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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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Annie Grayer / CNN:
House GOP committee that oversees elections hired two former Trump officials involved in 2020 fake elector scheme
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump's former lawyer worries some Christians will abstain from voting
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Jason Calvi / FOX6 News Milwaukee:
Waukesha mayor endorses Kamala Harris; red city mayor plans to vote blue
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump's Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election
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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.
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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans Endorse Both Early Voting and Voter Verification
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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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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.
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Elon Musk Plots His Final Moves for Trump
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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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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.
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Marist Poll:
Marist North Carolina Poll: U.S. Presidential Contest in North Carolina, October 2024
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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.) …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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 …
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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.
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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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
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Secretive Democratic super PAC pumps $30 million into Spanish-language TV ads — Future Forward, the flagship pro-Kamala Harris super PAC that keeps a low profile, divulged some details about its efforts to reach Latinos. — A secretive Democratic super PAC has been quietly running …
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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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