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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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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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Raw Story, The Hill, USA Today, Forbes and The Independent
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 — 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.”
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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NBC News:
Formerly GOP mayor in reliably red Wisconsin county endorses Harris
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USA Today, MLive.com and Michigan Advance
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says he would ‘fire’ Jack Smith ‘within two seconds’ if elected
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The Guardian
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Former (and Future) President Donald Trump On Chairman Xi, VP Harris, And The Closing Days Of Campaign 2024
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Kamala Harris Plans To Close With A Strong Anti-Fascism Message
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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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Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller:
NEW WSJ POLL: TRUMP TAKES LEAD NATIONALLY — Former President Donald Trump has taken a narrow lead over Vice President Kamala Harris with less than two weeks until election day, according to a Wall Street Journal poll published Thursday. … The two percentage points are within the poll's margin of error.
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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Four memorable moments from Kamala Harris' CNN town hall — Kamala Harris went to a Philadelphia suburb on Wednesday night for a CNN town hall, where she faced questions from undecided voters. The event was arranged after Donald Trump declined to participate in a second debate with her.
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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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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
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump's Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election
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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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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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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.”
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David Strom / HotAir:
General Kelly, If You ‘Knew’ Trump Admired Hitler Why Didn't You Resign?
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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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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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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’
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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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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 …
HuffPost:
Mysterious Monument On Capitol Hill ‘Honors’ Jan. 6 With A Bronze Turd — It's unclear who installed the monument. — A mysterious bronze-colored monument has appeared across the street from the U.S. Capitol grounds “honoring” the Jan. 6 insurrection with a massive turd.
CNN:
Sell the Steal: How Michael Flynn built a business and MAGA following out of election denialism — Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has spent much of the last three years claiming the 2020 election was stolen, turning baseless conspiracy theories …
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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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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?”
Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Nonprofit bashed by Musk disputes his unfounded election meddling claims — The Washington Post's essential guide to tech policy news — Happy Thursday! The NBA is back and the election has not yet fully consumed all our lives, so things could be worse! Send news tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.
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