads Harris big on economy, says CNBC survey
Presidential election is a dead heat though Trump leads Harris big on economy, says CNBC survey
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CNN:
Fox News edited Trump's rambling answers and false claims in barbershop interview, full video shows — New York CNN — The Fox News Channel's recent segment about Donald Trump's “surprise” visit to a barbershop in the Bronx resembled a campaign ad for the former president's reelection.
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Sam Stein / The Bulwark:
The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations
The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations
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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Four memorable moments from Kamala Harris' CNN town hall
Four memorable moments from Kamala Harris' CNN town hall
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Musk's super PAC skips daily $1 million swing state giveaway after DOJ warning … - The SpaceX CEO had pledged to give away $1 million every day to registered voters in swing states who sign the super PAC's petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments.
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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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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Elon Musk Plots His Final Moves for Trump
Elon Musk Plots His Final Moves for Trump
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump's Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election — Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it. — Yesterday, The Atlantic published another astonishing story by editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg about Trump's hatred of the military. The reporting included, among other things …
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David Strom / HotAir:
General Kelly, If You ‘Knew’ Trump Admired Hitler Why Didn't You Resign?
General Kelly, If You ‘Knew’ Trump Admired Hitler Why Didn't You Resign?
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Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
Washington Post staffers suspect owner Jeff Bezos holding up Kamala Harris endorsement: report — Washington Post staffers are growing restless over the left-leaning paper's silence on endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president — with many suspecting that owner Jeff Bezos is behind the delay, according to a report.
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement
Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement
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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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Berwood A Yost / Franklin & Marshall College Poll:
Franklin & Marshall Poll Release: October 2024 — I'm writing to share our summary report for the October 2024 Franklin & Marshall College Poll. I've highlighted a few of the key findings below, but I encourage you to read the full report, which is also included.
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff slapped me in the face so hard I spun around ... I'm disgusted by his fake ‘perfect spouse’ persona — Second Gentleman's accuser bravely breaks her silence on ‘slap’ — Doug Emhoff's ex-girlfriend has spoken exclusively to DailyMail.com claiming …
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John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
'There's People That Are Absolutely Ready to Take on a Civil War' — Tucker Carlson's eyes narrowed as he conjured the image. A Donald Trump victory, he said at a campaign event in Gwinnett County, Georgia, last night, “will be a middle finger wagging in the face of the worst people in the English-speaking world.”
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Irin Carmon / The Cut:
What Is Usha Vance Thinking? — The veep candidate's wife is the child of immigrants, a former Democrat, a highly skilled lawyer — and a total mystery. — In the fall of 2018, during the convulsive, unformed days after Christine Blasey Ford went public to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault …
Washington Post:
Biden set to apologize to Native Americans for Indian boarding schools — The president's apology would come less than two weeks before the election and mark the first formal acknowledgement by a U.S. president of the government's role in atrocities against Native children.
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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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’
McConnell: ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’
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Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Election-Betting Site Polymarket Says Trump Whale Identified as French Trader — User hasn't attempted to manipulate the market, probe shows — Betting platform shows higher chance of Trump win than rivals — A trader who spent more than $45 million on Polymarket bets that Donald Trump …
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The Economist:
Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris — Republicans are uninterested in, or hostile to, a growing voter bloc — In the days after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the election, a short clip from 2013 went viral on Twitter. It showed the then attorney-general …
David Gilbert / Wired:
‘Take Back the States’: The Far-Right Sheriffs Ready to Disrupt the Election — Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to god. They've spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.
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ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix:
Arrest made after Phoenix USPS collection mailbox fire damages ballots overnight — Phoenix Fire Department's arson task force now investigating the fire — PHOENIX — An arrest has reportedly been made after a Phoenix United States Postal Service mailbox was believed to have been set on fire overnight …
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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 …
NBC News:
Beyoncé expected to perform at Harris rally in Houston — The pop star is from Houston and her appearance there comes amid a tightening Senate race between Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred. — Pop superstar Beyoncé will appear with Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump says he's open to pardoning Hunter Biden — Donald Trump said Thursday he's open to pardoning Hunter Biden if he's reelected — a significant reversal after years of lobbing attacks at the legal issues faced by the president's son as part of his “Biden crime family” talking point.
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Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump Goes All In on Anti-Trans — IS IT THE ECONOMY STUPID? Not for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. These days, its closing message on TV may as well be “it's the trans, you fools.” — In the past five weeks, Trump's operation has spent more than $29 million …
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