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7:40 PM ET, October 24, 2024

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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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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump's former lawyer worries some Christians will abstain from voting
Discussion: Raw Story, Above the Law and USA Today
Jason Calvi / FOX6 News Milwaukee:
Waukesha mayor endorses Kamala Harris; red city mayor plans to vote blue
Annie Grayer / CNN:
House GOP committee that oversees elections hired two former Trump officials involved in 2020 fake elector scheme
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Trying to Find Trump's Ground Game in Pennsylvania  —  Four and eight years ago, there was a major Republican get-out-the-vote effort.  This time is different.  —  Elon Musk speaks at Life Center Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2024.  Musk and his super PAC have taken over Donald Trump's national canvassing effort.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
Discussion: HotAir, ABC27 and Townhall
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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Presidential election is a dead heat though Trump leads Harris big on economy, says CNBC survey
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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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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Did the ‘L.A. Times’ and other news outlets pull punches to appease Trump?  —  Recent episodes involving major U.S. news organizations have stoked fears that outlets are preemptively self-censoring coverage that could offend former President Donald Trump, who remains neck-and-neck in the polls …
Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
CDC recommends second COVID vaccine dose for those 65 and older  —  Immunocompromised adults or those who are older than 65 should get a second dose of the latest COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended.  —  The CDC on Wednesday adopted …
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 …
David Badash / Alternet.org:
‘Shameful’: Naval Academy cancels authoritarianism lecture After ‘MAGA pressure’  —  The U.S. Naval Academy is under fire after it invited — then uninvited — a distinguished expert on authoritarianism and fascism to give a lecture.  —  Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history …
Discussion: The Baltimore Banner
Politico:
A fresh push to hobble Russia's war economy  —  With help from Joe Gould and Daniel Lippman  —  The U.S. and its allies are on a renewed push to cut Russia's economy off from the world to pressure it to end the Ukraine war, but not everyone is convinced sanctions and other economic restrictions …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. David Schweikert Said Women Who Get Abortions ‘Hate That Baby’ And America  —  “They hate that baby because it symbolizes a responsibility,” the Arizona Republican said in a newly unearthed 2022 interview.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) …
Discussion: Raw Story
E&E News by POLITICO:
Trump ignored disaster aid request from political rival … In early September 2020, wildfires tore through eastern Washington state, obliterating tens of millions of dollars of property, displacing hundreds of rural residents and killing a 1-year-old boy.  —  But then-President Donald Trump refused …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:   Trump Blew Off Disaster Relief Requests From Washington, Other States
Reuters:
Exclusive: Democratic lawmakers request probe into Trump son-in-law after Reuters Saudi report  —  The Democratic chair of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and a prominent Democratic congressman asked the U.S. attorney general on Thursday to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether Jared Kushner …
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 …
Angie Martoccio / Rolling Stone:
Stevie Nicks: ‘I Believe in the Church of Stevie’  —  In a nearly four-hour interview, the legendary singer goes deep on longevity, Kamala Harris, why Fleetwood Mac are finished and much more  —  E  —  VERY SECOND FEELS like an eternity when you're hovering four inches from Stevie Nicks, noodling around with her blouse.
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Truth Social's Bank Spent Funds on Prostitutes, Drugs and Strippers  —  BANKERS BEHAVING BADLY  —  The partners of the firm that backed Donald Trump's IPO this spring also allegedly lost millions of dollars gambling, according to two lawsuits.  —  Partners at the Wall Street firm backing …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Mike Lee calls for no ‘sabotage’ of GOP candidates amid McConnell book remarks  —  Sen. Mike Lee is calling on candidates running for Senate GOP leadership to weigh in on Mitch McConnell's recent remarks against Donald Trump, which included him referring to the former president as a “sleazeball …
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
New poll: Trump is getting record levels of support among young Black and Latino men  —  A new poll that includes large oversamples of young voters of color shows Donald Trump has massively increased his support among groups that he previously performed poorly with in 2020.
Discussion: RedState and Twitchy
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Obama, Springsteen join Harris to energize campaign's final sprint  —  In final days of tumultuous race, Democrats deploy star power in effort to motivate uncertain voters
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, NPR and ABC News
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.”
Discussion: WABE
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.
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 …
Discussion: Fox News, Townhall and Breitbart
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 …
 
 
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Politico:
Should Kamala Harris embrace Lina Khan? Democrats are split — and some worry it will cost her.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP maps out agenda for Trump's first 100 days
Discussion: BizPac Review, RedState and Breitbart
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Secretive Democratic super PAC pumps $30 million into Spanish-language TV ads
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org
NBC News:
Democratic super PAC jumps into Texas Senate race to boost Colin Allred
Discussion: New York Magazine
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Group with GOP ties backs Green Party's Jill Stein with ads, mail
Discussion: E&E News
 Earlier Items: 
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Trump's new town halls have a common denominator: Female moderators
Discussion: The Wrap
NBC News:
Beyoncé expected to perform at Harris rally in Houston
Alex Keeney / Politico:
'They're Just Over It': How Trump Has Converted Male Frustration Into a Movement
Public Notice:
Molly Jong-Fast on why living in a blue state won't save you
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
 

 
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Jon Phillips / PCWorld:
PCWorld executive editor Gordon Mah Ung, former Maximum PC editor-in-chief and renowned PC hardware journalist for 25+ years, died at 58 of pancreatic cancer
 
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