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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Former (and Future) President Donald Trump On Chairman Xi, VP Harris, And The Closing Days Of Campaign 2024
Former (and Future) President Donald Trump On Chairman Xi, VP Harris, And The Closing Days Of Campaign 2024
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says he would ‘fire’ Jack Smith ‘within two seconds’ if elected
Trump says he would ‘fire’ Jack Smith ‘within two seconds’ if elected
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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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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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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Musk voter lottery might violate federal law: DOJ
Musk voter lottery might violate federal law: DOJ
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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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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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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 …
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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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Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Walz called Upton. But the former GOP lawmaker said he decided to endorse Harris on his own. — Former Rep. Fred Upton isn't abandoning his party — he says he plans to vote for Rep. Mike Rogers for Michigan's open Senate seat. — Retired GOP Rep. Fred Upton got a phone call …
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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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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.
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump Flirts With the Ultimate Tax Cut: No Income Taxes at All — The former president has repeatedly praised a period in American history when there was no income tax, and the country relied on tariffs to fund the government. — Former President Donald J. Trump has spent …
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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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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.
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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.
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 …
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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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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 …
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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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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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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 …