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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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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.
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.
Annie Grayer / CNN:
House GOP committee that oversees elections hired two former Trump officials involved in 2020 fake elector scheme
Discussion: Raw Story
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Presidential election is a dead heat though Trump leads Harris big on economy, says CNBC survey
Pew Research Center:
Harris, Trump Voters Differ Over Election Security, Vote Counts and Hacking Concerns
Discussion: HuffPost, Bloomberg and Axios
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump's former lawyer worries some Christians will abstain from voting
Discussion: Raw Story, Above the Law and USA Today
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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Four memorable moments from Kamala Harris' CNN town hall
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump's Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election  —  Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it.  —  Yesterday, The Atlantic published another astonishing story by editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg about Trump's hatred of the military.  The reporting included, among other things …
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Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump calls John Kelly a “lowlife” after Hitler praise revelations
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.) …
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 …
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?
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.
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
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP maps out agenda for Trump's first 100 days  —  Senate and House Republicans are setting the table for what they hope — and increasingly expect — will be unified GOP control of the White House and Congress after the election.  —  Republican leaders in both chambers are mapping out an agenda …
Discussion: Breitbart, BizPac Review and RedState
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
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 …
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: Rolling Stone and Alternet.org
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 …
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.
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump Goes All In on Anti-Trans  —  IS IT THE ECONOMY STUPID?  Not for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.  These days, its closing message on TV may as well be “it's the trans, you fools.”  —  In the past five weeks, Trump's operation has spent more than $29 million …
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 …
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org
 
 
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Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Obama, Springsteen join Harris to energize campaign's final sprint
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, NPR and ABC News
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Truth Social's Bank Spent Funds on Prostitutes, Drugs and Strippers
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
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
The Economist:
Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris
Discussion: Fox News, Townhall and Breitbart
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Trump's new town halls have a common denominator: Female moderators
Discussion: The Wrap
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Gloria Dickie / Reuters:
Climate set to warm by 3.1 C without greater action, UN report warns
Discussion: Al Jazeera, Politico and E&E News
NBC News:
Beyoncé expected to perform at Harris rally in Houston
Katrina Miller / New York Times:
82 American Nobel Prize Winners Endorse Kamala Harris
Discussion: Axios and UPI
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Biden administration expands tax credit for producing solar, wind and battery components
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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