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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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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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Raw Story, Above the Law and USA Today
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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Marist Poll:
Marist North Carolina Poll: U.S. Presidential Contest in North Carolina, October 2024
Marist North Carolina Poll: U.S. Presidential Contest in North Carolina, October 2024
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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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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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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
The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations
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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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Steven Greenhouse / Slate:
What's Preventing Harris From Crushing Trump Is Shockingly Simple
What's Preventing Harris From Crushing Trump Is Shockingly Simple
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Raw Story and CounterPunch
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?
Did the ‘L.A. Times’ and other news outlets pull punches to appease 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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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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The Baltimore Banner
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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Raw Story
Annie Grayer / CNN:
House GOP committee that oversees elections hired two former Trump officials involved in 2020 fake elector scheme — House Republicans on the committee with broad jurisdiction over national elections have hired at least two former Donald Trump campaign officials involved in the 2020 fake electors scheme …
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Raw Story
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 …
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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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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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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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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 Magazine
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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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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