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7:35 PM ET, October 24, 2024

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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

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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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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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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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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Four memorable moments from Kamala Harris' CNN town hall

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 …

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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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:

Trump's former lawyer worries some Christians will abstain from voting — We're chatting with lawmakers, former elected officials and political operatives every day between now and Nov. 5 to get a better sense of where people's heads are at — and what their candidate needs to be doing better.

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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump's Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election

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Pew Research Center:
Harris, Trump Voters Differ Over Election Security, Vote Counts and Hacking Concerns

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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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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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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.) …

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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.